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... And short hair ...

... Wriggle little wormy on the hook ... catch me some good fishies ...

Wait, as opposed to knife companies not being held responsible for illegal activities? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not to mention car manufacturers. Still, the Winchester heiress went mad and spent her rifle inheritance on building more and more elaborate "spirit traps" in her mansion, so that the ghosts of all the people killed by her forebears' firearms would not be able to get her ...

Well Hot Coffee violates the agreement that rockstar signed when they submitted the game for certification. This may even lead to it being pulled in Australia (they have weird ratings). And being reclassified in other countries. It's the first time anything like this has gotten this sort of media attention and thats thrown up all sorts of questions now on just what sort of mods are being distributed, and how they can hold someone responsible for them. Favourite target right now seems to be whoever made the game. What no one seems to know is if this was a mod that created or it was simply something to unlock hidden content Rockstar slipped in. Rockstar are denying everything since the whole thing exploded. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Okay, but that is a slightly different legal point. If Rockstar put something in the game and hid it to get around the rating system, then they are rorting the system and need to be punished. If some modder puts something in their game, not only is the developer/publisher beyond litigation, but (as the modders are just fans doing their own thing) so are the modders. They aren't selling the mods. It's the equivalent to rating private websites for pornography; something that can be done by AOL, but nothing to do with the government. You'll end up trying to rate mods, and that's more difficult than preventing pr0n on the internet ...

Can't do it: it's already in the public domain ... (But I don't care as long as they put the chimp ninjas in ...)

No you don't!

I'm sorry, I don't understand. What is illegal (about hot coffee or whatever else) ? Regardless, Modmakers do not sell their mods, so they are exempt from licencing, unless the law is changed to include all (electronic) art ...

What's the illegal act?

I have highlighted the weakness in the logic of this statement. Whereas peer-to-peer software provided a means for piracy, games (even adulterated by sickos) are only going to provide images. Of virtual characters and objects. Who cares if someone crucifies Alyx? Why is that offensive? It's just boring. Talk about a slow news day.

Puh-LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE?

I might go and install Manhattan Project now ...

Any hints, for the loyal fanbase? We won't tell anyone on the NwN2 forum, so it'll remain our little secret ... "

From the looks of the E3 demo from years ago, they'll be able to sell it as a VR pr0n sim, if nothing else ...

They're not? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> (We're the ones that give them all their good ideas, from ninja chimps flipping out and killing everyone, to exploding barrels in NwN2 ...)

You're not getting the whole deconstructionalistic leitmotif; it's all about mocking the stereotypes of other games, sending them up with pinpoint accurate black satire ... "

What would constitute a good motivation for doing said crescent kicks? Or he'll stop posting altogether like the rest of the Obsidian devs. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ... Because, let's face it, the devs are here to banter inanely with us forum monkeys ... "

Duke's not really Survival HORROR, is it? It's more Survival COMEDY ("Come get some!", deconstrunctionist misogynist stereotypes, etc).

JE gets his very own thread!

Survival Comedy?

Nope. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Me too. I think that is the primary reason Deus Ex became such an iconic game: it was undersold and understated. When it just kept on going, I felt like I was playing an Isaac Asimov novel ... Also, the actual plot was more realistic; the kingpin isn't going to be getting his hands dirty. Also, Tom Hall did a voice in the title sequence for the sequel too, I noticed.

Aha! You have been staring at your monitor, and I bet it was at the highest resolution, too. it's not too late to save your eyesight, Launchie, but you have to renounce all Carth and Atton fandom! Do it, for the sake of your sight.

I concur with the points above, especially the loss of the party member with whom the PC has the highest influence, forcing them to cooperate with their "rival". Excellent idea! Naboo would be okay if the Gungans were all struck with laryngitis.

The jedi that follow Revan and Malak to fight in the Mandalorians didn't repress anything - they all either fell or gave in to the dark side as Revan and Malak did or they didn't survive at all (remember HK-47's comment about Revan 'cleaning house). The Exile was uniquely the only one of them to reject the dark side and return to the jedi coundil. The jedi council wasn't there, since they refused to enter the Mandalorian War in the first place. Hence they never committed any of the atrocities that would have made them fall to the dark side, and so there was no lure for them to repress. Not entering the war was choice, not repression. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm not sure if you are avoiding my points or you just misapprehended them, so I'll re-iterate: the Jedi who left to fight in the Mandalorian Wars, who repressed all the atrocities they had to commit and witness, plus the Jedi who stayed behind and repressed the fates of the millions who would die because of their inaction, their own Canterbury Cathedral Syndrome (as in Winston Churchill's enigma dilemma). Right, now your first point was that all the Jedi who left for the Mandalorian Wars had fallen to the Dark Side

How many fingers am I holding up?