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Chris Avellone posted a year ago that he wasted 2 years of PnP for planning, optimizing and testing gameplay for an eventual sequel for Fallout 2. Not funny.

Discussing minigames, killable children, groin damage and immersion is redundant, since everyone who has posted in this thread will buy Fallout 3 anyway

Last i've heard, PC and PS3 will get the same extra-content later as an addon. What MS purchased was just the rights for a time exclusive.

Is it just me, but these unsuccessful attacks seems to be an act of Al-Qaeda-rejects, rather than Al-Qaeda-terrorists.

Printed, framed and will be put on my office-desk by monday.

I took several years manipulation until she finally caved into gaming (Final Fantasy X was the final nail in the coffin 3 years ago) But yeah, Rockstar is certainly trying to evolve the franchise and making it more interactive, maybe it's one of those that i will buy from the bargain bin.

Good, it will keep me occupied while i wait for Ninja Gaiden to arrive.

Has The Darkness been released in Europe yet?

Because they are an extension of my infinite masculinity, you dummy!! Nah, my girlfriend actually bought them, we also have a Wii She the console-gamer, and i am more computer-oriented, but we usually play and buy games on either medium(mostly RPG's, adventure or Soul Calibur for recreational) The GTA-series has never caught my interest, despite playing them on my friends' PS2's.

That was the newest issue. They reaaaally want to nail down as many bugs as possible.

Even though i have both the PS3 and the Xbox360, i think that i will wait. Just not my type of game really.

a) only doctors and lawyers have higher average salaries (considering traditional jobs, not rich stockbrokers or banking execs, etc.) and b) engineers are fueled by logic, not compassion. face it, socialist policies require compassion as they logically do not work. engineers also don't end up in liberal colleges, and if they do, the engineering sections are usually isolated from the rest of the campus (we tend to spend a lot more time drinking and studying than our liberal arts counterparts). taks Nu-uh! I am an engineer (Information Technology), currently working at R&D at one of the biggest mobile phone manufactures in the world. Great salary as well. Oh, since private health care is perfectly legal and running alongside public health care here in Finland, we have our own (outsorced) internal health care, they just bill the government instead of us, yay! As for my studying-environment, it was mostly a-political, not really right or left. Most of our professors didn't care about politics as long as they were allowed to research and build stuff. But we did like to drink, yes we did. Several of us got their greatest ideas from being at a drunken stage As for politics at where i work, we are usually socially liberal and economically (fiscally?) conservative by american definitions. As for completely making insurance companies de-regulated as in a free-market (which will never exist), that doesn't take away the very notion that those who provide you money when you are sick, are really companies looking for profit for their shareholders, is again conflict of interest when it's your health we're talking about. But the US is the US, and it will probably find a solution that makes it better (hint-hint, the middle-of-the-road is usually better for a general solution) for all americans. Finally, don't apply ice-cold, vulcan logic when dealing with irrational humans, it will not work

I think that Gromnir can answer that question better than any of us

Oh, and i fully understand why a nation with 300 million immigrants from all over the world have trouble with the whole idea of UHC (Solidarity isn't high up on the list), but surely there's a way to improve the way things are right now, right?

Which they did in.....Europe, but they haven't been eager to pay 1.2 Billion dollars in fines

I haven't even heard about this architecture before. Still, very impressive.

Ofcourse stories like those in the SiCKo movie aren't the norm, otherwise there would be a revolution. But lets play with some numbers (for the American system): For every 8 people getting perfect health care, there's 2 getting shafted. Hell, lets make it really sweet: out of 200 million, 10 million are having it bad, while the others are having good health care. Is that a sound policy, let alone a sound foundation of a society? Also, hasn't Colorado Springs been voted as the best place to live in the US, according to the quality of life(no crime, great schools, little social problems such as alcoholism, unemployment), not by the amount of millionares? Are you sure that doesn't cloud your judgement a little by living in place like that?

Sounds something really great, can't wait to get a hold of it.

Okay, time for a scandinavian chap to throw his opinion about "SiCKo" and the health care system. From the movie, it seems like the citizens in the U.S. is trapped between idiotic bureaucracy of the government and the policies of the insurance companies. Which makes it seem like they get the worst of two worlds instead of getting the best the system has to offer. From what i gather, the US has the best hospitals and best doctors in the world, but they aren't available to everyone, which makes it look like an absurd system indeed. For one thing, i find the whole idea of having a company (or several companies), whose responsibility is to get a higher profit for their shareholders, and dictates the policy on whether which customer gets their health care funded or not, to be very foreign and a severe conflict of interest. Has anyone dealt with car-insurers? To use the same policy on health care seems like a Monty Python episode of "How to irritate people". Second. No system is perfect, that's for sure. But, at least i will never need to worry about getting a huge bill for a visit to the hospital, because of some policymaker didn't find me sick enough. Also, countries like France, Canada and other Europe all complain about their health care system, but one has to remember, we're spoiled with this, of course we will complain about the slightest of error in the system. Point is, everything is relative depending on what one is used to. Of course it seems like an utopia with "free" health care in Canada and Europe for some Americans, but for every extra minute we have to wait for the doctor, we're easily bound to scream "The sky is falling". Third, Moore says in the movie "One has to look at the worst the system has to offer, in order to judge the quality of the country's health care" (or something like that). It is true when one looks at the American system, but not so true when looking at the Cuban, European and Canadian systems. We're having it great, but not THAT great. From my own personal experience, we've had cancer, difficult spine operations and so on, all dealt without costing us DIRECTLY a penny. But the best example has to be my grandmother, who has a rare muscle-condition that only happens to one in 100000, and she has to eat 6-8 different pills 3 times a day and is required to have a monthly tests for the rest of her life. Because she and my grandfather living too far from the hospital (40km), they get a housekeeper that visits them every week and clean the house, even if they can do their own shopping The hospital also supplies them with a a wheelchair and some extra equipment for the shower and sauna, making it look like those handicap showers you see in the gym or at work. All of that + the medicine (which usually costs 300-400

...and as Elton John philosophically states: "Theee ciiiircle of life!" But yeah, it seems like a blatant attempt by Bioware to cash in on the DS-boom. But it doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad thing though.

I saw the first 4 episodes yesterday. My kind of anime, chicks with bigass-swords and a lot of blood (ofcourse it's more than that, but i should had to say it ) It reminds me a bit of Berserk, maybe less 'manly and brutal', but still veery recommended for anyone interested in fantasy and adventure.

Has anyone here actually finished this game? Is that even possible? Even if one joins and becomes the headmaster for each guild, and talks to every useless ruffian that there is and doing their quests, only to charm some daedric gods and the nine + becomes the champion of Cyrodiil, there's still some Ayleid ruin, a cave or mine that has been repopulated by some baddies that need to be killed. It's a good way to kill time until some new game comes around though

Ninja Gaiden Sigma. Should be out by next week or so....

Just some Oblivion for my part, for the time being.