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In the interests of furthering discussion, I shall refrain from answering Shadowstrider's last post line by line. It is reasonable to clarify the situation, however. Firstly, I used Tombraider:AoD as a quick example; taking its specificities as a general tenet is a falacy. I could quite easily cite almost every game made from a film. Then there

Your logic is flawed, once again. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, more likely the statement was disingenuous, and it was interpreted (according to the implied logic) incorrectly: At no point is the (implied, but fallacious) predicate "I play lots of console games" made by Magical Volo.

Look, I don't want to argue this ad nauseam, but

Horsies are cute. Horsies in the real world are used for war, only, because they are too expensive to keep and train for just transport. In the imaginary world, they can be used for all sorts of unrelated things ...

Worse than Spanish ...

Mike: No dice rolling and she is dead? This is my kind of DM! ... Crow: If she is so alone, who did she leave the note for? Tom: I am just glad they are not playing Call of Cthulhu! Imagine the body count then! Crow: You know I once had a Call of Cthulhu character that lasted three days! Tom: No, you lie! Crow: Yes it's true! O.K. Gypsy was the Keeper, and I hid some of the dice. But it was three days! ... Tract: Don't be stupid, Debbie... Mike: Slim chance of that. ... Mike: Oh look it is the Wise Old Man

*blows the barrel of his icon six-shooter*

I say "only in America", but the truth is that the home of Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) is sleep-walking towards 1984. Already there are thousands of Closed-Circuit Television camera monitoring roads, malls, railway stations, commercial premises, etc, etc, etc. The home is the last place; it only takes one big initiative like this "to protect us", and it'll be too late to do anything. It won't be the government that brings the legislation in, it'll be a latter one, that uses it to suffocate the free society once and for all ... Orwell would be spinning in his smoking-induced, early grave. :'(

That copper must actually read 1984 (or maybe had someone read it to him ...) to be able to make such a perfect Big Brother quote ... ... only in America ... I hope!

I'll hold you to that, Eldar. Okay, I don't mind their right to carry on like total f*wits, SO LONG AS their behaviour doesn't prevent other, less vociferous, more marginalised views from being heard. (All those "more boobies on Superbowl TV" advocates, for instance.) My point was that these clowns are as close to verbal violence as is comfortable. So long as they stay on the "everybody can say anything, even that my religion sucks" side of loonie fascism, I don't care if they believe that Doris Day is Satan and I'm a cross-dressing psychopath who drinks the blood of newly-killed people who drive badly on the motorway. (You are drinking honey mead to celebrate your anniversary? You devil-worshipper! Aside: Catholics aren't devil-worshippers, they're perverts. ) PS Happy anniversary. :meta giving Eldar all the mead he can take, without impairing his ability to enjoy the obligatory consumation rites afterwards icon:

Houston Police Chief Wants Cameras in Homes Posted by Zonk on Saturday February 18, @06:35AM from the would-be-funnier-if-it-wasn't-true dept. An anonymous reader writes "In one of the most blatant and frightening statements made on privacy, the Associated Press reports that Houston's police chief wants surveillance cameras in apartment buildings and even private homes. Chief Harold Hurtt wants building permits to require cameras in shopping malls and large apartment complexes. He also wants them in private homes if the homeowner has called the police repeatedly. So, if you're in Houston, don't call the cops too much, or they might install a camera the next time they show up. And what does Hurtt have to say about privacy concerns? 'I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?'" Reference

But ... I deducted points from Blank ...

I like Activision.

Mandate? Certainly!

Why bother? Just program better graphics! (w00t) Yeah, the gameplay was crap. So was the writing. Or did you think the game's great writing was let down by the poor gameplay? Distraction? Ooo. You're hurting me! Because you know the minds of the game playing demographic. Wait, I know! You're a marketing executive for a big Publisher, and you KNOW how to predict what the Next Big Thing is! No? And even they have no idea? Pull your pants up and give your face a go. You've been blithering on about graphics (and physics) for three posts, now. Just read the polemic you have been writing. Gameplay != writing. Something you don't seem to understand. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Gameplay? Let me say the above again. Let's see, a random quote from one of your previous posts: Seems to me you are saying exactly that. demand n noun 1 an insistent and peremptory request, made as of right. ⇒(demands) pressing requirements. 2 the desire of purchasers, consumers, etc. for a particular commodity or service: a recent slump in demand. n verb ask authoritatively or brusquely. ⇒insist on having. ⇒require; need. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French demande (noun), demander (verb), from Latin demandare 'hand over, entrust'. Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th Edition Cosmetic changes to what? Boring modules that are boring to play? Don't be a simpleton. Of course people download graphical improvements to the modules. So? Do they download graphics without stories? "I want to play the fireworks mod!"

Is that more than I know (in total), or more than I know about the grrrl?

It's just candy. Some people like candy. Eat it all day. Fortunately they die young.

No, it was the People's Front of Judea, or the Judean People's Front, and their charter that included Eric Ilde's "Stan" character right to have babies. (He piped up and said "Or woman" whenever John Cleese read out a new codicil.)

Spamzilla!

... And we shall never know.

The mouse and keyboard cables are UNSHIELDED. Not much to do about that, except move them as far as possible away form the speakers (I get interference from my monitor, too). Or, you could buy a cordless mouse and keyboard.

Does that set include the newer homo sapiens sapiens? I was quoting from Life of Brian, btw.

Oooo! Listen to HER! What would a grrrrl know? j/k

If it is disabled in the BIOS, then the Device Manager won't see it. (You could try re-enabling it in BIOS and disable it through the Device Manager, if you want.) What is the problem, now? Error message?