Duck and Cover

Yeah, 'cause every ship has to be named "Ass-Fucker" or "Death-Bringer", right? Read the order of battle of the American Navy, spastic. Ship names are about the tradition, values and aesthetics of the civilization that named them, not scary-sounding words. Yes, and it's the prou...

You read some Alastair Reynolds, turdburglar. You can write hoity-toity science fiction, and that's fine, but there is no excuse whatsoever for a spaceship named "In Amber Clad" that's meant to be a big threatening warship.

Also Truth & Reconciliation. I can just imagine the fear that ship inspired in the poor human armies. It threatens to... not lie and... and bring people together! We're doomed!

What the fuck kind of godawful name for a spaceship is In Amber Clad anyways?

No, this season had 24 episodes. The really annoying part is waiting 9-10 months for the next season, but at least it'll be uninterrupted.

Nice work, KoC. I haven't actually watched it yet, so I don't want spoilers, not even to its quality. But since I've never heard anyone use the word riveting in any non-sarcastic context, I don't even know if you liked it. Your post is a miracle of concise neutrality.

The last scenes of Brood War show an assload of scourges flying towards the fleeing UED fleet, actually. It's pretty clear that the whole mess gets destroyed.

Don't bother with a sound card. Any halfway decent mobo these days has integrated 5.1 audio so there's no particularly good reason to drop another hundred bucks on a sound card. And absolutely go 64-bit. Actually, you'd have trouble not going 64 bit anyways, it's not hard to find IA_64 chips these d...

I'm not sure, but I think much as races with stat penalties have a lower max, races with stat bonuses will have a higher max.

Seriously, maybe Psychosniper and Dreadnought could just kind of stay banned? Forever? And crucified?

No?

Just throwing ideas out there.

By analogy to the principle of Starcraft = Warhammer 40k = space Warhammer Fantasy, we have Protoss = Eldar = space Elves, so no worries on that count. There will be magic and elves.

Seriously, though, it's very dangerous to underestimate the threat of posts by PsychoSniper. Report all sightings to the police. Help stamp out PsychoSniper.

I can't be sure at all, but isn't that last picture the splash screen you get if your fifteen years (or whatever it is) run out in FO2? As for standing buildings not being canon in FO, I would refer all of you to the map screen of Necropolis (Bakersfield) from Fallout 1. It has many tall buildings s...

S4ur0n27 wrote:Can't they test the fucking games?

Of course! That's the solution that forty years of the greatest minds in software development haven't been able to come up with!

Oh, wait a tick. Game programmers are inbred muppets. It probably wouldn't actually have occurred to them.

jetbaby wrote:No.

I meant how the melee combat worked, how it wasn't swing, stand for ten seconds, swing again. There were filler visuals between attacks to prevent ADD from setting in.

Oh, I see. In that case, you're just stupid and wrong.

I totally nailed that assignment. Happy Halloween.

Going to work, then going to class, then doing homework.

Dum de dum de dum dum dum dum dum dum.

I really loved it. Everyone was great in it, especially Nicholson as a complete sleazebag.

The autobiographies of Richard P. Feynman are fascinating. Two volumes: Surely You're Joking and What Do You Care What Other People Think? Crammed full of awesome anecdotes about the awesomest man to ever do science.

Go Intel. Right now, they are far in the lead, and hopefully the socket or slot or whatever it is the Core 2 Duos use will still be used for a while, allowing for further upgradeability, whereas socket 939 is probably on its way out as AMD scrambles to whip out something that'll allow them to keep up.