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I don't think LA would do it in-house, not with their recent financial troubles. They said they're cutting it down to 2 (or thereabouts) games a year. There's a new SW action game, and isn't there another lego game on the horizon? And with that, I'm off to Michigan for 2 weeks.

Joystiq says nothing, so it didn't happen. they says Mass Effect due November. Grrr.

That shadow looks decidedly last-gen.

They should institute a minigame that kicks in every time the g/f asks if something makes her ass look fat, with the difficulty being determined by how much weight the object actually adds. Success yields a successful lie.

Just please, please, keep it away from the movie. It hurts me to think about.

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I'd agree that his descriptive writing is pretty good, but that was out of necessity, to make up for the lack of meaningful dialogue. Had he not his powers of description his actual writing (as opposed to world-building) would be beyond salvage. I still prefer Derleth, mostly. I need to branch out farther and farther away from that nucleus of mythos writers.

Lovecraft couldn't write for ****, especially dialogue. He was the George Lucas of his day, writing conversations that made it blaringly obvious that the author had very little experience with them. All of the best mythos stuff was penned by friends and contemporaries. The Great Old Ones wikipedia page is quite entertaining.

I wasn't aware KOTOR was a trilogy. Or are all Star Wars properties parts of trilogies?

Custom Portraits. Where do you get them. Seriously, just zip them and put them on yousendit. We'll all thank you.

Is that warranty just for the red ring of death? I've never encountered it in the 2 years I've had my 360, but my brother broke one of the USB ports, so no multiplayer Guitar Hero for us.

That's pretty accurate, actually. This is all at 7-11's expense. Looks like it was a good investment.

There was another thread of this type not too long ago, and JE Sawyer chimed in with a Delta Green idea. That sounded good to me. I voted Vampire, because I like the setting, but BG3 or KOTOR3 are good too. I'd like that a lot, but something tells me Josh isn't exactly chomping at the bit for another IWD. Besides, IWD was always supposed to be the dungeon-hack alternative to BG.

I wouldn't say that David Cage is a "game auteur", just yet. That having been said, a Law-&-Order-with-quirks game like Pheonix Wright isn't quite the future of gaming. Fun, but not something I'd identify as being progressive. What it really needs in Lenny Brisco.

I agree. We should blind the robots.

Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court of the US decided that Victor Rita, a 25-year army veteran convicted of perjury, had recieved a fair sentencing of 30 months in jail, whereas 33 months for Libby was "excessive", according to the President. I wonder who's got a more reasonable approach to the law...

I believe in low prices.

I think he means No-Doz and all the other trucker-tweaker drugs.

Isn't pro-social education just an analogue to censorship in that it encourages people to act according with what those in power in society believe to be in society's best interest? I still don't see what's so defensible about Manhunt 2 that this "education" would be preferable.

Math, english, and science classes are supposed to impart applicable skills on students. Is the implication that as long as we teach "pro-social" skills, "anti-social" elements and media are acceptable? That doesn't really follow.

Didn't you quit gaming?

It's mighty progressive to think of gaming as being beyond mere play, but that's what it is. Play. And as such, obviously the thrust of the industry will go towards young consumers, that's just good business. And to someone like me, who doesn't really recognize games as high art by and large, gratuitous amounts of hyper-realistic violence, or depictions of necrophilia, aren't things worth defending on principle, and the vast majority of the time they don't serve a purpose. So if the gov't wants to stamp it out, fine. Games don't grow on trees, they aren't drugs. If a moratorium on hyperviolence in video games is enacted it's not as if a huge black market on violent video games will arise. Games are expensive to make and are meant for mass consumption. Thus gov't intervention is as effective, if not more, as market forces in regulating the content of video games. So if it's not some warning, what is it then? You're actually suggesting education in the literal sense? Are we going to have sensitivity classes that you can take when you're 18 to earn the right to play games? Are we going to have gaming licenses? If not, what good would these classes do?

Wait Dungeon Siege was critically acclaimed?

We should make them legal and then not tax them. That way, with no oversight and no scrutiny, the drug cartels can finally shape up and be responsible. The free market fixes everything! Also, we must stop Fionavar before he kills again.

I'm perfectly fine with, say, 3 charges of perjury warranting jail time. It's a moot point regardless, as Clinton was acquitted.