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I imagine it would be to the target audience of The Escapist. Vernepunk, on the other hand, only shows up two results from google.

Maybe, but if you're using those terms in front of an audience you'd have to break to define them instead of ramble on.

Well, it's not traditional steampunk. They use water and heat for power, it's a geothermal based steam power, as opposed to a coal based steam power. It just lacks the pipes venting exhaust out of every orifice of the machinery. I actually never understood why the hacking system used pipes and water until I saw that video. Because it's an abstract notion of how steam powered turrets and cameras would function.

Not really, they're basically gone after the Macross Saga.

The turrets, cameras, door locks, and even vending machines had plumbing.

Yeah, there is. There's tons.

1) It doesn't sound to me that he's saying that it has be a brand everyone recognizes. He was talking about quality, afteralll. 2) Most people who launch an MMO don't launch one "to kick WoW's ass." Well, most rational developers.

That's some reading too much into it.

They should probably knee you straight in the crotch for it if you don't get the idea very quickly. Because you're acting creepy and nobody wants to be around a creep. I wouldn't mind if they kept to the source material a little. Jedi pursuing love isn't exactly a common theme, but when it does happen it's doesn't happen particularly quickly, it doesn't lead to make out/fade to black scenes, and most importantly it's a BAD IDEA. Well, bad idea for the galaxy at least. I'm not being against romances. I'm being against immature relationships. The characters in the KOTORs literally seem to live just to serve at the player character's beg and whim with only minor objections. A real choice and consequence, relationship, and romance system would have at its core some measure of personality independence. It would be closer to Baldur's Gate where if you did something an NPC really didn't like he'd drop out of the group, take his close friends along, and try to f'ing kill you. The same goes for a girlfriend, in a mature individual it doesn't matter how in love you feel you are, once you start eating babies she's going to bleeding object, not ask you to toss her a leg. This was actually one of my complaints about Attack of the Clones. Anakain slaughters women and children (sandpeople), but all Amidala says is "there there" and still marries the psychotic bugger at the end. But at least both movies showed how that kind of love weakened a Jedi and opened them up for the darkside, something the KOTOR games ignore. And when Amidala finds out he's slaughtering human children (xenofascist!), then she finally gains some sense.

You work for a corporation. My boss actually owns the company.

You forgot to rimshot.

I know only two things of Vista that I care about. 1) There's only one feature of Vista that I'm interested in. The one that enables graphics drivers to run (and crash) like user apps. IE, without taking the whole system with them. 2) If that's the only feature of Vista that I'm interested in, Microsoft did crap for consumer research in regards to my demographic. Maybe Vista has another feature I'm interested in. Anyone here know if lowering your desktop resolution then raising it back restores your old icon locations?

Interesting, Ive never seen the "Spellsurge" enchant before (on his main weapon). http://wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=22558

http://wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r...s&n=Cleopas My e-friend Cleopas. Played with him in SWG, EQII, and even WoW for a while. They just downed Illidan.

I occasionally chat with a psychotic on another forum. I don't know what he's been diagnosed with, I only know he has been diagnosed and medicated in the past, but you dare not bring it up. Chatting with him you can see that either he's a constantly high raver (which is actually an alternate supportable theory) or that he has difficulty distinguishing between fantasy and reality. It doesn't sound like it's so bad that it effects his daily functioning, however. He has some pretty interesting views on history, the government, even reality. And supposedly he's writing a book over the latter. A Schizophrenic's Guide to Reality (my title, not his) God, I'm so buying that book.

I keep looking at the game and while it has positive reviews, most comment on how the story is so-so. What's your opinion?

I never said this was a memorial service. This thread appears intended in memoriam, however. Which means its rude to just post in it "I don't care." If you don't care, don't bloody post! "Just because it's public doesn't mean it's not inappropriate and rude" says the guy who enjoys crashing in-game memorial services for lulz. (But at least I'm not deluded enough to argue that my actions are anything other than rude)

People die all the time, I didn't know him or his music. So i'm supposed to feel bad because he was famous ? No, I think the point is that you're just not supposed to post about it at all. If someone holds a memorial service do you just walk up to the podium and say "I didn't know this guy, I don't care."

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/v...uation-BioShock Yahtzee is a terribly creative guy. Aside from Zero Punctuation, he also makes freeware adventure games that have recieved some significant popularity. Most famous appear to be the 5 Days a Stranger "Defoe" or "Chzo" series, however you like to refer to it.

Jedi don't "fall" to the darkside in KOTOR games. They jump.

16:10 is pretty much standard for widescreen LCDs. 16:9 is more common for HD TVs.

I'm reading a book. Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King. Taking a break from Persona 3. Will probably finish it this weekend. Still need to finish Final Fantasy IV, as well. Then I might start up Jagged Alliance 2 or Katamari Damacy.

I'm bottlenecked on the CPU side, which I suspect is related to it. Most games seem more forgiving of it, though. When Mask of the Betrayer comes out, I'll probably just play with nVidia's scaling options and pillarbox the game to a lower resolution like I used with my 4:3. Edit: Or as an alternative, bump the thing up to my full 1680 x 1050 native and turn off some of the more meaningless options (that I don't remember turning on) while keeping shadows to low. Which seems to run a lot better.

It still has performance issues for me. But oh well. I like the strategy mode, but am not a fan of the character mode default keymaps. Perhaps without the performance issue I could accept using mouselook instead of using the keyboard to turn. Overall, that's mostly just an issue with customization and having to get used to it. I love the strategy mode and am likely to use that as my default mode. However, I'm still used to BG controls, so hopefully I can find whatever key is "select party" and the only thing it lacks is formations. And touch sneak attacks. Crap, looks like webdings and wingdings have been disabled.

I'll cut you!