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Agreed. If there was one way approach to make good games, everyone would be using it and every game would be a good game (or, alternatively, every game would be the same game, depending on how you look at it). EDIT: I'll say I liked DA:O and DA2, so I'm looking forward to DA:I

Dark Sun was the setting where you rolled a character bank because your character would die every couple of minutes and you'd need to run in the next one. Not really sure how that translates to a console game. I think I'd rather have Planescape or Ravenloft (or Al Qadim, but that's highly unlikely).

Don't you just toggle the BB Code Mode?

I doubt it, he seems too much of a "Bioware-Basher". He is too critical to be David Gaider That's why its the perfect disguise - who'd ever suspect? Its better than "Clark Kent Glasses"!

I really think how MoMX does will probably be the real test case; the Kickstarters - while successful - by their funding nature might make it an attractive but unsure area to dabble in. If MoMX does boffo, I think that added with the Kickstarter success, then yeah I could see more publishers looking at smaller budget but strong-selling niche games.

No Im not, but that's because I don't feel anyone's sexuality should be forced on another group and Im pretty sure someone somewhere is already drafting up a lawsuit against . Regarding homosexuality? I don't care who sticks which sexual organ into which orifice, as long as everyone is consenting. Okay lets say hypothetically the Federal government doesn't pass any legislation to force any churches to marry gay people. Of course there will be certain churches that will perform the ceremony but that's optional. Would you be happy then? I imagine Gfted may be remembering the New Jersey church that was sued because space and a pavilion they owned was refused to be used for a same sex marriage. They were, essentially, told they couldn't keep the tax exempt status on the land and pavilion if they refused to have it open to anyone. The issue, in this case, was that the space and pavilion was tax exempt as a "Green Space" and not as part of a religious organization. Its my understanding that while they did lose the tax exempt status for the Green Space Tax Exemption, they applied for - and received - a tax exemption for religious organizations and was able to continue to operate the pavilion and grounds as they saw fit.

At least with Sacred you remember the name of the game Not sure what that says about Kingdoms of Amalur Seriously though, the story of Sacred and Sacred 2 is so weak, there is nothing to feel invested in. Well at least I was close on Malur...er Amalur. ( Thing is with no investement I just started feeling like completing quests was a chore rather than something that was interesting and fun.

I think you're wrong about this. They will force it on the churches by revoking their tax exemption status if they say no. I can't say I agree. I doubt any legislation to that effect would survive a legal challenge, and the politicians wouldn't survive their next election.

I enjoyed Sacred 1 but never finished it. I didn't enjoy Sacred 2 but never finished it. Ultimately I never felt invested in what was going on enough to want to keep going through in either game (the same problem Kingdoms of Amalar had, IMO).

Hawaii was a bit of a bastard move, IMO, regardless of any hand-wringing the politicians did over it.

The problem - in theory - with going public with what they're doing / how they're doing it is that you're giving information on how to foil what they do to the terrorist organizations who now know better how to avoid detection.

I dunno, "asterisk, asterisk, asterisk, asterisk" doesn't really roll off the tongue, either...

I believe in gravity. It helps me keep my feet on the ground, as it were.

How do you know that less than 10 % of the people who responded are not from America? Do you know a poll was run on these forums to see where people lived and the majority of people who responded are not from America. Could you maybe refer to the US as Hillbilly-Yankee land? I was always bothered by how they usurped the term used for the entire continent. You act like Canada and Mexico and places south on the two American continents matter. I KID! I KID! Sadly the United States of America doesn't lend itself to easy nationalistic references like "Canadian", "Mexican", "Belgium", etc does. USAers looks wrong USers looks ironic Statesperson sounds like you're making a governmental speech Citizen of the United States of America is accurate but wordy. Abbreviation to CUSA sounds vaguely dirty.

I mostly remember neon colors for everything in the 80s.

I liked Hunted: The Demon's Forge. replayed it a few months back.

I find the "like" button to be an amenable substitute for the overwhelming urge to post "me too!" or "lol" to be honest.

I remember a story of a guy who just made up a research paper and got it published in a supposedly "peer reviewed" journals. The journal system itself is a bit suspect; its a requirement for many faculty positions to be published in a journal whose primary market includes the institutions whose employees are required to publish in the journal. So in essence, many institutions end up paying to get copies of the work their own people are doing. That said, there is a rise in cheating in general (I don't think its that we're just better at catching it; I think the stakes placed on education, on publishing on "getting things out" rather than "getting things right" has increased people seeing cheating as their path to success). There was a recent news piece that because things like TURN IT IN have become popular with teachers, now students are paying people to write bran new spec papers to turn in so that they can't be matched on the internet.

I think they should roll for it based on the GAMMA WORLD mutations chart. Whoever gets a "Hopeless" character gets to decide that day.

No, but the person with the most likes gets a special in-game "Most Liked" Sash to wear.* *Offer void where prohibited. Sash may appear invisible on some monitors.

And a good part of what people enjoy about Dark Souls is the idea he might be there. People are really just trying to figure out what to do with multiplayer now other than arena combat. Sadly, this won't fix the problem of feature bloat and design by checklist. But hopefully it won't make it worse. You are right, but Dark/Demons Souls is a completely different playground... Although only time when I was connected to the net when playing Demons Souls was when I was killing the Old Monk... And I bet lot of other players played it only singleplayer too I played Dark Souls and Demon Souls solo and didn't like either. I also played Dragon's Dogma solo which was a pain since earning rift crystals was originally tied to sending your pawn out over the internet.

Fermat did, or else it wouldn't have been his last theorem...

If you don't know or can't understand the science behind why a scientific community might hold theories about certain subjects, you're really only deciding to accept one thing on faith over the other. I imagine that the inability to understand the science - particularly when the science breaks away from the kind of science people learned (that was often basic and lacking in nuance) - leads to an easier time rejecting the science. Add in controversial topics in the field - where top scientists disagree or where politicians seem to "drive" the science for non-scientific agendas...and I can see why people have trouble following the scientific theories.

Seems to me we should just ask the mods to delete the creepy stuff and make this the "attractive women in flag-based swim wear" thread.

Well I'd have reacted differently, but I'd still have reacted. I ran it by a couple of people I know who are not well-versed sci-fi geeks.. and none of them have a problem with the name. In fact, none of them recognised the soylent name in the first place... A sad state of affairs, indeed...where's Heston when you need him? Solvent Green was someone you knew, I take it?