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  • RyadicRyadic Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Ryadic wrote: »
    Just want to make sure I'm doing this right. I'm tired of switching discs in Bladur's Gate, since my 3rd disc is so scratched it takes forever to read it, so I'm copying the discs to my HD and then modifying the .ini file.

    Here's what the .ini file looks like to begin with:
    [Alias]
    HD0:=C:\Program Files\Black Isle\Baldur's Gate\
    CD1:=F:\CD1
    CD2:=F:\CD2
    CD3:=F:\CD3
    CD4:=F:\CD4
    CD5:=F:\CD5
    CD6:=F:\CD6

    So all I have to do is change the CD1:=<file path> that I copied the discs to, right?

    No one? I edited the post a little.

    C = Hard drive
    F = Disc drive

    So let's say I put the CD1 - 6 in this path:

    C:/Program Files/Baldur's Gate Discs, then I would modify the INI to show that rather than F:\CD1, right?

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  • SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Feral wrote: »
    I bought Janson the Bit of Fry & Laurie DVD set for Secret Santa a few years back.

    Pretty proud of that gift.

    Jeffe got it for me a couple years back, too

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  • dlinfinitidlinfiniti Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    jesus get with the times guys you don't need all these fancy doohickies to kill vampires and werewolves anymore
    apparantly the kids have figured out that you can kill vampires
    with love
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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    I bought Janson the Bit of Fry & Laurie DVD set for Secret Santa a few years back.

    Pretty proud of that gift.

    Jeffe got it for me a couple years back, too
    nobody got me one

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  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Ryadic I don't know but I'm pretty sure it won't hurt anything if you experiment.

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  • ChenChen Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I'm not sure what's going on here, but I saw Stephen Fry in the title and felt compelled to post.

    <3 Stephen Fry

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  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Does anyone have a link to charts with the history of the federal income tax brackets by year?
    Before the 1900s, they used triangular brackets, like this: <$10, $15>
    For most of the 20th century, they used curvy brackets, like this: {$500, $1000}
    But in the last few decades of the 20th century, they switched it to square brackets, like this: [$10000, $20000]

    Hope that helps!

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  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
  • NocturneNocturne Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Ryadic I don't know but I'm pretty sure it won't hurt anything if you experiment.

    You used that same line on me Sarks

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  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Count Chocula is the most powerful vampire. He has no known weaknesses.

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Richy wrote: »
    Also, if we're talking supernatural beings, isn't a lot of what hurts them rooted in faith?

    I'm going by sci-fi here, but I remember cults of vampires that used sunlight in small doses until they built a tolerance to it, or weren't affected by holy water or crosses either because they felt righteous in their beliefs, or the one using the weapons did not.

    I mean, it's not the same if we're assuming the supernatural have a weakness due to allergic reaction, but still, other than fire or beheading, I'm not sure any of the other stuff would actually work.
    It's all how each individual writer wants to make his vampires.

    I like mine sparkly and full of angst.

    On the subject, I actually saw new moon, after watching Adventureland about a week earlier, and seeing a preview for remember me right before.

    Holy hell Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson can both act, so I don't understand why they can't act in the Twilight series. I get that the writing is horrible and everything, but they are both talented. It doesn't make sense. Now Taylor Lautner there is just no hope for. He will be well remembered on the sci fi channel after Twilight is over.

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    edited March 2010
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
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    God damn it don't you quit on me! That's not nearly the hardest pair of sentences in the thing. "Within the conflictual economy of colonial discourse which Edward Said describes as the tension between the synchronic panoptical vision of domination - the demand for identity, stasis - and the counter-pressure of the diachrony of history - change, difference - mimicry represents an ironic compromise."

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    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2010
    What is colonial discourse?

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    God damn it Feral you are not helping!

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Does [chat] want to help me parse a pair of sentences? Of course you do!

    "Mimicry does not merely destroy narcissistic authority through the repetitious slippage of difference and desire. It is the process of the fixation of the colonial as a form of cross-classificatory, discriminatory knowledge in the defiles of an interdictory discourse, and therefore necessarily raises the question of the authorization of colonial representations"

    First sentence makes me think of maybe newspaper editorials/anti-government media that are against the current ruling set. And how with this they question both the need of a colonial government or representation is probably unneeded or at least not necessary at the time.

