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it's a countdown to reveal that they will release the game sooner if you buy and/or play more games in the Potato sack.

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It was a joke.. I didn't mean it literally. You wouldn't happen to have a Stout Shako, would you?

Thinking of which, it surprised me to find out that Valve Software is not a publicly traded Company. If he wanted to, Gabe Newell could quite literally swim in a vault filled with money. I guess it means they have their freedom then, not having to bend their quality and design to accommodate the """"suggestions"""" of investors.

A common occurrence is people valuing economies more than food. Watch this fascinating infographic

I want the government to get off their butts, fund a search program to locate 100% of Earth-approaching asteroids and short-period comets (the odds of any long-period comet hitting the Earth are less than that of my being elected Dictator of the US), house-size or larger, and a space tug to go grab any threats, and then MINE the buggers for precious metals. Thar's gold (and platnum and iridium and tungsten and molybdenum - about a trillion dollars per cubic Km) in them thar astee-roids! Assuming they find them. The nearest ones are decades away, and it takes quite a lot of development money in order to make something go anywhere in space that has the intention of coming back.

I still call the kick attack the Booty dance. Lord knows why.

IT GOT UPDATES (that actualy dont ruin the game ) Updates on the PS3 and Xbox 360 version don't have updates that ruin the game.... mostly because Valve DOESN'T UPDATE THEM... FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Valve does not plan on ever updating the Xbox 360 version because they don't want to have Steam directly compete on the same system as their only Software competition for "Universal standardized Gaming Software platform". That is, if you can even call Windows Live that. Edit: Ten thousand forgivenessess, I have double-posted.

Crates don't steal your money. They encourage you to spend it. In spite of this notion, I have more than 40 crates simply sitting in my backback for lols. That or keeping crates from older Series as a collector.

What happens to the Resistance is an elementary component of the story I'm exploring in a Fan fiction currently undergoing creation. You can see the first Strip of the Prologue to it here. viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1199

Not routes, contacts. In the City 17 outlying areas I'm imagining, the only maintained infrastructure are some (not all) Combine operated rail lines. Therefore the main ways of getting around are paths, trails and rough roads that dot the landscape in-between smaller Resistance outposts and camps. Knowing the members and/or leaders of those smaller groups would be essential, and the information of all of them would be distributed as-needed for the occasion when-needed, but not collectivized into one complete legend or map of the whole region. He wasn't a cartographer, he was a cultural guru. The non-uniform person acceptance and zonal security generated is a facet of the Resistance Freeman never sees because he is universally understood and recognized. Mind you this is a world where Spying goes two ways.

And I have the initial to prove that I'm serious. _ This is the first strip of the Prologue chapter to a webcomic I will be making called The Journal of the Greenwolf. Inspired by a combination of the Half Life 2 universe in general, Christopher C. Livingston's Concerned, Machinima such as LitFuse Films' works (and Ross Scott's Civil Protection) and the movie Saving Private Ryan and created based upon several factors. First, it occurred to me looking at most of the media things made from Half Life machinimas or Garry's mod that they all had in common a frequent tone of humor. Way back in 2008 I started thinking about what it would look like to have a more serious and/or dramatic gmod webcomic. (Subverting popular depiction of Gmod being )Second, I always wanted to make one. One that would be really cool to look at, to read, for people to enjoy. Maybe becoming some variety of famous in some circles. (Okay that latter detail would be a superfluous thing but not a necessity.) Third, it occurred to me fairly early on in playing Half Life 2 that the City 17 environs and the world in which surviving humans live would be a quite bleak one, and yet this context is largely not expanded upon. We have our main characters Freeman, Kleiner, Alyx and the gang, but rebels themselves are just annoying NPCs that get in the way and tell us to reload. I rejected that notion. Rebels are human beings who have had to conspire and plan and fight and run for their lives for more than 10 years ever since the 7 hour war, and I wanted to show that, even if just a little bit. Such an idea lent itself to the second point very well because it would then reduce or eliminate the presence of Canonical characters (whose presence would make the whole comic dangerously perched close to Jossing potential.) So this is my groundbreaking. What do you think?

NICE. Damn it, I need to get a new machine... The annoying thing is that while Team Fortress 2 has these beautiful shaders that ensure characters are properly lit at any time, anywhere, Half Life 2 models do not lend themselves like that. So each element that needs focus must be individually lit and masked.

I just finished making the Prologue test piece for my webcomic. Here's panel 8 of 14.

Very true... There are some exciting parts though, but it just takes way too long to get to them without hacks... Also, I hate how it's possible to get a bad ending with the lack of a save system. Well it's nonlinear so if you play it right it has an awesome ending but if you don't, yeah. But then again there are those global variables that can skrew you over anyways.

