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Oh come on, mate, that is such a short-sighted comment to make. Just imagine the military implications of growing cannon fodder in vats... A dip and you grow kevlar like tissue and bony armour plates all over.

Having fun playing Garter and Ghouls. Small, simple and slick. Shoot anything that moves. If it starts twitching again, shoot it some more. Play a level or two in 5 minutes and put it aside again.

Buy 'humble bundle's Steam is an absolutely last resort and the only reason I have it installed on PC at all is FO:NV. (I mostly buy on-line from GG and recently from GoG)

Being a commuter, I can relate to public transport stress. Got to work way late today. Apparantly somebody jumped in front of a train (or it was an accident, who knows, very little info available). Since police cut the electricity to the rail, all trains were late. The train driver did his best to entertain people though. Everytime it moved 100m and then stopped again, he would go 'we are now number (some number) in the queue'

I'm not sure Funcroc actually reads the WoT forum though. On the other hand, two developer names now features in this thread now, so it might trigger something (once he is done checking the content of your fridges and garbage bins)

What requirements does a game need to fulfill to be classified as 'Indie'?

The Habsburgs spent 600 years trying to unite Europe through lovemaking rather than war, that has to count for something

Best summary of 'democracy' seen in a long time

I don't know what 6,99 EUR is in dollars, but Gamersgate currently has Dragon Age 2 on sale for $23.98. I was more tempted by the complete Dragon Age Origins pack (same price) though, just to see if Awakening is any good. Ah well, maybe in another life. Bought a few unknown titles. Garters and Ghouls looks like fun in the same uncomplicated way as Zombie Driver.

Isn't that illegal in most countries?

I see your words and individually they seem fine, but as sentences they don't make much sense to me. I'm probably missing the context by not having followed the development and fan discussions of those games (DA1+2 & TW2) closely, so I can only base it on my own observations and opinions (and the odd press release/news item) Fwiw, I don't find TW2 particularly cool, not having been bothered to play my way out of the introduction level yet. Trying too hard to be like other commercially successful games and losing it's identity. Yes, I know it's business and they want to make money. More and more seems to follow the same path towards the same point, resulting in either market saturation or creating a singularity.

I rarely swear, except that one time when I kicked a cobblestone and split a toe nail. Instead I can be pretty blunt in my responses and assessment of things.

We probably are reading it differently I simply noticed that the good doctors are so full of praise of the success and game mechanics of DA2 and how they had reached the final product by listening to the (automated) player feedback, so I assumed that when speaking of lessons learned, that is what they referred to (and the approach they would repeat for ME3).

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So, we are going to get jedis running around in recycled space dungeons?

Uh, you moderate a gaming forum. No offense, I'm right here next to you wasting time online, but it just seemed a bit hypocritical. It's a fringe benefit of my job. I can either stare at the desktop wallpaper while thinking or I can stare a forum posts (and write a short contribution on the odd occasion)

My very first impression of Facebook. Less than 24 hours after having created an account and added two email addresses marked as not for public sharing, I got spammed on them with scam mails. Makes you wonder what they do with those email addresses people entrust them with (I would never say that they sell them outright, as that might be libel)... This Life's too short and precious to waste away online, rather than living it for real. Deleted all essential info on my profile except a freemail address for notification purposes (which now gets spammed by facebook with 'we miss you' messages every second month because I don't log in anymore. Found a few google pages on how to permantly delete my account which I'm probably going to do one of these days if I can be bothered to visit that pile of again.

Say hello to our new Tau overlords... Death ti Pi I normally don't care about math at all, but this one just struck me as amusing, if nothing else, because somebody is shaking ye olde foundations of geometry (one of the few areas of math that ever held an interest for me).

Happy birthday you mad Kiwi, you... may there be many more drinks

ITS ALL ABOUT FIREBALLS! Gods I had so much fun with it! Well, if it's all about fireballs, then I will have to go back and rest after each major fight. My Mage only has 2 3rd-level spell slots (and one of those is typically a Haste). Actually, I suspect that the Web/Entangle is more important for surviving those fights. The Wights come in big numbers, and the level doesn't offer any good choke-points where your front-liners can fight them 2 or 3 at a time. First and foremost, you need to slow the rush. Doing damage is secondary. Web, entangle or similar to keep them in place while you pile a stack of druid spells on them. They are surprisingly offensive in IWD. The thorny one last for quite a while and what's its name the spell that sends spiky bits out of the ground (meh, don't remember their namew anymore, been a few years since my last playthrough) and my favourite against cramped/immobile enemies, La Ola (that portable tsunami spell)!

Sounds interesting. Maybe I should give the game a chance some day. For reasons I no longer remember I always just thought of it as the space relative of Civilizations, a game I found ridiculous in a bad way when it was released (a primitive strategy game, dumbed down for PC gamers, unlike the works of art available to the Amiga Gamer Masterrace). Lets grab some AC next time I shop online

Yeah, it's that key to remember.. Comments in programming need to mean something to anyone who reads it, not jsut the programmer. I used to get so much grief at Uni because I'd use literature or mythology references that meant something..if you understood them. That was a hard habit to get out of.... *Cough* Comments sometimes gets a bit poetic. Never really meant to be read by anybody As for stack based programming, does HP still have their calculators use that? I remember learning Forth many years ago. Taught you a completely new way of looking at the world. I'm sure Thuring was a Forth programmer. Real men use relative address jumps

8 months... I'll keep that in mind next time I feel like whinging over the 28 hour flight time to Europe (shame on me)