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Define 'no news' Your knowledge of the combined works and publications on the subject is astounding (and frankly not credible).

Too lazy to browse more than a handful of pages back and see if it has been mentioned. Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chip Found it interesting, amusing and scary at the same time. Sort of like the Cylon organic/machine interface thing, enabling direct contact between organic and mechanical information systems. Time to consider the blue pill? Cyberpunk becoming trivial real world literature? On a related note, I wonder if organic computers will not only be prone to virus attacks, but also senility. Maybe I should consider a career as computer therapeut for depressed computers.

You forgot the vertical bars and you didn't type the 'F's on top of the X and the U. Forgot the dash across the @ too. No wonder it rejected the first one

The first TR movie wasn't too shabby. The second one, well... I liked the Silent Hill movie too, but again, never played any of the games, so it was just a movie to kill a bit of time. Never was a fan of comic to movie transitions either, probably being more tolerant of the ones where I'm completely unfamiliar with the source material. Never underestimate the effect of expectations

I thought the 'Doom' movie was quite decent for it's genre (i.e. trapped with monsters on a remote research location, not video game conversation). But then, I never played any of the Doom games, so there wasn't really any expectations other than a some monsters, big guns and a handful of special effects, propelled along by strange conversations

That doesn't stop Uwe Boll.

Exactly I bought the c64 version, played it until I got stuck in the goblins caves and got killed in the dark all the time. In the end, I gave up and read that paperback book (which I still have on my bookshelf) that came in the game box. Turned out that I needed to find "Sting" first, stupid magical sword that glows in the dark when goblins are near. How was I supposed to know?!? Anyway, ended up completing 97% of the game (it kept score) and got hooked on adventure games for a long time after. Edit to add: I think I've hated dwarves ever since that game, Thorin and his endless sitting down and singing about gold when we were about to die. Nevermind a kleptomaniac Gandalf that kept taking my map away from me.

Last time I got lost in London I didn't even have a "dumb" phone Found some young blokes who looked like locals and asked where they would go and crash for the night if low on funds. They suggested a particular (tube) station which had a number of B&B's within short distance. Maps are for whimps

Is your wife covered by the NDA too? Maybe she could post something? Technically I probably violated the NDA by letting her play it Joining the dark side already?... Nah, I actually do find it a bit of a shame that people are violating them to the degree they do, just for some misconception of "street creds" on the internet of all things. There are probably a few games around that could have done with more open/invitational beta tests if leaks weren't a certainty.

I hate phones. Never understood this iThing fascination It was a sad day at work when I had to get my old, battered, kept together by sticky tape Nokia replaced by a newer model. Why do people value those things so highly (genuinely curious)?

Two words... "Doomdarks Revenge" (the sequel to "Lords of Midnigt"). My all time favourite games The antagonist is "scripted" as so far as she has objectives which are not unlike your own. Recruit warlords, troops, find and kill you on the field of battle to the best of her abilitity. Was my first sandbox rpg/strategy hybrid game too.

Is your wife covered by the NDA too? Maybe she could post something? Wookieleaks?

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 >_