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Your comments made it clear that you didn't understand that the comic predates both franchises you compared it to:

What did it look like? Perhaps if you ask around, someone might have seen it ...

*Awws with LadyCrimson* How sweet and true. If you really love someone, then it doesn't matter how old you are...Unless it's like Anna Nichole Smith. That's just nasty. Back on topic: You cannot have a relationship with Mira. Sorry. I don't play male that often, anyway. I usually stick with female. And I get jipped! I can't have Atton! Actually, the truth is Anna Nicole Smith probably did love the Texan Billionaire as much as he loved her (and as much as he hated the rest of his family): remember he married her voluntarily and with full cognizance of his family (and heirs') enmity towards her.

*pruned* Keep the spam out of the thread.

Precisely.

What do you mean "upgrade this engine"? Do you mean you want to do your own private modifications to the commercially available engine? You'll need to licence it if you want to sell a game based on it ... which would figure into your cost calculations to create a new engine.

Wait a minute; unless I'm mistaken, Quake II implemented nifty stuff like particle effects for explosions and stuff. THAT was novel.

Spoilerz! I just got to the Officers' level above the prison, and that guy with the silver key is super difficult to pickpocket!

I think it depends on the kind of commuting. I go to my school every day by train and bus which is generally a two hour ride. Since I don't have to drive myself, I can use this time to get a lot of work done. Although sometimes it can get frustrating if you have to do something with line-art, because bus tends to be not so steady. Depends, but yeah, if you don't have to change lines then you might be able to get away with doing some work in transit. I did a commute by train that long, but it took me across a few different lines and so I couldn't really do anything during the trip ... except perhaps read. Still, by the end of the week, I was falling asleep on the return journey, regardless, because of how much the long commutes took out of me. I was continually sleeping late on the weekends to catch up. It's not a good idea long term; I'd suggest that if you are doing a commute of similar length and NOT sleeping more on weekends then you're operating on a large sleep debt. I had a bike accident seven years ago. I shattered the bones in my right arm really badly. I spent 43 weeks in cast and it never really fully healed. I can still feel it when I lift heavy things and such stuff. The thing is, I was biking every day again the semester after the accident, when I was still in cast. Accidents happen. I do suppose that the traffic climate is much different here in Holland; bikes outnumber cars here. That's the problem with injuries: you will feel them for the rest of your life.

Ghost Rider is based on a comic book.

Nah, I don't read everything on linked sites. Just keep ejecting 'em!

Aha. Thank you.

If it's the one I bought to play, I hated it. And I didn't think that much of the graphics. (Might have been the sequel, though.)

I dislike the intellectual dishonesty that article displays. In fact, if I ever roused myself to HATE anything, that would be in the top contenders.

O RLY? So, if I do the area on hard, I get extra areas ... are they unlocked later, then?

Okay, I want to go and do some Astronomy study now, before I get started back in the Mine-Prison level.

Quake II had the best graphics of any game when it came out. Unreal was a multiplayer game, wasn't it? I never played it. (Except as the engine for Deus Ex and a few others.)

Rampage!

Right. I'll beleive you when you actually do what you say: come back when you get beat the original Pacman. Then tell me how easy it was.

I think I have the Platinum edition, as it installed to version 1.33. (Not bad, considering I got both games for <

I got 5 million points before I quit. That's a sign of obsessive-compulsive. Just installed Thief (the first one) and played the tutorial (yah! no need to read the manual ... except to get the keymapping) and then the first level. It must have worked, because now I can't think of anything else except the next level and getting through it ... whereas other games recently I've been almost forcing myself to keep playing. Good game!

Shaolin War Priest?

I think that creates a perfect situation for you, Mus?.: you just have to explain that the best way to upgrade to Vista is with a new PC!

Interesting link. The problem with preaching like that, is that is overeggs the pudding. What I mean is that, people think "But, I drink cola all the time and nothing bad has happened to me," and so all the scare-mongering sounds like hysteria. If the authors of that health piece had written it with a little less pessimistic doomsaying, I bet it would have a greater effect. All they are doing with this is preaching to the converted ... every person who believes that high sugar and caffeine soft drinks are bad will be pleased to have their beliefs reinforced ... but anyone who drinks them will dismiss it as hysterical over-reaction. Just stating that mega-doses of sugar are bad for the body, and that's because the liver has to cope by converting as much excess into fat as it can, not to mention that the pancreas has to go into over-drive to compensate for the sudden inbalance (hyperglycemia is bad, m'kay) and producing loads of insulin (which is what tells the liver to store sugar to get it out of the blood). The fact that this sort of stress prepares the body for Type 2 Diabetes (previously known as "late-onset") should be enough to give habitual drinkers pause for thought. Of course, I prefer a good cup of espresso. (Caffeine is arguably the best drug we have, with the least severe side-effects and the most controllable addiction cycle, together with some excellent benefits, like burning fat.) A cup of tea does just as well, though you should have it without milk (according to a recent German study that I am not going to look up right now). (Nicotine is also a very useful drug. The bad effects come from the smoke. Of course, like most things, in large quantities it isn't good for the body ... in fact nicotine is a deadly poison.)