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Actually, *chuckles* the more expensive a hooker is, the less likely her clientele is interested in having sex with her. So, for a high-class hooker, if they want less work, jack up the price! :lol:lol I didn't believe this was true until I read about it. Apparently, it's the whole Hetaera / Geisha / Firefly Companion style of thing at that level... It's about the whole soothing, relaxing, stress free companionship and conversation.... Not so much the sex.. Which is why so many of those "high class escort" types are usually incredibly smart, learned, and empathic. But that's sufficient derailement I guess.

o O (Just to derail before things devolve into a "drm firestorm") Fie! Fie! Or otherwise... Blasphemer!! Send for the Obsidian Inquisition!! Now it has me curious what has Purkake non-excited by the incoming AP. A new rpg by a group of people who've made some entertaining rpg's before... in a non-fantasy setting, in a modern day setting, and with the possibilities of a really good choice & consequence set-up to explore... Thats got to be a leeeel bit exciting for you...

The other question is.. Just how much skill does it take to get the "random luck" features to the point where you can get three "holes-in-one" in a row? Tango 1. Tango 2. Weapon. I'm not discounting the amount of fluke and luck in that sort of extreme range shooting. But three consecutive shots. That has to be a touch more then just "fluke".

"For you are the LoveMaestro... Teach me the Way of Woo!"

And it's not a double DRM. If you read through the sega thread faq on Alpha Protocol's drm... they only use Steam to download it.. they don't use Steam's drm .. They only use the Uniloc drm... Or am I just totally crazily reading "we do not use Steamworks" as not using Steam drm? Beyond that, how many people will really install it on 5 seperate computers concurrently? And Uniloc has a major ease of deactivating when you uninstall, or by a simple log in on the web and deactive remotely...

Well, female version of Rambo.. from the other side of the cold war... But Sie does seem to be the only one of the ladies who doesn't have some mysterious "secret" aspect...

Hey, who could forget Gun? and the voice cast they had for it was amazingly western... Kriss Kristofferson, Lance Henriksen, Ron Perlman, Tom Skerrit, Brad Dourif....

That's nails. What sort of stud thinks scoped rifles are for girls? Using a scope meant raising his head up... putting a more visible outline on view of the soviets.. by using the iron sights he got to keep his head down and stay more concealed... Plus the possibility of sunlight reflecting on the lens and such like.. That's the reason he gave.. We are talking 1939 - 1940 for that old White Death...

Hm, for some reason I thought they made mention of not using Steams drm in the FAQ about AP's drm.. So even if you buy it from Steam, it only uses the Uniloc drm.. not a double-whammy. Now I'll have to chase the linky down... Not that I'm getting the digital version, but now I'm curious as to how faulty my memory is.. Edit: Here we are : http://forums.sega.com/showthread.php?p=5788545#post5788545

Certain types of stories require there to be some method of shooting in them.. What's a sci-fi / space opera without some action sequences with laser / energy weapons blasting away down some narrow corridor and someone in dark armor striding menacingly about? And again, with spy genres, after all the James Bond, Jason Bourne, and even Jack Bauer elements... you had a fair few moments of fire-fights, ducking behind cover and having to deal with enemy goons... The care has to be taken in structuring those action-oriented elements in a way that works with the rpg side.... and in computer games, pushing the engine in more of a first person shooter way does seem to be a sensible way to handle it. (as long as the rp elements fit in appropriately.) Deus Ex showed how it could blend together so well. So now we just wait a month and then we'll actually be able to see how AP handles it. The key trouble of trailer shots and such, is that they're normally chosen to show off the action elements in a game..... The wow-pizzazz factor of attracting attention.

On the surface, any rpg with a shooter style, over-the-shoulder, watch-the-butt perspective is going to be classed as "Mass Effect Like" these days... It's when you look under the surface at the rest of the game that you see what it's really about...

Just close your eyes and think of Chuck. Wait.. that didn't come out right...

Cyborgs don't have blood. He didn't say it was his blood he sacrificed...

The heavens were praised....

Hm.. interesting on the First Aid.. use too much, too quickly, and it can induce fatal blood clots.. That's definitely going to be a twist on the usual healing techniques..

The news report that started this thread was the monster distance.. which while it was probably helped by a dose of luck, the sniper made a point of saying that it was one of those perfect days condition wise with non-existant wind and such... What impressed me on it , was that with consecutive shots he hit #1 taliban, #2 taliban, and then hit the machine gun they were trying to use... A single shot can get put down to pure fluke. But a second follow-up shot to a guy stood next to the first target.. and then a third to the weapon.. That has to be much more of a combination of skill and luck.

Yes , but it's more James Bond style romances.. so you get to woo a few femme fatales, possibly an innocent caught up in it, and then have the careful fade out before anything serious happens. So there shouldn't be the "oh my god, that's a hint of alien boob!!" type of action that caused a storm with Mass Effect...

Appreciation for the skills of a craftsman (or woman) under dangerous circumstances... People quote baseball stats, soccer scores, all sorts of sports related trivia... and there's that old saying about sport being practice for war... What's interesting is that a lot of those "high score snipers" when asked years later how they felt about the number of people they killed in their military careers.. they all tend to have some variation of "it was a job they told me to do, so I did it to the best of my ability."

I haven't time to read the piece right now, but the preferred density of troops in WW2 was something like a division to a few miles of front. That's what? 20,000 men to choose from? Well, the Soviets invaded Finland with around 450,000 men in 21 divisions... So yes, roughly around 21,000 men a division. Soviet military commander Kirill Meretskov reported at the start of the hostilities: "The terrain of coming operations is split by lakes, rivers, swamps, and is almost entirely covered by forests... The proper use of our forces will be difficult." Throw in the fact that they invaded just after Stalin had done one of his "officer purges", and the Soviet forces weren't exactly hopping with experienced officers.. Weather conditions hit record lows of around -43 C... and the Soviets tried using blitzkrieg tactics on countryside where there were few to no roads, and an abundance of bad terrain... and troops outfitted with regular khaki uniforms, so I'm guessing they kind of stood out... Now the White Death served at the Battle of Kollaa which lasted from around December '39 to March '40 , and Kollaa is a stream surrounded by lots of ridges, and the Soviets had no skis and had trouble going cross-country so were stuck to using the limited number of actual roads in the area.... So I'm guessing a good sniper working in those conditions....

I quite liked the

A British Army sniper has earned a place in military history by killing two taliban machine gunners from more then a mile and a half away. The record breaking shots felled the insurgents with consecutive bullets - even though they were 3,200 feet beyond the official range of the rifle.... Each bullet took approximately 3 seconds to reach their target. Super Sniper

There was something along the lines of about 12 hours of cinematic type footage in the game, and in any single playthrough, you'll see about 3 or 4 hours of it.. So it would take about 3 fairly different playthrough attempts to see all of that..

That's just sad. You don't get to carry one around or stock one in your safe house armory.. Just have to make do with an assault rifle with scope and such for any long distance potting.... But wasn't there some mention that you might have some specialized missions where you get access to a sniper rifle for specific point/s in those missions?

I did like Brown's first speech after his visit to the queen.. in which he made a point of saying why should people risk a change of government now... Risk? Where's the risk? The economy is in the crapper, trust in the government is fairly non-existant, and they've parcelled a lot of power out to un-elected qwongocrats and consultants.... Maybe I'm a bit cynical after 13 years of "New Labour" but I really can't see how anyone else could make it worse.

To me, that's just the set-up to the story... the hook that starts you off, not the plot and twisty routes you might go through.. But then, maybe I'm just warped. Or read waay too many spy stories...