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Ah well, I might create a disposable email address and sign up for that origin thing. Lets try it out on a virtual pc first and see what it does when installing.

Plans have a way of backfiring sometimes. The Germans did a similar thing when they put Lenin on a train and sent him to Russia to help destabilise the country and hamper Russian war efforts.

So, my old Sony Cybershot treacherously pulled me one over and ruined all my holiday pictures the last time I was visiting the mountains and fjords in New Zealand. Disposing of it responsibly (smashing it with a hammer), I promised myself that my next investment might as well be a video camera that also could take decent still pictures. Being completely new at this, I've only just started scratching the surface of the market and is struggling a bit sifting gold from fools gold. I'm currently having the Canon VIXIA HF G10 in my sights, but reviewers lament the lack of good still pictures. Anyone know of a good compromise between HD Video, low light handling and still pictures? Good optical zoom is a bonus, 3D functionality not desired (maybe in a few years time, but that time, that worry).

Wouldn't that be the exact opposite of original and innovative?

Doesn't make you the better ones, only the many ones. Dirty peasants... So, anyone figured out if you need that Origin stuff for the demo? I would still like to try it.

I didn't so much run out of steam (pun unintended) as I ran out of time to play. I did manage to finish Dead Money. Absolutely loved it, although I'm not sure it's a replay over and over thing. Not uncommon for story heavy stuff, once you know the story.

That's been bothering me as well. Wasn't it said somewhere that Obsidian burns through 1 million $ every month? Assuming you can get away with using fifth of the studio you still need around 2 million $ for a 10 months long project. He didn't really specify how much of that was variable expenses (salaries, contractors, commissioned work etc.) and how much was fixed expenses (rent, leases etc.). Some of it would probably be expenses regardless of them doing crunch time or sitting with their hands in their laps. I don't think they had AAA titles in mind either with this kind of financing

The prospect of becoming a net oil importer in the near future (having been an oil exporter for a very long time)?

Attack of the Crab Monsters. Good cheesy fun. Way better than Humanoids from the Deep.

...happens in the best of families Isn't that Valentine thing coming up soon? Demolished hearts seems to be a recurring theme that time of year.

Visuals are nice, cinematics not too shabby either. Music sounds like a copy of Vangelis' old movie soundtracks style wise (which is good). But Jeebus, whoever thought that combat system was a good idea needs a special Chinese Hell with all kinds of unpleasantness set aside for him I wonder if you need to create new EA account to play the demo.

It's going to be a random pick of a question from a selection of questions?

What date is the Big Cheese's birthday? Any Obsidian fan would know. A bot would be very unlikely to guess it

Yes. I just experimented on your post

We might be a minority, but I liked SoZ best of the bunch. Only major detractor was some really, really bad voice acting. A case of less is more. Heck, much less would have been much better

Gratuitous Space Battles. Got it from one of the past 'Humble Bundles'. I'm seriously considering some of the expansions for it. There is something relaxing about just hitting the 'Fight' button once the planning and deployment is done.

It was thought about a long time ago (conversation from May last year) --- My 'why not' guess explanation: TIM has always been on the side of the Reapers. But the Reapers aren't monolithic. The Reaper handling the Collectors was part of a splinter group, going off the reservation with their "human reaper" experiments. TIM, allied with the main horde, was working towards the same goal via a different path-- making Shep into badass zombie cyborg. That he could test this badass zombie cyborg by using it to capture/destroy the work of a rival Reaper faction was a nice bonus. There is, as I see it, a certain similarity between both the Collectors' and Cerberus' pre-ME2 activities (sampling different weird galactic species and experimenting on them, etc.). Ah yes, makes sense. It's the faction that wants to build bigger and bigger reapers versus the faction that wants to build small, flexible Sheperd sized reapers. He is the 'prototype' without knowing it, getting pitted against the evolutionary dinosaurs of Reaperdom. There can be only one

If that was updated 01/2012, that would have been after the Southpark announcement? Very nice man... announcing that there is something unannounced. Maybe he takes bribes?

Saw the 'Iron Sky' trailer. Looks like the kind of Instant Classic that 'Dead Snow' was. Earth is under attack by Space Nazi's in UFO's.

I think I tried one of them, can't remember if it was the first or second one though. At the time I was in love with an Amiga shareware game though, called BattleForce. A turnbased RPG/Tactical combat hybrid mech game, so I never really looked closer at the "simple" action games of the time. Slave Zero however had that dystopian "Bladerunner" feel to the city fighting and destructible terrain. Something I'm a bit of a sucker for.

That was awesome. Mudcrabzilla? Who needs dragons in video games?

Best looking Mech game I've seen since Slave Zero (never tried BF2142). Not sure if it's more fun to play than Unreal though. Coop/Multiplayer?

Hehe... The story of O ... For those who don't know 'O', it's a notation for the relative complexity of an algorithm.

I think one problem may be that people, intentionally or not, equates The Smoking Man (sorry, just too many similarities to X-Files to not think of him) with Biowares writers and takes his words as the writers intentions. If I look at isolated incidents, I see gaps and holes in the story, but if I take two steps back and look at the big picture, I see a relatively simple story. TIM is lying through his teeth to manipulate Shepard into doing his biddng to the best of his ability. Collectors, to the player, never really comes across as a major military threat, limiting themselves to hit and run attacks and on top of that, seems happy for the time being to target only human colonies in that frontier space section that seems to be *not* under Alliance jurisdiction. On the contrary, I got the feeling that they (the colonies) didn't like the Alliance and outright resented Soldier Girl (what's her name you seem to know from the past) for being there and trying to put up some planetary defences. Maybe TIM has a suspicion that they are not a threat in a head on confrontation, but may be a strategic threat because their motives are unknown. Never saw that knee before it hit your crotch etc. They could have been building genetically engineered virus bombs for all we know. So, he picks up a resourceful guy from the freezer, puts him in the defrost program and instills some angst and sense of impending doom in him and sends him off to do the hard and dirty work, maybe even surviving in the process. Did anybody ever really verify that Earth was the target or was that just mentioned in passing by somebody impressed by the sheer size of the shelf space in the collector ship? Maybe they had a plan to lure the Alliance fleet away from Earth and forgot to leave notes lying about with an exposition on their plans for world domination? Honestly, I don't (or didn't) play Bioware games for their plots. Never cared much for saving Imoen either.

Good luck in Antarctica! Actually I bet the wifi is good in Antarctica, not too many people eating up bandwidth. Take care wherever you are going! My thoughts exacly. The Russians are currently in the lead last I read up on the under-ice lake exploration.