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I thought the concept was rather shallow as well, but there are missions and such that actually affect the story, and not everyone in the mall is a zombie. GTA is based on the same principals, albeit in an entire city, but I never really get bored with that game.

PnP books are struggling mightily, but it would be nice if they focused on the fact that good PnP books can help profits in other areas. Are miniatures going to sell well if they kill the books? It's a tough market with little growth, but hopefully these are just rumors.

Bnet kiddies have always been an issue. Many of them migrated over to WoW, although they tend to stick to PvP servers.

Sweet, I know what I'm doing today.

Well, yeah, I agree with you there. Unfortunately 51% of the voters think that's groovy.

The release date is supposedly August 8th. Personally, I'll wait on a few reviews. August is a busy enough month with Madden and school starting up. Plus, I think Backyard Baseball 07 is coming out on the same day. That's a tough choice.

It isn't still alive? I thought the Starcraft community was still pretty active through Battlenet, but maybe they use other sources. On the Blizzard side of things, they did a pretty good job of taking that Battlenet concept and turning into a massive money making machine with 5 million users paying about $15 a month.

Actually, Bush's agenda against gay marriage is very political. There have been a few interviews about his personal feelings and if you read between the lines, he's a fairly open minded individual. Look, **** Cheney has an openly gay daughter who worked with him on his campaigns. He clearly accepts her, but his party line does not. Bush and company do what they need to do to get elected, personal beliefs are secondary.

I also gotta add, racism is extremely prevalent is the US. It is still very much a problem. Just because slavery is over with and open discrimination is against the law doesn't mean everything is rosy in the world.

The reverse side of this argument is that there still racists, white supremists, and neo nazi's out there. Now the majority of people aren't in that camp, but I think many people need a reminder that if you just live your life and ignore that hate exists, people get into some pretty messed up situations. You can look at Hitler as an example of this. People didn't want to believe he was all that bad. The world had just finished a terrible war, and Hitler seemed to be rebuilding Germany, Berlin was even considered one of the greatest cities in the world. No one wanted to interfere. So if a Jewish person want to throw out a reminder that "Hey, we went through some messed up sh*&" then I say let them. It may seem like they are drudging up the past, but it is a way of reminding us that hatred and bigotry is a part of human nature and it needs to be constantly checked.

I've played almost every MMO since The Sierra Network had that odd little dungeon crawler in their online world, and WoW is a perfect example of why Blizzard is top-notch. First off, attention to detail, as many have already said. Secondly, when I played the Open Beta for WoW, the game was utterly complete. It was stable, it had a huge amount of quests, it had polish...it was more developed than most MMO's are after their first year. They tested it insanely. Most companies would have released WoW 2 years before Blizzard actually did.

Happy B-Day! I'm drunk, you dhould be too.

First of all: I'm drunk Second of all: Blizzard is succesful because they pay attention to details.

I remember it being Mid-August, but it could be later due to the 360 version.

The technology for fluid moving robots is getting there. Unfortunately it's moving slowly, as the practicality of robots isn't too clear. We use robotics on assembly lines and such, but what is the real use of a robot that moves like a human? Other than world domination, of course.

It would be more impressive if it didn't look like a cool breeze could knock it over. I'd say the guns were the most impressive bit, I didn't expect them to work. Edit: If you notice on the same link, there are some impressive Sony dancing robots.

Speaking of Aragorn, I just watched "A History of Violence" and was delightfully surprised. It was a great movie, perhaps in my top 10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Y1lYVNerM...related&search= Proof that Jimmy Fallon would have been a better choice than Hayden Christensen.

I just watch "Silverado" which was another good western.

KotOR was clearly cashing in on the Star Wars name, but that doesn't make it less stellar. edit: BG1 to BG2 is barely growth. It's a direct sequel cashing in on the success of the previous title. When a series is dead in the water, as M&M was, it's a risk to take it on in any aspect.

So in that line of thinking, Hades, we would never see Star Wars games or books because that name is reserved solely for movies. Might and Magic is just a fantasy world. Sure, it started off as a certain type of game, but it was expanded with Heroes of Might and Magic and now it's growing further with Dark Messiah (We won't talk about Crusaders.) It's a universe that developers are using to set their game in. Sure, it's not developed as thoroughly as D&D or Star Wars, but it's still an already created universe. Growth is the key here. Might and Magic was dead. So was Fallout. These new games aren't interfering with the old style of games.

I just liked seeing the ending, since I never managed to actually finish Oblivion. Actually, it was pretty anticlimactic for a game I spent so much time on.

The GM goals were broken in NHL 2005. As were many other things. I couldn't change goalies when not at home, it would only let me change my opponents goalie. How does that slip by the testers? They never even patched that, to my knowledge.

Uh, World of Xeen was top notch. The others don't really touch that epic. Still, I'm excited about this game on a different level. I don't consider it an RPG in the same vein.

It looks like you really just need more RAM to dramatically improve performance, although those cases make it hard to upgrade. Edit: You can buy a cheap external hard drive as well.