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uh, roundup... ain't nothing that kills weeds better. Fire works and it's so much more fun!

It's interesting you mention this as Blizzard has taken it a step in a more restrictive direction -- completely removing LAN play from Diablo 3 in order to help prevent piracy. Want multiplayer? You'll have to play through Battle.net. I don't know if they have / will do the same with Sarcraft 2 though. Really? I hadn't heard about that. Blizzard is just full of good ideas these days, aren't they?

Habs season will be one long ceremony. Includes such gems as:

No Half a million corpses in various degrees of decomposing would have been more accurate decoration. I'm not sure you can call "half a million corpses" a decoration.

I went to see Body of Lies yesterday and saw Passchendaele earlier today. Quite enjoyed both of them, although the decorations the theatre had up for Passchendaele were a little inaccurate. They had all these little plastic paratroopers all over the place, but I don't recall many paratroopers in the First World War...

Hah! You found him!

I just finished my first game of NHL 2K9. Just a couple complaints so far: Why is everyone so slow?! Scratch that. Why is everyone on MY team so slow? Oh god! What have they done to my eyes?! The AI is so stupid on anything below Hall of Fame difficulty. The AI on Hall of Fame has only one tactic each for offence and defence. Skate into the net and Have everyone mob the puck carrier.

Heh, I did the same thing a couple months ago. How much did you find it for? $5 including tax, about one-forth of the original price. So far it's both been better than some other shooters that were far more lauded -Crysis and Crysis Warhead for example- and, in some ways, some other Source titles that I could name. Overall, I'm finding it disappointing that there's almost no chance that the sequel(s) will ever get made. My copy was about $2 + tax and it was quite possibly the best two bucks I've ever spent. I know what you mean about the lack of sequels though. I want to know what happens next. Just picked up a copy of NHL 2K9 so I'll probably be playing that soon. Even if it's a crappy game, I also get to watch crappy streams of NHL games online for free for the next two months thanks to the coupon inside the case.

Heh, I did the same thing a couple months ago. How much did you find it for?

PC or 360? If the former, does it use a limited installation/activation system? If it doesn't I'm definitely going to have to buy a copy... PC version isn't out till Monday.

Rangers just beat the Leafs 1-0 in a shootout. Toskala pushed the puck into his own net on the third shot.

No, splitscreen is a major deciding factor for me. As in, if I can avoid it, I will. What's the advantage of playing on half a screen, again? Playing on half a screen means that you have someone sitting beside you playing on the other half. It's the whole human interaction thing. Actually I'm a bit confused why they don't offer that on the PC as well? I mean, you can plug in two controllers. Although most monitors probably aren't very conducive to a split screen. I think this is probably a big portion of it. It's one thing to play split screen on a moderately sized TV screen (Hell even our 20 year old TV had a nearly 24" screen.), but it's another thing to try that on a 17-19" monitor.

1. Kinda iffy. IMO the problem isn't being able to install things on as many computers as you want, but rather being able to re-install on the same computer as many times as you want. 2. I agree. Easy LAN play is a major bonus, but I can't really hold the lack of it against anyone. Requiring everyone that wants to play to have a copy seems reasonable to me. It would be nice if more companies would implement something like what Blizzard did with spawned copies of Starcraft and Diablo that allowed only LAN play and only against the original. 3. I agree with this one. I really don't see what is so bad about this and was unaware that this was a complaint in the first place. 4. Totally wrong. This is not a separate issue and I fail to see how you could consider it one. It may not be the initial intent of DRM to limit resale, but that doesn't mean you can dismiss it as an invalid arguement. 5. Another iffy one. IMO, once the customer purchases a game, the developer no longer has any say over what the customer does with the game except when it comes to redistribution.

No, splitscreen is a major deciding factor for me. As in, if I can avoid it, I will. What's the advantage of playing on half a screen, again? Playing on half a screen means that you have someone sitting beside you playing on the other half. It's the whole human interaction thing.

I'll see what I can do, but know that your Oiler power doesn't scare me.

I know, I know, I should be shot for my blasphemy. I probably wouldn`t have touched NHL 2K9 if I hadn`t gotten in the tournament.

I should probably get some Wii NHL 2K9 in. I just got an e-mail saying that I managed to get in to the Future Shop tournament. Must find, unstoppable goal scoring method...

Yes. Several people have adopted DDRM to differentiate between "friendly" DRM (CD checks, cd keys) and the harsher stuff (Online activations, limited installs).

Everything I've heard has been that Harper called the election because he considered Parliament to be dysfunctional. All the committees were apparently stalled due to disagreements, but the only things I've been able to find out about those pointed to the Conservative members being unwilling to compromise with the other parties on just about everything. The cynical person would say that Harper called the election because all the polls said that he had majority government level support.

There are fixed election dates so that the Prime Minister can't call an election whenever he wants. The opposition can still bring down the government on a confidence motion in the case of a minority government though. Of course, none of this really matters because Harper is god and thus is free to ignore his own laws.

Montreal takes it 4-3 over Boston in a shootout that shouldn't have been needed. Boston tied the game with less than a minute left in the third. Ryder fired the puck in around the net and when Price went to play the puck it took a weird bounce off the end boards, ricocheted up and over the back of the net right onto the stick of Savard who buried it before Price could get back in front.

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I'm severely disappointed in the people in my riding. We re-elected a complete idiot. The guy takes credit for things that he has no say in what so ever. He's claimed that he is the only one that could have gotten certain things accomplished, despite the fact that nothing has actually happened yet and whether or not it gets funding is all down to the federal government. He's gone out and contacted several companies to plan out a new hotel/convention centre for the city without talking to city council or anyone in the area. He constantly bombards us with stupid flyers telling us how great he is and somehow he got back in and did so with even more votes than he got last time when the Liberals were running a really crappy candidate.

Had the same thing happen to me on both counts. I just hit Chapter III in MotB last night with my nearly invincible Fighter/Barb/Rogue. I've bumped the difficulty up to Hardcore and I still rarely get damaged. 48 AC keeps most things from hitting me except for criticals. If they do manage to hit me I now have DR 12/- and 25% slashing immunity from a shield I bought from the Ironfists back in the NWN2 OC which seems to apply before my DR does. If I manage to get hurt after that I regenerate 6 HP per round and have over 600 hit points currently. Next time I will have to try something that isn't quite so strong. I also just realized that you can talk to your companions and what they say actually changes depending on various factors!

Who needs Xcom, when GOG has Battle Chess?