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  1. Re:What killed gaming complexity was 3D on Was Videogaming Better Back in the Day? · · Score: 1

    ..Nethack in 3d

    It could be done in the Aurora Engine (NWN) by a very dedicated group of people. Most everything could be scripted & you could have all of your different actions through dialogs or radial menus. Digging would be a PITA.

  2. Re:alas poor xcom on Was Videogaming Better Back in the Day? · · Score: 1

    If you patch Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel it's actually a damn fun turn-based strategy game. Almost as good as X-Com or Syndicate Wars.

  3. Re:No, it wasn't on Was Videogaming Better Back in the Day? · · Score: 1

    Galactic Civilizations I
    Galactic Civilizations II
    Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire (ok they are a little old)
    Master of Orion III (heard great things about it after you patched & modded it)
    Space Rangers 2 (Seriously one of the most fun games I've ever played even with the bad Russian translations. Just make sure you get it from Stardock to avoid the crappy Starforce DRM.)

  4. It'll happen... on BBC Ponders Another Games Industry Crash · · Score: 1

    ... right after the "Movie" crash....

  5. Re:Does this... on Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted · · Score: 1

    My email archive contains hundreds & hundreds of CAD files ranging from a few Kb to 20 Mb or more. I still need to go back & find things, but only rarely.

  6. Re:Does this... on Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted · · Score: 1

    Oh, maybe I should have said I maintain archives of mail from 9 years ago, they have been saved on a number of CD-Rs & Hard drives over time. The DVDs are just the latest format & not that old.

  7. Re:Does this... on Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted · · Score: 1

    I still have email archive from 9 years ago on DVD. You picked the wrong guy for that tactic.

  8. Does this... on Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... really come to anyone as a surprise by now?

  9. Re:The trouble with Platinum on The Platinum Age of CRPGs · · Score: 1

    The Diamond Age of course...

  10. Re:sturdy? as opposed to a helicopter? on Combined Hovercraft and Helicopter · · Score: 2

    Better than mansacks, right? :D

  11. Re:but i can be wrong.... on Turkish Assembly Votes For Censoring of Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Yup. You sure are.

    While we wouldn't neccessarily like someone spouting that drivel & a lot of people would go as far a physical violence against said person, we'd never cut off our own nose to spite our face by hobbling one of our most fundemental rights. I could see said persons being run out of a lot of towns, harrased by police & denied service at shops & restraunts but why punish ourselves by starting down that slipperly slope? (any more than we already have...)

  12. My rotation on What's Your Site Rotation? · · Score: 1

    Something Positive, Order of the Stick & Erfworld, Slashdot, Google News, Questionable Content, MegaTokyo, Penny Arcade, Ctrl-Alt-Delete, User Friendly, Red Meat, Sinfest, Neverwinter Vault

  13. Re:Off. The. Grid. on Solar Power-Cell Breakthrough · · Score: 2

    The power co-op where I live will most certainly cut you a check if you are feeding power back onto the grid.

  14. Re:Follow the money on Hackers Offer Subscription, Support for Malware · · Score: 4, Funny

    To paraphrase Marv: "I love malware writers. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad."

  15. Re:This is a matter of point of view on RIAA Attacks Sites Participating in Its Own Campaign · · Score: 1

    Wow, everyone & their brother beat me to the point. I should refresh before responding I guess.

  16. Re:This is a matter of point of view on RIAA Attacks Sites Participating in Its Own Campaign · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is no such thing as copyright "agreement". Maybe you're getting confused with licensing. Copyright is bestowed upon creation of a work.

  17. Obvious applications... on Rock Band As the Costly New MTV? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't wait to see someone hack a Real Doll into a USB Groupie.

  18. Re:Soul? on Should Chimps Have Human Rights? · · Score: 1

    From the link you provided:

    "MacDougall's ... methodology ... was suspect, [his] sample size far too small, and [his] ability to measure changes in weight imprecise. For this reason, credence should not be given to the idea his experiments proved something, let alone that they measured the weight of the soul ... His postulations on this topic are a curiousity, but nothing more."

  19. Yay! on PSP Price Drop Official · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Paint Shop Pro is one of my favorite bitmap editing programs.

  20. Re:women buy SUVs because they're safer. on X Prize For a 100-MPG Car · · Score: 1

    Ancedote:

    My mom used to own a `98-99 Dodge Durango. One day while she was sitting at a stop light some guy in Chevy S-10 rear-ended her going 55 miles per hour. She was at a *dead stop* with her foot on the brake. She *drove* her Durango home. If she had been in what she is driving now (`07 Chevy HHR) she'd probably been at least seriously injured.

  21. Re:Once again we see the problem of the old system on EU Launches Antitrust Probe Into iTunes · · Score: 1

    Heh, one of my uncles used to grow tobacco, he got out when he saw the direction the government was taking against it. Now he just grows onions (Vidalias, yum), peanuts & a few other crops which he also grew beforehand, just not in the same quantities.

  22. Hey Steve... on EU Launches Antitrust Probe Into iTunes · · Score: 1

    ...when you sleep with dogs, you get fleas!

  23. Re:Wow... on Gary McKinnon Loses Extradition Appeal · · Score: 1

    Yeah, 60 years ago. That should have a whole lot of bearing on this case shouldn't it?

  24. Wow... on Gary McKinnon Loses Extradition Appeal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, I can see why Brits would be upset. This would set a very nasty precedent. I didn't realize that even after all the lies about Iraq, etc, that we are *still* far enough into the U.K. that they'd bend over like this.

  25. Re:Herr on X Prize For a 100-MPG Car · · Score: 1

    No female doctors in Germany?