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Reminds me that I need to beat Messiah some day. Never could beat Evil Bob in the end battle >_

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Got too much interesting stuff going on in my life atm. Mixed up the dates and forgot it was the 24th today I'm not a Christmassy person. Haven't really "celebrated" it for decades. Might buy a good bottle of Cognac and have a double serving, but otherwise too busy for all the stuff that seems to excite people so (i.e. worry about about gifts, decorations, more gifts, all the usual consumerism stuff). Gave a chunk of money to some salvation army guy collecting for the needy. That'll will have to do for Christmas presents.

Which is sort of the iffy issue for me. When do you know it is informed consent and when it is peer pressure? it's a system that asks to be abuse by relatives who don't give a damn about paying the retirement home fees for uncle Anton anymore. Why don't you just save us all a lot of trouble and lay down and die?

Thread getting a bit long... new era of discussion here

Start of old thread End of old thread My opinion is put in storage until further notice

Why? Jacob: Whinge, Whinge, Daddy! Whinge... Miranda: Whinge, Whinge, Daddy! Whinge... Thane: Whinge, Whinge, I'm a failure as a Daddy! Whinge... Samara: Whinge, Whinge, I'm a failure as a Daddy Mommy! Whinge... Jack: Whinge, Whinge, I need no Daddy! Whinge... Zaeed: Whinge, Whinge, Who's your Daddy? Whinge... Tali: Whinge, Whinge, Will you be my Daddy? Whinge... Garrus: Whinge, Whinge, Red Tape! Whinge... Mordin: Whinge, Whinge, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds! Whinge... Legion: Whinge, Whinge, We are all Whinging! Whinge... Grunt: Whinge, Growll? I'm Weak! Rawwrrrr! Smash! Kill! No More Whinging! You may have a point Some (family) dramas are just more fun than others then.

I once got lost in Sydney, ended up in what looked like a predominantly asian part of the inner city. I couldn't read most of the signs, but the food (whatever it was) was awesome.

The player shouldn't have to aim in a crpg, your character should do that to the best of his skill when you instruct him to Edit: For the record, I hate QTE's almost as much as mini-games. Second Edit: (because I'm all for recycling) The shooter mechanics in ME2 weren't particularly fun, merely felt as a filler not a selling point. My excitement or not for ME3 depends on whether the party members I invested a lot of time and effort in helping makes a re-appearance. Particularly Grunt, Mordin and Samara

Thats the one. We offered them good bribes, but they never would reveal their Lababdar recipe Having fond memories of Diwali festivals.

I was a bit disappointed with Daawat when I was there the last time about a year ago. The curry was still great and they still make the best Naan in the southern hemisphere, but they've changed the look of the place. Almost posh. I miss the ramshackle, slightly worn look of the old Daawat.

Short version, you have two regions, each with a significant ethnic group who doesn't get along with the ethnic group of the nation state they are part of and the vast majority doesn't want to be part of that nation state. Where the similarities ends is in the strategic interest of "the western world". Georgia's only redeeming feature is its strategic location, hosting the oil pipelines going from Baku to the Mediterranean area. It sure isn't because of it's democratic traditions that Georgia is popular to support (it's about as democratic as Zimbabwe, i.e. not very). Edit to add: This image brought to you by CIA (without their knowledge) showing my point: Nobody really cares about Abkhasia, only South Ossetia. The map sort of shows why hint: The blue line is the oil pipeline.

I have The Stone Prisoner and the that ugly Blood Armour thing that came with Dragon Age. That game really rammed the point home that I would never ever spend a single cent on DLC (I still want to slap the guy who put that neon sign in my night camp with a trout). Heck, it even made me vary of buying expansion packs now (never got that one for DA either). I hope The Witcher will take a different path. Even if the game isn't as good as the first one, it scores a few points up front by being DLC free. Just waiting to hear the QTE and minigames verdict before (pre)ordering

It's still funny how standards change though. Everybody lined up in the queue to support the Albanian seperatists in their seperation efforts, yet when South Ossetia wanted to do the same thing from Georgia, everybody screamed bloody murder and NOWAI. Hypocrisy at its most disgusting

It even rained in South Australia... I got wet Rain is normally something I associate with Sydney dammit, never been to Sydney without getting more or less drowned by showers, summer or winter. My one and only umbrella (which South Aussies think is something to protect yourself against the sun with) was bought in a small convenience store years ago in Sydney, when finally learning that lesson. It has been been unusally cold and stormy here for a couple of weeks, but now things looks like a return to "normal" over the holidays. It had that rather wintery feel to it for a long time there. Saves a lot of electricity though

Yeah, oh boy, that's dirt cheap. I paid $110 for DA1 plain vanilla version (that's 82 EUR and 109 USD)

That was... bizarre Not bad, but weird. Like watching the sun rising in the west.

Elf

Some things are only fun when it happens to others

Wild guess time... Sheppard is going to find the "Creators" who build the Reapers and ask them nicely for the shutdown sequence code?

Underrated by reviewers, underrated by gamers or underrated by "the market" (sales figures)? Alternate Reality by Datasoft, Carriers at War by SSI, Fort Apocalypse by Synsoft, Lords of Midnight by Beyond, Reach for the Stars by SSG, Twin Kingdom Valley by Bug-Byte... The world has just as much underrated games as it has overrated games

I don't know about Reapers, but as long as I can get a Krogan and a Salarian, people can keep their Asaris, Turians, Volus, Quarians, Elcor and what have you

Getting a bit long. Shiny new thread here

Start of old thread End of old thread Effects for the masses... just what the Doctor(s) ordered

Party game time... guess who is employed as what Depression/Job relationship