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It's not really ironic. She's not an anti-drunk driving activist. She heads a rehabilitation program for people convicted of drunk driving. That's pretty different.

Geez, check out the tremendous list of stuff that LBJ passed when he was in office: 1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964 1964: Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 1964: Wilderness Act 1964: Nurse Training Act 1964: Food Stamp Act of 1964 1964: Economic Opportunity Act 1965: Higher Education Act of 1965 1965: Social Security Act of 1965 1965: Voting Rights Act 1965: Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965 1967: Age Discrimination in Employment Act 1967: Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 1968: Bilingual Education Act 1968: Fair housing That's some productivity right there.

There's a BG for XBox??? Yeah, it was some arcadey type game. Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance was the name. I thought it was rubbish, but I probably went in expecting too much.

I took Advance Wars: Days of Ruin for the DS on vacation recently, and it's a wonderful little game. Squad level TBS games really have had a renaissance on these handhelds.

The only thing I gave Halo was the carbine, since those highly trained strmtroopers couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with the blaster rifles.

I had a great hefeweizen named Great White Wheat last night. It was a local California brewery, I believe. It had a great lemony tang with a clean aftertaste.

The fact that it's using the Silent Storm engine is about the only thing keeping some interest for me. I think it has a shot at being a good modern version of Silent Storm. I don't see it coming close to JA2, but then again, games like those are rare.

See, if I'd hear more such things, and of people I know that have the same taste in games (which both of you do to some extent), and important: of people in RL, I'd get it I haven't seen anyone on this board that played ME say they didn't enjoy it. I'd say it's fairly well spoken for among this grumpy group.

I spent $50 on the Orange box and really only played Portal (plus a couple hours of TF2). Honestly I'd say Portal was worth the money. Plus, I prefer having boxes of stuff. I'm not saying it wouldn't be smarter to go with the $20 for Portal, but I don't think you'll regret it if you spend the extra cash.

Good luck with that. If the passage of 2000 years hasnt done it, nothing will. Well, Muhammad was born in 570 CE, so your numbers are a bit off. You might claim that 500 years is no big deal, but the Catholic church wasn't exactly a fountain of comedy when it was 1500 years old.

It really looks more like a license list than a development list.

Pop, it sounds like you don't think the Bull Moose party is ready to resurface. It will!

I got to the spinning wheel level before I gave up.

It's ok Gftd1, I got the joke. It was funny.

Well said!

If the next Adolf Hitler ended up getting elected president of the US, it wouldn't suddenly create a Nazi regime. That type of jump in logic fails to account for all the checks and balances we have in our government. The president really isn't as powerful as people seem to think he is. You have an extremely complex political system at work here, and it's amazing that it keeps on functioning as well as it does, but the reality is that it is extremely resistant to corruption (or some may say there is so much corruption that it all cancels out )

Probably has to do with art costs. The more complex, the more expensive a printing job tends to be, especially based on what colors are used. The current cover is fairly simple. I really could care less. It's not like I hang my game boxes up for display.

This has actually been proven to be one of the best deterrents. Stickers are the way to go.

Initially the presidential runner-up became the vice-president, so there is a historical precedent for Sand's scenario. Unfortunately the two political parties (and the people who identify themselves with one party) are too busy waging a pissing contest to ever get along that well.

That's very scary. You gotta wonder how you even get your skates way up there.

It's a very different situation, as the pure savagery that the Al Quaeda are deploying is often affecting the civilians more harshly than the military troops. Coupled with the fact that most Al Quaeda are outsiders in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it's no surprise that the populace is turning against them. It's really just them trying to choose the lesser of two evils. Everything the populous is taught leads them to believe the Western world is evil and will corrupt their culture, so they sided with the militant extremists, but as this goes on, it's becoming obvious that the real evil is the people that kill indiscriminately. So it isn't a war that the US will win, it's a war that the Iraqi and Afghan people will eventually win, and it's good to see they are moving towards that.

I don't understand why this needs a spoiler thread.

I am still only first level. My impressions so far. Too easy, I mean waaaay to easy. The game so far is all about fetch and carry and not very imaginative at that. Most monsters die on one hit (playing a Dwarf Paladin with one eye) I started with 32 HP at 1st level (I thought this was DnD?) You can tell who to talk to to get quests, they literally have a sign over their heads each "mission has a check list on what you need to do, I mean come on, try to give your players a little credit. Before you embark on each adventure they ask if you want to 1.Solo 2.Party 3.Normal 4.Difficult. I have chosen Solo every time except once, the time I picked party was not any more difficult than the rest. Not impressed so far. Don't even get me started on some of the names of the characters these clowns use That's too bad. The HP thing is pretty screwy, but D&D is kinda set up where, if implemented properly, you are rolling the dice with your life in the first couple levels. It's not until level 4 or 5 that you really get over the weak threshold, so I guess Turbine was trying to do away with the tough levels. I have a feeling it's really not going to feel like D&D as you approach the upper levels. It's odd because LotR Online is simply awesome when it comes to story and mechanics. Same developer, massively different product.

That's the unfortunate cost of progress. ME is a triple-A title and requires a decent sized team to create new content, whereas many games in the 90's could be put together by a small team. I don't want my games to look like Doom anymore, so I'm willing to put up with it. But some games do offer tools to allow new content to be released, like the NWN model. I don't think these will go away fully, so we will always have the option to take advantage of fan-built content.

I like how Sand sees war like an RTS game. There is a map, and there are bad guys on the map, and we just need to kill them. Maybe we should send a memo out asking everyone who is against the US to please congregate in one area, so that we can focus our bombs.