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I'm not really sure why Asus charge more for their cards, but I'm seriously tempted by the MSI one. Might just give it a shot. Just wondered if it would be better to put two 580's in there instead of a single dual gpu card like the 590.

You don't really think that restriction is going to last, do you? Soon to be followed by Wookie and Jawa romance options...

I actually kind of liked Zeta, campy 50's sci-fi in a Burtons 'Mars Attacks!' kind of way. Heck, I loved Point Lookout (minus the &^%$# Ghoul Reavers) and The Pitt. Only when I ran into Little Lamplight did I put down the game in disgust. Maybe someday in a distant future I might return and put a bullet in President Edens head.

The All Blacks have a troubled history with World Cups. The Kiwis live and breathe rugby like it's a religion and the AB's usually steamroll any and all oppostion in most tournatments (the Tri-Nations etc.) and international test matches, but every time they come to the play offs (which is once every four years, like the soccer WC and the Olympics), they fail miserably and make for funny headlines Like some kind of ancient Maori curse. They always do well except when it really counts >_

The world is soon going to come to an end. The Kiwis made it to the World Cup finals Yeah, managed to watch second half of the game. Go the All Blacks! >_

So, anybody tried the GTX590's yet? Curious minds wants to know My current ATI5970 was a disappointment, with the excessive coil whine and constant "your display driver has stopped working etc." which makes most games a challenge to play. Mind you, it didn't start before I replaced the fan with a water block, so It might not have been noticable when running with the built in speed throttle that lowers the speed when relying on fan cooling.

I'm beginning to think there is no hope for this thread...

Not really trying to. Just suggesting that there is more than one way of attacking the problem of the bad guys having more and better guns than the cops. Either take away their guns or take away their money so they can't buy any. Gallardo was a clever bastard building the original seven cartels as "wholesalers", which means they get most of the money and very little of the risk, since most crackdowns targets the visible distribution network (which in this case would small fish to expendable middle men). There are days where martial law and dispensing with normal legal procedures seems less unattractive. The cops may be outgunned on the street, but I doubt they have SAM emplacements on their HQ buildings and command centres. Nuke them from orbit so to speak. Alternatively, close off the borders completely, cold war Albania style, and bleed them out of their money, seize their assets and start harassing their bank accounts.

I know, they sell a lot from Arizona too. I'll spare you a tl;dr; list of links and simply suggest a google search for 'mexican drug war guns' or 'Project Gunrunner ATF' (thats the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) Depending on which sources you trust or distrust, from CBS to Wired, the general tune is that so far an estimated 70000 guns have been shipped, from Belgian 'cop killer' pistols to assault rifles with enough armour piercing ammo to last a very long time. 90% coming from Texas and surroundings.

Maybe he didn't want to go down in history as the first defence secretary to lose a war to Argentina over the Falklands? You guys sold off your navy and such at some point in time, didn't you?

Jedi? The Kensai-Mage of SW >_

How well implemented is the destructible environment? The quirky personalities? The control of team members and squads? etc. Not really seeing anything that doesn't look like any other shooter out there yet. Crossing fingers and hoping that the new Carmageddon gets released some day.

Watch this space for future posts about the x-com and jagged alliance spin-off games >_

There was something I didn't quite understand in the game. In the beginning I thought her fascination with the Exile was because he was a "living" being with no force connection, defying one of the basic principles of the force, that life can't exist without the force (and the other way around). Sort of like that rare survivor of an infectionous disease with a 99.99% mortality rate from whom you can develop a vaccine. Her goal being the "freeing" the galaxy from the perceived tyranny of the force by applying it on a large scale somehow, once she figured out how the exile had done it. Subsequent plays left more questions though, to some degree invalidating that first notion. If she just wanted the force dead, she could have let Nihilus have the galaxy for breakfast? I guess as long as people got to throw lightsabers at stuff, the rest was less important.

Time to call it quits... more gaming

Fisto...

I remember hearing somebody say something once along the lines of "Children is the foundation on which our country's future is built". Didn't think he meant it literally. Sounds about as sick as those who hunt albinos for their "magical qualities" with the same enthusiasm as they hunt rhinos for their alleged aphrodisiac effect. Maybe they should just try to be real men instead.

Start of old thread End of old thread Felt like smashing something. Bought Dead Island off Gamersgate (just to download and install it all from Steam). Need to find a nice baseball bat and just bash some heads for a bit.

The latest Duke Nukem offering suddenly looks like a cerebral masterpiece

userdel -fr Dennis I still have a very old copy of kernighan and Richie's The C Programming Language.

I know 19th century houses in the US isnt' necessarily common, but I thought homes built from wooden materials was? Just curious, being Scandinavian I couldn't imagine living in something that wasn't made out of stone. I thought you were an Aussie? I live in Australia (on my 6th year now). Before that I lived some years in New Zealand. I'm originally from Denmark though. Took a wrong turn when I was heading from Denmark looking for work in London. You know what they say about taking chances every now and then I would get the shivers if I ever saw even the silhouette of a termite

I know 19th century houses in the US isnt' necessarily common, but I thought homes built from wooden materials was? Just curious, being Scandinavian I couldn't imagine living in something that wasn't made out of stone.

I don't think that compartmentalization, works that way for video games. That kind of stuff is good for DLC because the other team has a finish product to go from but working alongside with no oversight of both team or with a large degree of separation is bound to give you noticeable different result. In short; MP is going to be wildly detached from SP. If it's still running on the Unreal 3 engine, wouldn't it already have some MP code thrown into the bargain so to speak? The work then being in the design, fleshing out the game mechanics etc. to take it into account. Wouldn't make much sense trying to add it as an afterthought, as it would likely feel like an artificial, bolted on thing (like minigames and QTE's).

Markets change. Once upon a time it was booze and guns, now it's drugs and guns. If there hadn't been a market for cocaine, the Taliban wouldn't have been able equip themselves with more than sharpened sticks. If there hadn't been a market in the US (US/ Mexican border) and Europe (Spanish harbours) for drugs, the likes of Escobar and later Gallardo wouldn't have been as influential as they were. Gallardo especially left a bit of a legacy creating most of the current Mexican drug cartels (based on the same principle as the internet really, if one got busted he would still have the others). Of course, since they cut off the head, the cartels became completely autonomous and started fighting amongst themselves. You need to do two things to eliminate them though, you both to deprive them of their markets and their arms dealers. So far, Texan arms dealers alone seems to be able to provide them enough guns to wage a military style campaign against government forces. In theory, you could go after the distribution networks, but so many people are involved and so many palms greased that it is futile prospect. Take the buyers out of the equation and money for guns and corrupt officials dries out, or as in Nepenthe's example of self styled "revolutionaries", they can't buy PR and public opinion. Then, when no longer all powerful in the minds of people, you can realistically wage a campaign against them.

Somebody enlighten the heathens amongst us (i.e. me), but what was his role in the original Fallout game? Level design? Art direction? Dialogue/Writing? Setting/Background? Just curious.