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Heh, keep your eyes on one side for the vid and they look average to attractive, keep your eyes in the center and they look like hideous trolls. I'm fairly certain it has something to do with how we perceive faces. Our faces are not uniform when we display emotion (ever?). By focusing in the center somehow our brain fills in half of the face with an identical side which makes them looks distorted. Am not explaining very well, but perhaps this article will explain it better. Pretty interesting stuff IMHO. That explanation sounds about right. Half of the faces ended up turning into Cyclops for me.

I've come to a conclusion that Warrior Within is terrible. I'm dying to know what really inspired this game.

Correct.

A buff is a power, usually from a defensive spell, that provides a benefit to your character. Such as the healing spells that provide healing over time. That is a buff. You lose the effect until it is next cast.

Glad to hear it. How'd you find out how to fix it? I did some googling and came up with nothing. Trial and error?

That would be the part I missed.

Why would the US want jurisdiction? It's an Australian, a UK tabloid, and some UK victims. That's terrifying. I'd wager it was a coincidence, but the merest hint that it's not is terrifying.

Forgot to mention. At Harry Potter, I saw the Dark Knight Rises Teaser and the Sherlock Holmes Trailer. Good to see that Sherlock Holmes 2 will get a release this year. DKR won't be ready until 2012.

I saw that Saturday. I thought it was good. However, I can't imagine having seen it without having been familiar with the books. There's a lot of callbacks to previous stuff that, if you'd missed, you could be rather lost. It worked well when I read through the entire series in a couple of weeks. I can't imagine having to follow the movies as they release and keep the stuff fresh that you would need. I'm probably just overthinking that.

Onto Warrior Within. Kind of jarring to go from the Sands of Time to this. It's like going from a Disney ride to a death metal concert.

Did you get the watercolory 2008 Prince of Persia as well? I really liked it despite the general non-difference it got back in it's day. And it had a as well. I got all of 'em. Including 2008 and Forgotten Sands. I really liked 2008, too. Have it on the 360.

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Bought the whole set back on Steam's Ubisoft sale. Finally getting around to playing through it. Played SoT before, it's the other two of that trilogy I missed.

Bad Company 1 and 2 are the only Battlefield games that even have single player levels.

I look at it similarly to how I look at home movies. You can buy a Sony or a Panasonic Blu-Ray player, they still play all the same movies that get released. You don't have to worry about the movie you're looking forward to only being released on HD-DVD. You don't have to worry about whether the Blu-Ray version getting X deleted scene and the HD-DVD version getting Y behind the scene. Or try to figure out which versions has the slighty improved sound and which version is accidentally missing the cigarette burn at the end of reel 2. I care more about the media competing than I care about the players competing. Obviously it's not the same situation. I'm just not really sure why it's not the same. And it'd be definitely nice to see the segregated networks gone.

Kind of a minor point here, but anyone else annoyed that they started changing the cover designs? It ruins the whole set look I was wanting. Or am I the only guy bothered by that kind of thing? :/

Too many games, so little time. What'll I play? Maybe I'll run a RNG, I can't decide, they're all so good! But really, I can't fathom a period when I don't have a backlog.

I think hacking family members' and victims' cell phones is a reasonable place for reporters to be afraid of going in investigations. They have no cause to be afraid of classical methods, interviews, undercover work, and informants.

The distinction between an "actual religion" and a "parody religion" is not one I would ask a government to try to define.

Everyone knows that Pastafarians wear pirate hats, not colanders.

Unnecessary upgrading is something I absolutely hate. It segregates the playerbase between those who migrate and those who don't and increases costs for both the developer, who has to learn the new hardware and build/upgrade/license new engines, and the player, who has to buy the new hardware. Hardware should progress eventually, yes, but only when there's some pressing need for it beyond prettier graphics. I think we're getting there now. I like to think that it's our chance for cheaper game releases. If console games can regularly drop about $10-20, we'll see wider adoption. But to get to that point, we probably need to find a way to skim on development costs. Cutting the development costs by dragging out the hardware would be a simple way to do that. My personal fantasy. Alternatively, they may not lower prices, but may be more willing to take risks on lower return projects. Something that's often complained about.

I'm inclined to think your hardware cuts it. When was the last time you updated graphics card drivers?

I'd also welcome a single console future. Assuming it's made to last. I think it's a necessary step to making game consoles an important part of the home entertainment setup.

Isn't that sort of the genre's whole point? The (negative) effects of scientific advancement? I like the TV Tropes page quote. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CyberPunk

Hit up Breath of Death VII: The Beginning last night. Fairly fun game. The writing in the dialogue is very amusing. Pacing seems to be quite well, dungeons aren't too long. Gameplay is acceptable for a game that's trying to evoke old 16-bit console RPGs. Worth its half of the $3.00 asking price. Also more Terraria. Dug down deeper than ever before, finally got a ton of iron, some silver, and gold. And decided to build every man's dream. An escape tunnel that runs beneath my house.