Calax

... honestly it looks like there should be hippies.

so they knock off the attacks... JUST as they get hacked themselves.

Actually I wouldn't have to send FEAR2 as it's steamworks enabled, so I'd just throw you the game code, and you'd input it into steam.

Found out that my NCsoft account (with City of Heroes attached) has been blocked/banned permanently. I figure it got hacked in the 3 odd years I haven't played.

Soooo... I have a hankerin after spending half the day reading about EvE Online politics and warfare, to play a space strategy sim. Only issue is that I don't currently have any with me (my Homeworld 2 copy back in California, and nothing currently on steam). SO! I have a deal, if somebody happens to have a good game lying around in the genre (Sins of a Solar Empire, Jupiter incident or something similar) I'll give em a copy of FEAR2.

Part of its charm for some, not a bad thing. Anyway, myself I'm not too pissed off about it until they actually DO make T3 stuff, weapons, implants, etc. available with this Aurum currency. Reading this is sorta, kinda, scary a wee bit. Including a bit about a russian Aluminum magnate who literally crashed a part of the in-game economy, and an indonesian nightclub hacker who ruined somebodies job (which was the more legal option... the other option being to illegally kill the power of the guys house to kill his in game space ship).

I'm playing "really really bored" and reading what amounts to Eve Online after action reports on da interwebz (mainly 10 ton hammer). You find little gems like this:

Probably because EvE is known for being a little to much 'Srs buzness' compared to the other MMO's

Actually, I think that the WB old school cartoons were used as an argument against the bill (becuase according to some research being used, watching an old bugs bunny toon was as damaging in general as playing a videja game)

*fires a strategic Wals into a courtroom*

Well, the dig about this is that it'd create a clear divide between gaming and everything else in media.

Basically the bill sets up a secondary classification for the rating system that includes hyperviolent stuff (according to them) like God of War and GTA. These hyperviolents would then be treated almost like porn (in that anyone under 18 couldn't purchase them, and if somebody was found to have sold to a minor, the company would be fined 1k). Honestly, this would spell the death of several the over the top fests like GTA or God of War.

Well, according to the Kotaku article, they're charging 68 dollars for a monocle.

Just a heads up, on Monday the Supreme Court is going to rule on the law in Cali about weather or not video games are going to be treated differently from other forms of entertainment. http://kotaku.com/5815431/mondays-expected...o-games-deserve

Which led to some hilarity.

Did co-op with Tale in FEAR3. Was kinda... insane. He beat me in points by about 30k.

the Penny arcade take on FEAR3

Actually it's not really that much of a shopping mall. It works on "Hat based economics". Everything you can purchse is a salvage except for random crates that contain a few other things that are findable/makeable.

When everyone defaults, nobody trades, and economies die off.

Team Fortress 2 is FREE!

Only to a couple of the mission givers after they've led him around by the nose for a while and/or lied/betrayed him.

Ironically, they have a little less debt than america.

Biggest thing about RDR is that they play off the whole "You can be "good" or "evil"" but the issue is that if you're the type of character to burn down villiages, kill the men and women, set dynamite in the barn, and lay all the leftovers in front of the train to be killed. Your character is still the most honorable and upright thing you've ever seen in the cutscenes.

... Now I'm half expecting that anyone turning 30 on the board who has no significant other will be sent a mail order bride.

Yup that is true. They were introduced by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) and Sen. **** Durbin (D-Ill.) in 2009-2010 when the Dems held the cards. Obama mentioned his support of the Durbin Bill in his SotU address in 2010. Since the Repubs took over the House in early this year those bills are Dead On Arrival, thankfully. But Obama would have signed them had they passed before the 2010 elections. And it would have caused the cost of food to go up even more, hurting people financially even more. Obama and others in the government are not evil people. They do not sit around and dream up ways to harm the people financially or otherwise. But they often do out of sheer ignorance coupled with good intentions. They biggest part of the Libertarian political philosophy is that a smaller government will hurt you less. The problem with career politicians is that they lack any real understanding of what they are governing. The biggest problem with the US political system now is not Republican or Democrats, or even the choice of one or the other. We have allowed the creation of an entire class of people who do nothing but govern. They have no concept of how an economy works because they do not participate in it. They have never had a real job, had to meet a payroll, had to manage a hosehold on a limited income. This is where I could trot out the term limits argument but that is futile, they will never pass it. The political class really has become the tail wagging the dog. Just look at the whole Jon Wiener debacle for an example of how out of control it has become. Question, which bills are you talking about? The only durbin bill I found via google search was the more recent one that's designed to crack down on privatization of government assets, and one that forces the Fed to put in rules on swipe fees for debit cards that are reasonable. And on the topic of "Small Government=better" Thing is that without a larger government intervention within the financial sector (at the very least) the government can't do the job of defending their citizens from being defrauded by the companies that would end up (basically) controlling the economy. I mean you look at it right now and the entire financial system acts like the smaller investors/non-investors are complete trash, and when they loose their money it's their own fault, not the fault of the person that they trusted their money to. Decreasing government in this capacity would allow those companies who ripped us off and sent the global economy into a tailspin that (under Obama) is finally starting to level out, to keep right on ripping us off and supporting the upper 3% of the population of the US in terms of income. Understand, I'm not saying that the government needs to intervene in every situation, but there needs to be an understanding that the government is supposed to protect us from enemies foreign and domestic who don't always shoot at us as much as steal from us.