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I've just found this.

www.bladekeep.com/nwn/

Never played the original game (i played the 2001 Neverwinter Nights), but i think the track sounds so nice.
 

Origin has started a promotion along with the popular indie games promoter Humble Bundle, regarding 6+2 games that will be available for 14 days since August 14th. As for the previous Humble Bundles, the starting price for a valid set of Steam keys (and Origin keys, in this case) is one dollar for six games (Dead Space, Burnout Paradise, Crysis 2, Mirror's Edge, Dead Space 3 and Medal of Honor). By paying more than the average (which is currently around 4,8 dollars) you will also get Battlefield 3 and the Sims 3: Starter Pack. 

Aside of a small fraction of it, which goes to the Humble Bundle itself, all of the money goes to charity (Human Rights Campaign, Watsi, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, American Cancer Society, American Red Cross). Of course, you can donate as much as you like, and eventually adjust the shares destinated to each charity fund.

Note: usually, Humble Bundles key come as a "pack" to prevent misuse or reselling of the single keys.

https://www.humblebundle.com/

Have fun.

So, out of curiosity, i was wondering which kind of games you people play (other than America's Army of course ).
I mostly play Killing Floor, along with a few other games (mostly old games or discount games). I love cooperative gameplay and such


Feel free to share your Steam profile if you have one.

It's pretty much obvious that at this time most of the mAAp maps and many of the official maps aren't played nearly anymore. While it doesn't take off the gameplay itself, it surely takes off of variety. And lack of variety is what ultimately drives to boredom. It's much healthier to have a certain amount of players that play different maps than a handful of those that will only jump on a single map which they're terribly fond of, because the former will most likely keep on playing even if their favorite map is not available (and in the end that is the key to have a good average amount of players during the day).

So, considering that there are some worthy maps (mAAp Pipeline, Breakout, Rummage, Sandstorm, JRTC Farm Raid, etc) that aren't played at all, i think there might be some things that could be done to improve the variety, by promoting those against the majority of the few that gets over-regularly played every single day.

Among the first things that might be effective, hitting hardcore as much as newer players, might be points assignment: we can decide the amount of points assigned for each map and especially for each objective, so we could easily increase the amount of points given once completing a round successfully (not just by standing idle) in those maps. Of course the difference shouldn't higher than about 30% to 40% in comparison to others maps, to give a premium but not to create a huge inequality.

Some other ideas might be assigning badges or achievements in a Steam way, which already was a feature of the former America's army profile when the website was still online (the Jacket).

Any other ideas you'd throw in?

I don't know whether or not you people ever heard of this guy (he was a famous stunter back in the 70's) but i've just found this BBC's documentary which pretty much depicts the character (a man who gave all to his passion, or rather to create a legend).

Back in 2007 when this filmed he was still holding memories, and faith to his own legend, lesser so to his physical state.

(The documentary is a complete version of the actual tv show that was aired in 2007).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=0PNp_eDbRBw[/youtube]

While taking off a few bugs i reported earlier ( http://aao25.com/maap/official-maap-v7-bug-reporting-thread/msg21383/#msg21383 ) by setting up player collision blocks i was thinking that there are a few objects and areas (like cars, trucks, and hospital furniture) that might benefit from a smoother, more natural collision to improve the feeling and actually make things feel smoother to move onto/nearby. What's your take?



*To clarify that for the lesser interested about technical matters of the game, player blocks collision are non-visible objects that can be placed to ease collision of otherwise multi-faceted objects. This doesn't modify the gameplay, nor it modifies any visuals, but adds a more refined layer to the physical world (briefly, helps taking movement chunkiness out).

Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond from Uk's Top Gear manage to get a Toyota Hilux through a series of use and abuse. I can't honestly believe the didn't changed a single spare part, but it's still funny to watch.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=xnWKz7Cthkk [/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTPnIpjodA8&feature=relmfu[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZDtC9kjVk&feature=related[/youtube]

So, been using this little tool for months and thought many other people might find it useful. It has been around since when Intel started making use of throttling in his laptop cpu.

You surely have times when you don't need no cpu power at all, or vice versa you want all the pure power without hassles and interruption: this tool does it for you, stopping the continous dynamic adjustment typical of latest Intel cpu's. This usually helps avoid sudden hitching of all those apps that use 1 core only (who said AA?).
 
Of course a continous use of your cpu at full speed will make temperature rise, if your laptop cooling system is inadequate as it often happens for cheap laptops and low end systems. Therefore, try to understand that it is a risk you're  taking on your own (laptop). In every case, i would suggest you to use Speedfan -> http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?227689-ThrottleStop-Performance-Adjustment-Tool-for-Core-2-Core-i-CPUs