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Except perhaps as a tribute to the photographer who took the pictures at what turned out to be at the cost of his life. More questionable is the intention of the thread, is somebody truly paying tribute to the photographer or just abusing his legacy for a personal agenda?

You need to think outside your usual box. Maybe they wouldn't have had to do anything (see my previous post)? They could have sit down, waited four or five months and the soviets would have been busy building naval bases in soviet occupied Japan for their new pacific navy. Imagine the world if the soviets had not only had Cuba but also bases spread all over the pacific. I don't think Washington enjoyed thinking about the millions of veteran soviet troops that was amassing in the far east in fall 1945, ready to take on Japan. I think (personally) it was more about getting us troops in japan as fast as possible, not necessarily with the lowest number of casualties possible. Otherwise I would be seriously overestimating the strategic thinking of the US administration back then. The atomic bomb was a tool to beat the soviets in the race for dominance of the northern pacific, nothing more nothing less.

Nobody says it had to be american casualties though, as the soviets demonstrated during the Manchuria offensive. In the second largest military operation of the war (operation Barbarosse being the largest) from the 9th to 19th of August, the japanese lost nearly 700.000 men (80.000 dead and 594.000 captured). It showed that the japanese in their current shape was in no shape to put up major resistance and given a bit more time, the soviets would have "steamrolled" the rest of japan. Maybe global politics played a part too? The cold war was after all just around the corner.

it "looks" like a fun game. The likes of which has become rare since the days of 8 bit computers when imagination was the prime requirement (because it was all you could do with the resources, manhours and platforms available)

Umm... wouldn't that guy belong in both the former and latter category and therefore can't be punished enough? If he had been a petty thief, fence, small time pub brawler, then I would have considered him the latter. Make him pay for damages and beat him with a stick in the town square (20 lashes should do). Premeditated assault and murder should result in quartering or the wheel, or perhaps just impaling? Edit: Ok, just exaggerating, but I think low level crime will always be a costly nuisance and should be kept low. If the police started spending their budget on chasing parking offenses and bicycles without lights instead of Subway bomb men, the outrage would be audible all the way down here.

You might want to check out Chris Avellone's "stick men" on his blog... more or less a regular weekly feature and they are hilarious. As funny as any web comic imnsho

I had such high hopes for that game after Legends... They should have scrapped Anniversary and put in all the stuff that was cut from Legends (and people thought Kotor2 was heavily cut) :sad:

*Raises hand* I liked ps:t too Maybe for the very same reasons that lots of people didn't. Having mostly played old 8bit games and ssi goldbox type games up until then (Fallout was my first pc crpg), it was rather refreshing to play a game that wasn't a tactical combat simulator, but more a "whodunnit?" type game. Combat felt like it was incidental, just there because it was part of the setting, not the objective itself. Maybe conflict just appeals to more people than a story elements in a game? Maybe that is why there is a greater market for shooters than there is a market for say adventure games, although that doesn't explain why the heck something like the sims can exist

One of the most bizarre mining accidents has to be the one in Lassing, Austria 1998. I will not use the term "amusing" as that would imply humour somehow, it wasn't funny, just bizarre. http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFi...2n1/lassing.xml **** happened and a miner became trapped underground. A 10 man team goes down below the missing guy trying to stabilise the shafts and **** happens to them too. In the end, the first guy gets rescued and the 10 man team doesn't... somebody somewhere has a warped sense of humour.

The two other (and only) things I can think of besides the DVD- and DVD+ incompitibility is that a) Your writer software thought it was a DVD-RAM and put down in that format (unlikely) or there is some kind of "alignment" problem (for lack of better description). I used to have a DVD writer whose discs couldn't be used on other drives. They would cough, moan and whine and tell my computer that there is no valid disc in the drive. The discs could be read perfectly well in the old DVD drive (the writer), but not really on other peoples computers. Sort of like fiddling around with head adjustment on old 8bit computer tape drives

I am the wielder of the mighty blade of Gorth the Old: A Bastard Sword +1, +5 vs. Gazebos

I know why aliens are likely to end up in conflict with humans... "With sword and spear destroy the Xenos. With cannon shot and gun blast smash the Xenos. With laser beam and searing plasma scatter the Xenos to the sand. With tooth and fist and hammer blows, with axe and shell and poison-bombs, with virus-charge and thermal mines! Kill them! Kill them! Kill them all!" See? Their existance can not be tolerated. No love for aliens. Found Kraken Wakes on Amazon.co.uk, added it to my "to-do" list (it looked quite intriguing) just in case >_

From Rogue Trader: Catechism of the Xeno, from the Third Book of Indoctrinations. To be Unclean, That is the Mark of the Xenos To be Impure, That is the Mark of the Xenos To be Abhorred, That is the Mark of the Xenos To be Reviled, That is the Mark of the Xenos To be Hunted, That is the Mark of the Xenos To be Purged, That is the fate of the Xenos To be Cleansed, For that is the fate of all Xenos You do need breed with Aliens, you purge them with flamer and bolter shells.

Umm... just DVD drive should do. Does your drive have any limitations like only DVD+ or DVD- format (just in case your parents DVD drive was the opposite format) ?

In the unmodified game, isn't Consular by far the easiest class to play with? You have the fighting skills of a Guardian and can spam force powers almost unlimited. I really liked the rebalance mod from Team Gizka. No more just walking through Peragus hacking and slashing your way unchallenged (because, you could hardly hit a locker with a sword).

My birth certificate was chiseled on stone tablets :sad:

Never underestimate the fun of blowing up the enemy, the enemys friends, the wall the enemy is hiding behind and then some with C4 A game where "crafting" stuff is actually fun. Combat that makes x-com games green with envy. Biff Telling it with flowers Mustard gas for beginnners Blood, gore and excessive violence. Bounty hunting Bloodcat hunting The great prison escape You can be a nice guy or rule with an ironhand. Sacrifice people or protect them. Raiding museums and hospitals (or helping them instead) Manage income and expenses, supply chains, your militas, team morale and so much more, it is almost impossible to list. Use your favourite fighting style. Sneaking around cutting fences with wire cutters and backstab people, smack them silly with your fists, snipe them, or just blow it to kingdom come with grenades, mortars and LAW's ... And when you have completed it a few times, there is still more to discover. Not unlike BG2

They could do a Wild West game in a retro 50'es vision of the Wild West, like the old hollywood westerns. Even Mark Morgans old Fallout track would fit such a pre-apocalyptic game, as would the jargon, humour and visual style to some degree.

Happy birthday taks... Rest assured that turning 40 hurts just as much as they say. All the best.

But... I wanted to be Han Solo. Smuggler of goods, stealer of property and slayer of Greedos! :sad:

...we sure can. Shamelessly quoted from Team Gizkas forums: So, they apparantly put a lot of effort into reducing the number of current bugs before concentrating on the remaining missing content. I wouldn't worry too much if the issues list remains constant or even increasing a bit over the next couple of weeks.

(A)mazing, isn't it? Still, you need there to get a few goodies and some clues to your past. You can actually go there with the help of the doll?!? I always just did it by joining the ranks of Aoskar (correct name?)

Taks is cool. See below... Wow, are we in an ugly and condescending mood today. Go back to your corner and sulk. Taks wins this thread, not matter what else comes after Good question. Are prions living things or not? The have the traits of something alive, yet they are not even "cells" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion Why must it have that? As Taks said, just because we (as far as I know) can not imagine something outside time does not mean there isn't anything before and after time

My utter and complete disappointment when I realised that I was "Revan" and dreading the moment I knew would arrive sooner or later: Being forced to play a Jedi Playing a scoundrel up until then had been fun.