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I'm glad to hear Bruce is sending in a complaint, I know he is voicing the concerns many of us have with the project. Good luck!

What game is that LC?

We aren't talking about games that are an hour or two long, which would be equivalent to your 16 minute movie. With movies, you pay like $10 and you get about 2 hours of entertainment. At that ratio a game only needs to be 12 hours long. Most games meet that pretty easily. I would avoid this Bioshock game based on length if it was well under that, but that doesn't seem to be the case. So I'll just avoid it because it is a FPS game

And I always prefer to spend 30 hours of awesome than spending 15 hours of awesome I consider myself lucky if I get one game with that much awesome every few years. Fallout:NV was probably the only recent game that really amazed me at the hours it kept my rabid attention. That being said, my time is valuable and much like movies, a shorter game that plays great all the way through and feels completed within a decent time frame is really what I'm looking for most of the time.

I just hope they ditch the browser format, that thing was always a pain for me with BF3.

That really depends on how many hours were put in over those 2 days. If the game really is at the 15-20 hour mark, that's a pretty reasonable amount of cost per hour.

That's baffling, it almost reads like an early April Fool's joke. Those sales numbers seem to be fantastic.

I agree with all of you that the government should get out of the marriage business, but it doesn't seem to be a serious movement at this time. In fact some churches are already set up that way, my wife and I have been married for 10 years, but she recently asked if we could get married under the Catholic church. They have a whole process and it basically like we never married in the first place, and I have to retrieve old baptism records if I want it to be considered a sacramental marriage. The history behind this whole thing is very interesting, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the Federal or State governments. As for GD and his room full of men, if there were ten Jewish guys I wouldn't be able to tell either, but that doesn't mean Jewish people shouldn't be allowed to marry. It's also a bit old fashioned to say gay people are making a choice, which you seem to imply. We've got genetics and simple rationality that say otherwise. I don't choose to be attracted to women, I just am. Should gay people be expected to suppress themselves just to fit in with the larger society? I don't believe so.

EQ2 was simply awesome to go back to a couple years after release, they put in so much content you didn't need to go anywhere near the same areas you had leveled in before. GW2 was brilliant about that as well, you could go to any zone and get xp while doing quests. That is a huge weakness in the whole design of TOR. All those cutscenes and dialogue mean you are pretty much locked into a specific path through the levels.

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I should add I have no problem protecting private groups, like the Boy Scouts, from having discriminatory policies. Societal pressure should be enough to convince most groups not to discriminate, and there are usually options for minorities to go to. The same can be said about churches, they can discriminate (although the argument over whether they then deserve government tax breaks is a big one.) But we only have one federal and state government (in each state) and it should not have discriminatory policies, regardless of public opinion.

A popular vote should never be used to determine whether discrimination against a minority group is ok. The state of California decided to allow gay marriage in the first place as the constitution did not rule it out, prop 8 changed that, but it is a discriminatory policy so I have no problem with the SCOTUS throwing it out. I do not see them applying it to all states though, I think they will apply it narrowly to California only. Leaving this whole thing to popular voting is what created the mess. You had lobby groups pumping millions into a scare tactics campaign that spread misinformation all over the place. Also, DOMA should be getting the boot as well. Thank goodness for that. Prop 8 and DOMA are designed to discriminate, that is all there is to it.

Um, six figures isn't middle class. You earn more than 95% of people in the US, and at least four times the median. Where I live it is very much middle class. My wife and I are teachers, so moving somewhere else would simply cut our salaries by more than half.

You should probably stick to text adventures if that's the way you feel.

Yep, I play for the storylines as well, which I think they did a very good job on. I can see the complaints though, you need an end game at this point.

Wow thanks, that does put things in perspective. Well I'm utterly disgusted by the project now.

I am skeptical and dislike the whole 9 year old kickstarter as well, but I don't know where you guys are getting the impression she is a millionaire. Everything about it looks like a typical middle class family. I make low six figures, and $850 is not and easy amount to come up with after all my bills and necessary expenses. She looks like a stay at home mom who took a few business classes on her GI bill. I guess you've got to give her credit for being really diligent about crowdfunding. But I just don't like to see it used this way. I've used donorschoose.org for my classroom to buy materials, and that raises just enough to cover the item or expense.

I second the notion that Denerim was a terribly designed Capital city. I think I ranted about that quite a bit when the game came out. The dwarf city didn't seem to be nearly that deserted. The weird thing was the real lack of housing anywhere. It was just tiny.

TOR was pretty average, they had some ridiculous queues. The fact they went overboard on the number of servers was probably a bad way to begin, then took too long to consolidate. Who knows how many subs they lost over the ghost town months?

Speaking of marriage, I've had my frog princess forever and I've got 3 girls and 1 boy. It's a pretty cool little feature

Hmm, I did not have any of those issues in my playthrough, most of the time the last alien was exactly where I thought he would be. The load times seemed reasonable as well. My biggest issue were LOS and camera glitches. I assume they've been patched up a bit at this point.

Those who are just about to play Xcom are in for a huge treat.

I avoid playing every MMO on major content launch days, they are rarely smooth.

I went Paladin at first, but I found the mage more enjoyable. Throwing fireballs around to start every round is entertaining.

Yeah I started on Legend and I'm still playing it. I've been burned out a couple times, but I think I will finish this one. I'm level 21 and I've got a pretty kick butt army, so it is getting fun. I finally beat the Undead General guy, it was a tough 30 minute battle but my mix of red, green, and black dragons, with some Necro's and some sort of stone guy who throws rocks really did the trick. I plan on playing Armored Princess after I finish it.