Walsingham

I don't think school grounds are the right place to have a political protest about anything. School should be a place for debate, not tub-thumping. No offence intended, Calax. My new lodger is proving a fething menace. We played about two hours of Company of heroes today, followed (on his insistence) by six hours of Serious Sam, co-op. No running done. Very little work done. Must do better tomorrow.

I'm increasingly seeing less and less of a problem. Why NOT smooth out the cycles of bust? We do it with reserves of crude oil. We do it with food. Why not raw capital? It's not as if Wall Street doesn't make the USGov billions each year.

Thanks, Krez. Willl read this evening.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisol I'm keen to discuss cortisol, and its likely impact on human psychology. Anyone knowledgeable and or interested?

This isn't the Sword Coast, Volo. Breaking the law doesn't automatically give you 'criminal status' and underworld access all areas. I've not met any spree killers, but your man there with the stupid videos would not get any help from any gangsters that I've ever met. He's clearly a loon, and any weapon you sold him would be sure to attract heavy police attention eventually. Plus you can't trust him not to tell people where he got it. EDIT: changing tack from this slightly dog-eared debate on guns: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7642020.stm People with rage problems lack the ability to produce cortisol.

Silent Service I & II... the memories... nothing like the sound of a tin can crumbling when you exceed your maximum safety depth The problem was I never understood submarine warfare back then, so I would always go up to the surface because it let me use my deck gun and made me faster haha. If it makes you feelany better, nor did the Admiralty.

My God, you're right, Gorth. Calax, until you get a job consider yourself an honourary Englishman, with all the reserves of stiff upper lippedness implied. I insist you begin practising an English accent immediately and fashion yourself a moustache from cardboard.

I haven't modelled it, and without a free couple of months I won't have time to model it. But if the 'banking system' implodes, we're not talking an economic sore bum. This isn't twenty strokes of the cane from teacher. This is shooting your own face off. I still say bail them out in exchange for twenty of their own as sacrifices to the god of Abstract Justice. That way we can feel revenged while not turfing people out on the street and shutting off small business loans etc.

Shambling zombies, yes. Running zombies, sometimes. Salsa'ing zombies, only in suburbia.

Maybe, but they've been silent on the issue. Provided the release is still February-ish, it wouldn't surprise me if the game were feature-locked at this point. If they're already doing it, great. Otherwise I think we're out of luck. Good point.

That's the kind of GMing you do when you're 13 years old! My friend summed it up as a pointless exercise, since the GM can always win. (parries notwithstanding)

...And I suppose a ticking bomb shouldn't be defused because it hasn't blown up?

Sorry to hear that. I am sure you can secure work somewhere though. Have you considered doing non-gaming software?

Strictly speaking, you'd have to fill them with chopped lettuce, first. But basically tacos.

Look, I know quite a few bankers (big city bankers) and almost without exception they are total holes. But banking going down the pan is equivalent to our economic system going down the pan. That doesn't make me want to party. If we want to punish bankers for being greedy let's just man up and lynch the buggers. Letting our economy burn down to get them is "I'm holding a thermal detonator" time.

This recent chap didn't need some super-nany state to spot him. he was spotted by current systems. Nothing happened to him, though. No hlep, no "I think maybe you should put down that gun until you quit saying you're going to kill everyone".

*touch*

It seems pretty straightforward to me. I make a brand of liquor that tastes of apples. "Mmm... appley booze!" say the public. Other people begin copying my appley booze. I become annoyed and put a chemical in my appley booze which makes you wee yourself. "Huzzah!" I cry. "Now people will know they are drinking genuine Walshy brand booze" The public decide they would rather have booze without wetting themselves and even more go for the copies.

I tell you what, can you include something which allows me to choose to wear a large stupid metal hat INSTEAD of drm?

However, as in many other cases, he had already been noticed by the police. There was just no system for doing anything about it.

Are MOW and SOZ games, or just noises?

Fair point. But he never hurt anyone ELSE. Moreover, without the guns do you think he'd still be alive? So you're saying you'd be fine with removing guns from law-abiding people provided those people had no police or army to protect them?

Spent the whole day putting the finishing touches on a project proposal. It's really weird doing this sort of thing since it involves basically magicing great things out of nothing. Absolutely exhausting.

I told you, Krezzie. I'm a freelance scientist. With guns. My stepfather lost 100k two days ago on some shares. Ouch. That's why I invest in information, and people. And beer, and snacks.

*sigh* Well, on the bright side, the fact that the average person can't understand second or third order dynamics means my job is secure at least. Assuming I'm not hunted down and burned as a witch.