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Steam had something called Saints Row the Third on a weekend sale (50% off). Looked sufficiently silly that I might like it, so I bought it. Grabbed it's predecessor too for an extra $3.75. Might use it to kill some time some day. Edit: As for what I'm playing, currently trying out the "Vessel" demo.

It's probably just establishing the proper food chain at your place

Bah, ZX Spectrum was just a ZX 81 with slightly more memory and 6 additional colours

There are rumors of massacres in the Baldurs Gate area, entire parties wiped out and tavern tales of woe flourishing up and down the Sword Coast. Maybe some entrepreneurial cleric of Waukeen should get the idea of setting up a life insurance company.

I still hate those intellectually challenged PC gamers with their inferior hardware and mock operating systems for ruining the glorious Amiga gaming scene.

I think the idea was to pick something people can relate to? It can be hard to explain something to people when they have no point of reference. Whoever made the video could have used the Palestinian/Jewish conflict as an example, but people in the US wouldn't be able to relate to it, because it isn't their homes being flattened by tanks from an occupying force on a regular basis. You need to paint the picture in colours people recognise so to speak, otherwise it's just an abstract smear on the wall

I do not like the sound of this

I think I begin to understand where Monty Python is coming from...

Old news are old. New news here

Start of old thread End of old thread Nice touch, now we know where to go complain if the UI sucks Curious to see the game when released. Having played that type of games since the Amiga days.

Agreed, I watch a fair amount of foreign news, you can get a lot of good info if you stay sceptical. I always wondered if BBC World News has a bias. If they do, they hide it well. Besides BBC, I catch Al Jazeera english news on occasion, which seems a good source of news with a different focus.

Unfortunately Obsidian is not a publisher (unlike the "good old" Black Isle days). It means other people makes the calls when and if information gets released. EA/Bioware and Bethesda are both close cousins to their publishing branches and is in a position where they can create their own hype. I don't hate Bioware games. Mostly indifferent, but not above poking a bit of fun at some of the obvious things.

Had green curry chicken for dinner today...

Please explain. What is "Sawyer's mod" and what does it do. Also, where do you get it. A bit more info and download link in this NMA Topic (because I happen to lurk there once in a blue moon)

Yeah, it's not going to win on its "looks". Seriously, just the thought of a 30 inch iPhone screen on my desk is scary

The answers for 2012 is quite different from the answers to the questions if posed when I started playing computer games (1983). 1. Depends on the nature of the game. Some people play games (MMO and multiplayer) as a replacement for real life socialising. Some people play games because if offers escapism. Some people play games because they are addicted to it. Some people play it just to get a short break and kill a bit of time. 2. Depends on the nature of the game. Some games can be quite educational in all things history and culture (try Paradox game), some games can improve your twitch skills and some games can give you the illusion of having a life when your tag is on some obscure, unknown ranking somewhere. Mostly you do the opposite of learning by playing games though, like wasting time that had better been spent learning something. 3. Depends on who you ask. For those making the game, it's a profession. Tools programmers, engine programmers, etc. do what they do, honing their skills (hopefully) and making a living in the process. Artists (concept, illustration, animation, modelling etc.) gets to do their thing and hopefully make a living doing it etc. Same thing with project managers, designers, the marketing guys etc. Publishers do it to give their investors maximum return of investment, competing with insurance companies, investment funds, pension funds and others in offering returns for your invested dollars.

1 in 625 chance that the world ends 05/02/2040 (thats 5th of February). Big rocks in space can ruin your day

Oh, that explains why he took an arrow in the face... and the knee...

Maybe allow a "class swap"? Depending on what "broken" means in this context of course.

What have you done to the real Shryke?!?

Well, you *are* a shapeshifter... maybe I thought you were somebody else

Amazon UK finally decided to carry Blakes 7 boxed set DVD's again. He came, he saw, he sacrificed his credit card!!!

They are nominated for a number of awards too Saw "The Fog" (the old one, not the remake). Fun in a B-Movie kind of way. Also gave my colleagues a good laugh when we first talked about that movie years ago. My accent makes it close to impossible to pronounce the soft 'g' at the end (sounds like a hard 'k'). Talking about fog in the street and everywhere else takes on new meanings.

I'm an archer for effins sake, I shouldn't be anywhere near the front line. If the enemy can shoot back at me, somethings wrong

I suddenly feel very vulnerable. Anybody got a spare platemail and a scroll of stoneskin I can borrow?