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Arenanet released a new video today that features some cool game art as well a lot of really awesome game play footage.

I like the piano piece in the movie. I'd love to have some music like that in a game.

I thought it possible, sorry about that.  Shall I make up for it by answering the question?

Melisande is nick I used long ago (+10 years), it comes from the Dutch version of a Belgian cartoon called Melisande (original in French: Mélusine [wikipedia]), it is also the name of the main character.  Cause the name Melisa became special to me, I made the nick shorter.  And cause people are too lazy to pronounce or type more than a single syllable, it became Mel.  Some people make other variations, on GS I often saw Melly, in my guildwars guild everyone keeps calling Melis even when some pronounce it the same as Malis, another guild member.

- Mel

You made my day Viper.

And I hope from the depth of my heart that you are joking.

- Mel

Voices of a Distant Star (25 minutes)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (91 minutes)

Both a nice watch if you don't hate science fiction.  But do not read the whole wikipedia pages before you watch them,  they spoil a bit too much.

- Mel

I have no idea how I missed this topic months ago.

I wonder if it is true/false, why they act like that, if a bear can act like that with a human too (dogs can), etc.

- Mel

When looking at performance, I bet there is not much difference between all the gecko-engine based browsers.
I use seamonkey cause it has better security and recent updates.  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#Mozilla
Other differences between them are hard to point out, that seamonkey looks and feels like mozilla is the very reason why I use it.

- Mel

About 25 streamed videos (10-30 minutes length) in tabs + a few hundred other tabs was what I needed to get 1GB memory usage from my browser.  The operating system is windows 2000 sp4.

- Mel

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Is it still possible to buy a new PC that can not run nwn?  I hope it was really cheap and did not come with vista preloaded.

- Mel

I have to study, am bored and feel like a troll today, to be safe, lets start with some sort of disclaimer.
To those who lack the brains to understand sarcasm in typed form.
Do not dare to read the rest. I will haunt you in your dreams and laugh at you if you reply.

Protests for illegal immigrants by illegals. I am wondering why police dont use those rallys for deportation raids. For fucks sake, I bet not even one in five of those protesters has a green card.

Deportation!

In Belgium, politicians found a solution for this.  They give them papers as a suggestion to vote for them.  It is a solid strategy.  I just love my county for pulling of these things. 

Other solutions include but are not limited to:
- giving them money to shut up (easiest, but does not last long)
- shooting them off (very effective, fat chance your country got more weapons anyway, you are not exporting things you lack)
- telling them that if it is so bad where they are, that they have to protest, then why not return (triggers them into things that gives you excuses)
- get them to work and understand bird control (hard to do if not impossible)
- sterilization (if guns are not civilized to you)
- fix their brains (maybe something for the future)

I believe the solution to those migration problems can be found in the believe that the economy and world population can grow infinitely.  Some pure nonsense on which the human world is build.  Coming from natural evolution that everyone is praising so much for the creation of a species that acts like a cancer on planetary scale.  (I am not a misanthropist, really)


It is easy to laugh at those illegals protesting for illegals, it makes no sense, sure thing.  Finding a correct solution is something else, figuring out who is at fault is something nobody wants.

- Mel

UAC is not really what creates the problem.  Even Vista itself is not the problem, it is nice they try to do something about securety.  Most windows programs are made with the idea that the user running it has (nearly) administrator rights.  UAC is something Microsoft came up with for Windows to fix this, to have a user account for daily use that is not the administrator at the same time with a system that requires no knowledge from the person using it.  But like everything about Vista and most programs made these days, it is too complex.  Basically it is just an example how the design idea of Windows itself backfires.  I hope Windows itself and many programs (including drivers) for it like AutoCAD and MS Office die from their own design and greed that backfires at them.  If it depends on me, the users that expect to own something as advanced as a computer and/or call it their personal tool (PC) without any knowledge of it, can die too.  (especially managers)  I am really fed up with some enterprises, users and the programs resulting from this.

Note: Yea, I am in an extremely bad mood at the moment. I had to stab at something.
Note2: I am not implying violence against the less gifted individuals on the globe, just remove all the safeties and let the problems solve themselves.

- Mel

How does someone reply on this.  Mmm...
Are you allowed to say "Hey, nice to see you again." ?

- Mel

Is it cold over there Chard? ;-)

- Mel

Good luck.

- Mel

The following is for anyone who feels like notifying the community that GS is empty:

There isn't some magic or God that will halt our daily lives and get us on GS for a reunion.  If you're truly interested in a reunion, ask people for their free moments and set a date.  Plan it and pray it works out.  It always irritates me a lot when one or another thinks this sort of things is done easily, be it online or in reality.  And yes, I'm not going to do the effort to get this done.  I lack time and interest for it.

Notes:
Sorry if this all sounds a bit harsh. It irritates me after all.
The times posted here no longer apply.
Thanks for hosting it, Talon.

- Mel