You rang? I think you have to have citizens to govern before you can be a government. But that's just my two cents, which you clearly asked for.

My 95 Saturn ran fine until some jackass blew a red and totaled it. Old Saturn != New Saturn. Before they got rolled into GM, they were a different car.

dammit, "site", not "cite". Proofreading fail.

The game's official cite claims "unprecedented modding tools" and "unlimited options". I acknowledge that marketing department promises and five bucks will get you a happy meal, but at the very least, they know what you want to hear.

Work web filters are nasty - has there been any mention of system requirements? Any PRAYER of playing this on my netbook?

+1, Accurate, Insightful, Etc. Sorry, I haven't been doing enough metamod, or you'd actually GET that karma point.

I =loved= System Shock, but had to bail on SS2 cuz apparently between SS1 and SS2, I became a big wuss who can't handle scary games. I wanted to be able to play Bioshock, but the demo creeped me out enough and I had to bail on that one too. But the mechanics, the environment, the suspensy-shooter peppered with backstory idea... it's all straight out of Looking Glass Games' bag of tricks.

It also moved over three million copies (I know cuz I read it on wikipedia and that's always accurate) and was a critical darling. Game of the Year awards, metacritic around 95%, perfect scores out the wazoo... it was a good game by all accounts. Sequel, etc.

There are good games being made, and just because the gaming hobby, once sole domain of the geeks, has been invaded by teenage boys and normal people (note the distinction between the three groups) doesn't mean that the whole industry is worthless. They're not all as impossible to play as Su-27 (holy god, at least give me the OPTION for the gauges to be in English!) and that may offend your sensibilities, but that doesn't mean that all games since 2000 or on consoles are totally without merit.

tl;dr - Bioshock is the spiritual successor to System Shock, and it did a ton of biz. Elitist Snob is Elitist, and is missing good games.

Rule 34a: If it exists, there is xkcd of it. Rule 35a: If Rule 34a is proven untrue, Randal is working on one.

+1, Understanding News Organizations' Business Models and "If It Bleeds, It Leads"
+1, Snarky Cynicism

Jeez, boss, get off Slashdot! News for NERDS. CIO Magazine has its own site.

I know you sign my performance reviews every year, but that doesn't mean you can invade my home like this.

No mod points, so a "me too". Fully half my comments are of the "API unexpected outputs" variety or the "language braindead a/o insane, here's the workaround" variety.
//Can't handle this elegantly due to race condition with otherFunction().
//This visual element shouldn't need padding, but doesn't look right unless you specify the following margins
//The only way to tack a listener onto this element is to do it this hacked-up way:
//IDE code highlighting gets confused with regexps - this works as it seems it ought, despite funny colors.

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You're not -old-!
      Well I can't just call you Anonymous Coward...

This guy's only hope now is jury nullification. If he can manage to sneak an RIAA hater into the jury box, and that hater wants the guy to walk badly enough to hang the jury, he can cause a mistrial. If the defendant hits the jackpot, that hater can turn the jury and actually acquit the guy.

The judges can't overrule the law, but the jury answers to no-one, and finds as it sees fit.

Harvest it for pearls, but beware the mindworms. They'll turn you crazier than Sister Miriam Godwinson.

They say if you stare at it long enough, you can see a sailboat in some weird 3D, but I'm not convinced.