Musopticon?

There's like a cult devoted to House M.D here on the campus. It's cute yet disturbing. Which could itself apply to the whole campus.

Amorphis - Am Universum(whole album)

I heard they might be making an rpg in the setting. Big Huge Games is hiring devs.

Oookay, getting scary there.

Walsingham hit the nail in the head; often the the simplest(and imho most valid) explanation given to what differentiates fantasy from scifi and vice versa is that if something is not scientifically explainable or not at least plausible then the work of fiction in question is scifi. The borders can bend quite a bit however and it is not uncommon to have magic in a setting that is often labeled as science fiction. For example, people often incorrectly label Star Wars as science fiction, yet it should called space opera - grand romantic themes in a futuristic setting where science is inconsequental. Swords and magic power and spacecraft that makes noise are not really explainable, right? Similarly, Arcanum is steampunk fantasy - you can't really explain steam machines and huge clockwork constructs, but they are plausible. Steampunk has always been more like a "what if"-genre, you could imagine some crafty archwrighty fellow inserting legs to a waterpowered sewing machine and setting it loose on hapless citizens. In reality it would probably take a step and then fall in to a pile of trash metal, but the plausability is there. However, the presence of magic once again makes Arcanum fantasy. By the way, if you'd like to see similar games to Arcanum, try Rise of Legends, it's a steampunk rts with incaish aliens using beamweapons. You'll love it.

Cube 2: Hypercube Each time my animator pal suggests a movie to watch I expect it to be either a goreblaster or an actionfest with silent Asian guys whacking each other with palms, but once in a while his suggestions really hit the jackpot. However, this wasn't one. Decent mindbender and I liked the myth and theories surrounding the cube structure, but acting wasn't all that good. And the plot started to sag once it came out that everyone had something to do with the cube's designer.

DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR OF MAN!

Oerwinde, I envy you. Good luck.

Agree, it was great. I went "wow" when it screamed.

Aw, it's so nostalgic. This game is easily number one on my waiting list.

I saw Pan's Labyrinth. I nearly cried at the end and felt that the movie was an amazing, terrifying and subtly mindbending experience. Yet, the end didn't feel like closure to me. It could be just that twist left me feeling empty, but I felt that the movie could have used more fantasy parts and less parts with the shallow villain. Gorish, beautiful adult faery tale, but it could have been even more.

Yeah, so they tell.

Was that the huge maze-like dungeon with Dhoulmagus as endboss?

A must-play. Post-apoc immersive mercenary fps action. Please be good, please.

I know, I just don't like to do that. Most of my Eldar game was doing that over and over again. Edit: Thanks, Tale. Playing as Nod was awesome. Especially the warmechs were awesome.

Aren't the Zone troopers luvly?

I think the candles really topped the cake. :D One hell of a maestro at making listenable black metal though. RIP(though I doubt it) Dissection - Thorns of crimson death

Ynh, in the campaign the AI commanders always have detectors. Always. I love my stealth suits though.

Jon N

^ Oh, YES.

The only thing I don't like is that the computer gets immense honour guards without holding much provinces at all, then you have for example two units of raptors, a defiler, obliterator, sorcerer and several cultists along with a smathering of marines assaulkting your base right when you arrive at a province under conflict. The computer really likes to rush early, especially as Chaos and Orks. Gorgutz against a xv-15 stealth team and a Tau Commander, it's pretty easy to predict the outcome. Furthermore, once every province goes over 6 in their defence value, each new victory becomes sludgefest that can last over 2 hours, since the two enemy bases keep spewing out high tier units non-stop and you can hardly stop them while trying to desperately build up your defences. It's challenging, yeah, but get pretty tedious soon and if you don't have a decent-sized honour guard soon in the campaign, most of the province battles with over 6 defence rating become almost impossible. I'm stuck in a Tau campaign, becase I just can't beat Chaos with it's gigantic honour guard and a 6+ provinces. And I'm only 16 turns in.

Ah, finally some concrete news. I'm pretty excited, although I hope that they will eventually release a compiled edition of all the episodes.

The longest I've ever gone was 11 hours playing Rune, I made almost through the whole singleplayer on one sitting. But nowadays I play in two hour intakes. And I get to play on like every third weekend. A couple of months ago, I was without any kind of gaming for a one and a half month. It's uncanny how easily computer addiction passed, a year ago I was here doing almost full days of posting and playing tons of Rome:Total War on the side. Now I hardly post and gaming is just a way to pass time.

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