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This weekend, I have no preference! Something catharticly violent would be wonderful, though.

A day or two warning if the game size is over 1-2 hundred megs would be really nice, though. I'd have to clear up some room on the HD 140 gigs of HD space on this laptop and only 1 of 'em is free. Really need to do a thorough cleaning one of these days.

Actually, most states in th'US have provisions for voting in absentia, usually by mail. The voting thing requires citizenship more than actual presence, and while corporations are considered people in most legal senses, I'm relatively certain they're not considered citizens in the same sense a, yanno', (adult, gotta' make that distinction for the subhumans under the arbitrary age of majority) human is. Otherwise we'd probably have to deal with extraditing non-physical entities to other nations for crimes against nature and humanity. Which would probably be interesting to watch, honestly. I'd love to see how they'd go about it.

And, o'course, that's just US copyright. Other places have other laws. There is some kind of international agreement of some sort that I know-not-the-details-of, but I'm fairly sure not every nation is on board with that.

And yeah. The lifetime plus 75 years thing is vaguely utterly ridiculous. At that point, you know that the idea-creator no longer really has anything to do with copyright itself, which is ostensibly there to protect them

*coughoperahackcoughchromecough*

Personally, I use Opera for general use, and Firefox for stuff involving plugins (Flash, java, etc). Opera deals with having 100+ tabs open a bit better than firefox tends to.

Don't really see why the user opinion matters much in browser choice, though. I've never really paid attention to that stuff, just which ones worked for me, well, and which ones didn't. Community is fairly irrelevant to things like full function browsers, yanno'?

What does this have to do with consoles? Probably not much. For consoles, community is really freakishly important... and generally pretty poor. Not that it's not poor for the PC gaming world, but it tends to be a bit easier to filter for that stuff around 'ere.

I used to be pretty fond of consoles. Then I found emulation. Now, I am patient. 5-10 years from now, I'll be doing all that 'console' nonsense on the other end of a keyboard, unless I decide to plug a controller into my comp. Until, I have pretty much everything PS2 back to play through.

In other news, with a next-gen console, you get one (maybe two or three, if there's some backwards compatibility) libraries of games to play. With a PC, you get access to over a dozen... and the PC library itself, which is gigantic and evergrowing.

But I dig the next-gen stuff. People want their shinies now, not later, and they need to jones and all that. Plus the decent stuff coming out on th'gimpboxes. Is all good. Not 2-3 hundred dollars good for the likes of me (At least nominal non-game functionality is needed to justify that sort of cost ), but it's good none-th'less.

Now if only they'd ban anyone under the age of about 20 30 40 from online play without passing some sort of etiquette test. Then all would be well.

"One of the innumerable titles in the Sim line from Maxis, this game had you running a farm. It was one of the earlier series and not as successful as SimCity. The game appears to be a direct port of the PC version, although being for the PC-98, I kind of expected the corn to sprout tentacles and molest the cows. Terribly disappointed."

No, that's not me saying that. Sums up the system fairly well, though.

Re: Latest deaths: Soul rotx4, fire, shield to the face, fire, massive electric discharge, fire, stop - hammertime, etc, etc, etc. ToME4

Both skirmish variants, yeah. The first one's map, at least, is bloody old -- Harmless Games era, iirc, which was pre-2000. The second one I saw on Freeinf occasionally, but never with many people playing. That being said, the skirms in general got less love on Freeinf's server than the more complex stuff and developing zones, though there were occasionally some tweaks and such to th'skirmish formula.

Well, th'freeinfantry stuff was pretty awesome regardless of which zone style they were riffing, in general. Understand why SOE pushed them to th'dirt (there's proprietary server code in Infantry's client, which was used in like Everquest and crap), but damn if I don't curse them for doing it. Folks were actually pushing the limits of what the Infantry engine could do and adding new features (LUA coding, ferex) and now it's just kinda' stale and static. Sad times for one of the best 2D engines (and games, imo) in existence.

Have played most of the C&C games... could probably get the free ones in short order, if I had inclination. I'm terribly not fond of C&C's multiplayer, though, so... yeah. About the only RTS's multiplayer I've played that I like less is Starcraft*

RA2 might be alright, but... I've no idea where I put the CDs for that. It's been a looong time since I've played it.

*The base game, anyway. Too much freaking twitch. The custom maps are awesome and interesting. LotR!

That, and claws have really, really, really, crappy synergy with stealth. The biggest damage boost from stealth is via stabbing, and unarmed attacks -- which include swiping critters with claws -- are in the category getting the lowest stab modifier. So high stealth + stuck with unarmed attacks = not exactly a benefit. It's not a penalty (well, the stealth isn't. Not being able to switch to a weapon for certain things most certainly is.) per se, but there's not much gain involved.

And really... Felids don't, actually, have that impressive of a stealth aptitude, unless it's changed from 0.8.0something. It's +2 according to th'game's aptitude doc file. Deep dwarves have that -- deep elves, too. There's five other species that top it: Kobolds, Halflings, Naga, Vampires, and Spriggans. Notice the proverbial 500 lbs gorilla in that list. Hint: It starts with an S. They've got the size thing going for them, which boosts stealth a bit, but... again, Spriggans.

Felids... felids really aren't a very 'good' race.  Their penalties are absolutely atrocious and most of their bonuses don't really synergize all that well. They can manage a few things alright... but so can mummies. Yeah. Yeeaaahh.