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Save our bananas! I seem to remember the EU doing something similar, trying to standardise the cucumber into long straight vegetables for easier packaging and transportation. I'm not sure how you see a difference between too selective breeding of the doomed banana with skipping the selection process entirely for "designer" potatos? The end result is the same, a uniform gene pool which it only takes one mutated fungus to make a mess of

What risks? I think we are putting all our eggs in one basket by creating a uniform potato master race at the expense of genetic variety. With specialisation comes not only performance but vulnerability.

Scientists sequence potato genome Was Dan Quayle a visionary? Will scientists be able to genetically engineer a Potatoe variant from the common Potato? Will mutant Potatos threaten humanity? On a more serious note, I realise the potential of "designer" vegetables giving maximum crop yields, optimal resistance to pests of various sorts etc., yet can't stop worrying that by oversimplifying the evolutionary process and do the natural selection part on behalf of the Potato, we create greater benefits that comes with greater risks.

I'm probably a minority, but I like Storm of Zehir. Sucky voice acting aside, it was fun just creating my own party, running around and do some adventuring without endless corridors and write my own story so to speak. My favourite way of crpg gaming. Would I have wished for more and deeper dungeons, sure. More involved and more complex missions, sure. It was after all "only" an expansion. The freeform type of game appealed to me though

They may have funny locale names, but... Wales' first solar park powers up in Pembrokeshire Wales may not have as many sunshine days as Australia, but: "There are 10,000 panels here. They are very cutting edge from the States. They are thin film, particularly suited to our climate here of largely cloudy skies." Doesn't sound like other people had much faith in his project: "There was no bank financing available. I then had to take a total act of faith and said 'okay, we will halve the scheme, we will do one megawatt initially' and I basically raided my pension fund. The development would be enough to power 300 homes." Best of luck

The map is missing the oil fields?

The fallout was (among other things) about missing royalty payment from Interplay to Bioware. Interplays cashflow was hurting (nope, no new news there) and Neverwinter Nights was turning into a nightmare of a money pit. Bioware needed a new cash cow to finish NWN. Moby Games Besides encouraging the change into D&D game instead of another RTS game, the contributions seems to be QA, Promotional material, much of the audio related stuff (sound direction, voice record/acting, music, effects etc.), various producers and an unspecified special thanks to 3 people (Chris Parked included)

Now they can fight proper border wars instead of that insurrection thing... On a more serious note, the future looks bleak for them and where they could unify in the past and divert their anger against the north, where are they (the South Sudanese people) going to do it now?

"According to the APPP, the use of presentation software costs the Swiss economy 2.1 billion Swiss francs (US$2.5 billion) annually, while across the whole of Europe, presentation software causes an economic loss of ?110 billion (US$160 billion). APPP bases its calculations on unverified assumptions about the number of employees attending presentations each week, and supposes that 85 percent of those employees see no purpose in the presentations. " I don't know if their math is any good, but the underlying idea isn't too bad.

What would the reaper equivalent of the Krogan genophage be?

The Illusive Man is the real villain and the Reapers were sent millions of years ago, chasing him through several galaxies trying to hunt him down, for the good of the intergalaxian community. So far, he has fooled every organic race into doing his bidding and turning them against the poor misunderstood reapers, right down to false holo images placed to misinform, by his previous henchmen, the proteans (who were equally gullible).

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).