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But seriously guys, Morgoth's typical bile aside, it was awesome. And 3 hours long. And awesome. Also, as far as 'big giant turds' go, it was more like a bucket of icecream: Edit: Changed 'iceream' to 'icecream'. It sounded dirty.

****ing awesome. Long, though.

http://www.obsidian.net/how-to-apply.html ?

Ah yes, the one party state idea. THAT'LL END WELL. It's not a one party state. Do conservative countries (heh, there aren't any) never have parties because they all agree on everything? What about liberal countries? Any time you have elections, you'll get at least 2 parties. Exactly. Which is also why, over time, any overly conservative (or liberal) country would drift back towards the centre.

The Australian Senate is almost never ever ruled by a single party. Usually smaller civil rights parties (such as the Greens or Democrats) make up the balance of power. However, since any bill needs to pass both the Senate and House to go ahead, we've effectively got a 3-party system (even though the House, which forms government is essentially 2-party). Not to mention that one of the larger parties, the Coalition is a coalition of the agrarian Nationals and the traditional conservatives the Liberals which doesn't always see eye-to-eye. The Senate is preferentially proportionally elected but the House remains preferential instant run-off. This is good because it allows smaller parties to gain existence in the Senate and then eventually expand into the House if they are stable and useful (rather than a phase like that disgusting One Nation racism party). My main concern at the moment is that Labour's Internet censorship scheme will pass the Senate because the Liberals just replaced their mildly Libertarian leader with a bat**** crazy religious nut and will hence change their stance to vote for it. The Greens can't defeat it alone. Screw you Abbott. Oh, this has nothing to do with Obama or Finland. Oh well.

If we set up a liberal and conservative pair of states, who would survive longer? They'd both simply drift towards the centre.

Breaking the US up into an alliance of smaller countries does seem an attractive choice.

lol.

No. You have to bloody activate it online. And THEN you have to create a damn Windows Live account or it won't let you save your game. **** this. From what I've read, it takes place in both the asylum and Gotham itself.

You're probably not aware of this, but CO2 is harmful to human health.

I heard the game was pretty damn polished so I picked it up during the Steam holiday sale recently. Have downloaded it and now all I have to do is play it. Freedom Force and STALKER are first on the list though. Kind of cut that it has ****ing Securom protection. I wouldn't have bought it if I had known. Isn't ****ing Steam enough?

Just for the record, only a single guy worked on this patch, to those saying it's a bit small.

English women look pretty much the same as Australian women, for obvious reasons, and while I could irk my British mates by implying the hotness ratio is far higher in Australia, the point remains that England does have some pretty smoking babes.

Venus.

Clearly you understand sarcasm.

If you try to buy games (software) from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk, the website says it won't ship to the zone you're in. I believe it's the same with Steam. There was an news article here in Australia showing how you can still use Steam and bypass the zone restriction by having a friend in another country get it for you. You have to get a bit creative. ebay retailers is anotehr way which is what I use. The risk is that if the package gets stopped by Customs and they realise it's a banned game, they will seize it and issue you a letter for importing banned material. On that note, could I trouble one of you chaps to buy me an uncensored version of L4D2?

Go **** yourself Michael Atkinson. http://www.news.com.au/technology/aliens-v...0-1225807850199

Tigranes just got trolled.

Australians contain teeth and the British don't. This is also fascinating.

Steam is certainly worth it. I've bought so many games on Steam that I would not buy normally (including big-name titles), and it's a pretty effective form of DRM that most people seem to be actually neutral or positive about, unlike that SecuROM bull****. That said, GOG.com is vastly superior. No I don't think so, and they have indicated they are unlikely to do so any time soon for business reasons. Individual developers/publishers do get data about their own games, however.

Powered was turned off for 2 hours today because the bushfires were next to the generator substation for my block.

Yes, but I knew immediately that it was from the aliens. They are communist you see, and after my precious bodily fluids.

Move, wait, move, wait. I wonder if the next Chess will actually have a story and interesting people to converse with or will it be like the previous two of monotonous movement and capture of pawns.

I wanted to like Oblivion. I tried to like Oblivion. Oblivion is the type of game I SHOULD like. Big, open, non-linear, stats and quests, flaming swords and monsters. That's my stuff. But in the end, I couldn't do it. Same. Oblivion was half as good as Morrowind, which itself was already skimming the bottom of the barrel.