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Isn't that a contradiction? If the universe is a deterministic system then so are you and thus have no choice in any matter.

First of all - your train of thought is really hard to follow. You move from promoting determinism through a thought experiment to advocating regulating media. The argument would be far easier to understand if it was made in reverse order. And the problem I find here is that nobody needs to deny that some social behaviors are socially harmful to not want censorship. Some can easily argue that attempt at regulation can be far more dangerous than the behavior in question. In fact I think you made that argument yourself in the case of drugs.

It is kind of hard to buy from a store things better than a unique.

In practical terms this means nothing, at least not in our lifetimes. But in the field of theoretical study this could be really important. AFAIK physicists have always wondered why gravity is the weakest force found in our universe and finding out if/how antimatter is affected by it could revolutionize our understanding of it.

Assassin's Creed: Revelations announced. Starring: Ezio, Altair and Desmond, set mostly in Constantinople. I guess they'll explain the aliens and then leave the world saving to the 2012 game.

Antihydrogen held for seventeen minutes. Hopefully we will soon know how antimatter reacts to gravity.

Could you give a source for this? That would be unfortunate. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_bin_laden Thanks. A shame he couldn't be taken alive but speculating if it was even possible is pointless.

Could you give a source for this? That would be unfortunate.

Why should we in the first place? Propaganda has proved itself to be a invaluable tool in directing policies and attitudes of other people so giving up on it for the sake of moral standard seems rather unwise.

So is that a complete list? I'm preety sure someone mentioned possibility of two more. And what is it with the whole Ulysses deal? This better not be another blast from amnesiac past.

My problem isn't so much with the people as with the perception of our foreign policy we create. If it takes you a month to go from no-fly-zone to we-bomb-bastards and then you end up screwing up the latter you create the impression that there is no real point in talking to you. Since I don

This isn't about Gaddafi or even his family but the way the whole intervention is handled. If that information pans out then a dictator in charge of millions has just been informed that he is effectively a dead man. That strikes me as a major case of stupidity or incompetence. Add to that the whole mess over the way resolution has been interpreted and you send a clear signal that only nukes will save you when the west has a mood swing. As for the fighting - ironically the quickest way to end it right now would be to bomb the rebels.

No. This one was apparently kind of a black sheep until recently.

Air strike in Tripoli has killed the son of Muammar Gaddafi according to the Libyan government This is really troubling if it proves to be true. Actions like this can seriously undermine whatever authority the UN and NATO have left in the middle-east.

Once a update is detected some games will not launch without it regardless of offline mode. And he may have other games he would like to keep patched.

Assuming that's true I imagine so. It's not another fully numbered installment so they wouldn't change the settings. Besides they have painted themselves into a corner on that, it will take a good deal of work to bend history to their ideas of political correctness. More interesting will be the target platform. NGP perhaps?

Just finished Tropico 3. It's a fun cute little game but could really do with a bit more depth or at least better production values. Certainly worked better than the Guild for me.

Wouldn't that mean they would always vote to oppose any change? By that assumption the status-quo candidates would win any election.

It's the same all around the world, it takes a 'special' person to be a politician. A certain kind of psychopathic liar. I know that abusing politicians is a crucial privilege of every democratic society but don't you think that's going a bit too far?

And I understand the disappointment when the long-awaited game looks to be aimed at completely different system/control scheme/audience but I believe it's a little to early to judge the PC controls. Between 2 camera positions and customization option (and community mods if need be) we can't really tell for certain until we try it for ourselves. It's certainly true that mouse controls are recently poorly implemented in general (who's the genius that killed virtual joystick?) but for all we know people on the videos use mouse only to fill spreadsheets. Control systems and their responsiveness is not something that can be easily judged from gameplay videos so I'll wait for gamer impressions before crying foul.

AFAIK the author is no stranger to retcons in star wars. Besides he seems to embody the Bioware style of writing (awesome/kick-ass at expense of plot/narrative) so the take on the events of KOTOR II will likely differ from the game.

Aside from the fact that you are jumping to conclusions such solution is definitely a good one. You shouldn't be able to cast/attack on the run, it's a contrivance of action games. It may work in Guardian of Light but this is (supposedly) an rpg game. Is this even a confirmed part of controls? There are simple forms of using mouse with hold-down buttons for simple direction input so no - you don't have to aim anywhere else. I get that it's a rant but clearly you have no idea how control schemes 20 years ago looked like. Back in the days of Cannon Fodder this was a significant improvement on the joystick-only scheme. That it can be adapted to modern times just by including few hotkeys and a scroll wheel clearly shows how versatile control system it is. Then the mouse becomes completely redundant, you will simply aim all your attacks with your characters body. Only you'll be doing with less precsion that a joypad user. That's because in that game you use ranged weapons only and projectiles auto-detonate on collision. You can't do that with melee attacks and aoe spells. You can always plug in a joypad into your PC.

Anyone know how long will it take before we can find out what project Virginia was? Someone mentioned that NDA on cancelled projects is even stricter than on the ones in progress.

TL;DR version: intervention is a French plot to maintain economical privileges?