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I really don't see the "epicness" of facing the same team eight times per season. There are 30 teams. If everyone met everyone twice a year (home/away), it would add up to 58 games. I think that would be more interesting than this obvious "let's squeeze in fake rivalries and MOAR GAMEZ for more revenues and monies" system they have now. Seriously, how excited are you when your team meets CBJ for the fifth time in the season?

Btw, I must say that this shortened season has been much more interesting than the regular 82 game season. With only 48 games to play, the games actually matter! No more 40 extra games where you just watch Crosby collect his umpteenth second assist. I have wondered why the Swedish Elite League games (50 of them) feels more interesting than the mid-season NHL snorefests. Now I know.

This is not what I'm saying. Secret things and cool hidden stuff can stay, and I will be looking for it. Yet I want secrets to have a sense of achievement or excitement to them. If I swim though a lake and go under a waterfall and find a crate, good. If I make a difficult climb to the top of a mountain, or even a house and find a crate, good. If a particularly fashionable and rude merchant should clearly look worth stealing from, and I discover a fine set of trousers, good. These are secrets, and cool hidden stuff (although I'll be first to concede those examples are pretty stock ones and I'm sure Obsidian will be rather more creative than I). Having twenty crates full of trash but one has a stimpack in isn't. Having a hundred crates with a grand total of thirty-two caps spread amongst them isn't. I do not object to searching. I object to searching through. Sorry, but you're still saying the same thing. Except this time with word diarrhea. You want cool things in chests and crates in cool places. If there's 20 empty crates, you feel punished. But if the crates you find always contains something cool then what's the point? How is that hidden? When I played Fallout, I played it as a survivor of a nuclear holocaust. Everything had value to me. You can be damn sure I would do the same if it happened in reality too. This is the survival aspect of it, searching for things to trade and use. You didn't like it, fine. For me it enhanced the experience. Reward thorough exploration, glass half full. Punish me for not being thorough, glass half empty.

Well, the physics lesson kind of died when one party only acknowledges running in a straight line as the way of measuring quickness. I wish at least Newton's first, second and third law of physics was common knowledge. If they were, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

No. I bought the game. I have the box to prove it. I did not steal it. Do you see how silly you sound? I did not copyright infringe either. In Sweden it is legal to make a safety copy of the software you own. But, it has never been tested if it is illegal to buy a game and then go to your friend's house and make a safety copy of his legal copy of the game. The copy is legal, the source may not be. Grey area. For me it is a matter of my own moral code: I do not download things I do not own. That is stealing for me. Downloading a game I paid for is no worse than downloading a game from Steam, for me.

Well, I saw the Canadian WC team today. Let's just say that on paper, everyone else is competing for silver. Will be fun to see Stamkos in the national team.

I have paid for exactly every one of the games I have played. Some games I've paid for three times (Gothic 3). Now tell me: what did I steal? You paid for a product (or a product key) and then you chose not to use it. That doesn't give you the right to then download it illegally. You don't see how silly that sounds? If I buy a ticket to a movie and decide to just hold on to the stub, then go home and download it illegally, that doesn't put me in the clear. edit: This is also a very slippery slope. If I buy a movie without a digital copy, does that give me the right to download it off a torrent? No. I chose not to use the media it was delivered on. I bought the game, thus I bought the right to play this game. How I procure the actual code does not matter to me. And why do you keep making ****ty, pointless analogies that don't make sense instead of answering the question? OF COURSE you don't have the right to go and download a movie after you've bought the right to watch the movie once. But if you delete said movie after watching it once.. who cares? You got what you wanted, and the movie theatre probably made more money since you weren't there and they could sell the same seat twice. Now, I ask again. Simple question: I bought the game. What did I steal?

No. They rewarded you for doing it. It wasn't a chore for me, it was fun. Basically, what you're saying is "Please make secrets and cool hidden stuff, just don't make me look for it".

Dude, step away from the hedgehog.

No difference. I will download all games I own without remorse.

I have paid for exactly every one of the games I have played. Some games I've paid for three times (Gothic 3). Now tell me: what did I steal?

Wasn't wasteland turn based? I guess you could call it that. It was basically a scrolling wall of text that paused in turns. It's such a crude system though, nothing like what we usually refer to as turn based combat.

