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mm - barring some last minute box-'o-osama incident, I think Kerry might carry it. Apparently no sitting Prez has tanked all three debates and still won; bush is 2 for 0 so fingers crossed for tonight I will be watching it on MSNBC with a large whisky to hand, and something small and malleable to throw off the tv screen..

yeah I got that.. umm.. I probably shouldn't have started this - I don't find racism funny 'cos I've been exposed to rather too much (although "any" is too much) of it when going through school, so my first reaction isn't amusement - but that doesn't give me the right to tell /you/ how to act.. Damn this history of Western liberalism that makes me think I know what's best for the entire world! Damn it to hell! So I apologise, I'm going to shut up now before I make myself look like an asshole. can we get back to the bush-bashing?

Yeah? Well it's /called/ a cream pie. As is lemon meringue pie, Key Lime Pie and other pie-esque things. It sure isn't a cream cookie, is it? I believe we were talking about pies. Pastry would be something like an apple danish, which is not pie related. Dear God I hope not Although when things like meatloaf exist, surely beefcake can't be too far away? <retches> Although for the record, one of the few enjoyable things I've come across during my sojourn here in the US of A is meatloaf with gravy, mash and corn.. That's some good eatin'! Here in chicago pizzas are in fact decidedly pie-like.. Although we're not getting into the whole dictionary-definition of a pie thing here, because I can't be bothered meat pie = pie apple pie = pie pizza pie = pie cream pie = pie Are we spotting a theme here? cracker = not a fucking cookie pretzel = very tasty, but also not a fucking cookie cookie = a fucking cookie Oh man this is such fun - normally when I get this into a debate I get people PM'ing me threatening me with death and shit, but because this debate is at just the right level of offended-national-pie-pride-but-not-really-giving-a-shit I feel all relaxed. I'm sure no-one will take offence or get cross at any point! Aah. Forum therapy. I might also point out that I don't have that much actual work to do today

I'd be more inclined to worry about the effects this kind of attitude is going to have - when I grew up in Glasgow, I went to a 1500 pupil school that had about a 30-40% ethnic minority roll, predominantly indian and pakistani. Racism runs the gamut from shifty eyes and whispering, to 15 year old schoolkids being stabbed to death, it's never a good thing.. Umm, not actually sure what my point was there - just probably that I don't think it's, umm, "amusing"..

Well it'd be hard to do worse, I mean, if Bush gets another 4 years I'd expect a whole bunch more War. Which will probably lead to the collapse of Thumb when all it's US staffers get drafted. I forget the exact quote, but I believe it's something like "Politics is the shadow cast upon society by Big Business".. It doesnt really matter who's President, like George Carlin says, it's the 900 or so rich old fucks that run America, and most of the rest of the globe by extension. Aristotle : "Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers." And we have no democracy

I think there's definitely some close-minded pro-cookie pie-bashing going on in here.. You guys need to open your minds a little. Steak and Ale. Steak and Kidney. Chicken Mushroom. Apple. Cherry! Pie is in fact a "real" food, capable of forming the delicious and nutritious cornerstone of a balanced diet. Pie is also a status symbol, for example, the rich(er) and powerful(er) are frequently referred to as "Pie-eaters". We also have pie charts. Do you have "cookie-eaters"? or "cookie charts"? No! hah! Finally, Pies have throughout history been a vehicle for both comedic amusement, and political protest! Wouldn't have had quite the same effect had someone thrown a cookie in Bill Gates face, would it?

