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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.

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