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Mass Effect 2. I loved it, but I was very disappointed by how scaled-back some of the core RPG systems were. I never felt like I could really customize my Shep aside from picking a class at the beginning. Spore. I played two games through to the end, uninstalled it and never looked back. Fable II. I never played Fable I, so I had yet to be burned by Peter Molyneux. Fable 2 was shorter and much shallower than I had thought it would be based on reviews and all the love for the first game. It had some decent bits, but the whole game felt like it was a collection of uninteresting timewasters rather than an RPG with memorable characters and an interesting world to explore. Oblivion. I loved Morrowind. I found Oblivion to be extremely tedious. The story, the characters, the game world, the gameplay, everything. Fallout 3 would be on this list except Oblivion set the bar for Bethesda so low that I was pleasantly surprised by FO3, despite it's many, many problems. Napoleon: Total War: I loved the tactical battle improvements, but I hated the new campaign gameplay. I want to conquer the world, dammit!

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Darksiders is all right for what it is; an easy puzzle game with mediocre combat and a juvenile setting/storyline. I had fun with it.

$200 in gift cards; $100 Starbucks card from my employer and $100 AmEx from my dad. My coworkers and I exchanged cards and bought each other drinks at the company Christmas party, too. I think I'm getting a 2 TB external HD from my mom, as well as bachelor supplies (socks and underwear, mostly). I dunno what my sis is getting me, though we usually exchange books. Edit: I'm using the $100 Amex to offset the huge number of games I'm getting during the Steam Sale.

Blasto.

Two things: (1) Net neutrality is mainly a fight between infrastructure owners and Internet content producers; Comcast, Time Warner, etc., want in on the giga-bucks made by content providers like Google and Facebook. Right now Infrastructure owners own and maintain expensive networks. If they could 'tax' content providers for using their networks, infrastructure providers would have an additional stream of income and could lower prices for consumers in competitive markets. But this 'tax' would be passed onto consumers. $7.99/ month streaming Netflix could become $12.99/month streaming Netflix. Google and Facebook wouldn't be as profitable, or at least would have less money to throw around on new projects. Post-merger Comcast/NBC could slow down ABC and CBS streaming videos in favor of NBC. Hulu would become more expensive. YouTube may have to rethink its business model. (2) The legal debate is whether Congress has passed a law authorizing the FCC to make such pronouncements about infrastructure. The FCC passed on regulating cable TV and physical phone lines a long time ago (although there are still legacy telephone issues it can regulate). IIRC, the FCC is the most likely to be able to mandate cell phone and wireless net neutrality, because regulating traffic on the airwaves has been one of its powers since 1934. It may be that the FCC can regulate 'land line' Internet in some fashion. In the early 2000's, the FCC decided that the cable modems (and likely DSL modems) provide information services, a class of service over which it does not have much regulatory power under the 1996 Communications Act. Under that Act, however, the FCC does have power over telecommunications services, and it will likely (or maybe it already has?) reclassify 'land lines' as such. Regulatory agencies are generally allowed to change their minds about such things (provided it's justifiable). A note to lawyer-mans and fellow travelers; the foregoing is a gross oversimplification of regulatory law because this is a goddamned video game forum. I'd be happy to argue about whether the FCC has no choice but to label 'land lines' under Chevron, but I think most folks are bored out of their minds by arcane discussions of admin law.

Not that I recall, but maybe.

If you're not much for shooters then i would think that ME1 would be a better fit for you. The story takes a backseat in 2 for the most part in comparison, too. Questions: what platform, who was in your party, and what did you spec for? These things can change your difficulty dramatically--PC is 'harder' but the interface was made for it, there are definitely way better team members than others, and definitely some better classes than others and only a handful of USEFUL specs. PC. Two-Handed warrior; dual rogue; curse and cold mage. The easiest was the dual rogue, oddly; mages are obviously overpowered. But my little elf rogue could sidle around behind most enemies and just cold murder them. I micromanaged her quite a bit and left my mages and warriors to tactics.

Well, I'm not planning on buying a Wii or PS3, so I'm not interested in the games. I didn't say I don't like Wiis or PS3's. If I were to be given a PS3, I suppose I'd follow games for it more. I'd probably start with Demon's Souls, which sounds like it may be up my alley. Indeed, I sorta wish I had gotten a PS3 rather than a 360 in retrospect. It was just that the 360 was far cheaper at the time and it had Mass Effect on it. I wouldn't really call myself a fanboy of either console. I am sort of a PC gaming fanboy, though. But a lot of modern games are console exclusive or feel more comfortable being played on console. As for the Wii... I've played a number of Wii games and just haven't been interested in them, whether it be NSMB or No More Heroes.

You can go for a date with the secretary lass. But nope. Male shepard can bang Tali, jack and Miranda. Female can bang Jake(?), Garrus and Thane(I think. At least I'd be sure Grunt is out of the question, or at least Mordins sexual expertise) I like how femShep has a wider range of species options; she's a better follower of that old "Captain Kirk will fuck any alien trope." Then again, Kirk never slept with something so alien as a turian. They look so... spiky and weird. Uncomfortale to say the least. Turians just look like a species that have spines or spines in their penises is all I'm saying.

Could be, though I thought most systems beep as a warning. Out of fear, I did stop overclocking the CPU when I play Just Cause 2.

I think the depiction of Michael Jordan in NBA 2k11 was pretty positive.

Should I be concerned that my laptop just cold shut down without any warning while I was playing Just Cause 2 on it? No blue screen, no beeps, no nothing; it was similar to what happens on a desktop if the plug were to be pulled out of the wall socket.

I think the NASA one includes the Hubble images. Right now the image on my desktop is from Wise, and it's a pretty nebula.

It changes every once in a while to different picture of space. It, unlike most things in life, is soothing.

DA1 is too easy even on Nightmare. Except the goddamn spider boss in the dwarven tunnels. That things is the hardest enemy in the game and I'm not ashamed to admit that I lower the difficulty level for that boss alone.

*Fart* *looks around* *FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTT* *looks around again* Where my ladies at? Usually my thunderous and odiferous farts suffice to bring them a-runnin'. At least, Fable taught me so.

The popularity of gamerscore is yet another piece of evidence of the hopelessness of the human race.

Chicken McNuggets. I loathe everything else at McDonald's but their McNuggets. Also 5 guys is awesome, although they always would give me far too many fries and I would end up having a bunch left over or eating too many and feeling sick because I have little or no self control.

Those are pretty broad strokes. Do these include SMB3, LoZ:LttP, ICO and SotC? All Nintendo games after the N64, I suppose. I don't hate 'em or anything, just not that interested in them. I'm not a fan of the Wii, really. I blame the Wiimote and how it's terrible for anything except drinking games. I hated Smash brothers on teh Wii with a passion; I felt like I didn't really have control over my guy.

God, I forgot Pokemon and MMO's (except an academic interest in MMO launches and failed MMO's), Facebook games of all stripes, Halo, and any Japanese fetish game or dating sim.