Humodour

Yeah, here's what you gotta do: smoke some cones, bang some hoes.

Texas GOP: a group of ****ing retards. At least the ones who wrote and support the majority of that policy list.

lol at 36 C being "excessive heat"

Dear Monte, Are you a narcissist? Longingly yours, Gabe Newell

The fact that you're aware of Fionavar's 'moderated status' says to me you're not lying... which is AWESOME.

I've been skiing in Queenstown for the past few days. 2.2km above sea level, white as far as the eye can see, clear sky with the sun beaming down and no windchill... brilliant!

Everyone was. He was still doing well in the polls (52 to 48 on a two-party basis, Labour's way), but the thing I think that freaked the Labour caucus was how a lot of the Labour primary vote was going to the Greens, and while they made most of it back on preferences, it was still a horrible slow death for the ALP.

Both excellent choices. Mind the crime in Rio. Seriously, they will steal your kidneys but its an unbelievable place to party. Valpariso Chile is simply one of the best places Ive ever been to. The locals are great and the women are smokin hot. Sounds bloody awesome.

This is awesome. I showed it to my mates and we all had a good laugh.

Disclaimer: I am a civil libertarian with a soft spot for the free market and the environment. None of the political parties greatly please me, although the Greens make a lot of the right noises (they're a bit anti-market which is a bummer, but they make a good balance of power party). Hiro is would probably be a Nationals voter, or failing that Liberals. Which I have nothing against (as I'll be preferencing Liberals 2nd myself if Gillard doesn't axe net censorship) but it's important to elucidate political leanings. Hiro is correct that Labour will now win the next election guaranteed because of her honeymoon period and woman vote. Actually I'm pretty sure Rudd would have too, but that's another matter. Uh, where to start Wals... the 4 big issues in Australian politics at the moment are: 1) the mining super-profits tax (if mining companies max profits above their predictions, they get hit with a 40% tax - Rudd approached it the wrong way, and 40% is too high - the miners cathered their troops which is possibly a force almost as formidable as the unions on certain issues), 2) the environment (specifically climate change, and I'm a bit bummed the two have become synonymous - the environment is an important issue regardless of this - Rudd said climate change was the greatest moral challenge of our time then when he couldn't pass legislation with the Liberals he dumped it indefinitely without talking to the other parties) 3) internet censorship and internet privacy (Rudd really screwed the pooch here - he forced a lot of young and educated voters, as well as almost all those in the communications and IT industries to refuse to vote for him because of this, and because Liberal isn't a credibly alternative, since Abbott the Liberal leader supports net censorship, they've drifted to the Greens, who are a centre-left party whose original focus was the environment but now extends to civil liberties). 4) all of Rudd's other shelved/failed polices, such as the insulation scheme (can you say uhg?) Also I'm drunk at an internet cafe after going skiing on the Remarkables. This is the best! More teapots, bye!

I don't beleive that is a pre-requisite, mkreku. If they exist, funcroc will find that.

It's possible. Any device that can access the internet can use a standardised set of protocols to do so.

Beautiful place down there For a bit of fun, gather some Aussies and Kiwis in the same room and ask who invented the Pavlova Hahaha! Yes, so beautiful. I'll try and upload photos when I get back. I'm amazed by the diversity of people here. Like so many Brits, Americans, Aussies, Scottish and Irish. Relatively few Kiwis The CBD is pretty intense. Shops and people EVERYWHERE. Far too many for a town of 15,000 people. Tourist central. Still manages to be cheaper than Australia half the time. I am very tempted to return here in summer. Even given the transfer flight from Christchurch to Queenstown it's still cheaper than Europe or South America. Although it kind of feels weird travelling to another country and the culture being identical. Even the bloody street signs and coins look the same. I would like to experience something exotic. I'm thinking Brazil or Chile.

Backstab for double damage! Hopefully this means Kate Lundy replaces Stephen Conroy and the Internet censorship scheme gets dumped. There will also be an election in a couple of months, but she'll probably win that for Labour pretty easily, with a Greens balance of power in the Senate. Gillard has indicated she will restart carbon price talks, probably with the Greens once they get decisive balance of power. The weirdest thing is that I heard about this on the New Zealand news. It's like "oh wtf" Lindsay Tanner has also quit, meaning the lower house seat of Melbourne will be taken by the Greens (in fact it probably would have anyway, hence his resignation). I suppose this also means she's our first female leader. In other Australia news, all the major ISPs are now onboard (including Telstra) with the National Broadband Network (NBN), which will mean at least 100mbps fibre to the home for over 90% of households (wireless, satellite, or copper for the remainder). New Zealand's conservative government has proposed a very similar NBN for NZ'ers. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...0062401341.html

In Queenstown, NZ. Skii'd for the first time today. Was epic. Axed myself so much at first.

Sorry guys, I'm skiing in New Zealand till about the 3nd of July. Try and sort out your cd key issues in the mean-time, the lot of you! :D Pope: I was quoting a YouTube comment. I'm not stupid.

He's not the end boss any more. The Myans have all ready determined that the end of the world is in 2012. Who do you beleive? Don't forget the Myans already have had help from Aliens, who have had the ability to see "light years" ahead in time, before they visited us here on earth! NOW THAT'S SPOOKY! BTW, no one has ever found out what happened to the Myans, have they? They just vanished of the face of the earth.

Getting a physical version of the Vault 13 jumpsuit might just make being a moderator worth it.

Okay, I hope you're being facetious, but on the off chance you aren't, can you explain this to me? Are you afraid of losing street cred if suddenly you discover you're finding FOOL enjoyable? Or is it just Directive #4 of Old Skool CRPGers (No MMOs Evar) overriding your system? Not trolling, btw. I sincerely don't understand where you're coming from. edit: ah, this is because it's Herve's creation, right? I'm kinda slow atm. Bingo. It's a 6 year old personal grudge shared by many of this forum's members.

FOOL? Really? Was FOO too short? For a Herve Caen project? Yes.

Considering the Archon is a fighter-mage, I suspect they've already decided to subvert at least some of that trope.

I don't think I could ever stoop low enough to buy such a game, regardless of how good it was (it won't be - good that is).

No problem. Valve's games have traditionally run on low-end hardware just fine, and they tailor their game to what Steam Hardware Survey says the majority of gamers can handle (include Macs, which traditionally outperform PC's in CPU and memory, but lag in GPU power). I highly doubt you'd need to upgrade for Portal 2.

Nope, just tons of generic MMOGs from Korea and some superhero crap. I don't know why people found it funny that KotOR Online might get good subscriber numbers. Good numbers don't need to be Blizzards scale, just one tenth of it would do just fine. And that would STILL be bigger than almost every other MMO out there. I think champions was aiming for 10k subscribers TOTAL to stay above the water Indeed. Consider that 1/10 of WoW's subscribers is 1 million people. At $10 to $20 per month, that's 10 to 20 million dollars PER MONTH. That's revenue, not profit, but you can see how tantalising an MMO is for a game developer.

Probably not...