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So they're supposed to look terrible. I suppose that makes sense.

OMG WHERE ARE THE COMMUNISTS

A giant dwarf has the height of a man, but is much wider. GoW characters have nice skins but they have to have custom shoes made because their feet are the width of their thighs, which are usually the the size of small trees. ****, the female character that was in GoW for all of 15 seconds was built like a linebacker. I much prefer a engine like HL2's, which despite being less pretty can achieve things UE3 never will with its models.

I spend several hours today oogling over the GoW assets in Unreal3Ed and I have to say that the artists at Epic are probably the best in the gaming bussiness. You'll only find more talented guys at places like ILM or Pixar. The models are great if your idea of the average person is a 300 pound giant dwarf.

Would be nifty. Red Faction does that and its part of the gameplay. Have you played Red Faction? They pimped the hell out of destructible environments, but destructible things were generally pretty rare and were mostly things like columns you could bust to allow you to shoot more things. It was a gimmick, either because the devs weren't imaginative enough or the resources they had didn't allow for better use. I have no reason to believe that destructible environments are going to yield anything more than a twist in FPS cover dynamics and the next generation of pretty decals.

The crowds were impressive from afar, but I've got a feeling up close they're just as ass-ugly and bulky as they were in GoW1. Water effects were better in Bioshock, although the fluid objects were impressive. Shame all of this is going to translate into eye-candy rather than dynamic gameplay, but I guess you really couldn't expect any less.

All i know about Ralph Nader is that he has been a consumer-rights activist, and a great critic of the bigger parties (all smaller candidates are usually that though). However, i have never heard about him being a forefront for planned economy. Not even the leftest of the left in Europe propose such ideas (except for the communists). Care to explain? Free market types don't like Nader because he's a consumer advocate, and consumer advocates push for gov't intervention, in Nader's case for the sake of safety. By interfering with the market, they make things less safe due to all the bright-eyed entrepeneurial safety upstarts with great ideas getting muscled out of business by inflexible government cartels. That, and the things they push for, safety regulations, workers' rights, that type of thing, push up costs. That's why China, a nation of cheap labor, makes more jeans than Cambodia, which has a phenomenal ethical record, 8-hour days and 3 months maternity leave. The market favors low costs.

Nader's just about through. Unless you're Eddie Vedder.

I tried the demo and I really liked it (especially when I put a song of my choosing). Is it worth it? Is it fun or does it get boring fast? Anyway, for some strange reason, I, lately, started installing old games and play them. I am playing Diablo 2, single player. I don't think it gets worse than that... I have 36 gigs of music on my computer. $10 is a ****in' steal. But yeah, it largely depends on the songs. For the uninitiated, the game takes your music and basically turns it into a rollercoaster dependent upon the dynamics of the music. Bands that alternate between Loud / soft or fast / slow like, say, The Mars Volta are generally the best, because they change the gameplay accordingly. But a band like Ministry that's all fast all the time is basically just an endless downward slope. Something minimalist like Brian Eno or the Knife are pretty boring. I'll probably upload some good Audiosurf music later on.

Audiosurf. It is the ****.

No, that's fascism and infringing on freedoms.

More opportunities for Sawyer to get his yuan-ti on, I suppose.

Fiscal stinginess has never been part of the Democratic platform. I don't expect it from them.

He's sort of like Dennis Kucinich, but taller.

Any and every Republican contender of the last 20 years have thrown up a shadow of The Gipper and swore to be responsible with the budget, and none of them ever have. The beast cannot be starved. McCain is more than willing to compromise his personal beliefs to smooth out a ride to the presidency. As long as he's perceived as not being a panderer he can pander all he wants. Right now McCain is in the process of wooing the hardliners who aren't comfortable with his record. So he's come out and let the American People know that all we have to do is trust the military not to torture people, which is completely unlike Bush in every way, yes sir, not at all like Bush. Had he actually come out and said torture ought to be illegal, conservatives would've had fit and the Repubs wouldn't have won the election they by all logic should be losing anyway. So is McCain a true conservative? No. But he's more than willing to act like one to get ahead. But you know what? He was tortured in Vietnam. John Q. Slackjaw is going to vote for him whether or not he shows himself to be a sack-of-**** hypocrite on the issue. He's a jinyouwine hero. That's the biggest obstacle facing the democrats. McCain's a big puppy with wounded eyes. He's the one brave vietname vet, the one who didn't lose the war. What Obama has to do is hammer the bastard on his flip-flops and his support for ****ing Iraq into the ground for the next 100 years. Hillary won't be able to do that. I'll say this much: Expect lots and lots of "Why do you hate America"s directed at the dems this election cycle. McCain is above nothing. The people who would vote for him certainly aren't. This is not a feat. Pol Pot's dead right testicle would make a better president than George Bush. There is no bright side. We can do better, and we can do better. In order to make any sort of claim, Clinton has to take Texas, Ohio and probably Pennsylvania by large margins. Then she can move onto the Superdelegates, who are party insiders appointed to protect the Democratic core from the kind of populist groundswell that a candidate like Obama rides in on. That's the only chance she has. If any of those variables don't turn up in her favor, she might as well turn it in. The polls are coming up in her favor in those states, but Obama's closing and the some of the polls have been drastically wrong in this very election cycle.

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if the sword made a comeback with a different character. The end of NWN2 seemed to hint at some kind of continued significance for the sword, but it more or less fell by the wayside in MotB, aside from using it as an interdimensional key for some reason. Also, MAC LOLOLOLOL

QTES WAH WAH

Oh God, the irony. The terrible irony.

Totally worth the $18

Hanging out in the future, apparently.

Hooray for the Microsoft troubleshooting method! The Witcher gets its very own Service Pack 2. Too bad they can't fix the monotony.* *But at least they made dice poker more fun!

There are still people around who miss 2e? Jesus.

Joystiq's been fapping about PS3 Home's "protein folding" function for awhile now.

Where did you get that idea? It could be like Gears of War, where your computer allies are more or less useless, but they were also invincible (at least, that's how I remember them being) and reviving is only a part of multiplayer. Or it could be a largely solo game with teammates only in certain parts of the game in which they're not easily killed ala AVP2, with multiplayer changing the dynamics of the game a bit.

Sure, I suppose. I don't really think that RP is representative of the traditional libertarian platform. But I do think his type of libertarian, the kind that's only libertarian in its desire for small gov't., has a chance of coming into prominence in the future. Depends on if his supporters drop his ideology after he inevitably loses or soldier on into 2012. Anyway, McCain: Torture should be illegal, except when it isn't illegal. Ah, the making of a Republican candidate for President.