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Sounds like the same nerd-rage when Gamespot gave Halo 2 a "mere" score of 9.4 Or when some reviewer gave Twilight Princess an 8.8 (totally justified score)

btw, the "hard" difficulty eliminates the electro bolt / wrench one-hit kill, in case anybody was wondering.

That's the usual PETA line. They can't officially condone terrorist actions but they hope they succeed.

Nonsense. I was skeptical as well. Besides, all you reallly need to do is unplug your network cable and you're home free.

If perchance any of you ****s happen to have snagged early copies of Bioshock, you might want to hold off on playing them. Word through the grapevine is that being noticed playing or getting an achievement on your account could result in said account being shut down.

I thought that was obvious.

I've heard a lot of talk (from disgruntled self-denying fanboys) that 4e was going to go 100% digital, would require payment as an MMO would, and would do away with the Open Gaming License. Glad to see that they were wrong. I'll tentatively await, as always.

That is prbably why I would never give a game a perfect score. The better reason why you would never give a game a perfect score is that you would never play it.

While I might agree with you in principle, I think it would be unwise to make such an assertion. If "animal rights" is an unworthy cause compared to other, greater ones, then we're saying that the greater the scope of the problem, the more important it is, which sort of negates the "ground-up" approach to solving certain problems. More than that, we could similarly say that curbing domestic abuse is a waste of time when there are children starving in North Korea. I think domestic abuse is a pretty nasty thing, and while it might not be as glamorous as famine relief or stopping terrorism, it's probably a worthy thing to fight. No, we shouldn't be saying that "animal rights" are insignificant next to greater causes, we should say that "animal rights" are an insignificant cause, period. But then again, I've always held views of the Benthamite strain in contempt. Besides, it's funny how similar Hamas and PETA are. Both have a social / political wing, and both have a militant / terrorist wing (in PETA's case, the ALF). It's a sort-of amusing version of the "one man's terrorist, another man's freedom fighter" problem. PETA doesn't view Hamas' goal of jihad or palestinian revolt or whatever in high regard, and Hamas' doesn't give two ****s about the poor widdle mouses, but they hold in common a shared view of necessary and just violence against civilians. Theres' no reason they shouldn't be able to say what they want, there's plenty of reason that they should be ignored.

That you reneged on your statement is immaterial. What matters is that the statement was monumentally stupid and histrionic in the first place, stupid enough to easily warrant several months of nonstop ridicule.

Funny, I keep hearing sounds like someone who hasn't quit gaming forever is talking, but I don't see anybody when I look around. I think I'm haunted.

Trick revealed: If you set your profile's preferred difficulty to "hard" (however one does that) then the Hard difficulty is unlocked in the demo. Good for another few playthroughs, at least.

You fail at haiku.

The worst (and therefore best) fight scene ever filmed.

Speaking of Cheney,

They definitely have it, everywhere. They have it here. But T'r'U got wise and shut down all sales preemptively. Employees will probably get fired if they sell it.

It really doesn't matter, as Herve's track record speaks volumes. He euthanized Interplay (and Virgin, and Titus) once, he can sure as hell do it again. I said the same thing when they added ewoks into the Star Wars universe, and sure enough, nobody ever heard from Star Wars again.

Has anybody played the "Wasteland Merc" mod for Fallout 2? I was getting the patch on Gamespot and it was there in the downloads section. Supposedly adds content but "makes it more like an MMORPG", which doesn't bode well. I was just curious.

Not without the electrobolt (or whatever, I've got to look that up one of these days) seemed like a one-hit kill when they were stunned, but otherwise it wasn't powerful enough that you could take on more than one splicer at a time and not get smacked around.

From where, Ireland? Pssh.

Most people I know play it like that. Crackdown's not good for much else.

I didn't see it so much as a talk on the subversion of the free press but radicalization of youth (certainly, the rise of leftism in the 60's and 70's might lend some credence to this, but that may very well have been a natural progression) and he's certainly right about leninist/marxist aggression - Che Guevera died fighting a stalinist revolution the peasantry didn't want, at the behest of the Kremlin. But at the same time, the presence and support of a Ron Paul supporter and an overt "Mexicans / Muslims are subverting Americans / Europeans!" racist in the comments section provides some pause.

News media isn't a free market in which power is in the hands of the consumer, and as such I think it's a little simplistic to blame the consumer entirely for the state of news. What goes on air has about as much to do with the wants of the people as it does with what marketing thinks the people want as much as it has to do with what narrow focus groups want. I'd credit the 24-hour standard with that problem as well. You've got 24 long hours to talk about something. On the one hand, you've got car bombs in Iraq and Katrina survivors getting shafted in Baton Rouge. On the other hand, you've got John Edwards' hairstyle and Paris Hilton losing her inheritance. You don't go with what the people will want, you don't even go with what the people will watch, you go with what the people won't get tired of, and the people don't get tired of gossip. So who's the greater coward, the newscaster who won't air bad news or the average person who doesn't like bad news?

Regardless, it still seems as if UE3 PS3 titles are still getting delayed left and right.

Clearly this is a ploy by the Jew-Corporate Megapower to close ranks and further consolidate their stranglehold over all international bodies.