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20,000 is a good number. 40,000 is a better number.

Sweet, go for it! FIFE is a decent engine to do it in and it's free and open source. If you're interested in playing a turn-based apocalyptic game try Dead State when it comes out: http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showtopic=56081

In case anybody is interested in learning things online themselves, my good friend Bill Gates directed me to this nifty emporium of YouTube lectures and tutorials for maths, physics, biology, economics, you name it: http://www.khanacademy.org/ Who? Indeed. I believe Gromnir is in one of his 'bitter old man' moods and trying to attack my intelligence. I do not understand where he got the idea, though. My original post was pretty clear in stating my intention: work for a year on $47,000 whilst studying in my down-time, then return to university to study a degree more to my liking (that is: chemistry instead of IT).

Here is proof.

You don't seem to be a bad person so I'm going to just ask you politely to stop. The Portal memes got old years ago. Classic never go out of style. Maybe this isn't in the interest of discussion, but won't we run the risk of over analyzing a simple game. The game is an obvious deconstruction of classical storytelling devices. Valve spent a fair bit of time getting the psychology of Portal right. I don't think there's anything particularly obvious about Portal. In fact, it's manifestly subtle and nefarious. Portal is not a simple game.

Let us simply acknowledge lordoflies is a miserable Chavez apologist and move on.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/08/25...led/#more-36965 Looks cool!

No surprise considering how badly Chavez is ****ing over the country.

I believe the tradition around these parts is to pump them full of cheap grog and then have your way with them. None of this 'art' rubbish is involved.

Haha. I have my moments.

This is sage advice, however your logical fallacy is the supposition that chemistry and fine wine are mutually exclusive.

Perhaps you insulted his intelligence by getting him to read your posts.

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Cheeeeeeeers guys! Helpful.

You know, I have this hazy recollection of ChemTutor being pretty decent and professional, too. A quick web search indicates it might be able to help me with stoichiometry, and if so, it's probably worth it because for a maths nerds stoichiometry is strangely something I struggled with in high school. Cheers for the idea! A Google search also turned up this seemingly unrelated chemistry tutorial website, which looks useful: http://www.chemtutor.com/

Hi guys. So I've given up on uni for a while and just received a promotion at my university IT department from student casual to full-time contract for 2 years. It pays $47,000 per year or $31 an hour. Good money for somebody with no qualifications whatsoever. But the thing is I was planning to leave this town and move to the city (Canberra or Melbourne) in 2012 and study science (either organic chemistry or molecular biology), with about $20,000 or so in savings. That's obviously on hold but I dread spending the next 2 years doing IT helpdesk work of a day and wasting away on video games of a night. I want something to keep my mind active and I figure it may as well be relevant to what I plan to do after this contract. So I got a bright idea to dig up my old science textbooks I bought but barely used and teach myself as much chemistry as I can deal with over the next 2 years. To that end, does anybody know of, like, some subject material or lecture notes or open courseware type stuff for chemistry, materials science, nanotechnology or similar? I'm thinking the kind of stuff found here: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/chemistry/ But MIT's stuff is sporadic. It's great when it exists, but it doesn't always exist. C.f. their first organic chemistry subject's lecture notes are half-complete, while the second one has full notes. I also wouldn't mind things like exercises or assignments with solutions. Cheers!

Uh, what? That isn't even what the article is about? You are just making up stuff now. Yes, but you see, sufficiently unlikely events are impossible and thus acts of god.

Wals, every country has inane news stories. Most of us have the dignity not to spray them all over the forums though. There's a difference between murder and death threats. Arguably this woman completely deserves baseless death threats.

There is nothing to be done now. It's over, inevitable. We are screwed. The only way to stop it now is to immediately freeze spending, then begin rolling it back by repealing these massive entitlement plans like Obamacare, Welfare, government workers benefits, etc. On top of that, tax cuts on the evil corporations is a must. It is not just about raising revenue, it's about spurring growth. The tax code needs to be altered so that the lower incomes also pay federal taxrs, not just the upper incomes. A national sales tax in lieu of income tax would accomplish this. Make welfare recipients take mandatory drug tests, no pass, no welfare check. Stop increasing their benefits evey time they have a child. If they get a minimum wage job, don't cut off their befefite all together, graduate it down until their pay increases. We need to reward folks for getting off welfare, not make it so they can't. We need to make military cuts as well. Close half of our foriegn bases and build new ones along the mexican border. No only do we maintain our high alert their very presence their aids the border patrol. Any one of our Carrier groups commands more firepower than the entire military of any other nation on earth save Russia and China. And we have seven of them. Retire one. But these thing will never happen because the republicans cannot do them and the democrats will not. All they are concerned with is their own political power and they will drive the country into collaps to preserve it, all along denying that it is happening. The only other hope is for those states that are financially solvent and self sustaining (Texas, Alabama, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Florida, Tennessee, Alaska, and Lousiana to secced from the union and form a new country before the whole thing falls to ruin. The folks in the Northeast and Pacific coast are going to vote for the democrats no matter what. And the democrats are going to continue trying to convert us to a Planned Economic model. There is no need for everyone to go with them. But that won't happen either. So the truth is, withing our lifetimes we will need to get used to the world without the United States in it. I for one find that frightening. But I have made preparations for myself if all of this does come to pass. Are you aware that the bailouts to banks and the auto industry were loans which have been almost completely (or completely) repaid in full with interest? That includes the $800 billion dollar "bailout".

Aussie intelligence agency? Hmm. The Defence Signals Directorate? The Australian Secret Intelligence Service? The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation? The Australian Federal Police? The Defence Intelligence Organisation? The Office of National Assessment? I love the names they give these entities.

Hotter than Gillard in a bikini though? Those fiery red locks!

You say that but consider an Abbott government... pictures of Tony thrusting his red budgie smugglers on display in the news every day

University = sex.

So this is irrelevant for PC gamers, who use mice instead? Phew. Thanks Nathaniel.

Nathaniel, in what way is the game more strategic and tactical with "auto-aim"? If our characters are auto-attacking an enemy can we make them focus on another enemy instead? Will they only initiate combat when we tell them to? Can we turn auto-attack off?