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Laughing at Ving Rhames being Aquaman?

Yup, but PC companies also sell at a loss on low end units, because MS pays them to. I know they lost money on mine, and my wife's. It is what it is. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> How do you know this? What type of computer do you have?

Oh, Windows is most definitely not packaged "free" with current systems. That price is included in the total retail package, but it's not free. Otherwise, you might as well say the video card is free, or the computer is free, with a donation of X dolalrs. Even the big boys like Dell pay Microsoft money to "bundle" Windows with their computers.

This assumes the demand for video game consoles is inelastic. I doubt it is.

Go Gosport!

I haven't seen any Olympic games, but I think Pronger's speed seems slower because he's a very big man. Having said that, he's not the fastest. Though he's easily been Edmonton's best and most consistent player this year.

Urge to smoke crack...rising.

Fixed!

No. I play Gothic & Gothic 2 for a sense of freedom. Morrowind seems open but because you can't climb in that game, it's just as dead and dumb as any linear jRPG (which almost always have corridors even in forests!). Daggerfall actually had a climb skill, which was awesome. If you maxxed it out (and maxxed out running) you could run up against a house, climb up its wall with amazing speed and then fling over the ceiling like a rocket. Sometimes you had so much speed, the fall would kill you even if the house was a one-story building. ) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So much for making it believable.

I don't know if I have one favourite, perse. Some of my favourites include: Reaching the Surface of Black Mesa in Half-Life 2 Reaching Polito's room in System Shock 2 Meeting Liquid on top of Rex in Metal Gear Solid I know there's more, but I just can't think of any at the moment.

Favourite? Hopefully as in "so bad it's good!"

I remember one game where the only person strong enough to take on Diablo and not die was my bear. It was a loooong fight, but people went and ran me mana potions so I could continue to resummon him once Diablo killed him. It was HC so everyone was too afraid to get close.

Go play the PSX version of Fantastic Four.....

Which is equally inconclusive. Since we are only talking about something as trivial as a game I go with the caution side. But since we have a rating system here it's not particularly relevent. I dont know why some people are so opposed to them. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The reason it's inconclusive is because there's plenty on both sides. I was not saying that mine was right and yours was wrong.

The research is inconclusive. There's plenty of research out there that indicates that the relationship is tenuous at best...and often does not indicate a causal relationship. I showed this to you before, but you just plugged your ears and closed your eyes because it didn't support what you believed.

Heh, I'm not too worried about dumbing it down. I mean, they CAN improve it quite a bit :D

I have yet to play the single nation coop. I could imagine the entertainment as two people try to fight over where that unit goes :D

It's a ton of fun. Tanks rock, but are expensive to build, and also supply as they also need oil. Few things suck worse than having your tanks immobilized because of insufficient oil. There are some nuances to the game, but once you wrap your head around them it is sooo much fun.

*cues the Kirk vs Spock fight music*

Didn't miss gaming!??!/1/1/4LKGDsdfjer... Error: Unhandled Exception: FabricOfRealityWarped was not caught and handled. Initiating Reboot... Anyways, off to bed

I'm actually surprised how popular the Mac platform is in my CompSci program at my University. Seems almost everyone here prefers Linux to Windows, and they love the fact that MacOS gives them that, but with an actual nice looking GUI. All without having to worry about setting up your proper X-Window Managers.

You mentioned you went "back" to gaming Steve. Why did you stop?

Have fun.

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