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Damn Christians, they ruined Christianity.

America needs a Lord Sutch and OMRLP. Also "Moo-chelle"? Really?

Yeah TAY Minecraft server was here. Closed down a couple months ago due to lack of use/funds.

I want to pick up and play some of the non-monopoly type boardgames but I'd have no one to play them with either. Only got my mum n a 9 year old n 4 year old, with occasional family members round. Though unlike some...snobs.. I like Monopoly n Game of Life n stuff like that.

And for the non-americans? (Also what's this thing with CNN which seems to be going on in my twitter feed)

to be fair that list is pretty old now. McWhertor left some time ago didn't he? Crecente too. edit: Now I see why we're getting a few new joiners today

@MasterDex: Nah I'm pretty sure it's more grumpy the more you get to know them. @PajamaSam: Vaguely recognise the name n avatar. @Everyone else: Welcome! Feel free to ask questions n such if you get stuck on what things do n what the etiquette n such if, but generally it's "try not to be an ass, have fun".

Huge religious influence? Tying knots is fun sure but not enough to make you believe in a higher power. (Also it's at most an allegation by a retired actor,t hough I guess you made your up on what the dictator was doing pretty quickly) Seen the oreo cookie about. Some people will find themselves with less n less to buy if they keep up with their attitudes. Besides,multi flavoured cream filling, what's not to like.

People weren't bothered that it wasn't all sunshine n rainbows (much, you were at least able to come out perfect on the suicide mission of 2 if you played cards right, but ME3 didn't really present that possibility). Actually did you palky ME2? Just you commented earlier you wouldn't expect your squad to participate in some act of suicide in potentially rescuing shepard, when they went on a suicide mission at the end of 2 so it's certainly on the cards for them. (Actually didn't you only play ME2, you were a PS3 player yeah?)

Actually the film had less endings than the book, disappointingly so for some of us. And in the Extended Edition (the version of the trilogy so long each film is split across two books) they changed it so Wormtounge stabs Saruman and he falls off Isengard, instead of the original book ending of them sneaking out n taking over Hobbiton while folks are resting in Rivendell. It's why Galadriel gives Sam a tree seed, he uses it to replace the trees cut down by Sarumans fledgling second army. ...I'll shut up now

Oh that he's a crazy religious nut has been known for sometime. I'm to understand it's a bit of a tug-o-war between Bruce Lee n Liam Neeson, given Neeson is alive n currently active he seems to be winning as next bad ass. Also I think the whole "Gays in the boy scouts" has been going on a bit longer than Obamas administration. (Never mind Baden Powell was reckoned to be gay too.)

Well when the Blue Peter presenter is mixing away with a bowl, cracking in eggs, whisking in some flour n sugar, bit of cocoa powder, puts it in a tin, throw it in the oven n goes "here's one we made earlier" and pulls out a bouquet of flowers you're going to want to know what happened in that "earlier". So yeah people wanted the A to 躾 explaining. The gaps filling in. The promise of a unique ending fulfilling. I'm not sure what's hard to grasp. If you were satisfied with how the ending panned out, the forced explanations and limited range of endings, they you were satisfied n can move on to other games n be satisfied with those too. But fact of the matter is many weren't satisfied and the EC is the result of Bioware making good on that. I've yet to hop onto the extended cut myself mind, so been somewhat quite on that front. But I no doubt will eventually hop on, just other things in my somewhat limited play (it means reinstalling it all too which is a faf)

http://sourcefilmmaker.com/ Source Film Maker. The recent Portal 2 level editor raises hopes it'll be usable by humans. Hammer lowers these hopes. I may sign up for an invite n have a peek. edit: When I'm on my main PC n not this shitty netbook (it's got the hardware survey attached)

They generally lack in power, being much more general chips built for word processing, than extreme number crunching called upon by consoles. (Which is why the Cell came out tops in power this gen as it could also offload from the GPU, where in current computers the GPU is called upon to offload from the CPU)

Yeah the Cell was an issue early on, though Naughty Dog knocked out the Edge Library which has helped. It also provided a differentiator that has allowed their first party titles have an edge. While Sony has gernally had pretty good relationships with third parties I don't think they'd cede control of their platforms features completely to them. If it was to just up n have the same processor as the next Xbox (though the GPU n API would still be different cos DirectX) then it loses on a unique differentiator. And PS3 n 360 were pretty slim in features this gen so going PPC(I still laugh at X86 in a console) would make the similarities even closer. The initial cost of R&D and programming difficulty were pretty much the only issues with the Cell, and both of those are now pretty much wiped out. With multi-core programmers now much more available and GPGPU too, a many-core CPU-come-GPU chip has quite a lot going for it. Vita has an ARM chip in it, pretty much the exact same as most phones out there apart from the recently announced Intel Atom phone. So yeah programming for it is pretty simple when there's a massive deluge of ARM programming of recent years. (Cell came out just as multi-core and GPGPU was starting up, cutting edge as it were. A lot of PS3 was a bit too cutting edge for it's own good and...sony got cut... )

Cos they're not making a Sherlock Holmes, they're doing a Sherlock in the 21st century. Which doesn't have the source material in the public domain.

I'm gonna assume that it's cos at the end of each book, where Avatar is learning that skill, they end up in that nation fending against/with that recently learnt element. Which yea..ain't that mind bending. Book 2: Earth, ends up in Earth Kingdom, up against earth benders.

That dystopian future will happen whether all piracy was to stop this moment or not. Content creators want control, and for some reason governments want to readily give them this control*. Games industry is a bit of a bitch with the DRM, but generally they've actually been pretty placid on the legal front unlike MPAA, BFI, RIAA, IFPI and their international counterparts. A large chunk of the powers given to media groups also tends to circumvent "innocent until proven guilty" which is a load of balls, especially given the exceedingly shakey evidence of IP addresses usually given. Streaming for all media does seem to be the way to go, it provides benefits to both consumer and producer. Consumer gets a easily accessed mountain of content for a reasonable cost, and producer has a fair chance that consumers will sign up for this. But it means both sides ceding control to these new companies like Netflix, OnLive Spotify, etc. Something we're seeing content producers revolting against in US with Netflix n Hulu(and even giving net neutrality the finger in order to push their own services). The main part against it all though is it locks out countries and regions where the net isn't as speedy or accessible. My gran can't really buy films from Netflix to watch on her DVD player. But as long as disc formats still exist, as long as user accesible PCs exist, then so will non-streaming, un-controlled distribution of content and games. *http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120625/12333619468/eu-commissioner-reveals-he-will-simply-ignore-any-rejection-acta-european-parliament-next-week.shtml

Has it still been an issue even of late? IRA stuff is like something from even before my childhood it seems.

Surely just showing the original british version brings in more cash for the british producers? Not like there needs to be any subbing/dubbing work done. And it only brings in cash for a US remake if the US guys go through the right channels, unlike the CBS Sherlock remake which halfway did proper channels then decided to remake it off their own bat.

I don't see why they wouldn't have the Cell. They've invested in the architecture and it's worked out pretty well in giving them some degree of an edge over 360 titles too. Cheaper to continue than to throw R&D on a new platform. And they also get the boon of backwards compatibility which may or may not regain a bit of lost faith in that dept (And even though it was scrapped in later models they have made a point of having BC on their consoles at least at launch). If it's built direct into the main chip, instead of extra chips like it was for PS2 on PS3, then it's something that is both pretty much free for Sony, and also no fear of it being removed later on.

So anyone up for explaining the significance of the queens handshake in Ireland?

So how did you fix it?