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Up to 18 wins, sweet.

Hehe, taks, I love your posts and I agree with a few of your political opinions, but you seem to put a lot of emotion into them. Don't get me wrong, I do the same thing on a few issues. I don't consider it a flaw, I'm just saying you don't seem to put your feelings aside when discussing this stuff. Any truly rational person would shoot themselves rather than deal with politics in any form.

We had well over 200 easter eggs hidden at our family get-together. It was fun, my daughter's first real easter egg hunt.

I haven't caught a Jeff Goldblum episode yet, but I can see him doing pretty well. I liked the redhead girl they had for awhile.

Hurry up and get to level 10 so we can join your clan and complain about the lousy health benefits and vacation packages.

I appreciated the fact that Portal was easy enough not to get hung up on a puzzle for hours. I can't say the same for Braid.

This thing is escalating. I'm guessing it is going to go bad in a major way, and I doubt the pirates are going to fare very well. Seriously, if I was a pirate and I heard that a bunch of big warships were surrounding another pirate, I wouldn't exactly be running to back up my pirate compadre.

Exactly what does overrated mean to you? Braid didn't have an advertising budget or anything. It became a sensation almost solely on word of mouth advertising. It just seems like the argument could be better made that there are other products out there that deserve some of the spotlight that Braid got, but I don't know why you would need to bring Braid down a few notches to achieve that.

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That's not quite right. "Blow put over US$180,000 of his own money into its development." Ah, I think I remember reading that. Crazy! Good thing it was successful.

Sorry, I was referring to Warhammer Online being fairly new to the scene. As a new game, it is difficult to see what type of subscription base they will stay at. Every MMO should be prepared to deal with the fact that numbers will fluctuate tremendously in the first 6 months. This also isn't Dark Ages of Camelot 2. The game design is much more focused on PvP, and so they have greater balancing headaches to face than before.

You are a growing girl Gfted. Time to invest in a training bra.

You don't find it a bit refreshing that a game can be made without a huge team of a hundred artists and developers, millions of dollars in advertising, and a stifling big brother publisher laying in wait? Braid was created by two guys with no budget. I'm happy to see these projects succeed, I think they keep the industry grounded.

L&O recycles actors too. I saw an episode from way back where Ice T was a drug dealer who ends up getting shot in the head. Now he's a detective. Miraculous!

Logan also was the lead character in the Law and Order movie.

Well, the odd thing is most of us agreed that Avery was hung out to dry unfairly earlier in the season. Sure, his comments were tasteless, but the commissioner shouldn't step in every time a player trash talks. Volourn's tone is very inflammatory in his post, as if we all are on the Avery hating bandwagon. I've always been a fan of Avery, when the Rangers made the trade for him originally I posted that I think he will be a fantastic fit for them. So I'm not sure where Volo's argumentative tone is aimed at. I PM'ed Volourn a few weeks ago about his need to turn most topics into an argument here in the NHL thread. This is my favorite thread on the forums, and I really enjoy how active everyone is, how everyone cheers and laments their personal favorite teams. I don't want Volourn to stop posting here, I enjoy discussing the Rangers with him and consider him a part of our community, but I made a plea for him to be less argumentative and insulting in his posts. He never responded, so I'm not sure how to take that. And what the heck did Mike Modano do?

WO is 2nd MMO of mythic... And?

I think it's new to the PC. I really enjoyed it on the 360, it was creative and definitely worth a few bucks. Kaftan is just upset that the creator of Braid peed in his Wheaties.

Dallas with Avery would still equal = no playoffs, so I'm not sure that it matters to them that the Rangers and Avery are succeeding.

Seriously, I have no clue who you are. It's like you made the account here just to get us to help your brute I'm up to level 5 with 13 wins. Some very close calls, I had to kill two dogs in one round earlier.

My wife and I are both teachers. We have been teaching the same amount of years. I make more money than her because I am offered more opportunities. The administrators give me extra duty jobs, extra classes, all sorts of things. My wife is a harder worker, but she is just not offered the same chances. It also has to do with aggression. My wife will do all sorts of stuff for free, she teaches dance and cheerleading and makes very little extra for it. I just wouldn't do that. I won't do extra work unless I will be compensated. So yeah, it's a tough situation. From what I've seen, women are much harder workers then men. Except when they are drying their nail polish.

Age discrimination? Really? So gay couples should just wait until they get older, because they will outgrow being gay? I don't have an issue with arguing political theory. But this is a thread about gay marriage as well, and very few people seem willing to address the actual issue. What I'm saying is that all this political theory means diddly squat to a gay couple that wants the same rights as a heterosexual. It is just a smoke screen for the greater issue where gay people are not afforded the same civil rights as straight people in the US.

I love how people are arguing about political theory when the real issue is discrimination against a minority. None of this matters to the couple that is marginalized because they don't fit the traditional man-woman mold.

Warhammer Online has a pretty unique situation in that they really need to balance the servers between each faction, and they even have to worry about having the different tiers balanced. It's a bit of a nightmare I imagine. Still, they are fairly new to the scene so I think it is too early to pass judgement. Auto Assault also came out a long time ago, so I'm not sure how that qualifies as a recent release. That list you supplied is pretty good evidence that the MMO genre is alive and growing, you have a good mix of old and new titles in there. Tabula Rasa is the only recent release that was forced to shut down the servers for good. It's also the only high quality title that has shut down. It was a stable game, gt good reviews, but it never found an audience. On the other hand, games like Vanguard and Age of Conan that had serious flaws, still seem able to carve out a niche in the market and survive.

There are plenty of successful MMO's out there though, and I can't think of any that have come out stating they were going to be the next WoW. Heck, a few companies are turning a solid profit by offering a bunch of different MMO's. Turbine, SOE, and NCSoft are all moving along just fine in the supposed shadow of Blizzard. Age of Conan is the only recent game that seems to have suffered from unrealistic expectations. And that game isn't dead, it was just terribly mismanaged.