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Oh, there's never been a question about what they *want* to happen in this space. Apple, MS, Google and others are all balls deep trying to be the One when it comes to bringing full capture to the living room. The thing is, marketing weasels may or may not actually understand how real people...

Pfft, I've been in a number of Blizzard betas (and one alpha!) as a dirty Canadian.

Mount and Blade: Warband has the ability to do some epic scale battles (64 officially but up to 250-ish has been done) on local hosting! The quality can be a little sketchy at times but people have done re-enactments of famous battles and the like.

As a small aside to OneofOne and Hoss, I do own property and I do rent it out. I don't know how things work in America-land but here in Calgary, my expenses run similarly to what I said. With all costs captured (key being *all*... including my time, the risk and opportunity costs for capital...

So conflicted. I'm not going to lie though, I wish Valve was public. I'd bet on them if I could. Bah, perhaps I should apply

If rents in your city are sufficient to pay the mortgage and bills completely then please let me know. I'll 'buy' all the property I can there by making other people foot the bill. Landlords operate a profitable enterprise or at least try to do so. Typically this means looking for a return in...

It's pretty simple really or at least is simple enough if you aren't submitting any of it to a governmental agency and don't need an exact answer. If you just want to ballpark it though,take your mortgage value in totalminus the cost of the property itself. That's a decent base cost or at...

Well, it could give me a use for one of my old boxes or even an excuse to build a new box while retiring this one into SteamOS use. The latter would be completely silly of course but hey, I do silly things at times if they give me an excuse for new toys. I'm intrigued but still not sure if...

Half the mortgage less whatever equity you accrue each month. From an accounting standpoint it is fairly clear cut, there's no way she should be paying off your place for you. To do it properly, you would actually look at the present value of the average equity gain over the lifetime of the...

Right but let's be honest here, WoTC aren't *ever* going to give us full on MtG for the PC (again). I mean, damned would I love it but they are far, far too tied into their revenue model as it is (with good cause) to let the IP out there without selling the cards at their current rates. A...

Adrenaline? Hell, the guy has decent connections on some killer meth.

I think that's very likely in some manner but still, don't discount the value of Steamworks itself. Developers may or may not like Steam at times but business weasels fuckinglovethat shit. They can pull all the numbers they need to defend their existence at the next board meeting and hey, at the...

Hmm, reads like the real thing actually. It is at least plausible and honestly, I don't see any obvious discrepancies with what we already know.

I don't know, it is nicely understated.

Well, this was expected but still kinda interesting I guess. For the moment though, I'm still failing to see the problem that this solution is trying to address. I can already play all my windows games on my television, better performance is really unneeded and especially so if I am playing...

Just watched this last night. Thanks for the recommendation, I enjoyed it a great deal!

PvP: Vanilla EQ BoTBs! Circle-casting epic cleric battles never get old.

Actually, decades ago I used to play 1 through 6 whenever I bought a lottery ticket for exactly that reason. Then I thought about it a bit and realized that there would be others doing the same thing and on a win I would be splitting it too many ways. Thenl I just decided that lotteries were...

I dunno man, the devs that are cranking out cod derivative bullshit seem to do well for themselves. Well, their companies are doing well at least. I think the general rule is that if you have a successfulfranchisethen stick to what made it beloved. Innovate minimally, have a decent story and...

Ugh, that certainly was *not* my point a_skeleton_03, although you are welcome to your own conclusions of course. We suck at intuitively interpreting statistics because our brains are wired to seek patterns even where none exist. It has been a successful strategy. The answer to this is to...

The fun bit is that the odds of getting the sequences of H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H and H-T-T-H-H-H-T-H-T-T (or any other sequence of events) are identical. Our brains suck at probability.

Ha! Hey, let's be honest, no one actually gives a flying fuck about birds. If you actually live near an ocean for a while, you'd soon want to kill all of them. Preferably by covering them in oil. Anyhow. I'll cheerfully admit that no one in the Oil and Gas sector gives a shit about...

Neither is salt for the vast majority of people. Hell, for that matter... your body isn't really as fussy as we like to pretend it is. As long as the calories are inline with expenditures and you have enough protein, the rest pretty much takes care of itself. There are many, many possible ways...

Eh, it is okay but not stunning. Not sure why I stopped playing but I don't have much interest in returning I hate to say.

Well, they are also concerned that they tanked the value of an extremely valuable franchise in the eyes of many PC gamers and there are still enough of us to matter for the sales of D4 or WoD or whatever they do next with it. This way they get the cream of the RMAH cash and can still turn things...

Well, right there you are very wrong unless you mean in the mexican sideshow kinda way. Equestrian girls have great outfits and esteem/daddy issues to be exploited.

I don't know, to me the AH was a big part of the problem. When the optimal path to advancement isn't playing the game but camping the AH, something is wrong.

Yeah, the game seems like it will be a little small for this sort of thing. A NG+ mode (instead of just restarting at a higher difficulty) would be nice or just a infinite dungeon or whatever for the hell of it. It would be fun to get to gamebreaking combo levels. It almost feels like a...

This game is fantastic so far. It's really just exactly the kind of thing I enjoy. I'm not going to lie though, I haven't gotten far yet and still some of the boss fights are kicking my ass. I may break down and read some of the codex at this rate. EDIT: Ok, after a half dozen hours of...

In the actual show, the host could choose to show a goat or not. Given that he had knowledge of the contents of all the boxes **and was not forced to show a box**, this could be informative or misleading as desired. The Monty Haul scenario however is not that situation. It is clear and given...

Dear baby jesus, please rickshaw this whole mess or rename it the "Araysar trolls the shit out of everyone" thread. I'd hate to see what would happen if we were debating technically complex scenarios instead of one of the oldest (and completely settled) problems around

Well, their attempt at a closed-shop, buggy, draconian and frankly awful DRM solution/games portal wasn't well loved to say the least. uPlay was a clusterfuck.

Well, possibly so but depending on the terms they got. Console deals are strange beasts because chipset vendors are often pressured into making a valuation far below their markup in other markets simply because they want their chips to be featured. It is advertising in a sense and they'll take a...

Hey, my American friends. Two things. One, da fuck on interest rates? Two, War/NoWar all good with either but we'd like to know which k?

"Essentially, unless you're bleeding from her? More than likely the only outcome is going to be neutral if there is overwhelming evidence she is lying, or really, really bad for the man, if it's her word against the his. The system is really imbalanced right now--I've seen it first hand with a...

What? No. A euphemism is not fallacious in and of itself. It is simply the use of a less offensive term in a phrase that might otherwise contain a derogatory, profane or 'naughty' word or phrase. Example: "Don't listen to Tom, he's a little light in the loafers." Now, that may well be a core...

Ha! Well, I expected a fizzle and boredom but this is actually getting a bit entertaining. I really can't believe that they want this war but there is seriously every indication that they do. Not going to happen but this one might indeed turn into a bit of a shitstorm over it not happening.

Heading down to Vegas in a couple of weeks here and it has been a long time. Planning on the usual bit of gambling and drinking (mostly sports bet on sunday football) but not sure where is decent these days. Last stay was at Wynn and quite liked it but that was probably eight years back and...

The Last of Us (not really into it yet but whatever, no rush), King's Bounty:WotN, Don't Starve, various Ys and still some SC2. Thinking of firing up some Brood War again though or learning DOTA2 as SC2 isn't really scratching that itch well anymore and going back to BW might be painful...

I worked with a pretty decent HP plotter for quite a while. Don't get me wrong, 99% of their products are shit. Still, it was a good plotter.