I remember playing Theif (the first one). Around halfway through the game, after completing a half dozen "maps", I found myself in a secret basement under a church. Dark, abandoned... and of course by this time, the "theif" persona of the main character had been driven into me. Nobody knows you exist or to look for you if you go missing. Combat is not the theif's forte, with a 50/50 chance of making it out alive.

So here I am, in a secret unused basement corridor underneath an old church, at night, alone, with little more than a blackjack... and up ahead of me around the corner, I hear the familiar shuffling of chains and low moans of a zombie...

That was like 10 years ago. You want to get someone scared? Immerse them in the game, first. And take away all the guns.

Technically, the Cylons were originally created by woman. Well, woman-cylon... thing. But she's a total bitch, so let's stick with Man.

I know that if I had the choice, I'd prefer to be at minimum screened. And if I was going to turn out butt-ugly, I'd prefer that my parents designer-baby me up. The only toes I can forsee this concept treading on are the toes of the religious, who might object to "but it's playing god" or "but god made your kid a mutant for a divine reason" or whatever the hell the excuse of the decade is -- I can't pretend to be able to understand the thoughts of these people.

I stand corrected... and a little shaken... >.>

There'd be complaints, maybe, but nothing more.

Unless you live in a backwards country.

In which case you're more likely to be having this parade. Hmm.. fuels itself...

Bigotry at its finest. How did you get modded positive, let alone insightful?

A person can offer personal or semi-personal information to anyone they so damn please. In any reasonable country, sexual alignment is about as personal as your preference for coffee or tea. How the hell else are minority groups supposed to make finding the like-minded easier?

Sorry if I'm getting worked up but my predictions for the first few posts in this /. thread have been woefuly off. I was fully expecting the top post to be something along the lines of "That such a large and well known corporation situated in a supposedly free western country is so openly anti-gay and anti-rights offends the very fiber of my being. My personal belief that the world is steadily improving in human rights across the whole has been shattered".

Instead we have some guy complaining that he should be sheltered from his homophobia. Fantastic.

Mods: this isn't a troll. Don't agree with != Downrate.

The dutch had a magnificent fleet. They actually had control of England at one point in history. Then they fucked up and put an englishman in charge of the Dutch fleet. You can guess what happened next.

In New Zealand, A-list games cost at minimum $90. Some console titles go up to $130-150 (to put that in context, that's about 50-100% of the average student's weekly income). Games also tend to take longer to come out here; often few months or more. Retail chains such as EB games and the like don't seem to put much effort into keeping stock levels of the latest games (or popular games).

The result is a huge reliance on BitTorrent for most gamers.

I'd imagine if prices were significantly cut here, not only would profits include but games would increase in mainstream popularity as they enter the realm of affordable entertainment. They can't blame the exchange rate for everything; Steam is miles cheaper than anywhere else here despite the US$1.00 = NZ$0.51 rate.

I googled "jonesday.com" and it came up with the correct info.

Then I added a single word, googling "jonesday.com babies". The first three results instantly changed to slashdot comments.

No time wasting options = not a real poll

it didn't like my <8 :(
The second option was meant to be IE<8

So apparently people use IE8. I'd be interested to see a poll of ./ user's browser of choice (or lack of one).

- IE8
- IE - Firefox
- Opera
- Konqueror
- Safari
- Lynx
- Who cares as long as it works
- I browse CowboyNeal

How do you tear a beard?

Oh, you meant "off" ;)

I can just imagine the courtroom filled with whispers and gasps as the defense lawyer unveils a gold-plated chest containing a sacred scroll. "It's the legendary King Kong defense!" is heard amongst the excited whispers.

As Per gingerly removes the scroll from its tube, the whispers hush to a silence, all eyes fixed upon him. Suddenly, in one quick motion he unfurls it before him, a wave of pure awesomeness eminating through the courtroom, his hair and suit (he also may or may not have a cloak on) rigorously billowing in the rays of awesome. He then intones in a loud, firm and commanding voice The Most Excellent Words forming the Legendary King Kong Defense, as his opponent cowers ever lower in his chair, terror permanently etched into his expression.