Updates on Videogaming...

.... Neverwinter Nights 2 runs fine now on my couple-weeks-newer version of the MacBook. Thanks to all of you who were able to pinpoint the problem and led me to notice that the "coming out days later" version would be able to handle the load.

I found an online guide to Persona 4 which showed me how to get past the bad ending; presumably it'll take me to the "true" ending after I get the regular ending.

It's a bit of a pain that getting to EITHER of the good endings requires that you choose, in sequence, FIVE specific responses in one conversation; if you don't know that, you've got about 1 chance in a thousand to get it right.

On the other hand, my suspicion about the true villain behind all of this (at least the true human villain; I suspect there's one more behind it all) turned out to be dead-on all along. So I feel vindicated!

My Username, Meme Werewolf Answers...

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And there you have it!

Tech Help Needed: Netscape Mail in Win2k/XP

At work I have been using Netscape 7.2 for my mail needs for a long time. Now I have to switch to a new machine.

Alas, unlike Macs I can't just copy all the files over and have it run.

I want to be able to use all my old mail files, access all the folders, etc.

How can I do this? I'm moving from Win 2k to WinXP.

I'm not wedded to Netscape as the NEW program -- I just want to have all my old mail, etc., available, and I DON'T want to use Lookout...er, Outlook.

Dreams of Power...

Many of us have wished to have some particular superpower or supernatural ability. For most of my life, the one power I would have wanted more than any other was simply flight -- of the Superman sort, just think "Up, up and away!" and be streaking through the sky, hovering, etc. (unspoken assumption is the power comes with basic safeguards that make it reasonable to use -- i.e., I don't freeze to death or suddenly go anoxic at high altitudes, for example).

However, I've recently found a new superpower that has utterly eclipsed even flight in terms of "dear GOD I'd love to have that": From Naruto, the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu or Shadow Clone Technique. This technique allows the user to duplicate themselves (depending on how much power they have, they can duplicate themselves a LOT), with each duplicate having the skills, knowledge, etc. of the original (so they can talk, fight, etc., just like the real one), can act separately or together, and -- the clincher -- whenever they are undone (killed, banished deliberately, etc.), the ORIGINAL GETS ALL OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCES OF ALL OF HIS CLONES.

This has so many cool applications it's mindboggling.

So, what's YOUR dream power?