Oh, I think even his staunchest allies would probably admit that he's not the sharpest tool in the shed; the thing is, he's a "good" man, and a "good" American. Kerry is "clever" rather than "good", and even though a working man voting for Bush is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders, they still will, in droves, because they trust his confident demeanour and capacity for decisive action. (even if the "decisive action" has nothing to do with keeping the country safe, and is just a continuation of America's eternal foreign policy; "the rich old guys that run this country want that stuff over there, in that dusty little country, for their money, power and property collections, so young poor men get sent to die for them") Also, apparently Laura Bush's Oatmeal-Chocolate Chunk cookies kicked the crap out of poor Teresa Heinz Kerry's "Pumpkin Spice" flavor in the Family Circle 2004 Election Cookie Cook-Off, and it's issues like these that really, actually decide elections in America. I need to get the hell out of this country quickly while my sense of irony is still intact..

it was sort of like that. but with stubby-texas-neck, as opposed to stretched-dutch-skin-pillar. that neck is /incredible/. Also the piccy seems to have Marek looking down his nose slightly, whereas Bush was more about staring boldly into the face of.. whatever he was staring at. probably arabs. or a big cheque from an oil company.

I got that, which is why I put "go" in those inverted comma things I saw an /amazing/ picture of bush on a CNN retrospective documentary thang last night.. They were commenting on the fact that he constantly refers to God, and claims His blessing for the actions of his administration It was a black and white shot of him standing in front of a huge cross, at 3/4 angle, with his "looking boldly into the future" type pose, and his left arm sort of raised in a semi-heil. Sort of like Nina Williams in Tekken does when she wins.. urr.. or something.. Dammit where can I find this picture!

hee did you see this : the bulge on the back of his suit jacket caused people to think he was wearing a wire for assistance during the second bush/kerry debate.. I don't really buy that, but he does have to "go". Oh yes. He probably won't though, last time I checked the polls were dead set at 48% each way. Someone needs to tell people not to bother voting for Nader

Cookies are one-dimensional snackfood. The only original thing you can really do with them is put marijuana in them, which is nice, but generally they're pretty samey. Pie on the other hand, offers the pie-eater a massive breadth and depth of possible pie choice. The sweet apple pie laced with cinnamon, or the hearty Steak and Kidney with its rich gravy, both are much beloved in the UK. In Australia, apparently pie is a late night snack of choice, and is served "inverted in a sea of green pea soup, covered in ketchup". Can you do that with a cookie? I think not. PIE!

The original PC sidescrollers were some of the first pc stuff I ever played, and are probably part of the reason I got so into PC gaming in general.. and hence never bothered having a console until I got a SNES to play Starwing Do not buy planet of the babes it's terrible You should probably get something like Heavy Metal : F.A.K.K. 2 (or whatever it was called) Oh you poor guy I feel sorry for you.. And I thought waiting for Strike Commander was a nause.. but i bet nobody else ever bothered playing that

That was tactical swearing!! Actually it's not in the current version of the article.. which makes me wonder; was it ever there in the first place? I think the original line was, "Come on you fuckers! Come and get me!" which was, I felt, a line sufficient to communicate the power and emotion of a poor lost scientist. You also have to remember that he's ginger, and ginger people being the poor put-upon minority that they are, they tend to be very angry. So in that sense it was accurate and entirely justifiable oh, and good lord, please stop the frozen piss-talk.

Maybe for a hippie OK - I never really played SS2.. or SS1 for that matter. I really should get around to it one of these days. Alien Resurrection on the Playstation, however, scared the /piss/ out of me; the game opens with you waking up in a dank cell, unarmed, and having to go explore a netherworld of dripping corridors, flickering fluorescent lights, and ominous creaking noises. Savepoints are sparse, and by the time I actually saw my first Alien (it jumped across a corridor opening, clung to a vertical wall about six feet off the ground, then turned, hissed, and came /straight for me/) I was about ready to hit the standby button on the tv and hide under the sofa.. A PS1 FPS, you can probably dig it out of a bargain bin near you for not much cash at all... although I hear the PS1 mouse is a good idea, if you don't want this game to drive you mental

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Your publisher's writing checks your marketing company can't cash But seriously topgun9, I knew your old man, hell of a pilot.. flew on the edge you know, all the way out there.. And now! Some trivia! Courtesy of imdb Val Kilmer did not want to be in this film, but was forced to by contractual obligations. Both John Carpenter and David Cronenberg turned down the chance to direct. Just before the film started production, one of the producers announced that they wanted to use the Bruce Springsteen song "Born in the USA" but attempts to secure the song were unsuccessful. Bryan Adams was asked to allow his song "Only the Strong Survive" on the soundtrack, but he refused because he felt that the film glorified war. AND FINALLY, my personal favourite : Riding on the back of this film's success, the US Air Force set up recruiting booths in the major cinemas to try and catch some of the adrenaline charged guys leaving the screenings. They had the highest applications rate for years as a result.

