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The Borgias are back. I don't know why this has managed to fly under most people's radar (most that I know) It's basically The Godfater with rapiers and fancy dresses and Jeremy Irons is awesome in it.

That was my line dammit.

I hope the plan isn't to turn anyone into a silent film slapstick retard, beause that already happened to Lord Blackadder.

I thought the conspiracy was against those of the tall inclination. I mean, it costs more fabric to garb a man who stands 190. The same would be true for shoes and the textile industry is largely located were people aren't very tall. I have a sowing kit, but learning to use a machine might actually be a worthwhile endeavor. I just think it would take too long to get really good at it, good enough to sow your own suit. Ghandi did it, but honestly he isn't really known for his quality .. whatever those things were called.

Wow, you're like so edgy and cool!! I wanna be like you!1! No, wait, I don't. Let me guess: you don't use Facebook either and have no problems telling everyone how you don't use Facebook and you can't understand why people would use it. Smartphones is where the biggest advances in technology for the common man are happening right now. Problem with facebook is that they have gotten too big and have their tentacles in everything. Even people who hate facebook are forced to use it. I welcome the facebook is not cool anymore trend, it will surely hasten its demise so we can have something else instead... Which then grows too large and invasive. Remember back when a chat window was the cool way to keep up with your friends. They made versions that integrated all the different protocols and programs. We need something like that for social media. So it's a third party program that integrates all your social media sites into one interface. That way we are not forced to sit up and take notice everytime facebook lets out a fart.

Any armor that presents obvious regions of concavity (and therefore vulnerability, as these regions act as a funnel to blows and are easier to penetrate) is quite unrealistic. I imagine boobplate would delflect blows either to the side or in between, where it could be reinforced. Sloped armor, like the T 34 if you will.

I never knew she was still alive. Before a couple of days ago that is. Don't have anything positive to say about her politics, but she did start the painful but necessary job of breaking the hegemony of the trade unions. Without any sense of the way the wind was blowing, but then if she had had any PR finesse she wouldn't have done it in the first place.

Set a timetable. No coffe after 20:00. Other than that no need to torture yourself by going cold turkey.

Officially my favorite Prosper quote.

I have been cleaning out my appartment all day and I found myself procrastinating and reading this again . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgJT4eQOIoI It's a grimy fantasy thingie set in war torn medieval France. It's very text heavy, but in a good way. I bought the series ages ago to try and improve my French. Francois Burgeon was always really good at 'taking you there'. If that makes any sense.

I briefly thought about reinstalling New Vegas but I realised I have already done all there is to do. Yeah I'd like to find a classic RPG I haven't played as well. So many games are just **** nowadays. That, and I'm an old grumpy bastard who doesn't like change.

Yep. I want something portable that's good enough to plug a set of propper stereo headphones into, there is nothing that truly fits the description. Earplugs are a compromise for size and battery usage, the difference is like night and day. My phone is close to being good enough but I don't use it because all the headphones still have the large stereo jacks (I don't think I've used one in over a decade) and the converters are bulky and break easily. There are bluetooth options, it really would be nice to do away with cables altogether, but they are either cumbersome with seperately carried transmitters, or too expensive.

I found it problematic when you were being scolded or taunted for choices you never made, especially when you finally meet Comstock. They were still dangling the plot over you at that point and at one point the game commandeers the PC into just another agent for telling the story. When you have no imput at all the sense of disconnection from the advancement of the game is pretty overwhelming. I don't recall any choices except false ones, that is with cosmetic or no consequences at all.

Tablets are stupid as they aren't really mobile. If it doesn't fit in your pocket might as well bring your laptop. Aside from lounging on the sofa doing web stuff I don't see any use for them. I have a galaxy s3 which I actually prefer reading e books on over a tablet, especially since I got the cracked screen fixed, but that has to do with my vision. Sentences tend to jump around after a while when I'm reading a standard book size source. Even worse on an A4 format, used to think I was a little dyslexic but it went away on a small screen. So horray for the larger screen sized mobiles.

Private initiative is our new religion. NGOs are an industry now, with expert knowledge in how to set up aid programmes in third world countries etc. We seem willfully unable to consider that making money on charity could easily lead to one's priorities getting mixed up.

There was a forum software update recently, I'm not exactly sure what's new and what's not myself. Don't think they would roll back just for quotes though.

Ahh, new people can get access if they donate. I guess that makes more sense.

One might question the wisdom of making a promotional film available only to people who have already bought the product. I realise that without all the tiers the math doesn't work and much less funding would have been raised, but at some point it all starts getting a little ridiculous trying to maintain these artificial barriers.

Installer should automatically update redistributables as the final step, although sometimes it's manual and you quit rather than update DX and lo and behold C++ came after.

That's one hell of a necro. Thread started in 2008

I see Tweihanders pike formations and Halberds. I'd say right around late 15th ct. to early 16th ct. Possibly around the 30 years war where superior cannon were starting to become a dominant feature on the battlefield. They made a tabletop game out of that ?

What is that. Empire stuff from Warhammer FB

I thought the supernatural angle worked really well in Deadly Shadows. We have a genuinely sinister main protagonist and some really scary places like the Shalebridge Cradle, but you're right. They didn't overdo it which is why it worked.

You know these trailer thingies have seperate producers and only relate to the finished product in a general sense. The tone should be steampunk though, not AssCreed clone. I dunno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSUAJeq90Qw&list=PLD2DE02A1CF443AA8 New EPMD thingie for 2013. Last installment was 1999. Ended in bad blood and death threats so this is actually kind of a big deal for those that are old enough to remember. It's on spotify btw.