    And then my brain turned to mush and I realized it is someone probably being a pretentious prick.

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Count Chocula is the most powerful vampire. He has no known weaknesses.
    milk

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Count Chocula is the most powerful vampire. He has no known weaknesses.

    His weakness is when it's not Halloween.

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    What is colonial discourse?

    when you talk while having buttsex

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    What is colonial discourse?

    Basically discourse created by colonizers about those they have colonized.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Richy wrote: »
    Also, if we're talking supernatural beings, isn't a lot of what hurts them rooted in faith?

    I'm going by sci-fi here, but I remember cults of vampires that used sunlight in small doses until they built a tolerance to it, or weren't affected by holy water or crosses either because they felt righteous in their beliefs, or the one using the weapons did not.

    I mean, it's not the same if we're assuming the supernatural have a weakness due to allergic reaction, but still, other than fire or beheading, I'm not sure any of the other stuff would actually work.
    It's all how each individual writer wants to make his vampires.

    I like mine sparkly and full of angst.

    On the subject, I actually saw new moon, after watching Adventureland about a week earlier, and seeing a preview for remember me right before.

    Holy hell Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson can both act, so I don't understand why they can't act in the Twilight series. I get that the writing is horrible and everything, but they are both talented. It doesn't make sense. Now Taylor Lautner there is just no hope for. He will be well remembered on the sci fi channel after Twilight is over.

    Where, where are you getting this information?

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    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Decided to look up the wiki page on Homi Bhabha:
    Bhabha has been criticized for using indecipherable jargon and dense prose. In 1998 the journal Philosophy and Literature awarded Bhabha second prize in its "Bad Writing Competition,"[3] which "celebrates bad writing from the most stylistically lamentable passages found in scholarly books and articles." Bhabha was awarded the prize for a sentence in his The Location of Culture (Routledge, 1994), which reads:

    If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to “normalize” formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality.[4]

    Emeritus professor of English at Stanford University, Marjorie Perloff, said that her reaction to Bhabha's appointment at Harvard was one of "dismay," telling the New York Times "He doesn't have anything to say." While Mark Crispin Miller, a professor of media studies at New York University, commented on the meaning of Bhabha's writing: "One could finally argue that there is no meaning there, beyond the neologisms and Latinate buzzwords. Most of the time I don't know what he's talking about."[5]

    Bhabha's response

    In a 2005 interview, Bhabha was asked if he was annoyed by criticisms of his prose style.[6] In response, he stated: "t annoys me that people talk about easy access to a work and a notion of transparency without thinking of what is really involved. For instance, the science section of the New York Times is not immediately comprehensible. Do I therefore say that I am not interested in the whole article? The idea that sources from the humanities have no philosophical language of their own, that they must be continually speaking in the common language of the common person while the scientists can publish in a language that needs more time to get into, is problematic to me."[6]

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    What is colonial discourse?

    Basically discourse created by colonizers about those they have colonized.

    that's what she Said

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I'm just saying preach, I've seen both of them in other works, and much like Natalie Portman, they're very talented when they're not poorly directed and written for. It's sad really.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I'm just saying preach, I've seen both of them in other works, and much like Natalie Portman, they're very talented when they're not poorly directed and written for. It's sad really.

    Man no way, Stewart is a blink machine, and Pattinson is like a modern Richard Grieco.

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    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • firewaterwordfirewaterword Satchitananda Pais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    eyes

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    over

    God damn it don't you quit on me! That's not nearly the hardest pair of sentences in the thing. "Within the conflictual economy of colonial discourse which Edward Said describes as the tension between the synchronic panoptical vision of domination - the demand for identity, stasis - and the counter-pressure of the diachrony of history - change, difference - mimicry represents an ironic compromise."

    I think I read Said's Orientalism in college. Damned if I remember much about it though.

    My brain pretty much shut off for the rest of school after Simulacra and Simulation.

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Hey, that sentence he got the award for is in the article I am reading.

    Oh god help me.

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  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Does [chat] want to help me parse a pair of sentences? Of course you do!

