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2 bricks until my temple is complete.

I think save-games are only linked to frame-rate issues, and that mainly seems to be confined to the PS3 version. I had about 100 saves at one point as 'New Save' was the first option and i'm lazy. I had no effect on my game.

Your desperation to diss Jagex is so bad that you do it even when it is something totally out of their control?

Trent, the rubbish one. Although it was (WAS, now dropped 25 places) around 50th for History in the country. We have some really world renowned lecturers though so rankings aren't everything. I'll be at the city Uni next year though.

£7.50. Such a huge hole in my pocket left by that. Yeah, me and my flatmate went halfs on a book earlier in the year, barely used it except to beef up an essay through a reference. Luckily History doesn't have textbooks, just hundreds of thousands of individual areas of research done by people. My University has two great libraries, and the other University in the city also lets students from ours take books from their library if ours don't have it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bifmj1O3D24&feature=player_embedded I think this is scarier than the real dragons.

I joined the code year thing, although not sure how well I will get on with it as I'm very busy with University at the moment. I've also, as a rather jokey resolution, been recording the number of times certain things have happened.

Giving this a Necro as today's guild page update shows just who has stayed with the game and Guild for all these months.

I've not played fallout but I'm a huge Fable fan and now a huge Skyrim fan.

I would but I play as a good guy, so don't like killing innocent people if it's un-needed.

I would love to see Hammerfell. Would be such a big difference from Oblivion and Skyrim which centre around your standard forest/mountain/plains. It would also give us the opportunity to find some very different enemies. Is there any way to get divorced without killing your wife? I married the woman from Riften who wanted to protect the city, she's called something the Lionheart. The annoying thing is that the man who saved her life and followed her around pre-marriage still follows her around and is always in my house which annoys the hell out of me. I've also seen some very good looking barmaids in Marketh who would make good wives.

I've tried to get back in after the quest but didn't go in. I can't remember if the door required a key or if it just required picking the lock with guards nearby. I'm probably no help here :) I feel I may have missed out on the dark brotherhood quests as I simply killed the woman from the start then wiped them out.

I don't like the designs of barely any of Jagex's newer armours, including the new barrows sets. They seem to go overboard on spikes and details instead of focusing on the main parts of the armours. The old barrows armours (Especially Dharoks and Torags) looked incredibly bulky and solid, reflecting their high armour ratings, but now they just look brittle and weak.

Finally started the civil war quests at level 50. I found it really hard to choose a side, which is probably why I left it until it's basically the last thing left. I actually started it for both sides with different saves but eventually went with the Imperials as it just felt right. Basically, the Imperials are bad because they tried to kill me and outlawed Talos, but good because without them, the Thalmor will probably take over the world, and some Imperials agree with the stormcloaks ideals but not actions. Stormcloaks on the other hands are racist pigs, subjugating those in their own cities as well as Ulfric being incredibly egotistical.

Nord. I like putting a character as close to myself into the game and Nords are the only mellee based class with pale skin and blonde hair. I would have gone redguard like Oblivion but this time I couldn't make them white.

I think we are just on different paths. My views on academic history are ones born out of reading multitudes of articles and books which have totally numbed my interest in specific areas of history, which is something I want to avoid at all costs. I find history on a broader scale much more interesting, which is why one of my current modules on World history and the great divergence between Europe and China is one of the most interesting I have done. I guess my main feeling is just how isolated academic history is in the modern world with most of the modern work I have experienced being of importance to a very limited field outside of history itself due to how specific it is. I'm much more interested in effecting how history is brought to the masses and future generations, but I commend those who may one day possibly make academic history more interesting.

I saw the portal 2 price then hung my head when I looked at the specs needed to play it. Apparently my laptop can run the original Witcher, is it worth buying, as it's only £3.24?

My god such cheap prices, if only my laptop could actually play more than 25% of the games on steam. If only steam did hard copies and for consoles as well.

How can you dislike his films? They're all amazing. D: I kind of agree with Range This. I didn't dislike either film, but I wouldn't say they were amazing. I'd give them a solid 7/10, as they didn't do anything wrong, but I do find them incredibly over-hyped.

