Monte Carlo

Despite my respect for MCA I cannot, in all good conscience, admit to a man-crush on him. Although if he's ever in London the beers are on me, does that count?

Am downloading the Men of War Assault Squad demo. I find MoW a tough game to play, there are so many controls but assault squad looks like it might be different. Will let you know what I think later.

And the award for most insecure post of the the year goes to..... ROFL. Too true. Surely if there's one thing we should have grown up enough to know by now it's that you're either gay or straight and fretting about which merely suggests you're the opposite of what you say you are. EDIT: Unless you're bi, obviously. The opposite of which is I suppose being not at all sexy. I take it you guys don't realise what its like to be 100% man, with spandex, and the lot. You also have no humour gland. No, I too find aspects of this thread beyond tragic. Except my man-crush on Wals, which doesn't count. In my mind's eye we are punting down the Cam together with Rathbone, my teddy bear ::sighs::

I stand humbly corrected. All I'll say is that the interviews I've seen with Ridley Scott make it pretty clear that he wanted a decent horror movie. In space.

Oh man, plumbers, electricians, and mechanics make bank. Also, and I'm only basing this on a brush contact knowledge of 1970's European adult cinema, but plumbers also have interesting and varied love lives Edit: shockingly needless use of an apostrophe, am off to whip myself with bike chain or something.

Sorophx and I are members of a tiny, two-man sect that find me amusing. There's me and him. Don't worry.

Alternatively, have you ever met a really poor plumber?

I think Ridley Scott saw it as a horror movie in space, period (keepin' it simple, stoopid I guess is a good idea), Sigourney Weaver, IIRC, has occasionally mentioned that is has shades of fear about biology and the body. Hey, what do I know? I prefer Aliens anyhow because it has drop-ships, APCs, space marines, MG42s on steadicams and the line "I say we nuke the site from orbit."

So, like, from the past? That's spooky.

If that's how you want to interpret the piece then fine, but having read a number of interviews with the director, writer and cast I certainly don't think that was their intention.

I will be deliberately provocative... Academics are scared of life, but even more scared of the commitment required to live a properly cloistered existence, say a monk or a soldier. The ones I met didn't particularly impress me as people. I think academia is something you'll fall into only if you genuinely love and excel in your subject of choice.

Graduated twenty years ago, looking back the subject was largely irrelevant in a purely vocational context but the disciplines involved in studying for an obtaining a decent degree were extremely valuable. Even more importantly, I met my wife at university so you never quite know what you are going to take away from the experience. I got a degree and a wife (yes, am still married to her, mit sprog).

Wait until you become a father, things will become clearer.

I think I should add a general warning at this stage: if this thread gets any more awesome I might have to explode.

IT WILL NEVER BE RELEASED!

It's O.F.F.E.N.C.E Bloody Merriam-Webster dictionary. Although I'm sorry about gramps.

What, on a pirate ship or in a punishment battalion? I'm so very sorry :: sobs :: then again it must be a brilliant anecdote for a dinner party or apres-work c0cktails.

Interestingly, the comments on the thread Morgie posted (I like calling him Morgie, I suspect he hates it) think it's CoH2. I know there are some CoH players here... if they did go down that route :: sacrifices favourite goat to Relic :: what setting would you like? More WW2? (the fanbois naturally want the Ostfront but given the superlative fan mod that covered that... why?) Others want the Pacific... Some want a modern CoH game... (NOOOOOO!) I think CoH2 Korea would be awesome but am guessing most early twentysomethings think Korea is a place where they televise Starcraft and live next door to the puppets from Team America: World Police.

This is a small board packed with super-sized contrarians, we boast less esprit de corps than a 17th Century pirate shipped crossed with a Sven Hassel style punishment battalion. It's like a sack of slightly drunk rats. Most of us couldn't be bothered to hate each other, but with a slightly better diet and / or caffeine intake would. Which is why it's a good forum. I love it. It's the Codex (lite) without the about-to-ascend-a-clocktower-with-a-hunting-rifle quotient. Popularity breeds mediocrity, if that makes me an elitist backwoodsman then meh, mea culpa. Bioware is the living embodiment of that. The fanbase they've picked up buys their games in gazillions... what else do they need to worry about? Cheerio Monte

Most important gaming news of the decade for this callsign, CoW3 makes little sense given the new standalone title, Homeworld is massive but the sales don't relate into mucho dinaro as much as the other two and the cancelled CoHO fiasco makes CoH2 look riskier than going for ten pints and a curry with Walsingham. So it's all up in the air, although of course if it's CoH2 then I'll be dancing like a mad crazy happy thing for a month.

We don't need more heretical scum trying to impurify the Master race! At last we agree, what's more, we agree violently. And I am not a princess, punk, I'm a Diva.

Yes I used to post on their old Baldur's Gate series boards and they were fine too.

It's a quote from the pilot of Burn Notice, by the way.

Look, Bioware has hired a lot of people who have started to believe their own press. They are aided and abetted by some of the most sycophantic and creepy fans on the internet.

I'm currently listening to Puddle of Mud's Come Clean as I'm in a bit of a rock phase at the moment, as well as the Foo Fighter's superlative live album Skin & Bones. In the car is some Santana, because I am that cool, and some Thirty Seconds to Mars because I'm macho enough to admit liking girly emo-rock occasionally.