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Woo hoo! With paypal (currently at $8k) they should be in pretty decent shape. I still think it is going to be a fairly small game, but hopefully they can nail the combat and inject some of the personality.

Yup, that worked out so well in Boston. Or that schoolshooting. Or the Batman shooting. Or the New York sniper. Or the multitude of family dramas. Or the schoolshootings. Etc. etc.It only looks like it helps the perpetrators. Or is that what you want? As horrible as this is, they had to resort to knives. Only one innocent life got lost. In gunhappy America the innocent deathtoll would probably be much higher as they would just empty their guns on everybody. Much easier killing. *sigh* Americans... Woldan is Austrian.

Ah, so it's more about race than religion. Sounds much better now.

Fantastic interview with Ian Currie on his support for the Full Control JA. I really wish I could pledge a bit more at this point.

$1.35 million is their goal? Ouch, that's not going to happen.

My condolences Astiaks. My daughter really scared me a few months ago when her temperature hit 103.7 F. But the doctors said it was fine, as long as it went down after a couple days. Definitely a stressful time as a parent.

Yeah Vokoun is looking like a pretty good answer to the Pens biggest weakness. I'd almost forgot Iginla was on the Pens. Ouch indeed.

Just to clarify, people who kill innocents aren't Muslims, they are extremists. There is a rather large difference. It's like calling every video gamer a murderer.

So we should just trust your analysis?

Yeah that's probably just you then. It's a fantastic book.

Again it isn't their project, so it really isn't their place to say anything on it.

I've decided to play this with my students, and we are not allowed to use google. We only use the context clues available and then I take a vote to decide where to put the marker. It is tying into my age of exploration unit pretty well. I'm putting each class score up on the board to see who can do the best

There are medium sized developers successfully producing and maintaining MMO's, so there is no reason to think they would become anything like Blizzard or Bioware. That being said, this is not their project, they are assisting with it. That means both their risks and rewards are limited greatly.

I got about 10500 on my try, it was pretty cool. I usually got the country right, the biggest problem was mixing up Texas for California and Norway for some frozen lake in Russia. Very fun. Getting the Zimbabwe location correct was my biggest triumph.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/eesha-khare-18yearold-inv_n_3307519.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref&comm_crv One of my former students. I assure you I had nothing to do with her brilliance.

Ah ok, I'm sure the book shines a lot of light on the plot.

Boo, if you look at the first page, quite a few of us shared your reservations. Over the last few weeks Full Control has done a very good job of communicating with fans and engaging people like Ian Currie, the original creator. Obviously there is still some risk involved, but they've earned my confidence at this point.

They're not streamlining it, they're doing the opposite: padding it with TV-original filler/changing entire storylines (Davos, for example,) making up new ones (Melisandre going to the BWB,) because one book per-season is too fast a pace compared to the rate at which GRRM has been writing. Instead of actually including content from the books that was omitted (e.g. Fist of the First Men.) I think there are a lot of budget constraints at play too. They have to recycle sets and limit characters compared to the books.

Sorry to hear that TN.

As in the Jamaican? How did you come to that conclusion?

I thought it was a silly twist on the genre, and had a good enough cast to make it pretty entertaining. Kind of a tribute to stoners flick.

This clearly is not Obsidian's project. They are simply being contracted to do some work on it. That's a great way for the company to bring in revenue without taking the risks of an in-house project.

Thanks everyone, it was a lot of fun. I'm very lucky.

This is the same team that is running the Jagged Alliance Flashback kickstarter right now. They seem genuinely committed to good turn based combat, so I wish them the best.