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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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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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Yep! Does Teams come up at all on the laptop over there? We also want the Jokes and Disney, among the other quaint rantings.
Apart from the purple spider webs mentioned on today’s Science Show, all you need to know about consciousness is this Maximum Cause Effect Structure:

I tend to go more for front of brain (FOB) there’s another nice piccy to summarise it:

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Very interesting! Are the English DBZK episodes dubbed or subtitled – info not often easy to get via Googling or even on Wikipedia.
The Descent is rather depressing, saying that is actually a spoiler if you intend to watch it, so belated spoiler alert!
Streaming Noughts + Crosses at the moment – nicely put together and presented with a nicely paced plot, you won’t be bowled over by the superfluity of incisive dialogue though.
Started to really getting into The Control Room, when it ended all of a sudden after three episodes. Funny these days how we are all getting acclimatised to 6 or more episodes in a said series. 😛
Oh, the dialogue in Boiling Point is very much in the idiom of the theatre of the stage, and therefore quite something else, even if I didn’t quite get all of it. Blame the lack of subtitles, my hearing, sound recording, restaurant hubbub, and the poor acoustics – after all, it was a real restaurant. Recommended.

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Great to have Gramps onboard Linux! 🙂
The other week Mum handed over another wadj of family records for the DB, so plenty on tap. Meanwhile, the Gramps Mailing List continues to toss up a varied array of goodies, such as this site using an unnamed generator, and this site generated with Gramps. 🙂

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Edited the OP, turns out the vanilla Override folder in the New directory was pointed to, and the extra files in the original Override folder caused the resolution exception. Must have contained some widescreen mod files that somehow got misconfigured or mangled – who knows? Edit: The extra files are viewable here, and all date from around 2001, so must be have been from a re-issue of part of another earlier official patch most likely 1.3.5521.
The nasty error occurred after the physical removal of the “baldur’s gate New”, upon which the initial reaction was: 😲

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How about devising a new game based on an old one – like a game of “Prong”, involving the wielding of a pointed implement capable of popping balls bouncing of walls. Well- er, if the mechanics of such a game will not inspire, the name is catchy enough, no?
No candy store in the immediate locale, one which boasts of being “environmentally focussed” might do well though.
Yes, he likes it there, it’s a thoroughfare section though, so being tripped over and trodden on would come with the territory. Alternately, a nice, cosy spot nearby is one he will take to quite willingly. 🙂
Ah yes, do allow this confession coming on strong, the first line in the article for Rin Tin Tin is “not to be confused with …”. Well, it turns out an irrefutable fact that the confusion did once exist, even to the point of imagining Snowy as some kind of international version Rin Tin Tin. 🥴
We’re not in a technical drought yet, rather, drought affected. 🙁

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Cripes, a mummy with the mummy ability, or something worse, and did the title of the book happen to be “1001 Ways to Avoid Being Harassed By Masses of Murderous Mummies”?
As a matter of interest, can PrgLnch run Notepad or Calculator or anything else on W11 over there?

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Yikes! Got sandblasted again when AFKing, so much so that the wire brush and gougers had no effect. It actually wanted a large crowbar or pick! ⛏

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Probably not, for no other good reason than the other squillion games waiting on the to-do pile. 😛
Yeah, seems that way looking at this post at GOG, but things have changed somewhat since then. Reading from the general consensus from this thread at Reddit, if you were to acquire the game now, get the EE. In purchasing the game around 2007, the choice was not available, as Beamdog was not even embryonic. 😛

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Thanks. It happened at least once going back some time ago now. Not easy to pin down, so a different browser is a good idea. 🙂

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Reported the diffed files as follows, the mage.chr is also different, so could have installed a character mod back then.

