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Christmas and PS3 competition.

Well it's not just time. But also satisfaction. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If you continue to play a game for 50 hours without it satisfying you in some way, you're quite stupid. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sticks and stones, Eldar. I kept playing because Morrowind perfected the art of "anticipation", meaning I kept expecting something really really good and worthwhile to happen. When I decided that nothing on the game's discovery curve was worth the time I had already sunk into playing it (and after I had wandered around because I was VERY impatient to accelerate the main quest), I uninstalled it.

Castle Wolfenstein! Your VIPness doesn't scare me, Eldar! *maniacal laughter*

*shakes in boots* /acting

I didn't say Obsidian was changing their nomenclature, I was pointing out that the name "Georgia" isn't a girlie name. I assumed Meshugger was a US citizen because he didn't seem to have heard of the former USSR country of Georgia.

Psst.

At 50 hours, I don't think you're really giving up on a game... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm nothing if not stubborn. I hadn't progressed very far into the main story arc (just managed to get to the Wizard Keep isthmus half-way up on the eastern side), and I was totally sick of trying to, so whatever title you want to give that feeling, that's what I felt. I just despaired at messing around on pointless sidequests until the dude gave me another clue for the main geas.

That's actually very clever writing; paedophiles are (unfortunately) very adept at belnding into the community and using their camouflage to achieve a postion of trust, and when they are finally outed it can be a tremendous shock to everyone.

There are glimmers of irony in light of the fact that Gromnir, too, might have misjudged much of his audience. That is to say, many who ignore the OED

Thread pruned. Keep on topic, people. I have had a near-death experience. It involved a big night out and a car ... which I managed to roll into a power pole ... and walk away from. Pity I only remember a few images. Yes, it did change my attitude a lot. And for a while.

You Americans! Your knowledge of geography colours your Weltanschauung. Georgia is also a former USSR central Asian country ... notable for such alumni as Stalin. So, not so much a **** name, then.

Time tells!

It's not relesaed in Britain until tomorrow ... so I have no opinion. It seems like a good game ... I am one of those who gave up on Morrowind after playing it for about fifty hours, so I am not sure where I fall with Oblivion ... I'm not playing much at the moment. As the main story arc is (from all reports) better, and the progress along it is (also apparently) more "fun", then I can't see why I wouldn't buy it. Not sure if I'll pre-order tonight or not, though.

Holy Half-Dead Necromonger Lord Marshal crusading to the Underverse?

That's one of the barbaric practises that the Attic Greeks warned against (e.g. Trojan War) ...

I don't have ANY alternate identities. I think most of you have never participated IRL coversations. )

Does this represent (another) volte-face for Hades? "

So it's Benny Hill does Morrowind? Or Carry On Up Morrowind?

Yep, that tickled me, too.

I thought that was illegal, like fax spamming?

WTF happend? Can't your ninja SWIM? Or did he dive into a shallow pool and crush a vertebra?

Eddo is looking for XBox 360 playmates. You all can contact him via PM. Topic DoA.

True, but it's not the first nor the last time this will happen. Divining why the idiomatic usage of words changes over time may be a gainful occupation, but I would suggest there is no way to prevent the process altogether. Even "classical latin" has been amended with neoclassical adaptations and back-formations. (Even Attic Greek was transliterated / adopted into latin, so it is not a new process.) Nevertheless, if I were to hazard a guess as to why the definition of "irony" is changing over time, I would resort to lexicographical Darwinism: the word was atrophying and another use was foun for it. The word fits into people's Weltanschauung better as verbal irony, and this is used to differentiate from hypocrisy (maybe because the potency of hypocrisy is waning and another totemic word needs to be invoked to convey the same gravity?). Incongruity, methinks, is under the shadow of the mathematical term "congruent", and has too much baggage for arts majors to use in conversation ... :D

My thoughts cannot be printed in public. Also: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=40713