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By the sounds of it, Episode 3 will be more like Half-Life 3. If it was a big plot twist, then they'd talk about the engine or sexier Alyx animations or something and just avoid plot talk. But they're doing almost the opposite - avoiding engine/mechanics talk.

You mean like the free ride Microsoft got by violating anti-trust laws for years to the detriment of competing products? You wouldn't let thief keep the stolen diamonds because because they suddenly stopped robbing banks. A mini package manager? Windows Update? You can easily download Firefox on Ubuntu without having any internet browser. It's not exactly hard to figure out. At this point in the game, what advantage does a larger market share offer to people with competing browsers? I should think this is obvious, given the array of features (especially Javascript support and standards compliance) IE lacks or has poor support for. Folks like Google and other web app/cloud vendors (and just web developers in general) constantly lament IE's market dominance for this reason. Also, I think you're under the assumption that all browsers are free these days. You're wrong. Not only is that not true, but even the free browsers have a business model embedded in their product (including Microsoft, where their business is to keep IE simple in order to slow or prevent cloud applications stealing customers from their core products such as Exchange or Office - Google's is exactly the opposite with Chrome, and Firefox's is searchbar revenue to fund future development... the business there being ideological).

There's no sniper rifle? You've got to be ****ing kidding me. Will we at least see enemies using them? It's a ****ing spy game!

You mean like the free ride Microsoft got by violating anti-trust laws for years to the detriment of competing products? You wouldn't let thief keep the stolen diamonds because because they suddenly stopped robbing banks. A mini package manager? Windows Update? You can easily download Firefox on Ubuntu without having any internet browser. It's not exactly hard to figure out.

Way to look a gifthorse in the mouth and than puke in it. If anything is ridiculous it's your attitude.

Stop threatning to make a restoration project of your own and make one, dammit! You promised us to work on it already by now... guess you're word isn't worth much? Exactly my thoughts. Where's that crack commando team of professional programmers you hired? Crack overdose.

Nah.

Um, no, given the number of games I've played whose poor portage from consoles to PCs is clearly evident, it's a perfectly valid question.

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Let me guess, the PC doesn't matter enough to you guys to get a GUI that's actually meant for it?

Agreed.

Can we dual wield silenced pistols? That would be epic.

One is probably FO:NV, but "couple" implies more than one?... *initiate speculashun* He doesn't mean FO:NV (though I know they're working on that, too). Edit: or maybe he does considering the date of the interview.

So porn is not real either? It's just 1's and 0's and shouldn't get anybody excited?

Weapon silencers (and silenced weapons like crossbows) in NOLF 1 and Deus Ex 1 were so sexy.

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Oh, no, that's fine. It's not an opiate (AFAIK that's a specific type of alkaloid, and Salvia isn't even an alkaloid), though. It's not habit forming, either, to answer your question. Opiates are not like most drugs because they actually cause physical dependence as well as psychological dependence (alcohol is the other well-known one to do that). The physical dependence is primarily determined by the delta and mu receptors, while Salvia is a kappa receptor agonist. The delta and mu receptors are also responsible for euphoria/pleasure, while the kappa one is not. Just a bit of trivia: paracetamol binds to cannabinoid receptors, yet is nothing like marijuana. Oh, not to mention kappa-agonism causes dysphoria at recreational doses, meaning a low abuse potential (and hence why I doubt Salvia will become the next party drug).

You're pretty close. As close as a lot of scientists, probably. Nobody's actually sure about the full specifics yet, but there's some sound theories. Part of the problem is that there's multiple types of ADHD presenting similar symptoms but with different neurochemical bases (although all revolving around the neurotransmitters dopamine and noradrenaline). The most common theory/ADHD type, IIRC, is that people with ADHD have too many 'recyclers'. So they have normal production of dopamine and noradrenaline in the synapses, but it's destroyed too fast. Supporting that theory is the fact that things like ritalin (and less known, cocaine), which are reuptake inhibitors, are therapeutic for people with ADHD. On the other hand, some people (relatively rare) with ADHD don't respond all that well to ritalin but do respond to methamphetamine, which is mainly a synapse stimulator - it increases dopamine production. Non-methylated amphetamine (dex) is both a reuptake inhibitor and a synapse stimulator. It's also a mild MAO inhibitor (MAO is also recycler of dopamine, but at a later stage, and appears to be normal in ADHD). It's likely both mechanisms (production levels in the synapse, and reuptake outside the synapses) are at work in at least some types of ADHD. What you suggested is essentially too many nerve/neuron connections (how else would you have too many synapses)? That'd mean too much dopamine produced, I'd think, and would also be easy to notice in the lab (same with too few connections). Related, however, is synapses which produce too much/too little dopamine. However, it's plausible some types of ADHD result from synapses which produce too little dopamine (again, stimulants all increase this production to varying degrees). I've been contemplating asking my doctor to prescribe me selegiline, which is an MAO-B inhibitor and thus does a similar job to amphetamines (and indeed is slightly metabolised into them) but without the potential stimulant effects (e.g. insomnia, euphoria, comedown). Early test show it being roughly as effective as Ritalin, whist lasting 24/7 and improving mood (something I can assure you Ritalin does not do - in fact I'd say it does the opposite). An obvious upside is that, not being a stimulant, its abuse potential in the general populace is non-existent. Here's an abstract of a scientific article on the basic concept of hypoarousal (lack of dopamine leading to lack of stimulation leading to stimulation seeking behaviour a.k.a. hyperactivity). This article mentions the concept of 'stochastic noise' which I've contemplated a bit, but neglected to mention previously (because I don't fully understand it, but am aware it's strongly related to how our brains calculate things and while seemingly chaotic is anything but random). Other studies have shown that stimulants work by refining nerve/synapse firing in the brain, making it more accurate, by altering 'random' (actually stochastic) noise levels, presumably via their interaction with dopamine. In people without ADHD, they make noise levels worse, probably because they make them fire too much - making these specific synapses less accurate (i.e. decreasing concentration/attention for those without ADHD). http://www.citeulike.org/user/shoshin/article/2896407

So has this been released yet? I've been waiting like 5 years.

From the technical point of view, K2 had many more problems than The Original Trilogy Remake KOTOR 1 had. But from the artistic point of view, TSL owned K1's existance and threw it right here: TSL has been released? Oh, wait, I'm thinking of that fan expansion pack. NM.

Oh, lame. That's not stealth.

I'm not a fan either, but Beyond Good and Evil did it (and lots of other console-ish things) and I survived and still enjoyed the game. I tend to feel checkpoint saves detract from replayability, though. If you have to replay many areas repeatedly from scratch it doesn't lend itself to wanting to replay the game.

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We have an inventory including armour slots? This gets better and better!

because he was suicidal? ^gorgon: people may have depended upon this to put food on their table, but nooooo, we can't think that because it's about money. heaven forbid we condemn his cowardly act and the potential for people being out of work because it's about money. you're just an ass. is everything about being an ass with you? taks Notice how I can belittle your beliefs without calling you names. It's a useful skill to have particularly where you aren't allowed to call people names. It's a mistake to get too drawn in/worked up. I mean it's not life or death, it's just two guys posting their thoughts on a message board. If it were personal or face to face all the usual restraints would be in place, and we would never have reached this place in the first place. Try to remember that. lol