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Ok, lets try this again. If I have to get my hands out of the nice cozy pockets where they stay again, they wont see the funny in it. They hate working.

Was not. Carmageddon was the best

Carmageddon All hail the king!

One thing I never understood about Microsoft Flight Sim X... why the heck can't you map the reverse thrust to the reverse throttle on my Saitek X52 Pro?!? I mean, I like the simulator and I love my Joystick/Throttle pair (which is also awesome when playing X2), but try to land a Boing 737 without using reverse thrust on a short runway. The only way you can use it, is from the virtual ****pit where you have to take your eyes off the runway and then scroll down until you can pull the levers with the mouse point. Helloooo? There is a reason for why they are banning cellphones while driving, you are supposed to keep your eyes on the road. Years of Google searching has given no result. My wonderful input device speaks to deaf software

As much as I loved the original Red Faction, the second game was such a disappointment that I wrote off the franchise back then. Then I bought some bundle from Gamersgate one day, to get the third installment (Guerilla, which I've yet to play), but I didn't even know that there was a fourth game?!? Guerilla is probably the best game in the series. You should play it. I've taken a couple of weeks off from work after the coming weekend. I might just catch up on my procrastination

DW does add a lot of nifty features, including ways to keep your BB rating under control by offering a selection of Casus Bellis (if one or more applies), giving different BB modifiers for various actions. You can also chose whether or not you want to call on allies when going to war, so you can (with enough prestige) seriously gang up on select opponents when declaring wars, not just when being attacked. Of course, things sometimes comes back and bites you in the butt, because the AI does it too. As Byzantine Empire, I declared war on the lilliputanian state of Avignon, being only guaranteed by Portugal (defender of Catholic Faith). Portugal then declared war on me, summoning England and Spain to the conflict, Spain summoning France to the war, who again summoned all their sycophant vassal states. I was suddenly very alone in an all out war against all of Western Europe... Time for a reload

As much as I loved the original Red Faction, the second game was such a disappointment that I wrote off the franchise back then. Then I bought some bundle from Gamersgate one day, to get the third installment (Guerilla, which I've yet to play), but I didn't even know that there was a fourth game?!?

Maybe thats why they made Leliana obsessed with shoes in DA:O?

You might want to add HttT and DW to your EU3 collection if you haven't already. Central and east Asia (the various "Horde" nations and Ming and Japan) becomes a completely different game Edit to add: The keyboard I got my sights on... there is also a macho version with no labels on the keys. If you are good enough, you don't need to look at the keys anyway

Yes, now stop complaining, what was that about keyboards? So far we've only seen mice

Like I said, on the whole I'm not interested in him on even in this one particular event. He could be everything you say he is, he could be a real hardcore revolutionary, he could be both. Or neither. Hell, maybe the whole manifesto is a ploy of some sort. I'm interested in political side of it all and the implications of one such "well ordered democracy" giving rise to people who spend 9 years systematically planning to negate it. You can blame it all on the individual but the system has a part in it, if for no reason other than that he was formed and grew up in it. People with Autism sometimes dedicate their lives, not just 9 years, to memorize license plates. Doesn't make them victims of society, only of their own disorders. The "price" if you want, of a free and open society is unfortunately also being vulnerable to those who wants to vandalize it. I don't see a lot of Norwegians lining up in queues, wanting to be saved by him, which really just reinforces the point that he is not a product of society as much as a product of his own shortcomings. He's a 30+ insecure teenager desperately looking for reasons for why his life turned out the way it did. Want to place bets that it has more to do with family history than society and politics?

