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Ok, since the original post of mine must have contained too many words, I'll simplify it a bit and remove some of the multi-choice options: Is it now simple enough for you to actually respond to the stupidity posted above? Or are you going to pull out more useless popular internet expressions to avoid the subject? Guard Dog wants to keep his **** enlargers, but according to his post (or one of the choices in it), it shouldn't stop with firearms. He doesn't want anyone to be able to tell him what he can or can't have. Where does he draw the line? Is there a line? Where does it stop being about "imposing your will on someone else" and simply being "it should be this way because I think it's right"?

"Can only be summoned in Outland or Northrend." Really? Still? This so screamed of horrible forward planning two years ago and it's still in the same ****ty state? Amazing.

I have a feeling Krezack has never been outside Australia.. Their maps are upside down and they think it's winter in june. Anyhow, I'm sure I'll go to Roskilde some time, but this year it's exactly the same week as Peace & Love and I've already made arrangements for that festival.

And these last five pages sum up just about everything I hate about turn based combat: "roll-playing". You spend more time calculating stuff you shouldn't even know about than playing the game.

The difficult part is not coming up with things you like and shove them all into a game idea, the hard part is realizing it and actually create a game from them. How many games do you think the hoax:ee has made?

No. Only Danes like to live in mud for ten days. I prefer city festivals, like Peace & Love in Borl

But Oblivion had horses! Oblivion used the same engine as Fallout 3. Horses are basically slower cars that poop a lot more. Ergo, vehicles are IN!! (please don't kill my dreams)

The mere mention of vehicles and much bigger maps gave me a boner. I had my laptop in my lap. Obsidian owes me a new laptop if this turns out to be true.

Oh god. Now Sweden's captain checked a US player and hit him shoulder to head. No blood and the US player just stood up and skated to the bench by himself. What do the refs do? Five minute power play and the Swedish captain was thrown out of the game. ****ing fantastic. The US team has not had a single penalty in the entire game (third period now)! Except for that double penalty and once when they shot the puck over the glass. The refs couldn't POSSIBLY ignore that. Even the Canadian audience are starting to react to the bad refs now. That's good, at least. Edit: ****!! Sweden had a player break through to a one-on-one with the goalie in 4-against-5, and a US player chopped him over the leg as he was going to shoot. That's usually a penalty shot, but no. At least the US got their FIRST penalty. In the third period. Geez.

Watching the USA - Sweden game in the Junior World Championships right now. I hate when ANY championship is being played in North America. Four straight penalties for Sweden, even though the teams are doing the same things to each other on the ice (most penalties have been fair, just not fairly divided to both teams). Also, the Swedish players were laughing before the game at the usual Canadian 'hospitality' when playing in their tournaments. Sweden is living in a barrack (!) with ONE toilet for all the players. This lonely toilet is situated about 20 meters OUTSIDE the barrack. They were given THREE showers for the entire team. The other showers have been nailed shut! Another thing these friendly Canadians did is that they've removed all televisions and other 'luxuries' that are usually there. The cables are still hanging from the walls. Oh and there was a scrum in front of the USA goal right now. Sweden broke in and were swinging at the puck when the US players crosschecked them from behind, resulting in a huge pile in front of the net. ONE US player got 2+2.. and so did one Swedish player. I never knew you got 2+2 for getting crosschecked from behind.

Brian, is that you..?

The Sedin twins are looking mighty impressive right now.. just in time for the Olympics! I just wish they had put Hedman on the roster too. And why Modin and not Samuelsson?! Annoying.

Not really... Who the one really bad guy is or what nationality he has is not really important in the big picture though. Did we play the same game? Because the game I played wasn't patriotic at all... You need to listen to the pre-level speaches again then. It's all stuff like "We are the most powerful war nation in the history of man" said with a ridiculously masculine voice and with complete seriousness. Or "Every fight is our fight blah blah". No. No, it's not. Anyhow, the entire game screams of US patriotic war propaganda. It's actually a bit worrying that none of you even reacted to this. It probably means it sounds natural to you, which is what all propaganda is about: making the extremist sound natural. I hate when I sound like Yuushi or whatever that left wing nut in the Off topic forum is called! Oh, and I was supposed to be playing Borderlands right now (it finally arrived in the mail) but I vacuumed the inside of my computer just before Christmas and now I need a new graphics card. Don't ask.

Yes, because building energy efficient cars using alternative fuels is exactly the same as abandoning technology! Everyone knows that! Right wing nonsense at it's most blatant stupidity.

Hmm, I don't think I bought enough games to qualify for this list, but.. Risen is up there. My Borderlands is STILL stuck in the mail.. Red Faction: Guerilla was pretty good.. not that I remember much of it. Modern Warfare 2 is pretty enjoyable.. I've been meaning to buy Divinity 2, Dragon Age, Drakensang.. but haven't, for some reason. Oh, and Uncharted 2 was really good, but I played that on my cousin's PS3 so I'm not sure it counts. Infamous was also great. Looking forward to playing Demon's Souls when I get back home.

I bought Modern Warfare 2 for my mom's husband and since I'm staying at their place over Christmas, that's what I've been playing. Even though it's nauseatingly US patriotic and the dialogue and the ultra generic soldier characters are dumber than you'd ever believe, it's still kind of enjoyable. There's absolutely no brain required, everything is served on a platter and all you have to concentrate on is surviving. Also, it looks great on my mom's husbands rig. More games should involve high speed snowmobile chases. Fact.

