metadigital

Socialism gone mad.

Don't read about Crysis, then.

Yes, yes you are. And yes you do.

Yes. Or wait for it in the game.

I doubt it. The ingredients would be similar, for example, to create healing spells.

Mary Shelley has a lot to answer for ...

Um. Who is the defendant / respondent ?

But Harry Potter is a WARLOCK! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil!

Zodiac

What setting is it? Later versions of D&D (3.5?) have divine spells from different domains; maybe the Ranger might recognise similar domains and be alarmed by very different (evil) ones ... or not.

Unless it spontaneously creates its own purpose ...

It's only because I have encountered the issue previously. This is why we can learn from history, and why living long enough gives you an advantage (if you are paying attention, of course), and why Krookie's Heuristic

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> This commentary is immediately disqualified because the writer is guilty of hate-induced bigotry. He's lucky he's not within my reach ...

Or fights.

Don't they usually adopt a walking billboard posture anyway, like a bunch of teenagers slathered in logos? Certainly Paladins like to trumpet their allegiance.

Crysis is going to eat GPUs for breakfast.

I feel it will be significantly stupider than the Intelligence that created it. At any level of existence, an Intelligence really has no clue about how it really functions. This includes humans. The best it can do is try and replicate some of the ways in which it has observed itself to respond to stimuli. Yes, it can probably create entities that are more efficient than itself in performing certain tasks (e.g., humans creating computers, AI discovering bugs and creating new revised versions of itself) but there's no way it can create entities with totally new reasoning abilities. Unless.......... random mutation/natural selection is applied (even then I'm not totally sure). I've seen the power of random mutation + natural selection in an algorithms class project I did during undergrad... we had a virtual maze with food strewn about on it, and we had to design ants that could hunt for the food in the least possible time. "Survival of the fittest" was used to weed out unsuccessful ants, and random mutation was used to build the state machine to define the behavior of the next generation of ants. After several hours of simulation, we ended up with some freakishly intelligent ants. It was all expected, of course, but to see such logic arise out of a random process was slightly sobering. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Did you just contradict yourself and agree with me? Or did I misunderstand your post?

P?? There's no 'P' in that name... And I'd put it under whatever the first letter of the official last name would be. If it's Sumner, than S. If it's Thomas-Sumner, than T. Either that, or S for 'Sting..' <{POST_SNAPBACK}> "P" for "Police, the" "S" for "Sting, lost up his behind" "

That's an absurd and non-sequitur comment. Mr Boll was defending his work. He didn't kidnap (ha ha!) the critics and force them to do battle with him. Though I agree he should have used freedom of speech / right to pursue happiness as mandated under the US constitution, rather than "bear ams". )

Goodnight Gracie.

Boomer is teh sexy, too: smart, strong women. mmmmm. And, Yes, gorramit!, after watching the "extras" on the BSG miniseries (i.e. the making of featurette), my cherished memories of the original series had their rose-tinting cruelly stripped. I watched the series again, then went out and bought the first season. And the writing gets much, much better towards the end of the first season ... so much so that I was pleasantly affirmed and even occassionally surprised with the plot ... and now I might have to go and buy the second series ...

Aren't both the images of males?

I'm going to try the Penetration Half-Life 2 mod.

And your PC and three companions can have companions. And your PC will be a general in a battle, too.

Why would female leads bother you? It is now standard procedure for women to be deployed in the frontline, so it makes sense that our fiction mirrors societal realities. Also, good, strong female leads are much more interesting to watch than lots of men running around pretending to be space-heroes.