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And it was c. 100MB !?! *mutters something about Baley*

And the gameplay is not spectacular? So I should just play SMAC, instead?

*considers the implications and possible culpability of setting up a hotmail self-referential cascade event ... *

Ah, but how did the game play? I haven't read any good reviews ...

Volo enjoys beating up the forum into a mass debate. "

I wouldn't want to link to any link that linked to me.

Someone with an ATi graphics card buy it and tell me if the lag issues are negligible.

I thought an outstretched fist with the thumb inside the fist was the sign of mercy, while a fist with the thumb pointed toward the throat indicated death. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I just read something to the contrary, today, otherwise I wouldn't be so sure. Hmmm. I shall perform a search ... Here is someone backing up your interpretation (good tangential stuff about Darwin and nodding): ... You probably think we make the thumbs-up gesture because that's what the Romans used to do when they wanted to spare a fallen gladiator, right? Wrong--that's a myth based on a succession of mistranslations. The truth is when the Romans were feeling merciful they hid their thumbs in their clenched fists (symbolically sheathing their swords, some historians believe). To have a guy offed they didn't turn thumbs down but rather extended their thumbs in a stabbing gesture. ...; here is someone quoting Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal) to assert the exact opposite to the modern accepted idiom: ... Our reverse interpretation of this custom apparently was the result of the work of the French artist L

:D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Bless you for finding that. :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Good on you for finding that! I don't let too many mistakes slip past me ... (... then again I remember I was posting without the luxury of revising my posts as I had a pressing time constraint, but that smacks of an excuse and I am not so vainglorious that I cannot admit to mistakes). No errors, mind you, just mistakes. :D

No, it's still poor grammar. You changed the sentence from an assertion about the relative ages of kotorkyle and gabrielle to an assertion about the presence of a suspicion about the relative ages of the two. The first makes an assertion about the ages, the second raises a possibility. Even if it's artistic licence, and even if it was not done for any malevolent purposes, the meaning of the sentence has still been changed, thus there has been a change, rather than a correction, in the grammar. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, it is completely outside the boundaries of grammar. It is within editorial licence for the reader to interpret as they will. In fact, the structure of my correction not only presents a fair and clear interpretation, it also grants the reader the immediate power of recognising what is edit and what is the original statement. To wit, the correction was helping to state what kotorkyle meant to say, even though poor grammar and eloquence prevented such communication.

Ah! Another level! Great! Keep it up, I like it when the actors gain access to another level of consciousness. ^_^

LBJ would have called them "hyphen Americans" ...

Most enlightened words I read all day, though I have only been reading this forum and an anime forum so... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I found one of their statements agreeable and (deliberately edited that way, or not) ironic: ... generally not having good quality white people being born.

I'll ensure that I link to your link.

Why is everyone suggesting games from the RTS genre?

You're all in it. Didn't you know?

I was wondering the same thing. Can someone elaborate for us? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He became the Chew I think. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ... Or too boring to contribute ... Thank you for the history lesson o' wise one. I already knew that, history being of interest to me. Obviously the American movie makers do not know how to look up facts. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Very pleased to hear it. Of more concern to me than the producers (writers / directors / whatever) of Hollywood revenue streams lack of research, is the tendency of the general public to accept film narratives as de facto historical fact (I'm thinking of Oliver Stone's JFK). In any case, I don't think it does any harm to repeat facts often and loud, so that there is no confusion ... also I find reciting facts helps me to remember them ... :cool: Edit: PS I love Authority. The "Mod Appreciation" thread has always been locked.

I liked that last vignette of the Twilight Zone film, too. Rod Serling was a dude. I remember designing an adventure game, based around the Twilight Zone, for the 6502 ...

Actually the signal sent by the Emperor to indicate his desire that the gladiator should be shown mercy was to hold the hand out with the thumb pointing horizontally, inward; his displeasure and the ultimate death of the gladiator was indicated by the hand in the same position giving the same gesture, except that the thumb was held between the fingers.

Heavy sedation.

[i suspect that ] You[']r[e] older th[a]n me [, then]. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That explains your grasp of grammar, then. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Actually, wouldn't his post indicate a poor grasp of spelling? In fact, your version of the sentence changed kyle's post from a statement of fact to a suspicion by adding in an extra clause, namely, "I suspect that". Indeed, by editing the grammar of the sentence and apparently seeming to correct it while instead changing the meaning of the sentence, would that not suggest a poor grasp of grammar on your own part? " In proper English, kotorkyle's statement would simply be "You are older than me", not "I suspect that you're older than me, then." EDIT: Oh, and you kept "you're" capitalised, puting a capital letter in the middle of a sentence for something other than a proper noun. Tut tut. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> grammar is [t]he study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences ... (etcetra), so No; kotorkyle implicitly posits the hypothesis that Gabrielle is more senior, but does not directly affirm this to be a fact, either known to, or confirmed by, him (her); my exterpolation of the original statement may be regarded as editing (for sure), but it was done within the spirit of clarification and not for any malevolent purposes, so it is at worst artistic licence and in no way poor grammar; I admit that leaving the capitalised Y was a more idiosyncratic grammatical interpretation; however I would justify my indulgence by citing the obvious benefit of presenting the original phrase in its entirety, as well as my additional predicate (quoth you, above) to indicate:my interpretation the fact that it was my interpretation the range and limits of my editing Of course replacing the Y with [y] would have been technically more in keeping with accepted grammatical idiom, it would have lost the above nuances.

Okay, but post the link now.

[i suspect that ] You[']r[e] older th[a]n me [, then]. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That explains your grasp of grammar, then. "PC" stands for Personal Computer, which does not exclude any computer format, despite the current ubiquity of the IBM PC (which were originally "MS DOS compatible"), so you can have your cake and eat it too. "PC" is just as much about Amigas as it is the Apple //e and the Commodore 64 ().

Everyone that link is a trick! Some of you should know this! don't believe the person who posted it. The people who are smart willl know its there too fool you. ... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Zing, Mr Surreptishus. You have been zinged.