TheMightyEthan

Yeah, it's been only been unified for like 140 years.

Okay, here's a recording of me saying this:

As I tweeted earlier, my theory is that EA's plan to bring down Call of Duty doesn't involve actually making a game that sells better, it's just to so completely saturate the modern shooter market that no one wants to buy any game like that, Call of Duty included.

In our history classes it's basically we talk about Europe from the ancient Greeks up through the American Revolution, and then it's like Europe stops existing except in as much as they're dealing with the US. And here's my attempt at Europe: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9518980/European%20Map.png

So were people who got their accounts deactivated because of the MW2 thing able to do anything about it? Cause if not that sounds like class action lawsuit to me. That's a separate issue, though. That's Valve treating it as if $ = €, which they've done for a while too.

I was actually planning on recording "roof", "hoof", "too", "took" and "tuck" when I get home this afternoon. Because here "too", "took", and "tuck" are 3 distinct sounds, but it sounds like to you "took" and "tuck" sound the same.

Is it a violation of the Steam ToS to use activation keys from other regions, or something?

What do you mean, "knocking your account off"?

Well I pronounce "hoof" like "took", but it still sounds different than "huff". "Huff" is pronounced like "tuck", not like "took".

The other demo is for Shogun 2: Total War

That brings up another question: how do you pronounce "hoof"? Is the "oo" like "too" or "took"? Around here people pronounce it like took.

But I've already played all of those into the ground.

I'm waiting to decide until after the demo, but I'm very extremely skeptical.

Around here it's more like "took", though that isn't uniform throughout America.

I thought they were coming from making the combat more action-y. Well, hearing that the combat may have retained the tactical-ness bumped my interest up from "almost certainly not buying" down to "probably not buying". This news about the NPC armor has knocked it back down to "almost certainly not buying."

The real question is, is the "oo" in roof pronounced like "too" or "took"?

... That box art looks pretty bad to me...

I didn't think Mirror's Edge had a shitty story, it just wasn't a very involved story. But for a shorter game that works.

Wait, what about gimped NPC armor? Did they fuck it up like they did with ME2?

I don't think the creature is ugly...

Yeah, no kidding. I'd go so far as to describe it as "depressing", without exaggeration. It significantly dampened my mood for quite some time after I read it.

This made me so very extremely sad, especially the bolded part: I'm anticipating the Dragon Age 2 demo, and I'm very much hoping that everyone's wrong and they haven't lost the tactical combat in favor of the action-oriented combat, but I am fearful.

Due process doesn't work that way. You still have to decide which cases are so painfully obvious, then you need safeguards in place to make sure it's accurate, etc etc etc.

Well then. That's a significant drop in my interest level.

So I just checked, and both Dead Space and Mirror's Edge sold 2 million copies. Why does Dead Space get a sequel but not Mirror's Edge? Mirror's Edge has GOT to be cheaper to develop...