First: kill your sister. Second: If it's fastened with plastic.. thingies, then it's probably a boxed CPU fan (ie. original cooler). Have you tried just pushing it in place again? The same thing happened to me when I transported my mom's computer by bus. The cooler jumped out of place (crappy Intel cooler), but I was able to force it back into place again.

Hm, it seems to me that Marleau has been with the Sharks for.. forever already. 300 goals? OK, I just checked it.. He's been with the Sharks for 12 seasons. To put things in perspective: Ovechkin has been with the Caps for five years and has 244 goals so far. That's kind of impressive..

Ok, so I was feeling especially Christmas-y and decided to try out Windows 7 and give it a chance. I ripped out every piece of hardware in my computer case, vacuumed them (!) and put them back together with a fresh install of Windows 7 waiting. The actual install process was very slick. It asked perhaps two questions and then it didn't bug me until it was finished. The entire process took perhaps 20 minutes. I was surprised at how well all my previously undiscovered hardware worked directly under Windows 7 (XP had big problems getting anything to run without official drivers), but I installed the latest official drivers anyhow and everything worked smoothly. Then I started installing all the applications I use and they all seemed to work fine. Spotify, Paint.net, Visual Studio 2008, Notepad++, MSN Live Messenger, everything works like a charm. I was actually very happy with how it behaved up until then. But then I wanted to get all my backup pictures back on my hd. I had (for convenience) archived them in a zip archive and burned them to a DVD. It was easy to copy the file from DVD to Windows 7, but then I started unpacking it. It was close to 10,000 pictures and at first Windows 7 just.. stopped. Then a small counter started moving in the bottom left of Explorer. It took probably up to three minutes to just count all the files in the archive. That felt like a bad sign, but I wanted to unpack it anyhow. I directed it to my pictures folder and started unpacking. One hour later it was done. It took XP perhaps 10 minutes to PACK them! W. T. F.? Anyhow, I got this version of Windows 7 from my university so it's legit.. and in English. But they supplied a language pack on another DVD, so it didn't bother me at all. After a while I was tired of the English everywhere so I decided to install the Swedish language pack. But how? I checked the Windows help and it guided me to a button.. that didn't exist. So I tried installing it from the setup file on the CD. It couldn't recognize the format. I went googling for help.. and after hundreds of useless Microsoft "help" pages, I realized that my version of Windows 7 (Professional) doesn't support language packs. Gee, thanks. Slightly pissed off but still quite positive about Windows 7 (hey, it works) I started installing a few start-up applications (Catalyst Control Center, EasyTune 6 etc.). They demanded a restart. "Windows, haha", I thought and restarted a few times. Every time I did so, an annoying pop-up appeared saying something like "Do you really want EasyTune 6 to be able to affect your computer?!". Uhm, yes.. that's why I just installed it..? So I clicked yes. But for every program I installed I got an additional warning pop-up. I stopped after three start-up programs, because now, every time I start my computer, I am greeted by three angry looking warning signs asking me if the three start up programs I want to automatically load on start up are really safe. The ****ing OS doesn't understand after the hundredth time of answering "Yes", that maybe, just maybe, I intentionally installed those programs because I wanted them to start up automatically. Very pissed off I installed ImgBurn to be able to burn a Christmas present to my mom (a years worth of pictures of me, who wouldn't want that?) and set it up the way I want (large cache, automatic write speed etc.). It's an ordinary DVD, but.. Windows 7 somehow manages to have the hard drive spinning at max at all times so my expensive 100+ MB/s throughput Hitachi hard drive can't keep up with the gigantic demand of 4x speed on the DVD burning (that's like.. 5 MB/s)! It actually had to stop and refill all the caches two times during the burning because Windows 7 prioritized something else (even though I put ImgBurn at the highest level of priority). FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU.. By that time I was so angry I just turned off the computer and went to bed. This morning, a few hours before writing this post, I woke up and turned on the computer again.. only to be greeted by Windows 7 closing down all my applications and saying "You are not using a genuine copy of Windows 7". So again I go to Windows help to figure out what's wrong.. except the help is online based and Windows 7 doesn't allow me access to the Internet because I am not genuine enough. Enraged I stumble through all the incredibly unintuitive menus in the Control panel (while Windows 7 is nagging me about how unsafe I am via a dozen of pop up windows) and finally find an option where I can change my product key. So I do that and Windows 7 tries to activate it.. through the Internet.. which does not work.. because Windows 7 doesn't allow Internet on non-genuine copies.. I managed to borrow a laptop from a friend, hooked it up on my home network, found a Microsoft phone number (that wasn't toll free for us cell phone users!) and finally managed to activate it, through the phone. What else could go wrong then? Oh, nothing much.. except I just discovered that I am getting some weird ass bug with my system tray. Yes, everything except volume control and Spotify is invisible. I can't touch the programs, I can't reach them, I have no way of telling what they are. Lovely. Just lovely. So yeah, that's basically my experience of using Windows 7 for a day and a half. ****ing fantastic.

I just bought the US import version of Demon's Souls for my cousin. He usually likes Halo. On easy.

OK, I might go see it tonight. But there's a problem: only the 2D version has available seats for tonight. Is it worth waiting until another day to be able to see it in 3D or is it good enough as a movie to see in 2D?

You put on a latex tutu, wore make-up and grew a blue beard?

What game is that? Looks interesting. Uh..

Next time you see a handicapped person or a retired person, remember to kick them in the face. They are not as able as you and I to contribute to society so they probably deserve it.

Right now I'm looking forward to my Borderlands copy. It seems it got stuck in the mail somewhere.