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Mine's pre-loading on Steam now...

Sorry to interrupt the hate. Cryptonomicon is awesome. Read it.

Yes.

He's in that sniper movie with Tom Berenger, it's so bad it's good.

I think the examination of the source material, in the context of the TV series, is misleading. As a product, GoT stands and falls on the piece as viewed by the non-reader of the books (i.e. people like me and the many fans of the series who haven't picked up GRRM's opus). Source material is just that: source material, it's like good beef stock used as the base for a stew. The writer on a movie set is a curious irrelevance, I've heard it a million times. In this case GRRM was involved, and he happily seemed to understand the compromises and reality behind turning a successful, dense novel into an accessible, entertaining screenplay. Cheers MC

* happy sigh * There needs to be a nostalgia thread of epic BG1 moments, like wandering into the basilisk wilderness by mistake for the first time, or Firewine ruin pathfinding / Kobold ninja sniper dilemmas...

It's a British film set in a European city with two Irish actors.

Although Apox looks promising. Anybody played it?

It's a top down parody of Mario Brothers. Thanks

I'd really like a party-based game or a squad-level game. Can anybody suggest anything? Genre immaterial but am in the mood for dungeon crawl but can handle Sci-Fi etc.

Their six-day-a-week sister tabloid, The Sun, will simply move to a seven-day-a-week operation. 200 staff have been laid off as a result of this, but the editor at the time (now a chief exec and a close familiar of Rupert's) remains in post using the "I was only the boss how was I meant to know?" defence. I wonder how many of that 200 might be tempted to talk to the polizei about where some other bodies are buried? *chuckle*

I was beat up for saying the same thing on this forum when it was released. Was accused of elitism. But I was right.

Is she... strict if you forget your gym kit Run Hurlie! RUN!

Blimey, do you have a chip on both shoulders? Please, try to escape the gravitational pull of sunny Guildford and return to that hot-bed of tolerance, economic and creative activity which is the North of England. There you can attach yourself back to the teat of the state and die ridiculously early of heart disease or whatever.

Now you really are stepping into territory where you haven't got a bloody clue what you're talking about. I presume you're talking about the South African / Boer War 'concentration camp' system. Not Britain's finest hour, I'll grant you. A clumsy, nasty attempt to manage an insurgency. What it wasn't was a mechanised attempt at deliberate genocide driven by ideology. I'm Jewish, by the way. Most Jews would be offended by childish comparisons between the two. So, please, brew a big mug of STFU.

Cream cakes and fascism.

All three! Why not? What's your preference in each? Being an uncivilized brute that is an American, I must confess to ignorance of the distinction. Generally British beer is distinguished into three main groups (I'll talk about cider separately). Yeah, there a sub-groups within these three, but I'm going into general man-in-the-street definitions as if you'd walked into an English pub. Bitter - Bitters are generally darker, hoppier beers served at or just slightly above room temperature. They tend to be less carbonated / fizzy than lagers. My favourite, personally, is Fuller's London Pride and yes, I also like Newcastle Brown (known in the Northeast as 'Dog' or 'Brown Dog'). IPAs (as Wals mentioned) are known as Indian Pale Ales and are lighter, cooler ales. It's important to remember that there are, literally, thousands of regional varieties of bitter. Well-known real ale brands include Hobgoblin, Brakspear, Worthingtons, Abbott, Badger... the list is endless. The nearest thing to it in America is the darker, hoppier beers you find in micro-breweries but these all tend to be chilled. English beer is seldom chilled. Lager - a continental, not native, brew, lager is very popular. I prefer Czech, Belgian and German beers personally. American (domestic) lager is internationally renowned as being the worst in the world, I give you the hyper-chilled, tasteless piss that is Coors or Bud. I'm not talking the perfectly quaffable Sam Adams and it's ilk. Stout - the 500lb gorilla here is Guinness, but there are other varieties of stout and porter. There are also hybrids like McCaffrey's. Cider - madly popular at the moment as a summer drink, perry (i.e. pear cider) is also popular. I used to live in the West Country, the home of real cider (aka 'Scrumpy') which is usually poisonous, hallucinogenic apple gunk with bits of dead animal floating in it. It's fab. I hope that helps, if you see what's available locally where you live that's from the UK let me know the brand and I'll give you a view. Cheers MC

And the Nazis were a German party. The Austrians had nothing to do with the Nazi party? * snorts * Denial ain't a river in Egypt.

You are a troll and I claim my ten pounds. Comparing the British Empire, even warts and all, with the Nazis is idiotic. Still living in denial? Is it true the Queen wears a diamond stolen from India in her crown named "Spoils of war"? How very tasteless. I note that you avoid your ludicrous Nazi comment. Hapsburgs to Nazis is hardly a position to criticize national legacy, is it?

You are a troll and I claim my ten pounds. Comparing the British Empire, even warts and all, with the Nazis is idiotic.

The American War of Independence was a civil war. Period. The separatists won and forged a superpower, but please don't suggest it was an 'American' war or sense of identity in the way it is now commonly bandied about. On a side note, I once visited the Alamo. The place was defended by Brits, goddamit, loads of them with English, Welsh and Scottish names.

* sigh * After conquering my CoH addiction it's back, the new patch lured me. In five minutes I started free-basing on Panthers and injecting Pershings with dirty needles. Baby, it's so good, enveloping me in a warm soft blanket of WW2 savagery, half-tracks and artillery. * sigh *

Morcheba, Charango. It's so freaking mellow, it's perfect summer music.

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You know it makes sense. You're just jealous.