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[quote]There's no Christmas in Texas?[/quote] Yeah there is, and the leaves are just starting to turn colors. It's beautiful.

[quote]Now I want to complain about people getting Kansas and Texas mixed up. [/quote] I think it's because both have sucky football teams.

Driver writers in the industry are horribly understaffed and underpaid (gee...you think there might be a causal connection between the two?). The problem is, if you're skilled at writing drivers, then you're probably also skilled at writing kernels, and kernel writing will earn you $180k a year. Even a bad kernel guy will be better off doing that than writing drivers.

Classic axiom in gaming: if you're getting smoked, lower the difficulty. Then you master that, then you gradually get better and defeat the beasts who pwned you before. I don't always know how you do that in online gaming, but you have to find a way.

I guess this thread does not bode well for Linux zealots.

Well anyway, thaks for letting me know not to waste my Date Night for the week on Immortals.

The whole pagan thing is an old wives' tale. Martin Luther started it when he saw the beauty of the stars shining behind the tall trees, snow-covered. He wrote a poem about it. Not too long thereafter Germans were putting candles in trees as "stars". Needless to say, candles in trees are not exactly safe, so naturally Christmas lights followed thereafter. No doubt this is going to spark a bunch of debate over the origin of Christm

ssssshhhhh!!!! We don't have Christmas trees anymore. They're all Holiday trees now. Don't want to offend.

[quote]But...as long as Hollywood thinks a good fantasy-epic film is nothing more than a metro sexual actor with lots of a body oil accompanied by a fetching actress with a plunging neck line and show of leg--followed by a ridiculous "Mana-o-Monstro" CGI fight and no plot at all...well, not much hope there.[/quote] Sounds a lot like the movie Eragon. Wannabe film, totally unoriginal plot (boy tames dragon and kills wizards with him? Wow! No one ever thought of that b

[quote]And you did this Diety feat playing against 14-15 other AI PLAYERS? or did you just cheat and play against 1 or 2 computer opponents?? lol Gaming the game is no victory. Play the game at MAXIMUM DIFFICULTY with ALL the AI PLAYERS and tell me you beat it. lmao[/quote] Dude, you sound like one of the poorer sports who got beat online. Rules are rules. If it's legal and someone uses it to win--including if that player is not yourself--it's called a fair g

The Geek's Christmas Tree

If Civ III and IV had good tactical battles like in Rise of Nations or Total War, ohmigosh that would be like crystal meth. I would live for the face-offs between two mega-stacks-of-doom. Only problem would be that that is hard to implement, having to deal with all the technology levels and unique units. Plus the really early tactical combat such as scouts vs. animals would be just silly. Civ is already insanely long as it is: I know a girl who broke up wit

I don't think it's so much a matter of people before profits as it is, profits before honesty. If the banks and government would just be honest, both the people and the profits would take care of themselves.

Oh, I know how strategic MP, tactical SP could work: co-op only. If you had 4 players online taking on AI, fog of war (including not seeing each other's every move), now that would be interesting. And that would be enough to say you have MP. Next step up would be to allow for all humans to take their turns in parallel--also interesting, but the developer would have a lot of multi-threaded race conditions to work through. And vice-versa:&nbsp

MHO, but MP for TBS just makes zero sense to me. It's hard to match up opponents when both parties have to commit to more than an hour of time. Just committing 1 1/2 hours to a single game like you do in Sins seems to severely erode interest in MP. Sins MP...boy...now there's a hot cauldron of online activity. MP in Starcraft 2 makes sense because it'll

I've got hundreds of dollars in games in the garage wasting away in 100-degree heat that maybe I played once. Sometimes you buy a game and it's a dud. I spent $130 on a video card just so I could play Supreme Commander and ended up not even liking the game. Did I complain? No...I laughed about it. That's life--get used to it. The lesson to learn is to browse forums like these, Gamespy, IGN, and Gamespot before buying.&nbsp

Just comments in general about basketball video games: my how our generation is wussing out. Rather than go on the PS3 and pretend to play basketball, GO OUTSIDE, pick up a ball, dribble it, shoot it, and PLAY SOME BASKETBALL.

I do not appreciate having to go through your download client in order to run your own games, where they can track it. When you download, it should have an option to put an icon on your desktop, you should be able to run it entirely locally on your machine, and it's none of anyone's #$!#$##!! business when or how often you run it.

[quote]I like the graphics, its very HoMM for me.[/quote] If by HOMM you mean HOMM1, I can assure you HOMMV's graphics are definitely NOT HOMM1 !

Actually, there are a few people on here who sort of did. Seriously. Like myself, I was technically still a HS sophomore for about a week after I started college. I drove back from college to take my finals. In fact, I highly recommend it: if you are talented at all, drop out of HS early and take college for dual credit. Our public school system sucks. The only way I see HS being better than college in any way is if you're also a stude

Sleep is relative. In college it's overrated: every minute in the day or night is a minute you could have spent sleeping. There is no day or hour when you are any more or less likely to be asleep. Then as a dad, sleep becomes hugely important. As in, you are soooooo close to getting to sleep, soooooo close....then...DENIED! I had a teammate in college once who was a new dad. The result was not pretty.

Sure was a quick match between me and Froggirl. Frogboy, you and Froggirl didn't.... ?

Make that another $50 I saved by reading this forum first.

IMHO wargaming at the tactical level has never been better than now, but it's because of RTS. I remember for the longest time there was talk of putting Advanced Squad Leader to a computer game. That was never going to happen--the rules for ASL were soooo complex, no one was ever seriously going to code that. So some people looked into it (Atomic Games, I think?), and they just said to heck with it all, just do a squad-level RTS. And along came Close Combat. T

Back in the 80's, 1UPT was just about all there was. All the Avalon Hill and SSI wargames were 1UPT--and these were on 5 1/4" disks, CPU's were measured in megahertz and memory in kilobytes. I don't particularly remember the AI being any worse than it is today. I think it was easier to deal with the AI than it was how to design the UI to handle stacks. They didn't have a mouse and 3-D engines back then.