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Luck worked well in Fallout because the random encounters portion was a huge part of the game. So it all depends on what the game is built for.

Who's good at rugby? NZ is good at rugby. Is the NZ rugby team white? No.

van Persie was beautiful that game. I'd say that for Robben too, but uh, he seems to have a "Look, a teammate is open and he could get a 1v1 with the keeper, there are 3 Ivorians in front of me, I think I will pull my super duper tricks and try to score even though I only have about 2 tricks up my sleeve." A little disappointment is that I'm not sure if this tournament will see a down-to-the-wire progression fight in the last matches, it woul dhave been lovely to see Neth vs Arg or Eng vs Swe be for a knockout round place.

Will it come on PC? It looks excellent.

Not that we'd need more after the price tag.

REAL men play football. Funny you should say that. Rules are rules, and thus it was neither a penalty nor the red card. No news of rescinding the ban, however, and thats the real pity

Well, discussing 2002 now is pointless. The issue is that they could have fixed the stupid team by now, and they DIDNT. How many freakin world cups do I have to watch until they fix the stupid, stupid team?

England has never been more than a 1 goal win / draw side in recent years, especially with Eriksson. I would also argue that France's fire has been tempered by the freezing crevasses of wind inside Domenech's brain. On the whole I agree though, until Australia game I have always been able to say who will win around 50-60 min mark.

Aaaah, you pansy.

Not yet, but they certainly should have. THey are the better team.

Yes, but France and Swiss aren't guaranteed wins over Togo or Korea. e.g. England could well have drawn with Paraguay. speaking of which, France looking more dangerous IMO right now.

Koreans defeat Togo 2-1, I guess non-Koreans wouldn't have been overtly entertained by the game, but Swiss/France really have to watch out for any team that can claw back from a deficit and get 3 points.

Sometimes a rewrite spoils the original intent and mood purely through your remediation. If you do decide to, I'd say do a full rewrite, then compare it to the original, which might well end up being the better of the two.

Rosicky scored again, he is a wonderful player.

Doesn't look like US could beat Italy with this performance either, which would doom them. Still, even this game could become a draw.

Rosicky's goal was one of the best in the tournament so far, along with Frings' screamer. Nice, US are broken.

That. Was brilliant.

Yes, but this is actually quite special. Take a look at this picture, then try to guess what happened. Then read the spoiler.

I must object. EB is not hard. I enjoyed the open beta but found that the most glaring faults of RTW can't be fixed by modders (i.e. hardcoded) - the stupid AI and the monotonous, shallow nature of the campaign, both of which are exacerbated by major gameplay changes. Still, it is an excellent mod. Right now I'm trying the Chivalry beta, medieval > *, even if my Byzantine Emperors have Muslim names. edit: who recognises this mod?

page 2, since that's the only full version I see, but I also read the thread and the edits. Somehow I was actually expecting that, so I suppose that's credit to your writing.

That was an amusing goal, Takahara definitely pushed the keeper out of the way but it wasn't intentional, the crosses bounces in. Probably would have been a foul on most other days.

Bleh. Most of what I wanted to say has been said by Eldar, so for what it's worth, it's a nice little piece IMO. You use a particular style, and while my lack of knowledge on boring literary history prevents an eloquent description of that style, you and I both know what it is, I hope. The style is never wildly subverted, but that helps give a consistency of timbre and a sor tof cohesion to a story that might otherwise sway about its axes a little too wildly. On the cohesion issue, I did experience some confusion on the Iain/Narrator area, but I didn't need to read twice to get it sorted out. I don't see it a sa flaw in your writing, really. Jeremiah's introduction made me feel that the story was reaching a second arc, and it did feel a little abrupt or even rushed when it got to the actual killing. On one hand, I like the fact that this construction lends to the character's attitude to the murder, while on the other hand it leaves you a little shor. Hm, but then that's not such a bad thing either, huh?

Good point, my dear hurlshot. Both are unfortunately lacking in gigantic swords, however.

Yeah, but that probably doesn't bother 'em none.

Anybody watching the Netherlands game? Robben just scored (18), van Persie gave a first touch lob and he ran pretty much half the pitch to score.