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Heya Still donning the kevlar vest and commuting to Mexico?

Piracy discussion went this way

People who believe this has anything to do with censorship? Funny how they always try to play that card every time such ugly concepts as accountability and similar rears their ugly head. In an ideal world, you would have an internet that didn't get monitored by authorities constantly and where there was no anonymity whatsoever. Then people would always have to face up to their actions.

Did you have anything against 5th Element? Sorry I thought you were arguing against Lockout, and no I have nothing against the 5th Element. It was the first movie in which Milla Jojovich married a director so she could get a role. How many directors has she married?

There's too many similarities between Mass Effect and Babylon 5 for it to be a coincidence. Just like how there are too many similarities between Dragon Age and Warhammer for that to be a coincidence. And yet, I seem to have missed them all. (which isn't to say that most things in DA have been lifted from somewhere else - but WH? WTH?) Aspects of it (the warp fade and the Templars of Sigmar seeking out unsanctioned mages, practicing outside the Colleges of Magic Circles) because the untrained mind may attract the attention of warp fade entities, but my first thought when watching the cutscenes was Peter Jackson As you said, a mix of some old, some borrowed and some new bits here and there.

It's going to be a bit tricky checking in the case, although I guess you could get with the surf boards, skis and other oversized baggage. Question is if it's worth it or lease a powerful laptop for some months instead? (Even drained of liquid, my desktop pc clocks in at 27kg, so I wouldn't be able to send it as anything but "goods").

I suppose congratulations are in order? What happened, got tired of your room mate or something?

I did a similar thing when moving from New Zealand to Australia years ago. Left CPU and RAM on motherboard, everything else (including heat sinks) got taken off. Fortunately I had the original packaging for the motherboard, gfx card and drives. I'm such a packrat. Never throw out a good cardboard box, you never know when it might come in handy Edit: Never underestimate the danger of static electricity. Keep polystyrene away. Use anti-static bags to wrap around your boards and drives.

Managed to play a bit of Gratuitous Space Battles and Trine 2 towards the end of the weekend. Testing new ship designs is fun, but not being into the whole internet gaming thing, I wish the single player game had been more "expansive". Trine 2 is if possible even more fun than Trine. Some of the puzzles (to get all experience points in a level) requires some rather creative thinking. You know the answer is there and it's solvable with the tools at hand. A bit like ye olde adventure games.

The game just disappeared from my wishlist...

Double that price for the Australian market... Magnesium, huh? I know from experience that it burns very brightly when it gets hot

Santa? Wrong pole After a heavy downpour that lasted more than 30 hours, the silence when it ceased was almost deafening. It also meant a weekend spent cooped up indoors. Managed to catch up a bit on my gaming, but otherwise very uneventful.

Preaching to the choir... I pre-ordered it anyway

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I know it's happened in France, at least. When death does not part

I was so sad when I saw a gameplay trailer of that game. Warlock was the name of a really fun WarCraft III mod, thought they made an indie game out of that. I've never played any of the Warcraft games, so I wouldn't know what they look like. The demo was fun though, if you are into turn based strategy games (with a slightly humorous touch).

Warlock - Master of the Arcane Demo Most fun game of it's "type" (turn based strategy in a fantasy setting) since HoMM III. At least the demo leaves a good impression. Other peoples mileage may vary. No visible benefits to pre-ordering, so it just goes on my must have list in May (supposed to be released on the 8th).

I'm tempted... If I were to go shopping at Gamersgate, is the Treasure Isle DLC worth getting together with the game?

Honestly? Mostly what people share here, at least for games that I'm marginally interested in. Sometimes lurking at NMA, sometimes reading GameBanshee. Sometimes developer forums for games I "know" I'm going to be interested in (Paradox Games).

Not to mention all those tonnes of gold (and silver) on the sea bottom, courtesy various entrepreneurs, some with letters of marque, some without

Maybe he's a Swedish Quango?

I was just teasing LC, because she didn't want the bundle version (because of the Paypal/Amazon account requirement) Witcher 2 was a personal disappointment, the only GoG purchase I truly regret.

Nope, haven't bought it yet. I noticed that GoG's version doesn't include the full soundtrack, either, which is a bummer because I normally like to support GoG. But I don't understand the charity bundle thing... (edit: oh...nvm...I'm dense...got it.) ...bah. I need PayPal, Amazon, or Google to pay. No likey. Can I remove the CC info from Google after I've added it, or do they have it forever. *whistle innocently* Not that I want to diss Gog, even after they did Witcher 2 to me. Bought some of the old Interplay games where my cd's were getting old and scratched, particularly 'Messiah'. I still need to beat Evil Bob some day

I don't know if it's because they are "story heavy", or just because they are linear that I have a hard time replaying some games and not others. I'll still happily replay old strategy games that takes forever to finish, I love a current game of PS:T that I'm playing, yet there are recent games which railroads the player and now gathers dust by the wayside. I'm more likely to replay ME2 than ME3 some day, simply because I can decide in which order I want to do most of the things between the start and the ending. I think there is something about the stories and experiences you create yourself are the best ones.

Any idea how it compared to Eye of the Beholder? I played Eye of the Beholder (the first one) and Black Crypt. The latter being the spitting image of Legend of Grimrock. I suspect most of my Amiga gaming time was spent on Mechforce. Most awesome shareware game ever. The AI opponent played a mean game without cheating.