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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.

Should I take pixies off ignore, then?

I was more wondering about the human race. " Just watching El Cid on the tv: Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren star in an epic story from eleventh century (of the Christian Era) Spain, about how Rodrigo D

This doesn't say that we are predetermined to do something, simply that we are prone to conservative thoughts and actions. Which is another survival mechanism imo. This however could be used to argue that instincts and hardcoded behaviour has a deep impact on the concept of freedom of choice.. but it doesn't negate free will. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It isn't possible to determine if we have free will or everything is pre-determined, short of the divine being appearing at noon in Times Square to buy everyone a cappuccino and explain it all. Schopenhauer isn't barracking for one side or the other in this text, which is why I quoted it: he is just highlighting the delicious irony of our befuddled attempts to divine the ineffable. This is why, when done correctly, a plot that included an argument about free-will versus predestination can be a terrific enema for the brain, like Twelve Monkeys for example.

You could even have an official history: the canon of your group mods! * can of worms, open *

The Total Realism mod (for Rome:Total War) adds all the (less fun, presumably) historically-accurate minuti

What's the squad command like on that, Bok?

Yeah, if it hasn't been said many times before, I think it'd be a good move to translate the DM client (if nothing else) to Mac and / or Linux, though the toolset would be good, too. Considering the effort spent by Obsidian on the (DirectX) graphics upgrade, that might not even be possible, though.

Go, go Iowa!

If I were playing I would swing it fast. You are just too much of a wuss to swing it large.

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You say that now; just wait until you have your rotator cuff on ice after dislocating your shoulder beating the baddies and rescuing Zelda ...

I was just in Nice. I found it really difficult to converse in French after a week of trying to converse to Italians.

But ... does it have a happy ending? :'(

Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Yes. Overwhelming Force (of niceness) is the only answer.

He looks better for it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He's at the funhouse!

Game over, man. Game over.

Some of the big ships have guns that shoot about that far, too, don't they? Over the horizon, in other words. :D