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I hope they're wary of putting a weather controlling gravity machine on their Moonbase. Those things are just begging for trouble (as are global transmat systems).

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They must have missed the "assuming this is legit" caveat in his message.

Resident Evil Outbreak - main theme - main theme - credits music - main theme - "Smaller God" by Darling Violetta

I'm an incessant restarter as well. Sometimes I've restarted so much I've had to go play something else for awhile because I want to change the character but can't stomach playing through the intro again.

Count me as well in the committed to buy category. The thing is, since I'm going to buy it whenever it comes out, when it comes out doesn't matter to me so long as its still coming out. The only effect would be if I have to delay spending a large amount of time with it or not based on non-gaming stuff.

I'm pretty sure that Michael Foster is a product evaluator for Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA), not Sega. John Merlino in the AP paragraph would be Sega's person (Development Services Director at Sega of America I believe).

By advocating a UHC, thats exactly what youre saying. I'm not advocating UHC, and I'm not sure if the government was totally restructured (in a sense what Gorgon's line of thought is) for example that it would cost you more money (although realistically the idea of the government taking a hard look at how it spends money is silly). As far as UHC is concerned I can see both sides of the debate - partially because I've *been* on both sides of what the debate discusses.

I'm not sure dressing like some sort of weird pantomime hexaped really impresses anyone. Besides which Shoggoths are supposed to be formless, bubbling protoplasmic beings that are faintly luminous with random temporary eyes forming over its body as it slithered around, so I'm not really sure that picture is a good example of proper dress-up anyhow.

And with all respect to you, so what? Explain to me why that should affect my bank account? Where does this sense of entitlement come from in this country? "I dont want a big bill, someone else pay it". Well, I dont want a mortgage, someone else pay it. I dont want to drive a Hyundai, someone else buy me a Porche. College tuition! To hell with that, YOU pay to educate my kid. *deep breath* [/rant] EDIT: I feel I should point out that that rant wasnt aimed at you Tep, just "in general". I never said it should take (more) money from you; again I felt it was worth it to feel secure in my health and I paid for it out of pocket. That doesn't mean there shouldn't or couldn't be a viable alternative. Or that medical costs couldn't be more reasonable. At the very least the options should be looked at before being rejected out of hand.

I've always wanted just...you know reasonable clothes for my mages. I've always felt a bit weird when the town peasants are dressed less goofily than my mage. I'm a mage, damnit, I shouldn't be jealous of peasant clothes!

Well I guess the thing is that if one is inclined to believe they have something that they'll recover from naturally, they'll be more inclined to not risk getting a big bill. The thing is that I'm sure if any of them knew they were dying they'd have been more inclined to get the bill over the alternative. The idea behind UHC is that people will be more inclined to see a doctor without having to debate the "is it serious vs how much it'll cost". Now UHC may not actually do that, or there may be better ways to achieve that, but I think that's the basic idea. Now when I was uninsured and got a kidney stone I went to a doctor, since I knew that if the kidney stone was large enough not to be passed naturally not only would I be in a lot of pain, I could risk my kidney's shutting down. So peace of mind I guess was worth wiping out my life's savings to that point (and make no mistake, being uninsured at the time it did just that).

EDIT: Oh, I see what you are referrring to: Did you know that skydivers have a 100% higher risk of dying from rapid deceleration then non-skydivers? You have to compare the population of skydivers who die from rapid deceleration vs those who don't plus look at those who aren't skydivers who die from rapid deceleration falls from height (and I suppose decide which category a skydiver who dies from a fall from height that isn't related to skydiving fits into) and I'm not convinced that would come out to 100% higher, although certainly it would be higher. As skydiving can be classed as "risky behavior". Arguably, not going to a doctor regularly for checkup and evaluation could also be considered a "risky behavior", thus leading to the increase in deaths related to medical conditions that could be caught at earlier stages. But my whole point is that without the methodology for how the numbers are determined, its a bit hard to argue the validity of the conclusions (which is a common problem with news articles but presumably where the numbers are coming from indicates a certain amount of peer review of the methodology).

That's why I have yet to commit to any MMORPG. I've never found it fun to be around people whose only desire is to make sure you don't have fun. Ah, but doing that IS fun. It's like a vicious circle of fun and unfun. Also, getting annoyed is pretty much what the griefers want if you ignore them you kind of win. Or I can just avoid the experience and I win!

I've been saying this for years. People try to build societies around humans and it's like building a house on the sand. Human nature is the problem so changing human nature is the solution. Not sure its possible to do though... ] That would be a pretty big download, I think. People on dial-up will have to go to their local library or an internet cafe to patch themselves. That's why I have yet to commit to any MMORPG. I've never found it fun to be around people whose only desire is to make sure you don't have fun.

I'm not so sure that I'd call the numbers fabricated, but a bit more about the methodology to reach those number would help. That said, if the methodology to get to 40% of the population is correct, than the estimate is fairly reasonable.

That's me. And until someone patches Human Nature, I think there's no way around that in a MMORPG.

Eh, I gave her all the weapons I didn't want to use and the ammo for them. Worked out fine particularly since I fail utterly when trying to hit anything with a sniper rifle (but the computer AI could). Still playing MUA2 and it has unskippable cut-scenes to hide loading as well (even says it when you hit a button!)

Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart. The whole (sadly shortlived) Master Li series is good, which included BoB and Story of the Stone and Eight Skilled Gentlemen. But if you're only going to read one, Bridge of Birds is well worth it as a stand alone story.

But see these are the two problems I have: one is that they can't be sculpting matter from refuse because the Wall-R's are dumping the refuse into space (leaving a trail behind the ship) which brings up problem two, namely that humanity doesn't learn its lesson - they're still polluting space! And if the captain is any indication they've forgotten that they even had a past to learn from, much less actually learned a lesson.

See if you feel the same way, when your AI partner runs at giant bug (that one hit kills) with a shock stick. RE5 also proves the QTE are evil. I never, ever, gave the AI partner a shock stick. And sticking with guns, there was only one time where the AI henchmen got killed that I wouldn't consider my fault.

Or at the very least, Fallout would have cooties.

Lord of Flies I think she's making conversation about topics that interests her.

That would depend on who you are - but I'd imagine that any media (and any of that media's followers) main interest in being described as art is that the label of art still carries some degree of "respect" with it.

Playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. Superherobuttonmashingtasticaction!