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I will be on for the dungeon tonight.

Awesome! I'm not gonna make it though, or for the Tombs run.  I'll be back next week.

Awesome videos.  Can't wait for this!  Haven't played an RTS since C&C Tiberian Sun.

W000t Success. We had a turn out of 5/8 to beat Catacombs of Kathandrax.  The spelunking went pretty smooth with 2 human monks and discord heroes.  So it looks like Wednesdays will be dungeon night.  Oh, we took along a new guild member too.

I don't have that much data and I'm looking to buy a laptop in the future so to go nuts on this system isn't necessary and I have no interest in taking the time to switch hard drives.  The motherboard has two SATA connectors and one IDE which two drives can be run off of one cable (CD and one HDD).  When I bought the motherboard I had 4 drives that ran off IDE so I had to eliminate two of them, the floppy and one HDD were left out and I didn't have any SATA drives until now.  I'd really like a huge portable external drive for storage.  Plus any upgrades I make to this will only make it an even better hand-me-down or back up.

Hard mode dungeon Wednesday night?

I don't think I'll notice a difference cause I'm only using it as storage but I see a difference after freeing up 10gb on my primary drive plus the other 5-6gb I deleted last week and I'm looking to move my music and photos over too (30gb+).

muhahaha I'm famous!



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I didn't realize when I bought the drive that Windows XP doesn't recognize SATA drives without some tweaking so I posted this on the MSI forums and waiting for some advice:

What I'm trying to do is keep my current IDE HDD in place as my primary drive with my OS on it and add this Seagate 80gb SATA II NCQ HDD (shows as ST3808110AS).
What I've done so far is physically installed the SATA drive and booted Windows.  Windows did not recognize the drive at all.  I checked the BIOS and it did see the drive.  I took time to read up on this problem and came back to it by enabling, in the BIOS, the RAID controller.  Windows then recognized the new hardware but as Unknown and I was unable to format/partition it.  At this point the BIOS still recognized the drive plugged into the SATA primary on the motherboard and the RAID or SATA BIOS booted also but I did not make any changes to it as I did not see any reason to do so.
Again I took time to read up on the problem and ran MSI live/online and found several new updates, one specifically for the motherboard and hastily took the option to flash the BIOS in Windows mode (may not have been the best idea).  This only seemed to set my BIOS settings to default.  I don?t know what my BIOS version was before I ran this update.
Where I?m at now is the SATA is unplugged as Windows will only show it in Device Manager as Unknown and since I ran that BIOS flash I now have a floppy drive listed in My Computer but none physically installed.
Am I going to have to manually update the BIOS via CD, floppy or USB/flash drive as if I were installing Windows from scratch on the SATA drive?

Sure.  Did some vq in EOTN forthose rep points. workin on zm.

From the GW2 blog:

Eric: Early in the development stage, we worked on the concept of a single ?companion? NPC who would accompany the player, but we soon determined that it wasn?t necessary. We?ve developed Guild Wars 2  so that it?s a completely soloable experience due to our profession design, dynamically scaling content, and the social approach to events. And, since Guild Wars 2 is a persistent world, we can?t really let each character run around with a full party of NPCs in tow.

This makes me feel a lot better about the game.  My confidence is at 60%.  But the skill bar needs to go:

Eric:  Think of it this way:  You?ve got 5 slots that you can slot freely, with the caveat that you have to bring one heal and one elite skill. Your other 5 skills are determined by the weapon set you bring. Most professions can equip two weapon sets and switch freely between them in combat, even stringing together combinations of attacks between them. That means you have access to 15 skills at any given time and you make a minimum of 7 choices (9 at most) to determine what those skills are. Yes, we do restrict some of your choices to particular categories, but there is still a lot of choice there.

Absolutely every action, no matter how selfless the act, is in some way selfish.

Altruism does exist.  You and your freakin contradictory statements. So an  entirely ("no matter how selfless") selfless act is to some degree selfish?

I would argue that the people who are offended by the opinions and statements of perfect strangers are the ones who are small minded. As are those people that try to force their religion on others through threats and violence.

You aren't differentiating people who are offended and by people who are offended and then threaten. Being offended is wrong but the act of offending someone is generally acceptable?

Freedom of speech can be exercised any way desired, otherwise it wouldn't really be freedom, would it?

There are elements of freedom and free will but neither is absolute.  So you agree that it can be exercised frivolously?  If so do you think South Park does so?

No good came of putting Mohammad in a freaking bear costume ffs.

