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So what does everyone think is a better manangement structure. After all, the UN is League of Nations, version 2, and I notice that nothing seems to be work adequately until version 3. So what does the UN version 3 look like? (Some background on Franklin D. Rosevelt's baby.)

This is one of the reasons that GWB hasn't charged into Iran. They actually have an airforce. And offensive capabilities to inflict losses on the US airfleet. Ditto for N.Corea, too, I believe (lots of missiles). Sun Tzu and all that. And that's the 64 trillion dollar question, isn't it? What would be a good structure to manage the world? UNATCO? (JC, where are you ...)

That's the pattern. Release the films individually. Then as a box set. Then as a new format box set, re-mastered and some "Director's Cut" special edition. Then release the entire sextology in the new format, re-remastered with holographic memory core and virtual girls that pop out of the tv and give you a lap dance ... The point is that the product is turned into a series of revenue-generating events, that can be hyped individually, and the later products are better (if you like GL control-freak-tweakery) than the earlier.

Now you're starting to understand how to argue! Polite Suggestion: Kaftan, why not define auteur for the purposes of this thread, and then carry on your discussion?

Overrated: Jessica Simpson, Paris HilWhoreton Underrated: Keanu Reeves

So this is different?

Yeah, but you have to operate it remotely, via voice. A phrase.

But since it is Winter now, Turkey can rebuild units (and they can be either Fleet or Army).

I, too, don't understand how you are going to control communications. I am happy to play (and I won't cheat), but I need to know what the rules are so that I can walk along that line ...

Game 2 was a game for seven people. Two dropped out (extenuating circumstances) in the second turn. An invitation was opened to others to join the game, as it stood. When the request for a restart was tabled, I asked the players if they wanted to change the game. (Basically it was a request to start a new game.) Now there agreement wasn't unanimous, so I couldn't start a new game instead of the existing one. (Certainly could start one in addition, as required.) All players, AT ALL TIMES, as free to drop out of the game, should they not find it fun. (Obviously this is a forfeit.) This was my decision as Game Master, not Reveilled. I will not be drawn on who voted which way, either, as it is tantamount to complicence in bullying.

Trobalov has left the game.

Guys, you must be on some good hallucinagins if you think you can walk into an Eldar's base and kill him and get away scot free. It is totally unbelievable. Don't forget the Giovanni have family everywhere, as super-secret spies. Don't tell me they aren't going to not know who, what, when, where and why their Eldar was killed! *starts whistling theme from MASH*

Yeah, I have no problem with the characters being able to be healed at the Ebon Hawk (that's the "town" area, I suppose). This allows for greater control over the granularity of difficulty during the game sections, too.

Maybe you need to have grown up playing with real Lego to get that extra satisfaction from it ... I certainly thought the gameplay was superb, regardless, but I did have an awful lot of Lego ...

There are some interesting ruins on the Northern side of the island ... north of the Crab city and wandering around the Kurts. (I spent a lot of time just exploring the map to see what was out there. Good fun while you are engaged in it, but I think it takes fun from the main quest.) It is quite dangerous to go wandering around there, though ...

Ah, but do you ever not?

Yeah, because that opens up the possibility of having to retrace your steps (to get the fallen companion for a NPC-specific "key sequence", say, to trigger the next plot progression). I spent a lot of time in NwN, for example, re-fighting combat incidents to work out the best tactics. So too, this would create that situation. It's almost like the game was designed for very young children to play ...

... For now let's just say it's the most instantly gripping, involving and demanding entertainment technology ever invented. The addiction rate appears to be about twice that of crack Cocaine. There are 10 million MMORPG users in the world and their population is doubling every two years. ... I guess I must be congentially immune, or have been rendered immune from my initial exposure to them ... ... You'll meet someone who plays an MMORPG for a living. Let's take this a little bit further. You earn gold in World of Warcraft, gold with which you can buy these in-game objects. If this game gold is truly valuable to my life, if it lets me get more value out of the pasttime I already pay real-world money for, what's to stop me from paying real money for game money? Nothing. Go to Ebay and do a search for World of Warcraft Gold and let your jaw drop open. ... Not until the game universes create a sustainable economy. The problem with magical worlds is they create something out of nothing: and our real world cannot map onto that; game hyper-inflation has hit every universe ever created. And the best method for controlling it is to have people creating things as a job, like they do in the real world. Except no-one wants to be a virtual bank clerk or street sweeper; they want to be superman. So I can't see how it can ever work. ... 9. There will be a whole class of wealthy people without a dime to their name. ... Except that you can't eat virtual food. I know which world I would rather have money in ...

That's good, I like it. Also, it would take your group down to two, whilst you couldn't get back to the Ebon Hawk. I'm not a big fan of medpacks, either, but I guess they're the Winston Churchill's democracy of the FPS world: it's a terrible system, but also the best system we've got.

Bob Page is a dead man (or cyberman) if you beat Deus Ex. In all three endings, he dies. Navarra can kill Lebedev for you, if you refuse. So I guess Gunther is unavoidably dead, too (though I have never tried not to kill him.) I especially like . :D

It will be good for the little one to improve her hand-eye co-ordination skills .. "

Just the same played over the lag-prone SWG network, then? "

Missed out that little ironic smiley again ... "

Cool. Thanks guys!

... But you do sometimes? "