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Didn't this already come up in the Climate Change concert thread? I don't expect Al Gore to make any sacrifices that I wouldn't be willing to make. You can waste to ultimately prevent waste in the same way that you can wage war to ultimately promote peace.

Sad clowns. Landfills. Recently buffed floors. The possibilities are endless.

'nother leak. Different this time. NIN - In This Twilight

Heh, yeah, apparently virtual terrorism is becoming a problem in SL. But the sad thing is that it's not common trolling, it's committed by people who have some kind of virtual "political ideology". FFS, if you're going to throw rendered **** at people, do it because it's fun, not because the internet real estate board is corrupt.

Abandoned / condemned buildings. Old black dudes.

Depends, really. I've found that if a business stakes a lot of its success on local reputation, word of mouth or repeat individual customers, its service will be good. Working at Wal-Mart, the customer was definitely not on the top of our list of concerns. Of course, there are a lot of factors, and it's not a universal law, but that seems to sum it up nicely for me. So I'd say it isn't dead.

fxd. You know EA got on this because of the massive success of the movie. Space will never be the same!

I got one that said "People are watching you". That was odd.

Wow, there are a lot of people who don't finish their games. I finish most every game I play. Maybe it's because I was just a kid when I started, and I had a lot of time and focus. That having been said, there are a few games that, for whatever reason, I've never finished. Barely touched: Diablo II (mostly because of roleplayer's remorse and boredom in the Second Act) Halfway through: Fallout Tactics GTA 2 Fell at the last hurdle: Icewind Dale II The Godfather GTA 3 GTA Vice City GTA San Andreas I don't know why, but I've never brought myself to finish a GTA game.

Once again, another (intentional) leak. Nine Inch Nails - Me, I'm Not

I've just played both too many times to get anything out of them. Same thing with the Fallouts, IWDs, NWNs, Bloodlines, etc. etc. The whole game is so familiar to me that it's more of a chore to play than something fun and exciting, which is unfortunate, because they were great initially. I actually prefer the ie engine to the more modern engines I've seen.

SiN: Emergence should be under Category IV, not Category III.

I have a wasp phobia. I also have a mild fear of heights and a mild fear of wide open spaces, and when I'm high up in an open space (say, on top of a mountain) I freak out a bit. But those are little things. What I'm really afraid of is sleep paralysis. There was a TV show or a movie I saw a long time ago, I can't remember much about it except it featured a guy who goes into a coma and everybody thinks he's dead, but he's fully conscious but unable to communicate or move. That freaked me out. So when I experienced sleep paralysis, it really ****ed me up. It's a really rare occurence, though, and it doesn't last for more than a few seconds (they feel like minutes, though)

'nother NIN leak - Survivalism

Back and then gone. (Actually, they're going on a UK tour now, IIRC) And just to clarify, I was being kinda sarcastic earlier. Peter Gabriel > Phil Collins.

Playing Indigo Prophecy again. Fun, but I'm dreading the inevitable descent into nonsense. Good to get friends into, and relive your initial disappointment over and over. What's the status of that new Quantic Dream project, again?

When JFK was running for president, a lot of people thought he would lose because he was a catholic, and there was even some libel being thrown around that he would be the first president to ever swear allegiance to something other than the country he was running (in this case, the papacy) but the sky didn't fall when he got elected and the pope didn't run the government. I don't give much of a **** where somebody is on Sunday morning, or if they pray five times a day, or refuse to eat pork. I do give a **** if they bend the law such that such things were required of the populace. I would also give a **** if they bent the law such that such things were prohibited. In the modern nation-state the law is God, and the law's chosen people are those who obey it. So long as an elected official recognizes this, I cannot object to his holding office on the grounds of his religion. Furthermore, atheists are just as capable of bad judgement and horrendous wrongdoing as any other group. Atheist Russia under Stalin or China under Mao were just as terrible as any unified Christian or Muslim or Jewish state could be. I would not support an atheist candidate because of his atheism. I would support him on his policies.

Nine Inch Nails - My Violent Heart Mmmm intentional leak. Music's interesting, but ol' Trent will never, ever write good lyrics.

I believe one of the first mods released for NWN2 addressed that. Look it up in the Vault.

Does "global warming" imply cold weather to an expert? Warming in some places, cooling on other places. Makes sense if you've studied metereology or climate change in general, even cursorily, but at this point it's a shapeless menace to most people, if that. But they don't call it "global cooling".

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Even if they were, the irony would be lost on most people as "global warming" doesn't imply cold weather to a layperson. That's why they don't call it "global warming" anymore, but use the term "climate change" instead.

Ah, so that's why I saw the ghost of Chris Avellone lurking about the boards the other day. btw admins, the new deathstar forum icon things are not an improvement.

Directed by this fine man I'm sure. Boll wants to, obviously, but Hideo Kojima has explicitly stated that Uwe Boll will never come within a mile of the project. That having been said, some of the names attached to the project even at this early stage are not encouraging. I think one of the producers is the big name behind Ghost Rider. Metal Gear Solid is a good game, but it'd make a **** movie. Unless it's an anime, in which case villains taking a breather before a fight to explain their traumatizing childhood and tragic, tragic losses would be normal or even desired.

Excerrent.