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WTF? How are either of those shiny good guy? Or evil, come to that.

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What about side scrolling FPS? Like Operation Wolf.

Video The most brilliant and disturbing (if slow starting) film about nuclear war I've ever seen or expect to see. Threads. I'm posting it here because it's quite hard to get on hard copy. Don't let the slow start put you off. I think it helps with the vicious emotional undertow in the latter part of the film. It completely plays up how completely alien and unexpecteda nuclear war would be for both ordinary people and policy makers. The most brilliant bit for me is the way it plays up some of the genius of On the Beach, in portraying many people at their best in the face of disaster. Yet counterpoints that with the impact of the post-war world's physical realities and human breakdown. I don't suppose we'll see a Fallout from Obsidian any time soon. But this will hopefully make you look back on what the studio's already done from a richer perspective.

very interesting article, actually. Covers a llt of bases. Not sure I buy all their pitch points. But I can see where they're coming in from.

I'm not saying the Chinese government is controlling the foulup, but surely now is th ideal time to have a crash. Blame it on the USA and Europe, crack down on economic wreckers. You know the drill. Bit of a purge.

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I think I may... I may have to stop drinking. For the third time this month I go out and laugh it up on the beers with friends, sleep wrongly, and then am crippled all the next day with my back. Still, I suppose if I just do it for a couple of months it could be cheap and interesting.

Define 'too many'. Ideally in terms of zergs.

Face transplant win. I don't know about you, but I get a real kick out of seeing these successes.

That's not funny. That shopkeeper had balls of brass. Didn't ****ing hesitate just lamped in.

Any better suggestions? yeah. Actually help someone affected by the crisis. Either yourself, or someone made redundant, or trying to find work. Start a goddamn business. Work in a soup kitchen. Going on a little ****ing camping trip downtown is pointless unless you have some outcome in mind.

"into it"? Into what? I'd say a suit is someone who enjoys wearing a suit. I'm not saying you can't get good suits. But how many people actualy wear good suits?

Hate to burst your bubble, mate. But I know a fellow who was shot in the head and survived. Bullet hit his temple and slid round the bone came out the back. FACT. I've seen the holes. Further, the entire discipline of neuropsychology was founded on people being shot in the head and surviving.

BREAK BREAK GD, I've been listening to the biography of the spy known as Mata Hari. Apparently her husbnad was involved in this massive campaign in the Dutch East Indies I'd never heard of. Sounds fascinating. Plenty of mercenaries too. Maybe mix in that war with shreds of your original story as part retrospective? That way you'd get the civil war chaps, exploit your understanding, and bring in a really exotic flavour at the same time.

And a happy Thanksgiving to you chaps, also. You may turn up late to all your battles, but you turn up in spades.

Jesus Christ! Sorry to hear that. Meningitis is... well... you know. Meningitis is a ****.Nearly lost my mum, and one of my exes to the ****ing stuff.

Was speaking to a copper about this, and his view was "We only use the spray when we'd otherwise use the baton. And spray washes off. A broken wrist doesn't."

Interesting, I was being told about a UK company looking at that today...

Sorry, my verb thingies are all bunched up. Too much beer on an empty stomach. I _was_ in London today. Not going. Re marbles, suggest you just do as Lord Elgin did, and walk off with them. Come to think of it it just shows how blisteringly lazy the Greeks are that they didn't think of that. There must be some legal term probably written in greek which describes this process.

It's your damn body. Feel free to do what you like. Me, I eat cheaply and live cheaply, and spend my consequently freed money on enjoying being alive. Or on my nearest and dearest. My main point was that really: 1. You ARE going to die, like it or not 2. Obsessing over plastic in your food chain may keep you alive 3.4 years longer, but it will also make you a collossal creepy bore. Although iirc you're still young enough that point 2 isn't so much of an issue yet. PS. Your PM box is full.

And it's precisely that 'can do' attitude which will see you right in the long run. Keep it up, old boy.

Off to London today. I had forgotten what a collossal stew of domestic eedjits and loud foreigners it is. Pondered when someone is being an a-hole and when they're just differentially encultured. No food until I got home at 9 PM. Had krombach beer for the first time. Very good. Now doing that thing where you know you should go to bed, but keep checking the internet in case the meaning of life has been posted, or there's a zombie incursion in progress.

Someone ought to archive these threads onto clay tablets and take 'em up to a cave somewhere in the Himalayas.