Other people are having the same conversation we are and some of those people may never have done that before. I agree Mo that making fun of people whether it be everyone or a single group is not healthy unless of course they're your friends.

Yes, and it is against the law.

I don't think a society should leave it to their laws to be the extent of their morals, which I think we can agree on. And if a right being exercised frivolously, which is unlawful to you, it's no longer a right being exercised but an unlawful act and I think we can agree that, depending on the act, it may or may not be immoral.   

Maybe if everyone started drawing pictures of Muhammad then the Muslims would get over themselves and stop killing people over nothing.

The building of minarets have been banned and their dress code is in question.

I don't think South Parks only goal is to offend people and I do like their cleverness but I'm not sure that it's possible to include everyone in their jokes (despite claiming that they do) which leads me to think that they could prove their point by not including anyone.  The only censorship I like is creative/artistic restraint which I think of as a kind of censorship.
Does anyone know of any controversy over the Jewish custom of not printing G-d?

yeah there's no way in hell I'm getting those d2 keys

The set of CDs I had belonged to someone else and they came in those paper envelopes.

But... that's what South Park does. That's all they have ever done in the 15 years since the Jesus vs. Santa internet video. I appreciate that you're not impressed by their actions but their actions weren't "wrong".

By who's standards is it okay? Right and wrong are opinions and it's not against the law to disrespect someone's beliefs. So why, in your opinion, is it only sometimes okay? Why not all the time? What's wrong with their timing? I don't see what you're getting at. Why should any one time be a better time to do the same thing?

Ah! there it is! This is what I was getting at. By most Americans standards  walking down the street making fun of someone else is wrong.  Why because it's on prime time TV makes it..um not right but...unwrong?  Trey and Matt have acknowledge that there was a time when it was appropriate to have images of Muhammad in their cartoons.

They allowed themselves to be bullied out of their freedom, it's as simple as that.

Ok who got bullied cause they still ran the cartoon... and it's more complex than that!

Not at all, if you respond to force by giving in to it's demands, you're submitting yourself to more of it.

Sorry, I made no mention of revolutions.

I mentioned revolutions because you didn't. In the power cycle there are revolutions so by submitting to force does not allows submit yourself to more of it.

South Park can say what it likes, we have that freedom, not just as a country but as human beings. You would see this undone? Why? Because you're offended?

Yes we have that right as Americans but our rights our not inherent to humans they are a finite thing.  They are not genetically encoded within  our genes.  I think you're forgetting the extent to which we came to these rights.  That they are man made rights.
No, I'm not offended but, at the least not surprised, at most, disappointed.

Yes, "stopped." Had they restrained from doing what they did they would have "stopped." What "something" would it have shown?

That 'something' is referring to the degree of their depth.

You instigate every single day, and yet, here you are.

That's not true.  Look up the word instigate cause after your this and the last post I'm not sure you understand it.

I did not make you do it, you did it yourself and you're responsible for that, not me.

Again you're simplifying the issue.  Ask Jack Kevorkian, or what if I'm a kid under 18 and you're my dad telling me to leap, was it meant as a joke?  To some extent the law does see you responsible based on motives, circumstances and evidence.

All they did was make a cartoon.

And here I think we reach a culture gap.  The people of Muslim Revolution don't see the cartoon as a whole but only their idol being disrespected.  Now the question is 'But being a cartoon in itself does that suggest it has no moral merit?'  So all cartoons have no social responsibility?  I think that's demeaning and simplifying South Park and other forms of art that tackle moral, cultural etc topics.

There's always a reason (an instigator), but that doesn't mean it's a good reason.

Websters New World College Edition dictionary defines instigation as urging on, spurring on, inciting into action.  So having a reason or a motive or presence is not in itself inciting.  The closest thing that murderer did to incite was knocking over the victims when he shot them.  There is no evidence of the clerk or kid walking down the street urging or instigating people to shoot them.  Or do you have a HeLL's New World dictionary that defines words as other meanings...

First it's a small group, now it's everyone is it?

Not exactly sure what you're referring to so I'll try this: I meant we are the small group.  Is it a stretch that 1 billion Muslims would appreciate their prophet not  being depicted?  Is it a another stretch  to suggest that everyone expects South Park to do what it has done?

Pretty sure you just did it for me.

I've got a billion I can throw into the mix.

Do you mean you have an opinion other than a link to someone elses?  The idea behind playing out discussions, arguments and scenarios is to gain understanding and perspective.