Oh how I wished that had worked. It was the first thing I tried.

75-80 hours in and I'm still loving the game. I'm yet to even discover one of the holds (the one on the far left), haven't even touched the civil war and not really tried magic either. I've loved every minute of the game so far and it's still giving me new things to do. I've maxed one handed and heavy armour now, so I've switched to two handed and light armour, which have given the game new life. Maxed heavy armour and Dragonbone armour made me a walking tank, but switching to Dragonscale (even though it's legendary with smithing bonuses added) and a low light armour skill has made fights so much harder. Only two things at the moment have annoyed me on the game. Firstly, I wish I could destroy the thieves guild instead of making it stronger. I play as the valiant hero, the good guy, so I shouldn't be helping thieves. Yet unfortunately, they cannot be killed. Secondly, a much shorter term annoyance, vampirism. I got infected the other day for the first time, which is odd and was very annoying. Odd because it was after 75+ hours, so surely many many people totally miss out on it and never get infected?(Or I'm very lucky) Annoying because nowhere in the game are you told how to get rid of it. My 360 is at my brothers house and he doesn't have internet, so I had to try and rely on the game to find a cure, but after 4 in-game days, you become a stage 4 vampire and every NPC attacks you until you feed and return to stage 1. Only upon leaving the game due to it now being impossible to play and going home to use the internet did I find out that you have to start a side-quest by asking a bar-tender for any rumours once you are infected.

On the topic of teaching: Here in the UK (not so sure about America as I'm not sure what is taught at secondary level) I much prefer secondary history to academic history. Academic history focuses on a minuscule and very specific part of history, so for example you may study the crusades, but you will miss out the vast majority of things which actually had an impact on the outcome, battles and the like, instead focusing on something as small as gender roles among crusaders (something I'm having to do right now). When it gets to this stage, I personally find it so tedious and pointless that it actually infuriates me when writing many of my essays. History at an academic level has become such a trumped up pile of crap. Outside of academic history, the people of the world don't care about the vast majority of things scholars write about as they are so dull, dry and seemingly pointless that they are totally uninteresting. I'm doing a history degree, but I thoroughly hate what academic history is and represents. history should be about bringing history to the people, which is why I am doing a dissertation on public history and heritage. Don't get me wrong, if a historian enjoys being mind-numbingly nit-picky about "Women activists, southern conservatives, and the prohibition of sex discrimination in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act" (yes that's an actual article I had to read) then by all means do it, but history will die out if it continues to solely be that due to people being uninterested in it. It also has a tendency at higher levels to totally miss parts of history out due to being too specific. Secondary history on the other hand has the opportunity to be incredibly influential in a young persons life, it can teach them about anything from the Romans to US civil rights, not going in depth enough to be dry but still being correct, while staying general enough that you don't have to spend a whole year looking at a topic. It can help children learn their cultural identity as well as knowing the important world events which happened way before they were born. Hell, History lessons ideally would be like an episode of QI, learn something cool, move on, learn something else cool, move on. It's going over the same crap just in more detail that makes history boring. History is important for people to learn, so it's vital that history is entertaining and interesting while staying correct. When I become a teacher, I want to get kids interested in history and love it as much as I do. When I went to a local school recently, I spend a good while just reading a textbook, and actually learnt a lot of things simply due to academic history being too specific and not giving broader pictures. A man who makes tyres doesn't necessarily know much about cars, whereas a mechanic may not know much about tyres, but he sure knows about cars as a whole. The same applies to historians. They may be able to tell you about a specific thing, but they won't have a clue about it in context. Rant over.

He sounds like an idiot to me.

I saw that news and I'm loving it. One of my favourite drivers. If only Kubica could recover in time to be his team-mate and they would be my dream team.

Currently in my third year of a History degree with the aim of progressing into teaching. Currently in the process of applying for positions for my PGCE (post-grad certificate in education) to teach which will take me a year. Just spend a few days in a school sitting in on classes and being the other side of the fence to what I'm used to. Looks very stressful but so rewarding.