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Played half an hour of Europa Universalis III last night. Caught myself trying to pause the Obsidian forum with the space bar... good thing annual leave is coming up in a few weeks time.

Wouldn't introducing human like AI into a system running the reserve/nation banks just make the disasters and mistakes faster and more efficient? If you on the other hand introduced one without any human traits, you end up with an Old Testament God, all rules and no mercy.

Next question is... do you need the patch? I get the impression that it breaks more than it fixes unless you have one of the few specific problems listed in the readme. Little or no content/game bugs were fixed if I remember correctly. The higher resolution movie update (released unofficially and sponsored by third party file hosting) was the only semi-official worthwhile download. Modders did a better job of supporting it than LA.

Had to look that one up on google and then imdb. Sounds like a bizarre story

Does that 'update' button actually do anything anymore?!?

@Hurlshot: Try checking out the interview, it is relatively on-topic. How piracy isn't the blessing for indie game makers that some people would like to make it out to be.

Yes, you are such a shining beacon when it comes to maturity And you're an old codger pointlessly railing against a changing world? Is it really that bad not liking people with self entitlement issues? Feel free to enlighten me why it's a good trait.

Yes, you are such a shining beacon when it comes to maturity Looks more and more like the future is going to be an either/or thing. Major titles will be available on cloud computing type schemes where you can rent access to games running centrally somewhere and on the other end of the scale indie developers that can't afford/have no interest in this kind of distribution.

Now I can't unsee this

Seems like we have come full circle with nothing new added...

She doesn't deserve vitriol and harsh language. More like removed permanently from society. Probably something involving padded walls. I work in the software industry and consider myself blessed working with stuff that only fits a particular purpose. Usually tied very closely to corporate business processes and no two businesses are the same. Nobody pirates my stuff. That doesn't mean I can't relate to the sentiments of my colleagues who works with "shrink wrapped" products. They work long hour and holidays too, but get screwed over by pirates and in addition have to suffer mocking, juvenile insults and cajoling for the crime of trying to make a living by creating something. Why exactly those who seems to enjoy monkey style poo flinging should be excempt from contempt I don't understand.

Some of us still remember Skylab

I'm ambivalent about that. I would like to see Obsidian get paid for their work on South Park, on the other hand I always resented them for clinging on to the Games Worshop rights, never (and likely not intending to) making a game that would interest me. Selfish? Sure

But that's exactly what a lot of them did, asking for advice from the supposed experts in matters they themselves don't know anything about.

Why is that?

That would be Volourn, I just consider them pathetic losers with self entitlement issues.

Emphasis by me. The difference between theft of tangible and intangible goods is really irrelevant from an ethical point of view. If you cheat people out of pay for their time and effort you cheat people out pay of their time and effort. Only difference is theft of tangible goods is easier to prosecute and people hate the thought of paying for something they can get away with not paying for, regardless of how absurd the justifications may sound.

Cauliflower with cheese ?!? Sheesh guys, I mean I love cauliflower and I love cheese, but I would not imagine it going very well together. What's next, Cauliflower with vegemite?

Cheer up indeed

So, you'll end up looking like Roger Waters... such a fanboi Shame about the price, but good work on getting the tickets. Opportunities are there to be grabbed

Yeah, Putin is such a fraud. They should give the presidency to the second largest party instead. LoF would have a field day if the Communist Party got back in power

Slightly ontopic, noticed this in a Danish newspaper a short while ago: Bye, bye England? SNP plans closer Scandinavian ties after independence The Scandinavia and the World Webcomic version

Probably way more than 50 here, but some of them are bought "bulk", as in the Indie Humble Bundle and some serious attempts at branching out a bit by trying genres that I would normally not look twice at. Point and click adventures, TPS fighting games like DMC4 and Dead Space, some simple kill anything that moves games etc. Guess I got tired of always playing the same 4-5 games/franchises for a decade

Nice one I especially love this quote The report argues that piracy is only a significant concern for "large foreign production companies," and that these large companies need to adapt to new consumer behavior rather than seeking further legislative changes. And, the report says, "fears that these changes have a negative impact on the Swiss cultural creativity are unfounded." Funny coming from the same country whose national industry is export of lethal baby formula to third world countries killing thousands of infants, the safe keeping of Nazi gold, the treasuries of various dictators, organised crime assets and pride themselves of not giving out any information, regardless of how shady their clients are, as long as they are not Swiss. If they had had a software industry of their own, they might have been whistling a different tune. Nice role models you've got yourself there

It doesn't help that the demo shows the worst part of the game. The combat?