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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-21-remedy-teases-alan-wakes-american-nightmare-for-pc So from what they're saying American Nightmare could be a very real possibility and much sooner for PC than Alan Wake was. Which should please some of you.

For Brits(and others) today is Pancake Day. But for you....it is Tuesday. Let's rectify this. Here's a recipe for proper pancakes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/basicpancakeswithsuga_66226 (You'll note that if you search BBC for pancake recipes, the one you guys will recognise are "American pancakes". These are proper pancakes, hence no need to define them as anything other than "pancakes") I've picked this one cos it's 1. Delia Smith. 2. It has both metric and imperial. Now american pancakes can be flipped easily with a spatula, but a proper pancake requires finesse. Now I was going to get a video but it turns out my previous sentence of "can be be flipped easily with a spatula" was premature. So most how-to videos on flipping pancakes are the american types using a spatula. (This is where you all commit seppeku) Thankfully Gordon Ramsay knows how: Now once flipped and cooked you put it on a plate and you can have a variety of toppings. Personally: But it's obviously extremely high in sugar. Now another favourite in my family, though it's a bit silly if you know basic chemistry/diary, is lemon juice, sugar and milk. Some also have cream and strawberries, chocolate sauce, blueberries, nutella, etc. Some might suggest a savoury mix on top but I'm not that brave, so don't have any suggestions. Anyone else with savoury suggestions? Oh yeah, put a plate in the oven below at a low heat, you put pancakes on the plate as you're cooking or they'll go cold.

Well in a similar line Clegg is to to unveil plans on a new scheme of getting young unemployed (NEETs) into employment. http://www.bbc.co.uk...cation-17104998 Mainly aimed at the college age group. Works n Pensions Secratary, Iain Duncan Smith, took to the Daily Mail as his platform of choice to call out "Job Snobs" for not being happy working 30hr weeks for £45 http://www.dailymail...tray-young.html Apparently not real jobs that are worthwhile paying for either. He's doing well, ignoring that the issue isn't with where the jobs are, it's that the jobs aren't paid. It's also "voluntary", as he repeatedly reminds us in the article, to the point where you can volunteer for the scheme, or have nothing to live on. I guess as someone who "and expenses" is enough to get a second home and garden moats n all kind of random shit that our dear MPs call "expenses", he probably doesn't see the issue in living on nothing. Anyway, brb I'm off to go and become an X-factor celeb as is the work ethic in our school system instilled upon us. (It was actually along the lines of get good grades, go to college, get good grades there, go to Uni, get a good job. That lie never really panned out . I wouldn't be surprised if the reason that they're pushing tuition fees up is to heavily discourage folks from going to Uni. Especially those on a lower income band as it is. Get them grateful for their "volunteer" work at Tesco instead)

I think I saw a while ago someone pre-ordered Last Story. Maybe excel. Anywho: http://mynintendonews.com/2012/02/20/game-are-switching-the-last-story-collectors-edition-to-the-standard-edition-without-notification/ Worth checking.

http://www.amazon.co...29797445&sr=1-1 $2.99 for Dungeon Defenders. Activates on steam. edit: http://www.greenmangaming.co.uk/games/adventure/la-noire-the-complete-edition/ This will be 75% off on Thursday. (They sent an email/newsletter out on it)

So ...US doesn't have the concept of Christian denominations? "Christian" hasn't come to mean Catholic, Protestant, etc. They are Christian and always were and always will be.

So not only do you have to be a Christian, you have to be the right kind of Christian? Also query here: Was Six implying that Mormon isn't Christian. Maybe not on purpose, but unknowingly. Going back to an earlier question I guess on how Catholicism is sort of regarded as separate from Christianity within America.

It would be interesting to see. I think SE are doing well with Eidos. I think they're kind of using the western studios as learning, just in owning them they can see the sausage factor in practice and in full detail. I'm not sure they'd want to be getting Eidos to make Japanese games. Then again it would give direct insight into "how would a western studio make a Final Fantasy". Of course it could end up with Eidos making the most successful FF title of all time and make SE look like morons. Rich morons, but morons nonetheless.

So university things: In US textbooks are pretty much a standard requirement and can run you hundreds of dollars. In the UK you get a "recommended reading" list, and the books at most tend to be like £30-40. (Though I was largely around computer related courses, it's possible that maybe something like a copy of Greys Anatomy could run you £100.) My most expensive book was the "Animators Survival Guide". The back of the book tells me it was £25($40).

Music from the canned GRIM Final Fantasy.

