Klaas

I'm with cougar on this one, it depends on the person. I agree it doesn't affect most people, but some people are violent by nature so it will probably affect them. It's rediculous how some countries forbid video games, they should know better where the violence and criminality among people is coming from. It's society in a whole that causes this, not just one small aspect.

Yep that's right Cheezy, there are many on those chat rooms.

I have a Medion Laptop (those cheap ones from Aldi) P4 2.6Ghz 512Mb RAM 40Gb HD nVidia Geforce 4 MX CD/RW DVD Don't buy it if you like playing heavy games, it gets hot quickly.

First one was a 486, about 12 years ago. Yep Commander Keen was cool, or Wolfenstein 3D!

We have a compaq for almost 2 years and haven't had any problems so far.

sorry my gf was here, but she's gone now, so...

Cable - Telenet 45€/month (and that's the cheapest one here)

Nobody followed the Belgian Dutroux scandal in the late 90s? After that they wrote in the US a big part of our people were child molesters, and all kind of other not-so-funny stuff (that there was a war between Flanders and Wallony for example, although the Flemish nationalists are one of the few in the world who have never used violence for reaching independance).

EST, is that +6 hours for GMT+1 (would be ok to me)

My gf only uses the pc for chatting on msn with me or looking up stuff for school/gigs. So doesn't really like games, doesn't have the patience to learn playing them. Although she always makes fun of me when I said a played a game the other day she really likes it that I do some web design and I'm busy with my own community/site. There are many (annoying) girls though that think of any guy using a pc more then an hour a day being a stupid geek. Well, that's what I always tell my gf, I'm proud to be a nerd! (although I don't look like one)

Then we simply send you the IP when would we do it? I would prefer saturday noon/afternoon or sunday (or an evening during the week, although not sure if I can come then).

Don't know them all by heart, we have quite a few Catholic ones of which I can't remember the exact name/date 1st January - New years day 2nd January - 2nd new years day 14th February - Valentine's day Last sunday of April - Easter day the monday after that - Easter monday 1st May - Labor day 11th July - Flander's unofficial (half - official since this year, after 701 years) national day I don't count our national day and day of the royal family because 1: my country is stupid and has no sense, and 2: the royal family is even more stupid and has even less sense 1st November - All Saints (the only year we clean up the grave of the deads on our family) 11th November: 1st WW peace treaty 6 (or 5)st December - Saint-Nicholas (then kids get presents) 24th December: Christmas' Eve (and my birthday!) 25th December: Christmas 31st December: New year's eve

I'm not sure but I would like to be self-employed. Web designer would be cool, part time maybe. Next to that working in a museum really sounds appealing, or maybe archeology.

That would be cool. I can only play AoK/TC online though, don't have anything else of online games. (except enemy territory, the free return to castle wolfenstein multi mod).

Lol Yeah, I know why they do it, otherwise there wouldn't be such a hype, only tolkien nerds like me would probably watch it. If it was intended for the casual geek or new age hippie they probably made a movie based on the Silmarillion, which is a much better book imo.

Don't think so. Maybe I should also convince my gf to get active in this community

Looks pretty cool, but not purist enough to my taste, I saw Legolas doing his cool moves again, which is quite ehm...untolkieneske.

Have you seen those at PAoM? Those are really amazing.

I found it when Dire Wolf (it was him right, nor sure?) announced his new team Wildfire Studios in some forum (probably AoKH).

Can't really put up screenshots if there's nothing to make a screenshot of. Well so far I have no complaints DA, looks all very good to me, you did an exellent job!

I like Swellick's and Wijit's most I think. I don't even use a nick now, it's my real name. I still use Rod/Rodrigo in some communities though.

Yep, depends on the subject of your site. If there is already a community on that subject just post some announcements on the major forums/sites. Be sure you have everything ready before you do this though. If half of the site is under construction you'll loose many potential community members.

Welcome to the forums akya, say hi to shykre for me

Learning it right now, I should get my licens in about 4 months.

My father's family on father's side is an old aristocratic Flemish family. We traced our family history back to 800 A.D., so the family is quite old We had some important members. The first one to mention was an advisor of the Flemish count during the war with France in 1302 (which is a national celabration day for Flanders). Another one was baljuw (comparable to a mair now) of Ghent during the time of Charles V, he was tortured and cut in pieces because Ghent opposed Charles V. We had also one who was mair of Eeklo, a town close to Ghent, during the war between France, Spain and the United Provinces (The Netherlands & Belgium). He saved Eeklo because French and Spanish forces were planning to fight eachother in the neighboorhood of the team and planning to pillage it. He made people burn big fires around the town and the French and Spanish thought Eeklo was already burning, so they left. Anyway, right now the family means nothing anymore, we lost our title during the French revolution, not that I want to be aristocratic