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Carmageddon (+Splat Pack) (w00t) The only racing game that suited my tastes in driving

I suck at it. I hate it. I haven't done it once the last 20 years. Heck, I even suck at the dancing minigame in Pirates! not limiting it to real life

Bukkake? (w00t) *Groan* I'm going to leave a trail of bread crumbs from your place to the nearest hive of Fallout fans for that blasphemy!

The "Hell" level was quite spooky in all it's surrealness. Haven't tried the expansion and it sounds like I might just wait for PK2

"The Unwashed Villagers" strikes again! (w00t) (wonders if there is anybody out there who gets the reference :blink:" )

I didn't like Buffy, but after the first season, I really started liking Angel. I saw two episodes of Firefly and bought the one and only season from Amazon. Awesome. That and Lexx are the only sci-fi series I could be bothered to buy on DVD. :D

ACTION UPON ENCOUNTERING A SNAKE - The Differential Theory:- 1. Infantry: Snake smells them, leaves area. 2. Airborne: Lands on and kills the snake. 3. Armour: Runs over snake, laughs, and looks for more snakes. 4. Aviation: Has Global Positioning Satellite co-ordinates to snake. Can't find snake. returns to base for refuel, crew rest and manicure. 5. Commando: Plays with snake, then eats it. 6. Field Artillery: Kills snake with massive Time-On-Target barrage with three regiments in support. Kills several hundred civilians as unavoidable collateral damage. Mission is considered a success and all participants (i.e., cooks, mechanics and clerks) are awarded service medals. 7. Special Forces: Makes contact with snake, ignores all Department of Foreign Affairs directives and Theatre Commander Rules of Engagement by building rapport with snake and winning its heart and mind. Trains it to kill other snakes. Files enormous travel settlement upon return. 8. Combat Engineer: Studies snake. Prepares in-depth doctrinal thesis in obscure 5 series Field Manual about how to defeat snake using counter mobility assets. Complains that manoeuvre forces don't understand how to properly conduct doctrinal counter-snake ops. 9. Navy Landing Party: Expends all ammunition and calls for naval gunfire support in failed attempt to kill snake. Snake bites sailors and retreats to safety. Hollywood makes fantasy film in which US Navy SEALS kill religious extremist snakes. 10. Navy: Fires missiles from various types of ships, kills snake and makes presentation to Senate Appropriations Committee on how Naval forces are the most cost-effective means of anti-snake force projection. 11. SASR: Kills snake by accident while looking for souvenirs. Local civilians demand removal of all defence forces from Area of Operations. 12. Cavalry: Follows snake, gets lost, buys sunglasses. 13. Air Battle Controllers: Guides snake elsewhere. 14. Combat Medics: Wounds snake in initial encounter, then works feverishly to save snake's life. 15. Ordnance: (NOTICE: Your anti-snake equipment is on backorder.) 16. Transport pilot: Receives call for anti-snake equipment, delivers two weeks after due date. 17. Macchi pilot: Misidentifies snake as enemy Mil-24 Hind helicopter and engages with missiles. Crew chief paints snake kill on aircraft. 18. F/A-18 pilot: Finds snake, drops two CBU-87 cluster bombs, and misses snake target, but get direct hit on Chinese Embassy 100 Km East of snake due to weather (Too Hot also Too Cold, Was Clear but too overcast, Too dry with Rain, Unlimited ceiling with low cloud cover etc.) Claims that purchasing multimillion dollar, high-tech snake-killing device will enable it in the future to kill all snakes and achieve a revolution in military affairs. 19. AH-64 Apache pilot: Unable to locate snake, snakes don't show well on infra-red. Infra-red only operable in desert Areas of Operations without power lines or SAMs. 20. UH-60 Blackhawk pilot: Finds snake on fourth pass after snake builds bonfire, pops smoke, lays out VS 17 to mark Landing Zone. Rotor wash blows snake into fire. 21. F-111 pilot: Pulls ARCLIGHT mission on snake, kills snake and every other living thing within two miles of target. 22. Medium gun crew: Lays in target co-ordinates to snake in 20 seconds, but can't receive authorization from Air Traffic Control to use high-trajectory weapons. 23. Intelligence officer: Snake? What snake? Only four of 35 indicators of snake activity are currently active. We assess the potential for snake activity as LOW. 24. Legal Corps: Snake declines to bite, citing grounds of professional courtesy. 25. Construction Engineers: Build pub, gut and stuff snake, mount over bar, name pub "The Snakepit". 26. Petroleum Handlers: Catch snake, introduce free snake with every full tank promotion. 27. Military Police: Wait for somebody else to capture snake, beat up snake, deny responsibility.

