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I'm not going to go there in case it's infected. Well done for flagging it.

Oh god. Nothing more worrying than that sort of thing happening to someone you love. Be strong.

Interesting angle, kalimeeri. I don't agree, completely. But interesting.

Since it's you, Amentep, I'll be even more straightforward. If I met Rolando Villazon I'd be very polite, and interested, because I've very much enjoyed operas he's been in. The artist and the audience share a connection, if you follow me. ~ I liked your second point. Yes, I think that investment by the player can be very powerful. In many ways perhaps - as I think you were already suggesting - the player investment should come first. Query: would it be acceptable to have common themes and subplots anchor on different NPCs, depending on which ones we identified with and took along with us? Like an ex lover or nemesis? So two different NPCs X and Y, can bring the baggage evil NPC Z into the story. Possibly in different ways, but still... I accept this would be mindblowingly difficult in terms of the way we build games currently. But I'm talking in the abstract.

If one of the female agents in Syndicate tried to seduce me I'd be bloody terrified. "Happiness is waking up, on a bright spring morning, next to a beautiful, passionate, multi-murderess."

Yes, but think of the neighbours you'd have to deal with there? Not you, for starters.

Given that nuclear is almost certainly going to be part of the energy mix, you have to find locations for it anyway. Given this, probably better big ones.

I used to be scared of cazadors. Then I bought a .50 cal and the Gun Runners arsenal exploding rounds. I now exact terrifying long range vengeance on the mother****ers. Seriously. You have to try this.

I only managed to read two phrases there: - emergent gameplay - female agents seduces him

You make an interesting point about Oz. In fact I believe most countries have a tendency to centralise. Capital cities just attract people. Centralisation was predicted to be at an end with the rise of distributed working via the net. However if anything it seems to have got worse. My developed point is that it hardly seems efficient to have people spending vast sums living in one small area rather than spreading out. I mean for the price of a house in Kent people could be living a fancy sustainable green house in Yorkshire.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23273448 The BBC (may peace be upon them) frontline with this report this morning. If I ate cornflakes I would be spitting them. The implication o the writers seems to be the Something Must Be Done, probably by government, to let low income families buy in the Southeast of England. My own view is that there are quite correct, house prices are too high in the Southeast of England. My answer is that people in the Home Counties have to abandon their snobbish disdain for moving North. As do businesses. However, my over-arching interest was piqued in the extent to which think tank research can move the media. Is this true in other members' countries?

I bought two copies to sit in reserve as gifts.

I just replaced my opinion with this one.

I have to agree with Rosti. Nukes are like oil supertankers. Yes, there is a risk of environmental ****storm, in a crisis. But the advantages far outweigh the risks, given that the risks are engineering focussed and therefore can be mitigated.

Ultimate edition £3.74! How the **** can you NOT buy at that price.

Just think of me as the Maginot line.

Good call. Soup makes you cowardly.

It's much easier to sidle past trouble in Skyrim. Things don't tend to spawn right next to you. Plus they behave in roughly sensible ways. Many bad guys will leave you alone if you don't hassle them.

If that works, I'm going to go play New Vegas again, for the heat. ...almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter. I genuinely believe that the mind can achieve a great deal. Make you feel full, warm, happy. Or the reverse. One trick I've been trying today is just breathing more deeply. Exploit natural circulation. Are you having a manic period? If so, do come off it gently. Not really. All that sort of mind over matter nonsense I got mostly out of my system when I was younger and when in training with the Army. Nowadays I mostly make soup or ice cream and look at the wonder of nature. I am now, as Samuel L. Jackson would say, one placid mother****er.

How do you do a lap around a formless being? With effortless style.

I hadn't seen the full video before. When he climbed on top, why didn't they just drive on?

Today I made icecream, by freezing and then blending and re-freezing a mix of: cream double cream rice-based milk substitute (seems to work better than milk for some reason) brown sugar caster sugar cinnamon orange truffle chocolate chocolate 'nibs' Very VERY delicious.

I can't remember where I read it, but it was saying that there has been much expansion of what I'm going to incorrectly call 'crowdsourced' energy. But the problem in Germany is that it's too subsidised. The markets aren't at play and so there's a lot of wonky provision, and the big players are disincentivised from pouring in big projects.

Lizards. You are all lizards.

If that works, I'm going to go play New Vegas again, for the heat. ...almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter. I genuinely believe that the mind can achieve a great deal. Make you feel full, warm, happy. Or the reverse. One trick I've been trying today is just breathing more deeply. Exploit natural circulation.