Humodour

Yeah, it's amazing how much **** is on web pages now that I use Chrome. Shame, because it's awesome otherwise.

What the BBC was to broadcast in the event of nuclear war: And a very Fallout-looking nuclear war brochure to be distributed to households in the event of nuclear war: You can find a copy of the booklet here: http://www.atomica.co.uk/main.htm

THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T USE INTERNET EXPLORER. Ahem. <3 Firefox

ummmmm.... didnt diablo 1 create the action rpg genre? how could it be fake? Don't even bother arguing with Vologic. It's probably safer to just put him on your ignore list, but I like to be entertained from time to time!

You are more entertaining when you're hungry. Also, I like that idea.

Oh, who claimed that? I'd be quite happy to pay good money for a proper expansion pack. But developers seem too lazy to do that these days and instead palm off this cheap crappy DLC bull**** to us for a price that's entirely not worth playing. DLC appears to consistently be nothing better than a mod, except the difference is mods are free (and often more fun).

I'm resigned to the fact that the EU will always exist and always be a European-only clubhouse, even though the only difference between countries like Canada, Australia, and Britain is distance. That said, I don't really want Australia to join it anyway; merely to have the option. Australia is better off going it alone with our neighbours in Asia - New Zealand, Indonesia, the Pacific islands, Thailand, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, etc. Ever since Britain ditched us for the EU, we've had to strike trade deals with Asia instead and it has produced phenomenal results. I think the EU is for the best, as long as: a) the Treaty of Lisbon is largely where the enlargement of 'federal' powers ends (I'm not sure this will happen), and b) it becomes more democratic (I'm not sure this will happen). Heck, I dunno. I don't think Europe needs the Treaty. Maybe that means I'm against it? Who cares what I think? I'm not a European!

I hope not.

Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition includes all the DLC and costs exactly what I paid for Fallout 3 with no DLC last year. If they have "two years of DLC" planned for Dragon Age, I'll wait two years and see what's on the shelf then. At that point, I might as well give it another year and come back when it's dropped to the $20-30 range. I get excited enough to buy a title at launch a couple times a year, tops. DLC schemes like Dragon Age's are ideal for dousing that excitement. That's a good idea.

DLC should either be a) free, or b) big, as big an expansion pack, and sold both digitally and in retail stores. I.e. DLC as it is shouldn't exist and we should have normal expansion packs. Ship the x-packs digitally as your main method if you want to bypass physical distribution costs or whatever. Anything less than an x-pack just feels like a rip-off.

That makes me think it's a false positive stemming from a byte mismatch test or the like. It's not unheard of, in fact it's not that uncommon at all. Yeah. The Torchlight main executable is accidentally flagged as a virus but some prominent virus scanners. I say the solution is to ditch virus scanners.

Whoa, really? Maybe you can influence them to stop being **** and return to their roots, then.

Seconded. Earlier I was talking about just the DLC, but upon reflection there seems little point bothering with the actual game at all. I'll stick with nifty indie games (like HoN, Plants vs Zombies, World of Goo, Torchlight) and developers largely loyal to the PC like Blizzard and Valve. On that note, I regret purchasing Borderlands.

They did this for Borderlands, too. It's disgusting, and I'm certainly not going to buy it.

Apparently the entire game is made by one guy.

Agree pretty much 100% with this guy. For a start, it's absolutely ludicrous that copyright lasts 70 (100?) years. It should be less than 10.

I wouldn't bother buying Mass Effect if I were you. Not worth it. Well, maybe worth it for a few hours, but not worth more than $10, maybe $15 in a bargain bin,

At least in Australia. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/11/australia...rows-8-in-2009/ This breaks 2008's previous growth record. Gaming is a $2 billion industry here now, apparently as large as the wine industry. I'm nothing but pleased. I'd be interested in the figures for Europe, Canada, America, Japan, etc, because even though these places all went into actual recessions, I suspect they might still have experienced growth in the games sector.

Torchlight is better.

So I finally started seriously playing Torchlight. I'm a level 10-ish Vanquisher and it's loads of fun. I like how there are portals and levels available that provide access to creeps far above your own level, in case the main dungeon gets boring. But so far the main dungeon has also been refreshingly challenging, requiring tactics and the avoidance of pain (bosses can one-hit kill, creep mobs swiftly overwhelm). I imagine it'd be painful playing as the warrior class. (Playing on Very Hard for reference.) Definitely two thumbs up for this game. Recommended it to all my friends, gave them a bit of a demo, and now they're planning to buy it. Does anybody know how many levels are available in the Torchlight demo?

I fully expect no less than 5 outrageously drunken posts.

But you're trying to tell me that acetaldehyde is not the main cause of hangovers. That's just absolutely silly. Sure, lack of water will make it worse - that's called dehydration (not hangover) and it impairs kidney and liver function. But even with full hydration you'll still get a damned hangover because what ethanol has to be converted into - acetaldehyde - is about 20 times more toxic than plain ethanol as well as carcinogenic and mutagenic. Case in point: lots of Asians have acetaldehyde dehydrogenase mutations which cause them to process ethanol into acetaldehyde either slower or faster, with predictable results. TBH it sounds like your professor wanted to emphasise the point that dehydration while drinking is a superbly bad idea. Bah, whatever. We both think we're right and it's immaterial because both dehydration and toxins play large roles in the severity of a hangover. Edit: Also, the small (and I do mean small) amounts of methanol in alcohol will be almost entirely passed out of the body as methanol rather than converted to the toxic formate because they compete for the same dehydrogenase enzymes.

I've felt the same way for a long time now. I don't buy many games per year anymore. When I do, I try to give them at least several hours of my time to see if I'll get sucked in...but usually not so much. Lots of games on my shelf practically untouched. Torchlight is fun & simple, but I can see how it's not mentally obsessive, if that makes sense. I found Fate the same way. Enjoyable monster hacking fluff for a while, but not something to be replayed repeatedly. Too many years, too many of the same types of games. The first few hours of Borderlands I was ho-hum up in the air about it...but it grabbed me at some point. It'll probably get dull before I get thru the entire game w/all 4 chrs...but good enough. Same. It's a sad feeling. And I'm only ****ing 21. What is this ****.

Um, ethanol is largely non-toxic, but what it always gets converted into in our stomachs is a highly toxic known carcinogen, so I suspect that is actually what causes hangovers. Water likely just helps your liver process it faster. It sure does help though. I'm pretty sure methanol is not involved in the process unless you're a metho drinker.

Yeah they've been at it for years trying to write this horrible little infringement on civil liberties. I'm thoroughly disgusted that Australia is participating. And what's worse, the ****ing thing is being developed in secret. How democratic.