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Dead Money, hands down. I get bittersweet shivers every time I play it.

Wholly agree. I would suggest that the choice woudl be instantly made more complex and interesting by having variable rewards, and a delay in them arising.

I get annoyed by all the crap in games. It's like trailers before DVDs _that I own_. I don't pirate games, but if I ever do it will be because some chewing-gum brained simpleton thinks he can squidge adverts all over them.

They'd have to be bloody special minerals to be worth the effort.

I question how well wine and whisky can go together. And I answer: uneasily.

Agreed. EDIT: Someone should seize all the money gathered by those bloody TV ads for snow leopards and put it into space exploration.

Epic return from boozing last night. Unspeakable ratio of wine and whisky to weight to distance travelled.

Volo, is it too much to ask you to check your typing? Or were you just drunk? ~ On topic: I was extensively boozed up and lectured to by the banking fraternity last night. They accepted that huge mistakes were made, but I thought it was worth forwarding a couple of points which seemed compelling, see what you chaps think. 1. Sub-prime selling was a politically enforced move originally "Poor folks must have homes" 2. A tiny number of CEOs took insane risks and managed to drag entire networks of perfectly stable well run banks down with them 3. The structure of the euro was not that of a technocrat but a political dream of union, based on a presumption that countries would magically refrain from exploiting the currency in ways which were the entire point of joining It's an interesting case just for how they see the crisis. But I must say that there's something in it. The vast majority of banks didn't behave that badly. I eventually sold them on the notion that what is needed is a not blanket regulation but psychological testing of chief officers. Reckless gamblers and sociopaths shot by Mega City Judges.

As Fighter says, Krez: a few thousand people does not a revolution make. If I write off the occupy protests as the blethering of a handful of eedjits then I'm obliged to ignore similar turnouts elsewhere, or be inconsistent. ~~ My favourite stat I heard about the election was Putin getting >90% in Chechen areas. That's not just fraud. That's retarded fraud.

To be fair, neither ballet nor bouquet are exactly English words!

Indeed. That does make sense. Rather reminiscent of MLK's point about economic power. However, one 'side-effect' (tinfoil hat alert) of recent years is how everyone is tied to a mortgage. Even I've become more docile since I got one.

On th ego all day today. Had a morale wobble at about 5pm as I was walking through town, looking at hundreds of morose faces. Bought beer. Soup on the go. Just finished work, and cracked open a bottle of stout. Going to shoot some faces off in Borderlands.

I do think that erasing your posts is a bit harsh. What gives?

In your mind, "smoking a joint with your mates" is the same as forcibly taking anothers property and "giving it away" to someone? Wow, way to depart from reality. While examining countries, you may want to look inward on what makes you think that way. Have to say, I agree. Irrespective of Krez' caveat to the effect of not condoning it. 'Revolutionary' actions like this merely alarm the public, and justify clampdown. Makes for sexy ideologues and fond memories but also makes things worse. If only by distracting from the serious malfeasance in circles of power.

My favourite post-apocalyptic show now has episodes running bi-weekly. I Thought I'd flag this up in case anyone had missed it.

It is dark in there. You may be eaten by a grue. I ain't scared of no Grue. YOU. SHOULD. BE.

It is dark in there. You may be eaten by a grue.

Fighter does have a point that at a brute level you need more people in Russia to qualify as a really popular protest.

Mob rule. Yay!

I spit furious lightning over DRM. But landmines DRM isn't. Workhouses, window tax, the circus maximus. Something like that. But landmines or WMD it certainly isn't.

You misunderstand 'LoF'. In his head, every day is May Day. Come to that, Krez. Weren't you just talking about forced return of wealth to the masses in the other thread?

Feeling increasingly as if I'm witnessing a gigantic 'Big Bug Out' of everything from companies to universities. WHAT THE SPIRALLING FUNT IS GOING ON? SORT IT OUT, BOFFINS!

All the good plumbers, builders etc. that I know and use are all ex-forces. Because knowing how to lay concrete is not the same as turning up, and laying it on time and with a sense of purpose. Sorry. Not funny.