Meanwhile, a normal day in Finland..

I'm guessing you're the kind of person who patiently awaits a green light in the middle of the night on a deserted road before crossing the road.

I'm sorry but that's the dumbest analogy you could possibly have thought up. In what way does it even remotely have anything to do with this situation? He is not stealing anything from anybody. He still owns the CD. The CD is useless because of a code. He bought the CD, so YES, I actually do think he should have the right to get that stupid code forever and ever, no matter how many times he loses it. In fact, that code should not have been there in the first place (but that's another discussion). How about this analogy instead: you buy a car and you lose the key. Should you have to buy a new car or break the lock on your own car? (assume that breaking the lock was illegal, which is as absurd as cracking a game you own being illegal, but for the sake of a flawed analogy) I can't believe some people are actually defending the flaws in copyright protection laws..

You forgot that muscles are not dead weight, muscles is what moves the weight. For example for running you need lots of UPPER body strength as well, and muscles weigh a lot. Look at the 100m sprinters, some of them are huge and quite heavy, the have legs like logs and the physique of a heavy lifter (in fact, they ARE heavy lifters) yet they run 100m in less then 10 seconds. According to you really slim and light people should be perfect sprinters, but thats not true. Or watch heavy weight boxing, Klitschko is quite bulky and heavy, but he is lightning fast with his punches and dodges. Don't know about MMA, I've seen some fast big dudes there but of course normal physics don't apply anymore once you get to abnormally tall super roidheads like Bob Sapp or 7'1'' tall Hong Man Choi. You are arguing that muscles move mass. I agree, no argument there. Muscles are not dead weight, but they are weight. That's not the point though. A lightweight moves much quicker than a heavyweight, despite not having the same strength. You're saying Klitschko is fast. How fast do you think he would look next to a decent lightweight? And it's funny that you take sprinters as an argument for your flawed logic. If your logic was correct, why isn't the world's strongest man also the world's fastest man?

Now THIS is a project that I find it difficult to believe they will pull off. I hate turn based games. Period. Yet I loved Jagged Alliance 2. Try to explain that! I still don't know what it was about Jagged Alliance 2 that made me love it so much. I suspect it was the atmosphere and the writing. The humour was fantastic, and that's one of the most difficult things to recreate/follow up. This is where I think they're going to fail. Btw, I've only liked one other turn based game besides Jagged Alliance 2: Silent Storm.

Exactly what is he stealing if he downloads a game he already bought but lost the CD-key for? You think the solution is to buy it again? I have downloaded a few games where I bought the collector's edition, because I didn't want to open the package. Trust me, when I pay $200 for a game, I don't give a **** if someone calls me a thief for downloading that game later. I feel no remorse.

Funnily enough, it's being proven right almost every weekend. Start watching MMA and you will know what I mean. Also, basic understanding of physics should tell you as much. Big mass takes more energy and time to set into motion than small mass.

Thank you, Edmonton, for taking over the "longest playoff drought" from us

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I love these answers.. the hybris is ridiculous in this thread. "I lift weights, I deserve my 18 str!" Sure. But what would the world's strongest man get then? Are there really no people who are stronger than you? Can you benchpress 300 kg? You have 15 con? What the would world champion Iron Man athlete get then? Do you run 10 kilometers in under 40 minutes? Under 30 minutes? 18 int.. Are you a professor? Do you work as a rocket scientist for NASA? Have you published any scientific papers that we can read? Do you guys have any Olympic medals to show for all your bragging? Any awards? Anything published, accomplished, measurable quantities of something? No? Then maytbe, just maybe, we are all average people.. probably ranging from 9-11 in the scores.

Neutral Good Human Fighter/Sorcerer (3rd/2nd Level) Ability Scores: Strength- 15 Dexterity- 15 Constitution- 16 Intelligence- 13 Wisdom- 15 Charisma- 12 Strange. I usually play rogues or assassins. Insanely high scores all around. I think we all might have slightly too high thoughts of ourselves..

That's my point. They've never done a RTS before. Why dismiss them so easily when we don't know their skills yet? All great RTS designers started with their first game. Give them a chance.

What's wrong with Gearbox?