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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull To put it concisely, Steven Spielberg is no Steven Spielberg. Now you may wonder "what the **** does that mean? How can someone not be themself?" you'll feel how I felt when I watched this movie. How can an Indiana Jones movie not be an Indiana Jones movie? Sure, it's got all the trademarks. Indiana, a sexual tension interest, a sidekick, bad guys, a whip, a treasure, pretty much everything you'd expect. But it still feels a stranger. What stands out most in contrast to the older movies is visually. The movie is more akin to a Pixar film than Indiana Jones. It's colorful and it's notably overlit. Retardedly overlit. You won't confuse anything in this movie for natural lighting. It's like next-gen bloom. This visual style seems appropriate for the new movie. It appears to be going for a more family friendly approach than any of the predecessors. It, at least, continues the trend of Last Crusade in being less serious than all 3 prior movies. The villains are not quite as evil (you may expect Cate Blanchett to make a comment about looking for Moose and Squirell), Jones is not quite as gruff and angry, and there are no real surprises to be found. Overall, I did enjoy the movie. But about the time I saw someone , I had to wonder if I would have liked it had it not been called Indiana Jones and someone other than Harrison Ford had been the lead. Edit: Forgot a period.

Where he hangs out? As opposed to where you get him initially.

Because the bird attack was like the offspring of Hitch**** and Woo had the two of them been siblings. There's a terrifying attack by zombie birds and a guy runs out, leaps through the air, and fires two pistols in slow motion at them and it works! AGAINST BIRDS! It was god awful. The entire movie was more bad scenes just like that with poor pacing splitting them up. This is the only movie I've ever seen that I wanted to walk out on. The only reason I didn't was because of how glowy and delicious Milla's airbrushed beauty was.

Graveyard, IIRC.

There's only one adequate response to this. We egg their houses.

With a limitation on that to prevent him from being overexposed or burning out.

I just think they need to spend less time on earth.

People need to stop proposing Christian Bale for parts. He's a good actor and everything, but he's in everything. I fully anticipate a movie to come out next year featuring nothing but Christian Bale in 12 different roles.

RAGE!

I'm not personally attacking you, jerk.

Can you name a better romance in any game? You don't have to rush to the answer. Take your time. I'll be here. And when you finally realize you can't think of a better one because it doesn't exist, do not despair. Just because you're a failure doesn't mean we don't love you.

I think that's a bit of a jumpy conclusion. There's speculation and then there's fantasy. Destroying the hub isn't a mistake, it's more likely that things simply won't go as planned. As is already appearing quite evident by how the last episode ended. Things such as the alliance breaking (the Cylons just "kidnapped" the president, the humans just "assassinated" the Cylon leader) could lead to their destruction.

I can't wait to play this on my new computer. I'm glad that it looks like I'll be able to recover my NWN2 purchase from D2D.

Oblivion with guns, lol.

Did you not play the Viconia one? That was incredible. Every single time it would activate it goes through a cycle of Viconia seeming like she's seeking sympathy with some tale of woe and end with her telling you to **** off regardless of the right or wrong response. It's the only time that game developers have ever been brave enough to implement a psycho-*****. It was hilarious.

To note. Morrowind used Securom. It was actually considered a big issue at the time. I remember Penny-Arcade Tycho ranting then about it. I think they removed it in a later patch, but depending on what version you own, it'll still be in the install.

I'm not even going to bother at this point. I just experienced the problem while running Sam & Max at 640x480 on the CRT. Two nearly completely different systems experiencing the exact same problem. Drivers and video card are among the things wholly different. What I'd guess at this point is the hard drive has gone bad. Maybe it's wrong, but it's the only common element between the two builds that could possibly do this, unless a mouse, keyboard, and headset have more impact than I ever imagined. If the hard drive goes bad, it could cause the system to behave in this fashion, n'es? Anyway, I'll have my uncle deal with it (he's my system builder). He'll be able to test for that faster and easier than I will. Though, with the amount of problems I have ever time I hire him to build a computer, I imagine he might turn me down next time. hahaha

Now I'm not so sure it's the monitor. Back to the original train of thought, it's the graphics card. And I got a mysteriously bad graphics card to replace the old bad graphics. Or at least this has become bad. Or has bad drivers. *sigh* Experiencing graphical problems even with Sam & Max (only game installed) at varying resolutions that didn't happen in the widescreen resolution. Don't know best way to describe it. Each instance only lasts a frame, so I can't screenshot it. It's the problem where polygons will stretch or distort oddly. I should probably find another game to test. And maybe just scream a little.