Or we could put his head on a pike outside the Thumb castle gates, as a warning to other Viral Marketroids?

first game was actually kind of amusing - in a total lowest-common-denominator tits/guns/gore type way. slice nazis with blades, shoot them lots, suck their blood, listen to the distinctly salacious noises Ms. Rayne makes when engaged in aforementioned sucking.. activate rage mode or whatever it was, and slice in slow motion! while cartwheeling! and making more dodgy noises! yay! BR2 looks like a dead cert for more of the same. I'll be Rayne's breasts somehow become larger though

You clearly need a new character class based on Cary Elwes : oh, and my thief in Neverwinter Nights had a heavy crossbow he'd use to put a couple of bolts into people before they closed for melee, I found that quite effective.. Robin Hood was also an exemplary sword and quarterstaff fighter

Have you read GamesTM? It's writing is occasionally superior to Edge, the features it has tend to be more amusing, and less self-indulgent. IMHO Edge is in danger of disappearing up its own arse any time now - my feeling is a redesign would be more likely to make the magazine thinner, shinier, more expensive and more pretentious It's a shame the UK print mag world seems to be a choice between GamesTM (which can be pretty juvenile at times) and Edge (which can be overbearingly pretentious), and all the OPSM2/XBoxWorld "Driv3r is so worth 9/10 buy it or your mates in the schoolyard will call you 'teh lose' to your face, here is a picture of a fit chick OMFG winnah!!!111" type mags. Which, of course, sell massively more copies than anything else.

earthsong? jesus fucking christ man!!!111!!!eleventy!!!1 nick is definitely emerging. some day he will hatch a beautiful downtempo butterfly from his junglist reason cocoon. That is so fucking metal. You guys rule. I was also the lead singer in a metal band called Belial (for 5 weeks). \m/ Alas the only thing I will be emerging from is a hungover fugue at 7:30am this morning to go drink mediocre coffee and manage localisation testers.

Oh dear god you american sickos... I have just spent the last ten days (another 17 or so to go..) in the Hilton Garden Inn Hoffman Estates, Chicago, working at a nearby developer.. In this time I have had little to do but eat your ludicrously large meals, and watch your "television". In this time I have learned the following 2 things : When it comes to chat shows in America, it's clearly all about John McEnroe. you cannot be serious!! he kills me.. Rudi Bakhtiar is super fine awesome. I don't know if I spelt her name right... I mean the CNN anchorchick.. God bless America. I now have a powerful need for an Escalade, and a girl who looks like Paris Hilton.

Monthly fees for games = suck. Monthly fee for planetside = worth it. Nick is entirely correct, although he omitted to mention that the combat is a little imprecise and spam-happy, but my god, it's amazing. 128 people? no. I'm not familiar with the exact numbers, but there are two servers for the US (east and west coast) and one for europe. That's 1. One. For Europe. With one instance of the (multicontinental) game world running. 128 people is a /skirmish/, epic battles can have many more than that, in various tanks, bikes, bombers, dropships, attack fighters and now.. by god.. fucking mechs. you do need to play in a team though - although seeing as the whole game is structured around this, it isn't that hard to find people to fight with. you and your mates hotdropping from a galaxy at the back door of a heavily defended tech plant kilometres behind enemy lines, to take out their generator and help your side win an entire continent? = fun.

I'm moving to Finland. ROCK \m/ \m/ Bandwidth, strong booze, bizarre weather (inc. snow!) and death metal. What's not to like? As you can tell my musical tastes are locked where they were when I was 16.. <-- headbanging with rock power..

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