LadyCrimson

Hahahah!! I love that one!

I have no idea what the realistic needs or criteria for game-company design teams are, but those are indeed very nice drawings. I'm not sure I like his actual faces all that much, but most of the landscapes make me feel like I could step into them.

I found Darth Maul the most fun, but his role is small and not that important in the history of things. Kind of a tossup between Vader and Sidious to me. Vader mostly because of memories of thinking how awesome he was, when I first saw the movies...Sidious because his insane "Hahahaha-ing" in RotS had me rolling. Well, ok, plus he was pretty cool at strategy & manipulation and all that.

I have a feeling their definition of "realistically" might not be the same as mine. Still, I've always been fond of any games that at least attempt to have better physics than average.

Never heard of them. I thought it was going to be about The Police gammy thing too. Now that's a concert tour I might "kill" to get good tickets for...childhood memories, ah.

Yeah, Diablo in Diablo 2, or Darkness in the 1985 movie Legend. I haven't thought of Legend in a long time...and yeah...I agree. Also, the Horned Reaper from DungeonKeeper2... :D Except blue, of course. I guess most "evil demon dudes" are depicted in rather similar fashion.

Cleopatra & Caesar as a couple has always been a bit of a debate. Her son Ptolemy XV, who was also called Caesarion, is often assumed to likely be of Caesar's get, but I don't think anyone has yet come up with anything that would seem to be concrete evidence for it. She did apparently/supposedly raise up some kind of temple at the time of Casear's death which made a sort of "my child should be the heir" statement - the temple is still there and viewable. But who knows.

Based on screens only, I'd give the graphics a 7/10 or thereabouts. Decent enough, nothing revolutionary. The top picture makes me think of Diablo.

I'm so terrible with names... I like what the actor does with him. Kind of weasely and all that. They haven't done a bad job of trying to follow the political history amid all the dramatic license. Better than some anyway. I was watching some History Channel shows and they made a nice point about how Cleopatra history is very biased since it was written via Roman perspective. All those lurid tales of her seductive nature may just be tall tales told by irritated enemies. Ancient history is always so...flexible.

I suppose I'd get used to it, but I think it would still bother me. There's a store here that has a huge multi-display in their TV department - maybe 20 or 50 screens or something to make one giant screen. It has no individual borders around each screen, but the breaks are still highly visible and disruptive to visual flow, imo. The 100"+ TV set I wouldn't mind having, tho...except I doubt our living room would be big enough to sit a proper distance away from it. hehe

If the above isn't exactly what you want, you can use Miles Sound Tools to directly listen to the wav files stored in the games folders and the free version of WavePad to record/edit whatever snippets you want to use to make your own custom desktop stuff.

What do you have their AI set to? I seem to recall one option setting where they would follow but wouldn't attack much on their own, or something. Wouldn't surprise me if it was a bug - just trying to think of possible other reasons.

After watching the new episode, I'm pleased that the show was finally starting to focus, again, more on the military/political positions & goals rather than the bickering women. I hope it stays in that vein. That one Senator that's always in the middle of things - is it Kato? - I like him more and more.

My husband is pretty convinced that before this law was voted on (I'm not even sure exactly if it's in actual effect or not), California had no rquirements at all. -- I'd have to resarch that - I haven't worked in years and really don't know the policies, but I think a lot of people do assume it's mandatory, when it's not/wasn't. It was mostly company/union policy/incentive, not state-required. McDonalds, for instance, has never given health insurance to it's grunts here, as far as I know. Quick Google about that recent Calif. Act: http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20031117yb01p1.htm

In california, employers with less than a certain number of workers are exempt from having to provide minimum health care. I don't know what that number was in the past - I think a bit higher - but I think due to a recent act it's now been decreased to under 20(exempt) and 49 (can be exempt). I don't know if there are nitpicky qualifier details beyond that. At any rate, my point is that there are companies who may not/will not provide insurance if they can get away with it/can't afford it if they fall under certain parameters. Perhaps Sand's situation falls into one of those. The self-employed - of which my spouse is one - are also in unique sitations. Full-time is not neccesarily automatic company-paid-for healthcare in all states, at least. Edit: Not to mention, just because you have some insurance, doesn't mean you can afford the care required. So many deductions and % rates and all that, many still end up paying/owing huge amounts.

Does anyone else think that the line-breaks in the 3-monitor setup would really annoy them?

But at least you can't smell kitty litter or dog farts! Seriously - I may joke...but like all our senses, sometimes you don't know how important they are till they're not working properly. Do you actually have no sense of smell at all, or just a very minimalized one?

I don't see in that article any info about whether the performers are paid or not, nor whether the concerts will be about money - they in fact seem to try to differentiate it from the typical donation-fest. Not that I don't believe some money won't be drummed up - if only to try and pay for the costs of the events, which I'm sure aren't cheap even if the performers aren't paid - but it doesn't seem to be the focus? Still, the irony re: how much pollution might be generated in the cause of lessening pollution is valid. I don't know...perhaps they believe that in a greater-good cause that may help more in the long run, a little excess in the present to make that happen is a neccesary evil? Then again...

It's also possible you may have just missed some minor options before? I know there were small things I'd never noticed before even after repeated play. I'd think I'd tried clicking on every response to see what happened, but apparently not. But yeah, the xbox has that 3rd run-through stuff. It's not a lot, but there's a few things. It was disabled for the PC version - or at least, it never worked for me, or many others.

Random Hearts. Probably the first movie I've ever seen where I found Harrison Ford's character portrayal to be generally unlikable. The film has some talented people, and some brief cameos from some 24 stars, but the pacing was glacial and the character-sympathy needed for this kind of movie to work just wasn't there.

There have been many times when I wished that was so for me...

While I don't particularly like Wayne's character as President in this show, it's because he doesn't fit with the way the rest of the show "works", to me. Not brash, bold, risk-taking, oozing of moral self-confidence, that sort of thing. In brief...he's boring. It's not like David Palmer was short, stubby and old, y'know.

If it wasn't for David Letterman I'd have never known this woman existed. :D Sad she died so young...always is.

Food/drink definitely affects the smell and taste of sweat, but I'm not sure it affects the hormonal aspect the article is talking about. I definitely prefer the way hubby smells a few hours after a shower, not right after - assuming he spends those hours doing mellow things rather than strenuous physical activity like cleaning an outhouse or something.

Yeah...the Blockbuster one.