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Well, basic economics suggests that it's because some people have to pay for other people's illnesses.

I'm finding with more and more big releases that I buy them then stop playing them... because I need to wait until they're bloody well finished. *sigh*

Guns don't kill people, EA does.

A bit like Apple products I suppose.

Meet the Lee-Enfield .303 Jungle Gun (i.e. British Army 'Rifle No. 5'). Take a punchy rifle, shorten the barrel and put a flash suppressor on the end and hey presto! A weapon guaranteed to sound like Odin taking a dump and with enough recoil to dislocate your shoulder. I have fired one of these and wasn't expecting the kick. Didn't fire it again.

Lucky Mr. Craig.

Hardly anything. Have been pretty busy. All I've fitted in is a bit of Diablo 3 and a quick game of vanilla CoH with Wals.

Both.

I'm making a pasta bake with pork, red pesto, cheese, cream and green beans. We are polishing it off with a bottle of Grenache.

I'm using this one with a paltry 3 or 4 million gp worth of kit. http://www.noxxic.com/diablo3/barbarian/inferno-builds/survival-aoe It works pretty well.

Those gats are so pimped they could belong to Huggy Bear.

A close second to the SLR (FN-FAL if you must) is the M-14 SOPMOD. Which goes to show you can teach an old dog new tricks.

The Seventeen is the BMW Five Series of hand-guns IMO. I love them.

It's not a true bullpup configuration if the magazine housing is adjacent the trigger group. It has to be behind the trigger group. Just being pedantic. There can be Only One battle rifle...

Families. Funny old things. You did the right thing by sucking it up.

As someone said about Putin the other day, he's had so much plastic surgery "he looks like Robocop without his helmet."

Hi Prosper, you honour me with your presence in this thread! But I need something smaller / more tactical.

No romance and no chainmail. Sorry.

PM'd you. I didn't explain myself properly... it's an exterior / terrain style mini-map like you might find in a Medal of Honor type game.

I vividly remember the seventies. They were sh1t.

Hello. For my new book I'd like a map. This is of a prison complex in a war-ravaged country and is designed to assist the reader with the geography of a central part of the story (a prison break). It needs to be fairly simple, but interesting, and in black-and-white / grayscale. I am rubbish at anything to do with CAD and all that jazz. Is anybody out there able to help? 'Tis a small map. I could ask an artist at the publishing house when it's finally submitted, but I thought it would be cool for a community member to maybe get their work acknowledged in a book. This is a sequel, and although there is no one hundred per cent guarantee it will be released, I am confident it will be published. In return I shall... (1) Give full credits to the artist (hey, put it on your resume!) (2) Provide a signed hard copy of the book (3) Pimp you as a genius all over my social media (4) Be very grateful. If you are able to help PM me please. Thanks in advance, MC

I'm too busy to sit down and explore it properly. It would be like drinking a bottle of vintage wine too quickly. TBH it looks quite daunting, but I love Mark Strong's VO in the prologue.

LOL. If you're on Euro server PM me and I'll give you my battle tag or whatever its called. Just levelled a new character up to sixty.

The thing about being overly hostile is that you end up going up against my humanity (i.e. that fallible nature that will feel inclined to make a snappy remark, get dismissive, or in general just be defensive) which creates barriers to facilitating feedback. It's less murky and the details are usually clearer without that excess. That doesn't mean you need to say you love us or cannot say you hate a game or a feature, though. Obviously not referring to you personally, Alan, but Bio's corporate culture comes across as terribly passive / aggressive. Customers (different from 'fans', btw) are either (a) this mysterious race of incredibly complex and precious creatures that require advanced telemetry and marketing ninjas to understand, or (b) eternally snarky, butt-hurt plebs who couldn't possibly fully understand or appreciate the creative genius that goes into making a game. Personally I find it amusing and partially blame it on the circle-jerk, festering, emo-scented hive of lameness that is the BSN.

I liked the feel of the culture in DA:O but the fine grain detail washed over me completely. I got this faintly Celtic vibe, loved the music, thought the ambiguity of the religion and exclusion of clerics sort of neat. I was also vaguely aware that the Qunari were like 15th Century Turks. Apart from that, seriously, I couldn't tell you much about Dragon Age and it didn't really detract from my enjoyment of the game. Which I think I gave a solid 7.5 or something out of 10.