Wrath of Dagon

'Doh. Not sure why I made that mistake, other than that they're both in the "'80s also-rans" folder in my brain. I'll edit my post for clarity. Also, the deficit increases under W were primarily a result of his tax cuts, which were a campaign promise from back when the economy was still looking rosy and when he still thought "Osama bin Laden" was the punchline to a joke about a camel in Road to Morocco. The wars and security increases sure didn't help, but the tax cuts and the Medicare prescription drug benefit are of more import with regard to the long-term federal budget picture. What I'm saying is in that environment deficits weren't a priority, thus they got away with stuff other than strictly wars/security. Under normal conditions, I'd expect a huge outcry over unbalancing the budget, but everyone understood it was inevitable under the circumstances, even though the deficits could've been smaller, but it's a question of the overall narrative rather than the details. How about all of the above?

Yes, science is always right. Edit: Btw, scientists do think it's quite possible that the LHC will create black holes.

First, the man you quoted was Walter Mondale, Dukakis ran against Bush Sr. Second, people do care about deficits, it's just that at times they care about other things more. We've never had deficits this huge. It's quite clear to a lot of people that if we don't do something, the economy will be crushed. Third, the reason Bush and the Republican Congress run up deficits was because of the wars and other extra spending after 9/11. In that environment there were just higher priorities. They'd never get away with unbalancing the budget like that if it wasn't for extraordinary circumstances. Even so, the deficit peaked in 2004 and was declining sharply before the current crisis struck.

May be because some people find it tedious and boring?

I'm 99% sure he was kidding around. We all know that the world will end in December of 2012 anyway. No, I wasn't entirely facetious. I think there is a non-negligible risk involved. The collisions in upper atmosphere leave earth at the speed of light, in the LHC they're nearly stationary and thus will stay on earth. Also those collisions don't involve lead atoms as Zoraptor pointed out.

Didn't a bunch of studies recently come in putting the Universal Health care costs much lower than expected? I want to say it was like 70 billion (which is huge, but way lower than what was originally bandied about.) If anything it's going to be more expensive. Are you thinking about the TARP? And yes, Obamacare is supposed to be UHC, since the idea is to cover everyone. It's just not single payer (i.e. government) healthcare most liberals really wanted.

Well, this is his chance to get behind it, and show what he's made of.

I think it's more like 1.6 trillion.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101110/ap_on_...utting_deficits Sounds good to me, probably doesn't have snowball's chance in hell in Congress, which means we're still doomed.

You actually expect developers and publishers to call their audience dumb?

It's clear it was going to be a serious Sci-Fi RPG (of which there are none), also it looks nothing like Mass Effect, which is always a huge plus!

I don't understand why anyone thinks running around in circles looking for a vaguely described location is fun game play. "The bandits are SE of town" Two hours later, under constant attack from the air, "The hell with this game"

Non-generic art would clash with the rest of the game design.

No, that's Colonial Marines. There used to be an Aliens forum over here you know, so it's not exactly "nothing".

I wonder if Sega is eating their hearts out over NV success. Aliens is another established brand after all.

No, they should've made Aliens.

Not lately though

So how many days do you guys think we have left?

The right way to deal with complexity is to introduce it gradually, instead of getting rid of it entirely. Hard to say what the approach actually is without playing the game though.

You're forgetting the much lamented Aliens RPG, which was cancelled. I didn't say released games. It wasn't an original IP If you going to be strict about it. It wasn't based on any other game, that's what I meant, and the engine, story, everything would be brand new. Only the setting would have something in common with the movies, but that's a pretty weak connection.

You're forgetting the much lamented Aliens RPG, which was cancelled. I didn't say released games.

Their original games don't exactly have a stellar history. Anyway, if the game is good, what difference does it make what the IP is?

Nope. It's down on ME2 numbers after 2 weeks(360 comparison), but only by a 100k. But it has done better then Fallout 3. Evidence? When did ME2 ever ship 5 million units, or made $300 million? Btw, VGChartz is global, NPD is US only, but NPD is also a lot more reliable.

China forecloses on the US and tells us to move out.