They’re friggin’ desperate for ideas in Hollywood any more, aren’t they? First Rampage, now Duke Nukem...

‘Dark Sun’ is excellent - I’d really recommend it. His third book in the ‘series’, ‘Twilight of the Bombs’ is very well written... but his conclusions and projections (seeing the book essentially stops in ‘08) are pretty much off the mark to my thinking.

“Overnight trips NOT in the sleeper car are torture”

Really? Hot damn! I know what I’ll be playing tonight...

Oh, you’re welcome!

You pick. Personally, I’m getting tired of the joyless crowd who act on the idea that just maybe someone somewhere will be offended, therefore THEY absolutely MUST IMMEDIATELY shut down whatever the thing is as fast and as loudly as possible. And shame the fuck out of whoever dared make it in the process as a warning…

Dang. No Portal 3, or Half Life 3.

Man, GLADos as Alexa...

No, but the armor will be more comfortable and you can eat tokens if you’re an exo. Also, Cayde’s stashes will include clean socks and fresh celery instead of the burned stalks.

Failsafe... (sigh) - way too much fun listening to the relentlessly chipper voice, then the dour personality comes out with snarky comments.

So you play a FPS to... shoot things? Yep, me too! ;)

There’s some different Cayde responses... and I had one instance of Ikora asking Cayde if ‘Anything happened’ out on Nessus when he gets kind of ... strange.

The Vex are simple Von Neumann machines - reproducing and spreading across the cosmos, with adaptations to local conditions. That seems to be about it, really.

I think people felt that once Kim Il-Sung was out of the way, things would liberalize - but Kim Jong-il kept the family traditions going and the world settled down to wait HIM out.

They couldn’t keep things going forever, right?

Then the little psychopath Kim Jong-un took over. And when a member of their elite border…

Crack pipe. Definitely crack pipe.

Does the developer get any revenue from GameStop for a resold game?

What I’m figuring is that about 75% were sold at the $60 level, the rest were discounted to varying degrees down to a lower limit of $20. So a rough average of the entire group... $45 or so. I might be generous there, depending on how much the stores discounted them to move them off the shelves. (And remember, not all…

Very true. But the costs of game development today seem to be a lot higher too. Users expect better graphics, better animation, better everything... and those don’t come cheap.

I liked DS 1 and 2 - but I couldn’t get past the demo I downloaded for 3. It just didn’t grab me the way the first two did.

Only reason I’d get one is if our current 3-year-old TV dies. And with the longevity of TVs today, I’m thinking that’s 4-5 years out.