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I sometimes wonder if it's because I was a kid when I played games like Torment, and now I'm 21. But then I hear people who were 21 when the first played games like Torment say the same thing. Seems the Gaming industry really has lost its spark. The only game that has really grabbed me since the days of HL1, Deus Ex 1, and Torment, is Portal. And I guess I played Diablo 2 until well into 2005. So I'm looking to Valve and Blizzard for hope.

To be honest, it's not the laws. It's the people. We really need to deal with this cultural self-loathing bull**** that's so trendy nowadays in the West. When even the French are measured in their chauvinism, you know there's definitely something wrong. Yes. Everyone equates tolerance with shoveling sh!t on ones own head these days. Political correctness is a sort of censorship that outdoes the Nazis at their best. So irritating. Maybe you should've been there when the Nazis were exterminating and justifying the extermination of people they thought were impure - so that you could understand the naive stupidity of your statement.

And why exactly should Obsidian care about Mac and Linux? Because he's an Apple fan and by definition believes that the world should revolve around him? That's odd. You seem to have assumed a lot in that post. First of all, I'm an Ubuntu (Linux) fan, not a Mac/Apple fan. Second of all, isn't it the Windows fans who believe that the world should revolve around them when they say "Who cares about Mac or Linux"?

It's OK if the publisher made it free 2 years after they released it. You guys should try Savage 1 and 2 (by the guys making Heroes of Newerth). They're free now, so why not? Plus, they scored well. :D

King Arthur congratulates me for destroying Dr. Robotnik

Tell us how that last 1% goes. We're all dying to hear.

Well if you bother to read this thread, you'd see that's exactly what we're trying to figure out: is Mass Effect's DRM so intrusive that it's not worth buying the game?

I hope there's no DLC. I hate that ****. Make a proper expansion pack you lazy sods.

Hopefully it's delayed while they iron out bugs.

Yeah, I've been avoiding buying it because of it's ****ty DRM as well. Mirror's Edge was pretty bad like that. Don't want to go through that again.

Here are the odds line: Krezack 10:1, Pop 4:1, Deadly Nightshade 30:1, taks 10000:1, Walsingham 200:1, Kaftan 15:1, Guard Dog 10000:1, Laozi 80:1 Krookie 75:1, Rostere 100:1, Monte Carlo 90:1, Not an alt just a fool 2:1 I'm far more inclined to believe it's the alt of one of you crazy libertarians, since he's clearly designed to rally the people against communism and such by virtue of the stupidity of his arguments in defence of it.

No, it's an element of socialism. And communism. And democratic socialism. And Social democracy. None of which are the same thing. 'Might'? America is the only Western country without it. There are plenty of examples around the world of universal healthcare working in an exemplary manner, and there has been for decades - it's certainly not new. I don't know about you, but I generally find people don't loathe each other at all. Heck, the fact that voters in democracies voted for such systems in so many different countries across the globe says kind of the opposite. Bad life experiences on your part?

Nice. You have used fairly arbitrary proportions in your "reproductive chance", and you are assuming that there are inheritable traits nowadays that both impede and encourage reproduction in human beings. You are also assuming that an A parent will have an A child and so on. It's cool to simplify things for the sake of an explanation, but when you're trying to make theoretical predictions, it just doesn't cut it. Not saying that your conclusion is wrong per se, just that the premises are wrong as they intend to represent mankind at present. Care to try again? Actually that sounds like a fairly feeble attempt to reject his working. For instance: You honestly find that assumption difficult to understand?

What are you talking about? Doctors are one of the most, if not the most, highly paid professions in Australia (I think only optometry and dentistry are higher paid) - especially private ones (which is another point - what makes you think public healthcare precludes private healthcare competing with it?). I was almost certain high pay for doctors that was a universal thing around the developed world. Oh, I forgot actuarials. I think they get paid more. Fact of the matter is, quality of care isn't reduced in the other Western countries with universal healthcare (pick one - America is the only one without it). Hey, doesn't Cuba have healthcare quality equal to America or something?

Never going to happen? a) NATO b) EU's mutual defence pact with itself c) a small EU army already exists.

I hope you learnt about just the term from these forums, and gained your instruction on how to use it elsewhere.

Somehow I'm not able to comment on this (or even concur with an American commenting on it) without making taks' 'patriotic' blood boil like a Chinese nationalist eavesdropping on a conversation about the deplorable nature of the Tainanmen Square Massacre.

Anyway, reading over this game, looks interesting. I'll give it a go.

Because it looks like piss, and its such a cheapshot to pull graphicswise. Either you go full cartoony like TF2 or even toon/cellshading, or you keep it regular. You dont take a regular game and slap on some cheap outlines because someone in the design meeting is a complete loon. I like it, and so do quite a lot of others. Looks like your gut is wrong.

You sound drunk.

It's not that far from it in some parts of the south... Oh, I'm well aware. Disturbing.

Wow. Reading American reactions to universal healthcare is truly bizarre at times. Alien almost.

Guard Dog, you're right, it seems a bit silly. Let the buggers fly it though, I guess. It's not exactly the Nazi Swastika.

Just buy a computer.

Actually, plenty of other publishers are too, e.g. EA. DirectX is a standard? No. Standards are open and free. E.g. HTML. But yeah, you're right, DirectX is certainly popular on Mac, Linux, PS3.