Necromagus

I liked Angels and Demons, mostly because the version I read was a very nice hardcover edition with all sorts of illustrations and pictures of the artwork involved. It also helped that during my class trip to Rome, I saw a lot of the art/locations involved in the story. It doesn't cover up the fact that it's glorified pulp though.

It's a great list. I'm not going to pretend I've heard of all the albums on it, but the writing that accompanies is great. You really show your passion for this music, and it definitely makes me want to check out some of these albums.

I can't believe I have to spell this out to you people... Move along. Nothing to see. Change the subject. -Necromagus, Tip.It Mod.

Let's see if I can visualize what went wrong here... You all just responded to a troll in the stupidest way possible, and now I have to clean this thread up *again*. I'm getting real tired of this. DO NOT TROLL DO NOT RESPOND TO TROLLS REPORT REPORT REPORT -Necromagus, very annoyed Tip.It Mod.

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The fictional articles started with a new storyline this week, so maybe you could give it a try?

Moved to the appropriate forum. -Necromagus, Tip.It Mod.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/installing ... ard-drive/ Here's a tutorial that tells you what you need to know. However, Ubuntu 8.10 is the latest version and I recommend using that in stead.

Looking good, moved to General Guides :) -Necromagus, Tip.It Mod.

No, but it can play stuff like the original Monkey Island games :D Yeah, I'm looking around, but unfortunately most Abandonware sites focus on DOS games rather than Amiga games.

I'm really looking forward to it. Phantom Hourglass was probably one of the best games on the DS that used the hardware as more than just a gimmick. The boss fights were amazing,especially the two-headed dragon and the giant stone golem.

This year at the local church's annual flea market, I picked up this little gem for only eight euros: It's a fully functional 1987 Commodore Amiga 500 with an extra disk drive for 1.0 MB 3.5" floppy disks, a mouse and two joysticks (not pictured). It was so complete that the boxes still came with the styrofoam. As far as I can tell so far the hardware is functioning perfectly. There's only two problems: There's no documentation (manuals, etc.), and no software. Any hints as to where I can find both (remember, nothing copyrighted, rules and all that) would be greatly appreciated. Does anyone else here have any experience running one of these fine machines?

Picard for a very simple reason. The sheer amount of times that Kirk was seconds away from provoking all-out interstellar war is baffling.

