Gorth

So, Puerto Rico is the Scotland of the Pacific (yes, that was a joke)?

The books might be full of Microsoft subliminal messages?

I didn't think they used forum feedback as much as they rely heavily on data mining of gamer behaviour while playing the game(s). Now what they do with all those raw data... probably about as exact a science as statistical analysis.

"A Russian team discovered a seed cache of Silene stenophylla, a flowering plant native to Siberia, that had been buried by an Ice Age squirrel near the banks of the Kolyma River (map)."

But in the intro it says the Reapers are there to cleanse all organic life. What are they doing giving them baths ? "Hey Harbinger pass me that sponge". In ME2 they turned them into a liquid soup for intravenous feeding of baby-reapers. No idea if you've ever played Warhammer 40k, but they are somewhat similar to Tyranids. Difference being that the Reapers seems to seed the galaxy with life by providing the technological means for life forms to spread through mass effect relays to places where the Reapers know where to find them again when it's harvest time. I have but I've never collected Tyanids. Well, in short. It seems like Reapers needs organics for reproduction. Prepare for some hot, steamy Reaper relationships

But in the intro it says the Reapers are there to cleanse all organic life. What are they doing giving them baths ? "Hey Harbinger pass me that sponge". In ME2 they turned them into a liquid soup for intravenous feeding of baby-reapers. No idea if you've ever played Warhammer 40k, but they are somewhat similar to Tyranids. Difference being that the Reapers seems to seed the galaxy with life by providing the technological means for life forms to spread through mass effect relays to places where the Reapers know where to find them again when it's harvest time.

Since I was visiting Steam anyway (and getting the remaining DLC's for Gratuitous Space Battles), I downloaded a demo for something called Watchmen: The End is Nigh. Seems like a comic book inspired thing. Unlike the Batman game I got free with my gfx card, this one was actually somewhat fun to play. I Might have to get both parts of the full game eventually. At $10 each it's not exactly robbery. I could have sworn I saw that comic in a Danish comic store many years ago. Might have to look it up on google.

That might (or might not) be a tribute to reality. Much of that time period, at least in Europe, was defined by the wars between the French crown and the Dukes of Aquitaine.

The Roland Emerich (sp?) kind?

"Helmed Horror - Critical Hit Averted By Helmet" So, we've gone from being the stuff of legends to becoming violent home invasion thugs. How the mighty have fallen

I haven't tried the game yet (still on my Gamersgate wishlist), but it sounds like a "modern" era version of Europa Universalis: Rome, where you sometimes spend more time managing your family, dynasties, insubordinate subordinates, executing those of your generals whose popularity may eclipse your own etc. I think I'll grab it next time I go shopping there.

Deus Ex Human Revolution at 66% off. It's very tempting, but I doubt I'll ever get around to playing it. Never got into the original either.

Insane 2 For those days when you just want to drive into things and smash stuff. Edit: Maybe also because I liked Insane (the original)

Seriously, playing with the trash compactor and ejecting rubbish into space was more fun than the planet scan mini game

I might download a handful or two tomorrow

Which stylists? Which Greeks? Mycenean Greeks? Archaic Greek? Classical Greek? Modern Greek? French is just a bastardised hybrid of Roman (Latin) and the Germanic that the Franks spoke at the time of invading France.

I saw a Reaper the other day. Disgusting creatures. Continued here

Start of old thread End of old thread We are all doomed.

Erhhh... without reading the thread again, what was it that made a game a classic? Fanaticism of fans, sheer numbers sold, how often it's used as reference point for similar games? etc.

Investment companies (e.g. publishers) wants as much return of investment as fast as possible. Otherwise they won't have that return to reinvest asap in the next project. The faster you get your money back, the faster it can get reinvested, the higher the profitability. Not much different from a financial institution or a movie company.

Slightly similar to Gratuitous Space Battles. Everything is in the planning and equipment selection. Then you hit the start movie button Jah man... Don't mess with da dreads man... Galactic peace man... (yes, Gorths rastafarian imitations suck) Similar approach here. My wallet may only be one vote amongst a million, but if I don't use that vote, I can't claim moral high ground. Starting with FO3, I buy DLC's (what few I do buy) in bundles at discounts or not at all. If I suspect that the main game is going to be designed deliberately as a launch platform for DLC's I'll not bother at all. Just another reason for waiting and see how a game turns out, study player feedback, lets-play videos on youtube etc.

Watching the soap opera that is Australian politics on the morning news. Glad I'm not allowed to vote. The choice is effectively between somebody whose tools are lies, poison and daggers in the back (the current PM) versus somebody who is just a moronic simpleton (the opposition party). Yay for democracy.

Flags used to be pretty important in European culture though. Wars waged and uncountable numbers of people killed over the use of (and desecration of) symbols. Heck, the Danish flag was given to the Danes by God during a military campaing in Estonia, liberating Estonia from the Estonians, complete with rays of sunlight, booming voice and the sounding of horns. It was used ever since, replacing the Raven banner.

Only if it's romanceable Kidding aside the worst part it's that somewhere in the BioBoards someone has already used Fable 3 as an example of sex on multiplayer. They are trying to push this Kinect thing very hard. For a while, I wondered why...

Baby seal killers, all of them...