Monte Carlo

^ I've got one of those in my garden.

Just bought Divine Divinity,

Fallout: NV Diablo 3 Medieval Total War 2 (Custom Campaign mod)

When and if my book comes out you must all buy it. Please.

Why not write a book about a guy trying to write a book so he goes to Vegas to concentrate? The Shining meets Fear and Loathing... meets The Hangover.

Screw that, I bet they have great comic books in Korea.

In other news, I have decided that the Monk is at least ten times more fun that the Barb. And is it just me, or do Monks seem to get far more health globes spawning during battles? They're all over the place. Killed an annoying cave-bat-thing in the start of Act II and got a pair of legendary trousers, too.

I think Zoraptor has hit on something there with a gifting system on Steam. It's like corkage in a bring-your-own wine restaurant. You get to drink your own booze, which is cheaper than buying it in the restaurant. OTOH, you pay a small corkage fee to the house to make up for the privilege. It's a win-win. Steam should be the same, if I want to give or more importantly sell a game I've bought on Steam through Steam it makes sense that the house might want a fair cut to represent their service and infrastructure.

B1 Stealth with the wings cut off!

Hmmm. Stephen King. Hmmm. I suppose if you write that much it's going to be hit or miss. And I'm kinda meh when it comes to horror. My advice is to get Skeleton Crew, the anthology of his short stories. King is an especially gifted short story writer, and some of them are good. A pretty good Stephen King starter for ten.

Nah, I have an agent and I've had two books with publishers. One is dormant for now, the other being considered.

No. My star shines brighter sober.

Nothing, and I mean nothing is funnier than plastic American-Celts who are always woadier-than-thou. FREEEEDDDDOOOOOOOMMMM!!!! and don't get me started on 'Irish-Americans' singing Danny Boy and funding terrorism.

I've given up alcohol in the week, so naturally I want to get utterly wankered.

I took heavy-handed and am pleased with the pure power of my spiked knuckles.

I have just finished the section on the importance of pizza when gaming. Patience, tunnel-venturers!

Awesome article. From the same website http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/25/3110947/anthrocon-furry-furries-pittsburgh-wild-kingdom

Will I get to holler "UNLEASH HELL!" in an Aussie accent? Y'know, for realism?

It's brave making a game that cleverly mocks the genre fans that buy it. However, don't be surprised when they finally twig that they've dumped fifty euros on a product that tells them that they are blood-thirsty, amoral morons. Because that's what they've gone and done.

^ No, it's mostly because of Sandra Bullock in a very tight PVC uniform.

I love the way a 500lb gorilla feels the need to run away after hurling the missile. Like anybody is going to wrestle him as a result.

The older Dredd movie might be dreck, but it's great-looking dreck. I thought the visuals were great.

Yeah, I'd say that was a fair summary for me too.

It's different to D1 and D2. There are no real skill trees to speak of, just passive, offensive and defensive skills that you can alter with 'Runes.' All of these unlock at different levels. So at level sixty your character has access to all the skills. The secret is how you configure those skills with your equipment for optimal DPS / armour / HP and resistances. So, technically, all characters are equal. Once you've built one level sixty barbarian there's no real need to build another --- because you'd still have access to the main skills. I suppose most non-addicted players might get two, maybe even three different classes maxed out before (a) they get bored (b) beat inferno in a group and / or (c ) the XP / DLC comes out.

Sorry to sound dumb, but how does Science function in the big scheme of things? I tend to ignore comps / hacking for some reason and I especially loathe lock-picking minigames.