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For those in the UK (well any that are reading this thread despite us not doing Thanksgiving and thus no Black Friday), Amazon are doing Black Friday. It's running this week, as far as games go they're not too awesome. (though I am currently wondering is Super Scribblenuats for £7 is a decent price) Just check 'em under the "Today's Deals" tab.

I'm still getting emails regarding the delay, and I'm unsure if it's fully cancelled. I don't have it in my order history to be able to cancel it and since Skyrim was cancelled and still charged and delivered my hopes aren't high.

I thought I was on a 18 month contract, turns out it's 24 months. So by the time it ends the Galaxy Nexus will probably be entry level

Yeah I saw in regards to the 100% off destruction cost post someone say their friend had started a new game cos they ended up with uber-powerful gear. First reply is the sane "why not just wear something else?". btw for those wanting a slightly different (albiet harder in some elements) game, if you never talk to the Jarl of Whiterun at the start of the game, you never get the dragons spawning. (Kinda like don't do Kvatch or infiltrate Mythic Dawn if you don';t want Oblivion gates everywhere). This basically turns Skyrim from a game following the destiny of the Dragonborn (along with no spawning dragons no one will talk about the dragonborn either), but instead the civil war within Skyrim and you as a small pawn within this. And yeah I'm a mage, and due to the best gear being clothes or enchanted light armour, as well as needing to put most of your level-ups into magicka, I can deal the damage, but I can't really take it I need to get better with my ward. Mages I'm fighting have started using them and it's really fucking annoying.

Markath is the dwarf town yeah? If so that's a nice house, though I've yet to do a move from my main abode in Whiterun. I've got the Solitude home too. Bit too big for my liking. Handy position though. @Duke: I've seen a few issues with "game breaking" enchantments and alchemy tweaks. One I'm aiming for that I've seen is a leather jacket that reduced Destruction spell cost by 100%. I can be the Oprah of Firebolts. "you get a firebolt, you get a firebolt, everyone gets firebolts!!"

Not my picture. If you check the link there's a great image of a finisher, but it doesn't get the point across as well that it's one of the kids. Only kid I've found that's half decent isn't a kid. After all she is only a little girl.

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=656

http://www.greenmangaming.co.uk/promo/deus-ex-and-dlc/ GMG have Deus Ex 50% off. (may be UK only, not sure).

At least this is in California where even the police are relative hippy pushovers. If they were in Ohio the college kids would be shown what for.

Yeah, Trinity is the first game and the Democracy and Entrenchment expansion packs included. It works same as DOW in that you only need to play Diplomacy (the newest) to get everything. Rebellion, due at some point, is an Expandalone. Looks to be priced quite high too (in comparison to getting Trinity) I should note for those not aware of the series: Sins has no campaign mode at all. It's pretty much just Skirmish maps or randomly generated maps. Its single player is a bit like Civilization in that regard. The MP matches also take ages, though unlike Civ are in real time. It's also currently one of the top sellers on Steam, which I'm sure Stardock aren't happy about (while they owned Impulse Brad Wardell wasn't too keen on Steam, especially it being owned and ran by Valve. Something that Stardock owning and running Impulse was fine to do of course.) (p.s Stardock only published Sins, not develop it. That's why it's pretty decent and not a total clusterfuck like Demigod and Elemental)

Kovach bought me Sins of a Solar Empire Trinity.

http://www.pcgamer.c...r-thanksgiving/ - patch after thanksgiving. edit: A few folks don't seem to know this Fire magic = increased damage including lingering damage after Ice magic = attacks both damage and stamina and slows down on some too Lightning magic = attacks both damage and magicka. So up against close range melee guys you want to swap between fire n ice, against mages you want lightning attacks. Even if you're not a mage class you can use enchanted weapons to similar effect.