Runescape-related Recipes! (originally ran March 29th, 2009) Cooking is one of the oldest skills in Runescape. From simple shrimp to perfect pies, the game offers a wide range of dishes for players to cook, and almost every cooking level comes with a new recipe to try out. While pixels taste rather bland, the real-life counterpart of these recipes are quite tasty and surprisingly easy to prepare. This week I'll show you some of my favourite recipes for such Runescape dishes as fish cakes, baked potatoes and apple pie. A few notes regarding these recipes: * Always know what you are doing, or work with someone who knows what they are doing. While these recipes are relatively simple, we strongly advice that those of you who aren't adult yet find one to help them. * All oven temperatures are in Celsius, but I've added Fahrenheit estimates. * Cook fresh: When at all possible, choose fresh ingredients. Your body deserves only the best. Baked potatoes: Baked potatoes are relatively easy and a lot of fun to try various toppings with. To begin with, take as many large (russet) potatoes as you have people to serve. Scrub the potatoes thoroughly and puncture the peel a few times with a fork. Make an x-shaped cut on the top of the potato, going down about halfway through the potato. Place the potatoes with the cut facing up on a sheet of aluminum foil and carefully cover them up. Preheat the oven at 225 degrees Celsius (~420 degrees Fahrenheit). Place the covered potatoes in the center of the oven and heat them up for about 45 minutes. The potatoes are properly cooked when you can stick a fork in with little resistance on all sides. Be very careful handling the potatoes, as they will be extremely hot. Now, as for the toppings, there are many possibilities for variation, and I've listed two here: Baked potato with cheese When you've carefully removed the foil from the potatoes, press the cross cut open as far as it will go and spread in the cheese. Although most cheeses will work, I prefer something spicy like a well-aged Gouda. If you're worried that the potato is too dry, place a small amount of butter on top before serving. Add salt and pepper to taste. For variation, you can also add in some fresh chives or a handful of smoked bacon. Baked potato with mushrooms and onions In a frying pan, heat up some butter and olive oil in a 1:1 ratio. When it's hot enough add about a cup of mushrooms and half an onion per potato. Glaze the mushrooms and onions until the onions are clear. Place the onions and mushrooms in the cut, then drizzle the liquid over the potatoes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Apple pie Apple pie is probably one of the most popular recipes out there. It comes in hundreds of variations, all of which are delicious in their own way. The recipe I'm posting here is one of the simplest I know; it's an apple crumble that's perfect for desert. Ingredients: * 4 large sweet apples * 225 grams of flour * 115 grams of butter * 90 grams of sugar * 1 tablespoon of cinnamon * Honey * 1 pinch of salt Peel your apples, cut them in thin slices and carefully arrange them on the bottom of an oven dish. Lightly dust the apples with cinnamon, and drizzle some hoeny over it. In a mixing bowl, mix he flour, butter, sugar and salt into a firm crumbly dough. Spread it evenly across the apples. Preheat the oven at 180 degrees celsius (~350 degrees Fahrenheit). Bake the crumble for about 20 minutes at this temperature, until the top is golden brown and dry to the touch. Fish cakes This recipe, taken straight from the Recipe for Disaster quest, is by far the most difficult of the three. I've kept it as straightforward as possible, but it's still rather tricky for inexperienced cooks. Ingredients: * 750 gr. Cod filet * 2-3 boiled potatoes * 2 cloves of garlic, minced * 1 egg * 3 tablespoons freshly chopped parsley * 2 teaspoons nutmeg * Salt en freshly ground pepper * Flour * Peanut oil Poach the cod in water or fish broth. Once it's done, cut it up as finely as possible. Mash it up with your boiled potatoes. Whisk your egg and mix it into the potato/cod mixture with the garlic, parsley, nutmeg and salt and pepper. Moisten your hands to press the mixture into six to eight flat, round cakes. Heat up the peanut oil in a frying pan. Cover both sides of the cakes in flour and bake them evenly on all sides until they're golden brown and crispy. Place them on some paper towels to let the excess fat run out. They can be eaten both cold and hot. So there you have it, three RuneScape related recipes, two rather simple and one a bit more advanced. Of course, cooking isn't an exact science, and you might find slight (or major) variations to these recipes could make them a lot more appetizing. Still, I hope these recipes are enough to convince you to go out there and cook, either for yourself, your family or your friends, and make the world a tastier place to live in.

