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Haven't people been living more or less full time on the international space station and MIR before that.

By the way, big is good sound wize. I use heavy duty Sennheizers that I had to get a converter for to fit in my mp3 player.

I have good experience with creative headsets. Just avoid the cheaper models, they are quite a bit worse than even the cheapest Sennheiser. They are smaller, but not very robust and can easily break if moderately manhandled.

The whole pre order thing ceases to make sense when there is no physical media. Download, sure, but its not like that's a huge hurdle.

One of the DLCs for Shogun 2, the unit pack, has never worked for me. The other expansion only loads 50% of the time. STEAM has admitted that the fault is with their DRM. So yeah, I'm not a fan either. Having a large stash of games you can install from anywhere with an internet connection however has made my work day a lot more agreeable.

Fallout would make a good MMO I think, the only problem is that most MMOs seem to suck because of the treatment they are given during production. They rely too much on the players creating content among themselves, NPC interaction is typically crude, Hubs are just a collection of functions, quest, traders etc. Attempts to make the setting really interesting usually don't survive the process.

Pigs are naturally as cleanly an animal as any other. We are the ones who confined them to small spaces and exposed them to parasites by having them stand around in their own feces all day. I remember watching this film where they let 20 production pigs into a patch of wild and they all started making nests and rediscovering social behaviors they hadn't used for hundreds of years. There is no particular point to all of this. Well, maybe that I wouldn't feel so terrible about having a pig in my living room.

Achievements are pointless and stupid except for looking at for five seconds after having beat a game. Since the rule is that there are hundreds of them and that you get one for doing anything for the first time, and again whenever a stat hits a round number, I don't even bother with that. I'm glad I could clear this up for everyone.

Part of the equation when you have to incorporate a lot of different races and armours. If it was just one possible main character I'm sure he could have been flashing a bazillion fancy animation sets. That said, I wish it was just a little bit better.

I'd say Narnia is primarily a children's book and the point was to entertain and do a little bit of teaching on the side.

Escape from New York and The Warriors. Classic 80s stuff.

I imagine there is a difficulty setting as well ?.

I'll probably get it, once I hear some evidence to its merit from other places than marketing departments and game review sites.

The kinds of characters I plan out never seem to do very well in-game. Probably because of the learning by doing mechanic. My battlemage's spells are too weak, so I use my sword instead and I never recover the disparity. There is always something more pressing to spend points in at levelup. I wonder if jumping is in, it seems almost to have been lost to the ages these days.

I'm probably too late and I haven't read the previous, but I'd say being a customer means a psychological expectation that the party you are engaging will try his utmost to make the exchange pleasant. You want to be wooed, but not too clumsily. The seller is there to give you a small taste of the satisfaction you are supposed to get out of your purchase. More broadly an expectation of customer care.

The Romans had a good take on distribution, they knew that mobs in the street had to be paid off for their support, otherwise all that wealth could cease to matter rather quickly. The worse the economy the more insistent the realisation that money is just something we made up to keep us from eating each others' children

It's the natural development of the privatisation craze isn't it. If people feel like they are getting more for their taxes they will feel less miserable about paying them.

Making something look human is always harder than drawing patina on a box. In most 3d applications you wrap a 2d drawing around your 3d model which has to take complex movements into consideration. You probably know all this already.

So why couldn't she remember either...

If you say so. I pride myself in being somewhat of a Luddite in that regard. I mean, an open mind is the best way to live, but art is often much like the emperors new clothes, it's decided by committee, not by appealing to the end user.

As always there is the worry that the PC controls are going to suck. They might decide to jack up the mouse speed to 'impossible to do anything with speed' just for the inventory and journal (Rage). there might be a quick targeting system that works reasonably well when keyed to a controller, but on PC makes you throw knives at random pedestrians when trying to fight guards (AssCreed). There might be leftover hardwired controller aim assistance that translates to unpredictable mouse behavior (Dead Space.. others)

It's really hard to believe that the same studio made Caine and Lynch.

Easy fix solutions like 'just go out and have some fun', they kinda miss the point. That said it would be helpful if you could force yourself do to these things anyway, it's better than lone introspection.

Looked very Black Hawk Downish, like ever other military shooter the last 10 years. What makes it better ?

Don't think there will be load times between invisible map borders like in Oblivion, well there might be on console.