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Establishing how intensely fuckable a character is while also taking a cursory glance at their grief goes way above and beyond the crapness of 24

I don't know. I just haven't thought about it since, it's quite literally been forgettable. Strenuously trying to telegraph Caprican racism to set up the later rift with the cylons, it seems like it's just plodding through the obvious roots of BSG so far, and having the tangled up with the family that invented Cylons seems really contrived. The daughter seems more like a crappy sitcom premise to me, too.

Brilliant book, and Umberto Eco is excellent. I love how he manages to squeeze in so much detail without it ever becoming overbearing or diverting from the plot. :tup::tup: I want to slap anyone when they start gushing about how good Dan Brown is, and usually end up suggesting Foucault's Pendulum to them (<-- the only good take on conspiracies and conspiracy theories I've read). Here's the exact point I stopped reading Angels and Demons, and an example I sometimes use to illustrate just how shit Dan Brown's book are. The scene is that this woman is being introduced to the reader. Her father has been murdered in the preceding chapters, and she's flown back in a hurry: Minor characters engaging in clumsy exposition: 1 Sentences devoted to often precise exposition about her body: 8 Non-specific sentences about her emotional state: 1 Times protagonist established as quite possibly being an exploitative, lecherous ghoul: 1

Yeah, though HD makes it a little easier. I quite liked that they were pretty thin in Crackdown, making them subtle enough that I tended not to notice them and probably didn't notice all kinds of errors around them either.

The really ugly, expensive way that some mod developers used to hack it into unreal engine 1 was to duplicate character model geometry, scale it up just a little bit, reskin in black, then flip the normals

Yes, they used Johann Johannsson's stuff quite a bit.

I can't say much about this except I think about this occasionally too. Stories are essentially structure imposed on continuous events, minimising the dull parts and emphasising meaningful ones. It's an essential part of how we communicate and help each other to understand the world. An answer to the question "What did you do today?" in assembly language is an answer without a story. So yes, man goes bonkers and harms people. I doubt we'll ever have a 100% chance of preempting this kind of thing.

I'll try and find time for this, but if I don't: I really, really like this idea

Really? The smaller vans? I always found them really easy to jack, but the contents were always really disappointing compared to the amount of effort it took to actually get them to a safe house. Likewise with the only ammunation van I did. Lots of uzis expended in exchange for duel pistols = Completed this at the weekend. It was okay, very good fun at points, though I've no urge to go back and get 100%.

Anything with a transformer should work fine through an adapter, i.e. laptop and phone chargers. Probably wouldn't have so much joy with kettles and microwaves.

You have to chase and shoot at them a lot, until the driver gets out and starts shooting back.

I think it was by request of all the people who've seen it rather than the uploader. Double clicking should launch that actual youtube page in a new tab/window anyway, but don't claim I didn't warn you

Sold! That was really good, thanks.

Fordlandia is now first track on his myspace page, though I'd recommend it at a higher quality. Even getting stuck in traffic becomes epic and serene to this music

"Makes me tingle more than weight loss pills and a spanking paddle" - IGN.com

BSG: Late Night Hollyoaks "So unengaging, you could pay attention to it while simultaneously taking a shit, solving a Rubik's cube and browsing the Idle Forums" - IGN.com

Apparently if you do 15 taxi missions in a row, taxis become bulletproof. Twice now, the game has locked up somewhere between 10 and 14 done :(

http://danhon.com/2009/04/23/digital-britain-position-paper/

Shakesbeard and Zomboid are some damn fine usernames. The latter almost as good as Dan's invention of "zombulated" Join us for GTA IV on Tuesday evenings (Usually 21:00 BST). We fuck each other up then laugh a lot.

I think with the right wording that would be hilarious. and from the real IGN account just now: http://twitter.com/IGNcom/status/1598565997

FF for OS X here, and always showed black.

Yes, also work ¬¬ Reverse spoilers!

That's an astounding fuck up. Entertainment giants don't seem to be able to do anything without looking like monstrously corrupt, evil bastards. Does anyone know if the advertising on TPB pays for anything beyond site costs? I always assumed they were raking it in off that. I've not weighed in on these threads yet even though the debate is something I care about hugely. It's important that creators get a fair shake for their work, but copyright is a strange legal invention that's only been with us since publishers started ripping each other off. Before that it wasn't important, if someone wanted to reproduce something it took so much effort it certainly wasn't going to turn into a business (think rooms in monasteries full of scribes mass reproducing manuscripts, to the extent they could). A lot of "content" could previously be regarded as cultural property, i.e. people freely modified and reused it, even to make money, and noone batted an eyelid over rights. Think folk music before vinyl and fairy tales before the printing press. Both had many regional variants of a given piece that mostly became homogenised into authoritative versions as soon as they could become mass media. Much of it then retreated behind the wall of © thanks to mass production and broadcast, and things like Creative Commons and Copyleft are a rational response to try and put that cultural practice back on some kind of legal standing that can contend against assumptions that everything is or should be copyrighted. Snipping copyright off existing media products is no kind of solution, and I think places pirate bay in a position similar to one publisher ripping off another a few hundred years ago. Just not quite the same. It's like crowd sourced publisher piracy or something. That copyright law has ended up aimed directly back at consumers is a strange situation. It was never meant to be because at the time it originated it wasn't feasible for them to mass copy or even facilitate it, but given the opportunity a large number of people will take the shortest possible egocentric route to what they want. Did you know that EMI decided everything by focus groups? It doesn't matter how many TPB style sites they shut down or how many site owners they put in jail, I really don't have much hope for media giants. Something will change, even if it's entertainment companies dying as people turn their backs on them and culture just getting on with what it does. There's a fundamental cultural contradiction surrounding piracy, consumption and publishing, and every party seems to be stumping up more of a problem than a resolution. That so many people on both sides now realise DRM is a bad thing is probably the only good thing I've seen come out of any of this since Napster. Apart from that, on both sides all the victories seem pyrrhic to me.

CASTLE CRASHERS By: The Behemoth Available: XBLA Marketplace. Synopsis: Retro style sidescrolling hack and slash with HD cartoon aesthetics and lots of humour. Up to 4 player (mostly) coop, either locally with controllers or online. More: http://www.castlecrashers.com/

I always saw black ones... cross browser/version issues I guess.