Seriously Boo... you know better than present such a text without giving the source a closer look, and as you said, read between the lines "I still have a relatively inflated ego, with a constant need to feed on an intellectual level." [i want to do some stuff someday that I've only read about other people doing, so I can be a cool guy too some day] (I should move out from Mom's place some day) "This is likely due to the fact that I do not care as much as I did for creating or preserving social relationships due to my life choice." [being with other people scares me, so I run away to avoid rejection] (I fail at everything. What is wrong with people?!?) "I do not accept or acknowledge many of the established ?social rules? as I view it as irrelevant noise which takes us away from what is needed of us at this point in time." [i always got picked last for the football team, nobody wanted my company] (Yeah, see if I want to be on your team. YOU are the losers, hear me? all of you, losers!!!...) "I used to have pretty shallow ambitions where the goal of personal acquisition of wealth, gaining admiration from other shallow individuals and the attempt of gaining unlimited access to sex and parties was the driving force behind my existence." [No girl is ever gonna love me, so I better save up and pay for prostitutes] (I'll pay you anything you want, just don't present me with expectations, I can't handle that) Etc. I'm sure it's full of further attempts to deflect the responsibility of his failing at life, trying to blame it on everything except his own mistakes. The diary of a loser and escapist.

Sounds more like your average inferiority nutcase. Can't face life, dreams of the proverbial 15 minutes of fame (and a lifetime of infamy). Picked the easy way out to vent his impotent rage against everybody except himself. Coward through and through.

Longevity is not the only metric for Quality I was more thinking of usability and how pleasant it is to use. Comfort, key travel distance, resistance, no bouncing etc. I think the English word for it is 'Tactile'. Logitech is the runt of the litter and the worst I've ever had under my fingertips (except a ZX81 I tried once and an old pocket calculator). Heck, my C64 was more pleasant to type on No professional who spends the majority of his time in front of a computer should be forced to endure the Logitechs, Dells and Microsoft keyboards of this world Which is why I'm looking to do a bit of German engineering and manufacturing import when my OOP keyboard dies, choked to death in dust, coffee spills and bread crumbs (it wasn't good, but it was the least bad one I could find below $100 at the time)

I did something similar with keyboards... absolutely hate the Logitech stuff (any model, they are all crap) and most of the "Ergonomic" designs too. Bought 4 of the good old rectangular Microsoft Multimedia keyboards with decent key feedback and no silly flat rubber keys. I'm now down to my last keyboard I'll probably be looking at a DAS keyboard (the "silent" model) next.

Arghh... I love my 5 button Intellimouse Optical. I've had the current one for more than 6 years Time to stock up on superglue and gaffa tape.

Welcome to the forums DeathViper1959 I've moved your thread to the general gaming discussion forum. Half the old grognards hanging out in Way off Topic are past their "Best by" date when it comes to gaming, so if any, you are more likely to get attention here

That's a Swedish guy, isn't it?

Yeah, he's our own Obsidileaks

That's... not good Edit: I wonder if those heads aren't in game renders, rather than any attempt at emulating the originals?

Gorthonomic theory: Corporate greed will go as far as it can before it gets caught. The simplest possible way of describing the GFC is comparing it to the worlds biggest pyramid scam ever. Every time a middle man (a bank) manages to find somebody to put into debt, the boss gets a bonus and profits gets passed up the chain of lenders. Eventually, so many people will have been put into debts they can't pay that the entire card house comes crashing down. Bank managers don't really care, since they get dibs on available funds for their bonuses first. Part of the problem is that people got money lend to them for buying real estate, expecting the value of real estate to grow permanently. There is no such thing as permanent. In the end, a bunch of filthy rich people got richer and everybody else got shafted, leaving the tax payers to pick up the bill. Part of the outrage was of course (imho), because the first thing aforementioned managers did when getting bail out money was to reward themselves for a job well done (i.e. gambling everybody elses money away on risky ventures, running world economy into the ground). Grossly simplified, but saves years of catching up on the reading

Not really

It's such an impressive rant, it's almost a shame to throw facts in the way of it... Hines said Bethesda approached Obsidian to work on the title. "We've really been enjoying working with [Obsidian] on it," he said, adding, "That is all we're going to say about it right now." Since this isn't really going to lead to any constructive criticism, I'm locking it, as experience has show little useful debate follows from such premisses.

Nah... but then, some of us are trying to actively forget this spin off game. Thanks for the reminder >_ Just kidding (except about the trying to forget part)

Yes? *Raises hand* I vote that one!