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I remember hearing a story about Lyndon Johnson trying to intimidate Lester B. Pearson into joining the United States in the Vietnam War. Just hearsay though, I can't substantiate the claim.

<looks outside at the snow and subzero temperatures> Yeah it must be rough in Orange County!

I still use a CRT, specifically to allow variable resolutions. I'm generally content to play most games at 1024x768, though Call of Duty 4 had me drop down to 800x600 for some small gains in performance (AA and AF were already off for instance). How important is the brand? The last card I bought was built by ATI hahaha.

That gamebanshee review seemed to be your turning point haha.

A new COO is interesting. I'm not exactly sure what type of authority he'd have over a specific game, but it's possible that upon review they felt some changes could improve the game.

It doesn't work? And it hasn't worked for Sweden for the last 100 years? For knowing so little, you sure do have a lot of opinions. As long as they are backed up right!

The irony is killing me. Hahahaha

Faster paced in that it'll be more like Splinter Cell and less like Neverwinter Nights.

Well I know I have the 16x slot. I was just curious if they'd move on. My computer finally met its match with Call of Duty 4 (which is funny because I can play games that came after it with much better performance). My computer is pretty old now. It's an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ with 2 GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon X1900 XTX. The ability to upgrade my processor is pretty limited today, but a newer video card is perhaps not out of the question. Probably can't break $100. I saw a Sapphire 4550 for $60, an a 9500 GT for $65 after rebate. My guess is that video cards are the biggest bottleneck for games at this time, but at the same time my CPU is pretty old by today's standards. Perhaps an upgrade there is in store, but that is certainly not in the cards at this time. I'll likely bide my time and maybe ask for a video card for Christmas or something.

Personally I think the in game hooks for DLC are a pretty neat way of going about it.

I'm still early in the game but charging that camp at the beginning was cool but nothing particularly special haha. I did love it when a boar somehow ended up inside of a fence at the main camp and kept making a noise that sounded a lot like gunfire as the collision detection caused it to twitch.

Arrogant indeed. Coming from the guy that picks and chooses which facts he wishes to believe from the very link he decides to post. Convenient. Or are you just trying to save face after posting a link that mentions that perhaps the illegal immigrant situation may actually have long term benefits. Don't blame me because you decided to find the closest article that supports your your agenda and went about finding the facts to back up your beliefs, only to find that that article had stuff in there that you don't actually support. So you say I'm responsible for digging deeper for stuff. So I'll start digging deeper: In what ways are you intimately knowledgeable about illegal immigrants, and how are your profoundly knowledgeable about visas and immigration laws? What sort of information has given you particular expertise about the situation aside from "living there?" Where can I go to get a better view of the situation? EDIT: Give Guard Dog a cookie as his view is very similar to mine. When I see businesses fleeing a region I start to look at common reasons why. Taxation and restrictions (like minimum wages) are often a prime candidate for me to scrutinize. When I hear about Schwarzenegger taking a pay cut so that he can film Terminator 3 in California to support the local movie production facilities, I see an economy that has, for some reason, decided to price itself out of the market. A reason why I don't like the illegal immigration scapegoat is in conjunction with these things, is that they get additional vitriol because people "lose jobs" to the illegal immigrants, precisely because they are able to undercut things like the minimum wage. Removing minimum wage would fix this problem right out of the box AND remove much of the system wide perception (and hatred in many cases) of illegals undercutting the price of labour. Legitimate citizens still disadvantaged because they have to pay tax while working those lower wages? Give them tax relief. They'll take that money and reinvest it back into the economy through consumption, making businesses more profitable and California more appealing to the businesses that are leaving.

That's bad?

Haha, Stalker seems to have its share of terrible AI and wonky animations too

There is and while I don't doubt that you can effectively sneak your way around enemies using those abilities, I still get the impression that the game will be faster paced.

I didn't make it very far my first playthrough due to bugs and whatnot, so it's effectively my first time. It's just been sitting on my shelf for years now.

Yeah Double Agent was still a ton of fun. I enjoyed having to be aware of my surroundings and not get caught in restricted areas.

In the link, the specify that "foreign born" includes BOTH legal and illegal immigrants. "A foreign-born person who is not a naturalized U.S. citizen. Noncitizens may be in the country legally on a permanent or temporary visa (tourist, business, or student) or may be in the country illegally." How does the number, from the Public Policy Institute of California, not apply? Yes the number isn't how many illegals are in the prisons, because it's an upper bound meaning the number of illegals in the prison system couldn't be larger than that figure. Unless there is something I am not understanding. If the PPIC's numbers and claims are wrong, then tell me. I'm a big believer in the scientific method and if someone can demonstrate why their numbers are poor, I'll go with that. The link you had had a 2001 quote from You call me arrogant which is interesting. I am focused on the numbers, because when people such as yourself state that half the inmates in California prisons are illegal immigrants as an example of how illegal immigrants are a big problem, I'm curious to see if that's the truth. Because if it's not, then I wonder if other aspects of the situation are exaggerated because it's a convenient scapegoat. I look at the numbers, because what I "think" and "believe" might be the case, is often wrong. I deal with similar type stuff all the time here in Alberta, where people are quick to blame a lot of our problems on the First Nations people in the area. I used to buy into the same line of thought until I looked into the numbers, and started to read peer-reviewed analysis of the situation, and learned that a lot of it is, in fact, myth. I'm less willing to believe the word of a few people when I don't know them particularly well, and when I have seen examples of their previous biases on these forums. Everyone has biases and I'm not going to judge them for that, but simply because someone lives in California does not make them an expert on the illegal immigration system. There mere fact that that person lives there and has a personal stake can just as easily compromise their perspective because of their biases. I'd be more concerned that my opinion was wrong, however, if it wasn't for the fact that people living IN California also agree with my skepticism. One of them is on this board: Hurlshot. Is he arrogant too?

I thought that Jokinen's shootout goal came from behind the net, but I guess I didn't see it right. Heartbreaking loss for sure.

STALKER: SHadows of Chernobyl. It's just not installing fast enough

Double Agent's biggest failing was the silly overhaul of their stealth system. The sound and visual system of Chaos Theory was great, and for Double Agent we were treated to a simple color coding of green, yellow, and red. And a lack of co-op. I enjoyed Double Agent, but I consider it a large step down from Chaos Theory. Until then, every game was an improvement over the last one.

I'll defer to your experience. I never did take networking in school. What makes network code good vs. poor?

DO these things still use a PCI-E 16x slot? :]

What makes you think it was supposed to be in the final product? Oh common! Don't tell me you are THAT much gullible! It's obvious what they have in mind. The worst thing is that I am afraid this will become a trend in the future. Yeah you're right. I couldn't imagine having any idea how any of their decisions were made at all

You've played the new one? I agree that the co-op is what interests me the most.