Gorth

If you make it past chapter 4, you can tell me in a few short words how it ends (I gave up on it a short ways into that) Edit: Installed it and tried it for 5 minutes last night. Between steamworks, GFWL DRM and limited activations I'm fairly happy not to have paid any money for this game (it came free with my EVGA card). It plays like a watered down Tombraider, even if the textures are a bit higher resolution

Amazon has a few (assuming you are looking for PC versions). Also check the "Resellers" for more options.

I don't think this "Occupy Something" phenomena is going to accomplish much in itself. I know what I fear and I know what I expect to happen. My fear is that a world without any "leaders" will not get the economy under control and bring the finance system to heel. Increasing social unrest will be the consequence. Even worse if they start panicking and do stupid things like printing money, thinking inflation something to be dealt with another day. Say hello to the global Weimar Republic where agitators and their henchmen rule the street. What I expect to happen, is a slow, never ending pain, where some will try to renovate the financial systems while others will resist as they have a vested interest in maintaining Status Quo. Stagnation until entropy gets the upper hand will be the result. No serious improvement on the horizon the next 10 years. I think I should take up hunting, it might come in handy.

Played 60 seconds of The Witcher 2, just to remind myself why was I put it aside. Ran straight into a QTE and watched my character die, because I couldn't care less. Between the uninteresting story, boring gameplay and piss poor UI, I decided enough was enough and uninstalled it. Rather write it off as a loss than wasting a single hour more of my life on it. Might just use the freed up HD space for that new Batman game I got a steam coupon for when I bought my gfx card. Oh yeah, and start a new game of The Witcher.

Heh, bought all the FO:NV DLC's and installed them. Found the place under data files where I had to select them and loaded my current game in progress (still my first playthrough). Didn't have time to play at all, but just wanted to check it worked. (Insert sound of Gorth being crushed under 3 tonnes of concrete here) Should have had a warning label on the tin that says something like 'Consuming content may result in considerable weight gain' Long live companion inventories.

All FO:NV DLC's at something that looked like half price on steam... I caved in and bought the lot. Looks like I won't need that catchup edition next year after all. Edit: I'm getting weak. Thats the 3rd time I buy DLC's. That is, if the FO3 all in one bundle and Magicka bundles counts >_

I'm an ungrateful bastard. Still, Happy thanksgiving to you North Americans (and Kanadians) >_

I actually have that game. I just completely forgot about it. Have an xbox360 controller too for my PC, which I bought when playing Dead Space. Maybe I should dust it off some day. In the meantime, managed to put in 30 minutes of FO:NV last night. How many shovels are there in this game? I could have sworn I ran across one some time during the beginning and misplaced it, as it was rather heavy at the time (much more interesting junk to carry around). Why isn't there an option to use dynamite to excavate all those graves around the wasteland, I really need to see what is inside them >_

Sorry, my verb thingies are all bunched up. Too much beer on an empty stomach. I _was_ in London today. Not going. Re marbles, suggest you just do as Lord Elgin did, and walk off with them. Come to think of it it just shows how blisteringly lazy the Greeks are that they didn't think of that. There must be some legal term probably written in greek which describes this process. ??????????... when a people completely lose their marbles.

That does suck somewhat. Was it decently insured? It might not be the same as getting the old one back and it doesn't give the satisfaction of kicking a bike thief in the balls, but if you at least get all/most of your investment back, it is easier to move on.

What do you mean "tag"? It knows which saves belongs to which character. I don't have it installed, so I can't show you a screenshot unfortunately. The basic idea is, If I play as abc and save twice, then create a new character qwerty, I can't see abc's save when listing available saves. I can however on one of the menu screens switch between my two charachters, abc and qwerty and select abc again (and so get access to my two saves for abc).

Doesn't it tag your saves with your current character name? I.e. if I play a bit as Gorth the Sith lord and save a handful of files and then create Gorth the Jedi Master, I will no longer see the saves of Gorth the Sith lord. If I then get tired of mister goody two shoes, I can switch character with the switch character button and my dark side saves become available again. Could that be what happened? If so, just "switch" to your previous character. If not, no idea

Too much information A shame that we can't ask, considering that it seems to be mostly used for "crowd control" Tear gas is a good incentive to work fast during Civil Defence training too, not only in the military I don't really have an opinion on the actual case, as I don't know what went before and whether or not the protesters had been warned about what would happen if they didn't move. In Europe they sometimes use high pressure water hoses (sort of like fire trucks) to disperse people. Makes them look wet and bedraggled, but I don't know if anybody has compiled any "injury statistics".