Problem started a few months ago. Shortly after starting a game, my computer would lock up. Lock up in context is: 1) Monitor goes black. Reports "no signal." Cannot recover from this state. 2) Sometimes sound continues. Sometimes sound goes into a loop. Sometimes it'll continue THEN go into a loop. First thing did was replace video card and power supply. Problem continued with additional noticed symptom: 3) Occasional odd artifacting (weird little static-like spots usually displaced to the right of the mouse cursor that would appear briefly) on desktop and Internet Explorer. Reproduceability uncertain. Included the "lock up" on desktop, not even in game. It was recommended that I try a clean Windows install. Did so. Problem happened with a bare bones Window install and nothing else. Replaced every remaining part of the computer except hard drives, mouse, keyboard, monitor. Problem still occured, all 3 symptoms. Has happened twice with this new system, though once had a different error claiming an incompatible signal instead of no signal. I'm testing out an old CRT to see if problem persists with a different monitor, but even if the problem doesn't show up, it still seems awkward that the monitor could cause it. Monitor runs at 1680x1050 native. Desktop runs native. Was running 1440x900 for games with old system. Don't exactly recall res I ran a game at when experiencing the problem on the new system. Old CRT monitor I'm testing with is running 1600x1200. And I'll update with how that goes when I get time to play some games to test it. Any thoughts?

I think my monitor might be going bad. Buying that new $800 computer (oh, did I mention the seperate purchase of a new graphics card and power supply?) to fix what I thought was a video problem might have been going overboard. But totally worth it. I think the monitor is still under warranty. Or what just happened (that was pretty close to what happened with the last computer) was an isolated incident. Looks isolated so far, actually.

I'm in the "most likely Tigh, but could have been the 5th" camp. If she saw Anders, then there'd be some nice drama when they finally unboxed her. So, they'll avoid that.

Gaming evolution should not be defined by graphical standards. If that's how one tries to measure progress, then we're stagnant already. Working with a known platform that you already have experience with gives developers more capability for design of gameplay mechanics than a stronger graphics card.

Still playing Persona 3: FES. Putting off Nocturne until I'm done. My computer should be ready today, so I may give Kane's Wrath a whirl. Though, I'm toying with the idea of finally finishing The Dark Tower and putting all games on hold until then.

Doubtful. I don't know exactly how Bioware/EA 's EULA is written right now, but they can modify it to restrict sales. Novell (and I believe a few other companies) have had eBay pull down auctions of their second-hand software for years and years without being sued. How an EULA is worded is irrelevant in this regard. No company can deny First Sale doctrine. They can ask ebay to take things down and ebay can deny access to ebay's services at their discretion. Whether or not asking ebay to deny services is a violation is something that has not been tested. It's up to the courts though and according to Wikipedia there's still no clear winner when it comes to to the First-sale doctrine and computer software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_sale_doctrine For First Sale applying to software: Bauer & Cie. v. O'Donnell Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus Circuits 1-6 & 9-13 Softman v. Adobe (2001) Novell, Inc. v. CPU Distrib., Inc. (2000) Against Davidson & Associates v. Internet Gateway Inc (2004) Circuits 7 & 8 So, while there is a debate, it's pretty heavily sided for First Sale applying to software.

Doubtful. I don't know exactly how Bioware/EA 's EULA is written right now, but they can modify it to restrict sales. Novell (and I believe a few other companies) have had eBay pull down auctions of their second-hand software for years and years without being sued. How an EULA is worded is irrelevant in this regard. No company can deny First Sale doctrine. They can ask ebay to take things down and ebay can deny access to ebay's services at their discretion. Whether or not asking ebay to deny services is a violation is something that has not been tested.