Gorgon

Usually you only get the offer if you are already on the planned dig route for the wiring. I'm writing for the benefit of people living in houses, big cities almost always have fiber. If you don't live in Uganda that is. Installation costs are included in the subscription.

Why do unskipable sequences still exist, and why are they so prevalent. It is the cardinal sin of game design. It's right up there with the secrets of the pyramids and the success of marmite.

Now we get to the point where he proves that the public health services don't work. Otherwise his observations are just irrelevant anecdotes.

Why the repetitive 'it doesn't work' mantra. It's worked just fine in my experience ever since ww2, in most of western and northern Europe.

Atari is a bit problematic for support, for one thing you have to create a profile there, and enter a serial for your game before you can even post, in return for all that bother you get the same troubleshooting general section you could have found anywhere. Patching is problematic as well, it has to be done in a specific order. When I needed help figuring out what order to patch NWN2 and install Mask of the Betrayer I posted here, I got help before any mod was helpful enough to close the tread and send me to Atari. That said, state the problem and ye shall find help, long angry tirades won't help a bit. Does anyone think there will be a universal patch with the new adons. One can hope.

Well northern Europe is comparatively rich compared to the amount of people our health care has to service. It's not a universally exportable system, it's a lot easier to be an ideal state when you are the size of Sweden or Denmark. I don't understand how people can just ignore the big picture though, how the health and welfare of everyone corresponds to having a nicer, safer place to live, where the difference between rich and poor is not as extreme as other places. It's easy to just dismiss this as communism, especially if you haven't seen it first hand.

He doesn't look anything like Freeman, I think were safe from the hordes of little asses for mouths with big pointy teeth.

My local Blockbuster sells newish games already used, the company buys them cheap, cleans off the scratches and repackages them. Not the typical mom and pop gameshop operation. Keeping used sales down will allow compaies to control the price of their product.

Half my bloody income goes back in the system. I pay for it. So the higher incomes pay more, should I demand they take 60% out of my check instead. Not that I'm an angel of mercy or anything, it just seems pretty obvious that you have to make sure certain basic functions of society are run properly, if you give two ****s about the place you live in that is.

Socialized medicine, is that like slang for a proper healthcare system

You can write to a USB stick, allowing companies to change protection algorithms along the way. As least that's what I heard.

How is it different than having to have a CD in the drive 'just to play a game"

Professional workstation software often uses a USB dongle, USB sticks are dirt cheap, why don't they try something like that. It's supposed to be 'impossible to crack'. Well, hard at any rate.

How about just creating a contract between you and the company that states you paid for the game, you own it and that it cannot be played on more than one computer at the same time, through online activation. I could live with those terms.

Oh no question, I'm just saying that the way out of this is through improved technology, not giving the people who actually pay the shaft. By 'later on' I mean a couple of years down the line on new hardware. I still have the BG series, it's handy for putting on laptops which can't handle anything more demanding. It's extremely limited what you actually 'own' as a result of your investment in one of these game license scams.

That kind of license might be acceptable if you paid a fraction of the full cost, but paying full price and then not being able to replay later on, and having to worry about the number of installs you have done. I'd say it was your civic duty to get the pirated version. Not that I'm going to get either, doesn't look like my kind of thing at all.

Continued in my late series of game acquisitions is this rather old and seemingly uninteresting shooter. If you haven't picked this up from the bargain bin, do, it's hilarious. Your stake gun has a rocket launcher attachment, because, why not. There's no reload button, there's no time to reload. It's sort of a throwback to the arcade games where you shoot at the screen with a plastic gun, constantly an overwhelming amount of targets to shoot at. To get the full experience crank up the crappy metal soundtrack and have copious amounts of cola at the ready. Not worth full money, but good for short gaming sessions. For my money it owns Hellgate London completely.

Yeah, that one encounter you get isn't bad per se, at least on par with Halflife.

If I couldn't do that I'd have nothing to say.

I wonder if it's going to be the same encounter 10.000 times interspaced with lame ghost mumbo jumbo cutscenes you can't skip.

Bush isn't really a conservative Christian, he just plays one on TV. Yes, but that also means he has to put out once in a while. Hand jobs alone won't ensure the base stays intact.

I seems about as intelligent as the Catholic church preaching abstinence before marriage and no birth control to solve the AIDS crisis in Africa. More poignantly, it's the same refusal to allow reality to interfere with principle, or doctrine. Personally I don't even know where to begin communicating with people who mix religion and politics.

Does anyone know when the new installment is due

Either is fine, just do it well.

Different folks, different strokes of course, there is no right or wrong, but I will never understand the fawning for Daggerfall either. It's from when 3D could not be anything but mindbogglingly terrible DOS graphics, so, why even try, stick with 2d instead. Sand boxing is fine, I like not being dragged along by the scruff of the neck trying to catch up with some developer's grand vision of a plot, but if there's nothing else going on the whole exercise becomes pointless. Shivering isles was actually very good, I dare all the Oblivion haters here to hold it up against Daggerfall.