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This REALLY looks like System Shock (which is a good thing). Even the preview trailer looks moody. I think this is going to be great. (Apparently there are some surprising plasmid body-mods that the player can find ... also there is a choice between killing the "little sister"s to harvest their Adam, or saving them (losing the Adam, but being rewarded .)

^^ That's the salient point, methinks. It's a case of t'internet or nuffink.

What's fun got to do with it? It has to be tr00 SPECIAL!11!!eleven!11?1!

He's Finnish.

Scientific American's April 2007 article by Bernd Heinrich and Thomas Bugnyar seems to demonstrate that ravens have a symbolic brain. This is remarkable if only because (at least in the early edition that I read) Deacon makes the point that the human brain is unique in this regard. Further, the raven should have the ability to develop language-like skills, and may indeed already have some sort of register. They certainly would be better suited, prima facie, to learning language than, say, the higher primates (Kanzi being a notable exception). This would have exciting possibilities for the study of linguistic theory.

I guess this is ended now.

What I find interesting is how different people dealt with the use of only two underscores for their choices; Will, for example, added an entire row of extra underscores, to make three, so that his "X" might be centred. (I was tempted to do this too, but decided that my obsessive-compulsive behaviour was not to win on this particular occassion. " ) Others have employed unique strategies (like Walsh who put the selection mark at the END of the option, for some bizarre reason). Fascinating. (Was that the point of the survey? I like surveys with ulterior criteria.)

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That's the catch-cry of the beleaguered organisational peon (the artist in this instance), and (as a information technologist) I have heard it again and again, especially when cottage-industries must make the leap to commercial production. I'm not suggesting that technology is the beginning and end of game design, I'm suggesting that, given enough paper, an artist will doodle inefficiently; a "map" to help artists direct and focus their efforts will only be useful, if taken in the correct vein. Of course if artistic-types become militant, then all that creative effort that might have been efficiently directed into a great game will be wasted on internecine warfare. I think it really all depends on good management, which is outside technology and art, and in very short supply.

SPECIAL:

I think they're trying to create the "Apple iBook" niche (i.e. not an ugly generic laptop case) for the PC market.

Yeah, sounds like a trojan has created an (Outlook) email account for nefarious purposes, and is being detected by AVG when it activates. Try scanning the registry with a cleaner, or with another AV application.

I think I tried spam once. And spat it out. And I've eaten snails.

That's about all the spam that this topic can take.

Do I need to close this or just prune it?

That's like accelerating matter and antimatter up to the speed of light, and then colliding them at each other ...

*casts summon alanschu*

Again, this is basically my point. The hiring of a name actor has nothing to do with the quality of the game. It doesn't make it wonderful, nor does it make it suck. All it does is add name recognition that can be used by marketing. Which has already been done, btw. The hiring of Liam Neeson has been a news item on most gaming news sites. It's a way to raise awareness of the game without actually having to buy ads (not that I'm sure it's cheaper than ads, just another means to results). Of course, what they should have done is announce that Ron Perlman has been hired to play the narrator. That would at least have made a lot of the fans happy for a while. But I suppose Ron Perlman isn't well know enough for it to hit the news sites, Hellboy not withstanding. Then we are in violent agreement!

Yeah, and von Clausewitz was a pen-pushing bureaucrat who added nothing to the science of war!

Wouldn't the name of the game be required for it to be considered announced? You mean that it's not possible to be half-dead? Either dead or alive ..?

Yes, you are odd. Cherish your oddness.

So much for the veracity of the tourist brochure ...

She didn't make it; she was the victim of the male star. I suspect that those that knew her socially were just trying to share their own observations with the rest of society, namely she is a cheap trollop, despite having more cash than she can spend in two lifetimes.