Compare I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override with I:\games\baldur’s gate New\Override

10/09/2023 9:44:05 PM

Filename	Folder	Comparison result	Left Date	Right Date	Extension
ALBERT.DLG		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 1/07/2001 3:58:56 PM		DLG
ALDETH.DLG		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 2/07/2001 2:22:40 AM		DLG
ALIGNMNT.2DA		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 9/06/2001 1:41:30 PM		2DA
AR0116.ARE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 1/07/2001 10:43:50 AM		ARE
Ar0116.bcs		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 1/07/2001 10:34:08 AM		bcs
Ar0128.bcs		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 2/07/2001 12:12:14 AM		bcs
AR0717.ARE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 13/06/2001 7:40:48 PM		ARE
Ar1100.bcs		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 1/07/2001 11:36:12 PM		bcs
ARGHAI.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:20:44 PM		CRE
Arow05.itm		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 29/06/2001 8:16:26 PM		itm
AROW12.ITM		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 1/07/2001 9:13:32 AM		ITM
AROW14.ITM		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 1/07/2001 9:12:58 AM		ITM
BANDCAP.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:50:12 PM		CRE
BANDCR.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:49:50 PM		CRE
BANDIC.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:49:28 PM		CRE
BANDIT.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:49:14 PM		CRE
BANDIT2.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:46:28 PM		CRE
BANDIT3.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:45:34 PM		CRE
BANDITA.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:45:10 PM		CRE
BANDITC.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:43:22 PM		CRE
BANDITCY.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:42:50 PM		CRE
BILLY.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:42:24 PM		CRE
BRAC06.ITM		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 13/06/2001 9:08:18 PM		ITM
CANTO.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:41:34 PM		CRE
CULT3.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 29/06/2001 6:53:06 PM		CRE
DRIBBE.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:41:02 PM		CRE
Flamal.bcs		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 2/07/2001 3:33:30 AM		bcs
Flamal.cre		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 2/07/2001 12:21:10 AM		cre
GORPEL.DLG		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 1/07/2001 12:17:18 PM		DLG
HOBGOBC.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 7:39:48 PM		CRE
JALANT.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 30/06/2001 6:11:16 PM		CRE
JEMBY.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:39:22 PM		CRE
KNOTT.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:38:18 PM		CRE
MARL.DLG		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 15/06/2001 11:53:54 PM		DLG
NEVILL.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:37:58 PM		CRE
NOBW8.DLG		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 14/06/2001 9:52:34 PM		DLG
ORDULI.DLG		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 7/07/2001 9:09:44 AM		DLG
OUBLEK.DLG		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 30/06/2001 9:13:00 PM		DLG
RAEMON.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:32:16 PM		CRE
RAMAZI.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 16/06/2001 9:04:24 AM		CRE
REPMAN.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:24:10 PM		CRE
SPWI003.SPL		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 7/07/2001 8:50:46 AM		SPL
SPWI112.SPL		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 7/07/2001 8:52:32 AM		SPL
sw1h20.itm		Binary files are different	* 17/06/2001 11:52:44 AM	10/05/1999 11:18:18 AM	itm
SW1H22.itm		Binary files are different	* 17/06/2001 11:53:34 AM	14/04/1999 1:56:52 PM	itm
sw1h23.itm		Binary files are different	* 17/06/2001 11:53:30 AM	27/05/1999 2:37:08 PM	itm
TAEROM.DLG		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 30/06/2001 10:18:10 AM		DLG
TEYNGA.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:23:36 PM		CRE
THUG.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:22:34 PM		CRE
TRAPDIS.bcs		Text files are different	* 29/06/2001 10:53:30 PM	16/04/1999 3:32:28 PM	bcs
TREMAI.DLG		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 27/06/2001 11:54:00 PM		DLG
ZEKAR.CRE		Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override	* 28/06/2001 6:21:52 PM		CRE

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Another odd related issue from MS Edge, an incredible disappearing tab.
A notable side-effect is the exception is not posted to any subcategory of Windows Events Logs, and the tab URL will not not show up in browser History. Used ChromeCacheView to search for any unposted text in the forum page, nothing.

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Heh, not unless you’re a super villain, in which case concerns regarding peace, order, and harmony in the community can be left at the door, assuming of course such an item will remain in one piece after your episode of rampant destruction. 😛
OMG, so many expansions to play- so tread carefully, for fear of falling into the evercrack!
Was never happy with the new liquorice bags, will there ever be a happy solution?
Shem the dog really likes the early spring sun!

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