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heck yeah. besides the Tommy Gun. That thing was great. Meh. On Normal, at least, the Tommy Gun didn't do enough consistent damage to take them out before they hit you (when they weren't dodging your fire). The nice thing about the electro power was that it stunned enemies. Plus, you barely got 2 clips worth of ammo in the demo. But just as promised, the easiest and best way to make it through the areas unscathed was using the environment, particularly when it came to hacking cameras and sentries.

It's nice that they're putting weapon mods into the game, because the guns were ****ing useless in the demo. Electro+wrench was the way to go.

A lot of the problems with media as it exists today stems from the advent of 24-hour news networks. You usually end up seeing a story that would normally take half an hour to cover dragged it out for 6 or 7 hours, days at a time. Most of the time the newscast is going faster than the actual information is coming in, so you'll have hours of dead weight and speculation. On top of that you get stories that get latched on to and become bloated. My earliest recollection of such is the OJ Simpson trial, and I remember being 7 or 8, just getting cable and finding that goddamn trial inescapable (for the record, I wanted OJ to win because he was a big black guy, just as I wanted GHW Bush to win in '92 because he was the guy with glasses, and glasses rock). That's a big part of what makes things like the Daily Show and Colbert Report so refreshing. A lot of people regard such shows as political parodies, when really they're more parodies of what news has become (the inane, fact-less news broadcast and the bloviating pundit) But beyond that, there's still absolutely vital journalism being done, particularly investigative in nature, usually in print, occasionally online (the "blogs are the new newspapers" movement never held much weight with me), domestically and abroad. It's not all good, you understand, but when it is it's as good as it ever was.

Not negative enough that they won't embrace him.

Source Tentative prediction - he's leaving to begin engineering the Repug campaign.

On the Major Nelson podcast Ken Levine said that it was an early part of the game "modified" for a demo. So it's possible you don't get incinerate that early in the full game. I'm assuming lightning bolt or whatever they call it is supposed to be the first plasmid you get.

Odd, maybe it's all the traffic, but my download keeps getting stuck. What I do is wait half an hour, cancel the download, and then restart it, but it begins with an added 2 to 10 percent onto what it was when it was previously cancelled. At this rate I'll have it downloaded by 4 AM.

My download stopped at 61% and it's been there for 45 minutes

Looking forward to the new Iron Man film? I'm interested in seeing Jon Favreau do a superhero movie. Plus, Robert Downey Jr.'s had a real comeback coming to him. The only conventions we have around Denver are porn conventions :'( boo hoo.

Straw Men! Ya!

This demo, it is playable, yes?

Yah, but, like, they said that the KoS was a warlock, so, duh.

Hey ****s, lookitthispurveiw! Engine looks impressive, at least. And character creation looks promising, if you want to be an old man.

I was always interested in adapting historical events into D&D games. I've toyed with the idea of adapting (sadly, I only really play D&D in the FR) gameworlds to fit certain historical situations. The more epic, the better, and that usually entails something pertaining to the World Wars. I even considered introducing some kind of magical analog to the atomic bomb, setting it off somewhere and changing the nature and fabric of the campaign while it was being played ("the bomb changes everything" kind of thing) That 'un sounds a bit like that... oh, what's her name, the Countess. She was already used in Diablo II, but apparently she was real, even if she wasn't as psychotic as they say.

Playing through Deus Ex again, this time with the Shifter and HDTP mods. I made a few minor changes in the way I play the game and it's had some interesting results. For one, my game crashed shortly after initiating dialogues with Lebedev and Navarre on the airplane. So upon restart, I shot Navarre before initiating dialogue, thus saving Lebedev's life (although it doesn't do him any good, it adds some foreshadowing) the second, much more significant change is that

Are you quitting gaming press forever?

Part of it is the burned textures, part of it is the doll-like characters. I liked, say, the KOTOR engine for character rendering better than this one. For one, UE3 characters have immobile shoulders, which makes their gait odd. Not that UE3 was ever known for its well-rendered characters. It's definitely set a new standard for environmental destructibility, though. The parts in the demo where you can shoot propane tanks into TVs which fly out and brain people, or shoot out a ledge full of crates onto a gang, are glorious.

Not all at once, you'll burn yourself. You've got to regulate your intake, cool it down a bit before you inhale, lest you end up with a scar on your uvula and an inability to eat solid food for a week. True pain. I dunno if anybody else dropped by the NWN2 blog yesterday, but they released the theme song to MotB (wooooo mp3) and it's ****tacular. Alex Brandon's tenure at our little dev house is off to a good start.

Our mission is clear. Kanye must win.

What about ze villain? Is he a superconstruct?

Definitely a renter. I'm hoping they have more than 4 Tequila bomb "powers". Even though the ones they exhibited were pretty entertaining, they'd get old after awhile. Also, UE3 is ass-ugly.

Also keep in mind that Cant is a member of the gaming community.

I lurv you, Obsidian, but I'm going to have to put HotM above NWN2 in terms of story. Most of that had to do with the villains, which is what it comes down to, for me. I'm looking forward to something good in MotB.

October 28th, last I checked. But considering Rock Band's got the original GH devs, I'll opt for it instead.