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Looks interesting. Australian desalination plants have used osmosis so far to separate water and whatever is in it. This sounds almost like a giant coffee filter

Elected politicians, It seems a universal law: Much overrated and little trustworthiness.

I must play the wrong games. Last one I remember where the protagonist fought the antagonist over a woman as a prize was Donkey Kong. Maybe it's common in the games I generally ignore (quite possibly).

Errr, her point with that was that the damsel in distress trope has its roots in early gaming, and she illustrated that the theme of Peach being captured has remained the central motivation for the game in 13 of 14 different iterations of Mario games, and that the trope continues today. Though she does acknowledge that the mere existence of this trope in a game doesn't mean that a game must be sexist. Eh, the original Lara Croft still focused heavily on Male Gaze. I think it got worse as the series progressed initially. A review by a Mary Sue writer details her experiences (and epiphany) with the Tomb Raider series and how her perspective of it changed as she got older and was exposed to the different games (she agreed that lara was amazing and awesome with the first game), and the reservations she had with the new game and how she ends up loving what the game did with Lara's character in this one. An enjoyable read. Ironically, the first Tomb Raider games were also the best *games*. When it (the franchise) switched focus from the game to all the peripheral stuff, Lara Croft included, the franchise started its downfall into mediocracy, never to recover quality wise.

Thread is becoming threadbare (oh the pun!)... new thread here

Start of old thread End of old thread In an unsubtle move supporting blatant consumerism, we toss out the old thread and aquire a new one... Will Guard Dog finally run up a deficit on his budget? Will LadyCrimson go into cryostasis? Questions to be answered in a new thread.

Didn't Heroes of Might and Magic III have such a mechanism? Awed by your overwhelming presence, enemies would offer to run away and the player could decide to force confrontation or let them run away. Was sort of a nice touch, adding something to the game.

Fusion power plant Just some pictures from France and a bit of trivia regarding the fusion reactor they are building. They call it safe. Not sure if anything that requires an operating temperature of 200 million degrees would qualify as "safe"? I hope they've got some good insulation. Still, it might be the beginning of the end of oil companies and fossil fuel as we know it, even if it's going to take a decade or two yet.

I found out that I could use a saved game from my first playthrough of ME3 for the 'Citadel' DLC. Not finished yet, but when I thought I was done, I'm suddenly stuck having to organize a party All I can say so far is: "Bwahahaha!" Most fun I've had playing a Bioware... "anything" really for years. The banter is just hilarious. I wonder if I would have met more party members if I'd had more save games to chose from. Looking forward to finish my ME2 game so I can start from scratch with a full roster. Tali ranting about the ruined fish tank made me spill my coffee when guffawing and I felt slightly sore afterwards from wearing a stupid grin most of the time.

Not for me, whenever I try the link I just get "General Error".. But no need to quote if it's a long article - I just thought it might've been like 10-15 lines. 8 pages when cut and paste to Word... Edit: Tl;dr; version: He sounds similar to a blog post from the past, praising the way sexuality is dealt with. It's there, but not an issue. Same thing with religion, it's there, part of the setting and shapes people, but not the subject of antagonism.

Had to use a walkthrough to find the starting point for 'Arrival' DLC in Mass Effect 2. Apparently it was hiding in the far southeastern corner of the galaxy, normally outside the visible area

I wanna read it but I just get "General Error" whenever I press the link. Can someone quote it? Also found this thing.. The Most Ambitious Video Game Project Ever. The link is still working... Awful lot of text there. Sure you want to read it all (it was a nice read though)

Same here

Apparently it's perfectly fine to use the Queens English to accuse people of being Australian. Sentence overturned Bloody Poms, watch who you call an Aussie, yes?

Almost finished an old game of ME2 (just a few loyalty missions before the IFF thing), so I can take that particular (renegade) Shepard along for a ride in ME3 with the latest DLC's (including the new 'Citadel'). Other than that, some Warlock - Master of the Arcane and Europa Universalis (cheating a bit this time, manipulating the save games to change the dynasty, now King Gorth II of Denmark).

I noticed that you failed to address the actual issue. If we assume that a margin for error has been left to account for the variables that you mention, do you or do you not believe that games cause ADHD? What was the actual issue? Whether games cause ADHD or not. We need a sarcasm tag I wonder if people will realise some day that video games does not "cause" anything other than bad health and a lack of social skills. Possibly, it exposes latent traits, but I seriously doubt it's the root cause. Dumb people will act dumb when playing, people with violent dispositions will still act violently etc. Now, if we were to talk about the genocide and mass starvation of brain cells stemming from social media on the other hand?

For those who like grand strategy, I can also recommend "War in Russia" (also available from Matrix Games download page for free somewhere). It's been a favourite Gary Grigsby game of mine since dawn of time, running on my dos emulator on the Amiga. It was called "Second Front" then, but is essentially the same game. Now off to study that other thread with already funded games, still available for pre-order. I might just catch up on Shadowrun yet. Elaborate! Sell this game to me Commissar Gorth! A picture is worth a lot of words... Product Page Also see the free War in the Pacific under product suggestions for some of the biggest, baddest Pacific theater on a stratregic level to satisfy all your medal collecting itches... as for WIR (War in Russia), it's a strategic level war game covering the period from September 1941 to August 1945, covering central Europe to the Urals. Western Front and Africa (later Italy) is only handled on an abstract level. You need to pump resources into them to prevent them from collapsing. Weekly turns. You control HQ's and units on a corps/army level for logistic and operational purposes. You assign (and reassign) units on a divisional level to various corps's and armies.. You can play either German or Russion (or both). You control production and reinforcement (including who gets the new fancy Panzers and when), as well as airforces, air operations and assign commanders. Supply lines and levels are critical and entire sectors are won or lost depending on whether you can do the "cauldron" thing on your opponent. Actually, there is a lot more to it, but if you can get it to run on something like dos box (doesn't run natively on 64 bit I've discovered), it's a treat.

I noticed that you failed to address the actual issue. If we assume that a margin for error has been left to account for the variables that you mention, do you or do you not believe that games cause ADHD? What was the actual issue?

Well, they are changing the country even as we speak. In fact that is the Democrat plan for taking over, which I believe will be disastrous. I wonder how the Swedes would feel if they became a minority in their own country. About time the Scania, Halland and Blekinge got liberated from Swedish occupation and freed from the cultural oppression exerted by the regime in Stockholm...

Decided to splurge a bit on Shadowrun, got myself the $75 (+$10) preorder. I now have an excess of goodwill Also got the basic package for Xenonauts (X-Com was a major disappointment for me).

For those who like grand strategy, I can also recommend "War in Russia" (also available from Matrix Games download page for free somewhere). It's been a favourite Gary Grigsby game of mine since dawn of time, running on my dos emulator on the Amiga. It was called "Second Front" then, but is essentially the same game. Now off to study that other thread with already funded games, still available for pre-order. I might just catch up on Shadowrun yet.

Yes, I was saying it requires Steam to play. Gorth was concerned that it required more, like how Ubisoft titles launch from Steam and then make you sign into Uplay. At least that was the impression I got. Yes, that was something similar I was worried about. The text was a bit muddled on the product page

What did we want?

No idea if it's good or not, but I bought the Citadel DLC to satisfy my curiosity I think I may have to finish that game of ME2 (and continuation of a ME1 game) I started last year and then play through ME3 again some day.

Hmm... saw Sleeping Dogs (digital edition) on sale for $10 on GG yesterday. Thought about buying it, but I couldn't work out if the DRM meant you needed an extra account somewhere for activation besides Steam activation. In the end, decided it wasn't worth the hassle trying to figure it out