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What makes DoD unique is its character creation. Like, this is the kind of thing Icewind Dale could learn a thing or two from. A very balanced, very varied, very fun character build system.

I am really enjoying it so far. Well worth $5. The character creation is great but there's little documentation. I recommend the two wiki links above for clarity. I actually found the dialogue and writing to be pretty humourous! Reminds me of a card game called Munchkin.

This is a delightful little game. $5 on Steam. Rogue-like, skill and stat-based, turn-based, 2D-isometric, funny dialogue and descriptions, procedural generation. Somebody might find these useful if they are playing it: http://dungeonsofdredmor.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Skills http://dungeonsofdredmor.wikia.com/wiki/Attributes

Did you hear about them building positronium and anti-hydrogen, too? They both act a bit like hydrogen since they're both combinations of a single positive and and a single negative sub-atomic particle just like hydrogen. Positronium is an electron (negative) plus an anti-electron (positive) and anti-hydrogen is an anti-electron (positive) and an anti-proton (negative). Anti-hydrogen has the same mass as hydrogen while positronium would I imagine be about 1/1800th the weight due to not having any protons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positronium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihydrogen

I dunno if that counts as a 'new particle'. It's just a particle scientists predicted they could build artificially in an atom smasher. And then they did. A nice feat of human engineering, though. But probably more akin to building the element ununoctium in a lab - OK, we've proven humans can build synthetic atoms, and now synthetic sub-atomic particles, but what're we gonna do with it? It requires such an huge energy input to maintain artificial particles in nature. Still funky and interesting.

The Wall Street Journal is also News Corp.

The agent used to whip cream is nitrous oxide. Coincidentally, nitrous oxide is also known as laughing gas. It's fun.

again, please be aware of the hypocrisy. *snort* and am suspecting that you has relied on authority literal hundreds if not thousands o' times in your life. med doctor visits. dentists. car mechanic. etc. nepenthe is correct when he is observing that everybody somehow believes they is an expert on law. go figure. oh, and once more, this ain't a question o' law, but if you not think lawyers, cops and judges gots special insights, then you kid yourself. regardless, we already pointed out a couple problems with walsh comments that is easily verifiable... if he wanna takes a quick look at the US Constitution, or use the logic krez seems to favor. HA! Good Fun! ps while orogun is incorrect that we questioned his character (we questioned your certainty in spite of seeming lack of familiarity and requested clarification) it not change the hypocrisy o' the demand in absence of a similar offering, eh? It's not the authority I have a problem with so much as the fact that anybody can say they're lawyer or engineer or doctor or something on the Net and it's rather difficult to prove they're not. And I only tend to get annoyed with anecdotes when somebody starts making stereotypes and generalisations based on them. "I don't care if something happened to you personally, that doesn't make a rare event any more likely to happen to me." *blank stare*

Hey guys, check this out (especially you Tigranes): http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/rea...am-Improvements Steam is about to have its downloading mechanics massively overhauled to produce huge speed increases. Namely, updates will be smaller, Steam will have more servers to reduce demand per server, and they've changed the protocol downloads travel through to http, providing optimisation and caching benefits. Also, your games will now update themselves while you're playing them, and applying the new version next time you play. Pretty damn cool.

Yeah, I find it annoying when people use anecdotal evidence or argument from authority as the crux of their argument.

Yes, it's fascinating. Melanesian people are different again - having interbred bred with Denisovians (a cousin to both Neanderthals and humans). So Melanesians have both Denisovian and Neanderthal DNA while Africans have neither and Europeans have just Neanderthal DNA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisova_homi...h_modern_humans

You can't just go around kidnapping princesses! The European Union is now charging all aeroplanes for the pollution they produce during flight as part of their emissions trading scheme and the Chinese are getting angry about it. On another note, the Chinese are introducing an emissions trading scheme in 2013. Ironic. Australia is also introducing an emissions trading scheme (fixed, indexed price) in 2012, then moving to a floating price per tonne of pollutant produced in 2015.

Narwhals, narwhals, swimming in the ocean.

I'm sorry but how exactly would you go around fixing that? Wealth always gives influence and using is to further your aims is just integral part of human nature. By reducing income disparity to levels more in line with Western countries and reforming the electoral system. Wealth always gives influence, but in some countries far more influence than others.

America has some very powerful consumer/citizen-biased bodies as well as some very powerful corporation-biased bodies. I don't think "the rich and powerful manipulate government to get what they want" is the whole story - although it is definitely a huge problem that needs to be fixed.

So guys, what do you think of this game? I'm thinking of buying it... Flora's Fruit Farm

Bit of any over-reaction, mate. Sometimes people like to have a little bit of fun. It's one of the draws to forums like this. Was there really a scenario in your mind where people continued talking about fruit in this thread for pages upon pages and that somehow ended in a flame-war or something? I would say the far more likely scenario would've been somebody mentioning something about Steam once more and people discussing the latest awesome game they bought there or the latest cool discount people should know about. Perspective is always good.

Here's a very good summary of the current situation for those interested: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-19/news...ection=business

I just want to reiterate that it makes me really happy to see these scandals finally tearing News Corp apart. News Corp's share price has fallen 20% since the scandals started, the Murdochs are about to lose control of the company, News Corp's reputation is permanently stained, and I would venture that this isn't even half-way over yet. And yet, News Ltd continues to act like it is responsible for controlling how Australian politicians and Australian citizens think. I guess maybe their logic is that if they manufacture enough hysteria and fear of government it might make enough noise to drown out their deepening crisis and silence the growing calls for Senate inquiries into their behaviour down under. Did you know that about 70% of the major Australian newspapers are owned by Murdoch over here? How's that for a ****ing democracy.

I really enjoyed this because it's a breathe of fresh air to read about. So many people are caught up in large-scale electricity generation like massive PV arrays, or better yet, solar thermal towers, and rightly so, but sometimes it's nice to hear about how we can improve basic consumer products or do things we take for granted in entirely new ways. I'm a bit fuzzy on the exact purpose of this technology but I have a few ideas and it is nonetheless ground-breaking.

News Corp may now lose control of Fox in America? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-20...ing-claims.html I don't know how reputable the Daily Mail is. Is it a tabloid? But I'm guessing it isn't a Murdoch rag so it's already one up in my books.

It looks like News Corp shareholders have lost faith in the Murdoch family to properly administer the company. I could not be happier.

I watched this:

So is it the tall-poppy syndrome and rampant self-deprecation that attracted you to Australia or what?