It's late November n here's the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcuAA-n2zog The small jab at the Minecraft wiki was a bit uncalled for (I dunno if the situation has changed at all in the past year but I did think it a bit off that MC was making tons of money n the wiki relied on donations to keep running n supporting millions of people) You'll need to skip about 6 minutes into this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XDLwMOwc5s (I've not watched it at all except to find the start) edit: And the trailer for 360 version

He looks like an older David Walliams. I assume you're aware of it's origins. http://en.wikipedia....oston_Tea_Party The term many believe was first coined by Rick Santelli from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on CNBC though the roots of the party really started more with Ron Paul's 2008 Presidential run. But that's another topic altogether. Yes I'm aware it's named after the Boston Tea Party. Not really sure on why though. In fact given the aim of "no taxation without representation" it'd seem to make more sense for the OWS protests to be "the tea party". btw the link you gave uses this as a source: http://www.verumserum.com/?p=33490 Which I assume from the title "Just Like the Tea Party: A List of Occupy Mayhem Sorted by Type" implies that some googling will turn up a similar list of Te Party protests gone awry? (pretty crummy list in parts anyway, fire 2.7 miles away from camp, homeless people beating up each other. If you're gonna list "anything that happens near by" then you're gonna get a pretty hefty list. But looking at the rest of the site it's pretty clear they're not OWS fans) bte regarding public opinion one of links on the verum serum had this on the side bar: http://www.nytimes.c...s/ows-grid.html Seems to mostly clump in the "agree with the points, and the protesters" edit: That police officer sure is showing those kids sitting down who's boss. http://bicyclebarric...nda-p-b-katehi/

Via John Walker(botherer) of RPS Personally I've not bothered with them because the companions in Skyrim seem much more underdeveloped than they were in New Vegas. I never bothered with them in Fallout 3 either. I guess maybe that's something Bethesda kinda suck at? New Vegas gave you this and it was awesomely handy:

What awesome progress: 2007 - Mass Effect - Game comes with whole squad, if you buy on PC you get DLC for free 2009 - Mass Effect 2 - buy the game new to get unlock code for Zaeed. Wait few months for DLC to unlock final squad mate. 2011 - Mass Effect 3 - buy CE to get the other squad mate. Can't wait to see what the other DLC n Project $10 is at this stage.

As someone who can see all the upvotes n downvotes, they're not without responses. edit: in other news here's a list of companies backing SOPA: http://www.theglobal.../letter-359.pdf Adobe isn't on it, wonder why As far as games go: http://www.theesa.co...out/members.asp Basically all of those. EA, Nintendo of America and Sony CEA doubley so. (They're through ESA, and individually put their names down too.) Fun thing is, if I'm to understand the bill correctly, PXOD will have to go image free. Woot. Unless we knock everything up in paint or something. (we're hosted in the US and have a US domain registrar)

Except the parts where Oblivion>Skyrim

I'm gonna have to say the Tea Party could be a bit better named... Also it's my understanding that up until police raids got involved the OWS protests have been pretty peaceful. Occupation, marches, signs etc. You're gonna have to fill me in on this OWS rape though (though I am also aware that all you've said is the tea party don't rape, but the implication of OWS is there. So I'm curious on that one) From an outsiders point btw, things not to be too proud of: - That Fox News is the number one news channel - Knocking out a national health service.

Boom dragon priest down. By accident too. I was meant to be doing another quest, but because it's right in the corner of the map and the angle of the map doesn't shift enough there was two dungeons overlapping. Dragon Priests dungeon was pretty long (And hard), the place I actually wanted to be at had 3 bandits and a dead body to look at n took all of 3 minutes. Shame the mask I got was for stamina. I've now got about half the words, though not unlocked them all. Smithing and enchanting is starting to go through the roof a bit, so my gear is some pretty neat stuff, and my trusty mace of souls is now a sword of souls (flawless). I filled up quite a few soul gems in the dragon priest dungeon. Currently building up a hefty library, so aiming to purchase the house in Malacath since it can stock 180 books. I do however now own the house in Solitude, and it's a pretty fine house. Mainly got it for the enchant table. Though it's a bummer not much storage near by.