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They'll never, ever top 2000.

That was Ogre from Skinny Puppy and Pete Steele from Type O Negative, if I'm not mistaken. Their Descent soundtrack is to Trent Reznor's Quake soundtrack what System Shock was to Doom.

Would be called, if they were making it.

I've got mp3s of the BG/BG2, Diablo/Diablo 2, Fallout 2, Half-Life 2 and Starcraft soundtracks. If anybody wants something specific I can put it up on the Obs fileserver. So yeah: Blizzard games IWD BG BG2 Fallouts Half-Lifes Deus Ex Hunter Hunted (old sidescroller with a neat industrial OST) V:TMB STALKER

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Knocked Up - Saw it, very much enjoyed it. It's really refreshing to see a comedy completely free of cynicism (I believe they call it "honesty") and even though there are some moments that dance on the edge of preachiness (in particular, when the sisters are denied entrance into the club) there's enough real humor there to make it feel natural. "Natural" is the best word I think I can use to describe these Apatow comedies. They're sappy, I guess, but they're far from saccharine. A Lifetime movie this ain't. The leads are both great, although I admit I'd rather see a movie made about Seth Rogen's 40-Year Old Virgin character than his sweet-hearted buffoon here. Katherine Heigl is gorgeous and I thought she really pulled her weight in both the comedic and dramatic moments, which is great. I think the real strength of this movie, as it was in 40YOV, is the great supporting cast. Paul Rudd doesn't get much screentime but he slays as the man whittled away by his marriage. However, the cast of friends here isn't as good as 40YOV's. I prefer smart tech store workers to wry stoners, I guess, but I think that has more to do with the fact that I know a lot of guys who are exactly like that, so I don't feel like I need to spend time with the characters. Not as consistently hilarious as 40YOV, but probably the more mature and solid movie as a whole. I really liked it, and it'll stay with me for awhile. Once again I'll bring up David Mamet's criteria for movie greatness: I enjoyed it so much I didn't want it to end, even with closure. As for the abortion issue that seems to be riling some people up about the movie, it's handled pretty well here. The woman just says "I've decided to keep the baby" and that's all it really needs, frankly.

NO GUNDAM ARRRRRRGH. Anywho, I'd be more enamored with China, what with it fitting somewhere closer to canon. Didn't MCA write about power-armored Americans in mainland China that were alive after the bombs fell?

The last thing I want is Fallout: Gundam Wing. No thanks.

It's a large, anthropomorphic lump of sugar.

Nah, as an American, the most peculiar thing about British television, aside from the numb quality of it, is its unwillingness to milk a series for all its worth like we do here in the States. Some people say the Office was the best comedy show ever and it only ran for 2 seasons.

I don't think that's the point of STALKER so much as survival is. The point isn't to kill ****, it's to prevent your own death, which usually entails killing ****. You've got limited amounts of everything and you have to make the best of it, and there's no sport in killing, it's all tactical. I'd say it shares more with Resident Evil than it does with Doom. All it really needs is a severe deficit in the quantity of ammunition and playing FPS-style, guns blazing, would no longer be a viable option. In your average FPS, such a deficit would effectively break the game. That it wouldn't break STALKER (since conservation and planning are already a part of the game) indicates to me that lumping it together with Half-Life or Halo would be rash.

Huh. I was just thinking out loud about that aborted Ultima. Then again, I don't know if Obsidian would be considered a "major RPG development house". They probably went to Bioware first, heh.

GENTLEMEN, I BRING YOU.... CORN

Hmmm... When did PNJ fall through, exactly?

Being that I'm not actually gay, I don't know. But I've been known to play BG2 for the sole purpose of experiencing the dynamics of every combination of party members. If that makes me gay, so be it.

That sounds pretty gay. And I should know, I'm a gay man.

This concept art was commissioned during pre-production, from a guy who "had trouble getting into" Fallout. There's a big stink over at the Fallout boards about it. Apparently the concept art that's being used for the game is in-house, and we haven't seen it yet.

It's much easier and less time-consuming to have the slider affect damage taken and AoE as they do now than to institute different NPC abilities for different points on the slider (and make it feasible for the player to give and take away those abilities on a whim) What I think Sawyer is saying is that the sheer number of duergar with their innate abilities would be too much for a 2nd-level party any way you slice it. The parts where they come in waves would be a slaughter were it not for the townspeople having infinite health.

Hmm, say, will this campaign be easier to mod than the OC? I wonder if we could take that 15-20 hours and extend them a bit

I always knew I was gay. Thanks for pointing that out.

So how exactly would you be physically challenged by a computer game?

How is it then?