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*gulp* that was awesome.

Well, uh, what I think that means is, eh, Obsidian has the rights to the concept art, and the engine, and all of that jazz, but they can't actually release a Fallout game without Bethsoft's express permission, they being the owners of the license and all.

So in a perfect, foreign world, Van Buren could be released as a sort of Tactics-y side project to Beth's F3. Hmmm. At least the devs have all of their work back. It was fun going through KOTOR2 and trying to find all the little bits of VB that made it into that game in some form or another.

Did I mention that I love ****? Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head.

The Landlord

I hit that communist with a cattle prod and then it crashed. I like the way it looked, besides all the bugs (can't push any of the buttons on the bottom of the screen) and knowing all I do about the game, oh, the broken dreams. The broken dreams. You know, even with my cautious optimism, I'm having more fun with this demo in my head than I ever will with Beth's attempt at F3.

Add strawberry blonde Nova Scotians to the list of preferred as well.

I've always preferred black-haired Italians and redheaded Irish lasses to scandinavian ice queens, honestly.

You're right. Turns out that all the redheads I know are Irish. So it's actually the Irish that are unhinged and compulsive. That they were redheads was happenstance. For the record, the woman of my dreams, who I've known for many years and lives achingly far away from me at the moment, is a redhead. Her hair's thick and she cuts it boy-short as often as possible. I'm madly in love with her. I would swear off the rest of humanity and everything I love for her. So Nyah. Sticks and stones.

Oh, but you're forgetting New Goblin! I'm always wary of comic book movies overestimating how many characters they can reasonably throw in. X3 was an example of the too-many-references-are-never-enough school of comic moviemaking. But that was the least of the film's problems in any case. And if you thought the second movie was ho-hum, I hear the talky parts of this movie are the worst in the trilogy. We're talking momentum-killing bad. But I'll withhold final judgement till I've seen it. I've never actually seen a Spidey movie, and there haven't been enough good movies out lately to dissuade me from seeing this one.

Venom by way of That 70's Show. It's not a big secret. Raimi (the director, if you've lived under a rock the past few years) didn't want Venom in, but Marvel strongarmed it past him. Kinda disrespectful, if you ask me. The original movie saved Marvel from certain oblivion, and now Raimi might not continue his run in the director's chair for any future sequels. Tobey Maguire might not return either. Shame, they won't be able to cover Lizard, Vulture, Scorpion or Mysterio. If there's anything this series needs, it's a guy with a fishbowl on his head. Maybe they'll get desperate and throw Carnage or Toxin in there. Or Poison. Yay.

Yeah, the Fallout Community has had to wait several years for any shred of actual evidence that F3 will suck. Bethesda has finally provided the absolute proof. This looped music backs up everything we've ever said. They should just shut down production right now. But in all seriousness, I don't think it sounds terrible, and this has **** all to do with the rest of the game. People will just have to figure out a way to mod the sound and music in-game.

Oh man, I'm conflicted. It's going to drive me insane being only able to play the first part, but I'm going to do it anyway. GAAAAAH *edit - Wait, is this a playable demo, or the previously seen tech demo?

Oh SNAP Well played Sawyer. High five up top.

Resident Evil's fixed cameras could be a real pain in the ass sometimes.

Every time I listen to Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2 I think of Van Buren. I listened to it exclusively when I was writing my PnP adaptation. As if the music wasn't sad enough.

Huh, well, maybe you should consider lying. Say it brings out her eyes. Say it adds an optical cup size. Something. Say you've come to appreciate it, but don't sound too eager, she might keep the look. Taken girl tells me to call her anytime I want to eat out, which is all well and fine. Social set's graduating in exactly a week, then moving out of town, so I need to solidify relations with a new set, and the prog-stoner cabal she's a part of will do just fine. Also, Acceptable.tv

Redheads are crazy. I've known a few, and they've all been alchoholics, junkies and psychiatrists.

More like vent crawling for ten hours only to find out you can't hurt the guy at the end of the vents and need to be captured by it in order to be told another ten hours of story. Still sore over that, eh?

Natural, but you want them to fill out your hands, like bags of sand.

Brunettes are always better.

The Van Buren tech demo made me a little sad, on the inside.

Anytime he criticizes a game, you just say "Let's see you make a better game, Josh." If he's anything like my immediate family, he'll shut right up. Then you can get on with your game of bookworm or whatever. I <3 bookworm.

no. 7 appears to be the bottom of a green glass bottle. Rolling rock?