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There, there. I'm here now.

Gothic 3. ...from which I got bored after 5 hours. Next. So what you're saying is that a game is only as long as you think it's fun to play..? Real clever. Your ADD doesn't exactly have any relevance in this matter. Gothic 3 is still hundreds of hours long. Fun fact: I know many people with ADHD, I have ADHD myself, and computer games are one of the things we can immerse ourselves in near indefinitely without getting bored (the Internet is another). It's called hyperfocusing, and it occurs when the subject at hand is emotionally investing (consider that most games are an exciting adventure where you constantly explore new areas/concepts).

Yes, but Print on Demand publishers have always existed for books. The same is sort of true for CDs. But what Amazon does is provide a large enough global community to allow for such services to be cheap and highly penetrative (i.e. selling 1000 CDs/books on Amazon is far easier than trying to sell 1000 CDs locally to interested listeners). Similar for books. I think it's great that Amazon is disrupting the old business models like this.

I coded a C++ assignment today and restarted work on my 2D sidescroller after a few months hiatus. Edit: I need to find another job. It's been a year and accommodation funds are starting to run low.

$15 a month is too expensive (and that's American!). $10 is perfectly reasonable.

I switched to a 22" Widescreen LCD with 20000:1 contrast ratio and 2ms response time for $350 AUD. I miss my CRT. The quality just isn't the same.

Actually, I don't care. DX is DX and AP is AP. Even if AP won't be perfection made manifest, I know what to expect from an Obs game, and really really really doubt that I'll be disappointed. Especially if Sega lets them finish the f-ing game. Indeed. Though I also wouldn't shed any tears if AP were a DX clone. In fact, I'd be deliriously happy. But I know Obsidian is dying to make their own mark and would like to avoid their flagship game being called a clone if at all possible.

lol wut. To summarize: The trial judge is being accused of bias because he is a member of several copyright lobby groups. The judge assigned to review those allegations is also a member of the same groups. What's worse is that it seems the original judge may have directed the case specifically to this new judge. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/j...moved-for-bias/

Hmm. The preliminary results are not what I was expecting. MMOs don't seem to have sticking power.

Fall guys never exist in a totalitarian state? Anyway, you seem to be implying here that acts of genocide are somehow better if they're performed "democratically." How does that make the least bit of sense? As the old quote goes, "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." Trickle-down economics is a disgusting and terrible theory that has hurt the lower class in America. It is a vicious attack on their sovereignty, and on their ability to survive and protect their children, with the sole purpose of lining the rich's pockets. Americans in the bottom 7/10th in 1992 were making less money than they were in 1979. How does that work? Trickle-down economics is how. PS: Clinton? Come the **** on. A completely politicized attack is equivalent actual risk of justice? Name a president who was ever actually arrested for actual ****ing crimes. (Hint: You can't.) The crimes of US presidents are excused and pushed under the rug. How is historical revisionism better than considering an act a "necessary evil"? Both attempt to excuse terror and violence, just in different ways. Soviet Russia was pretty ****. Just sayin'.

Indeed, on both counts.

Do you play MMOs?

Maybe that's true in Commie land.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/2...4&art_pos=3 So awesome.

Uh. Weird. Opera has always worked fine for me. BTW, download the new version, Opera 10. Perhaps that'll fix whatever the problem is. Edit: If you've set up a proxy on Firefox/IE then you need to do the same for Opera. But if that were the problem you'd be getting time-out errors, not blank pages. Still, check it.

The people who care have either moved on with their lives, or are sick of being angry with the fact that Bethesda now controls Fallout, for better or worse (hint: worse).

I hate pringles for their advertising. For the longest time they ran these ads insinuating that opening a tin of pringles was a ticket to PARTYVILLE and that music would start playing and your family would love you if you ate them, but oh no, cut to Mr. McGreasyHands who's eating regular chips and wiping his hands on his shirt as he cries off in a corner, sure in the knowledge that loneliness will accompany him to the grave. I generally hate any advertising, on a frightening and primal level, that insinuates that buying a product will in some way make you happier. To a degree this means I hate all adversiting, but some ad campaigns are much more blatant about it. I want to have your babies.

Nobody screams 'discrimination' here. Except maybe the Socialist Alliance. But no-one credible. Well, I think Australia does it right. You set limits, boundaries, and frameworks. We significantly lowered our intake of sub-Saharans at one point because they were simply not integrating well. It's completely reasonable to expect your immigrants to obey your laws, learn your language (but not lose their own), arrive with savings, and find a job (hence why skilled workers are given priority). I believe part of the problem in Europe, and I've done a little research on the Netherlands and France, is that in the 1970's or so (from memory), the governments of the time pitched these massive immigration pushes to places like Turkey and the Middle East for cheap labour at the height of the baby boom. Unfortunately they didn't bother to screen those arrivals, didn't bother to plan for what would would happen 10 years later (perhaps they expected them to simply go home?), didn't bother to ensure the arrivals had saved to pay for their stay, and didn't bother to integrate them from the start. Economic migrants are surely different to refugees? You can't expect someone who flees for their life to turn up in the same state as someone who plans it? There's a separate refugee quota that bypasses traditional skilled immigration laws, AFAIK. For example, of the illegal immigrants that are caught by border patrol, those who are judged to be genuine refugees are given permanent residence (or a temporary visa, something like that).

Hmm. Well he did mention he's being careful to limit what features he exposes. Personally since the game isn't a Stealther I kind of prefer they omit 'advanced' stealth. It complicates the game too much to the point of annoy-ment. Or at least I suspect it would. Deus Ex level stealth seems like a good balance.

It wouldn't greatly surprise me if that were true, but I find it odd that I've never heard of it before. Sources?

Unless, of course, it is a jedi engineer. Oh? Would you perhaps call him a Jengineer?

Really? I'd at least expect there to be cameras and alarm panels for guards to trigger.

Yes. Ubuntu has detected my wireless cards and networks properly since I first installed it 3 years ago.

I will now buy this game. That's one of the main things from Deus Ex I was hoping you'd emulate/improve.

Wait, what? I thought the game had unlimited ammo? Wait, what? What? They changed it? YES!