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Comment Re:Pfft. (Score 1) 308

by Faw (#32360410) Attached to: Video Gamers Have Power Over Their Dreams

I've only had one lucid dream, the problem is that the excitement of realizing I was dreaming woke me up.
One thing that happens to me often is sleep paralysis. You feel an evil presence around walking at you and you can't move. The first time it happened was horrifying, but now that I know what it is things go more like 'Great, it's you again, screw you evil presence'.

Comment Re:Goddamnit. (Score 1) 955

by Faw (#32323680) Attached to: <em>Lost</em> Ends

The island wasn't purgatory, the flash-sideways was.

  • Jack died in the bamboo field, as he sees the plane leaving the island.
  • Hugo became the new guardian and Ben his second, when they eventually died (who knows how long after Jack died), they meet up the others in purgatory (flash-sideways), that's why Ben said "You were a great #1" and Hugo says "You were a great #2", it seems they spend a long time together guarding the island after Jack died.
  • We don't know what happened to those in the plane (reached land lived a long time, crashed in ocean, ...), but they eventually died and meet up in purgatory.

Comment Re:Where's my computerized credit card? (Score 1) 216

by Faw (#31788450) Attached to: <em>Warhammer Online</em> Users Repeatedly Overbilled

Interest? No credit card charges interest if you pay the balance promptly every month. If you're responsible, using a credit card for *everything* is in every way better than using cash or debit.

This.

I was one of the over-charged ones, but I paid with a credit card so not worried at all, I pay all internet related stuff with credit cards, the less people touching my bank account the better.

BTW it seems this happened before (2008) so at least they are experienced dealing with this problems.... :)
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US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum 1324

Posted by samzenpus from the come-get-you-some-learnin dept.
A US judge has granted political asylum to a family who said they fled Germany to avoid persecution for home schooling their children. Uwe Romeike and his wife, Hannelore, moved to Tennessee after German authorities fined them for keeping their children out of school and sent police to escort them to classes. Mike Connelly, attorney for the Home School Legal Defence Association, argued the case. He says, "Home schoolers in Germany are a particular social group, which is one of the protected grounds under the asylum law. This judge looked at the evidence, he heard their testimony, and he felt that the way Germany is treating home schoolers is wrong. The rights being violated here are basic human rights."
PC Games (Games)

EA Shutting Down Video Game Servers Prematurely 341

Posted by Soulskill from the sixty-dollar-yearly-fee dept.
Spacezilla writes "EA is dropping the bomb on a number of their video game servers, shutting down the online fun for many of their Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 games. Not only is the inclusion of PS3 and Xbox 360 titles odd, the date the games were released is even more surprising. Yes, Madden 07 and 08 are included in the shutdown... but Madden 09 on all consoles as well?"
Businesses

EA Shuts Down Pandemic Studios, Cuts 200 Jobs 161

Posted by Soulskill from the say-goodnight-folks dept.
lbalbalba writes "Electronic Arts is shutting down its Westwood-based game developer Pandemic Studios just two years after acquiring it, putting nearly 200 people out of work. 'The struggling video game publisher informed employees Tuesday morning that it was closing the studio as part of a recently announced plan to eliminate 1,500 jobs, or 16% of its global workforce. Pandemic has about 220 employees, but an EA spokesman said that a core team, estimated by two people close to the studio to be about 25, will be integrated into the publisher's other Los Angeles studio, in Playa Vista.' An ex-developer for Pandemic attributed the studio's struggles to poor decisions from the management."

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