A Cuban eating Chinese popcorn treated with chemicals the were probably manufactured in South Korea. That's probably the most "Miami" story I've read in a long time that doesn't involve cannibals or cocaine. Lordy, I miss Miami sometimes. I live further North nowadays and Orange County just doesn't have the same level…

Not a problem. Always happy to share stuff that people are interested in, especially in regard to things that aren't as well known nowadays as they probably should be.

I own Flash Point, and its a lot of fun, my kid's obsessed with the Fire Department so I got it for him. Though I will say that the Submarine fire expansion is really freaking difficult, but for a game that was aided in design by actual Firefighters, I'm not at all surprised. Maritime fires are always very difficult…

Yeah, I want something fun for personal enjoyment and to engage students with, as well as something realistic to make tabletop exercises easier and cheaper, because as I said elsewhere in the thread, Tabletop emergency management exercises are still prohibitively expensive for smaller and rural jurisdictions a lot of…

Cool. I'll have to pick it up. Might be exactly what I'm after in regards to a fun emergency management simulator. I'm always after that kind of thing, especially as after I finish my master's I'm probably going to be teaching Emergency Management on the side and any way to engage students into thinking about programs…

Okay Xeilith, I actually found two articles over there for you, the first one is about the new series, which you obviously know about but you may want to read it anyway since El Reg is British they've got a couple of links on the page you may or may not have seen, its available here. The second is about Gerry…

I hadn't heard anything about the game prior to this so that would still be cool, there's plenty of things they could be doing in regard to American Indian mythology involving backwoods Wyoming if its indeed a mystery/supernatural type of game. There were a lot of Indian tribes that lived in the area prior to the…

As long as its better than the NES game, I'll be happy. I really like the Thunderbirds myself so here's hoping.

Speaking of which, I read an interesting article about the guy who created the "Super Marionation" system they used in that series (as well as another series from the 60's which name escapes me), and how he…

I know, right? Damned false advertising lol.

But yeah, there are really good fire, HAZMAT and EMS simulators out there, I've used a couple of the EMS simulators where you have to locate, secure, and stabilize a patient and I've seen a fire training simulator demonstrated at one of IAEM's conferences a few years ago…

Hmm, I'll have to check that out. I guess what I'm kind of after is a way for students to see the Incident Command System in action in a sort of virtualized tabletop exercise with a way to scale it up to a large scale multi-state/multi-jurisdictional as well as to simulate an ICS 100 level small incident and…

There really aren't many games about the Emergency services aside from the Police, and even with games involving them outside of the older Police Quest and SWAT series they aren't very realistically portrayed so I'm looking forward to this one. Even if its not very realistic, having a game about Wildland firefighting…

Yeah, the NFL and NCAA rules for football are pretty far removed from their origins, though there are still some holdover rules from Rugby here and there, like forward lateral passing not being allowed for example, and the way that offsides rules work, its much more static in the NFL because of the way the system of…

I watch much more Rugby than American or Canadian football, and this doesn't look out of place to me at all, except in Rugby Union the person who caught it inside the try line would have most likely kicked it into touch to kill the ball and take possession for a lineout unless there was a good opening for one of the…

And what's worse is that at the moment I'm actually wearing the very same color and brand of boxers as Monsieur Penis here.

Yup. Thats a Penis.

Pretty much.

There were battle mode specific tracks/arenas based on tracks from the game but different. You had three or four balloons (I forget how many exactly) and when you'd get hit with a weapon fired by another player or an environmental hazard like a Thwomp or falling into a hole, one would pop. After the last…

Yeah I know, and Squaresoft made much better games than Square-EA and Square-Enix.

And y'know, It did say movie on the back of the gawdawful Spirits Within, and we all know how well that went.

Advent Children was good, but hearing them associate their work with film terrifies me because of Spirits Within and the…

I bought a PS to play Final Fantasy VII and a PS2 for Final Fantasy X, so I know where you're coming from here and it worries me, as does referring to them as a "movie". I associate Square-Enix and movies with "Spirits Within" (though Advent Children was a movie and it was pretty good), perhaps unfairly, but its…

I wouldn't hold your breath over that. I seriously doubt that Squeenix is interested in catering toward a minority at all as they proved (yet again) when they changed this from being a PSP game into a PS4 game. Most North American customers would be pissed if they were speaking a language other than English and I…

Hell yes, the Gauss Rifle's my favorite energy weapon from the series, though finding energy cells for it can be a real pain in Fallout 2 (You can buy them only in Shady Sands and in Vault City, and I think one other location though I don't recall where, but thats it). Taking out Enclave patrols helps as well, but at…