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you mean god help the US, right? go back to australia twit. taks When you guys stick your noses into everybody else's business, don't complain when they start sticking their noses into yours. The US impacts on the rest of the world. We thus take great interest in who you guys elect. We don't want some moron like Sarah Palin running your country into the ground because then your problems will just start spilling over into the rest of the world like they are now. Now go on, take up your super-shortsighted isolationist stance, taks. It meshes really super well with your supposed free market ideology. Not. wow, such an ignorant statement. there is no such thing. this very concept means BIG inefficient bureaucracies, which is entirely against the concept of a small government. the US citizens rightly want a small government. and should the pelosi/reid/obama reign give us the opposite, GD is correct, the libertarian types will move into power. fine by me... taks Haha. Good luck with your delusions of grandeur. I wish you luck in finding this 'Libertopia' you so desperately crave. Meanwhile, the world keeps turning.

This is a lame marketing gimmick. If they want to call it 'Recoil' in English, call it that. Don't bastardise the spelling or you'll just suffer the original problem all over again.

I agree, it's a retarded name. Just call it 'recoil' if that's what they're going for. Or if they want a Swedish word, chose something that at least sounds cool in English.

Hah! After the way Arnie stupidly mocked Obama's physique as a reason he shouldn't be president, I highly doubt there's any love between the two. Still, Arnold is a green energy proponent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwar...onmental_record

Doubt it. I imagine Obsidian is in unbreakable funding contracts with Sega, so the only other thing is consumption, and to be honest I actually doubt that will drop noticeably. A game isn't something you buy every week - it's a unique thing. That said, the IT industry and science research in general has been and will be hit pretty hard by this because they both really on venture capital, grants and various forms of funding, which get diverted to more immediate concerns in times like this. I imagine they will cope, though. Yahoo! might collapse.

Yes, like Half-Life 1! But eh, they've still got one HL2 episode left to milk in '09, and frankly I can't blame them. It's a winning business model all round: the fans like it, there's plenty of fans, and you don't need to alter the engine or game mechanics at all. I would, of course, like to see them make some new stuff, though. Portal and Left 4 Dead seem like interesting forays into FPS gaming, but it's almost like they don't really know anything about making games besides Half-Life. But maybe that's a good thing. The people who do 'know' about making games seem to miss more than they hit, yet Valve only ever hits.

Um, what's wrong with 'Mitsubishi Pajero' or 'Ford Nova'?

Holy ****, never become a games designer. I am pumped. This'll be epic. Yeah, that's a good point. You wouldn't want to play the games of the best FPS developer out there or anything.

German and Dutch women have such a sexy accent. Rrowr.

After the election, 75% of Americans support Obama's presidency: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iMUMOO...XXvcp5SVyFO7xXg Meanwhile, Rasmussen shows 70% of Republicans think Sarah Palin was a good choice and would make a good president. God help us. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_con...n_helped_mccain Edit: Oh, and Obama ended up splitting Nebraska's electoral votes, winning the Omaha district. For a pretty much final total of 365 electoral votes.

I'd pronounce it 'reh-kill'/'wreck-ill', like Jekyll in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Or perhaps I'd pronounce it 'ree-kill' like 'regal'. Actually yeah, 'ree-kill' (a short ee sound) sounds more appropriate. I've never seen or heard such a name before, though. But hey, it depends on your target audience. Australian English has about 27 vowels while the average American dialect only has 9 to 12 vowells.

The thing is, the Republicans can't keep campaigning on a theme of neoconservatism (war, war, WAR!!!) or social authoritarianism (gay is a sin durrh). If the Republicans want to re-invent themselves to be remotely successful in era of globalisation and immigration, they're going to have to start campaigning on a platform social centrism and social welfare made efficient by the free market. The trouble is, unlike most other countries (where the other party is actually centre-left), the Democrats already occupy that centre-right or 'Third Way' niche. Which leaves the GOP in a particular bind, since it can only campaign on issues of ideological fundamentalism (which doesn't work too well, though I'm sure you'll disagree). Getting rid of moderate Republicans is absolutely ludicrous. You can't get rid of people like Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, or Susan Collins and then expect to suddenly win those heavily Democratic seats (Maine and Pennsylvania) with far-right conservatives. The only reason those seats are Republican in the first place is precisely because those Senators are moderates.

lol. The GOP's plans to get out of the massive hole they've dug themselves involve purging moderate Republicans in an era where youth are increasingly centrist, and heavily Democrat-leaning minorities (Hispanics, Asians, and African-Americans) continue to outpace whites in terms of population growth. These guys are amazing. I truly look forward to seeing what the GOP has to 'offer' in 2012.

