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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?

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