Sandbox Realm?

...on the PC platform

Sure, just take the side of my traitorous keyboard, that one didn't like it either

Drowned my new, precious DAS Keyboard in red wine Accidentally pushed the glass, tipping it over spilling the content the only place I really didn't want it to go. Keyboard went "Glug Glug Glug...", Gorth went "Eeeeek!", PC went "Windows is shutting down, please wait for the following applications (essential work related stuff) to close" and proceeded to shut down. The electrical insulation properties of Sauvignon is vastly overrated. My parents has always taught me not to cry over spilled wine, but at that moment I did feel a bit peevish. Of course the keyboard didn't work afterwards, so I've tried to give a nice lukewarm soaking bath in demineralised water to see if I couldn't loosen up the sticky keys (pun unintended). Otherwise I'll have to go shopping again for a new keyboard

Leave it. The banks need that money so they can loan it out to people to buy houses at bubble prices. Dear Sir/Madam, I'm the only surviving family member of a former North African ruling family. I'm in need of help transferring a significant sum ($fantasillion) out of the country, but I can only do it with your help. Your reward will be a substantial part of the money saved from rebel hands. Please contact me at saif.al-islam@yahoo.co.ly

Return to Mysterious Island. Great fun so far. At least a pace I can match Puzzles aren't too bad either. Only the *&%$ struggle to figure out how make a fish hook though. Wasted a lot of time trying every possible action with every possible item at every possible action location. Except that, most of the problems you can solve through reasonable logic. Raise hands all those who knows that acacia thorns turns hook shaped when heating them up?

Why didn't you just say so right away Joking aside, I think I get it As a lover of history, I do very much care about those "behind the scenes" things though, trying to understand not only the what of an event, but also the why. Things always happens for a reason. It may not make sense in hindsight. It might not make sense when compared to contemporary thinking. But at some point in time in a particular context it made sense to somebody deciding to do something. Those are the bits that I often chase

That's what Playboy is for Maybe I'm dense, but I'm not sure I "get" your Hiroshima/Nagasaki example I mean, we all know it happened, the discussion being about the necessity, i.e. was it more for the benefit of intimidating the Soviets? Is it the implausability of some of these "alternative" motivations that irritates you?

Hehe, like when romantic literature portrays Richard "Lionheart" as a just and altruistic ruler of the English

I see email them and please forward 100$ to my account as a token of appreciation for this awesome advice. I say do a reverse trace on that email, find who sent it, steal their identity and clean out their bank account. Now that would be irony! Before I got tired of it and just send the info to spamcop.net I used to track the real source email addresses and "cross the wires" with my own fake email headers, sending scam mail from scammer A to scammer B and pretend to be interested and vice versa. Let them try to scam each other

*rage* And what if the energy expended in making these biodegradeables is 5 times that used on existing materials? There's far too little attention paid to systems thinking in these ostensibly 'green' ideas. No offence, Gorth. it's not like you're king of industry and are about to launch into this concept. I make Software, not Tupperware So what if the energy cost is 5 times higher? What are the long term costs of doing versus not doing? I sometimes wonder about companies that whinge about recession and lower sales in the wake of continuous rounds of outsourcing of labour to "cheap labour" countries. Did the thought ever occur to them that the long term cost of saving cost is going out of business because what they save is the workplaces that should have provided consumers? I'm not a "systems theoretic" (whatever the correct form of somebody who worships system theory is), but in my own little world as an analyst I sometimes wonder about peoples focus on short term problems. If a process is inherently unsustainable, how much resources is it worth throwing at it before changing into something with better long term prospects? Somebody with an appropriate degree would be able to put up a (probably wrong) equation and tell, X marks the spot when the pain threshold is reached and I'm not the one. I'm just an inquisitive mind observing my surroundings rather than trying to reshape the world

It would be too optimistic to hope for genetically engineered microbes that turns it into alcohol?