ThunderPeel2001

It didn't sell well? Price reduction... price reduction!!! (Please.)

You're still not making much sense, and your "War" analogy doesn't hold up as well as the actual Marriage one. I have no idea about your marital status, but for me it actually sums up the feeling pretty well. I think an attempt at representing a complex human relationship using RULES is quite audacious and worthy of respect. How successful it was is almost moot.

Thank you BBX, I do appreciate it

Lol. I'm sorry, it just doesn't make any sense... It's not like hiding chocolate eggs and telling children that a giant rabbit left them. That's how to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus!

I SO don't care about this any more. It's the Chinese Democracy of games... It's been left so long it can never live up to any sort of expecations.

HA! That's hilarious... it can't be true. Can it?

Uhh. Considering that this was one of the first ever attempts at creating art using the rules of a game... why did you feel the need to rebut it? It's like the you're the neighbour of the first caveman to ever put ink to cave-wall. Instead of offering objective criticism or, hell, even praise for attempting something so bold, you went back to your cave, smeared faeces all over the walls and said, "There! That's what I think of your attempts at creating art!". Edit: Actually, the idea of your game is a pretty neat experiment in itself.

Holy crap... that's so odd (I'm ignoring the last bit). Why?! Why oh why oh why???

Weird.

I found The Marriage... I like it!

Hope your mother gets better Really sorry to hear you're out of a job, too I guess you're not pursuing the security consultancy idea right now?

Holy crap, you're really going for it! I'd love an ION kit, but I just can't justify it (I don't have enough spare time to make it worthwhile). I'd love to learn drums, though, and apparently Expert = Real drummer. Completely Off Topic: But I have to ask you something. I just read a bizarre "fact" in a recent issue of Shortlist and I have know if it's true or not... The article was about Easter traditions in different countries and it claimed that in Norway, Easter is the time of year traditionally reserved for reading Crime Novels. Please tell me if this is true or not! (It sounds absolutely ridiculous.)

Unfortunately I have yet to see a silencing mod that actually works (for me, at least).

Lol

Well, I finished Homicide and I highly recommend it. It's very different to The Wire, but I feel as though it's fleshed out that world for me now. I think watching the next season is going to feel a little different, as I understand the world in which it takes place a lot better. Actually, in comparison, The Wire feels like a very small slice of police work, and a very unusual slice at that. If anything, it's shown me just how much The Wire actually focusses on examining institutions. I know David Simon always said that that was what the show was about, but I can see it more clearly now. It was gruelling in places, but nowhere near as it bad as it could have been -- the book does not revel in or glorify its darkness. Thankfully, you see the crimes through the eyes of the police investigating them, which creates a bit of a professional distance. This isn't to say that the crimes couldn't be shocking, though. Even for a homicide detective, there are crimes that get under your skin, that you need to see solved. Ultimately, the book takes you on a trip into the psyche of a homicide detective, and as a result, you find yourself developing the same sort of hardness that must be required to do that job. Yet, it never feels cold or unfeeling. The book often spends chapters explorers different aspects of the work. Court trials, autopsies, office politics - all are given some focus at one point or another. The book also talks about how TV has essentially ruined the court system. Thanks to TV juries expect there to be prints on every weapon, a perfect motive, a signed confession and zero doubt. Unfortunately real life is nothing like TV, and the ignorance of expectations or misguided belief that any doubt is "reasonable", often derails a jury, and hard fought investigations. In the end, I ended up loving the people in the book (I can understand how Simon did, too). They weren't immediately likeable or loveable or funny or endearing, but somehow I ended up loving them anyway. Now I'm onto The Corner, which I feel should be an excellent companion piece, exploring the opposite end of the criminal sphere, as it does.

Man, you must SUCK at video games

Yeah, but I would have preferred to see them being re-mixed instead of just remastered. George Martin is still alive, afterall.

It's pretty scary, isn't it? I saw one the other day (the chemical one) and I thought, "Are those the chemicals used to make a bomb?! How the hell would I know??" I find it extremely difficult to believe that the police have the resources to act upon such stupid information -- and damned right, too. They've got more important things to worry about than idiots phoning that helpline. I was on a bus in central London once, and three Asian looking men walked on. Two younger men and one, quite sleazy looking, older man. They were all pretty clearly pumped about something. They were looking around, but they didn't make any eye contact with anyone and their body language was odd. Like when you're trying not to look like you're completely off your tits. When a bunch of giggling, half-dressed, teenagers got on and walked right past them, they looked right over their heads. Everyone else on the bus looked up at them because they were simply the most attention-grabbing thing on the bus. It was clear that the two younger men were quite excited to meet the older guy, and the older guy seemed to be playing it cool. He asked on of them about his nickname... To me, they stuck out like a sore thumb (excuse the expression) and alarm bells were going off in my head. But I DIDN'T call the police

But I don't want to miss out on the "Not A Useless Burden on Society" and "Decent Dad" achievements... I guess I'll keep plugging away.

It sounds like I'm in a vast minority, here... But! I actually quite enjoyed the "multiverse" explanation where they created OUR universe. Everything surrounding it was crap, to be sure, but that was a tasty little nugget, I felt.

I can't seem to unlock the "Perpetual Happiness" achievement. Am I doing something wrong?

I too, have made some scribbles.

Well... you can use Gh instruments with Rock Band, can't you? If you prefer them, just buy them and use them with Rock Band!

That's right. Every action has an equal and opposite re-action... (Let's stop this now.)

Lol. Same here, they've totally got me. *Goes off to watch the final part of Back to Earth, which he didn't like at all.*