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Still not really confident on this one. It likely won't be terrible, but I'm doubting it'll be on par with the first.

US not have nationwide Equal Opportunities laws? If not it's kinda fucked up that US LGBT groups seem to be getting same-sex marriage pushed through yet it's still a fine area to be made unemployed due to sexual orientation.

Shit, didn't you get these dogs only recently?

I bought a few posters for my room since bigger room means more bare wall. A dalek blueprint, parchment-ey world map and a stylised Minecraft poster which adds a fair bit of colour to it all.

It's regularly half-price on the Square Enix store. Given for both versions the cloud saving is on S-Es end, the achievements are also on their end, and it also has S-E's version of DRM the only bonus the Steam version has is not having to manually add it as non-Steam game (and by the sounds of it a bit of extra difficulty in modding)

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/06/13/a-survey-of-lgbt-americans/ Pew survey stuff on LGBT americans. Lots of numbers n analysis.

Wait, is that subreddit the first time you've heard of that?

http://www.reddit.com/r/civpolitics World news, as told in the style of Civilization.

Yeah I know you can edit the password, I was meaning that while it's nice it has a generator feature it's kinda useless as you'll likely be unable to memorize it. Then in those situations where you've not got access to LAstPAss (not being on your PC, signing into a client like Origin, Twitter, phone apps, etc) then you're kinda boned until you get back on your PC and can check the generated password. So I skip on that part and use my own system.

Yeah LastPass is on Chrome too. It'll also generate passwords too, so you're pretty secure for most. The only issue being an inability to remember those passwords since you didn't make them and they're usually gh30fAH2f

Yeah they've blown well past their budget despite getting well past what they originally needed, and still looking for more. It doesn't help that Double Fine already have a reputation of going over-budget. I'm mainly just disappointed. I kind of assumed that in doing a Kickstarter they'd maybe step up their game and keep themselves into a slim budget, especially since they're in no position like normal to just ask a publisher for a bit more cash. And if I was Double Fine I'd just be embarrassed that indies on their first game have been able to show greater skill in project and budget management than veterans with decades of experience behind them. They dropped the publisher, but not their mentality of working under one.

Sasha, one of the three antagonists/bosses from InFamous.

I was making a joke. I watched Smallville through to the end, so knew who he was. Also that he's the VA for the Flash (quite a lot of the guys listed are the VAs of their counterparts, Ironside for Darkseid, Fillion n Green Lantern, Perlman and Lobo etc), and in one episode the Flash and Luthor swap bodies and then this happens. Now read my prior comment. Anywho, gag killed.

The message put out to the backers for those interested. And yeah Massive Chalice is substantially more planned out, but I'm gonna take a guess but going of the wording in the backers message "Clearly, any overages were going to have to be paid by Double Fine, with our own money from the sales of our other games." there's a fair degree of chance that it's going to hit a funding issue too unless they use potential profits from this. Always knew that as a business side of things Double Fine always had issues with project management but it does seem to be a degree of George Lucas to it, where the man in charge isn't told "no, can't do that" or "no, don't do that". I think their problem is they got in way more than the planned $400K. If that's all they got in they'd likely have stuck to a much more accomplishable goal. As a tweet I saw earlier put it "They planned for $400k, when they got the $3.8million they didn't re-plan". Which is why you end up going from a game that was meant to take 6 months (so oct/nov 2012), now not being due without excess funding until 2015.

Wow that'd be a pretty expensive film/film series to make. But an impressive as hell one. And I'll agree with you on their choice of Lex Luthor. I recognise most of their choices, but I have no idea who this is.

So Broken Age needs more money to complete the game. This is despite getting $3million more than the originally needed. Oh and the game won't be done for another year and then some. So yeah, it's hilariously overbudget, and hilariously massively late. And if the Steam Early Access plan doesn't work and raise a further $4million or whatever they need to finish the other half of the game (which can't blame folks for being cautious now, not many folks will pre-order a game that the devs have admitted they can't finish), then those original backers get to go home with an unfinished game. Hooray for Double Fine showing nil respect to peoples trust and money. Hooray for them being unable to look back on past projects, asses thier over-budget projects and go "hmm, how can we improve, instead of still going over budget when we get 8X what we asked for?". But hey, it's Tim Schafer, and the fact people love his past games (but not publishers) he'll get a free pass on fucking up a budget that was $3million in excess. And folks think gov'ts overspend!

It's a three bed. We had myself, Erin (friend from school) and Melissa (Erin's uni friend). Turn of new year Melissa mostly moved back to parents due to personal issues. March Nick(Erin/Mel's uni friend) moved in to take over mels contract. That contract ended other day (Melissa negotiated for a shorter contract due to only needing it to complete uni). So Lewis (Erin n sisters friend, and I guess mine of late) moved in for the next year (landlord wanted a full 12 month doing).

Yeah he's fine socially. No more socially awkward than the rest of us (given we spent the night playing Rouge Trader). He's one of my housemates and sisters long term friends, and has been popping up to ours frequently past year, (to the point where we've joked come next week he'll have spent more nights here than the last two housemates we had). He's highly socially compatible with our group of friends (more so than most given how long we've all known each other). He was second choice after me for being a third housemate.

Yeah I'd say the way their post is written, and the lack of any images of it in action so far as examples, would imply that it's not yet turned on/in the preview.

Yeah I figured the Del Toro was an appeal, not seen Pan's Labyrinth myself but do enjoy the Hellboy films. Just the vibe I got from this so far is it didn't seem quite in line with those (especially stuff like monster design, seems a bit standard fare compared the zaniness of Hellboy designs and the eye person in Pan's Labyrinth.) And while I highly doubt it's going to be as bollocks and Transformers, not sure on it being superdooper vastly beyond it. So far seems to be just robots and monsters fighting, I'm not sure on the gristle beyond that. Can whack it in spoilers if you want but what extra is there. (though should point out I won't be seeing it anyway, given I've three siblings birthday this month fuck all personal funtime for me I'm thinking)

Got a new housemate today. As he's unpacking showing off his stuff; DVD boxsets of Yes, Minister and Thick of It, bunch of AD&D books and expansions. And then Mein Kampf. The next year is going to be interesting.

http://community.advertising.microsoft.com/msa/en/global/b/blog/archive/2013/07/02/new-search-ad-experience-windows-8-1.aspx Brand new cool feature coming to Windows 8 guys!! Adverts in your windows searches. How awesome is that. All your favourite features of the Xbox right there on your desktop or tablet computer! Now you can have a connection with your favourite advertisers, and help complete tasks and drive leads! Woweee!! So yeah, I guess the adverts in the free MS-made apps was just the start I guess.

So this film seems to be getting a fair bit of hype, and from a few people I wouldn't consider it to be getting so. But to me it seems like another brainless blockbuster action flick, but the reaction it's getting you'd think it's something substantially more. So what am I missing? It looks like the kind of film Michael Bay..or well more closely Roland Emmerich would make and be lambasted for. I'm sure it'll be fine popcorn flick mind, just not worthy of the current pre-release hype it seems to be getting.

I haven't said anything about the material not being able to be distributed under any circumstances. That's quite obviously false. For one there's educational exceptions. And as you said yourself the exceptions quoted by Thursday on previous page. What I am saying is it would be my interpretation that an organisation, non-profit or not, wouldn't be able to get around the rules in essentially selling something even though they're not making a profit on it. I'm not really sure "furtherance of business" or "reward" is solely defined as "profit".