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You're missing the fade to black.

I think we should go back to communicating exclusively with pheromones. Hopefully some clever clogs comes up with a way to transmit pheromones electronically soon.

That one bit in Saints Row 3 (an otherwise thoroughly ordinary game), where you're just cruising around town with Pierce while singing together, distills the essence of friendship far better in the course of two minutes than all the interactions in Mass Effect put together, romance or no.

Well if the universe runs cyclically, you could go back far enough to cause an integer underflow and see thus the end of days.

A C- RPG is one that offers some diversionary entertainment but is thoroughly mediocre in most ways. Some RPGs that might warrant a C- rating include Morrowind, Icewind Dale, Ultima 8, Might and Magic 6, Neverwinter Nights 2, Divine Divinity, and Dragon Age: Origins.

No source handy, but apparently sales numbers were similar to the first game. In that context it would be a failure, since with the goodwill, added development and marketing costs and free hype, they've failed to garner more sales. At least 2K in this context have implicitly conceded that it's a matter of the game costing too much to make, rather than trying to claim that the game should have shifted so many more units. That's the sensible path to take instead of gambling on even bigger blockbusters trying to be the next GTA or COD. Remember EA saying Dead Space 3 needed to shift 5 million copies to have a future? That's the opposite approach.

True, it's one of those things they reserve the right to do, but as far as I know, has never been done. That said, if you were being ultra cautious you could register a new, separate Steam account for the game alone. (For those with the patience, it's a pretty good policy in general as it means second hand PC game sales are still alive)

Canadian adult TV channels in trouble for not showing enough locally produced smut. Won't somebody think of the Canadian porn stars? For some reason I end up posting exclusively Canadian news in these threads.

Couple days left on Tabletop Simulator. No, not that kind of tabletop activity.

Depends on how your past self would react to the unexpected windfall though. They might even report your current self to the police for suspicious activity on your betting account. Anyway, if the goal of the exercise is limited to enlightenment rather than riches, it'd be interesting to use the opportunity to solve various mysteries and conspiracy theories, such as by walking around certain grassy knolls.

Amazon generally works, you just need an, ahem, alternative billing address in the US set as the account default when making the purchase. Just pick some hotel there as the address. For future convenience I recommend a state with no sales tax, such as Oregon. Note that here in Australia, people have found US keys must be activated via VPN as well. After that's done it can be played normally (and uncensored). Since there's no specific regional version for the UAE I don't know whether this advice applies in that regard.

I want to see the Big Bang.

I've never owned a PS3 or tinkered with any consoles, but safe bet the GPU is soldered in and not user-replaceable. If you were feeling super adventurous I guess you could try pointing a heat gun at the GPU to try to reflow the solder, if that's even the problem in the first place. Guessing it's a first gen 'fat' PS3? As for saving your data, all PS3 models use a completely standard 2.5" (i.e. laptop sized) hard drive, so you could probably pull that out and put it in another PS3.

Actually it probably is Ubisoft. Amazon are happy to ship anywhere regardless of tax/customs issues, because that's none of their business - it's something purely between the customer and their country's customs. Generally when Amazon won't ship something it's because either: a) They don't export items of that category at all, e.g. food. b) The supplier for a particular item has prevented it, e.g. some brands of watches.

Has anyone else been concerned that a policy of "They speak our language, they're our citizens" effectively means the UK is obliged to invade most of the planet?I know a few more Canadians that would be ok with rejoining the British Empire. You'd have to give up the hockey sticks for cricket bats though. ice hockey with cricket bats would be interesting. Actually, cricket on ice needs to be tried asap. In Riga, Latvia, apparently. Head high full toss probably defeats the point of the experiment, however.

Has anyone else been concerned that a policy of "They speak our language, they're our citizens" effectively means the UK is obliged to invade most of the planet? I know a few more Canadians that would be ok with rejoining the British Empire. You'd have to give up the hockey sticks for cricket bats though.

I hope all the C&C involves telling various people to jump off bridges.

Looks like a small dead owl to me. Hopefully the cosplayers don't get too literal with that one.

Can you see Venezuela from Florida?

Daikatana. I joke somewhat, but am somewhat serious too. There are probably infinite things that haven't yet been done that could make for a good game, which you won't get by replicating a previous good game. By playing the bad games, you at least cut out the things that have been tried and failed from your universe of possibilities.

Just to be clear, I'm not getting the impression that the campaign mode is a "co-op multiplayer mode." Have you heard otherwise? I thought it was still going to be human team vs. human team. Just with extra flavour during the missions to help flesh out a new setting. That is, I thought it was more "this is the multiplayer we want you to be playing, but here's some extra fluff to help you enjoy the setting more." I don't know anything about the game whatsoever other than it's a shooter - so the co-op part was an assumption on my part based on the context of this thread alone - what with the reference to CoD's single player and all that. I can't get my head around the idea of a scripted PvP campaign though, how would that even work (especially for the losers)? Or is it not really a story campaign and more a strategic map kind of thing where you win and take over "countries" until the whole world is yours?

Not saying it's an obligation, but it is somewhat of a cruel carrot to dangle in front of players who might think: "hey, a cool co-op multiplayer mode for this cool multiplayer game I bought" only to find out it's only a teaser. It's one thing to add a token singleplayer element to a game specifically marketed as multiplayer, another to add a multiplayer mode to a multiplayer game, but then go back and say "this isn't the multiplayer we want you to be playing". Then again, it might be a very good DLC opportunity.... (I was trying to come up with a reasonable analogy but the best I got is like having a meat entree to a vegetarian main course - frankly I'd just be left hungry for more meat )

Even less excuse for it to be short and half-hearted if it's a multiplayer campaign though, since now you'd want it to be much more than a simple tutorial mode and instead have it be a fully-fledged way of playing the game. To be fair though, I'm all about the co-op in multiplayer and don't have a competitive bone in my body.

Within the fan itself though it could be something as simple as the fan hitting a wire every rotation, or a dodgy bearing. Having no background whatsoever in electrical stuff, coil whine does seem like alien magic to me, heh. The weirdest things can trigger it, such C-states in the BIOS or other power-saving settings, though more commonly it's a bad cap or a GPU pushing hundreds of frames a second. Some people solve it by dabbing hot glue on the offending component which is a pleasingly low-tech solution. But yeah, I'm actually a bit lost in what the present setup is now.

Real mechanical buzz or more like electrical, high-pitched coil whine?