Wrath of Dagon

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/pc/2010/10/...alpha-protocol/ So the guy who gave AP 4/10 is now saying he loves it, he's enjoying it an awful lot, and will play it again and again. Just shows how subjective reviews are, while so much is riding on them. Enjoy the game for what it is, not for what you want it to be (through GameBanshee).

It's shocking that a communist dictatorship would behave this way!

Star Wars movies were made for children, just thought I'd point that out.

TSLRCM Is that a must-have? Or just some cosmetics? Make sure you find out how to trigger the droid factory beforehand, or you could miss it entirely.

WW1. And everyone knows Germans attack with Zeppelins, not blimps. If TOR fails, I can almost guaranty a major shake-up at EA.

You can start with this: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MattChristi...Inheritance.php Click on his name to get the rest of the articles. Microsoft also has good tutorials on their website with the free C# Visual Studio.

I meant Columbia seems to have been able to deal with the situation in the last few years.

Columbia seems to have done OK.

The Bioware defense squad is out in force! Well, OK, mostly one guy. Nothing wrong with paying subscription for a single player game, so long as enough new content is being provided in return. The quality of that content is in doubt though.

So an American is murdered while jet skiing in a lake that straddles US-Mexico border, and then the Mexican police commander investigating the murder is beheaded by former Mexican special forces turned drug smugglers, and it's no news to you? Good thing your main source of info is the Jon Stewart show.

Activision had said it would take $ 1 billion to replicate WoW (admittedly that's a load of crap) and EA has said TOR is the most expensive game by far they've ever made. Add to that their ridiculous overpayment when they bought Bio/Pandemic, the known huge size of TOR team, the number of years in development, and $300 million doesn't sound incredible at all, especially since single player GTA 4 cost more than $100 million, and that's a couple of years ago.

The guy sounds credible. I've had that feeling about TOR for a while, based mostly on intuition though. Here's the direct link btw: http://ealouse.wordpress.com/

In other news, I don't know what's scarier, Afghanistan or Mexico: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/falcon-lake-m...gator-beheaded/

I got a really bad infection from one. It's really important not to cut the corners of the nail. Trying to trim the in-grown part only seemed to make it much worse.

I noticed it's easier if you click begin and then next instead of using the alphabetical selector. Anyways, makes for a fun little diversion during downtime.

Allow me to vent my fevered spleen: 1. How in God's name is it strange? It's a firefight we're talking about here, not a game of chess. Never mind the fact that we're all yakking about second or probably 15th hand reports. 2. The Muslim Brotherhood have been around since the 70s, and have been anti U.S. the entire time. They are also Marxist influenced and thereby dingbats. The fact that they have a big following is hardly news. So what exactly IS news about this? The article you linked to seemed more interested in provoking alarmist flapping than providing useful warning of anything. It seems strange to throw a grenade inside a building when trying to rescue hostages. And I did say we need to wait till all the facts are in. And Muslim Brotherhood is Marxist influenced? That's a new one. What is news? They declared jihad against the US, that's the news, much as Al Qaeda did before 9/11. That announcement is certainly related to the situtation in Egypt, that's another major angle on this. Also not everyone here is as well informed as you, so I thought the article provides quite a bit of interesting info people may not be aware of. And yes, there are a lot of radical Islamist groups, but on closer examination virtually all of the non-Shiite ones either sprung from or/and have close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda being one of those. The main difference are the tactics, which are complementary, Al Qaeda's being open warfare, Muslim Brotherhood's long term subversion till the time comes.

Which man are you? http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/index.htm

It does seem strange they'd use a grenade during a hostage rescue attempt, but I guess we better wait till all the facts are in. Troo dat. Also, the notion that some middle eastern dingbat saying he hates the Great Satan is news is a little alarming in itself. The really alarming tidbit which should be scaring the trousers off us is that around 100,000 young men come of age in Egypt every year (Ok, I don't remember where I heard this, but it was quite reputable. Unless I was drunk.) and there's not nearly enough jobs for them all. It's just not possible to imagine NO political violence with that many unemployed beefers hoofing around. The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood is not just "some middle eastern dingbat" as I thought that article makes clear.

Mubarak is exiting the stage, so Egypt is the next place we need to start worrying about: http://www.gloria-center.org/gloria/2010/1...-war-on-america

Playing Les Grognards. The Russians have twice as much artillery as the French, how is that fair? Damn historical accuracy.

Why would anyone save a busful of doctors? The only thing worse would be saving a busful of lawyers.

Media doesn't control anything. All information is only a google away. If someone deliberately chooses to remain ignorant, the fault lies only with them.

I don't think the media is as much of a problem as cowardly incompetent leadership and an ignorant electorate.

He makes a lot of good points though, and presents evidence.

C Regarding the LHC, it doesn't do anything that cosmic rays hitting the upper atmosphere don't already do - it simply lets us study high-energy collisions. Doomsday theories are unfounded and silly. Not true. After a cosmic ray collision, the result keeps moving at near the speed of light and thus leaves earth almost instantly. In LHC, the result is almost stationary, and thus stays on earth. If a micro black hole is produced, it could conceivably grow and destroy earth after a certain period of time. Here's an interesting paper on the subject : http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0912/0912.5480.pdf