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A great way to be a pain in the arse is to say you do not accept the terms of the EULA and demand a refund. The part of the install where it says, "I agree"--just don't. And then you go to the store where they say "sorry, we don't issue refunds", and you just say, "the hell you don't". Like Best Buy will say, "we only issue refunds for unopened software". But you have to open the software before they ask you to agree to their license

[quote]Disabling AI spouses?[/quote] I try giving her a credit card. Works in real life.

[quote]Lets not forget expanded vs extended memory...god who thought that shit up.[/quote] I was an Apple guy. Not only do I have no recollection whatsoever of expanded vs. extended memory, but I got to use more than 8 characters to name my files. Imagine that.

Um...no. Chime in with your own artist's rendering of a herd of Chick-Fil-A cows charging down the highway wearing pink panties and halting traffic. What do you think you're supposed to post there?

On Gamespot, the user reviews probably draw more weight, especially if a lot of users review it. Those are at a 6.3, with only 380 reviews. Everyone may want to chime in.

Dang you sure that computer doesn't have a couple probes and a voltmeter on it?

Brad likes Avatar? Dammit. I want a refund now. Both for Elemental and my Avatar Blu-Ray.

The price/performance of those AMD Phenom II X6's I find a little too hard to resist.

I remember playing War at Sea, which I believe was a predecessor to War in the Pacific and much easier to play (it had only sea units). I very much remember Wizardry. I spent many summer days off of school where I would get up, play Wizardry, go to bed. I've still got virtually all the spells burned in my brain: Halito, Katino, Mahalito, Lahalito, Tiltowait, Malikto, Matu, Di, Madi, Kadalto.... Loved Proving Grounds, killed Werdna.

I guess I am what you would call somebody who made the right decision. I didn't pre-order or do beta, and I was going to wait for the 9.2 review on Gamespot before I ordered. I did the same thing with Red Alert 3 and CnC4, and guess what: also the right decision.

I remember Tactics II. Very simple game: you had counters, and they had different values depending on what military age you were playing in. Kind of like a cross between Civ and Stratego. I played against my Dad. I lost. That's a lesson in life I learned quickly. Now when I play a game against my son, I'm gonna whup him.

No need to call it a post mortem. The project's still on and Elemental ain't dead.

I'm seeing 256Gig SSD's coming out soon for just over $400. That's what's keeping me out of flash--the capacity's just going up so quickly, the prices come down so quickly.

Hey hey don't be threadshitting now.

GD you're just jealous.

I was 7 when I was playing the cassette game Sink the Bismarck. After I won the game I saw that it was written in BASIC. So I hacked into the game and gave myself 12 turrets--bet you didn't know some WWII battleships had 12 turrets, did you? Then I realized the game was too easy, so I coded in more British battleships. The British were throwing their entire Royal Navy at me, and I sunk them all.

Early 80's were 5 1/4" floppy disks. 3.5"s were out by 1984 when the Mac came out.

[quote]threadshitting[/quote] [e digicons]1*[/e] [e digicons]:grin:[/e] That term needs to go in an unofficial computer dictionary of terms somewhere.

Man, you guys are ooooooold! Still have any games on cassette tape? [e digicons]:O[/e]

Stardock just needs to lower their nose and git her done. I've been in this position before: wide user base, very passionate users, users who will do anything they can to pressure you or manipulate you into what they want--and different users want conflicting things. It's actually a GOOD sign: it means you're a leader. Going on the forums only gets you all defensive, and you wind up spending all your emotional and mental energy think

[quote]Sometime last year there was an issue where a game sold on Impulse called Warlords Battlecry[/quote] Now there's an example of a screwed up release. WL:BC was one of the awesomest RTS games ever--but Warlords:Battlecry 3--ohmigosh--archers didn't work. That was such a blatantly obvious bug, I don't see how they could possibly have tested the release version. Picture playing Warcraft 2 with your melee units working but all your ranged unit

There were layoffs at Stardock. That doesn't have anything to do with the forums.

I was hopelessly addicted to HOMM3 but hated HOMM IV.

I'm liking Galciv2:ToA the best for TBS. For RTS, I'm liking SC2 the best, but that could just be a phase. I just got it. Rise of Nations:Thrones and Patriots had me awfully hooked for a long time. King's Bounty I love, but it's not really TBS or RTS. Or even RPG. It's kind of its own thing. NOT a fan of the Civ series. The problem is the game just takes so bloody looooong. One turn in

[quote]I think Elemental suffered from a strong programming discipline overwhelming the design and art aspects of the game. It's not bad in itself but it is bad, as you mention, when it starts to take away from some of the other important things in the game. [/quote] Interesting you think that. I've been thinking the exact opposite: NOT strong programming discipline. I'm not fascist when it comes to coding standards--and believe me I have met P