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Bloodlines had one of the most fun combat systems I've seen in a game for a long time. Also fun were: Icewind Dale 1, Deus Ex 1, Half-Life 1, Planescape: Torment, Jagged Alliance 2.

Oh yes, especially Wikipedia is bad... For somebody as notoriously curious as me, that place is like a monkey trap. The number of tabs grows exponentially and I can't let go. Darn history pages...

I do it all the time, and I know for a fact I'm not the only one. It's very easy to do on news sites, Wikipedia, a Google search, etc. On the other hand, my autistic friend hates tabs, and even modified Firefox's code to remove them.

... Until you get to 30 or 40 tabs open and Firefox starts crawling. Opera is also faster than Firefox when it comes to large numbers of tabs I've found. Firefox doesn't out perform it in memory usage over time - junk builds up, though it's superior to IE. In Chrome, once you kill a tab, you kill its memory, so there's no leakage or anything. I imagine the flat-rate toll on memory for each process open would make Firefox the victor for sessions of short duration and an average number of tabs like you say. Opera puts the tabs at the top, too. I like it - makes sense in that the URL is specific to each tab. Once Google releases some plugin and theme support I'm sure you'll be able to move it. I'm personally waiting for a status bar at the bottom. I haven't been able to see how Firefox could be faster than Chrome? The only aspect where there's any sufficiently noticeable speed difference is Javascript, where Chrome opens a can of whoop-ass. Javascript is, 95% of the time, the reason my Firefox is running slowly. The sandboxing and the massive Javascript speed up are each important enough on their own to warrant seriously considering switching. But yeah, it's all good - Firefox will change to keep up. Yay for competition. Personally, I hope the majority of Firefox users stick to Firefox (TraceMonkey should provide Javascript speeds as fast a Chrome). Chrome is an IE replacement so that we can finally be rid of that piece of bloatware (i.e. it falls below 50% to 60% market share and the usage of other browsers snowballs from there, allowing web apps to snowball in turn). I personally like Chrome because it is minimalist, fast, efficient and very secure. The reason I switched to Firefox in the first place was because Mozilla had too many features. Now Firefox has become Mozilla.

I recently was able to test Chrome out on a lab computer at college. To put it simply: it's amazing. It far exceeded all my expectations. It is, basically, the fastest, most stable, most secure, and least memory intensive web browser out there. Its Javascript performance is astounding (keep in mind almost every site uses JS, often to a large degree). Gmail and Google apps, just to name names, are blindly fast and responsive under Chrome. And unlike other browsers it doesn't die at 30 tabs open, and when malware installs or a page dies, it's sandboxed, so it doesn't take down your entire browser or system. It's a beta, and some features aren't implemented yet (basically the only thing missing is plugin support - including adblock, but I don't use either of those), yet it's a sleek, fast, thoroughly usable browser. Once it comes out for Ubuntu I'll hop on board. My suggestion is: anybody who is still using Internet Explorer, just switch to Chrome. There's absolutely nothing IE7 or IE8 does better. Chrome even has Opera's SpeedDial! Note: there was some confusion about a rather restrictive EULA inherited from some other Google utility. That was fixed pretty quickly: it basically now reads "anything you do on Chrome is none of our business and we don't own any of your data". Download location: http://www.google.com/chrome

This madhatter guy is hilarious but he also makes me sad because a lot of Americans think like that.

I have an idea, why don't you elect McSame.

As I stumble to the exit of the vodka freezer, I think to myself "that vodka was ambrosia", and scream at the curmudgeon doorman "THIS COAT IS MY COAT. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT, BUT THIS ONE IS MINE" and quickly stagger out before he can accost me for it. I bump into a shifty looking fellow on the way out.

What's with 'origins'? The name was fine as Dragon Age - slightly generic, but fine. Now it just looks retarded.

Well, they're already doing this with both Aliens and Alpha Protocol, so fair crack of the whip.

Congrats Enoch. That's great to hear. :D

My blood runs cold My memory has just been sold My angel is the centerfold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx6t11D99tA...feature=related

Here's a nice post from Bioware's DA: Origens forums about magic http://forums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?t...44&forum=84 (scroll down a bit to see what Maria Caliban has to say) A few highlights, though (for the lazy ones, like me ) Magic is going to be very dangerous and rare. The Church and the religion in Ferelden, the place in which the games takes places are against magic, any magic. Mages are born. Period. You're a mage or not. Period. As soon as you show any talent for magic...well, you get taken away to...ehm...another place. Mages can cast mind control spells. It is forbidden to do so. Anyway....when did stop someone... Mages are feared by the common people. Magic does not include summoning, teleportation or resurrection. There will be no healing potions or healing magic. When you're hurt, you're hurt. You need to fight your way back to base camp to get medical attention. To me, this is looks far better than the system used in D&D... It will definetely not be a Tolkien rip-off at all. Maybe it will blend some RTS elements into the RPG environment? Sounds good! Anyway, a Tolkien rip-off wouldn't have much magic. How much magic did you see used in LotR, hmmm?

Hmm sounds like it's worth me buying.

I feel very thirty, so I go to the closest tavern. It has broken windows and there are shards of glass everywhere on the sidewalk. I decide to avoid it and visit this new 'vodka freezer' instead. The doorman tells me I must put on this Eskimo jacket as I enter. The temperature is -20 and there are flowing fountains of Vodka. It is excellent.

Well, I kinda made the assumption that you support the concept of the smaller developer as being something worthwhile, but not the actual development house itself. Would that not imply I support the existence of Flagship Studios, as a smaller, independent developer, though? I don't see how it has to imply I buy all their games. I don't even do that with Obsidian.

Exactly why, although I didn't buy Hellgate: London, I supported them. How does one support a developer without actually buying the game? If you can read, you should be able to answer your own question. I don't know what that means. And it sounds a little snarky. I'm asking a serious question: You support a developer without buying their game and they go out of business and then you talk about how you supported them without buying their game. What? If boycotts of games don't work I hardly think me not purchasing a game I don't want would make a company go out of business. I really can't be bothered trying to explain to you how somebody might support something in a non-monetary way, however.

Exactly why, although I didn't buy Hellgate: London, I supported them. How does one support a developer without actually buying the game? If you can read, you should be able to answer your own question.

Exactly why, although I didn't buy Hellgate: London, I supported them.

This is coming from someone who thinks that NWN 1 is the best thing ever. L0llip0p I second that emotion.

I notice Deadly_Nightshade walking out of the local jail. He is walk a bit stiffly.

I'd pay to see that.

Um, well, personally, I was making it up about the footage because it was amusing to see how people reacted.