SteveThaiBinh

If they didn't have the necessary skill to get it right before, why would they now? Surely the problems in VtM:B run deeper than a few glitches in the code.

Merry Christmas. (Only 48 shopping days left to Darwin Day. Get your toy monkeys now! :D )

It has indeed got some awards and some good comments. I'm getting it tomorrow, and really looking forward to it.

Yes, buggy, wasn't it. A very good game, nonetheless. Though In Memoriam had many many flaws, it deserved more credit than it got for an interesting idea and very creepy use of emails from a kidnapper. Brief, but addictive.

Tomorrow I get Fahrenheit. Until then, I'm enjoying The Moment of Silence more than I expected, despite some rather dodgy translations. I wonder if I could get a job as a proofreader for a European games publisher. Many seem to need one, and badly.

But you don't kill them, right? That would be inhumane. Just drain them until they're within an inch of death and leave them swaying in the breeze.

Bless them, they think I'm an idiot. Thanks, Reveilled, that was a pretty good (if unpersuasive) introduction. It seems to be rooted entirely in the idea that complex things must have designers. Anyone who's played around with LifeGenesis can easily understand that complexity can indeed arise from very simple beginnings. Does anyone know of a working web-based version of LifeGenesis, by the way? I think I'll save my concern for the Vardy Foundation for the moment.

I'm tending to attribute the prettiness or otherwise of my games to my new graphics cards and the graphics programmers rather than Microsoft. Bill Gates did not make my water shiny, however much he may have wanted to.

Can anyone link me to a pro-Intelligent Design webpage that sets the 'theory' out clearly for the uninitiated? I've heard a lot of talk about it, without really getting down to what it actually is.

Yes, it's clearly a Liontaur. But Rakeesh had a sword, not a whatever that is.

Yes, and the professors will be smart enough to know that lots of people do the same. They won't judge you on the basis of this fail. You'll ace the retakes.

Absolutely not. If you want an epic feel to a game, you need an epic score. I don't know about FPS games, but most RPGs need that (although a good score is not a substitute for making a substantial game.) That said, greater variety and contrasts can add to the character of different locations and points in the game. Morrowind was stirring, and it was fantastic when the score hit its emotional highpoint when you were crossing the peak of a mountain or rounding the corner to see a whole new area laid out before you, less so when you were fiddling in your inventory. And it was repetitive. With so many RPGs set in a Tolkienesque fantasy world, it's inevitable that soundtracks will try to imitate the Lord of the Rings. Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines was refreshing and fun, because the setting was refreshing and the soundtrack had room to be different. More RPGs in more original and interesting settings, please, with music to match. (And FPS, if we must.)

Are you an 'Administrator'? I guess if your user account doesn't have administrator status, that might account for the option being grayed out. Just speculating, though.

It's likely that he's doing it entirely for domestic reasons, to satisfy his own constituency or make life difficult for his opponents, and doesn't care in the least how it goes down in Washington or London. Not everything is about us. No, not even you, George.

Next year may be the year of George Best comparisons. We may finally find out what he was famous for, other than getting drunk on Wogan. Perhaps this newfangled internet radio thing will allow us to watch the match with commentary from the nation of our choice. Can you get Trinidadian radio yet?

Pretty nice. Bring back Claudia Black!!! (Browder Out! :angry: )

Thanks.

Yes, God forbid there should be any non-Americans in the World Football League.

By all accounts, when England beat Argentina in the group stage of the 2002 World Cup the celebrations were almost as big as if they'd won the whole tournament. Something else I'm glad to have missed. There's a lot of bad blood between the two countries: colonialism, the Falklands War, Andrew Lloyd-Webber...

I predict that the USA will come bottom of that group, and that's not because I want them to (although I do ). Italy will of course be the clear winner, and both Ghana and the Czechs have beaten touch opponents to get through to the finals, whereas I believe the US had a very easy ride. In other news, I see that England is drawn to draw play against Sweden again. It's a shame that it's an easy group for us. Now the silly commentators will incessantly talk up our chances of winning the whole thing. I'm glad I won't be in the country when we are (inevitably) knocked out in the quarter-finals.

The idea that authority comes from what is written is not one that druids would have been familiar with. You have to take the belief on its own terms. Druidism and its beliefs are, I imagine, quite fluid and flexible, adapting to suit the times as they always have. Plus the robes - very suitable for our climate. I wonder where you can get them.

Can you prove it doesn't work? Where's your research?

Yes. D&D wouldn't have been the same without them. We still have Druids, by the way. I believe they have ceremonies at Stonehenge every year. In what ways?

Arising from another thread: Pauley Perrette. The true star of NCIS, and its best comedienne.

Can we put that in his Wikipedia article? Actually, that sig deserves an article all by itself.