It's Saturday night, downloaded it, configured it and get:

"Could not contact master game server to retrieve server list".

Searched their forums for that phrase, no hits. Guess I'll try again tomorrow when somebody's awake to reboot it.

I'm an ESDF guy and move forward with mouse button 2. I think it makes more sense as you get more keys to bind within easy reach. But to each their own. People should use whatever they're comfortable with.

...but it makes Ctrl / Shift quite a stretch and leave my pinky over the Windows key(!) - very bad for gaming.

I popped the Windows key off my keyboard, melted it with a lighter and gave it to my brother to place on top of his Mac with his other nick-knacks.

How do you know they weren't meth heads?

Happy New Years! Woohoo!

I still think that the soundtrack for Quake 2 is awesome.

Brilliant, I tell you.

I was thinking of getting a step ahead of all of this and simply giving people a nicely molded piece of plastic with no buttons and a pleasant ergonomic feel. Perhaps offering some colourful templates on top, for a small fee.

Then simply recording somebody else actually playing a game in hi-def and streaming it to people. It would be like renting a movie really cheap, but you don't have to do anything.

You'd get the benefits of playing the game without all of the tedious button mashing and occasional thinking. Imagine it, running down corridors, hopping into jeeps, shooting people, without the effort! A good six hours of heart-thumping mediocrity piped to your big-screen TV without any hassle. No cables, no decisions, no pesky reaction times, simply sit there with your beer and enjoy!

I'm sure there would be some copyright issues that could be ironed out with the big publishers but I think this could be the next generation of mainstream gaming.

Holy fuck. Is GT the latest incarnation of Riley? Why not just use the same nickname like the rest of us?

I love tech and hardware and all that, especially games. But has there been a game released in the last couple of years worth upgrading my computer for?

Nothing seems to interest me anymore, Spore? RA3? Dead Space? Am I missing something, or are the games not there? I'm good for Multiplayer. All the shit I'm playing now is old, or almost ten years old. I don't know what to spend my money on.

Modern games have lost their spark for me. Heck, I'm replaying Nexus right now and some old adventure games.

I agree with the eat well and get exercise program. I basically live on fresh meat from the butcher (mostly beef), potatoes/rice and a ton of veggies and beer. Plus I get a fair amount of exercise.

I've been off work the last month and a half and quickly put on a few pounds because I've been eating well and drinking while sitting behind a computer having a great time! It'll probably take a couple months of hard work to get back to where I was. Blubber is ugly.

Anyways, I don't think vitamins and saunas and that kind of crap is going to help too much. Eat a variety of fresh healthy food (nothing too extravagant) and move your ass. It's all it takes. Sure some peoples metabolisms are different to some degree, so compensate. I find when I go for long stretches of being sedentary (which I love to do) I get fatter. When I start becoming physical again, I slim up. It seems really simple to me.

I just don't get cheaters....makes no sense to me.

They have little dicks and no skill, about as simple as that I imagine.

I'm stalled on Bioshock a little past halfway I imagine. I don't know why exactly but probably because I got sick of rifling through ten million boxes to get stuff I don't really need or care about.

Plus fighting the same enemies over and over again, it almost became a chore. I hope they pick a direction in the sequel and stick with it, like make the weapons/plasmids somewhat meaningful, or just make a straight out action shooter with variety.

I like the story, graphics, setting and atmosphere but the gameplay just lost my interest. I'll get back to it and hopefully it picks up again.

As to Star Wars, I like New Hope and Empire the best, Return got corny with the Ewoks, it was a franchise without a doubt by then. The first two I can still watch on network television with commercials and still enjoy them.

The last three are a blur, but I didn't like any of them. I actually went to the theatre to watch one of them with my mom when she was visiting, (no idea which one) and I was so bored I went out for probably three cigarettes. After about an hour and a half we left because we just didn't care anymore.

Complete disappointments, all of three of the prequels. It almost seems like modern media, whether games or movies are contrived to completely bore you out of your mind. Or maybe I'm just getting old, jaded, cynical and too demanding. Not sure which.

kx you finally made me laugh out loud.

It's strange how in the year 2009, it's more complicated than ever to get your components to work together. My dad's going through this hell right now, with DRM, upscaling, cables, converters, etc.

Oh well.

No mention of nymphomaniacs yet? Or is it too obvious? One of the more common and rarely maligned addictions I imagine. Anyways, it's late, time to crash.

On a completely diferrent note, when you guys were talking about 'The Watchman' were you referring to the book published in 1961 by Davis Grubb, or is that something entirely different?

That was hilarious. Now if only the Gamespies and spots and IGN's would be so honest...

Ya vol! All the German I know I learned from RtCW.

I thought is was pretty trippy. Kept forgetting that you can slow down though. Not bad for a mindless little casual game.

I'm avoiding it like a ten-foot pole. Maybe next year if they bother to patch it, not that I was going to buy it right away anyway. I still have a few hours left on San Andreas to finish up.

Maybe Obama help will pull them out of the ditch. We can only hope at this point.

And Merry Christmas to you too!

Actually that's the one map where I like to hop on an AA on the carrier, light a smoke, crack a beer and just kick back and shoot you fly boys outta the sky. It's really quite relaxing.

Nevermind, I was thinking of 'Coral Sea' there.

But Midway is great, there are all kinds of options. If I'm burned out on doing the infantry/tank thing I like to get a destroyer and hunt subs. Or get on the battleship and blow planes out of the sky. Or grab a sub and hunt destroyers, so many things to do depending on your mood, I've spent too much time on that map, it's a lot of fun. Think I might have to jump into a game right now....