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Poor Josh Sawyer, you just know that some wag will have that printed out and posted in the Obsidian offices before long. The artist (Mr Jaceface?) really does an excellent job of capturing the games portraits style, i'd definitely include such things in ones portfolio, impressive. I wonder if he takes donations for portraits or has an account one may pay to for use?

Trifle harsh review, Poe has its faults but is all in all is a good game.

A small bench lathe is quite space saving and can handle most small jobs with the correct cutting tools, the soluble oil and chippings do however tend to go everywhere. I'm not sure whether you would even need 3 phase power. Happy Saint George's Day everybody, cry God for cumpets, warm beer and world weary cynicism.

Nonek do you actually believe your grandstanding and these sententious soapbox sermons or do you cringe when make posts like this but think to yourself...." I have to be consistent, people expect me to be anachronistic and intransigent " Also can you please stop saying " this is of course just my opinion " after certain posts, it obvious its your opinion. You are making the post. Its certainly not the truth or based on the reality of a situation most of the time. Sorry to criticize but I fail to see the point of why you keep saying that? I hate to see this whole GG event in terms of winning and losing, the GG objective seems so nebulous and aspects of it have such a bad name I fail to see how it will ever progress? It seems more about constant invective and undermining of certain people who support SJ movements and thats fine I'm not attacking that reality ..but lets not see it as " winning " ...that would be like the British saying they " won " after the first day of the Somme Yes. No. Grow up you child, just because you're losing don't equate our winning to a massacre, that's idiotic even for you. This is of course just my own opinion.

You guys are whinning for nothing, it's basically Battle Chess remade using the W40k license, and Battle chess was awesome. I do like an occasional foray on to the chessboard and I agree Battle Chess was a solid game, I just feel personally that one could do so much more with W40k, to limit that potential to a chess game is...disappointing is the only word I suppose. Sorry.

There's something magnificent in the sunset, especially on warm spring nights like tonight, i'm off to do the same after a few lengths of the pool and a large G&T.

Backpedalling should be an Olympic sport, the game journalists might find a use in this world at last, ha. It's perfectly clear that the coordinated attack on the millions whom play games recreationally was a massive mistake though, so I can understand why the pro corruption side want to deny the hatred and mudslinging that the gamers are dead articles flung at all gamers, but if you're denying it after reading those articles...well your imagination is pretty powerful. Still I can understand why they're trying to weasel out of it and sweep it under the carpet, their idiocy has never been so perfectly demonstrated, but it does seem spineless and cowardly. Mind you as i've said before it doesn't really matter, as always the consumer is winning, and game journalism as we know it is slowly becoming obsolete as the hatemongers are sacked and the stink of their corruption is swept away.

@ Sakai: I have the right to judge the gaming press because I am a consumer and it is their purpose to serve and inform me, when they fail at that it is my right as a consumer to judge them. They have a right to preach at someone privately, even though it is hypocrtitical when they are corrupt, unethical and part of a hate movement, they do not have a right to use the media they are a part of to demonise an innocent majority, that is a flagrant misuse of their powers. Thus we have Gamergate, a consumer revolt and response to unethical practises and their hate mongering. Edit: Anyway off to the sweet caress of dreams and delusions I flitter, my time upon this mortal coil is short and alas my tongue is weary and eyes heavy, good night and god bless. Now that was dramatic!

Yes even though, they had no right to preach at anyone, or any group. That is not their purpose and their coordinated attack on all gamers, calling them dead, was a cowardly and idiotic thing that further cheapened the worth of game journalism. They are now utterly discredited, no amount of backpedalling or trying to weasel out of it will excuse their behaviour. Edit: Open and healthy words, a little late to start acting innocent, hah most amusing. Ah well her toxicity and hatred are irrelevant now.

Yes I never felt that shut in feeling with the Underworlds, even though in both I literally was, strange.

Then they shouldn't have used the term gamer, it has only one meaning, i'm sorry but they made an attack against anyone whom plays games recreationally and tried to tell off and preach at people for their hobby. This is not their place or their right, they are corrupt, spoiled and unethical followers of a hate movement, they have no right to judge or deride anybody, gamer or not. I know that they think they are better and spit on humanity in general, and feel it is their right to judge, but that is just not so. They are the identity that is dying thanks to their own corruption and being unfit for purpose, they shouldn't attack the audience whom gave them jobs just because they are becoming irrelevant.

We're witnessing the death of an identity, that identity is a gamer they state, thus gamers are dead. It's really quite simple for anybody whom reads English. The twelve articles are attacks on anyone who happens to play games recreationally, they should own up to it, not be cowardly and try and backpedal and weasel their way out of it. @Sakai: Dramatic, I thought I was using quite dry and stolid prose, but I suppose I could try and be more pedestrian. I'll give it a shot.

