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Does it get the Best Squad-Control Award?

Has anyone played the Oscuro's Overhaul?

You have obviously never read the Qu'ran... every other page begins and ends with "God is great, love god, fear god, kill the infidels." Try reading a book before touting your opinion on it. Just because you "Have a copy" does not mean you have read the damn thing... just look at the Bible, Number one best seller and least read. **** if the German people had bothered to read everyones favorate table book during 1940 perhaps there would be tens of millions more people still alive. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Uh...I have an english translation of the Qu'ran right in front of me. Please feel free to direct me to the "kill infidels" section, as I can't seem to find it. During the Umayyad and Abbasid Dynasties, Christians and Hebrews were allowed to practice their religion freely in cities like Damascus and Baghdad. It was a Christian king that actually sheltered persecuted Muslims after the long trek out of Mecca into current day Ethiopia. So forgive me if I doubt your "kill infidels" proclamation. I don't consider Muhammad a violent man, but he did seek to turn Mecca away from polytheism and that led to conflict. Again, if you can point me to the passage in the Qu'ran about killing infidels, I'll concede the argument and you will win the internet. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Stop clouding a very simple bias with your dirty facts!

Jung thought that we are all linked via the collective unconsciousness (through our own personal unconsciousness), which leaves the door open for premeditation, fate, etc.

You are making a good case for me to try X2 (again) or X3 (for the first time); if I can configure my Rumblepad for it, then I shouldn't have the keyboard issues that prevented me from enjoying X2 the first time. After all, I quite enjoyed playing Warcraft III, even if I uninstalled The Frozen Throne without finishing the introduction, so I do enjoy an RTS.

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Aha! The birth of the Nazi "superman" conceit!

What we need is a bunch of little mineral-based saprophytes (like those in the Lost in Space film).

Wait, does that mean we win?

You can listen to what I have learnt and take on board what I say or not, it changes nothing, there is no "correct" opinion of this matter. Far as I am concerned, this conversation is over as your opinion is clearly made, [and it's] irrel[e]vant [whether] I believe it right or wrong. Some people are not worth the time or effort to converse with. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The only thing that has been decided in the previous exchange is that your ego is bigger than you can manage.

So the little miner ships teem all over a big battlecruiser? Sort of like formicating ants? Don't the battleships resist? What's the point of having fighters, then?

They should. But just as creatives don't get suits, there is an equal amount of misunderstanding vice versa. There is a balance to strike, and letting the creatives run amok can sink a company pretty easily: how many times has Atari gone bankrupt and been bought out? How many developers die before getting to market? STALKER may just get there, for a recent example, but will Prey help oil the 3dRealms machine to give us Duke Nukem Forever? The future is not set ... The sad truth is that EA is successful, because they are following the Hollywood model. (Hollywood has become merely a content provider: the biggest studio bosses are nothing but middle managers in big content companies now: Time Warner, Sony, etc.) Business strives for predictable returns, which is naturally antithetical to the risk-taking blue-skies novel thinking of creativity. And it works, to a certain extent: just look at the endless sports franchises that merely change the team rosters and update the possibly the jersey colours. It's a balance. The seeds of destruction lie in both directions. As with all successful projects, it needs experts to communicate expertly with disparate and unfamiliar experts to work together.

How does Homeworld do it? Just a constant multifarious production process?

Still, it's not surprising that the childish notion of creativity is better than business acumen (and not equal, as it of course must be in such an game-making enterprise), considering that most forumites are more familiar with the creative side and playing games, rather than sales and management.

Are there regional variations? What about gnomes? Do they call it the same things as dwarves?

Talk about clash of cultures. :D No wonder the French aren't as good as the British at super-sneaking subterfuge.

How do you pronounce "Hilox". It's important, so that I can give my character clear motivation.

Lucky escape. For you. :D

I have heard similar pejorative declamations about Venizia, too, which kinda ignores the vast beauty ...

I think the pissing contest about "who's job is tougher" is a pointless tangent. It behooves a good development team to enlist the expertise of specialists in all the relevant fields, including (but not limited to) the entire business cycle (delivery, marketing, sales, customer support and after sales service). Whether Troika were good at developing novel games is kinda besides the point; they weren't good at getting their ideas to the people.

That because you haven't unlocked the

PS everyone knows the internet wasn't invented until 2028, and my patent has been pending since 1936.

Yeah, I expect the all the tech should be synchronised for the next big train (DX10) leaving the PC terminus before the end of Q1.

No, I couldn't shut the cab driver up; (we were both laughing at my involuntary insistence on using "Si" instead of "Oui"), it's just that (in my brief experience) the Italians tried harder to understand my tortured phrases, even to assist me to speak it better, and they even tried to speak English.