Recent content by Tron-tonian

Honestly, I hate the question "So, your birthday is coming up - what do you want?" I have everything I want, really. My PC, while a bit long in the tooth, still runs everything I play at max. settings. I have all the toys I want. There just isn't that much that I can look at and say "MUST...

Yep. I'm willing to accept "when it's ready" on this one. If it's as good as I've heard, it will be worth the wait.

As a general population, I'm ok with Americans. Sadly, it's not your average American international viewers see on the TV. It's the wingnuts and extremists. People who talk about how the Mid-East needs to be bombed back to the stone age, that the rich are "taxed too much" (while the USA...

Of *all* movies? Zombie vs. ninja - the writer, director, producer, and one of the main roles - same guy. You knew the ninja's were ninjas by their 80's style headbands... and they were white. Oh, and coffin-fu. Worst major Hollywood film: Congo. Apes with frikkin' laser beams. Bad...

Untrained: a machete. See the Rwanda massacres for an example of what those things can do. Trained: Kukri blade - aka what the Ghurka's carry.

Why wouldn't you try it? It's *free*. That being said, if budget is an issue, why not get into something that let's you play beyond that level limit? LotRO, DDO, Champions Online, and I think City of Heroes / Villains are all F2P, and I'm sure there are even more out there. I know with the...

Pretty much what the OP said, honestly. My routine (before I quit) was: 1. Login, do dailies. 1.a. Weekly, too, if I hadn't yet. 2. Craft anything I needed to for the AH. 3. Check AH. Buy / sell as needed. 4. Logout. TL;DR - Got bored. I've been thinking about heading back and...

I don't think so. I imagine the people I know don't either. The most recent over-30 gamer I have met is a married, Islamic cancer researcher. Some other over-30 gamers I know: A cardiologist. A dentist. A videographer. All pretty ordinary folks. The dentist and I get together for and...

ME2 on Steam: $20 / $30 (regular vs Deluxe ed.) ME2 on Origin: $20 / 40 NHL09 (last PC version) on Origin: $10 With prices like that, they can count on some low, low bandwidth charges in the coming months. I mean, not even being able to beat the 3rd-party distributor on prices? That's...

Exactly why Steam is worth the trouble to install... I've been busy in school the last few years, so have not had the time to game. Mass Effect: $5 ME2: $7.99 Fallout 3: $10 Torchlight: $5 Oblivion: $5 $32.99 for those 5? That's some good gaming for minimal price. Heck, Duke4 is also...

I'm in Winnipeg, which isn't just the unofficial murder capital - it's also official. :-( That being said, I think it's still about 1/10th of the per capita of most major US cities...

Hrm... the tough part about this is that there are two ways to look at it - highly rated games that one just didn't get in to, or games that, upon further review, the general community just didn't agree were as great as the reviews. The first category is pretty subjective. I am 'meh' about...

I'm all for better AI, and have been for ages. I still recall the first time an AI surprised me. It was in Half-Life, and while shooting across a room at a military guy (who was taking cover and returning fire appropriately), his two buddies were flanking me. Now, it might have been scripted...

If you love her, love the child like your own. A friend ended up in the same boat. Kid is 20 now, and my friend is the only dad he's ever known - and a damn good one at that. So be the dad the kid deserves.

I came here to say exactly this. For those that don't know, it's basically a repurposed deep sea oil rig. alternatively, any island in Canada's north would do - it's pretty much empty up there.