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Wouldn't that put you 25 miles into the ocean? I keed. Partially. Yeah, Gingrich is promising pork in Florida. It's exciting. He shouldn't be trusted on it.

I'll never understand it. I've seen hotels larger than your nation. I just don't see how there's room for dialects.

http://www.gog.com/en/news/introducing_squ...enix_on_gog_com Square Enix on GoG. Launching with Deus Ex and Hitman: Codename 47.

Posted in wrong thread. Trying out stuff today to see what hits me as worth devoting some time to. First up is Machinarium. The third (that I recall) game from Amanita. Quirky sidescrolling adventure games. Fails to really grab me. The logic is solid, but the pixel hunting is not. And there's nothing else really there. Next up is Gish. It's a sidescrolling platformer game where you play as a blob of tar. He can stick to walls. That's about all he does. So it bored me pretty quickly. No interesting puzzles and way too slow. Shank. Okay, now I'm on a winner. Fun sidescrolling action game. Good combos and they don't overdo the platforming. I'll probably give it some time. Next up is King Arthur: The Role-Playing Wargame. Edit: Got a round of King Arthur in. Really like it. Only strategy game of this type I've played before was Warhammer: Mark of Chaos. I think I liked that a bit better. But it's still good. Maybe I'll give The Last Remnant a shot tomorrow and decide between King Arthur and it as my go to game for the next week.

Ghostcrawler? Ehh. I doubted SWTOR. And however much I feel this idea is baseless, I've been wrong before.

They speculated. Nobody's seriously doing that anymore I should hope. Titan was the codename of Ensemble's Halo MMO when they were working on it. And that's where the connection ends.

That could all belong to his father. "Customer service? Hello, my name is Mr Montgomery, you have suspended my forum and ingame account because of a post my son made on your forums while I was on the toilet." I'm not sure anyone (or at least not many) are arguing that he should be incapable of being unbanned. But their reason for the ban itself was understandable. An argument for appeal strikes me as neither here nor there. Or as I like to say "not even on the board." People should steal that from me. I'd appreciate it.

That could all belong to his father.

I'd think he'd be banned from the game, too. The game has the same restriction as the forum with regards to age.

TRAUMA A 2010 IGF finalist. It's also nearly incomprehensible. It's framed around a young girl, about college age, being in a car accident. And some hidden object / gesture sequences are I guess supposed to represent mental issues dealing with being stuck in a hospital bed after such an event. But it doesn't do much to establish any connection beyond the assumption. The second sequence has you chasing ghosts, only to capture it, and she realizes the only thing stuck is her and the top of a building blasts off like a rocketship. Which maybe is a metaphor for relationships. Or it could be it's her recovering, but there's no evidence of that in the framing sequence as it's just her seeming as depressed about the whole thing as ever. I won't say "it's too deep for me." It's not. It's just abstraction for its own sake. And while that could be indeed represent something about the mental state of those suffering traumatic events, the actual character in the game is just as befuddled about why a crate has a drain on top of it as I am. Which suggests that the car accident victim is perhaps more grounded in reality than the game's own designer. That's not to say abstract or incomprehensible can't be enjoyable. Salvador Dali's paintings were pretty, but if you tell me the melty watches are anything more than merely beautiful to look at, I will kick you in the face. This game does present a handful of what would be pretty photos, with lots of hunting for obscure ways to reach locations and learning gestures just to free teddy bears from under boulders. It struck me as a woefully lacking in payoff.

I thought Brotherhood was at least as tight as AC 2. Revelations on the other hand just felt like an excuse for the yearly installment.

I need to make a resolution. Only buy 1 game for every 2 I complete this year.

I'll never understand how you're so good at this game. I may just be that terrible. I couldn't get through half the stuff you're doing without having to savescum.

It's meant to be Supernatural, the TV show. Which I presume is on the CW network in the land of stars and stripes. 'The CW Television Network'... can't say I've ever heard about them Did you ever hear about UPN (Paramount's channel) and the WB (Warner Bros. channel)? They merged.

The GOG version? What's the problem? This would be the problem. Goes to fullscreen for a few seconds, a few white flickers, then this with the mouse cursor visible in center. Double checked, it works now. I know what I'm playing later.

realMyst I decided I needed to finish one of the games I got from GOG other than Witcher 2. And I have finally accomplished that. Edit: Attempting to run Shogo. Can't get it to.

Apparently about 8, as that is the amount of classes with unique story lines. Yet they have vast amounts of shared content. From art assets to sidequests. It would seem a grossly inefficient method for estimation.

If you only went to the BW Social site, this would seem like the appropriate next step. You can display your virtual "achievements" on a bunch of gaming sites, so why not Facebook? You can, nobody cares though. You've been able to do it on Steam Community ever since Steam Community came into existence, too. But it's not why people use Steam. They think it will draw in the "core social gamer." You think that's the CoD crowd. I ask you not to explain why Bioware is doing it, but what makes you think the CoD crowd is that group and cares about this particular feature. I'm with Oblarg. I'm not sure it's a real group, maybe it's MMO gamers. And that social integration features aren't going to draw anyone.

So... chakrams are pretty awesome. They have a medium range and seem to attack anything in the path of their flight. They and the sceptre seem like the best weapons in the game. My rogue-mage had more fun with his mage weaponry. Kind of struggling to figure out what I'll use the rogue part for now. The shadow ability was kind of nice to slip into combos but was completely unnecessary given how well the dagger combo chains into chakram by itself. Stealth is a non-combat ability unrelated to finesse and assassin's arts is given automatically.

The flaw in that defense is that SWTOR isn't competing against WoW of 6 years ago. SWTOR is competing against WoW of today. Yes, it's unreasonable to expect SWTOR to have everything WoW does with less time. But it still needs to aim to be a more enjoyable experience in appreciable ways. I do not wish to claim it fails at that. I only mean to say that for any player to choose TOR over WoW, TOR must appeal to that player in a way that WoW does not at this very moment. WoW can never lose that particular advantage.

5:1? I really didn't think it'd be that bad. I knew it would be bad some way or another, but not that. Why do they not force balanced sides in PvP areas like Illum?

The proposed bills threatened content YOU generate. Third parties could get entire domains shut down for things the owner has negligible control over. Fair usage had no exemptions and could only be argued in court after your site gets shut down and your funding cut off. This is my big problem with the proposed bill. I want something to be done to help combat piracy. But the threat of collateral damage and outright abuse is too high in this particular case. This isn't a new thing. The 90s saw two previous attempts at regulating the internet passed by the US government, the COPA and CDA. One of them was so broad and open to misuse it was overthrown in only a year. The other one we had to deal with for 10 years. We have several laws already in effect that currently aim to protect intellectual property in the digital domain, namely the DMCA (which we already have problems with being abused and insufficient remedies) and the Pro IP Act. And another bill that aimed to do more without quite as many problems as these two, ACTA. The problem with these two isn't that they domesticate the wild west. It's that they give authority to burn down houses on flimsy pretext.

My Farscape Blu-Rays have a defect. Season 2, disc 5. Thankfully it's only during the "previously on" sequence, so no content is skipped. But this is annoying. I had a defect on my DVDs, too. I've only ever had 4 defects buying movies, no defects in game discs. Two of those defects were from Farscape.

I'm pretty sure the CoD crowd aren't dying to broadcast their game progress to their facebook accounts either.

Gave the Amalur demo another whirl. Now to do the Darkness II demo. Edit: Oooh, starting with an onrails segment. Really putting your best foot forward, guys. Edit 2: Other than that, I like it.