They would have to be immensely stupid to make it DX10 exclusive. Only a fragment of the gamer community has migrated to Vista, and as far as I've seen, MS have no intent to release DX10 for XP. Why alienate most of the gamers?

What can I say... yum! Give me!
And they've fixed the ugly stations!

Damn, damn, damn.
I'll have to cancel that. My economy just crashed all to hell.
Sorry... won't be able to make it.

More or less, yeah. I'm sorry for dropping off the face of the earth, as I do. Can't help it, I'm afraid, but I'm going to try to make a push to be on IRC more so that I may be able to catch skanx and get a beta version of the page up. After that it'll be easier to chip away at the issues that will undoubtedly arise.

Cheers for the poke.

Stellar work on the subforums. Kudos!

Coverdale and the boys did a cover of that? Ye gods.

Listening to an in-production cut of Serrate Sight "Phantom" here.
Never heard of them? I'm not surprised, since they're me, and I'm not done yet.

All right... it's been long in the making, but it's getting to the point where it's time to toss the site design up on the server as an alpha and start fiddling with it live. I've tested it in Firefox (2.0), IE6 and the latest version of Opera. I still have some minor rendering glitches to work out in the latter two. I have yet to test it in IE7 because... well... if I install IE7, I can't test it in bloody IE6, can I? It's not as if MS would ever dream of letting you have both installed for development purposes. I'm going to have to try to find a way to test it, but that, I can do live. I'll be back on IRC some time in the coming days, so that I can bash heads with skanx over the site setup.

Cheers to those of you who've prodded me on without stressing me. You're great people.

Edit:
To give a bit of context: Lately, I've been trying to spend at least a little time each day on fiddling with the template design. It may look simple, but it isn't. Besides the black-box attitude one must adapt towards the page-rendering in different browsers (see above), I have basically had to rewrite Joomla!'s page structure, and the CSS they've used is... not overly well-structured, though infinitely better than that in Mambo and e107. I have a lot of unknown variables to figure out - especially since the layout is dynamic, and that is why it's taking so long. It is coming along, though. I've handled most of the big problems. The only major thing left to finish up is forum* integration and the last restructuring of the CSS. Please be patient.
(Oh, and skanx, I know how to solve your request now. It's doable. Pretty easy even. I'll just make a template where the left and right panes are inverted.)

* - forum, not browser.

KMFDM "Free Your Hate".

...and The Knife are possibly the most overrated alternative band of the century. They're utterly lousy.

Just to show that I am a nihilistic anarchist, Cubanate "Exert, Disorder".

I agree, and I am working on it!

Sorry for not being around much. I've had a busy time in this Real World game.

Addition:
At this point I've switched to a Mambo fork called Joomla!. It's just generally better. I've got maybe half of the design work done. Integration with the forum is visually workable with some slight rework of the forum theme (mainly width.) Logins will have to be separate, since there is a privilege system in the CMS. We're going to need two or three people who learn the system to act as editors and managers, beside the writers. The editors will have the task of making sure the content is formatted well and, possibly, spelled right, as well as granting privileges to users who wish to get aboard with writing articles. I think we should keep membership of the site relatively open, but privileges restricted to those we actually trust.

That actually seems tasty! Insanity sometimes pays off!