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It's like everyone has a completely different standard of quality regarding writing in games. Imagine reading a book or seeing a movie done with Bioware's level of writing. It would be universally derided.

Finding Higgs isn't "just" finding Higgs. finding it means figuring out why it has been so hard to find, it means closing the final gap in the Standard Model, it will probably shed some light on why there are so many particles in Quantum Physics, and hopefully, it will be the first experimental step towards finding evidence for supersymmetry.

I'm seriously considering downloading all the language packs. At least the English, French, and Polish ones I'm downloading for sure.

This is going to take a while...

Wrong, actually. It will be awesome for physics if they're able to find Higgs boson. It will be a bit problematic if they don't find Higgs, but even that would be akin to not finding an ether drift in the late 19th century: it would just be a stepping stone towards further awesomeness.

There was this one girl in the 5th and 6th grades who liked me. Before that, I have no idea. I think I've always been fairly good at figuring out whether someone fancies me, except in the cases where I fancy them. My love life is a mess...

Nope, no gameplay footage, unfortunately. We're all still waiting for it. There have been some gameplay demos displayed at trade shows, but nothing has been released to the public yet.

Subjective? Ultima Underworld had fully textured worlds, height differences, different light levels, non perpendicular walls, and an actual 3D world(unlike Doom). I don't think it had weapon swaying. Also, Doom didn't start the FPS genre, Wolf3D did. The reasons Doom was more successful than UW were that it had much tamer system requirements and the gameplay was much, much simpler. Doom didn't have dialogue or a complex magic system. It was all about accessibility, which is something Ultima Underworld didn't really have.

I should stress that in the comparison with Wolf3D I was talking about gameplay. Anyway, all those things on the wikipedia list had been seen before in Ultima Underworld.

As far as I can recall, Doom didn't do anything that wasn't done in Wolf3D before, apart from multiplayer. The difference was in the scale of its success. Its graphics certainly weren't pioneering, except in the sense that the game had relatively low hardware requirements. Ultima Underworld had a much more feature rich 3D engine than Doom, even if it ran like ass.

I wouldn't call Doom groundbreaking. It was great fun, of course, but it wasn't particularly new or original.

There was this girl in elementary school who appeared to hate me with a passion. I did my level best to appear to hate her too. However, I had a huge crush on her that never really went beyond the confines of my own mind. Even today, I still fall for strong women in the mold of that one girl.

It really is amazing how well designed SS1 still is, in spite of the awfully dated interface and controls.

Isn't Amnesty International pretty powerless?

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I just got the big box, CD version of System Shock in the mail. It's practically in mint condition. Happy happy joy joy! Happy happy joy joy!

I might be if I knew why Mr Double Entendre has a gun shaped lighter.

"Rest well this night, for tonight, you sail for the Kingdom of Daggerfall!"

I recently bought a new hard drive, so I've been installing quite a few games. NOLF1, Civ IV plus expansions, System Shock 2, Guilty Gear X2 Reloaded, DMC4, Alpha Centauri, The Witcher, NWN2+MotB, Democracy 2, Red Alert, Trials 2, Painkiller, Audiosurf, Geometry Wars, TF2, Portal, Trackmania Nations, Civ 2, DMC3. More will be installaed in the near future, including S.T.A.L.K.E.R, System Shock 1, Silent Storm and KOTOR 2.

While my love of SS2 knows no bounds, I always found its intro to fall a bit flat.

Thorton doesn't use guns. That's a cigarette lighter. With a silencer.

They're gods.

And also, everything in the history of the universe ever.

And Portugal lost the game in true Portuguese fashion.

It depends on the teams involved and circumstances of the game.