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They just didn't trust you. The computers are out for you, Mr Schu ... :ph34r:

I hope the console wars heat up (the bigger the fight, the better for us consumers), but I can see the marketplace splintering into multiple media, e.g. 3G 'phones, handheld game devices, consoles, PCs, stuff we haven't seen yet, etc, etc ...

@ I think you might be right. @Haitoku: it may not mean much to you and most people right now, but rest assured it is the Next Big Thing: M$ made Mr W. Gates III a multibillionaire when he declared that he wanted to "put a PC in every home". Now they want to put a PC in every TV. (I made a comment about this earlier in the thread.)

I remember the nightmare (the cipher took about an hour to decrypt all the game files). Since then I have re-installed HL2 after a complete hd rebuild in a few minutes (less than five, iirc): Steam is a revolutionary product.

My instruction manuals are art.

It's not the power of the consoles, or even the pedigree of the stable of games (though that does have a bearing) that matters: the big game is how the next generation of lounge lizards manage their digital entertainment: will Sony's high-tech Blu-Ray gambit beat the

Um, I'm not sure what preconceptions have to do with art ... maybe I'm missing something? You are better placed than most to assist in bringing the dream to reality ... :D

Yes, Prime Minister Series 2

What is this blood feud that exists betwixt the ex-CCCP neighbours? "

With all the OE-brand developers that seem to be frequenting the here (mainly C&C forum, afaict), I cna't help but think there are only two reasons. They want to be here. They have to be here. So, either they are here because they have some free time (that wasn't available before), or there is some hidden directive to improve PR. Ignoring the latter possibility for a moment, maybe a development milestone has been reached? Some game (PNJ? the mysterious "third IP") has completed some development stage, and is merely waiting for due non-development process to proceed ...

I comment as I see it.

Early television was treated like "radio with pictures" by producers. Your point is specious. Gromnir makes a valid point: Metropolis or The Great Dictator didn't even use sound, yet they are just as powerful as any modern day claimant for the crown of best film and example of art. Chaplin could easily have blamed the studio environment for preventing him from creating his art, but he didn't.

Baggy Trousers ... almost as big a fashion faux pas as flares.

Your powers of long winded lectures is impressive master. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> To be terser would require insolubrious language, youngling. (It was only a seven word sentence, after all!)

I'm in! (Sounds like Shindig ...)

It isn't possible to say with any certainty exactly what was going on two thousand years ago in Palestine, not because there is an absense of written material, but because there has been so much revision (by those pesky corrupt Roman Catholics). I have reason to believe an alternative version of the historical Jesus The Christ (as opposed to the commonly known religious propaganda established by the Pauline doctrines and the Church of Peter; cf the Gospel of Mary and Peter's patriarchal misogyny). Jesus The Christ was executed as the direct and legitimate heir of the line of King David ("Christ" being the honorific used to describe the equivalewnt of a King / Pope in the contemporary Hebrew culture) by the Roman Empire for being a political activist stirring up trouble against the Roman governor and rule. Crucifixion is a Roman punishment for prisoners (remember Spartacus?). (If he was an enemy of the Hebrew establishment, then they had the right to stone anyone they wanted to death, anytime they felt like it. Romans were good like that: very laissez-faire when it came to regional policing, so long as the taxes kept coming.) He was most definitely a "freedom fighter" for the Jewish people, and his aim was to create an insurrection. I'm not sure if he led any major battles, though (can't remember off hand). A lot of the confusion exists because the Church of Rome had scripture that was spun to make the Romans look less like the bad guys (the misinformation that "the jews killed Jesus!" was one of the complaints made by the Jewish leaders about the film by Mel Gibson (who is a staunch Catholic), The Passion of the Christ). A lot of this spin can be seen when comparing the scriptures with those found in the dead sea caves, which were not destined for a Roman audience (Egyptian or others, instead): for some strange reason all access to these documents is restricted by the Vatican ... "

What sort of party did you have in mind? Too late, the thought has already had the (un)desired effect!

O Romania, How I admire thy standards! Such breathtaking quantities, Such manifold beautitude! Where One Can BE And Yet Another Yet Still Where difference is sought, It may be found, 'Tis an egregious logic. Romania.

*whistles appreciatively*

Your powers of clairvoyance are impressive, youngling.

Not really. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Is too. Infinity.

That was John Wayne, Pattern said that the idea of war isn't to die for your countary, but to make the other poor bastard die for his. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Patton was a warrior poet and did not denigrate his enemy; in fact his greatest strength was the respect that he showed ("I read your book, Rommel!").

I would be pleased to hear your thoughts in elucidating this further. Your writing (here, in any case) is very dense. You might like to add some examples to illuminate your points, even to make counter-points. For example, do you see any situations where Chaotic characters (specifically of polar alignments: Good and Evil) might work together to reduce the order (Lawfulness) of the universe? I'm not sure what you mean by "hate for eternal reasons". That's good: I like that definition. "Good is overbearing and meddlesome", I take it this is because good behooves us to oppose evil at every instance, and that can take individuals out of their comfort zone? Of course, this is resulting from the issue of the designers working from a certain thematic unity, the theme of reflexive equation between selfhood and undeniable right of action. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Isn't this reflexive equation what you quoted above?

Sharship Troopers is a brilliant film.