Monte Carlo

I think the game looks great, I didn't know anything about it until that link was posted so many thanks. From the website:

My admiration for the rebels grows daily. J-DAM the Colonel already!

I'd say so dude, the OC is OK but not worth struggling through if you ain't enjoying it. My advice is also to install a trainer module and maybe make up a level 20 character to start with. If you boot up the XP vanilla it takes you to 18 which is lower than if you'd completed the OC. Hope you like it.

MotB tidies up the engine and gives it a big polish. The story is great, the setting is cool, it feels epic without being cheesy, it has a love-it-or-hate-it surprise mechanic outside of the normal D&D rules. Folks like me who prefer sand-boxy old-skool games love it and the role-players who loved Torment and stuff also dig it big time. FFS it has a giant technicolor dead bear monster-thing as a joinable NPC. Gotta love that. It also has one of the best pieces of written conversational dialogue I've ever seen in a CRPG ever. :: shrugs :: They were clearly doing something right. If you've already got NWN2 installed it ain't like you've got much to lose.

He needs to see somebody about that IMO. He has issues. He'll never learn how to live with anybody until he's learnt to live with himself. I know, I'm deep. This guy, OTOH, is a fuqing legend and needs no hel whatsoever, this phase will pass. Hopefully he'll be about fifty by then, but it will pass. I know, I'm shallow. Is she hot or does he really, really want a Green Card? There are no Queensbury Rules in this game, my love. FFS get out there. Forget your ex. I know, I'm deep. Cheers MC

Realpolitik, Old Chap. I can't believe anybody can get so hot under the collar about it. Metternich would have approved of the UN for it's opacity and hopelessness in the face of reality. J-DAM the Colonel, stabilise the place, get that oil flowing and then start tickling the next Middle Eastern domino, Bahrain or Syria or Iran. They're all gonna fall, baby, they're all gonna fall! Which way is the question.

The Hangover I don't know why it took me so long to get around to seeing it. In any case, it's a great comedy with some genuine LOL moments and well-observed characters. OK, it ain't the comedic Holy Grail some have painted it out to be, but OTOH it's head and shoulders above the competition by present-day standards (Seth Rogen et. al need to watch and learn). And, pushing forty, Heather Graham is still smokin' hawt. Recommended.

You need to understand that this is a new and innovative feature introduced for your gaming benefit and pleasure. Get with the programme.

I'm sure we could come to an arrangement.

In the UK all forms of gambling include tax at the point of making the stake (i.e. you pay the tax when you buy the lottery ticket - your prize isn't taxed).

Just re-quoting my previous comments to gftd1's sentiments on US isolationism for Di's and Guard Dog's delectation. You can't put toothpaste back in the tube!

Seriously, I would start my own hardcore AFV collection in a custom-built facility with some land where I could drive my tanks. I would wear a General Patton style helmet and goggles and chomp on a large cigar. I would obviously need to base this facility in a large, deserted American SW state so I could also test the ordnance on my .50 cal MGs and 88mm tank guns (I'd be restoring a Tiger I).

Am going to try out the free trial of Age of Conan to see what it's like.

But then you can't read about his sexy pink panties, that are edible. Thanks for validating my decision. I might fail my SANITY check otherwise.

:: sighs :: I just wish they'd hurry up and release Diablo 3 :: sighs ::

...does this...does this mean I might take Volo off of ignore? :: thinks :: No.

I agree with you 100% that ME3 has to be awesomely received all-round, then as you say DA2's issues will be seen as a blip. No pressure there then, ME3 team, OK?

This is the interesting one. If slippery-slope syndrome kicks in and Bio titles stop being seen as AAA must-buy titles with automatic 90+ previews then it's the beginning of the end.

I dunno, I'm not a Scandie but those countries tend to be very socially and religiously homogenous. I'm just guessing that the majority of folks do. Scandies can you enlighten us?

I guess they perform a similar function to birth certificates.

Errr...not CHECK I think. Sucker Punch's plot is - AFAIK - about a girl injustly imprisoned in an insane asylum who concocts an escape plan with fellow "inmates" which is presented as a series of fantasy adventures for the girls as the line between their realities and their fantasies blur subjectively for them. So what would you call the strange WW1 stuff?

You can. My lifestyle guide is available as a $99.99 value from awesomemonte.co.uk

Sucker Punch looks awful from the trailers, like a soggy jambalaya of every allegedly kewl internet culture meme EVAR: Hot chicks in Japanese schoolgirl outfits with... katanas? CHECK Counter-factual r/w history with a twist...? CHECK Hi-tech firearms...? Giant fighting robots...? CHECK Impossibly large swords...? CHECK A smidgeon of American gothic...? CHECK DRAGEONSSSSSS? CHECK My advice is to go watch Time Bandits which is what this movie appears to be trying to be, just with some heavily armed **** cat dolls. Honestly, if some smartasshat director thinks that's going to impress this high-ranking geek callsign then he needs to go back to work and try again. Harder.

LOL Sarkozy looks like he's giving The Colonel a full-on Masonic handshake from the position of the thumb-on-knuckle.

If you're gonna amputate a leg just do it before it starts to smell. J-DAM the Colonel and let the locals get on with it. OTOH A division or two with total air superiority would ace Ghadaffi's forces in a week a la Iraq in 2003. Britain and France could just about do it, although the UK would struggle big time. Maybe a brigade at a push. Problem is, that's when the trouble starts. Regime loyalists aren't going to give up the ghost and then you've got Baghdad-on-Sea for another ten years. These rebels, marvellous though they are, have no hierarchy or proper agenda.