I agree. After watching an impressive video of it chatting with the other bot, I decided to check it out. Most of its responses were little better than random phrases someone has once told it.

Of course the difference being that the "learner" in those experiments was an actor who was never in any real danger.

I've read a few of Connie Willis' short stories, and thought they were pretty good. Never heard of any of the other winners though.

I still enjoyed the movie after it was spoiled for me, but it definitely ruined the "WTF, MIND = BLOWN" moment that I would have had at the time of the twist.

How is spending substantial sums of money on in-game items of no practical real-world value any different from spending substantial sums of money on real-world items of no practical real-world value?

Some people get as much enjoyment out of EVE as you might out of a month in the Bahamas. What makes them insane and you perfectly normal?

The recent tragedy in Norway is evidence of this

Oh please, the tragedy in Norway is equivalent to the tragedy in Virginia Tech a while back.

As a gamer with a pretty weak laptop, I am annoyed that so many indie games do not let you specify the full screen resolution, and simply use whatever you set your desktop to. That forces me to reduce the desktop resolution prior to launching the game to ensure a smooth framerate.

Exactly. I couldn't care less about the real money action house because I wasn't planning on playing the multiplayer piece anyway. But I was going to make this my first game in about a decade that I'd spend more than $35 to get, and now that's out the window if I need a constant internet connection to play [b]single player[/b].

Don't have Hammer Fight, but the rest work quite well on my laptop's Intel 4500 mhd. Running Cogs at minimum settings at 640x480 for smoothest experience though.

Doesn't really matter. You paid for the subscription, you should own the content.

Huh? Do you own World of Warcraft just because you pay for the subscription?

Shhh, don't spoil the perceived irony!

Are these guys geeks?

So instead of a $10 barrier to entry, you would prefer a $100,000 minimum marketing campaign?

In order for it to rise above the crap, it will need word of mouth. In order for it to get word of mouth, someone needs to notice it before the rise. See the problem?

Life will find a way.