alanschu

hahaha, I totally read that as "Unger-Manic" and it made absolutely no sense

Stupid governments not actually using standardized terms. I've actually had someone claim that China was a republic, because it was the People's Republic of China.

Hahaha, yeah, that part in Transporter 2 was awful. I really enjoyed the first Transporter, but Transporter 2 sucked IMO. I image Crank is over the top, but hopefully it's in more of a Transporter style than Transporter 2.

I think that that one was already vetoed. Which is good because I think it's crap.

Well, I was under the impression that the term spawned from Germany's use for it, so I've always likened it to Fascism when the title fascism just wasn't extreme enough. More like fascism++ The description you said makes sense if you analyze both the words. It's just the only context I have ever seen National Socialist used was with the National Socialist party in 1930s Germany.

I'm not sure what the heck EA was thinking with their default control scheme. They ended up putting the default shoot buttons on the right shoulder, and while they have pass on the right analog stick which can be nice, the pass button is on the left shoulder. But the switch player while on defense is still button 2 ('X' on a PS2 controller), which while on offense is spin-o-rama. And the old school mainstays for slapshot and wrist shot have been replaced by dive and block pass/shot. I should be able to fix the controls to put shoot back, but the defensive switch player is permanently bound to spin-o-rama. Boo-urns.

See, I would hardly call the Nazi Party as being anything similar to a social democrat. But wasn't the term essentially invented because they referred to themselves as National Socialist?

I'm not against "non-commercial" interests. I don't consider the funding that my own country and province (which is Alberta, king of the right wing in all of Canada) in terms of cultural heritage and whatnot as being mere "make work" jobs either (the previous federal governments creation of 50,000 overpasses in the Atlantic to create work for seasonal workers is the boondoggle). Especially when investment into cultural heritage can also have positive effects for things such as Nationalism (if on the national scale, like you are talking about), and can be used for educational purposes. They also can potentially provide tourist revenue. How old are you talking about for these old employees that still have their jobs, despite no longer really being able to function in them? Why do they still have those jobs? Essentially, the "make work" isn't so much your job, but rather the job of the person that you have to show how to use their email. I can understand that there could be positive side effects to keeping someone employed rather than letting them go. Even if welfare is good enough for them to live on, there's feelings of pride in maintaining a job, and shame in losing it, regardless of whether you are still taken care of. However, is it in the best interests of the country to be doing so? It sounds like they are paying someone to have you show them how to do their job. Perhaps incentives should be provided for those that are able to accomplish competency in the tasks they need to require. I guess this would suck for you as you'd be out of a job since these people would be competent. But then the government could use the money that would have been invested into a job where you (or them, if they couldn't develop competency) aren't overlapping with someone else's job. I guess your job could be the one that develops competency in the older people, in which case that wouldn't be so bad. By the sounds of things though, I wouldn't worry about you losing your job, but rather the person that no longer has the competency to do their job correctly that you are training. Also, I'm a big fan of making sure governments rotate occassionally. I'm pretty right-wing (though I don't feel left-wing is bad, just not a perspective that I feel is best), but I'm still going to vote for the more left-wing Liberal party in our next Provincial Election. The right-wing conservative party has been in power for like 3 decades or something stupid, and change is as good as the rest. And despite my preference in right-wing fiscal policies, I'm a huge supporter of full universal education and health care. Just thought I'd toss that in

Is your "spin-o-rama" button shared with the "switch player" when on defense?

I suspect you were doing something wrong, because I was able to beat them without having Atton level up in the game at all (I was saving them for Jedi Levels, and he wasn't a jedi yet).

The maker is Rob Bartel and he didn't cancel the sequels, unfortunately Bioware pulled him off of it to work on SoU and HotU.

Nope, I'm one of those paranoid about my house burning down people. I'll wait for the new cooling tech, or whatever the heck it is. :ph34r: But I reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally want that game <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Aren't the heat issues a bit overstated (and rather old news)?

Just to clarify, what are you talking about with respect to Open Source? The term gets tossed around quite a bit to apply to a variety of situations. Some use it to describe free software, while some stick to Stallman's interpretation of being "free software." Not free as in zero cost, but free as in freedom as in access to the source code.

It's just a concept video. I don't think there's even a game necessarily attached to it. EDIT: Read the information on the right sidebar of the link you provided. They talk about it not being game footage of anything, but a prerendered video of a new series foray in the Star Wars universe. Whatever it is, it's not KOTOR 3.

I made an edit, so I figured I'd bring it to your attention. To retouch on it though, it sounds like your job was more of a "make work" proposal simply because you were a University graduate. If that is the case, I can't see how it's actually a good thing for your country.

I thought there was two he'd vote for?

I'm curious what revenue streams open-source software will provide versus the antiquated copyright. And in particular, if it'd be able to make up the loss of revenue by no longer being closed.

If the company is in financial difficulties (which is usually the case when a company undergoes "restructuring) making a game that is going to cost millions of dollars is a very serious investment. As is concurrent development on multiple titles. Besides, their biggest title is Battlefront. It was their best selling title of all time at one point, and it came out after KOTOR. The Battlefront series is easily their biggest SW video game property.

And there are people that insist that NHL '94 is still the greatest NHL game that EA has ever made, and that no other game has been able to improve upon it. Nostalgia is a powerful thing.

Wouldn't they like playing a better game over and over more?

Or worse. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes that's always a possibility. But if you get laden with Fallout clones, it's going to sour your perception of the style. And as I said, if people were content with just making clones of the good games back in the day, we'd never get a Fallout.

To be honest, I don't know if I'd like a clone. The nice thing about NOT being a clone is that it means it's possible for us to get something different that is actually better.

I wonder how many of us would think the same thing if we hadn't played it all those years ago? I wouldn't be surprised if half the people that claim to love the game so much wouldn't even give it a second look if the originals were never made, and suddenly were released today.

If this type of thinking persisted, then we wouldn't get games like Fallout.