ThunderPeel2001

Yeah, ysbreker! What the fuck are you talking about??! Are you out of your mind?!?! (Kidding.)

Worked fine for me, thankfully. But AFAI was aware you couldn't get Games For Windows outside of a GFW game... I guess they made a separate installer? The thing that bothers me is that mouse clicks don't register in the right spot.

Oh yeah! Didn't the original Half Life / Team Fortress / Counter Strike have tons of free upgrades, too?

Weird. This is insanely simple, but for some reason you keep missing the point. In BioShock, if you choose to harvest children, you're "bad". But that doesn't automatically make Rapture's creator "good". So the battle is "bad" vs "bad". In Star Wars these areas of "grey" (if you will) are NOT explored. Despite the fact that the Rebel Alliance are, in fact, terrorists going around killing the people they don't like (how many people where on the Death Star?? Luke Skywalker is a mass murderer!) -- it's ALWAYS a very simple "good" vs "evil". Star Wars (and Indiana Jones, etc.) skates round these issues by just keeping a very clear boundary: Anyone killed by the goodies deserved to die, period (in self-defence, because they're irredeemable evil clones, whatever). In BioShock, you simply cannot ever justify killing a little girl -- your character is just treated as "evil" after that. Rapture's creator is also always evil, regardless of what you do. So to strip it back to the black and white morality of Star Wars again: In BioShock there isn't necessarily any "goodies" to fight the good fight, only shades of evil: An insane megalomaniac with no regard for humanity vs a bastard wandering around killing children.

If the details are wrong, it makes you question the things you don't know.

Welcome!

I absolutely agree, but that's not what I was talking about.

Yes! The user interface is very annoying. I can't believe this hasn't been fixed yet (and I'm not using the Steam version, although I haven't booted up Fallout in a few weeks).

Merchandise, my friend. We can't spend millions without trying to recoup some. I'm hoping that the designers were so good (and it was actually made by a fantastically respected design company) that they know that by 2012 the logo will actually look uber cool. We'll see...

Argkh.. pun! Run away! Run away!

Made my day! :tup:

Well Ken certainly wasn't perfect, but Boris has already pissed me off: The reason we got the Olympics was because of an impassioned plea to give kids in a cruddy area the facilities to get into sport. The whole point was to rejuvenate the area (which is very run down). Boris, the utter twat, has decided that we don't need that bit and cut all the money destined for it. Now we're spending millions on something that won't even have a long-term positive impact on those in the surrounding area. Hurrah.

Great job, Qwinn! :tup: Any luck on getting transparency/dithering working on an NVideo 8 series card, yet? The hack mentioned in Bigg's post doesn't seem to work for me :/

Yeah, but the black and white is on BOTH sides... hence the grey. If there was a Luke Skywalker (goodie) versus Darth Vader (baddie) then you'd have a point. With Bioshock you have Luke Skywalker who also occasionally harvests children...

It's completely stand-alone. It was never set-up to be "part one in a sexology", so if the sequels blow, don't play em! (Right?)

Genius!

Is anyone else in London who hates Boris's "Boy! What a wonderful city!" posters? I always feel like, "This is the last place you should be going on about how great London is. The underground is crowded, stinky, noisy, dingy, litter infested, rude, obnoxious... oh, wait. That is London!

Definitely. There are times when looks overtook common sense design. It's a shame to say it, but it's true. I was going to put together a "spoiler free" Full Throttle walk through that just had screen shot of the things you wouldn't know where there... but er, I never got around to it. (Great story, huh?) Despite that, it's still an awesome game, though.

Punching sharks... wow!

Yeah, although that might be fun to play around with... I guess some of us like the green and brown depressing sludge! (Reminds me of Mrs. Doyle... "some of us like the misery!")

He's credited as being a "writer" on all 117 episodes... but only because he wrote the "original novel". As far I can tell he only wrote 2 actual episodes, although he did become story editor (which, according to Brian K. Vaughan - story editor for Lost, is a credit which doesn't really mean anything) and later on, a producer. I seem to recall Simon saying that they were under pressure from the network to have everything tied up nicely/somebody has learnt something at the end of every episode... which he didn't like. Still, it could be excellent... I'm just not sure I could sit through 117 episodes of anything right now!

Bit of a sweeping statement, don't you think? We're talking about food, not pest control in New Zealand. As previously mentioned, here in the UK there is indeed a legal definition for anything with the word 'Organic' on it.

Interesting! Thanks for the link!

Yeah, I think Nachimir is right. It means that the food is grown/produced to very strict out standards: No chemicals (like those nasty nitrates) or pesticides were involved at any point. Even the soil used to grow vegetables must be to a certain standard for several years before it can be used to grow certified organic vegetables. I don't know about the US, but here in the UK it's extremely strict. Basically: Organic food is how nature intended it to be. No modern chemicals are added at all.

Wow, man, that really blows. You would have thought they'd have fixed it for the DVD release.