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Krookie, have you been reading again?

That'll cost you

Do you guys have a project management template for a module?

I think you would be well advised to add political complexity, rather than science ... a few different factions are good to play off against each other: even if you have one faction that everyone hates and is against, that still leaves a few little arguments as the other factions in "alliance" jostle for position.

Ninja ... or pirate?

Should be. Then again, the magazine was probably through the printers a month ago.

Right-click on the executable.

But once the AI is changing itself, then all bets are off. It's free-form learning, surely? For a moment there I thought you were implicitly stating the case for a creator ... "

You still haven't explained why you can tolerate the OoC solving of puzzles but cannot tolerate the fact that you can metagame aiming (and you must be metagaming, because other people don't seem to be able to duplicate your amazing feats).

Because that will make his observation more or less accurate? QFT

Don't go outside in the rain in your socks.

Are you suggesting that free will cannot spontaneously appear?

It behooves one not to use the same word twice in the same sentence; I couldn't very well say "the target of well-targeted marketing."

How exactly does "I don't enjoy that type of design but can tolerate it" even get near "I am quite pleased with dealing with"? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Try answering the point, rather than nitpicking my sentence structure and choice of analogy. I have to paraphrase your writing because it takes several paragraphs. Excellent. Brevity is the soul of wit, after all. Who said the game has to choke up? Are you seriously trying to say that the gameplay of Deus Ex is below your expectation? Aiming is hard? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Um, it is harder when there are penalties attached to it, yes. That's the point of bonuses and penalties, so working as designed, really ... you are the only one that has stated that you can circumvent the penalties with your metagaming mouse twiddling. "

WTF? See, that's the problem there, then. Blizzard are renown for perfecting games, not inventing new mechanics. They did it with Warcraft before the MMORPG. That's value-add; it also gets them the cash-register choir singing. Artistic merit? Your sounding a bit like a forlorn "tr00 gamer". What sort of artistic merit can you put into a MMORPG, anyway? PS You forgot Guildwars. PPS genera: plural form of genus.

Aren't those Bettys the planes that were sent over in the first wave of the Battle of Midway, that got completely wiped out by the Japanese carriers (before the second wave of better planes destroyed those same carriers)?

Ok, here's the issue framed in small paragraphs. You are saying that the fact that you have learnt a technique to help minimize the physical (in the game) penalty to the PC, yet it doesn't bother you that you can solve the Towers of Hanoi puzzle on Korriban in KotOR because you have encountered it before as part of your life outside this particular game. You are quite pleased to deal with the latter conflict, but find the former a huge problem. And that's leaving aside the fact that I think you are exaggerating the former in Deus Ex, because, personally, I find the more powerful weapons in that game unusable without some PC skill. I have to concur with Volourn here. Numberman is the loser in this argument. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks for your valuable comtribution!

Oh, alright, I'll check my DVD. *goes over to the DVD* *selects "Japanese with English subtitles"* Yes, it does!

You're just a cyberbigot!

Looks like you've got the entire Pacific fleet in the Java Sea!

So you see the inherent inconsistency in your argument, then?

I dunno, but Gabe and his band of Valvers are almost finished re-building Source to use a hybrid multithreading (a mix of both coarse threadings

EVGA NForce 680I

Blame the British.

Is there English subtitles with the native language? (I could check, but that would negate my laziness.)