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Distant Worlds is the only game that fits your criterion. There are very few (a literal handful) real-time space empire builders and Distant Worlds is the only one that isn't a combat focused game (i.e. not an rts with delusions of grandeur). I can give you a list of good games that don't meet your criterion. For non-empire building space strategy exploration games there's Space Rangers... and after that you need to go really retro with Star

Hero's Quest (as it was called before the copyright-spat-rename) was my first rpg :) Can't believe I never heard of this game!

To put it as succinctly as I can: LH makes the tactical combat fun. It was a chore in the previous games.

The resolution in prefs.ini gets reset to 1024x768 when I exit the game. I'm playing in full screen mode with a 16:10 monitor. As a workaround I set prefs.ini to read-only. But I'd rather not have to do that.

By work I mean they both work for me :) I get to play your games and Paradox's.

You compared mean as opposed to median income and then you estimated an after tax income (and I don't see how you can do that mathematically on a mean income). Which kind of ignores everything that makes this comparison interesting e.g. sweden is a much more equal society and that people do get something for their taxes (things they'd have to pay for in the US, if they can afford to). -edit- I'd look at it like this: For people

Brazil - Terry Gilliam (1985) It feels remarkably prescient today with it's theme of how humanity gets crushed by technology, procedure and information. [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeY1dxlC7Sg#t=358[/video]

Gaming capable laptops are much better than they were (they don't all die after a year now), but so are pc cases; especially mini-itx. As long as you have a desk then I would always go for a pc simply because of the keyboard + screen.

It'd be nice to see the AI play undead even if it's suboptimal.

The biggest drag on performance seems to be the cell shader effect; more-so than shadows. @Frogboy: I get better performance with 1.4 than 1.4 beta. Something I wasn't expecting.

Dark Souls, Risen 2 & Sonic Racing. Wanted some games to play with the 360 controller.

Well, ok, that was unfair on kurzweil plus I was being hyperbolic (seemed to be the tone). Now that I refresh my memory realize I was responding more to the verner vinge stuff I read and was unimpressed by around the same time (a while back). Kurzweil is a lot less dogmatic than vinge. To be specific I think kurzweil is being overoptimistic predicting that current technology (integrated circuits) is going to be be sufficient for human level cognition. i.e. his back of envelope calc is

I don't think much of kurzweil, his stuff is either trivial or confused (he doesn't even get the questions re brains and computers let alone the answers). The previous poster has it right. Any 'phase change' in our society will come as our technology approaches biological efficiency. When we get to the point where we can replace the biosphere: what do we keep and how do we make these decisions. We're going to need better ideas. I know frogboy is a libertari

Because this where these conversations always go: The reason a tiny change in the composition of the atmosphere is troubling is because only a tiny % of the atmosphere is CO2 in the first place.

LH is a "steamworks title" so it's not possible to play without the client like with FE. Steam has an offline mode, but it can be temperamental: the rules to follow are: 1) Always log out of steam manually. Don't trust windows to shut it down when you turn off your computer. 2) Create a text file called steam.cfg containing BootStrapperInhibitAll=enable ForceOfflineMode=enable and place this in the steam m

FE is DRM free even on steam under the usual definition i.e. you can run, but not install, the game without client software. LH you can't because it's a "steamworks" title with cloud storage and achievements. I would rather have passed on that stuff but presumably brad had enough feedback that it was wanted.

We (apparently) wanted achievements so LH is "steamworks" which means no playing without steam client.

Anyway! Disappointments are too many too list, but for fantasy: All time record holder has to be anything by terry goodkind. Currently I am disappointed by patrick rothfuss.

"The bible" in itself is garbage. It's poetic only in translation and any perceived genius is just the result of a millennium of brilliant minds reading into it more than was ever really there. So if by "the bible" you mean the whole body of literature then it's something worthwhile, if you mean the thing you can hold in your hand then it's a joke (and a poor one).

[quote who="Jafo" reply="6" id="3351468"] Quoting WebGizmos, reply 3Not sure what you guys are doing to your Firefox... In this end of the woods foxes are vermin....[/quote]

uh... don't reply before checking dates!

I don't see much point in anything more than single internal drive and a backup external anymore. My next pc is going to be a mini itx.

+ It was extremely straightforward to remove + This was a third party not a microsoft issue - Microsoft did nothing of themselves to bring this to our attention

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If that's your argument then why don't you wear a hardhat when you go out? Because that would be dorky whereas guns are cool? That being said... I kinda agree it's your right to carry. But implicitly with that choice, when you left your door in the morning, you accepted that "my mistakes will now have lethal consequences". If someone dies or is seriously injured because you misjudged a situation when they would not have if you hadn't been carrying, then