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Well I'm not fat, so hopefully low.

Technically it's not what I did today, but yesterday I caught swine flu. Lame. I should be over it within about 3 days if it follows the same pattern in my body as seasonal flu. I know why I caught it, too - a massive night out on Saturday with my sister and her mates for her birthday. Hangover + dehydration = dead immune system.

Considering what reviewers thought of the piece of **** that was Oblivion (i.e. they ate it up, similar for NWN1 OC), why do you give a rats what they have to say about the game?

Amen.

Oh, is Turkey a Western country now? Turkey attacks China 'genocide'

I wrote that after 36 hours without sleep. Still, I'm curious why you think people will soon consider Google evil? Microsoft did have to earn that rep.

I'd love a vampires or changeling game!

MechWarrior 4 will be freeware shortly.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1...-Free?art_pos=9 I've never played MW before, but I'm going to download MechWarrior 4 once it's free and obviously if I like it I'll buy the new one. Shame more companies aren't smart enough to do this kind of thing. The games from the year 2000 for those interested.

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I also want a revolver magnum. It would have 17 chambers (prime numbers are important) and shoot ionised gas.

I can assure you that Aussie coffee is nothing to write home about. Significant amounts of Malt Whiskey and whipped cream are to be considered essential supplements I think that's characteristic of coffee in general. Tea is most certainly where it's at.

Bioware romances in general are tremendously laughable.

Why? I think people are simply paranoid because that's the way big tech companies of the past have acted. There's little evidence Google acts that way and ample evidence they don't. It's always good to be cautious about a company gaining more power, but along with that cautiousness comes the need to eventually determine whether it is actually warranted. Edit: It's good to see Google finally compare the rumours, but I'll stick with Ubuntu for now. I might get a netbook if my current jobs works out well, so I'll try Chrome on that one day. I can't say whether I'll like it or not yet. Especially since Intel and Ubuntu also offer their own netbook operating systems that are supposedly pretty awesome. It's also good to see Google using Linux as the kernel. If nothing else, Google's advertising and brand name strength should at least open people up to the existence of alternate operating systems, so Apple and Ubuntu should see extra uptake from this effort.

New Zealand also comes highly recommended. Although it's like the Eastern Europe of Oceania. Or perhaps more like the Portugal of Oceania. How many mods have I ticked off so far? I count at least two. Anyway in both Aus and NZ, exchange rates are favourable for Europeans atm, and air fares will probably never be this cheap again. Same applies to prices across the tourism industry in general. If Britain and Ireland can be part of Europe I don't see why we can't!

Australia.

http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showuser=25107 Is this user some kind of elaborate marketing tactic? A poor kid with a comp full of spyware? A 4chan troll? A bot with very sophisticated AI? I can't new york asian escort decide! Help me. Edit: Aww, they deleted all but one of his posts.

AP is doing it properly (compare a Torment romance to a BG 2 romance) and so I have no problem with it, and it's also the Obsidian way to do romances in general: hint at them all you like (e.g. flirting, perhaps random sex, etc), all while avoiding them completely. You could say Obsidian has commitment issues.

Not sure if you're thinking of a different game (Guild Wars?) but CoH has a monthly fee and Champions Online will too. ****, I just lost interest in this game. SAD PANDA. Edit: Oh well, I'll just go buy Guild Wars. It looks fun and is still supported. honestly, if you're buying games quite a bit, and then get into an MMO you'll find you've started saving money because rather than buy 1 60 buck game a month, you're only paying the 15 bucks for the subscription and then maybe getting a game every other month (or at three month intervals). Nah. I'm sorry but that just doesn't really make sense. There's valid reasons to play MMOs (if you're a rich enough bastard) but replacing existing games isn't one of them. The main attraction of Diablo 2 was pretty much what Hurlshot said, and it'd be the main reason I'd play an MMO. I'd certainly still buy other games. It sort of comes down to art again. Something like an MMO isn't really 'art' to me, it's just mindless fun. But something like Planescape: Torment or perhaps Beyond Good & Evil 2 (when it comes out) is far closer to art and something that satisfies me on a higher and deeper level. I wouldn't suddenyl forsake that just because I'm subscribed to an MMO. You also can't own an MMO, or replay an MMO 10 years later. So instead of buying the game you're really just renting it.

Not sure if you're thinking of a different game (Guild Wars?) but CoH has a monthly fee and Champions Online will too. ****, I just lost interest in this game. SAD PANDA. Edit: Oh well, I'll just go buy Guild Wars. It looks fun and is still supported.

I hope it's Grim Fandango or Jedi Knight.

I haven't played the game (CoH), but I've heard good things about it's playability and ability to captivate. I guess it's similar one of those things where you get people swearing Diablo 2 was a shell of game - obviously YMMV. And unlike other MMOs, except arguably D2/D3, CoH and Champions are pay-once, not pay per month, which is a massive selling point for me (assuming the game itself holds up to expectations).

"Another shift"? There hasn't been any shift that I'm aware of. There's this big myth that PC gaming is dying because console gaming is growing. In fact, they're both growing - rapidly. It's not a zero-sum game. Gamers are also some of Microsoft's strongest early adopters. Compare Valve stats to Net Apps states: 33% of gamers have Vista vs 25% of general users. The problem with Vista isn't that gamers avoided it - it's that everyone avoided it. I don't think that game developers are going to suddenly switch to consoles just because gamers don't adopt Windows 7 rapidly. It wouldn't exactly make sense since consoles are even less powerful than PCs, and another generation (that would take advantage of improvements in OpenGL 3.1 and DirectX 11) isn't due out for years to come. I actually wasn't contradicting you - you were right. I was largely just pointing out that while certainly better than Vista, Windows 7 isn't all sunshine and lollipops and that people migrating from XP to Windows 7 will experience similar difficulty to those that migrated from XP to Vista. Windows 7 is 2 operating systems divorced from Windows XP.

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Except that it still has a lot of the same problems as Vista for people moving from XP... and just recently two of my friends in my game design course who love Vista (god only knows why) tried Windows 7 and then uninstalled it a week later. Now I don't think Microsoft is getting complacent with Win 7, but I think the media world is. Which could result in a backlash for Microsoft similar to Vista. One year is ridiculous. Windows 7 adoption won't even be at 20% by then. Two years is slightly more believable, but the notion that all developers will be willing to switch to DX11 only-games once Windows 7 comes out is rather faith-based. I know for a fact Blizzard for example will continue to support DX9 (or rather, Windows XP) for ages to come. And considering that publishers like EA are placing a lot more emphasis on Mac OS X these days (and that developers like iD, Epic, and Blizzard always have) and hence OpenGL, I think the future of Windows 7 only games is rather murky. Oh, and Valve - like Blizzard, they pride themselves on their support for the largest number of gamers possible. Can't see them going DX11-only any time soon. Anyway, it's not like OpenGL stood still while Microsoft innovated, after all. For reference, people said the same thing about DX10 and Vista. It didn't happen. Take a look at what Valve sees on Steam. It's a pretty interesting snapshot of all gamers: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/