Maybe folks should learn to live with the consequences of their actions? Also aren't people with new characters able to pretty much pick out their choices? So going back isn't required (though recommended). Just seems a bit silly to make it "everyone's a winner" kinda scenario. Somewhat meaningless. "So you've been with us throughout the trilogy, you've lost some friends, you've saved some. You rescued the citadel and the council. You've died and been reborn, you've brainwashed the Geth, saved the collector base, and guess what? Well...". Why have a choice and consequences system, continuous saves, and then not actually have a consequence of the choices of the previous games? Do Bioware really want to take Fable 2's crown of "Most anit-climatic game ending of all time"? Seriously, just completely and utterly fuck Bioware Group for now and eternity if the ending of Mass Effect 3 relies solely upon the actions throughout Mass Effect 3.

Yeah I'm talking "You'll still stave off the Reapers regardless, just with some planets dead". As opposed to "Wipe out the Reapers, protect the planets, reverse time and bring everyone back including the protheans, and still make it to the prom, learn french and save the little kid in the tree and homeless man in the alley" if you got all the choices spot on throughout the three games. It would be a bit fucking pointless to have a choice system, and saves that carry across three games, and not have anything in the prior games have any impact on the final outcome. Yes maybe you have Wrex's brother instead since you had Wrex shot in ME1. But Wrex's brother fumbles on the switch for the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator and thus a fleet of reapers gets away and wipes out a few colonies instead of being destroyed there n then.

https://www.npr.org/2012/01/29/146046428/on-the-record-a-quest-for-de-baptism-in-france As an aside to the "controlling people" stuff. Divine Right of Kings, Head of the Church of England, etc etc. Even in America I'm to understand you'd be bat-shit insane to run for POTUS and not be Christian (As seen with the "Obama is a Muslin" shit)

Person living in a theocracy stepping in here: That's fucking stupid. So my God, The almighty Hum of the PSU, who giveth power to the Ram and the Seepeeyoo, creator of the one true religion; Deanism, says that taxes are a mortal sin. One should not give money unto thy government. So that would mean I don't have to pay taxes right? As it'd be against my religion. edIt: Just a (really late) addition. Wouldn't this actually be discrimination towards atheists? They've been provided less rights than those that are religious. The atheists values and beliefs are dismissed because they're not part of an official religion. Though of what I know of US law I guess this isn't the first time those of faith > everyone else. It does seem a rather biased system.

Why? Are we sure there's some rule that states "must be able to have a perfect ending, even with the Rachni queen dead in ME1"? Maybe possible to get a 90% decent ending, but I don't see any issue in your choices along the way leading to not being able to et a perfect in ME3. Like losing half your crew in ME2. Having Wrex, leader of the Krogans, dead. Having the collector base destroyed. Having a beaten up reporter. Plenty of things could combine to make it somewhat impossible to get a perfect ending in ME3.

The ME2 reaper was hit by an ancient (pre protheon) rail gun. The slug was embedded in a(slug made) canyon in a planet in another solar system. Sovereign required the citadel and human fleet. One reaper. So yeah they're gonna need a but of help. I can see rachni and prothean being it.

You can pass over folks names and it pops up a box with their reputation (and other info). The rep system wasn't meant to be "I disagree". If someone disagreed they were meant to reply and tell them as such, it is a forum after all, not Pop Idol.

Isn't everyone else paying for it? Why should religions get a free pass?

I'd assume that the PS3 version of Mass Effect 3 isn't being specifically hard-coded with these changes, just a port, so maybe a save editor would do the trick? Unless Bioware do something silly and put copyright protection on the savefile.

Cos this happens if she doesn't pay attention. Also did I miss something, or did the costume dept, cos 7 of 9 is missing her eyewear there.

Oh shit. I totally forgot you can kill Wrex I'm a good Shepard so I have him alive. Only dead person on my end is Ashley, not a huge loss.

but that would take effort... Ctrl+Shift+V It's amazing what might seem hard at first glance until you ask other people. I'm with six. Christianity doesn't seem a very appealing religion. It's an awful lot of telling you what you can't do, on the slim possibility that when you die you go to heaven. I hear the argument time to time that atheists have no morals because they have nothing to believe in. Now this is presented as a "why atheists are bad", but the issue is it pretty much implies Christians only do morally good things under threat of eternal suffering in the pits of hell, whereas an atheist, not bound by a belief system, does morally good things because it's the right thing to do. Personally I'm fine that when I die I'll be gone, finished. I think 80years is a nice time to have to do what you want to do and then move on. I'll "live on" in folks memories, photographs, and now through the interwebs a bit I guess. And my body will be made into fertilizer or whatever and eventually part of a star or new planet, which I think is nice. It's kinda reincarnation, but on a cosmological scale than a spiritual one. Personally I like the greek model of the afterlife(though I like a lot about the greek religion). You've got the regular underworld, ruled by Hades, which is basically "where you go when you die". Then you've got Tartarus, where you go when you eat seafood commit heinous crimes like rape n murder, and Elysium Fields, where the heroes go. Finer graded scale, none of this "you're either good or bad" stuff.