Wrath of Dagon

I'm pretty sure there were cases brought on those grounds under ADA, but the courts didn't necessarily grant all of them.

IW is 10 times the game that AP is.

What's even more outrageous is that in ETW St Petersburg exists in 1700 insead of 1703 and starts out under Swedish control!

The good news is it got cooler. The bad news is there's a hurricane coming!

More on this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100628/india_...Wx5c3RzcGFraQ--

Must've lost a lot in translation.

What!? But I've been told Finland is the most wonderful country on earth.

BG&E is more of an action/stealth adventure than a platformer, although it does have some platformer bits.

But it's gone way to far in the other direction, the Taliban know there's isn't much we can do against them. In the end, people will side with whoever they perceive as being stronger and will be around longer. To Monte's point, securing the civilian population is part of the counter-insurgency strategy and seems to have been successful in Iraq. We do need to deal with Iran and Pakistan problem to have a chance of success though. Edit: Here's a pretty interesting article on the new situation: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/0859919992510...W1hcGV0cmFldQ--

This rumour makes no sense, why would a publisher object to games being cheaper to make in the UK? Not that there should be tax breaks for anyone in any case.

The switch to Petreus may be good thing though. I keep reading McChrystal's policies were so restrictive our troops felt like they were fighting with their hands tied. Some stopped even calling for air support because air support was afraid to do anything.

Widely spaced checkpoints.

All is not well in Obamaland: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38852.html Edit: Here's the link to the Rolling Stone aricle in question: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236

Yes, no force. In the face of overwhelming show of force, there was no military resistance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring

Wouldn't the path you don't take be hidden content as well? Yes, but you get alternative content instead. Plus if you miss content, it should be for a logical reason. Like if you're a goody-two-shoes, you don't get to do an assassination mission. It shouldn't be that you miss content because you didn't guess an arbitrary phrase somewhere.

Hiding content is the cheap way to do C&C. If they really want to do C&C, they should provide branching paths.

Yes, KOTOR 2 influence system sucked, because it made you miss major parts of the story unless you gained enough influence with certain characters. For example everything on Nar Shadaa didn't make much sense unless you gained enough influence with GOTO. Then DAO ripped off the same system, which means I missed a bunch of content because I don't enjoy sucking up to NPC's in a game that already has a piss poor amount of content.

If they really have different ways to accomplish objectives and some exploration I'd be pretty happy.

Some gameplay from TOR: http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/star-wars-...-gameplay-clips There's a small quest at the end, pretty lame IMO.

BP was running the rig, even though the crew was contracted, BP had the final say on everything. At issue is whether they cut corners to save costs and didn't follow standard industry procedures. BP was also responsible for a refinery explosion in Texas City and an oil spill in the Alaska pipeline. I also heard that even their contractors say really bad things about how they run things.

Not to worry, US Congress to the rescue: http://www.physorg.com/news195752582.html

OK, the sunspot cycle has been called off: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2062...sun.html?page=1 Which can only mean one thing ---- THE SUN IS ABOUT TO BLOW UP!!!!!! AAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!

I meant my original post in the sense of "**** or get off the pot". If we can't even stop our putative ally from arming the enemy with the billions of dollars we send them in aid, how in the hell are we ever supposed to actually defeat that enemy?

He's negotiating behind the back of NATO, since he's become convinced they're on the way out. Add to it Pakistan's sponsorship of Taliban and Obama's fecklessness, and it's hard to see a good outcome here.

It'll happen anyway, just watch. Karzai is already trying to cut a deal with the Taliban.