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Yes, could be intentional as well – if only recollections of the previous gameplay 10 years back could shed light on similar! Right now, half a day on, the courtesan and her (conversationable) companion have disappeared from the area. As a matter of interest, it’s not immediately obvious if such movements and dialog of unnamed NPCs are moddable – or even trackable at all.
Haven’t got Linux installed yet, never was a question of if, but when! 🙂

Few more random gleanings:

• Another pitfall in running mods or patches on a DVD installation is the read only permissions on the root Baldur’s Gate folder set by the installer. If left untouched, there’s always the suspicion some mod installs will report a successful write or patch when actually nothing has happened.
• There exists a remnant log of an attempted BGT setup back in 2012, SETUP-BGT.DEBUG, the failure was because:
  

  Throne of Bhaal is required to install this modification.

  Weird, have the 4 CD set – maybe they wanted a full install to disk instead.

• Bioware also kind of messed up their versioning in the 1.3.5512 official patch. The BGMain and BGMain2 executables are replaced with files in the patch with version numbers 1.3.0.1. The launcher, Balder.exe has a version of 1.0.0.0., and the readme it links to shows a version of 1.3.5508!
• An option to provide a full stack dump in Baldur.ini exists, Debug Dump=1, might have been an issue back in the day when upon accidentally hitting the dump hotkey, finding the system in hard labour from the flush of activity from the disk drive.
• Inserting the following line in baldur.ini made no detectable visual change in-game:
  

  OpenGL VERSION=-1

  The setting is seen in a different form (and values 0 and 1) in some more recent LUA EE configs, not sure if the original game used it, OpenGL was version 1 at the time.

• Console commands are discussed at length in Chapter 11 at Pocketplane’s Volothamp’s Comeuppance:
  A more concise list lives at the IESDP appendices.
• Ooh, and the IESDP itself is whopping large, providing support for all the great Infinity games.

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Captain ImGreat (anag. of Ragtime): All aboard the good ship Ragtime! Hey look, there is a TigerMa on the GeriMat! You’re seeing double – it’s actually a TriMage!
Goodness, what are the drinking habits otherwise? Is that real coffee, and what happens to it after! Suggesting decaf or hot chocolate/carob surely can’t hurt.

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Further random blatherings prompted by investigations from no dialogue from the courtesan in the NW section of East Baldur’s Gate. It turns out her message was the single utterance of a carriage return!

1. After a lengthy and somewhat painful Google-ude (Google interlude), found that Debug Mode=1 doesn’t work for console access in this game edition, rather:
   

   [Game Options]
   Cheats=1

2. The baldur.lua file popular with the EE is non-existent on this install, as is the existence of any My Documents\Baldur's Gate folder and the lesser known similarly named subdirectory which may show up in AppData\Local\VirtualStore.
3. There’s quite a variety of ini settings, many are explained as at Beamdog or Reddit, not yet found a meaning for:
   

   Memory Level=1

   Know that Memory Access=100 sets the blood & gore to that level. 😛

4. For EE, Github hosts an ini config app for Infinity engine here and here, no mention of the base game, so use at own risk.
5. The save file editor parses the contents well enough, haven’t tested it by writing yet.
6. One option for improved rendering in the game is the WineD3D patch, upside: nice program, downside: extra files.

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Thanks for checking!
Is that the new Notepad? How strange, was Notepad closed before the Back to PrgLnch button was clicked?
Yes, there’s a bunch of weird stuff going on with it, will update when back on W11. 🙂

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Down deep in dungeons, the un-pausing of the game while in inventory gets one’s goat after a while, mainly due to the fiddly nature of full inventories. Fortunately, it can be paused, by copying over the saves to the multiplayer save directory, and setting up a solo MP game, as it were.
Fine, save for a couple of hiccups mentioned over at GOG. 😛

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Has happened here on the odd occasion as well, usually turns out to be something awry with the switches.
The stain is odd, rust should generally rinse out – always rinse in cold here. For the existence of rust in the HWS or even the pipes, no issue with water for the bath or shower? How old is the hot water tank btw?

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As well as the Frigidaire, this establishment sports a fine and trusty Simpson Delta 402 washing machine.

The top image is how it looks now, the bottom, way back. Acquired in 1990, it has to date accommodated many a load without so much as a sneeze, notwithstanding the horrendous number of dirty hankies it has suffered unto. The only issue to date was the replacement of the broken lint catcher some years ago. Now, the drain pipe having caught the morning sun for many years, has developed small splits, so consequently it is held together by a few winds of handy gaffer tape. 🙂

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In toying with the idea of peeping under the hood re the caching system used, typed in a block of text as a reply to some topic without posting it. To determine if it was cached, found no updates at all when filtering Stearn in ChromeCacheView (sorting LastAccessed). If the test was not setup correctly, might be a question for the WP or SO forums.

