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I don't think I ever read an interview that turned me so off a game and a developer in such a short time.

Yup. I only read it in chunks as well. If you haven't finished it, it gets worse... Quoted from the interview: When you die on the battlefield, you don’t really die immediately. You’re hurt on the ground and cannot move until one of your friends comes and heals you. Though, like in a real battlefield, you have a chance to be executed by the enemy as well. We have that feature and we’re going to provide players with a lot of lore-friendly race-specific executions for free, but we’ll also have hundreds of different microtransaction-based executions. Just imagine: you spent two hundred dollars on the game. You won four campaigns, and you’re one of the top Space Marine players in your chapter in a huge battle, and suddenly you fail to pay attention and you end up wounded on the ground, and then you see a puny free to play Ork that just started playing the game running towards you and he executes you in a very humiliating way (because Orks are like that), for instance by choking you by sitting with his butt in your face with the teabagging execution he purchased for $1. He also records it, because we have an API to post things like these on Facebook and Youtube, humiliating you in front of everyone. So all the free players that see that video will want to buy all kinds of humiliating executions to troll the space marines as much as they can. With this we’ll even be able to monetize trolling.

Agreed on the GW2 World vs World. Just seems that he hasn't much of an idea of what online gaming is like. Though I'll not be trying the game. Encouraging trolling/griefing by making teabagging etc microtransactions? I am not the target audience.

I find it a bit ridiculous to equate the behaviour of free players with that of Ork Boyz. Its kinda insulting actually. And the assumption that paying MMO gamers are well behaved, disciplined, mature people... yeah right...

I haz wun word to sayz about dat: 'ERE WE GO! 'ERE WE GO! 'ERE WE GO!

On anecdotes: An iranian friend at university, when we were asked to write papers on the human-rights-based approach to management, asked the professor who the paper would be read by, if there was the danger that it would be published and readable back home. He only wrote the paper after it was guaranteed that it would be handled confidentialy...

Tried to play some more Remember Me. Emphasise on tried. The game is annoying me too much. If there is a way to gift Steam games one has already installed and played, I'd do it... The things I hate: Walk speed dictated by the game according to where you are: you slowly wander into the area because the game wants you to... walk really slow? Then you are running for the rest of the street, then turning the corner you have to walk slow again. As you reach the two opponents, combat starts. Just as you try to punch the first of the two, the game freezes and tells you that "Hey why not enter your combo lab to set up your new combo?" Now they could just flash an alert on screen and let you enter the menu at your own leasure, but no, combat can't proceed until you do this the moment they want you to. You set up the combo and think that now you can fight. Noooooo. After a few punches the game freezses again. Now it wants you to do something else. You'd think after the first couple of fights this ham-fisted hand-holding would be over. Nope. Nearly every combat the game decides to freeze and have you do whatever. Dear devs. I wanted to actually play your game. I understand now that the idea is anathema to you and you have to stop me once every 5 minutes from doing so. I apologize. So I watch the cutscene and quit. Mistake. Loading the game the cutscene has to be watched again. After all, skipping would be wrong. You can't skip cutscenes. And you made the mistake of missing one of the few hidden things? Even though the game is so restrictive in its movement you cant really miss anything? Play the episode again... but rewatch all those cutscenes. This forces you to watch a cutscene for a third or fourth time? Tough. They put work into it. So be gratefull and rewatch that monologue until you know it by heart. Well. After less than 4 hours I am no longer interested in the story forced down my throat or the gameplay that in so fractured that I can't enjoy it.

I'll check it out after I return from *ominous drumroll* the gym.

Nope. It just shows that Project Prism is efficient and provides information not just to the government, while also proving that Microsoft puts great stock in your opinion

Bruce, have you read about the crimes the rebels in Syria are committing? Pushing prisoners of war off of rooftops? That was a nasty enough start. But eating their enemies' hearts? Anyone who supports that kind of creatures with arms should not be the one pointing fingers.

Original, deeper dungeons or 2 ?

Played thre generations of monsters so far. It's a cute game with a nice sense of humour.

I think there is a reason why The Wire is considered by many the best tv show. Everything in that show had a place in it. slightly off topic and not wanting to start a huge a debate, but: I feel TV has regressed (if that is the rigth word to use). I was watching first season MacGuyver last month *waits for people to roll eyes* and was thinking that while Obama talks about gun-control, those of us in favour of such a move lost the fight a long time ago, when from a pacifist secret agent, who'd use his brain to solve problems and who commented how he never thought he'd ever find use for a gun, when he used one as a wrench, our favourid shows, that we cheer for their progressiveness, became the current HBO culture.

Its the better part of the game.

That has been thrown around so often that people actually believe it. the scenes are in the book. But they are part of thousand pags long books. In that they carry far less weight than they do when they are put in tv episodes and suddenly have a far greater relative length to the rest content. The failing here is that of the HBO audience who thinks that to prove how progressive they are, they need porn in their normal tv shows.

As I understand he isn't heavily involved in the show. He interviewed the people who asked him if they could do the show, decided that he felt they'd do a good job and has been letting them do their show, while contributing one episode per season.

Just ran across this:

Vicwho? Jeanette would turn her into fabric softener to sprinkle over a lawn of freshly mawed astroturf.

Which is typical GW behaviour.

Can't hep you with old stuff. As an archtiect I am more interested in seeing what my contemporaries are doing that I can be envious of You got lucky. 3 years of Brum is not something one wishes on people

You are quiting law and starting a diaper import/export business?

Doh forgot to post what I am doing: Sitting at home, waiting for the phone call that my dad will have gotten arrested in an hour or so when the police is supposed to forcefully shut down all national broadcasting in Greece.

For a good curry go to Bradford or Birmingham - places with a large asian "minority" If it is your first time in London, the "obvious" places aren't a bad choice. How long are you staying? When you say architecture, can you be more specific?

I was watching Cry Freedom the other day. Quite happy that a journalist fled the country to stand up to his government then.

Yeah, I have heard from people that its a great game, but those are the same people who call certain other games great... so... Also, I'm not into the hole eastern setting.