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Even though you were being silly, that's actually a far better idea.

Neither do we. Crazy Americans... I'm pretty sure that the jury is part of the ancient Greek concept of democracy.

So I just realised I'm depressed. For about a month or more now I've just been finding it harder and harder to smile, laugh, find joy in things. I've become increasingly cynical, apathetic, and lonely, and my sleep patterns are getting more and more ****ed up. I also no longer see myself as having direction in life, and I'm starting just not give a damn what the hell happens. Food doesn't really taste good anymore and the only time I really feel anything is when I'm drunk. It's also not a good sign when you start empathising with anecdotes of suicides. I'm also increasingly picking fights with people over trivial things that aren't even worth it, and then feeling somewhat at fault afterwards because I dislike confrontation (normally I'd just fire off a quip, smile knowingly, and move on). I'm not really any more unmotivated than usual, though, which is odd. Nor would I consider myself 'sad' as such. I hope it's just loneliness. I've pretty much been entirely isolated for a year now - no job, a very basic enrollment in study, living by myself. I am going back to uni this year which I really really hope alleviates things a bit. O-week (orientation) is in 4 days. It's getting painful counting down the days. I'll be living on campus among 250 other people in my residential hall alone, and eat catered meals with about 1,000 other residents. Maybe the sheer volume of people will cheer me up. It felt horrible leaving my previous residential hall and all my friends at my old uni at the end of 2007 only to be alone in another town with nothing to do. I don't know why I'm pouring my heart out on here. It just feels a bit cathartic I guess. I'll regret it tomorrow.

So he was the "project manager" of a 3-year vapourware project with an end product he doesn't want to use himself, despite making the type of game the engine was made for. I think what we'll see is another Project FIFE. No offense dude but one great programmer is worth 10 project managers (100 of the kind who can't manage a project). You know, you really are sounding like a bitter jackarse with your unfounded accusations of doom, Lare. If you really, really, really think that despite the odds and the fact that this project is already half done in terms of the engines (whether GemRB or FIFE), then why not simply ignore it and irrationally presume it failed to satisfy your predictions? Everybody wins: we don't have to listen to you moan, and you get to feel smug.

Oh dear.

You can get the Internet through a TV cable? Wow.

Seems like it. Don't get me wrong, HL2 was OK, but only Ravenholm and Episode 1 came close to matching HL1's motivation/adventurousness and atmosphere.

Nah, Sony denied that rumour a few days ago man. They called it "The greatest fiction story since Lord of the Rings.", which is a bit different to a simple "No, and we don't speculate on rumours."

Actually I did not. Re-read my post. That doesn't really make sense based on the figures or appeal of Steam (nor for example it's mandated use in many mainstream games). A more interesting focus might be the shift to success of light-weight consoles in recent times. Compare the sales of the DS and Wii vs Xbox and PS3. If that trend continues it flies squarely in the face of MW's earlier claims about performance w.r.t. to consoles and PCs.

It most certainly does for the purposes of calculating time left in the series.

According to IMDB, there's 6 left. Episode 14 was when Gaeta and Zarek were shot. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362/episodes#season-4 Yeah, so there's actually 7 episodes left because the last one (Daybreak Part 2) is double-length.

Actually, Fahrenheit is a pretty silly system and choosing it because it's not logical is an even sillier reason. There's a reason America is basically the only country in the world still using it (and even then only for non-technical use).

Make that six episodes and I'd like to see how they're going to wrap up the story line and all the loose ends. I can't see it happening. They'll probably do a Stargate and do a movie after the Season ends. Are you sure it's 6? The last episode is two in one. Are you counting that?

What is 'barely chilly'? To me 'barely chilly' is like 15 to 20 Celsius. Chilly is 10 to 15 and freezing is below 10. It's 20 Celsius outside here atm, although my room is 30 C because of stored heat.

Um, that's my point: console gaming seems to have peaked in the 90's. Pardon? It was a generalisation obviously. 2000 is still almost a decade ago. The offerings since seem to have relatively lack-lustre install bases. Specifically I'm talking about this: Nintendo Wii 2006 044960000 44.96 million[5] Sony PlayStation 3 2006 021300000 21.3 million[14] Microsoft Xbox 360 2005 028000000 28 million[10] Microsoft Xbox 2001 024000000 24 million[11][12] Nintendo Nintendo GameCube 2001 021740000 21.74 million[3][13] Sony PlayStation 2 2000 140000000 140 million[1] Sega Dreamcast 1998 010600000 10.6 million[16][17] Nintendo Nintendo 64 1996 032930000 32.93 million[3] Sony PlayStation 1994 102490000 102.49 million (shipped)[4] Sega Saturn 1994 017000000 17 million[15] or 9.5 million[16] Scuse the formatting - just order by year on the actual site. But the groupings show a fairly clear pattern of massive sales for each generation collectively, up until the current one. Even taking into account they've only been around for 3 or 4 years they seem low comparatively and given the trends I mentioned in my post above.

Well, yes, there's a bit of a self-selection problem evident in that only the people with computers sufficiently powerful to run Steam games will use Steam. But pretty much any computer around these days can use Steam. This is certainly a sample space problem, but it's minor enough.

Huh. Look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-...o_game_consoles If the console industry is booming, why did it seemingly peak in the 1990's? There are more people alive today, people are richer, and the current consoles are far superior to their earlier brethren. PC's certainly haven't wasted any time in this regard. Seems like the PR and spin we here in the media may not tell the full story.

That's off-track, no? Most people don't build their own PC, they buy it. Anyway, whatever the anecdotal stories and intuitive guesses are, there's some real hard data for us to actually look out coming out of Valve's steam (which is a pretty unbiased cross-section of the gaming population AND has a multi-million person sample size). http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

No. It's an FN FAL. The Galil is an Israeli optimised version of the AK47.

See, this is an example of a GOOD BSG episode. It's like it goes in cycles. The **** makes the good look amazing. So what did Tyrol see at the end? Was it a flaw in the ship's structural integrity? A Cylon hallucination that means something to him? What?

Bemusingly, you posted the results of a search query and claimed that was 'hard data'. Of course people were going to laugh at you. It's most probable a game natively compiled on Linux would run faster than the same game natively compiled on Windows, yes.

YOU'RE the one with the weird unit system, you convert it. Actually it's a german system, 100F is his wifes temp (when she was menstruating so she was hotter than normal), and 0 is the coldest day in his village. And that's not weird?

i just had soem much kilkenny we had to awitch to guiness. needless tyo say i specualte my sister's boyfriend is viable

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