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"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar." --Drew Carey "Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God.... I could be eating a slow learner." --Lynda Montgomery

"All my bullets have someone's name on them. To save time, I simply label each one 'Spaz'." "Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope. Statement: This definition, I am told, is subject to interpretation. Obviously, love is a matter of odds. Not many meatbags could make such a shot, and fewer would derive love from it. Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticle, and together, achieving a singular purpose, against statistically long odds." - HK-47

.... and now I'm getting flashbacks to the board game "Junta"

Why does this feel like a continuation of the EU doing it's best to screw over the UK as much as possible? Maybe I'm being cynical. Maybe I'm being a touch "nationalistic"... But it does seem to feel like over half the things coming out of the EU are designed to give us the short shaft...

And I think I can speak for many of us (especially those of us on the wrong side of the Atlantic to catch the fun demo events...) who won't get to see the game for another couple of months... Git

To partially cross threads here.. some quotes for the situation.. "If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed." - Benjamin Franklin "I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone." - Peter Steele "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. " - Sam Brown "People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people. " - Mike Tyson "The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people." - George Bernard Shaw "We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified. " - Graham Chapman "What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist." - Salman Rushdie "Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views." - William F Buckley, Jr "This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. " - Neil Gaiman

I'll have you know I have a Certificate proving my sanity. And it's in nice shiny crayon. So there.

"We live awhile, and then we die sooner then we expect." "Where's the treasure? Damn it, I'm an adventurer! I demand fiscal rewards for acts of premeditated homicide!"

"If there was a way to get magic for free, do you really think I'd have spent so much time sacrificing children to my dark gods? For spells, I mean. Obviously there'd still be sacrifices. A hobby's a hobby." - Blackguard

If you liked Sun Tzu, you might want to have a gander at T'ai Kung's Six Secret Teachings, the Three Strategies of Huang Shih-kung or The Methods of the Ssu-ma. Just for the slightly more esoteric military classics from ancient china

"In wine there is wisdom,in beer there is freedom,in water there is bacteria" -Ben Franklin

Well Kipling does seem to last in the Military.. and there are a lot of damn quotable moments from military history..

Logged in and can't vote.. hm...

Realising how often I pull out obscure quotes that for various reasons I find amusing or thought provoking in one form or another... I thought I'd see what quotes other forumites might have found sticking in their minds, or just saved for later dates.. Such as:

Well, Sun Tzu did write about human nature. Considering that people have been using his advice in one form or another for around two millenia now, you have to say he probably had a fairly decent grasp on human nature. Hell, he's the one that said the best general is the one who doesn't need to resort to force and solves the problem before armies have to start moving.

Well I nearly said Confucious before double-checking So don't be too embarassed.

classical chinese thought.. otherwise known as Sun Tzu.

To go with the quotage rather then any opinion "Human nature is bad. Good is a human product... A warped piece of wood must be steamed and forced before it is made straight ; a metal blade must be put to the whetstone before it becomes sharp. Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles."

No, it's all just xkgb...

Are you using default keys or did you change them? The default keys it had after installing the dlc. Installed it, ran the game, went to the planet.. picked up the Hammerhead, and got a little puzzled when the onscreen instructions of "press button x" did nada. Went into gameplay options/key binding and found it was all set to buttons other then what the onscreen prompts were... Nada majorly troubling once I figured that out what the correct buttons were.

Hm, and just done the first mission of the firewalker dlc.. picking up the Hammerhead..and is it me, or are the in-game "tutorial" instructions using the wrong keys.. being told to use right mouse or left shift.. and then you check in the key bindings and they're actually set to completely different keys.. The joys of new dlc..

For the slightly cheesey factor, Tron 2.0 was actually quite decent for a kind of fps that was released about 7 years ago.. If you want to try finding something that came out of the 90's... for the classic lucasarts adventure, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - captured the Indy spirit quite well. Or for the other 90's classic.. Alien Legacy - oold sierra, an interesting mix of strategy game with some pseudo-rpg elements to the storyline. Throw in a nice colonise a solar system, resource management, building up research and assorted other factors..

As has been said, they dropped the Gehenna background and concentrated on the urban angsty side of it. But I found it lacked a lot compared to the original WoD stuff. But that might have just been me I'd say just use the Vampire Masquerade Revised and forget about the metaplot aspects if your friend wants to play the Urban Vampire stuff.

And apparently Jude Law's second acting job was a part on the old Granada TV Sherlock Holmes series.. and Ritchie got the actors to watch some of those episodes to help get a feel for it. The film was a fairly enjoyable victorian romp, and the slightly stylised way they had of showing off "how" Holmes saw the world around him and deduced things was quite interesting.. A good way for that form of media to show it off. Re-watched Tron the other week.. maybe it's the inner geek in me but I still enjoy that film. (Hell, I even enjoyed the Tron 2.0 game that came out about 7 years ago..). But it's kind of funny that there's about 3 or so people in Tron that all turned up in Babylon 5 years later.. Did catch the new trailer for Tron Legacy which does look fairly slick and interesting.. Although shame they aren't meshing in anything from Tron 2.0.. Ah well.

I got into the start of A Game of Thrones.. read the first 4 or 5 books. But I found the last two I read were like hammering my head into a wall and I just forced myself to finish them. So I gave up on the series. Might try again in a few years mayhaps... Enjoyed Baen's eARC copy to get hold of "Mouse and Dragon" by Sharon Lee And Steve Miller. A nice space opera continuation there...