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Eek!... *faints* >_

There are days where I more happy than usual to live down under. What would they call those great lakes it creates anyway? The Swiss Sea? The CERN Basin? They don't expect anything fun to happen until it reaches maximum power anyway, which should be in a about a months time. Just sit down and enjoy the humm of the things, as they gradually turn up the volume. When it hits critical mass, we'll knows >_

How can you go through life without ever having played JA2?!? >_

I am fairly sure that, if I hate the game enough, that would be the least of it's problems. Problem is, if I don't play the game, how can I hate it for all the proper reasons? What a conundrum >_

Age of Empires was maybe the one and only RTS game that I actually found to be fun to play >_

They violate the EULA. The EULA is not legally binding. Depends on which country you live in In the US it looks like it is (free registration required). Since software is protected by copyright, you sort of need the EULA to grant you permission to use it (and the conditions under which permission is given), otherwise you would rarely be able to install a piece of software on your computer (legally) in the first place. If you do not accept the EULA as a valid legal contract, you also don't accept the right granted to use the copyrighted software. Plague or cholera? There are days where I do think investing in a console might be have been a good idea for gaming. It does look like it saves some headaches and hassles... Somebody please tell me that Sega uses less draconion DRM's? Please?!? >_

Danes must have superior beer recipes

What, you mean mentats, buffout and jet weren't real drugs?!?

Lets just get to the best bits right away. Ok, so I've never played Half-Life, but JA2 beats the rest in sheer fun, combatwise. It even makes the x-coms pale by comparison I think there are two types of fun combat, the one where you need to commit all your grey cells to win and the one where you need all your adrenaline glands to win. Stalker would fall in the latter category for me. I found combat quite challenging (almost frustratingly difficult at times). Bloodlines combat was nice. Not bad, but not really either/or either, or?... Combat was functional. It was there, served a purpose, but it wasn't the reason you played/enjoyed the game. I have to play ToEE too some day. It's been gathering dust ever since I picked it up from a bargain bin.

Yeah, the rhetoric should probably be toned down a bit before this thread gets pruned. I hope a couple of guys here see reason and come to the same conclusion... otherwise this volunteer "fireman" has to do work again

Well, it sure sounds like somebody is still alive on the internet. I assume we aren't all dead yet?

http://kotaku.com/5046552/amazon-reviewers...y-to-spores-drm Go consumer power! I would take amazon "reviews" with a grain of salt. You don't have to buy the game to leave a review there... I feel sorry for the developers being trapped between EA and pirates. Makes you wonder why they even bother doing PC games these days.

It even had some moderately interesting boss fights (says the guy who hates boss fights) Edit: I found some of the later outdoor sequences quite breathtaking too, especially the harbour/industrial area... Edit2: The end level is the most surreal level I've run across so far. Truly spooky.

That was not really what I needed to hear

This thread is some seriousy fun reading...

I wonder what the rating would be for a game where you get to run around and smash baby strollers?

Maybe it is time to corner the market for teeth. Once we have a monopoly, well gouge the prices and bleed the tooth fairy dry?

>_ I read that story (another website) yesterday and didn't believe my eyes. Cuba and the USSR would have been proud of such moves. Whatever happened to capitalism and the free market these days? I wonder what the two main candidates views are on such blatant communism.

I am fairly convinced that it is meant to be read as two sentences. Either what is above the line or what is below the line. Which means, add the best value for money card you can find Now, what the best value for money is, is a can of worms in itself. Need an opener?

Evil censorship strikes back and a few posts have been removed by the system. Let's insult the presidential candidates and not each other

They should stop making silly rts games and do a feature length movie instead

And here I thought they scored goals because they aimed in the right direction (through skill or through luck) when kicking the ball? So, can it be remedied by allowing goal keepers to wear larger gloves (like icehockey goalies)? Maybe we should put a big rubber band on the ball and tie it to a pole in the middle of the fields? I think some scientists gets their research money through the same channels as Uwe Boll does for film making

Funny, I don't really remember that many game intros, even from games played regularly or recently. Three that springs to mind would be Fallout, Tombraider (the original) and Heroes of Might and Magic 3. If only because they were unusually elaborate for the time period in which they were released. I am more likely to remember game endings rather than intros.

It is usually a good idea to have at least a little bit of air flow through you casing. My Northbridge is passively cooled (there is like a mountain of copper in there, directing the heat to some big copper heat sinks), my gfx card is passively cooled (and will only be replaced by a "water coolable" one) and my cpu is water cooled. As Gorgon said, there is a fan on the powersupply (which through some clever case design also generates the airflow that cools the HDD(s) and two low noise fans on the casing. The watercooler has no fans, just a tiny pump hidden away inside the radiator, immersed in the water. Makes for some cool running and very quiet too