The Official General Chat Threade Returns!!

[racx_00]

Petra's correct.  The resources necessary to continue those features are no longer available.  Weekly Polls actually stopped back in April, and What's Haven stopped over a year ago.

Yeah, What's Haven only had the Cookie! polls going this year...

[Yonkey]

Oh, right.  The Cookie polls stopped in May of this year, while the rest of What's Haven stopped last summer.

[racx_00]

Yeah... polls plus comics would have kept it alive, but unfortunately they stopped.

[PirateKingChris]

Aww, I'd forgotten the polls stopped....Now that I realize it, bummer 

[copycat]

Now I'm going to think of Petra from Broken Sword games every time I see him posting.

Please refresh my memory: which one (BS) and where did the main character meet this one?

[tessspoon]

The third, Sleeping Dragon. She's an assassin for the bad guy is about all I remember.

[tessspoon]

I got halfway on the fourth one a while ago and I never finished that one. ... Shoot, I just realized my saved game is now gone due to reinstalling XP. Now I've got to start over. All well.

[Yonkey]

'you guys', as in actually 'you guys and gal', right?

Erm, yes.   Though I generally don't ever use the word "gal".

[awesomeasapossum]

'you guys', as in actually 'you guys and gal', right?

Erm, yes.   Though I generally don't ever use the word "gal".

Acctually if there were a million beta testers and 999,999 were girls and 1 was a guy, it would still be "guys". That's the way grammar is, sorry, girls.

And the only time I ever say "gal" is when I'm joking around and I say galpal 'cuz I think it's a ridiculous phrase.

[Deloria]

'you guys', as in actually 'you guys and gal', right?

Erm, yes.   Though I generally don't ever use the word "gal".

Acctually if there were a million beta testers and 999,999 were girls and 1 was a guy, it would still be "guys". That's the way grammar is, sorry, girls.

That's antiquarian influence, I believe. German is the only language of which I know which has changed that at all.

[Shades2585]

"guys" has sort of become a gender neutral term in the US year ago and is often used toward women as well. Strange though it may seem.

[copycat]

Erm, yes.   Though I generally don't ever use the word "gal".

Neither would I, hence the smiley, but it just popped into my head so I just had to post it.

And the only time I ever say "gal" is when I'm joking around

It was meant as A3P described.

"guys" has sort of become a gender neutral term in the US year ago and is often used toward women as well. Strange though it may seem.

In Flemish, we haven't gotten quite that 'far' yet.

[dark-daventry]

I say "guys" all the time, and I hang out with a huge group of girls. As shades2585 has said, it is indeed a gender neutral term here in the States. But I would like to point out that this conversation deviates from the original intent of the thread, and these terms can be discussed in other sections of the forum. Sorry for spoiling the fun, but I can be quite a stickler for rules sometimes...

[Elessar]

I haven't gotten to the Isle of the Beast yet either. I'm currently breathing down the Oracles' cutscene-neck, but exited every time to refine a bug report.
The quality of the graphics IS quite amazing, and I'm running at a near full-screen resolution. (Won't do full-screen, as I'd have to Alt-Tab to switch from that window to the bug reporting tool-window).

I haven't exited the castle yet! I keep finding things! I need to try Alt-Tabbing, 'cuz if I press the windows key the game crashes and I can't get back in.

Then shouldn't you file that as a bug report?

They could try "claiming" the windows key when in fullscreen mode, essentially disabling it, preventing the crash.

[awesomeasapossum]

It is kind of a bug, but I'm not sure if I should report it or not, yet.

[Yonkey]

Might as well report it so that someone will investigate it.  Does the game crash (as in, does it generate some error message), or does it just get unbearably slow?  If it's the latter, then it's most likely because your amount of RAM is too low.

[awesomeasapossum]

I doubt it's my ram since I have 1024 GB of ram.

But in fullscreen the game really does freeze when I'm going to the interior courtyard/garden. Also, when I press the windows key or alt tab (only in fulscreen though) their is no trace of the game in the  Task Manager but I can hear the music still.

[Yonkey]

Oh, yeah that freezing thing happens to me.  I think there's some loading bug there that Petter said he'd have to look into at some point. 

If that bug hasn't been reported already, you should report it.

[Elessar]

I doubt it's my ram since I have 1024 GB of ram.

You have 1TB RAM? Are you sure you don't mean 1024MB (aka 1GB) RAM, or 1TB hard drive space?

[racx_00]

He would have meant 1024MB, but damn, that sure is funny.