Protoford

Happy New Year!

Must agree. Had a lot of fun last Saturday at the archlight's cineramadome in hollywood. Nothing like a 3D film with a lot of flying scenes and not a lot of gimmicks. Go see it!

The game developers used 144 unique voice actors in the game and includes such stars as Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show), Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager), Tim Russ (Star Trek: Voyager), Steve Valentine (Crossing Jordan) and Claudia Black (Stargate: SG1). There are also tons of in-game dialogue that add to the humor and lovability of some of your companions without taking away from the action. from this review.

As far as combat mistakes on the PC version, the spacebar is your friend. Pausing the action and swinging around the camera position, then selecting who will fire at whom and with what is much easier. And yes, the first boss was extremely tough head-on, until I took control of another party member and let the tactics I setup do the work for my main character and the two others in the party. Haven't a lot of luck with mage tactics yet, but getting a good grasp on what to throw, and when. Some spell combo's work better than others, it seems.

Tis the season.

Using the toolset can mess up your single player campaign and stop the game from working. Odd symptons, like party will no longer follow the leader on their own, not perform assigned tasks, respawning during combat instead of the default of waiting for the combat to be over... ...to eventually telling you, 'Module Wont Load' even for a new single player original campaign game. I made the mistake of installing the toolset, then creating a new module, area, and levels and then linking all of that to the single player resources with a simple checkbox. Then when I later deleted my test levels, areas, and modules, it was so ingrained into the game that I had to either edit a few critical XMLs or un/re-install the game, wipe the override folders the toolset put items in, and refresh the local sql database the toolset needed, and then force load the save games and save them again without a connection to my previous test module. I will never click the heirarchy box that ties one of my modules to the the single player campaign again. Glad that my saved games were recoverable. Back to having fun playing all the origins stories, and creating worlds of my own with the core resources from the game. whew.

Oh look, a stack of paperwork, let's attack it!

Dragon Age Origins is interesting in it's concept. I've dived in with three different characters, human noble, dwarf casteless warrior, and an elf rogue who was a member of wandering tribe not enslaved by humans. Each of their "Origins" are interesting story arcs and I still have many characters to create before exploring them all. Each one after finishing their diverse Origin campaign, then proceed to where the main battle is happening. It's a bit like playing a part in a movie, which I am not really a fan of, but the exploring and battling is classic Baldur's Gate stuff. Environments are detailed and pretty well thought out. I find myself bring up the map after getting the requirements for a quest and trying to figure out where else could I go... First impression, I like this game. It's going to be a hack and slash week for me. Toolset came out yesterday, when I get it installed, I'll create a basic village and cave and see how the effects can be manipulated. I joined the voice actor's guild on their community site, could be fun volunteering talent to someone else's modification of the game. Thumbs up from me!

Still kicking.

Took me 8 hours to download 8 GB High Res client using their download manager. Having a bit of fun with at least one solo adventure an evening for the last few evenings. Plenty of people there, parties can be had, but I haven't joined nor formed one yet. If you see a 1st lvl halfling cleric running around Korthos Village named Healty, wave at me.

Looking forward to this.

Alive and well and back from holiday.

Yes! A lot of fun ensues when players have tools to develop their own applets and institutions with those applets. It's what keeps this universe going, and the original neverwinter nights community going too. The risk of epic failure is there too. All part of the fun.

Discovered 13 years ago, and officially added to the periodic table just weeks ago, element 112 finally has a name. It will be called "copernicium", with the symbol Cp, in honour of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8153596.stm

Ebert's review. While not as funny, still pans it. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.d...VIEWS/906239997

As good as that was, this new one opens up a whole new wave for the franchise to go. I like all the doors that are opening now. The new one has my vote for best Trek film ever.

Go Cat, Go.

Could be fun: http://www.livescience.com/space/090219-nasa-mmo.html I wanna see how they race to Mars, even if it's using the unreal-3 engine.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7892294.stm A Royal Navy nuclear submarine was involved in a collision with a French nuclear sub in the middle of the Atlantic, the MoD has confirmed. HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant were badly damaged in the crash in heavy seas earlier this month.

No fighters, no cloak, two shuttles, few marines, hard to play.

Merry Christmas, Commanders.

Yes, Radiation appeared on Deck 2 as well. Glad I was somewhere I could clean up that mess. Off I go then...

Learned something the hard way. After sitting in dock I was towed to, and after a couple of hours of major repairs, I went to TRADECOM and decide to replenish my stock of repair minerals. Bad Idea, since cargo bay 1 status was still in the twenty percent range. I had just gotten the ship from red alert, to yellow, and now green, when all of a sudden I'm back to red alert again! Seems the minerals I bought and placed in the damaged cargo bay did not like each other and blew a big hole in the side of my CC, all while docked. Lost what I bought and destroyed the bay to register 0%. That court martial hearing will not be fun. When I finally did leave the dock, I saw a message about chemical explosion imminent. Too bad I didn't get that message as I was playing chemist. I'm such an idiot.

Interesting little mech flash game at http://www.gamesforwork.com/games/play-114...0_AD-Flash_Game Is that a copyright infringement for the name though?

Happy B-Day Ben Zwycky!