Oh come now anybody whom reads the articles can tell that they are attacks against the millions of diverse consumers whom play games recreationally, the journalists conspired on their little hugbox to try and tell off anybody whom dared criticise them, and then all published their articles in a concerted attack. This backpedalling is just pathetic and cowardly as one just has to read them, they declared that gamers are dead and tried to demonise them, now their careers are dead or soon will be, it all evens out in the end. The fact that these unethical, corrupt and lets face it morally devoid individuals think that they can preach at anyone just shows how blinkered, self righteous and indoctrinated they have become in their ideology of hatred for humanity. Still I would not censor them, let them continue puring out their toxic bile, by their own tongue let them be damned. I've got to say however that reading those articles again was highly amusing, i'd forgotten how harmful to gaming and purely idiotic these "journalists" ideas are.

Chalk up another disappointment chaps, oh and language Timothy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01KPcW-HUp4

Rather disappointed that no one has posted "Blame Canada" yet.

Recently saw the GDC retrospective on Fallout that Mr Cain gave (at the Codex,) both informative and entertaining, i'd recently finished the game with Sduibek's excellent mod and yet wanted to play again afterwards. I'd say that's the sign of a classically enjoyable experience. I'd love to see Bethesda take a chance and comission an isometric, turn based Fallout again, where one can play as a wheezing old Ghoul, one of the strangely endearing Supermutants, or a plain old normie (if such a term can even be used in the Fallout setting any more.)

Still i'll give Bioware this their blunt and clumsy emphasis on sexuality and gender, rather than treating it as perfectly normal and unremarkable as say Obsidian does with Arcade, is not particular to them. The whole movement to insert and highlight sexuality and gender at the expense of characterisation also uses this clumsy, preaching tone that we're all familiar with now that SJF's have revealed themselves (#killallmen) to be hateful and sure of their superiority to anyone whom does not follow their twisted and harmful ideology. Subtlety and viewpoints seem to be totally beyond them, but then again I suppose that when taking such a negative viewpoint of the world and its people, then they are bound to think in such absolute terms. Still I personally prefer the Arcade manner, where he happens to be gay, no big deal, he's not going to act like a victim because of a trait that has probably existed as long as his species has been around, or proclaim himself a special snowflake because of it and spit on anyone whom doesn't share his status. All ones own opinion however.

This is hilarious, I really don't know how he manages to go down in my estimation with each post, i'm going to have to start studying quantum states soon.

Yes it's nice to see them regress, though I would say they're not inclusive if you want good writing, plotting, strong characters with some brains or self motivation, or a refined sense of humour. Still if you want blatant flattery of the protagonist, idiotic NPC's, a narrative that is repetitive and dull, antagonists that are pathetic cliches and lots (and I mean lots) of endless grinding then they are perfectly suited to ones taste. Edit: Sorry I forgot the sub par Joss Whedon humour, almost Wildean in its subtlety.

Ah progressive, I remember thinking that when Ultima introduced romances, boy gay and straight, an option to change gender and various issues covering philosophy and religion twenty plus years ago. Or its subtle message of tolerance and the dangers of speciesism in VI, along with a new species whom were vastly anatomically different from humans, and whom had been disenfranchised by the protagonists heroics. Or the study of moral absolutism with which Blackthorne twisted the eight virtues in V, and how those looking to judge and hate others were all too quick to denounce their fellow man. Or the lifelong quest for virtue that the Avatar undertook in IV, setting the stage for all that was to follow. A pity Elizabeth and Abraham came along.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8-HDUBbtgQ

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Spent the last two days cleaning, beating, mopping, polishing, dusting and washing any vaguely inanimate object within my castle, now I finally have every piece of furniture, tech, objet d'art and bric a brac back within the house and off the back lawn and rearranged to Mrs Nonek's satisfaction. It feels enormously satisfying, and I must admit it was quite a good workout, though the amount of dirt one finds on such maneuvers is truly staggering. Well another year to go. Fido still looks reproachful after his hosing down and shampooing, but his odour is immeasurably more bearable. I must say however that the chores passed a lot faster because of the pleasing sight of Mrs Nonek topping up her tan, the pleasures of Spring what.

Well one can certainly state that the art design is nice and original, and the world looks different from the usual RPG, however i'm personally not too sure about a game set entirely (it seems) underground. The first part of Rune began in such a manner and it always felt a little...claustophobic?

I've been bringing my wife a nice cup of tea and a slice of toast, a scone or a croissant every morning, what kind of monster am I?