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Barbarians! @Guard Dog: Different lines of work, yet parts of it sounds strikingly familiar. High risk interesting projects versus the less glamorous ones that ensures you can pay rent in any foreseeable future. I like the first ones better, my employer the latter

Not much detail yet about Carmageddon Resurrection, but I liked the Trip down memory lane video. Check out the Paper Car section for printable PDF versions of paper cars to cut out and glue together for playing Carmageddon on your table top.

Putin beat you by 5 days... >_ Russia will probably end up deciding that Crimea is a national security issue and "encourage" Ukraine to join.

Polish leadership gets killed at Katyn, Berlin and Moscow are the new best friends... what Century is it today? Still waiting for the Lavrov-Westerwelle treaty of non-aggression between Germany and Russia >_

You know that's not always the case, I prefer a shapely A cup over an unnatural looking C cup. Stay tuned I will post pics. You've just never seen a good anatomically shaped implant. As a connoisseur I appreciate subtleness and aesthetically pleasing natural lines. Implants belong no more in human bodies than ice belongs in Whisky.

International Terminals can be interesting places to hang around in and observe people. Although, like so many other things, after the first 50 or so times it loses a bit of the novelty and you start using your accumulated experiences with such places to locate the quiet spots with a good view and try to achieve that semi-conscious state where one half of your brain is asleep and the other half is listening for your departure announcement Or not, as the case may be. (terminal's under construction, so I'm stuck people watching). And playing armour-geddon. In that case, fake boobs are better than no boobs I suppose

International Terminals can be interesting places to hang around in and observe people. Although, like so many other things, after the first 50 or so times it loses a bit of the novelty and you start using your accumulated experiences with such places to locate the quiet spots with a good view and try to achieve that semi-conscious state where one half of your brain is asleep and the other half is listening for your departure announcement

I tried a demo (I don't think it was steam though, just a standalone demo featuring the start of the Empire campaign only). Didn't like it. It just fails completely to capture the atmosphere of D2. That being said, I still bought it a while ago when Gamersgate had one of their 75%+ off sales on it and I got it for something like $5. You never know, I might get back to it and give it a second try some day Heck, I would probably buy Dragon Age 2 for $5

Still playing FO:NV. I think I've become addicted to this game. My charisma and intelligence plummets like a rock if I try to detach myself from the game Currently supporting BoS as they seems the faction that it is easiest not to dislike. I'm probably spending too much time exploring and too little actually finishing off quests though. I need to work a bit on my backlog now to prevents quests from suddenly popping up out of the blue as failed or solved without me even knowing that I got them in the first place.

Not really what we had hoped to hear, but thanks for the update

Supply and demand It doesn't matter how clever an AI you can build if you can't afford the soil erosion effects to sell it to the masses. Vice versa, if you can use more of your budget on marketable effects (like 'Ooh, Shiny!'), why spend you money on the more esoteric stuff, especially if you expect your game to be dated in 2-3 years, just in time for the sequel? Nobody is going to remember it down the road anyway.

Spoiler about your dialogue choice and your lightsaber: As for Hasag, sorry, not much of a Star Wars fan, never noticed the name

Steam. Thanks. The lesser of many evils I suppose

Same or similar phenomena sometimes happens on Amazon. I don't remember it's name but one of those optical cable user review sections were hilarious with everybody pitching in.

Thanks to Gizmo for reminding me of this thread... Dead Island I was tempted by this game, but the DRM on gamersgate listed '3rd part account and downloads required'. Anybody knows what that is?

Try 'Painkiller'. The protagonist is very worried that he'll end up in hell

Not really a game theme... and Maybe we need a Best game voice acting thread some day

Not that I don't want to discuss it, but I just can't drum up the interest in politics to really motivate myself. My interest is mostly from a historians perspective, as dull as it may sound. Short version is, I think democracy is an easier product to market to the masses (who are you going to blame, the idiots that voted the current incumbent in?), but not necessarily the best or most efficient form of government

The Walsingham Tax introduced in late 2011... effectively puts an extra tax on performances and recordings by naturally born red-head country and western singers. People have been caught dying their hair and outrageous claims of their "music" not being country and western to avoid the extra tariffs.

As an insurance company. Nobody likes the premiums and you think you are never going to need it. When storm hits the roof, you suddenly realize it is good to have others helping pay the bill. It probably does more to prevent war between member states than any other organization in recent history.

Letting half of it crash and burn vs. letting all of crash and burn? I'm not exactly a member of the Mussolini fan club, but he did take an aggressive stance against organized crime and corruption. Unfortunately the current breed of politicians take an aggressive stance against independent audits and accountability. Greece and Italy (and Spain and Portugal for that matter) has little short to medium potential as anything but money pits where you can shovel all your money into and 5 years from now, nobody can tell your where the billions went and whose pockets it ended up in (e.g. the first 100 billion Euros that disappeared in Greece). So, sending more money solved absolutely zero issues, it just prolongs the problem.

Ha-hah! Found Mr. Cuddles.

That is like peeing in your pants. A short term warm and fuzzy feeling before the cold sets in again, as you will still have the structural problems (endemic corruption and inefficiency). Split Europe in two and kick out those who can't meet the requirements and hit those politicians who are dead set on empire building for their own reasons, whether it be megalomania, being paid by the companies who wants expansion or just plain stupid.

Changes to the PC carries over to BG2. Changes to Korgan does not. So while giving a book to Korgan will be more powerful, giving it to the PC will have a longer impact. Besides, Korgan isn't the chosen one... He probably can't read either...

Big Mac Index Before I heard of that one, I used the "Beer Index" to compare my salaries and expenses in New Zealand and Australia compared to UK, Denmark and Germany.