It's Raining Money! (historic article, originally ran March 22nd, 2009) On October 31st, 2002, my first Runescape character became, for all intents and purposes, wealthy. It was the day of Hallowe'en, and to celebrate Jagex distributed Halloween masks in three different colours. This was done in the same way previous holiday items were introduced to the game: a system message followed by the items appearing in random places on the world map, available for all to pick up on a first come, first serve basis. I myself was lucky enough to pick up about a dozen masks. Had I hung onto them, my character's net worth would probably be in the nine digit range by now. Unfortunately I ended up selling most of my masks on that very first day, trading them in for two sets of full adamant and two sets of full rune. In the end I only kept a single red mask for myself, which to this day is one of my prized possessions. That same day a year earlier, Jagex had begun the tradition of holiday drops. To celebrate Halowe'en 2001, Jagex spread pumpkins across the land. The very first holiday item could not be worn, only eaten, for an amazing (at the time) 14 hit points worth of healing. This means that on that October day, millions, if not billions, of GP (in today's market) worth of pumpkins were simply eaten. This is a problem that persists to this day, and anyone trading it today would be foolish not to withdraw it in its noted form to prevent themselves from healing 14 of the most expensive HP they've ever healed. Due to the success of the pumpkin drop, Christmas 2001 would be celebrated with a drop that was inspired by a primarily British Christmas tradition: The Christmas cracker. These crackers closely followed their real-life counterparts: They could be pulled on with another player, with one obtaining a small paper hat and the other obtaining a trinket. The paper hats especially were a hit, as the festive little 'crowns', which were the first holiday items that players could equip, were quickly spread among the player base. Of course almost every cracker was popped those first few days for a very simple reason: The trinkets obtainable from it were worth far more than the street price of an unpulled cracker. Even as the price of party hats began to rise, the price of crackers took a very long time to rise along with it. The trend of crackers being worth more than the potential contents didn't come about until recent years, when players began to realize how truly rare crackers had become after years of popping, along with those lost to natural causes such as bans and retirements. Bolstered by the success of pumpkins and Christmas crackers, Jagex decided to add Easter to its list of celebrated holidays with a dropping of easter eggs. These brightly coloured chocolate treats appeared all over the game world on April 20th, 2002. Like pumpkins before them they were little more than rare food, healing 12 HP for whoever ate them. Although I had already created my first account by then, the whole concept of holiday items was lost on me and I wasn't even online that day. I did get one as a gift from a friend later, but unfortunately I gave it to another friend a few weeks later, leaving me empty-handed. Of course by the time Christmas 2002 rolled around, I was much better prepared. In the previous months I had seen the prices of the masks I had traded away skyrocket, and I had learned what holiday events actually entailed: It was a day where money rained from the sky. While I had started playing well before Easter 2002, I hadn't been online the day easter eggs were dropped and only heard about them later. Finding the Hallowe'en masks was just a coincidence, as the holiday is barely celebrated where I live and I was thus barely aware of it. For Christmas however, I was ready. It started with selecting the right spot to await the drops. Unfortunately I was not a member at the time, so I visited several potentially empty areas before I found the perfect spot to await the drops: the area between Port Sarim and Rimmington. Of course I wasn't the only one choosing this tactic, and the spirit of the season had apparently taken the day off. Again and again I was verbally berated by other players who didn't want to share their spot. I wasn't scared off however, eventually making off with over two dozen santa hats before my mom turned off the computer for the day (to this day, this is a common problem for a large percentage of Runescape's players). I held onto them tightly for a while, although most were eventually given away or traded. Today I have eight left, which due to the new trade system will probably be stuck on my account forever. I wasn't the only one realizing the skyrocketing value of holiday items. Jagex had taken notice too, and they weren't pleased. This wasn't entirely unexpected, as these items would only become more and more rare as time went by. This had happened before with other items that were tradeable and no longer obtainable, such as the Disc of Returning and the Half Jug of Wine. However, holiday items were intended to celebrate, not to give players easy access to huge sums of money. To prevent future releases from unhinging the economy even further, Jagex took two very simple measures: players could only pick up one item, and the items could no longer be traded. When this new policy was first applied to the bunny ear drop of Easter 2003. Players expecting to once again rake in the gold were surprised with a warning message that they only needed one. The response was, as expected, disappointing. While some players appreciated the fact that holiday items were intended for celebration and not profit, a very vocal group of players voiced their disdain extensively. Jagex however was adamant: money would never rain from the sky again. When the scythes were released for Halowe'en 2003, complaints were once again rampant. It would be the last holiday event of Runescape classic. It would take almost 14 months before Jagex once again released a Holiday event, and instead of items simply falling from the sky players would now have to retrieve their new yo-yo at a fixed position. As time went by both events and rewards would become more complex, but money would never again rain from the skies.

Yeah, but I figured it was just a word play; they sound similar and it forms an alliteration. Maybe the release is planned for April.

Yes, it's that time again... This obviously hints at the Fairy quests, which seems to be planned in June. From the sound of it it looks like they're working towards the finale for that series. This seems to be a very strong hint towards some sort of submarine contend. Red Raktuber = Red October, a Russian submarine from a book, movie and video game. The "flying" remarks could mean moving underwater. The fish references also point at something involving water.

I'd say the introduction of high-level gear that's only obtainable from an extremely tough monster, mainly the dragon claws and the sigils.

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Mind if I do a list of "25 Comedy Albums You Should Own"?

From my Times article on the Dragon Crossbow:

Stop. Now. I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave the PKing discussion for what it is before we have a full-blown flame war to deal with. -Necromagus, Tip.It Mod.

I suppose I could do a gnome cuisine version of this article down the line. Some non-alcoholic cocktails, crunchies and battas shouldn't be a problem. Can't promise I'll include the toad leg and worm varieties though.

Cracked had an item on the top 5 a while ago. On the Jonas Brothers page: "We don't care what kind of magic glasses you put on. The Jonas Brothers will never be three-dimensional."

I think that people who complain that this will make prayer less of an achievement are pretty much just masochists. Considering that the majority of this skill is bought anyway, I don't see how using this new system in stead of the old one makes 99 prayer any less of an achievement.