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Except that preorder bonuses are a different but still shady business ploy meant to counteract that reprehensible idea that is the customer making well-informed purchase decisions.

Same, 75% shooters, and Sims3 which everyone probably has. Still, happy enough to donate guilt-free even if I got nothing, plus never played a Burnout game before (and technically, also don't have Sims 3:High-end Loft Stuff). Anyone know if Sims 3 disc edition content is compatible with Origin version Sims 3?

While good that MS will no longer be spying on you (visually at least), it does mean that the console now ships with a non-optional $100 paperweight.

We have a public holiday? Oh, bloody Queenslanders.

What I liked about the progression of FO1 to FO2 to NV was the effect of time, as opposed to geography, had on the world. A bombed-out wasteland is a bombed out wasteland no matter where it is, what I want to see is the experience of reconstructing society. NV has been criticised by some in comparison to FO3 for being "too civilised", but I think that's looking at it from the wrong angle. Do we think humanity in a post-war scenario such as that presented will forever remain in the hole they've dug themselves, doomed to just counting out time? Indeed I'd go so far as to say the timeline is actually too slow, and the content of the later games set in an "unrealistically" far future compared to the backstory. I'd be interested in seeing whether there is support for taking part in evolving the world, to the logical end-point of a post-Fallout world, either with the emergence of a new renaissance where the bombs are just articles in history books, or with the final snuffing out of the final flicker of humanity. Or is the setting just a Mario-esque repetition of the same theme, where time has no meaning?

Wish I had something more profound to say. Rest in peace.

I think the point is that MS apparently took a portion of what really is meant to be the capital, as opposed to perhaps a more traditional deal of taking a cut of sales revenue. Of course, the nature of reward-based crowdfunding blurs that line between funding and takings, which makes the idea of the cut being an amount for every backer-assigned copy quite likely.

I'd say I'd be hoping for the opposite, no cameos unless extremely well justified. We're in a very different and distant part of the world, so any such encounters would tend to evoke the small-world syndrome. ME took this to the extreme, Shepard met acquaintances, who could be anywhere in the entire galaxy, by pure coincidence more than I see my neighbours when I walk around my suburb.

The rage is worse if you attempt to drive in the UK, multiple 550EUR speeding fines per trip are just about guaranteed. And in France, bloody toll roads everywhere (and their all-caps road signs are ugly). At any rate, I could have easily gotten through with minimal time loss had I decided to be an aggressive nutter and taken the footpath, or push a hatchback or two out of the way, but I was trying to do it all realistic-like (hence the radio station). Besides, while I'm stationary, at least my hired drivers driving my other trucks are still bringing in the dough.

A comedy of errors in Euro Truck Simulator 2 - took a job taking me from Geneva to Dresden, took a wrong turn getting out of Geneva resulting in being stuck in a traffic jam for half an hour real-time. Take the opportunity to flick through the built-in Internet radio player and select the appropriate station: KTFM Geneva, the best of 70s and 80s music who happen to be having a disco hour. Get so engrossed in the music that I miss the fact my fuel is just about gone, not being able to hear the sound of the low-fuel warning tone on account of the music (I think it was Stevie Wonder). Ran completely dry just as I cross over the border from Switzerland to Germany, and actually manage to coast for over a kilometre into a roadside petrol station ....but I overshoot the actual pump and plow into the carwash thing at the back of the station. Being now stationary and unable to even turn on the engine, I end up having to call roadside assistance, and, despite being in less than 100m away from the diesel that would be my salvation, end up being towed all the way back to Zurich at the cost of a couple hours and a few thousand euros. This is probably a good reason I've never even tried to drive in real life.

So it turns out the rest of the world was perfectly fine and had been all along. They just decided they didn't want to talk to America for a while.

Tsk, the proper way to reboot these days is to just name it the same as the original and provide no textual means whatsoever to distinguish between them.

Happy to say I enjoyed it without qualification. I bought the big CE box of it on BD so I could get the bundled DVD of The Magnificent Ambersons too. Also happy to blind buy The Trial and Touch of Evil.

I dunno, Citizen Kane was apparently pretty good.

Sure, but with the RTS aspect looking pretty flat, it'd need something special in its other qualities to really stand up. Again, early call, but splitting time between the builder aspects and being a dragon is something I'm not feeling is working. I wonder if the in-battle economy aspect is something that could be simplified or dropped. A more autonomous army, perhaps produced offscreen instead of at ingame bases, backing you as a full-time actor might have worked better than the current compromise.

For extra comedy, it's been mooted that Kutcher will front up for a series of Lenovo ads. St Jobs promoting Wintel machines? Perish the thought.

First turn of Dragon Commander, which I got as a backer reward. I'll flat out say I probably wouldn't really have looked at it if it wasn't a reward, based purely on the genre, and as a result I'd probably have to admit I might give it less than a fair chance. So far there's really nothing there that's grabbed me and made me want to keep playing. I will - one turn is one turn and all that - but the RTS aspect is a downright turn-off. If it turns out the game is viable while completely opting out of the RTS element, there might be a bit more in there worth seeing, but even then there's not really much opportunity for RP - no option to burn your insubordinate generals to a crisp for example - but such is expected for a game that markets itself on its other aspects.

Been too tired to play games today so instead sat down to watch Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Now I'm in even more of a dreamlike state. Too tired to even try to deconstruct it, just enjoyed it as the surrealist comedy that it is.

The Paypal cut is probably smaller, true, which may be advantageous if the scenario is taken in isolation. Momentum's a funny thing though, and it may be that the snowball effect of having a larger main campaign more than cancels that out. I'd say the scenario may be particularly true of stretch goals for example, for backers there's probably that visceral feeling of knocking over goal after goal in quick time, which encourages more spending than they might otherwise do in a post-campaign downtime.

I think I started IWD2 with a party of two, which went okay until somewhere between halfway and two-thirds through the game before it became too finicky to get through encounters. Added a couple more characters from that point to finish up, as far as I remember.

Especially given that Microsoft are abolishing their equivalent system. When a behemoth like Microsoft - a company with the turning circle of the Titanic - is showing itself to be more agile than yours, it's probably time to ditch the concrete boots.

And their sales tend to be highly regional anyway. Not like Steam where you have percentage discounts on varying list prices, but rather a tendency to not bother with sales at all in "non-core" regions (of which Australia is one).

If it means death to the stereotypical dwarven accent, I'm all for shared voices between races. Or a generic pool you can select from. At any rate, something like Saints Row does just fine with multiple PC voices.

The female human looks like an elf and the female dwarf looks like a human, I'd say.

Be sure to remember to buy the horse armour DLC before you do that though.