Humodour

I used a loom once. It was funky.

The grouch?

So don't. There are plenty of theatres that are showing it 2D. That's how I saw it. As for the CGI: you people are over-reacting. You don't notice it. It could just as well have been real people in costumes.

Water vapour and physical cardboard folders...

I can see a pattern emerging. I think I can use complex analysis and write up a Python script to try and devise a set of equations for predicting the behaviour of this pattern.

He also predicts that browser- and social gaming will be the future. What an idiot. I agree with you that browser and social gaming aren't the future, but I also agree with him that Consoles are a dying breed. They're shining pretty brightly before they fade into obscurity, because the future doesn't look so bright for them. Although browser gaming has a lot of potential. C.f. Quake Live, Google Chrome, recent advances by Google and Microsoft in producing hardware acceleration and application-level speed for 3D graphics in the browser. But that's mostly tangential.

They aren't making one. Sure about that? No, I was hoping you'd feel wronged that I contradicted you and provide me with proof that they are. Call me lazy. But I certainly wasn't aware of it, and it doesn't make much sense given how old NWN2 (and the engine) is, that there has already been 2 expansions, and that the last expansion was fairly lacklustre (in quality and probably also sales). I haven't played it, admittedly. I do note however that Obsidian is working on at least 2 others projects besides Alpha Protocol, so something is certainly in the works.

They aren't making one.

What reads like 'just having a bit of fun' to you, reads like trolling and generally being a douchebag to others. Sometimes I like to argue for the sake of arguing, so I take the devil's side in order to propagate the argument. Arguing is fun. It's difficult to tell when you're taking the piss and when you're serious, because your tone barely changes. It becomes perhaps ever so slightly facetious.

Will you be releasing the source code and ruleset under an open licence?

But they're also riskier to produce. And we're currently not exactly living in times that encourages publishers to finance risky games/new IPs. The creative side of things I highly doubt, but yes the lack of brand familiarity is certainly a valid point (if only in the current economic climate).

*Groan*. What something is worth is dependant on demand, these are not seperate qualities. You could have the original holy grail sitting on your coffee table, it wouldn't be worth a penny if nobody in the world wanted it. I can't believe I'm having to explain this, it's downright trivial. You're just being moronic: when hiring, managers very very often consider how much the person is worth - it's all still part of free market dynamics (mostly because the person who is worth more is more desirable for that job, and the person knows that and can bargain with it). So your assertion that "jobs don't pay what the person is worth" is stupid, and is evident in the fact that people with degrees doing the same job as people without earn more, likewise for the gap between people with a bachelor and people with honours/masters/Ph.D. Now I expect you to try and bugger around with semantics (such as implying worth is an aspect of demand) and make us forget the fact that you matter-of-factly stated "jobs don't pay what a person is worth". Am I implying McDonald's pays what a person is worth? No, because the McDonald's labour market is saturated. But jobs markets for professionals are another matter entirely.

I buy the following games on Steam: old ones not on GOG.com, Valve games (way cheaper, and they use Steam anyway), games half their price in shops here (not hard due to both Steam sales and exchange rate), indie games, games under $20. For example, Dragon Age on Steam cost about $35, but in stores it'd be about $90.

It's actually both, if you'd both to put two second's thought into the matter. And often it's not even what the job is worth so much as demand. Truck drivers for mining companies in Australia earn around $80,000 a year, and so do the cleaners for such companies. Why? Because Australia, especially the mining states, have a severe skills shortage.

Signed, The Librarian

NO FIGHTING IN THE TUNNELS!!!1

**** D&D, create your own worlds, Obsid. They're cheaper, richer, and less prone to licensing disputes.

Sort of. You can change the Steam install directory but only when installing Steam. Make a backup of your steamapps folder, uninstall Steam, reinstall Steam, select a HD or partition with more free space, install there, then move your steamapps backup there. Will probably have to validate all your games again which would take probably 1 minute per game.

I know, right? Having to use Steamwatch is kind of annoying, though. And I have a 50gb quota so I'm not sure it even matters

The ban has been reversed: http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/12/18/0...ersed?art_pos=2 Maybe Valve should have grown some balls and stuck through the appeal process for L4D2 instead of creating a hastily censored version and then appealing. Of course the appeal was going to fail then.

Mine is: 65gb Games: Batman: Arkham Asylum Dragon Age: Origins Freedom Force Freedom Force vs. the 3rd Reich Half-Life 1 Half-Life: Opposing Force Half-Life: Blue Shift Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2: Episode One Half-Life 2: Episode Two Portal Osmos STALKER Jedi Knight: Dark Forces Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 Torchlight Left 4 Dead 1 Borderlands Team Fortress 2

What reads like 'just having a bit of fun' to you, reads like trolling and generally being a douchebag to others.

Dual-booting has nothing to do with performance and only occupies about 5GB of HD space extra for the second OS (assuming you've got a storage partition where you put all your files, games, data, which is best practice even without dual-booting for performance and backup reasons). As for 'needlessly complicated', it's a simple binary choice when you boot up. Fail, Tigranes.

All I really have to add is that if the movie does interest you in any way, make sure you see it on the big screen first, because this is the type of movie which I don't think the TV can do justice to. Krookie: I think they're saying that because it revolutionises 2 aspects of movie making (and, I guess, viewing). It's a 'killer app' to justify 3D viewing (and 3D viewing technology), and it's the first movie to make such heavy use of such detailed gollum-level CGI as well as world generation. The visual technology behind the movie is truly amazing, and should give any computer graphics nerd an erection.

Pretty strong words there, considering this is hollywood we're talking about here. It looks interesting in the very least, I'll see it when it gets released in home formats. We're also talking about a movie that was being worked on for over 10 years in some form or another by the guy who gave us Aliens, The Terminator, and Titanic (OK maybe that last one is a good reason to be concerned). Heck, he hired a linguist to design an entire language for the aliens, complete with proper grammar and over 1000 words. He sure gets my nerd kudos. He also elected not to have a famous actor as the protagonist, which is a nice change.