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Because I disagree with most of your leftist views? Promoting human rights makes you a lefty now?

I thought you were making a joke, but wiki says I was wrong; there is a Pirate Party. However, it's not the third largest, but the third largest outside of parliment. Personally, I'm far more worried about Google Books than the Pirate Bay. You're right, but it's the third largest now. It all depends on whether it transforms into electoral victory, but the numbers seem to indicate it will. 50% of Swedish males under 30 plan to vote for it, if I recall the number correctly (it might have been under the age of 40). Gorgon: Proportional representation. People tend to vote special interest parties as their 2nd or third preference, which doesn't show up on vote share. There's a guy in the Senate here who got 2% of the primary vote but Senate quota is 14% (meaning he got at least 12% in preference flow). He's a ****, but that's beside the point. Anyway, I wish the Pirate Bay weren't so flagrantly obnoxious. I much prefer Mininova's attitude of copyright compliance.

How did I guess Wrath of Dagon and taks would come and defend torture.

Cheney is pure revulsion. I feel sympathy/empathy for Bush at times, but Cheney is constructed from elementary particles of vileness.

For an Aussie, trousers are what go over your undies.

Interestingly, Bethesda also owns Van Buren, the story, and its art assets now.

The Pirate Party is Sweden's third largest political party and, after the number of members they've gained because of this, will hold an even larger balance of power in Sweden next election. I wouldn't be crowing too soon if I were the MPAA. The government can keep the **** off my internet.

OK, 64-bit problems conceded, but last I heard that was a similar situation for 64-bit Windows (or has that all been patched up now?). Ubuntu fixes a steady stream of problems each update. For example, with 9.04, tablets are auto-detected and configured out of the box now like every other peripheral, which is a blessing. 9.04 also comes with a big upgraded burning package called Brasero which rivals Alcohol and Nero (though I think K3B is KDE, right, so you might not get it?) As for fonts - well, the free replacement seems fairly decent. I just download the proprietary ones from the package manager though. But this is similar to codecs and stuff - sure, they aren't installed by default, but nor are they on Windows. So many people think what the OEM puts on their computer is part of Windows, but doing a Windows install yourself is an eye-opener. Last 2 times I've installed XP on computers, it hasn't detected the soundcard, network card, or wireless card, which caused no end of headaches, especially since I obviously couldn't fetch drivers off the net. Which is why I'm glad Ubuntu is killing all the other Linux distros while standardising certain practices. Variety and competition are good, but I think that between BSD, Solaris, Apple, and Windows, enough of that exists already that we don't need Linux competing with itself.

Blow this, yet again Obsidian outsources a forum for it's games. Why? What's so bad about building up the community around here? And what happens if/when the partner company goes under or decides to close the forum? Cheap.

And when they do I'll believe it, I'll also be around to say "BAD MOVE GUYS!" Beth's tech is terrible. Wouldn't it make the most sense financially to use the same engine that already has all the assets created for it? IS it hard to move pre-existing assets between engines? Does it make any sense to do so? I am assuming of course that Obsidian's Fallout will reuse much of the assets from Bethie's fallout. Assets like sounds, cinematics, textures, skins, etc, are all fairly easy* to move between engines. Especially engines that are similar (e.g. both new 3D engines). Remember most of the things that go into a game are made outside of that game in something like Maya or Blender or some fancy sound studio thingo mabob.

Fair enough. Got any examples? Please exclude things that also don't work right on Windows out of the box. For obvious reasons. I think Apple takes the cake on things "just working right" out of the box, but that's an extremely closed environment.

It's what MCA said to Josh when he found out they were doing FNV. As in "Arrrgh, me trees! Where are me trees? Desert everywhere!".

I know, I know. They just look like such crap imo. Like one level above all text. Im not even a graphics whore and looking at screen caps of the FO's make me want to spork my eyes out. I get what you mean, but I think you're mistaken. Specifically screen shots don't do the game justice. Sure, it's pixelated now, but it's to modern RPG's what Quake 2 or Half-Life 1 are to modern FPS's - outdated but still infinitely playable.

Im not disappointed in the least and Im happy everyone else is happy. Im more curious as to why, and whether or not its just nostalgia. Fallout 1 and 2 are absolutely excellent RPGs to this day. There's a whole lot more to their appeal than just nostalgia. I guess it's something that'd make sense if you played them, but in a similar way what made games like SS2, DX1, and Torment good is also something timeless. regardless of their graphics or combat system or whatever now. I highly recommend you play them.

Hardly that simple. Just that those people who love the Fallout series want to see those traits they loved brought into the next incarnation of the game, however Fallout 3 was lacking in some of those aspects. I still very much liked Fallout 3, but it doesn't follow the theme of Fallout and Fallout 2 very well. I feel they can keep a lot of what Fallout 3 is, but add some depth to the game. Something a bit more substantial to it. Would you consider that "doable" as it probably wont be turn based? Isnt that where a lot of the charm came from wrt FO1 and FO2? I dunno, I havnt played any of them. *facepalm*

Sure is. Fair enough. Well, honestly, what do you want to know exactly? Do we want another Fallout game similar to Fallout 1 and 2 (conceding FPS and combat changes)? The answer is yes. We didn't get enough of it 10 years ago and we get barely any of it now. Frankly I'm sick of graphics engine upgrades and new and improved rag-doll physics. I want the "good old days" where the atmosphere and story was the focus. Maybe your question really is: do we want an Obsidian Fallout game instead of something else - maybe a new IP or steampunk or something? Well, still, yes. Sorry if this announcement disappoints you.

Sure is.

Hey Josh, could I request there be a spy character in the game with the alias "Fun Crocodile" who knows everything you do the moment you do it?

I wish I was Polish.

Not to piss on your parade, but judging by circumstances and Josh's wording, I think they might be recycling Aliens assets into FNV.

It's horrible, isn't it? I downloaded a wallpaper pack. But I guess you can figure that out yourself, so I'll just show you where to change wallpapers: System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Background You can also turn on or off 3D desktop graphics in the same place You can also change your desktop theme in the same place. I just switched mine to DarkRoom. It's orange and brown like the default theme but more stylish, IMHO. Especially with a black/techno wallpaper. This might also interest you: http://www.gnome-look.org/ Frankly I'd suggest switching to KDE 4.3 when it comes out. It's prettier and makes more sense than Gnome.

Probably because it has a Darth Vader accent instead?

I gotta agree. I didn't even deal personally with half these things in the original fallouts, but just the fact that they were there and they were adding to the realism and depth of the world made sense. Please don't shy away from an MA rating. Same.

My my you're a devil, funcroc. Well if that's the level of detail we can expect in FNV, hot damn! I bet Obsid is just hurling over Aliens models and skins and maps. I mean, no point wasting it right? It's not like most of it is Aliens specific (after a texture touch-up here or there).

Absolutely true! Um, except a Fallout game with complex quests and dialogue, no randomly generated areas, set in a wild west casino town, has absolutely nothing to do with Stalker. Oh and did you get the memo? Stalker didn't invent the FPS-RPG hybrid genre. Stalker was an RPG? I took Stalker as an example because it also features a destroyed world. It's basically a FPS, and Fallout without VATS is also basically a FPS (combat wise). More than most FPS's, but not really. Still that makes them even less alike. Purely combat-wise? Well, sure. Personally I'd prefer a Deus Ex combat system, though that's not even too different to Stalker's. Would it even be a bad thing if the combat was like Stalker's - FPS in a desert? I doubt Obsid will overhaul combat (besides a melee spruce up) and that's fine - story, dialogue and atmosphere are what matter.