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Cal, it's fairly clear that barely one of our posts responding to obyknven is being read. This is blatant trolling. And what is more cut and paste jihadi propaganda. I wouldn't normally dream of questioning board policy in the open, but what is the point of having forum rules if these are flouted so blatantly and with such disregard? If that's how things are going I have to at least call for mkreku to start posting nudie pics we can all enjoy.

A most excellent way to spend an evening! Unfortunately if you don't have coyotes or whippoorwills where you live it mutes the effect somewhat. True. True.

It's not a woman. He only uses the female persona because it 's designed to sucker you poor horny saps.

I think 'tougher' is an ill advised choice of words. I'd certainly disagree that they're more effective. A special operation is more than just being able to eat doorknobs without a glass of water. And the Us has a fully integrtared special operations community, with all the right kit and comms and transport. Plus most importantly there's a strong culture of letting them do things properly which I'd very much doubt was the case in Russia where political patronage and machiavellian shenanigans are par for the course. Interesting what you said about the plasma stuff tho.

I don't think it's weird or wrong that not everything Google launches works. I mean any project is subject to other trends, and other offerrings eating up the attentional bandwidth of users, if nothing else.

In an attempt to get a good 'Irene' cast, one reporter broadcasts from a massive heap of what later turns out to be raw sewage. (Check down for the video)

I've often thought the same thing, I'd gladly pay for a DLC which adds more dialogues, I'd be even happier to pay for a "Lore Pack" of some kind, one that adds more inconsequential stuff like clutter, notes and computer terminals to the world, I can't ever get enough of that stuff. Amen to that, brother.

I was seriously considering getting a msartphone last night. But then I realised that this would deprive my friends of the pleasing superiority when I ask them to look something up on THEIR smartphones. So I won't.

Could you aid a mind that is tired and hungover by recapitulating precisely what these double standards are? Without your assistance I do not think I can adequately justify anything or anyone. ~~~ As a slight aside I have been doing a lot of reading yetserday and today and noted something rather interesting. IN both Jamaica and Nigeria, and even in Japan, the introduction of democracy was followed by the springing up of a nexus between the new political class and disaffected youths/organised crime. These gangs being used to suppress political opposition and generally stir things up. In Japan this more or less passed successfully away and merely left us with the Yakuza. In Jamaica and Nigeria of course we can now see them still locked in this revolting pact, and the damage to their societies is self-evident. My question then is will this happen in Libya, and what if anything could be done to stop it?

Went to some surprisingly good rockabilly last night, and flirted with a recent divorcee - I really am getting old. My voice is low and crackly from my whooping my lungs out at the band. I shall now crack out the rum, and pretend to be Guard Dog as I admire the deep velvety blue of the darkening sky contrasted with the equally velevty red of the bricks catching the last lambent rays of sunshine.

I went downstairs to take a break and make some coffee. I now have a couple of grilled chops some mashed vegetables, and a fruit crumble in the oven.

Apparently, one of the Nigerian gangs involved in violence calls itself the KKK. That is some ****ed up ****.

I don't know why I'm arguing with you, really. I have been saying for years* that having 'the locals sort it out' is a terrible idea. Civil wars are immensely bloody, and being conducted by unregulated militias essentially guarantees atrocities and abuse of power in the same way that ALL armed men have a tendency to do throughout all human history. It's not that I don't expect the rebels to commit atrocities because they are the 'good guys'. However, rather defensively and peevishly I'd suggest they might commit less atrocities than a state whose raison d'etre was brutal suppression. *Literally. God that's scary.

I follow your argument Grom. But the key question is not 'what happens now'. The question is 'what happens later'. The presumption of hope is that once the melee subsides the nation will rise to a higher degree of prosperity and respect for life than would have been possible in a police state run by a nutcase and his nutcase heirs. As for the weapons smuggling point: granted Gaddafi had not been doing so recently, but don't forget he shipped hundreds of rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition out to his pet 'revolutions' worldwide back in the day. Not to mention dropping planes out of the sky. Is it grotesquely naive to believe there is such a thing as justice. Even for the arch sand-scouser?

Just my tuppence: The interface and AI is just part of the story. Good tactical behaviour requires interesting tactical challenges. Monkeying around with ranges, weapon options etc etc.

Too buggy, did not read.

WTF is up with the dog?

We had a tremor in the UK and that was mental. I'm not saying it was a genuinely serious quake. But if you've never been in any sort of quake at all and the GROUND bounces like a happy foal then it's like a boot to the cognitive pile of leaves. Everything realigns.

Exactly this. Best quote of this thread. Seriously, cycloneman, you need a proper hobby.

Up betimes and to my spreadsheets. WHY IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS FETHING HOLY IS THERE NO OPTION TO JUST TURN AUTOCORRECT OFF!? A spreadsheet is for DATA. The programmers do not know every possible format of DATA that will be entered. Having autoformatting that is impossible to turn off is a logical whatsit thingy.

That is the absolute definition of raping an established game setting. I think I lost few brain cells just watching that demo. Agreed. Incidentally, it's just occurred to me that we've had the 'staring over the top of a gun' interface paradigm for as long as I've been PC gaming. That is a looooong ****ing time. There must surely be other, better, paradigms.

And with that, Junai porpoised, glittering, into the sunlight of sanity. Have a good weekend, you mad bastard.

Can you explain for one second what earthly purpose would be served by faking stories about the fighting? It's not as if Gaddafi's troops are going to believe foreign media over the evidence of their own eyes.

Well, I guess incidental voice acting wouldn't/shouldn't be the original actors. They could farm that out for a few grand, surely?

You make an interesting point thre. in so far as blaming the President goes. Perhaps an emergent property of the two term limit is that the public have the mistaken impression that there is a change of regime every 8 years whereas with terms in Congress being so long and the administration officials staying in place...