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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html?ref=asia Ouch.

http://www.swmoore.com/kt_ultimatepaint.html It's an image, pretty damn big so you'll have to click the link

Ah I see. I assumed it was one of those "quote it so when he fixes that glaring spelling error it's there for eternity" type thing. If I'm quoting an image without wanting to copy the image, then I just stick in: Which get's it across well enough.

"Was one have the core" doesn't fit.... so I'm unsure what you're saving? Also slightly off-topic. Steam screenshot thing is real handy. I only have FRAPS open when I intend to capture stuff, but this is good for on the fly stuff. It's like a camcorder/camera on you is only when you intend to, but a mobile phone is good enough for when those on the fly moments happen.

They're only short stories aren't they? I may hunt down translated copy for summer reading.

When it's in the paragraph on loading up a new game, you can tell making sure it wasn't a +/- thing was one of the core philosophies in the games production.

I started a fresh game last night. Watched this through again for the ...7th time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTAfDCth0rg

Well steamworks wise if the price is the same I see no point buying the boxed copy. Especially after my last steamworks PC game, Sup Com 2. You need to tie it to steam to download the rest of the game. It was an anti-piracy measure. I guess it kinda makes sense, even if you got the disc n cracked the steam DRM, you'd still need steam in order to download the other half of the game. Certainly not great when you get the game day one and 3 of you downloading 2GBs each.

http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/84663/thq-has-a-little-surprise-for-those-who-pirate-homefront Well this is a first (as far as I'm aware) That's not "pirate homefront on PC". That's pirate it on the 360. Of course the side effect is that it also means if you buy it used and want to play online, it'll cost you $80. I guess THQ assume it'll be more pirated than bought used if they're willing for that huge side effect to be there.

Maybe. Maybe not. Sting would be less if SL hadn't followed suit

Yeah I'd just say, especially within this forum, that you use the + rep if you agree. Our rules specifically discourage just posting a "this", it doesn't really add much to the conversation.

http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/84643/killzone-3-releases-a-behemoth-of-an-update You guys might be interested. I'm not sure if it's a game that gives patchnotes.

Aftershock? Anything over 4.0 I'd simply call another earthquake. I mentioned to my housemate that Japan was getting aftershocks of 5.0+ magnitudes, and he's "you can tell it's a big one when what any other day would be reported as 'Major earthquake hits japan' is "aftershocks""

reason? (I'm sure you're one of them that was eyeing up the PS3 version). Just wanting to see the whys n why nots of others.

Japan isn't exactly unprepared or underfunded. I think they'll manage quite well without US aid.

I'm not too bothered with NDS wifi at the moment but I have a spare wi-fi router that my step-dad nicked from work (he tried to use it himself but he has the wrong modem type) so my plan is to plug that into our router and have it broadcast a WEP encrypted signal. I've not bothered with hooking it up to test though. I think I'll do it now actually.

Hey that's my DS! It's my DS too Sorry on late reply, just not following the thread too closely as I've yet to pick up the game.

I get the feeling that the forum ban wasn't completely out of line in regards to EA's current post-release forum policies. Seems damage control is getting a bit OTT. Maybe if folks didn't lean too much on metacritic ratings then it wouldn't be as big a deal.

http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&s_src=F8HWA002 If anyone wants to help.

Well the image thing is maybe a browser by browser site by site kind of thing. It'd happen on a few images in old forum too. Once you open the image itself in a new tab it usually works fine. I have no explanation or fix for it other than open the "broken" image in a new tab. As for the information thing that would technically be up to the OP. We dropped the edit limit a while back so the thread creator should be able to update it as they go on. We can't force them and yeah it would be useful I guess. It could make really large first posts over time though, and would mean the OP would kind of have to keep tabs on all the info in the game. And surely its the info on the game that gets discussed, especially pre-release. Things like trailers, game mechanics they announce, release dates etc. I was at this point going to suggest you maybe make a thread in future to give an example or adapt one you've already made. Then I went on your profile and see what you mean: http://tay.gappoi.or...ron-game-thread (first time I've read the thread, sorry it was something that didn't grab me by the name ) Certainly very informative, and where possible I think I'd encourage people to set-up OP's like that, but not always possible. It's nothing we can really enforce, if you get me. But now I've seen what you mean I'd love to see more. Anyway, people reading this thread; check that thread, read the OP, note the style and info included, maybe in future any game threads try n make them look a bit like that.

I may not know much but I know replicators aren't web browsers. I googled fn_tour3 to see what coding it is and the first page that pops up is: "LOL, Something for the stargate fans..." http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php?topic=163379861.0 Which identifies it as Javascript. Guess I wasn't the only one to notice they're not running on Ancient. Now I just have Continuum to watch and I'll be completely done with SG-1 arc of Stargate.

Because as far as I know publishers don't have a habit of ignoring laws n regulation.

The regulation doesn't apply to us though does it? It would be on the publishers head to have more acceptable and consumer friendly EULAs if such regulation was to come into force. The GamersVoice stuff could maybe push on such things. At the moment the closest thing to any consumer friendliness from Publishers is like the Gamers Bill of Rights, which at this point is still pretty much just words that even their writer didn't stick to.

I'm unsure on the details on how you get it.

"or play online" aka "or play any game, regardless of MP content, that uses an online connection in it's DRM" If you get banned on a forum, you get banned on a forum. It shouldn't extend to your games. And I'd say the ToS isn't very clear when it comes as a surprise that a forum ban can lock you out of your EA published games. If we'd of all known that EA can and will do that then that post would have a ton of "not news" comments.