Man, you guys get worked up about this.

Cheers guys! Keep it coming. Also, mention any old FPS's as well if you could. Like Heretic 2, NOLF1, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Descent 3. Why? Because I need some games that run on Ubuntu through WINE, and old games are more likely to run.

According to the GOP leaders, McCain was too moderate, and he lost because he wasn't conservative enough. Anybody else see a problem with that idea?

It's a tough dilemma. You need to raise taxes to solve the debt problem, but you need to cut taxes because you're in a recession. I think Obama's 95% plan is actually one of the best (not perfect) solutions. In other news, Fox News (of all people) tears Sarah Palin apart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWZHTJsR4Bc

I've heard others describe it as you have, but overall I'd say Starwars's assessment is the most prevalent one (of people who have actually played the game). It pushes it to the bottom of my "games to buy list", which is meaningful when there are plenty of super important games on that list already, such as STALKER and MotB. If I have an inbuilt disposition towards not spending money on games I'm not sure I'll appreciate, sue me.

Florida is hardly evidence of "too much momentum" since all the other state elections before that had mixed results, and it seems to give far too much credit to the power of one state to influence the dozens of others involved in Super Tuesday: just look at polling in the Super Tuesday states before the Florida election result to see what I mean (the states McCain was winning, he won; the states he was losing, he lost). McCain won because he was the most moderate GOP member. It's not because of the winner-takes-all system (which one might expect to give a result more in line with what you claim; plurality voting is polarising) but because the states with the highest number of delegates were the more Democratic states which had a fondness for McCain as a 'maverick' and somewhat moderate Republican. But that's a phenomenon rooted into the Primary Elections (both Democrat and Republican) and is not unique to McCain. You'd possibly have an easier time arguing that the Democratic primaries were polarising because of the existence of superdelegates, but even then I think that's largely offset by the fact that it's proportional representation instead of winner-takes-all. Edit: Bloody typos.

Thing is, the game is an excellent improvement upon Bethesdas Elder Scrolls series, not on the Fallouts. As a stand-alone game I'm liking it more than I thought I would but as a Fallout sequel I think it's pretty bad, with many older plot elements/factions forced into this game to try and tie them together (which was pretty much what I expected before the game came out as well). I would never blindly recommend it to someone wanting a similar experience to Fallout 1 or 2, which I think is a shame considering it's a sequel. But I would heartily recommend it to someone wanting a good Post-Apocalyptic Elder Scrolls-ish experience. Cheers, that's basically the information I was looking for.

Somebody is stupid alright, but I'm not sure it's the rest of your country in this case. Being 'black' is as much a culture as it is a skin colour, because biracial people suffered and suffer the same injustices, racism, and segregation as 'pureblood' black people. And for the record, mulattos are definitely considered 'black' by that culture.

Yeah, I'm sure you have an intricate understanding of American politics from Australia. Well, your understanding of socialism is confused and you misunderstand the way in which the Primary Elections are demographically unbalanced (they are, but because of state sizes and scheduling issues, not "radical activists"). For instance, your claim that McCain won because Romney and Huckabee split the extremist demographic is false. McCain won 32 states and 47% of the popular vote. Huckabee and Romney combined won only 19 states and 42% of the popular vote. McCain won about 1,300 delegates while Mitt and Mike combined won only about 550 delegates. That's because Romney withdrew once it became obvious the he couldn't win. You obviously don't understand how American primaries work, once a candidate wins a few early states his momentum becomes insurmountable. Had Hillary not won New Hampshire, she would be finished right there. Please don't argue about things you know nothing about. Errr. No. Please have a look at the Super Tuesday results (Romney withdrew after that). It's quite clear that McCain's momentum was independent of Romney and Huckabee stealing eachother's voter demographic (even taking into consideration the silly winner-takes-all system the GOP uses, it's evident McCain was comfortably ahead since he often won majority pluralities).

****, wrong forum.

So I've sort of been out of touch with gaming for a good few years now (since about 2004). I think I've mostly kept up to date on the latest RPGs, but the rest not so much. Please list all the half-decent FPS's you've played in the last 5-8 years, including the year they were released. I'm especially interested in games released in the 2001 to 2006 period. 2001: Red Faction Return to Castle Wolfenstein Aliens Versus Predator 2 Max Payne 1 Halo 1 2002: Jedi Knight 2 No One Lives Forever 2 2003: Jedi Academy Max Payne 2 2004: Bloodlines Half-Life 2 Halo 2 2005: Quake 4 2006: Half-Life 2: Episode 1 2007: Half-Life 2: Episode 2 What did I miss?