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well they will generally survive a bit longer than in most other RTS's in that position. The problem is that in the game the MG's are supported by infantry. thus the MG's pin your poor infantry and then the other infantry murder them with extreme hate Also it's hard to get by a building inhabited by a mg team with infantry because almost instantly the poor suckers get suppressed and won't move at all.and otherwise it's just flat out hard to kill anything in a building without a flamethower. (gators and engineers are perfect for this. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It just seemed like the were far to healthy. Playing the demo mission where you have to protect the three bridges I had set up a machine gun nest on each of the three bridges with a machine gun squad in a building overlooking the bridge and a squad of rangers behind a set of sandbags. The machine gunners would almost instantly supress the infantry coming at me, however I never managed to actually pin them down and really start doing some damage. By the time I finished them all off, the next wave was already attacking. <_< It was pretty fun anyway. Is the collector's edition worth the extra money? Right now I have the option of getting the colelctors edition for $60 or the regular for $40 and I'm not sure if the collector's is worth an extra $20.

Just finished playing the Company of Heroes demo. I must say that it does seem pretty interesting, however it feels as though infantry are a little to hardened. They seem to survive a little too well when faced with machine gun fire. <_<

Last semester I was going on usually about 4-5 hours of sleep on weeknights and 12 on the weekend. I was fine for the most part, although there were times were it was hard to keep my eyes open during history class at the end of the day. Now I don't have any classes in the morning so I can sleep till 9:30 instead of 7:30.

Thanks. Has anymore been said? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not that I know of. I would have preferred a second wii-mote instead of Wii Sports.

Seriously, is there a link to a reputable article which states that it won't be a feature in the Wii, or has one been posted and I just missed it? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well there is this.

Isn't that the same thing? The difference being the second statement would allow for a $250 price exactly? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You're right. I guess I would just have different expectations for the two statments. Thanks for the DVD link though. EDIT: Were you refering to this quote? Because it's the only thing I see there that mentions DVD's.

A couple months ago they told us it would play DVD movies and it would cost less than $250. Now it doesn't play DVDs and it still cost $250. How, exactly, does this help deliever the system at a "cheaper cost"? By no means a deal breaker, I guess, but don't piss on my back and tell me it's raining. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> They didn't say it would be less than $250, they said it would not be more than $250. Where did you hear about the DVD playback. I seem to recall hearing something about that but I can't find anything now. And to be fair, it does come with Wii Sports bundled into the $250 price tag.

He meant for extra controllers. EDIT: Was referring to the comment made by deganawida. I can live with the price and everything else, but only one colour? They are doing the same thing that they did with the DS. I want a black console damnit!

Certainly an interesting choice. I haven't read the books myself, however we have all three of them on the bookshelf upstairs. Might have to actually read them now...

Why no delays? The reason why people introduce a delay is because it demonstrates the problem. You are destroying the molecules of the original person. Besides, it wouldn't be possible to do it without a delay. There's going to be an instant where both of you exist (when it verifies that the genetic code is correct). Nothing can be done instantaneously. And even if it was, your "teleportation" still isn't teleportation. It's simply copying and destroying the original. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Why must there be a delay before the original is removed from the picture after the clone is created? It must have the genetic code in order to be able to recreate the person on the other end right? The arguement is all about semantics anyway. Whether or not an exact copy of you is or is not you, if you no longer exist. Whether or not the example machine is actually "teleporting" or just recreating on the other side and so on. Just to clarify something here. The problem lies in the co-existance of two beings that share the same genetic make-up and memories/behaviour etc and then having to kill the original right? Would you have a problem with a teleporter like those demonstrated on Star Trek? How about the stargate from the various Stargate shows/movie? If one was to disintergrate the original, gather up all the atoms that composed him/her and then transported them to the destination somehow and reconstructed the individual from his original atoms would that make any difference to you?

I had to bike to school in the rain this morning. I wake up just as my parents leave this morning and on their way out they decided to tell me, "Oh yeah! It's raining outside!" I'm left there thinking I wouldn't have minded if they woke me up early if it meant I got a ride to school and avoided the rain. Was still raining a little over an hour later when I left. <_<

That's not so bad actually. I can probably get that working then. 4GB's of hard drive space is nothing compared to some games though. "

What kind of hardware is one looking at in order to play this game?

It has nothing to do with a soul. Imagine someone made a clone of you. Why would you expect to have conscious control over that clone? So when you die in the teleportation process, you yourself no longer exist, but rather your clone. Now your clone is a perfect replica of you, so to every other 3rd party observer, it looks and acts just like you. And it probably would. But the fact of the matter would still be that YOUR consciousness has been killed. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> But would it really make all that much of a difference to you? If the clone that is created on the other end is biologically you and has all your memories and such, then what would be the difference between you going there yourself and having a clone created there and the real you disposed of? The clone is for all intents and purposes you except when as some of the others here have done, is add in the existance of a soul. The clone thinks it is you and you are no longer there to know that you are the real you. I don't think I explained that as clearly as I could have. Understand what I'm trying to get at here?

And the crappy thing is its only for one day. Tomorrow I'm back to my normal schedule. And now I can't go to bed now that I'm off work because I'll just wake up fully rested at 4 in the morning and its all screwed up again. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That really sucks. At least I don't have that problem. My schedule will remain the same for the next several months.

How is it? We demand reviews before we purchase!

Arg! There is a more than 50% chance that my brother will be getting that for his birthday. Too bad it's not for 6 weeks. Must seek confirmation immediately... At the very least I will have the oppourtunity to laugh at anyone who buys the 360 version from Futureshop over the PC version. PC vs. 360 And I'm now up to Episode 16 in N. 75 levels down, 425 left to go.

This past year it was 450k I believe. In other news, Kor and Alan should be pleased to hear that Lupul signed a 3 year $7 mil deal.

15 year contract?! That is one huge contract.

I feel for you Oerwinde. I couldn't sleep properly all last week. When you are used to going to bed at 3am or later and then transition into going back to school and having to be awake at 7am it really screws with your sleep schedule. Thankfully I'm finally back to normal. I actually woke up before my alarm went off yesterday! )

Currently running through N again as it lost my place so I have to unlock all the levels again. I spent 30 minutes trying to beat the level below (9-2)

N could be madly enfuriating at times. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That it could. I think I once spent nearly a month trying to beat one of the later levels that required nearly perfect timing in order to avoid a certain enemy. I think the first time I finally beat it, I had so little time left that I couldn't finish the next level.

Bah! I won't be getting an HD-ready tv until I move out on my own it looks like. My parents will keep using their 10 year old televisions until they finally die like they did with the older one we had. The last TV was just one of the items in this house that they have had longer than me. That TV was around 25 years old. Still worked, but the colours were starting to go.

Heh, didn't even notice that. I saw a 1080 there didn't think about whether is was P or I. Was just looking at the size. " And it's only sold out on the website. There are a couple of store that supposedly have it. Scarborough West in Ontario would be one. Hey! It's on sale for $500 off too! EDIT: After looking around, it appears that very, very few of them have 1080p. Only one of the >= 50" plasmas has 1080p and I don't see any of the >= 40" LCD's that had 1080p.

Can't say I've really had anyone that close to me die. Closest would be my grandfather, but I can't say that I was really all that torn up when he went. It was really just a lot of "Let's go see Grandma and Gran- oh wait..." type moments.