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Could be: I haven't been keeping up. Yes, you are correct.

So you can't get Hellcats, for example, earlier than 1944?

YES really, because it means that the game cannot possibly be played in a single sitting, even if you limit the scope.

Games evolve. Video games are more about settings and feel than simple rules-sets. Maybe it is time for SPECIAL to take a hike. I mean, if we're going to be totally "purist" here, Fallout must automatically fail since it was originally designed with GURPS in mind... right? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Darque wins. Then why did you phrase your comment as the site being an accomplishment if it convinces someone to NOT buy the game (you even italicized the word "not" to emphasise it!!), while at the same time, ignoring my comments as to whether or not you'd still feel you'd be satisfied if your site convinces someone to actually buy the game. Your goals are transparent. You phrase everything in the negative. You have stated that you hope to convince people to not buy the game (unless it's worthy), you've states that you do not feel that Fallout 3 is a good game, and that Fallout 3 will be an pox upon the entire Fallout franchise. Forgive me if I'm skeptical about you being purely about "educating" the people. Are you telling me that you're going to support this cause purely because you don't want uninformed consumers to buy games thinking that it's going to be just like Fallout 1 and 2, and that there isn't some other reason? If you're so altruistic, why only do this for Fallout 3? Surely there are other games that receive a lot of hype and will probably entice other people to buy the game and ultimately be unhappy. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Maybe he's a fan of Schopenhauer?

Interestingly, if the game is good enough all the baying by malcontents will come to nothing; after all, recall the screaming from all those unhappy gamers when Half-Life 2 was delayed and allthe doomsayers making out that it would never be as good as the original AND that was with the original developers!

Is the Super Adventure Club a sporting association (he asked not expecting the answer yes)? <_<

Sometimes? If the player can change the production rate of standard munitions I can't see why this wouldn't be true for atomic assets (including the research).

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Well, one of the main reasons cited for the nuclear attack was the seemingly suicidal devotion of the Japanese soldiers who would rather die than surrender; methinks you'd have to duplicate that sort of force (and attack the Japanese islands to help let the fascist government know that the Allies know that they are trying to keep the truth about the fate of Japan from her people, and that the Allies won't let the government get away with it, even and upto bombing the civilian population).

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That just makes it worse!

*Pruned* Keep it to the argument, not the arguer.

I believe that is covered by the SEP

It makes it even funnier that they will never stop hating Maradona for '86. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He cheated! He admitted it and still got away with it!!!!!!! we could have won!! :angry: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And if your Auntie had wheels she'd be a wagon. Hee hee, but the English just love to be good losers, even if it means that they don't win. :D

Surely if it did you could explain just as you did.

Is there something blocking the EMR? Interfering with the signal, perhaps (a controller next door)?

Maybe ... I didn't read the links ... :ph34r: ... I was just explaining the Title hack process; evidently it wasn't a skeleton key! :D

Or even some flash memory ... "

I think they had some pretty onerous time constraints. In a post-release interview with senior producer Ryan Rucinski, published on GameBanshee recently:

Windows CE-compatible is not my first choice for a PDA; having said that, it means you can load applications like Excel, Word and Powerpoint (all cut-down versions). The Dell model is really good value and a cutting edge model (I don't like Dell and I wouldn't buy one, however). Palm is the market leader (for a reason), though this means that they can be a bit pricey: they use the Symbian OS which I think is far superior; though I use it on my Sony-Ericsson mobile-PDA device (which can connect directly to Windows PCs, too). The Blackberry is a very popular choice, too, if you primarily want mobile email (also available on most 3G and Smartphones); though there is an enormous patent battle they are enmeshed in that has caused some concern.

Upgrades are cheaper, too, though you are probably looking at the Windows XP Upgrade (not for Original Equipment Manufacturers, obviously, as they are installing the OS on a new machine). It's an identical product. Microsoft is quite sensitive about re-installing Windows on another PC; this also has repercussions if you change your motherboard (for example), as Windows XP thinks you have installed it on a new PC and will have issues when you try to activate it online.

One of the most impressive upgrades is always the harddrive: these guys improve at or beyond the Moore's Law curve, so a year makes a HUGE difference. I finally moved all my games off my C:\ drive, as I noticed that it had just over 1GB of free space (and I couldn't play Half-Life 2 after about thirty seconds due to a ferocious virtual memory thrash of the HD); even though it's all the same physical harddrive, the 10GB+ buffer should allow me to avoid this sort of inconvenience in the future.

Each title (read: HD movie) has its own key, which the player decrypts using its own product key. This allows Hollywood to invalidate a HD-DVD player that has been hacked. What the crackers have done is find a universal hack for titles, circumventing the players' decryption technology.

The reason I picked up a book on Jung in the first place was as background research for a book I'm reading The Seven Basic Plots, which is subtitled Why We Tell Stories; I agree some of his stuff is pretty off-the-wall; then again, you can't apply logical positivism to metaphysics otherwise there wouldn't be a lot of religion around ...

As a funny aside, Electronic Arts just recently revamped the engine for the NBA Live series. Until this past year's version, it had still be built upon old versions of the basic game engine. There were so many parts of legacy code that people years later didn't really know what they did. I guess there was still some old Sega Genesis code lurking deep within the depths of the code base. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sounds like Windows ... "