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Oh, do forgive the lateness, oxtails of course – although folks are starting to call them beef tails. Does beef really have a tail, as is the original name wrong, though as it is oft said, better the devil you know. 😛 Nice with plenty of lentils, onion, sage and spice – and then anything you like. 🙂
Has the Bible arrived, and will Chapter 1 have the account of the genesis of all the ingredients used in the book, in seven days?
Hmmm, could it be cursed in some way, so that whoever consumes the bread is very speedily transformed into a mummy?

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Played NWN long time ago, ground breaking graphical setup for the time, and fun to play, although a rather “linear” plotline.
Could be they stage it so you can’t get past L1 unless there’s a Donation or other micro-transaction performed. And, for further discouragement for freeloading noobs, the language filters can be set to do stuff like translating a remote player’s “top of the morning to you, friend” into “get out of my face, scumbag.”
Forgot all about <shift><Escape> bringing up the browser task manager for all the tabs in Edge. 🙂

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Could it ever be that all our illustrious and industrious beekeepers become so, because all the bees in the hives bee-have?

Solar Sails sound rather idyllic, there’s also a magnificent pdf article by S. Cowley on fusion.

Cool, looking at the page source, there’s www.universetoday.com\/wp-includes, so something special about another wp site? (Won’t go as close as sister-site, more like a few parsecs removed) 😛

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Sorry, the first url somehow got barfed – fixed it. The other three urls are thanks to Believe SAS, Polydor and Universal. How odd it is for all these folks to have to get all copyrighteous over their regions though.
Gotta get the mic out to record some fine snoring – in the meantime, there is a cat over at Freesounds. 🙂
https://freesound.org/people/sagetyrtle/sounds/77267/#

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Gotta include Henri Salvador here – one of a kind really when it comes to songs like Pauvre Jesus Christ.
There are some cracking songs in that selection as well. This one from ~1958:

And much earlier the classic Le Petit Indien, later, the old À la Claire de Fontaine:

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Could have been, the relevant reg keys are in the OP above, but now with Widescreen and HD Gui working well enough, there’s no need. 🙂
Please forgive the above omission of GemRB for Linux and Windows, and yep, they have a forum up as well. 🙂

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Funny, our houses of tomorrow never did ever get the technology to fool the IRS like that. Along with the extra hurdles of instantly converting the 500 hectares of manicured gardens into an impassable weedy wasteland, and back again!
Never tire of any of the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons!
What’s your favourite Scream movie?

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Thread. 🙂
Man meets Unicorn – beautiful! They played this on out this FTA news bloopers segment:

Edit: Interesting about the “Storyful Managed” block. Something weird Rupert inserted in the Action News 5 licencing?

A new website release in response to the current growing housing shortage, sh*t rentals, is spruiked on TikTok, scroll down there to enjoy the reviews. First heard of it on the FTA Drum, wish we had something like that back in the day. Do you think it would boost their brand to get suitably themed uniforms, along with paraphernalia like logos, badges, hats, ‘fridge magnets etc.?
Sh*t Rentals Forever (Not!)
They have a burgeoning db, too! 😛

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Aw shucks, no blu ray here, couldn’t they conjure up a Mickey Mouse styled DVD set for the rest of us luddites, or even better, load it all on USB stick or even Torrent!
Freddie is unforgettable though, once he has popped up in the corner of your frustrum, he’ll never go away!
Classic! 🙂
The Paris Creation model is beautiful, but will those Louis XIV curtains hide everything that is bound to happen inside?
Yeah the Mexican jumping beans idea could turn the fast food industry on its head – mouth wide open! Wonder why the chicken slot machine idea never took off – over here you could go down the club, play the slots, and then buy a ticket for the meat hamper raffle. Not the same thing though. 😛

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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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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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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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