Did you ever check out District 9? It comes out on disc at the end of December...

Anyone remeber that other top to bottom scroller that had the same controls as Akari Warriors but you travelled through time warps/gates? That was a great game as well - I think only avail in arcade though.

I went to the dentist yesterday to end the nagging concern of my mother over my oral well-being. After a three-year hiatus involving intermittent brushing habits and copious amounts of sugar I received a clean bill of health. Suck it, lousy dentists. Doc did say I should be flossing, to which I replied, "lordy lordy lordy, I've seen the light, hallelujah, I'ma floss fo SHO, doc!" Then I took the liberty of safely dispensing of my free floss in the nearest trash receptacle.

Yeah I am probably too sensitive to such problems. As I said, it isnt really a problem. The service still works, but for me and others its noticeably slower than before the merge, especially in the account management. Log in in-game takes about 2-3 secs longer than before. account management about 5-10 secs longer.

Oh and btw, I didnt wait until the last day. It was about 2 weeks ago, maybe more. My friend and his wife merged theirs months ago, but he also instantly said that it takes longer to log in now because I asked him about how it works.

But I guess I am really extremely stupid to expect good service from Blizzard. I should put on the blinders like you guys.

If this is fear mongering, she's doing a pretty poor job of it, IMHO. Most of this is about mandated health care, which I'd think the conservatives would be all for. Right now, taxpayers are carrying the load for all those people who don't have their own health care, and are using the emergency rooms as their primary care. The mandate will make those people take responsibility for their own health care instead of the rest of us paying for them.

Are any accountancy/legalese experts able to shed some light on EA's reasoning for the hundreds of millions in "net revenue deferral" for digital content? I've read their description ("Electronic Arts is not able to objectively...") several times, but I can't work out what the $359 million figure actually represents. Are they bringing forward expected future revenue, claiming that the costs of development are one-off unusual expenses, or something else?

Change in Deferred Net Revenue (Packaged Goods and Digital Content). Electronic Arts is not able to objectively determine the fair value of the online service included in certain of its packaged goods and digital content. As a result, the Company recognizes the revenue from the sale of these games and content over the estimated online service period. In other transactions, at the date we sell the software product we have an obligation to provide incremental unspecified digital content in the future without an additional fee. In these cases, we account for the sale of the software product as a multiple element arrangement and recognize the revenue on a straight-line basis over the estimated life of the game.

Okay, here's the deal with ads.

Dumb question since i don't know about how ads work on websites, but do you get money when we click on the ads or do you just get money for them being on the site regardless of whether we click them or not?

The last time I voted, I was amazed I was not asked for any kind of ID whatsoever. I game my name and address and that was it. To me, that just screams potential vote fraud...

Today is day two of our ad-free liberation, I'm not sure if the new ads will go up today or not. If you missed it yesterday, we are no longer part of the UGO network, and our goal going forward is to not see a return of the intrusive pop-up style advertising that has driven away some readers and driven others into the arms of ad blockers.

I absolutely hate PUG tanks, more often than not they're idiots who think being a good tank means flying through disregarding the rest of the group, like whether the healer needs mana, or if people are actually ready to move on. /rant

Had one of those the other night, and the other 4 of us were ready to kill him, after he kept getting us killed on a heroic 5 man.

It's the sleeper game of the season, and I really hope it sells for them.

Fuck yes! Gonna have fun tonight, once I get home and Steam unlocks...

Here we go...

No! NO! Not yet!!!!!

Other than that, we expect this to go pretty smoothly.

Oh, we're doomed now.

Congrats to the Phillies for heading to their second World Series in as many years. Did that sound sincere? Does my bitterness show through? I hope not.