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I see no point in doing anything half-heartedly. I work hard; I play hard. I have excruciatingly high standards for myslef, and I have very high standards for those that I interact with; I do not suffer fools. If I purchase a product from someone, I expect it to be commensurate with the hard-earned cash I have laid out. I am not unrealistic, just discriminating.

I'd tend to call them unrealistic expectations. Unless you actually wrote a KOTOR in the same mold as a JRPG. And while I love JRPGS to bits, its not like there are more than enough coming from Japan so having something different and more open makes for a welcome change of pace. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I see, so unless I am a games developer or publisher, than I haven't really got any right to make judgements? I do not agree with your notion that it takes too much effort to write. It is just writing. Good writing, yes, but that is what compels me to play, and what transforms an ordinary, forgotten-next-season game, into a classic that is remembered indefinitely. I would rather play an old classic firecracker than a new damp sqib. I donated

Pick it up and give it a go, if only to expand your imagination!

Yep, they have confirmed it will be available IRL (can't remember the new publisher, might be Atari ...)

Terry Gilliam is enough to like this film.

A producer, maybe; as a singer Madonna Ciccone is a good dancer.

I was trying to remember who he played, with little success. (And, no, I don't suppose you were meant to laugh.)

Or his offspring tries to climb over some sparks and things.

Apparently it was originally part of the coastal run stage, but was axed due to the publishing deadline. (Then, I expect, they decided to add all the HDR lighting effects, so that it will be more than just a short expansion.) I don't expect it will be very long; it's free, after all, more of a proof-of-concept than a full-blown game. The expansion due out (probably September, after the official divorce with Vivendi takes effect) will be an extension of the plot from the game; battling out of City 17, with support from the Combine, I think, as well as with new nasties chasing (the mutant alien-thingies with diapers, for example). It'll be a decent length, because they'll probably charge for it.

Apart from the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare (which are automatically available for all Desert Island cast-aways), I would insist on Deus Ex and Civ2. An internet co-op game would be a good idea, because then I could communicate with the onliers to gert them to rescue me. Utlima ][ was great, but I would pretty soon get bored now (and I've forgotten all the memory addresses for the items ...)

Indeedy. And the expansion will be fun, too. (I hope it's incldued with my Half-Life 2 purchase, but as long as it's not exorbitant I'll buy it. Okay, I'll buy it anyway. :D)

I think they just tried to do too much with Civ3, without the mastermind of Meier behind them, and then cut the wrong things from the work schedule. Certainly, using the old engine was a mistake. Not that new graphics were needed, far from it (yes, Civ4 is still turn-based and tile-centred, just the zoom moves from planet-wide to inter-city; the beta didn't have a "city screen" at all); it was just the adding of all the extras from Civ2 just wasn't fun gameplay-wise.

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... as the fire of altruistic optimism fades to embers, the cynical inner-Sith takes control of the souls of humans ...

Of all the addictions you can have, caffeine is one of the most controllable, least harmful and most beneficial.

Fight Club had a good premise, but decended into farce when the writer didn't know how to end the story. Pitt was okay in it, but I prefered his performance in Legends of the Fall, if only because we get Anthony Hopkins as well; the two of them produce some excellent perfomances. Sure it was slow, it wasn't an action film: it was a character film. After that, Interview with a Vampire, or even the bit parts in Thelma & Louise and True Romance strike me as demonstrative of his talents.

1. You need to upload the pictures as attachments, either .jpg or .gif formats, and then insert the attachments into the post (it becomes optional once you have added the attachment). 2. Very cute. I love puppies (of all ages). Timber sounds exactly like Rocky, except Rocky is quite smart: he actually plays tag with us (he is very good at hiding

The biggest problem with the JFK conspiracy is that it has been comprehensively disproved, yet most members of the US get their history not from officially-sanctioned sources, like the History Channel, but from people like Oliver Stone, who's primary goal is to create an interesting piece of drama, not an historical re-enactment. (That, and I hate most of what Kevin Costner does.)

I am so glad <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, at least we agree that Matt Damon is good at his craft. I thought he acted his socks off in Bourne Supremacy, though. At no time could I see his acting. Fight Club is your Brad Pitt tour-de-force? What about Legends of the Fall, or some other good film?

Certainly the longer versions feel more authentic. I, for one, though, certainly felt my enthusiasm for the epic ebb a little once Christopher Lee's character was terminated so unceremoniously, inelegantly and without any canonical support. Add to that the ineffably dull last scenes, and I felt the down-beat mood of Tolkein's novel, but for the wrong reasons ...

That's plain insulting. You just put a brilliant movie and a waste of celluloid in the same sentence which just should not be done. I stand by my statement. The Bourne Supremacy is one of the worst movies ever. The car chase scene alone proves that, and definately not otherwise. Not only was the car chase scene a cop-out way to try and emulate the original(which was a less than humdinger flick to begin with), it was filmed horribly, had no suspense, and made me want to smack whatever hack directed it upside the head. I can deal with someone using a shaking handheld camera to create an extra feeling of the chaos that's going on to create extra suspense, but an entire sequence of nothing but close-ups using that technique is retarded. You don't see what's going on half the time, and if you do, you can't see it clearly because of all the shaking. The way the entire movie was filmed gave me a migraine. Adding to that the fact that the story was as boring as you can get and the only interesting character from the original was killed off in the beginning as a failed attempt to give some pathos to the wooden board they call a main character leaves you with a film that should not have been made in the first place. That's what you get for trying to make a movie out of Robert goddamn Ludlum's novels. That's was the worst idea since Battlefield: Earth until some dumbass decided to adapt The DaVinci Code. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Interesting point of view. You are entitled to it, of course, even if it is wrong. So you think that Matt Damon is not a good actor, or just the character was not a good vehicle for his talents? Certainly Franka Potente was out of her depth.

Without the scouring of a the Shire ROTK was lacking. While the other changes were irksome nothing except the osgiliath debacle came close. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yep, I agree. Again, I concur; i thought of all the bits that might be cut, or at least pared-down, the ghost-warriors were the highest probability for the chop.

Much credit can go to the awesome Tina Fey. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I see she's written a few items for Saturday Night Live; that shows the merit of the show and her talent.

Well, Tom Bomberdill was cut completely, as was the Wraith scene (which was pretty neat, I thought); I understand editing it out for length concerns, but it was certainly stronger, in a narartive sense, than the council meeting with Elrond. I would like to have seen the epic truly reflect Tolkein's down-beat message, by including the last scenes with Saruman in the Shire; that helped to cement some of the more mature themes in the novel, imo.

I agree. It was a fun little movie. And thank you Kirottu and Musopticon. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yep, I thought it was going to be another "girl teen-film" and I was pleasantly surprised. (I only watched it because my step-daughter insisted: she had seen it before.) It is not the normal grist to the mill, and in fact shows some innovative story-telling. And at least it is not yet-another-sequel-or-remake!