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Went to the last reply, sorry. 🙁

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Great thanks. All the mht pages (even tried mhtml) displayed blank in Edge, they do show when using synchro view in Alleycode, a handy little program if there ever was one. 🙂

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Hopefully, this is not the post jumped to when performing Robin’s changelog action. 🙂

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Sounds good, however as all topics have been read, except for the extra post, there is no way of telling, unless you post 2 replies. Hey, might as well try that now…

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Oh, I get it, there’s a condensate pump that feeds a holding tank. A future use for such tanks might be for cisterns in the complex, guaranteeing the tank will never overflow! 😛
And the air purifier in use, is that connected to the central H/A in any way.
What a pest, was that your choice of ‘fridge? The same situation here with the bar fridge in the garage. There is a table laden with goodies just to the right, which won’t allow the door enough to remove the drip trays. That area wants a makeover!
It’s a bit scary, as a dry El Nino is forecast for the coming summer. 🙁

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Nice, there’s a nice scene in Apocalypse Now with that playing.
Heard of Sam Sklair? Plays the flute, clarinet, and a host of other instruments. Here’s a nice one:

He also created some synth-y stuff in the eighties like Touch Tone Keyboard in The MicroChip Revolution. That’s the playlist, where the track names are instantly recognizable.
Also contributed to a combo album made with Claude Larson, where can be heard things like Computer Toys.

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Ah, the 1988 original. The 2019 film is also a slasher. 🙂
Descent 2 played out the way one expected it, provided they had seen Descent 1, thus not so much dramatic tension, and no variation from the effects of pathos. 🙁
Also streaming Zola, it’s lively, and rather risque. 🙂

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We had people down here making kayaks a while back, things seem to dry up, along with the rivers. 😛
Huh, is that an emergency relief valve – don’t have any thing like that on the Cora which has now been installed btw. Yours is a split unit, so the valve is on the outside component?
Not planning to use any specialised filters for it yet, but options are open, the real point of the A/C is for the electricals like the Synology, and the poor 30 year old Frigidaire Accent Frost Proof 285.
The following was copied from the state weather channel, we have just dodged a catastrophe!

IDN22000

Fire Weather Warning
for the Far South Coast fire weather district

Issued at 11:58 am EST on Tuesday 19 September 2023.

The NSW Rural Fire Service advises you to:

• Action your Bushfire Survival Plan now.
• Monitor the fire and weather situation through your local radio station, http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au and http://www.bom.gov.au.
• Call 000 (Triple Zero) in an emergency.

For the rest of Tuesday 19 September:

Catastrophic Fire Danger is forecast for the following fire weather district:
Far South Coast

Weather Situation

Increasing hot and dry north to northwesterly winds will lead to dangerous fire weather conditions on Tuesday. Warning updated from Extreme to Catastrophic Fire Danger.

For information on preparing for bushfires go to http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au.

No further warnings will be issued for this event, but the situation will continue to be monitored and further warnings issued if necessary.

 

 

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Rereleasing this old-timer is a blast from the past. Don’t remember playing the original, (certainly do recall the amazing sound effects in Bane of the Cosmic Forge.)

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Sorry about the messed up link, – the above post is playing havoc, so cross-linked it to an issue.

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Seen a bit of scoffing at QT on SO threads and others, it’s not all that bad is it?
Unity is introducing a surcharge on distribution of their runtime libraries on end-user machines. Without any sweeteners, no doubt comes across like a kick in the guts first and foremost to their pro and enterprise clients.

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No news, unfortunately, and probably good news in any case. 😛
He updated the plugin, but only for an unrelated minor enhancement. As the job for PipDisqus is a big one, it looks like a bit of a wait here, so the plugin has been disabled for the time being.
Had a gander at the alternatives, the native (cross-platform) Disqus is possibly the best, however completely spooked by their pre-installation instruction of backing up the site before proceeding. They sometimes answer queries on the plugin support page, however it seems a lot of subscribers have progressed to out-of-joint with various issues, for example wobbles on performance and mobile platforms perhaps addressed in blogs like here.
There are others which include stuff we may not use, e.g. Popular Posts is a great one that comes with the caveat of extra requirements.
Conditional Load is another plugin which offers great features for the Pro edition, it is a fact the lifetime edition is worth serious consideration if and when it will be offered for around a tenth of the current asking price. They don’t respond much to their support channels either.

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