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Thanks for all the thoughts on The Witcher, how does the combat system work? I can live with simple if it's fun.

I've seen The Witcher special edition silly-cheap. Is it any good?

Russia is a gangster-state kleptocracy. It's a joke. Anything Putin's regime says or does is predicated on it's own utter self-interest, loss of Cold War hang-ups and defence of authoritarianism. I feel sorry for the average Russian.

Seriously, Sucker Punch has been utterly savaged by the UK movie critics. Kicked to death. Compared to Showgirls in it's utter awfulness. Am wondering if it will now become kitsch so-bad-it's-good classic, win some razzies, etc.

I find it difficult to sympathise with the French, they do their own thing, play the in-out-in-out-shake-it-all-about game with NATO and are adept at grand-standing. As Gen. "Stormin'" Norman Schwartzkopf once famously said, "going to war without the French is like going deer hunting without an accordion." Having said that, yes we can slag them off because they are cousins, the rest can wind their necks in.

How many recent Bioware games have you played, again? Sorry dude, having too much fun to reply. After BG2 / ToB I took a break from Bio games, then got dry-shafted by the PoS that was NWN1. That was the beginning of the end for me personally. Anyhoo, I played and quite enjoyed DA:Origins and Awakenings (which was OK-ish) and thought, finally, Bio was trying to scramble back onto the path of righteousness. Boy, was I wrong.

No, it would be more awesome than Mike Laidlaw's 'A' button dipped in win-juice, the dialogue wheel could turn into this massive, snarky, potty-mouthed beast until you played your +5 Vorpal Moderator.

I feel myself drawn, inexorably, towards to The Codex, like a terminally diseased moth drawn to a dark flame ::sighs:: Yet my sentimental attachment to this place keeps me anchored here, in a sort of sublime Bio-loathing purgatory. So I must fight these urges, to take the Long Walk to The Codex, where I will disappear into a gaping psycho-chasm of hate, bile and hilarity.

Nepenthe, Didn't you flounce off in a huff?

^ I'm hearing you brother, Bio now exists for me as an epic gaming development soap opera of hubristic awfulness, about to go supernova in a massive flaming inferno of their own smugness.

If you hoover up a thousand people who've lived a life of unremitting tribal warfare in total anarchy, and who believe in the benefits of witch doctors and sacrifice, and deposit them in Surbiton they won't instantly adapt to our lifestyle and values just because they've seen a Gregg's the bakers. Surbiton is quite posh, I don't think there is a Gregg's but there is a nice deli and a decent French restaurant.

DA3 will be an interactive FaNTaSY dating sim (a mash-up of Joss Wheedon and Twilight) you can flick between whilst fixing dinner and washing the kid's soccer kit, with a fast-forward button for anything icky like fighting or gameplay. EA will then sell Bioware. We will all nod sagely and say "I told you so." Embittered ex-Biowarians, who are currently in the re-education facility will then post candid recollections of how awful it was, and how "they were only following orders." Lulz

I pushed a button and changed my avatar. But did something awesome happen? Y/N Sadly not. Sry.

Dude, just put him on ignore like I have.

The Austrian wins.

That was more awesome than Mike Laidlaw's golden 'A' button!

Freaking me out isn't awesome. Or is it?

Worstusername please please please change that avatar pic, it's freaking me out.

Best advice I ever got for novice authors was write chapters 1 - 3, then dump chapter 1 and start your book with chapter 2. It sounds crazy, but it can actually work.

^ It's the AGM of the official Volourn LARPING society!

^ A fair point, we can't have too many walking styles.

I thought I'd share the scary, pomp-Wagnerian transformation of Queen into the sort of thing you'd expect to hear in a post-modern Leni Riefenstahl movie... I give you... I'm terribly, terribly sorry.

Wise words Gorgon, you seem a sensible sort. Running panics the men, one should always stroll.

I think that you need to read this. I feel like that about endurance beer-drinking.

you're so cooool. :: fawns ::