    "Mimicry does not merely destroy narcissistic authority through the repetitious slippage of difference and desire. It is the process of the fixation of the colonial as a form of cross-classificatory, discriminatory knowledge in the defiles of an interdictory discourse, and therefore necessarily raises the question of the authorization of colonial representations"

    Why does mimicry destroy narcissistic authority and what is difference and desire doing slipping repetitiously as a result. What is a colonial except a type of house, and what are you fixing it to except maybe a strong foundation? Is the colonial house something any class could potentially afford to live in? Possibly, but why must we discriminate against race and why is it considered defilement for a minority to live in such a house? Why can't their engagement with the home owner's representation be authorized? Why must we continue to live in such a hateful world?

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  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Does [chat] want to help me parse a pair of sentences? Of course you do!

    "Mimicry does not merely destroy narcissistic authority through the repetitious slippage of difference and desire. It is the process of the fixation of the colonial as a form of cross-classificatory, discriminatory knowledge in the defiles of an interdictory discourse, and therefore necessarily raises the question of the authorization of colonial representations"


    Mimicry of authority figures has a way of humanizing them, letting the oppressed know that their oppressors aren't superhuman, issuing infallible orders from on high. It reveals to the oppressed that those in power don't have some natural right to do what they're doing. They haven't been given the power by some authority, but rather they're just a bunch of guys who put on airs and use that to assert control.

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    So you reading something by a man who basically is a pretentious ass. I am so sorry.

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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Death Proof, or Cougar Town?

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Death Proof, or Cougar Town?

    Why not just hit yourself in the balls with a hammer, just as entertaining.

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  • SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Elendil wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    What is colonial discourse?

    Basically discourse created by colonizers about those they have colonized.

    that's what she Said

    bravo

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  • firewaterwordfirewaterword Satchitananda Pais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Hahahah

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Death Proof, or Cougar Town?

    Archer, which is what I am watching atm.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    i just 100%ed Arkham Asylum and I am soon to get 1000/1000 for the achievements

    i think i can feel a neckbeard coming on

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Does [chat] want to help me parse a pair of sentences? Of course you do!

    "Mimicry does not merely destroy narcissistic authority through the repetitious slippage of difference and desire. It is the process of the fixation of the colonial as a form of cross-classificatory, discriminatory knowledge in the defiles of an interdictory discourse, and therefore necessarily raises the question of the authorization of colonial representations"

    Why does mimicry destroy narcissistic authority and what is difference and desire doing slipping repetitiously as a result. What is a colonial except a type of house, and what are you fixing it to except maybe a strong foundation? Is the colonial house something any class could potentially afford to live in? Possibly, but why must we discriminate against race and why is it considered defilement for a minority to live in such a house? Why can't their engagement with the home owner's representation be authorized? Why must we continue to live in such a hateful world?

    Mimicry, as far as I have gathered from the paper, destroys narcissistic authority because on the one had it is making the Other present itself in the authorities image, showing dominance, but, at the same time, if the Other can present itself as the norm is it really Other? Thus undermining the oppositional binary at place. However, mimicry is not mimesis, that is to say that it can only approach reality but it can never reach it. It will always have "slippage" that is to say it will never work. For, to use Bhabha's words, to be Anglicized is to most definitely NOT to be English. Okay and now you are going off on strange house things you silly goose.

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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Preacher wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Death Proof, or Cougar Town?

    Why not just hit yourself in the balls with a hammer, just as entertaining.

    well that is as always an option

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  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Elendil wrote: »
    Count Chocula is the most powerful vampire. He has no known weaknesses.
    milk
    That just makes him soggy.
    His weakness is when it's not Halloween.

    You can find Frankenberry, Booberry and Count Chocula in different parts of the country year round, mostly in the midwest.

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  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited March 2010
    i just 100%ed Arkham Asylum and I am soon to get 1000/1000 for the achievements

    i think i can feel a neckbeard coming on

    Now Is The Time For FFXIII

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  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    i just 100%ed Arkham Asylum and I am soon to get 1000/1000 for the achievements

    i think i can feel a neckbeard coming on

    Soft


    so soft for the stroking

    the stroking




    soft

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    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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