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It's taken you long enough ...

But... but... but... Greedo shot first! REVISIONIST! Same with 2. Fixed!

Keep warm on Hoth?

There are only three Ludlum Bourne novels. I don't know anything about the Lustbader novels, but Ultimatum is set after Bourne has been married and retired for twenty years. (I assume they will just move the action to a younger protagonist; I haven't read the novel, so I don't know how much this will affect the plot.)

I'd say that there are certain things you can't convey with text without many extra contextual cues, and emoticons are a very useful shorthand. After all, even though a picture may be worth a thousand words, I'd argue that (even if it takes two thousand words) it certainly isn't impossible. /pedantry

Hmmm, I think I was playing that game in the arcade 1977 ... would that be correct? The wiki seems to think this game appeared out of nowhere in the 80s on consoles.

Yeah, stupid list! (Except for putting Deus Ex in first place. That was v. correct and displays a sublime grasp of the multifareous nuances and gross requirements of the game as an art form and expression of entertainment in a joyous symphony of excellence.)

It depends more on bandwidth demands, I would think. Anyone that starts hosting pr0n, for example, is going to blow their local ISP quota pretty quickly ... (... fortunately I doubt this endeavour would be in the same league, demand-wise ... )

Is that the Defender-type game? (Sort of like Missile Command, except it was side-scrolling and not big circular explosions, actually not very Missile Command-like at all, come to think of it); it was wrap-around so you could just gun it and get back to where you started? I used to play that game!

The point being made by the writers of Yes, Prime Minister was that the bureaucracy is there to protect the incompetent teachers from being sacked, for being incompetent.

Incidentally this was what bothered me in the now famous scene with ED209 and Kenny, and "life in the big city". In the extended scene of the Director's Cut, ED209 spends about a minute pumping very high calibre ordnance into Kenny, and the body seems to keep its integrity far too well.

Not Pimlico the southern suburb of London, then.

What ABOUT IMPRESSIONS?!?11/!

What is R-Type?

Did it have Godzilla in it?

I think the game needs more black fungi.

Christmas Tree.

But those people are lesser people, because they aren't from Iowa.

Or perhaps just a country with very antiquated equipment?

It's a nice idea, but then you come up against the Gabe Newell conundrum, whereby the audience has no guaranteed viewing elements of the narrative. I'm not suggesting that "emergent depth" is a bad thing, just that it's a little more complex than just creating an extempore experience. More analogous to watching Whose Line is it Anyway versus Hamlet; it becomes a lot more difficult to ensure minimum standards.

As Sir Humphrey says in Yes Prime Minister, the Department for Education isn't there for the students, it's there for the teachers!

Yoga today, just about to do some weights and then boxercise. It's all a bit difficult today as I managed to get sunburnt yesterday, even though I was just in the garden on the telephone for an hour or so. Now my skin looks like I have some sort of fungal disease, as there are lots of tiny white spots up my arms where the melanin has just given up the ghost. Stupid pasty white English skin.

It's a difficult call for me, as I saw the first one in the cinema and it (obviously) had a profound effect (on me, and the rest of the world). Having said that, the sequel was a much better film, if only because George had someone else write the script and direct it. Also, this should be in StarWars ...