Wrath of Dagon

There's definitely a decline in quality of Bioware RPG's. I liked Oblivion better than Morrowind, so from my point of view Bethesda is improving, haven't got around to Fallout 3 yet. My biggest problem with games is there's just not the same variety there used to be a few years ago, because many great games last generation were commercial failures. And Halo does have a plot, and a very good one for its purposes.

I noticed three red lights yesterday.

You mean Uncharted world. The most atrocious single piece of game design I've ever seen. The reason you're mother Teresa is you're either light side or dark. In ME you're still an evil dumb thug, but that's beside the point since that's the least of its problems.

Shouldn't cost any performance, the game is always rendered the same way. They have a scaler chip to put out different resolutions. So far as I know all cables work OK by now, so probably HDMI would be a better choice, but I don't have first hand knowledge.

Not really, Stranger seems to be a completely different engine. May be just buy an old Xbox cheap, so many great games, at least from my perspective. Also when emulating, the colors are really washed out and black looks gray, although no one except me seems to notice.

Great game, though I found it works better in small doses.

By nothing there, I meant content, not game mechanics. Also the writing in KOTOR is great, but mostly awful in ME, especially the story itself. Planets in ME are almost completely linear with nothing to do but shoot your way from point A to point B, while occassionally making an abrupt and meaningless decision which has nothing to do with anything. In contrast, KOTOR has interesting planets to explore, with tons of great quests to do.

Can you justify that statement?

Why anyone, let alone a developer, would want to play ME a second time is completely beyond me. There's just nothing there.

What I wouldn't give for another near great! It's like a desert out there.

Yeah, yeah, a polished game is better than an unpolished one, what I'm trying to point out is that people get so obsessed over details they don't see the forest for the trees. A polished piece of crap is still crap, no matter how much shine you add to it.

I don't care about polish, KOTOR 2 was the definition of unpolished, and still one of the greatest games ever, especially compared to all the boring atrocious crap being put out these days.

US only shot at people who were shooting at them. For Saddam to be removed, no other solution would've worked. It's true we messed up by letting the situation get out of control right after the invasion, sure we get the blame for it, but it's not like anyone really knows the exact correct way to replace a government in a hostile country.

The actual war against Saddam had relatively low casualties. The real violence took place due to terrorism afterwards, which was largely unexpected and was where the miscalculation took place. US certainly didn't intend for all those poeple to die, but such are the uintended consequences of war. Had the result been known, I believe most people involved would've decided on a different course of action, or at least would've handled things very differently. Was it worth it? I don't think any one person can judge, we have to leave it to the judgment of history.

I don't think it's proved yet that his injuries happened later. Bush's press secretary suffered a black eye too, does that mean she was beaten up?

Neural networks in animal brains are very different from the phony little neural networks your computer simulates. And you can't get any more universal than a Turing machine as far as computers are concerned. A human is only a machine empirically. You just said it is. Probably why it's called the Theory of Evolution. Anyway, I don't mix up philosophy and science.

A human is not a machine. If you need me to define those terms for you, you need to study up on computer science, I'm not a tutor for whiny brats. And yes, I do approach this from a philosophical, you could say religious, perspective, so having no further discussions with you is an extra bonus.

What do you do, Krezak, sit in some basement and read about other people's accomplishments on the internet all day?

A machine can not be self-aware, thus no true AI.

Summer should be a good time to release a game like this, it'll get more attention that way. Of course in a couple of months it'll probably become a Christmas release.

You could argue outsourcing helps employment by creating greater economic efficiency, thus promoting growth. It's kind of like you'd think technology would hurt employment, since it replaces a lot of manual labor, but historically just the opposite has been true.

A complete lie, as is most of that article. Tenet told Bush unequivocally that it was a slam dunk Iraq had WMD's.

Six of one, half a dozen of the other. Of course US tries to do the right thing, I didn't mean to suggest we should do whatever we feel like, but without power that would be irrelevant. Edit: @taks, yes, except I had more contemporary rival powers in mind.

Very little of what the federal government does is actually constitutional, starting with the Supreme Soviet, er, I mean Federal Reserve as an example. Of course to decide to actually follow the constitution at this point would cause complete havoc, that's why there's a principle of stare decisis (yes, I watched the entire Robert Bork hearing). As far as foreign policy, what you have to realize is there are two overriding principles in foreign relations 1) Might makes right and 2) Whose ox got gored. You can whine and complain and bellyache all you want, but that's just a fact. The rest of the world is just lucky it's US that has the might right now, not a couple of other countries I can think of. If they did, you'd find out what murder, torture and repression really mean.

If he did this to Saddam, they'd stick him into an industrial paper shredder.