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Actually it makes perfect sense in the current AAA game development environment: a big name IP that focuses on extreme violence and lots of guns in a paramilitary-type setting. It will likely be a suckfest, but a solid IP choice. Waiting for Missing in Action to get its own game as well. It won't be a genuine AAA product. I predict a bad gears clone wraped around this IP. Mmh, after even THQ failed to deliver with Homefront, the odds of a bunch of never-heards doing it are quite... small. Guess AAA these days means anything that gets a release outside the iOS. Seems odd. Somehow I can't imagine an ultra-scripted shooter as being the hardest thing in the world to make, yet apparently both THQ (homefront) and EA (MoH) managed to ef it up.

This, I think, is a top sign that you should play more games.

I will do so myself. Although ideally I should be meshed into some sort of throne made of tubes hooked up to my spine, and wearing a cowl. "Hi, I'd like to introduce you to the HR department! They'll happily deal with any problems you cause, er, have."

Considering the other directors in the Scott family, I think a heart attack isn't enough, it needs to be at least a plane crash that also takes out Tony and Jake.

I dunno, I think the fundamental problem with healthcare was that your private sector wasn't handling it too well, either.

Woke up at 6:20 due to the garbage guys playing music so loudly it drowned out all their other sounds. Considering the neighborhood, I suspect they won't be doing much driving in the future, but I'm still pretty ****ing pissed off right now.

It's entertaining, isn't it. Took me weeks to drop out all the extras I'd picked up from mostly talking with cops after I switched jobs.

Shh, logic and thought up excuses for piracy have never been on talking terms.

I read your earlier point a bit differently, but I agree with you here.

gotta know your audience. enoch may be aware that the folks who end up implementing policy is, by-and-large, competent and dedicated... but your knowledge is sadly exceptional. sure, the decision making process is ugly and even self-defeating, but that is partial intended. yeah, there is some incompetence and corruption present in any large organization, and the US government is Extreme large, but it is amusing to observe how frequent the US is imagined as clowns piling outta a tiny car, or as a legion o' pitchfork wielding demons stinking 'o brimstone and blood. what is particular curious is that peoples is able to imagine the US as both clownish and demonic at the same time. in this country we got a Constitution that were original authored by revolutionaries, many of whom did not trust Government the further it got removed from The People. a system that makes tyranny extreme unlikely is not gonna be a model o' efficient decision making. the process is understandably fugly, but that doesn't meant that government is incompetent... and it surely not mean that government is inherent corrupt. nevertheless, this board is populated by many folks who start with the given that US is evil. is no longer a surprise to us. heck, we grew up in a place where hating the US were the unofficial religion, so am familiar with the condition. no misfortune has befallen a member o' the OST in the past 100+ years that could not be blamed on the US. unemployment, disease, alcoholism, and infant mortality is the curses left behind by the US to wipe out oglala culture... and am only half-joking when we liken to religion, 'cause just as the primitive man looked to explain unknown/unknowable phenomenon on powerful and frequently malign intelligences (gods,) so too does the so-called evolved and educated men o' today look to place blame with some malefic force o' no-goodery. these educated folks who is too smarty to believe in a childish bogey-man like The Devil, find comfort in a more tangible evil slouching towards washington d.c.. such identifiable and omni-present infernal forces similarly makes it easy to shrug off personal responsibility. for our next trick we will try and explain that george w. bush, while perhaps not the most dignified US president in recent memory, were not the rampaging evil menace most folks believe him to be... maybe try to explain actual Presidential powers compared to those imagined, and illustrate that many hot-button issues were existing before bush got elected. HA! Good Fun! 'cept this time, this is essentially an all-American discussion. Unless the Republic of Texas has seceded while I was looking the other way.

My advice: when you want to charge someone but are chickening out, go hungry for about a day first. You get hungry, you stop letting people take the piss. My dear Walsingham, it wasn't a question of me chickening out, it was a question of this chap assuming that he had a right to get my advice for nought, since I work at a university (or, THE university, in this case. Sorry if you are in one of the other establishments). I just simply didn't make it abundantly clear to him from the outset that I would normally agree to work as a contractor, but since he was asking for my unpublished results, I only could agree only if (just) my name was on the memo.

I dimly recall this not being the case. On the subject of *ahem* romance, my main trouble at the moment is that at least three women have expressed a keen interest recently, but IMO they're far too mad. Evidence 1: they are keen on me. While I have a somewhat larger ego, as in I don't believe an interest in me to be symptomatic of insanity, unfortunately the young ladies who have recently professed an interest towards me are, indeed, barking mad. Oh you feminist-brainwashed misguided fools. You don't get bored from ****ing many people. You get bored from ****ing the one and the same. I'm pretty sure plenty of feminists would agree with you. No, they would say that I'm a male chauvinist pig, and their right to choose and keep choosing is completely irrelevant to the subject. Then they would proceed to run this website through: http://regender.com/index.html

What kind of ****ty internet connection do you have that isn't always online ? This is what your complaint sounds like: "I have to keep my PC plugged in to the power outlet in order to play? Outrageous!" Because in these modern times internet connections have about the same uptime as your power does, it's maybe down couple hours a year during a storm. Yeah, and don't forget the option that the companies can always go bankrupt in a way that doesn't allow one screaming employee to flick the "EOL" switch, while the Red Guard is carrying him out of his office!

I have a hard time agreeing with that. Well, if the background isn't simple layering, but is actually supposed to have an impact on the characters' motivations.

So, would it be fair to summarise that you believed to story to be a good part of the game, in spite of not understanding it? Or because of this?

That's an excellent idea. How's the wait for the Mass Effect 2 Ultimate Edition going?

That sounds about right. They should break down how much it costs to get it out the door though. Definitely varies even more.

Oh you feminist-brainwashed misguided fools. You don't get bored from ****ing many people. You get bored from ****ing the one and the same.

So, some attorney wanted me to do his work for him for free on the phone. Because, y'know, I've been doing this grad student **** for four years (and that's just the part AFTER master's) just so that I could give some ****er who's charging his client company more per hour than I make in a month all I know for nought. I'm pretty sure nobody outside of Finland would think of even trying this. Next time, I'm gonna pull an Edgar Schein on them, and go with "I'm available for lunch on Friday, and my hourly rate is x". ****!

At least it's not a multilateral convention.

Oh, that would be so beautiful. Toilets marked "Christian Men", with the appropriate foreskin check at the door.

I'm still chuckling at my 25 quid uk preorder of the Augmented Edition. I knew there was a reason I ordered it in early December.

Been feeling a bit under the weather. Slept for hours during the day yesterday and today. Also stressing with my stomach. I wish I could rewind 5 years, never start grad school, never meet Her.

Well, the Finnish police doesn't have a single helicopter... (They borrow them from the army and the border guard, who, of course, are never on holiday)...

Moving on, Deus Ex brings out all ages: