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If memory serves me right the brand marker is the red logo (I forget is it the abstergo logo?) anyway that logo is more representative of Assassin's creed along with the dubstep trailer lol. While the character look exists, I'm fairly certain we'll get an Altair and Ezio skin so there'll be no issue for them to try a new look as it won't make them lose brand identity. However I do believe that thanks to year releases the game suffers from Brand dilution and might not see massive sales with revelations or even AC3. Pretty sure revelations wasn't as big a hit as brotherhood (maybe it should've stayed on the 3DS?)

. I think mainstream Christianity isn't dying in parts of Asia and Africa though and I'm fairly sure that it's becoming more accepted in China too. Amongst the growing populations. But I agree with you in that in regions where a religion is mainstream if they didn't act so dickish they'd have more followers. Getting off the topic of religion, has anyone else watched the discovery channel/TLC documentary series 'Through the wormhole with Morgan Freeman'. There was this one where they talked about the various theories of life after death. It was interesting to say the least. Though I'm getting tired of the Quantumising of everything. However the quantum connection between neurons and the universal stream of consciousness is an interesting idea.

There's one thing that's starting to irk me and that's the fact that they should probably change the design of the assassin a bit more. I know, I know suspension of disbelief and all but to be honest it was fine in the Altair era, in the Ezio era it was like eh maybe but between then till the early 90s it's going to be really hard to follow. Of course in the modern era all you need is a hoodie so that's fine I suppose.

The game is ok but the story has far too many loose ends, lacks some coherence and the voice acting is atrocious for some of the actors. It's like they took a bunch of panto and theatrical hams and said hey lets get them on board. If they are definitely good voice actors then I blame the voice direction but that's one thing that irked me about this game.

I agree that the story was a bit off, the characterisations weren't too bad. Some of them. But they captured the look from the graphic novel ( I wasn't aware of the source till I saw the film) and the sound and production design were awesome. Currently Listening to

I see the Guardian's caught on to Jodie Marie (wonder if she'll go the duffy way into obscurity). Anyways it's Friday so I suppose for me it's best to end it on a more wistful note with a Thomas Newman score I remember liking the cinematography and the music of this particular film (I think something that a lot of people forget is that the presence and absence of sound make up for a core experience in film)

Well it's 2012 so they better get a move on. Then again what's going to happen is of course 'moving goalposts'. Regardless if the Native American assassin guy is sort of Yojimbo-ish instead of taking sides it'll be a lot more interesting than killing either side (considering Native Americans fought on both sides).

So for those of you planning to buy MLB the show on the Vita and possibly the PS3 (in NA of course) Bestbuy is doing a $80 bundle for both of them (not sure if it's an official or store promoted) but that's technically decent value if you were planning on getting both and something that should continue of course (considering it's a $20 drop in MSRP and i think the game has consolidated/cloud saves [not sure on that]). Plus that's pretty much like buying an LE of the game but this time having two copies instead of cheapish baubles.

Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai (paid for already - it was only £10) Blazblue Vita Motorstorm RC DLC I'm currently pondering Jak and Daxter Trilogy. I've already paid for some more Vita stuff, just waiting for its delivery after my move.

Firstly to be fair, this isn't supposed to be part of UK politics per se... and does deserve its own topic. Secondly this is just a debate one that we can carry out logically but cannot perform in society as long as we possess rational empathy. Every female mammal possesses mother tendencies (depends on the hormone levels but it's a given for the most part) that the cry of a baby will evoke the response. We've studied this over time with multiple mammals (once again if memory serves me right discussed in The Naked Ape) and confirmed this. Also are we really going to argue whether it is right to kill life outside of a womb? Abortion is one thing that's normal and fine since the right here isn't the right of the child but the right of the woman bearing the child. Here's the thing when it comes to these ethics, are we going to put aside individualism entirely? This question exists outside of the choice of the woman and enters the choice of the child, the ones that chose to bring it into this world and on a larger scope society. Therefore the responsibility rests on the persons bearing the child and/or responsible for the nurturing of the woman for those 9 months and fostering the urge to give birth to the baby. The Ethics should reflect that; equating it with abortion is muddying it and just trying to be inflammatory. Now, when the child has no such responsible adults; it becomes, depending on the nation, either a property of the state, an individual that needs to find a home via the state or just a life that's going to be shunted from one foster home to another till someone takes the child in. The argument that comes about here is, does everything that's perceived to be living then deserve to live? Should we kill every animal that's born which doesn't have a home because we have an abundance of them (cats and dogs easily come to mind). This argument isn't quite solid because it takes away a few things that we use to differentiate ourselves from our baser instincts and those are primarily - humanity and choice. Of course this argument isn't new i.e. to kill babies and that they are blank slates. Not at all. But the thing is we aren't putting these children to better use when we can. Manpower is vital to society. Even if I were to side with them I don't get the point of killing the child. I mean manpower is vital, we could breed a new workforce in isolation. Breed in effectiveness a third world society to feed and make the mother/birth nation prosper. Wouldn't that be better than life on the streets. We do strip them of choice in that matter though. But if we're to kill them, then we strip them of choice once again. I'm against the destruction of resources and human labour has always and will continue to be one of the 4 fundamental resources in economics as long as we are humans. Utilise it in a different way. How killing babies is different from abortion is that someone has born the infrastructural costs in this case to give birth to one, it's upto the state/society to choose what to do with it. And this is while standing on the side that sees them as a burden to society. As it stands this argument isn't new, and seems to be more of an exercise in argument rather than anything else. However even at that, it has some actual flaws since it's too focussed on comparing killing a new-born to abortion.

To be honest with these sort of cases it's more to do with individuals as opposed to the strictest religious rules and yeah the guy chooses to interpret in a way that's not welcoming. Sort of anti-natural to what most religions begin with. As for religions dying out, honestly? If anything the religious population of the world has increased more so than ever. It's definitely dying out in certain western nations, particularly most European nations but EU is getting ready for the phase of negative growth of its populous. I hate to be one of those doom and gloom sort of people but if the EU as a whole doesn't improve you're going to find more people heading towards a faith in the next generation (As in the one our kids belong to - people like to believe in something and like to accept that there's a guiding force). However if it does improve we're going to see a significant decline in the birth rate and an increment in longevity as what can already be witnessed in Japan and Germany. There's not going to be a reduction in those who subscribe to a religion. There's never been in terms of population ratios. There might however be new religions and hey there are plenty that are less than 100-150 years old with populations in the millions almost rivalling the irreligious. What's happening in terms of religions is that, while one group of people have stopped believing, another has taken up the mantle. It's like a migratory pattern. Also several religions can't exist simultaneously in large numbers so it's pretty much like say corporations in video games if you want to take it that way. The middling ones and the lesser ones will die and the existing largest ones will grow as long as there are people who subscribe to the faith and of course we'll have the 'indies'.

I normally do the treasure hunting via chapter select since that seems to be the best way esp since all games tell you how many treasures there are in a chapter and how many you missed. I suppose it's always going to be 100+1 treasures but getting 99 and the strange relic is enough for a platinum.

Yeah I've come across that too and it adds to certain people's OCD. SInce by using such a wallpaper feature you can now make pages by publishers, content, genre, so on and so forth and arrange it in several different ways as per your choosing.

ooh sorry about that HH. Honestly figured the meeting could've turned better than it did. As for the future, gamestop's waiting to buy them outright minus their Australian operation and so once the fate of that's been decided I think we know what the investor's are going to go for. As for preorders, the Diablo 3 CE preorder which was previously game exclusive turned up at Shopto so yeah that's gone. I'm sure Acti have more or less bailed if that's been happening. Sony was protecting their stock earlier this week despite the game being launched via Game's stores. Most vita's purchased on site had the tag/sticker 'Property of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and something else that basically just stated that it's their stock and they own it until it's been purchased at the POS point.

While human memory is one thing, mob memory is terrible. If a person is told that there was another eyewitness to an event and their brains figure there's something missing they will take what someone else in the group said (if it can be perceived as sensible (not logical) to them) and attach it to their memories. Any murder, assassination, accident that has had multiple witnesses will face this problem. Human memory though or rather an individual memory depends on the nature of the individual, their personality and other factors. e.g.Sometimes there are people who believe in what they saw so much that they will refuse to accept any other testimony regardless of the truth.

I've got all those games Chronixal, will add you when I'm on.

Oh.. you didn't know about the menu. First thing I know about devices today is that pressing/ holding down a button brings up some function or the other. There's more features than what he mentioned that are missing in the manual like taking screenshots, apps that can work in the background, the social space that tells you about updates, friend updates on the game and so on. There's a lot of features that aren't remotely mentioned. How to check your 3G data usage.etc

If you are playing a game in 3D - play Wipeout HD/Fury. It's made for that. Or better yet lol play Zone in 3D

uhh, I hate to be the one to say this...but I've had housekeepers or rather housemaids and nannys. Some who pretty much stayed with us and some who used to come for 4-6 hours a day (3-5 times a week). My mother was of pretty poor health and my father was rarely home and it was pretty difficult to take care of moderately big homes. Both me and my brother had nannies - the nannies we had usually were older women who loved to take care of kids and stayed with us till we turned 3. The housemaids who lived with us were young unmarried women if they were the live-in ones. In the class system I was raised in, it wasn't abnormal, to be honest. Honestly there are some interesting things in the non-western world. When I lived in India people from one of the neighbouring states used to beg for alms in our state and would go back with a fairly large amount of money enough to buy houses and living fairly comfortably. The thing is when we discuss stuff in this forum in general we only speak in terms of western politics, cultures and policies. I was raised all over so I suppose that's why I don't really have a direct point of reference. Also my mother was a Science Teacher (I'm not going into a long and detailed explanation of why she didn't pursue medicine despite getting into a few big universities) and while I was a toddler she decided to be a stay at home mum. I attribute a lot of my curiousity, scientific knowledge and education that I developed in my early years to my mother. She worked at schools before I was born and for a few years before my brother was born (we're a decade apart) and after that just held private tuitions in the house for a while. My father earned well to keep our lifestyle for the time and thus it wasn't really necessary for my mother to work. She had the choice. My wife and I both have jobs. She however doesn't want to work if and when we do decide to have kids. However she'd like to work for my business at the time from home so I suppose it's a bit of both. I am fortunate I guess. But at the moment we both do need our jobs to support our respective lifestyles. Odd to think that my father became a dad at my age and I won't until much later. P.S. I know this isn't poltical and I hope I've not offended anyone. Normally this topic weirds people out especially here and so I avoid talking about it. Also the housemaids who lived with us were mostly like big sisters to me.

I will say this about the Vita, it is the one device that actually is great for those who like to read digital manuals. So many features are practically hidden since they're not present in any user manual (physical).

I'm just sick of Andy Serkis and the whole Ninja Theory fascination with him. Oh and recently I heard from someone who worked there that Tameem is kind of a douche just like one would suspect but his brother who also works at the company is totally the opposite and would be better poised at running the company... As for Enslaved, I did not like the way the game's story retold Journey to the west. There are many ways it could've told the story more interestingly but it didn't. However it was an easy Platinum. Alex Garland isn't a terrible writer by no means - his script for the beach, 28 days later, etc were quite good. I do not think the studio is crap like a lot of people think of it though. It's just for this particular game the gameplay and story were annoying. The art design though was excellent. Alan Wake had a great ending - the DLC was a bit unncessary though imho.

Yeah OLED could have that issue but to be fair, these blotches seem to be something else. I'll see if I can find something deeper but as of now it's of no cause to worry according to graphics experts . And I totally know what you mean, That was the reason I held out on buying the 3DS at launch (I still don't care for the 3DS launch games outside of SSF4 which is the only one I bought). I really wish there more games released here. The whole region locking thing is fairly annoying. I can deal with not getting DLC for a game but not getting a game when it's localised in English is annoying. Fortunately Vita is region free. Now all I need to do is wait for good people must die to have a translation (Else I'll just buy the Japanese version) and Time travellers. There's oddly enough more games I want for the Vita than the 3DS but regardless I am glad that fire emblem 3ds is hitting EU this year. I'm just hoping for at least 4 titles that interest me this year. I just fear that if it goes at this rate it's going to match my 360 and Wii in terms of personal attachrate. (had a pretty awesome attach rate for GB, GBA and DS).