I suspected as much, a cut-n-paste experiment gone wrong

She uses repetitive dialogue too ?

Erhh... could be, I haven't read all 50 pages :">

How about you guys save your trash and take the mud flinging elsewhere and leave the hard working modders this thread in peace ? I wonder why nobody has suggested auditioning Aurora yet... she does sound sort of "youngish" on that audio update

Plants do tend to die in my presence (they don't like sharing my drinks) and food does tend to grow weird stuff on it. If it moves or not, I haven't noticed, I just throw it out. Not sure about the birds though, as there aren't really any around... I just entered my real name (in english) and looked at what it generated :ph34r:

System designer, developer, project manager, implementation, consultant etc. Depends on the project. Usually corporate stuff like ERP solutions, e-commerce, intranet & integration projects. Can be a bit dull sometimes, but I get to boss people around and the pay is decent.

Lucifer Sort of matches my member number...

Reading lesson for today: Sometimes, people make typos or grammatical errors. In that case, it's time to hone your heuristic skills and analyse the entire sentence. Often, the true meaning and/or intention can be derived from the context in which it was presented. :-" My guess is he meant Excited Oh, and how about more of them audio updates ?

Just curious, Rare, is that Rare Ltd. ? The same company that used to be a british 8 bit gaming company called "Ultimate" (play the Game) ? If so, they must have been around for quite a lot of years now. I still remember the disappointment when they left the computer market and went all console somewhere in the eighties

Have you tried Amazon.com ? If they got the books, you might find user reviews there (assumption on my part, the DVD's often have them)

Maybe summer vacation's over in Canada ? :lol:" The oversized green gecko is definitely there with the big broom, but then, with no official announcements regarding project New Jersey, people seems to get easily distracted For lack of new "discussable" topics, the TSL restoration project is probably one of the more interesting (and related to this forum) things going on

W.C. must be a real, real hardcore turnbased strategy game player

Lords of Midnight, Doomdarks revenge, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 & Disciples 2 for sheer entertainment value. If you want more "serious" turn based strategy (i.e. simulation), I haven't found anything that beats Pacific War & War in Russia, both available as freeware downloads from the publishers homepage (Matrix games).

That sums it up pretty neatly. If the release day (xmas) was the originally scheduled one, then somebody didn't take the fans or their IP very seriously. If it was moved forward from some unknow date, then somebody was in dire need of some income on their 2004 FY statement. If it was time taken out of the schedule to make marketing appearances at E3, then shame on everybody. Could it really have been that necessary ? Six more months in the oven would have made a lot of difference for certain aspects of the game, not at least the QA and polish

1) What is G4 ? 2) Why should I care about their awards ? 3) No 4) If I had voted, it would be a toss up between K2 and VMBL :cool:

A good RTS is an oxymoron Age of Empires was probably somewhat tolerable though.

Current games in progress... Pirates! and Baldurs Gate 1 (+Tales of The Swordcoast) After that ? I'll continue my BG1 character in BG2. Once I get bored with Pirates! (which is unlikely in the near future) I'll probably pick up either Kotor2 or VMBL again.

Voted "Other" for lack of a "None" option :wub:" I hate the things, had an old model some years ago and got rid of it. Kept intruding in your privacy and made you available to people all the time, whether you wanted to or not. Now, I'm happily without and people can book a time if they want to talk to me