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Women typically don't have anywhere near the extension strength of men (triceps, torso); after all they are triangular shaped (and men are inverted triangles).

That's all well and good, but it doesn't cover orphans, or anyone without a person who would have a legitimate right to decide anything for them. A disabled orphan might live in a group home where he / she wouldn't have a primary caregiver, and all he / she'd be to all involved would be a body in a bed. That's when public policy would dictate what should be done. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Reminds me of the similar issues involved in foster care, too.

I think it's more likely that Bethesda will change those things than move to a top-down third person camera with turn-based combat. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Actually, I'd rather have a 1st person or 3rd person game with action and consequences etc than a top-down turn-based game with the gameplay of oblivion... so yeah, hopefully. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That was his point.

I don't know about that. It would depend on just what kind of pop music you'd take as an example. There are scores of god awful pop acts in Portugal which are even several cuts below what pollutes most American airwaves (read: Pussycat Dolls, Avril Lavigne, Gwen Stefani), but there are also some genuinely great ones which only lose out in popularity thanks to erratic media promotion and the often general belief that we can't compete with American pop music. It's not uncommon to have Portuguese acts make great one or two albums then fading into obscurity or spintering off into other bands. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Then they would fail at being popular music, by definition, wouldn't they?

I wouldn't call it a show-stopper, but certainly the tech is too new to pick a horse just yet. (I wouldn't be surprised if another, as yet unknown, technology comes out ahead in the near future ... though that would take a large disruption in the electronic consumer goods market place!).

No.

I see your fundamentalist underclothes are finally revealed!

I don't mind the spreadsheet interface; one of the earliest games I played was a precursor to Civilization and was text based (each turn giving the player a new screenful of updated status). I meant that the spreadsheet-interface wasn't best suited to a console, television and control pad.

I think flatpanel monitors would have added a neat update to the game, too. "

I just found it amusing that the developers decided to use a familiar diminutive personification for the assets: "Arty". :D

I wouldn't have thought anyone uses C# for game development ... it's a web technology.

Not so spreadsheet-interface, then?

I think they have scaled up the BIG things, too, like the dam and the reactor, from HUGE to LUDICROUSLY LARGE.

What that game called again? It's the Airborne Assault series. Published by http://www.matrixgames.com (same dudes publishing War in the Pacific, alanschu's latest fling). The two games available right now are Highway to the Reich (Operation Market Garden) and Conquest of the Aegean (invasion of Greece/Crete). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And what is "Arty direct support only" code for?

It'd be better than Portughanistani pop, too. "

Well, actually, we can't tell what improvements they have made (if any) to the already good AI, for example, so it wasn't necessarily a snide remark in that respect, either. I did notice that the dam seems to be a LOT bigger than in the first one: the broken down ute in the middle of it is tiny compared to my recollection of the first game.

*cough* And other posts in this thread too ... " <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hey, you try being a mod and reading all this garbage and see how much you take notice of ... "

Evidently not. ^_^

I thought Palms used Symbian? Windows CE is still Windows: i.e. bloatware.

Careful, you don't want to confront EdD'Oh with his nature or he'll disappear and something more complex will appear in his place ... like a sea cucumber

Then I trust you won't throw your back out.

Myth. "Fired" was worse than getting "the sack" because one's tools were incinerated rather than given (in a sack) to take away on the search for new employment. (I think you had to steal something, or worse, to get fired.) Because that is the verbatim text he spoke.

Yeah, that's more a basic understanding of physics (moments of force about a hinge joint) ... so I'd blame your science teacher (or you, if you didn't pay attention).

Anyone who laughs at the pirate police.