You probably mean Jesus H. Christ, not Jesus of Nazareth, Son of Joseph, Christ and Savior of All Mankind.

Jesus is actually a fairly common Judaic name. In Israel, it was kind of like "Greg Christ of Springfield, the Messiah!", having the man named Jesus from the small city of Nazareth. It's the whole Messiah thing that was the Chosen One schpiel.

You know it's the coolest game ever, but you're the only person you know of that's ever played it or likes it. For me, Ace Combat Zero is like that. Even though it's a remarkably polished game and very famous among Arcade and Simulation based combat flight games, its somehow a quite obscure 2006 title whom people online who have played it are far between. Perhaps its because not everyone grasps the dynamics of flight games.... But what's that game for you?

It's still an entertaining one-liner when you switch the nouns around.

Jesus is a cool guy. And when faced with the question "What do you think of Homosexuals and Bisexuals [and all this unnecessarily loud semi-political hoo-haa that somehow surrounds it]?", I think of the lamest possible answer: "What would Jesus do?" Men having sex with men, women having sex with women, I take that in stride with the same sort of description as people who have an addiction with pornography or murder or misrepresent the name of the Lord or forgot to pray yesterday. Everybody's a sinner and everybody's got problems. Don't focus on what those are, focus on the real important things. Faith, Hope and Love.

You're a glass half full kind of guy ;D "He sees it as half empty. She sees it as half full." I see it as twice as large as it needs to be. engineering mentality ololo

Gordon looks at the Officer. ~ sv_cheats 1 ;wait; impulse 203 ;wait; sv_cheats 0 ;wait; save 00100 ;wait; load 00100 Looks up and sees Breen on the screen. "...ctor Breen. Why has the Combine seen fit to surpress our reproductive cycle? Sincerely, a Concerned Citizen"

Has Red Alert 2 been mentioned or thought about?

(Other reviews by me.) Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of World War II The Arrival by Shaun Tan Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Sid Meier's Railroads! Gang Garrison 2 Lego This is the best film I've seen this year. If that's not audacious enough, permit me to be even more impertinent and say that it exceeds my expectations compared to Toy Story 3. When Walt Disney Animation Studios decided they would make their 50th movie, someone said that it needed to be of unprecedented quality to exceed Disney's recent history of.... questionable quality overall. And did they ever. Tangled is the first return to the pretext of 'Princess Story' since the Princess and the Frog, and I think its the sign of Disney turning a new page in its book. The directors; Greno and Howard, have been working for Disney Animation Studios for a while now, having made some relatively-good-but-not-quite-amazing CG films in the past few years, like Chicken Little and Bolt, but this takes them to a new precedent. Tangled is a musical about Rapunzel, the girl with golden hair, who is locked away in a tower and can never leave due to her overprotective Mother Gothel, and relatively speaking, it's up to Flynn Rider to show her what she's missing and help her get over her complex of not wanting to betray her 'well-intending mother' by leaving the tower. There's a lot more to the plot than that, but this review is purposed to remain spoiler free. That is, unless you've already clicked on the Wikipedia link. Tangled manages to succeed in a way many Pixar films have and few other CG films hadn't, and how that occurs is due to the large amount of well developed characters. Each one is entirely readable and contains a breadth of variety in their personality and motion, which can be challenging to many studios. Another aspect which greatly impressed me was the animation itself. I know, it's sort of weird to say that seeing as it is an animated film just like all the others studios make, but I don't know, it's just something you get an eye for when you're an animation student such as myself. It really smacks of the clarity and exuberance you see in the quality of movies Disney made back in the Renaissance of the late 80s and the 90s like Beauty & The Beast or The Lion King. Like the animators were enjoying every frame of their craft as much as the audience would enjoy watching it. A thing that surprised me for the better was it's return to form with the movie being a musical, and it fits. My only grievance with the existence of the musical numbers is not having more of them in the movie, possibly even for the King and Queen, or perhaps a When a Felon's Not Engaged in His Employment -esque bit for the Captain of the Guards who chases Flynn. With it, he might have been a bit better developed. Without it, he becomes a bit flat, or like Inspector Javert from Les Miserables. Along that note, I quickly found it laughable how incompetent the King's men were in the context of their job. But thinking about it from the story's perspective it makes sense because the movie had enough antagonists as it was without having to add to the troubles of Rapunzel and Flynn with the soldiers actually being dangerous to any extent. As said, there are few things I could find wrong with the movie, leaving the vast majority of it a very splendid and remarkable work fit for the halls of Disney's glorious past, made present. Watch it, and if you've seen it, watch it again. The 3D version by the way, is worth it. ______________________________________________________________________ Copy-pasted (largely) from the Review I did of it last year on The Escapist).

North Korea is a distressing place...