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Pah. I want real reptile skin. From a lizard slain by a naked Dave Gaider atop a mountain. During a full moon.

http://www.socialmention.com/ You can use an aggregator like this, or board reader (I highly recommend board reader, btw). But I don't personally have the time right now.

Labadal's solution solves most of the problem and should be implemented forthwith. I'm sure there would be plenty of people who'd be happy to do it. As for community manager, I think we can get bogged down in semantics. I don't mean a full-time PR / marketeer type person, that's expensive. I mean someone who has the responsibility to keep news updates from multiple sources centralised, then publicises them for backers in an easy-to-access location.

Because it was dug by me from the guys site who was gushing over getting the job. Why the **** shouldn't he be allowed to. Should he be advised to wait for an update? ****ing no. Get a grip. I'm not suggesting for a moment that there should be some sort of embargo on information, or anything that hampers third parties gaining scoops. What I am saying is that I'd like to learn stuff from visiting the official site and not have to rely on researching / scouring the web and forums for stuff that I might be interested in. Obsidian are in the dark ages with community engagement - their Facebook is updated once or twice every Pleosene era and the developers share stuff on their own pet forums that aren't here. So, to re-cap, well done you on spotting something. Glad you got it first. I'd also, however, like to see stuff like this shared on the forums and, crucially, the bloody backer's portal. Sadly, I'm getting to the point where I think Obz think they are just too damn cool to have limited community engagement. You see better updates from small indie titles on Steam, FFS.

Another interesting piece of news that features nowhere on the forums or backer's portal. Epic community manager fail. Oh, that's right, there isn't one.

If you play DA:O with Shale and The Dog (+1, I took Wynne for the healing) then it's a completely playable, good fun CRPG.

Although I don't know how to feel about that last part, I personally liked origins. I really liked Origins too. I'm smarter now.

Wow I forgot how fugly NWN was. My EYES! MY EYESSSS!

* Obsidian have successfully funded running costs; * Net profit atm is too tough to call, staff costs and development will have eaten our backing money; * On the bright side, our Obz has invested our money wisely by creating this project: they have trained and developed their staff, they have funded business continuity and development, they have created a new IP which they can re-use in the future to generate more profit, they are being talked about a lot and the KS has been good for marketing... This project is a smart long-medium term business move by Ferg. He's funded a whole new indie IP for himself and got us to help fund it, which we all wanted to do and with our eyes wide open. That's how I'm viewing this project. I hope this game is like the Dragon Age franchise for smart people.

Indira is a woman. And a pretty hardcore gamer too.

Dracula wants Lucy in the original novel.

Bruce thinks the answer to issues of social justice is to order people to do stuff and lock them up if they don't. He's the Social Justice Commissar.

Actually, 'Tep, vampire stories have always had a sexual element to them. Dammit, Dracula is a love story, unrequited to boot. I've read cultural critiques of vampire fiction, from Anne Rice's Vampire Lestadt to True Blood as analogues for AIDS, BDSM and all everything else inbetween. Dammit, if Christian Grey had fangs then Fifty Shades might have caused the World To Explode. So Twilight, if you want to look at it's subtext as piece of stunningly successful popular culture, actually subverts what was traditionally a dark, adult trope (forbidden, dangerous, otherworldly lover) and dumps it smack-bang in the middle of young adult literature. You can't ignore that cultural baggage. I'm not suggesting the author intended to do anything other than write powerful YA fiction, but you need to know the clay from which you intend to fashion something better than she did.

* shrugs * Like I say, don't be an a55hole to anyone and everything is sweet. I still think the problem is online gaming providers tolerating behaviour that would be completely unacceptable anyplace else because moderation and compliance measures cost money. In fact, as a person who is pretty pissed off about some of the examples here as to how women have been treated online, I think a more helpful thread would be about how gaming companies could be lobbied to make the online spaces they maintain less hostile. FFS the old CoH chatroom was a vile hatefest of Nazis and other idiots. Relic did nothing about it, ever.

It isn't my job to search the Internet for you.

Bruce, Google the topic. I'm lucky enough to have never seen any of the Twilight movies but I've heard the abusive relationship angle about the series. I think it's unintended by the author, but lots of credible people have commented on it.

I started looking through Dave Gaider's blog but failed my SAN check.

I divide the world into two groups: 1. **** 2. Not an **** I don't much give a toss about anything else, TBH. The other night I was playing CoH2 with a Russian, an American and a Pakistani dude (sounds like the start of a joke). No arguments, no being a d1ck, just lots of gaming. Don't get me wrong, there are lots of **** out there but I try to concentrate on the positive. As Drowsy said in the other thread, gaming companies need to grip their service users. Bans for being a d1ck are too rare. I think one company (is it PSN?) is trying to nudge gamers into better online behaviour via a rating system. Whatever. Just don't be an **** to people when you game online. I try not to, occasionally I fail, hey I'm only human. But it's sad that chicks need to form their own little club. And like others have said, would be the first to get uppity about an all-male group.

I hope the XP has pizza in it.

You are forgetting the UK. The Queen has pre-ordered a copy and has decreed that the release date will be a public holiday. We will all drink tea and eat cucumber sandwiches whilst standing to attention while a military flyby roars overhead. Corgis will gambol in Green Park and Yeoman Warder's do somersaults as The Royal laptop is booted up for her first playthrough.

Wut? This game hasn't enjoyed a particularly fast development cycle. I'm not complaining, but I don't see this.

Which is why their games are so creepy.

Agreed, Grom. There's something magical* about Bioware that makes many people suspend their disbelief, a bit like a battered wife who thinks her husband will stop hitting her because of The Power of Love. I'm personally a big advocate of 'Once Bitten Twice Shy,' which is why no Bioware game will ever be on my immediate must-buy list (I too will wait for patches and maybe a GotY edition type deal). But lots of otherwise intelligent, discerning gamers seem to abandon their critical faculties when it comes to those Canuck Funsters up in Edmonton. A mystery, indeed. * When I say magical, I mean in a sinister, Rosemary's Baby kinda way as opposed to Harry Potter.

Best ever episode of 'Friends.'

If I do get it, I think I'll give it a go on the PS4. I've never really played an RPG on a console before so it's about time I tried.