I'm a bit suprised by all the hype as well, given Bethesda's reputation for buggy software. Guess pretty screenshots can generate a lot of attention. Personally, I'm waiting for NeverWinter Nights- Bioware's got a reputation similiar to Blizzard on its ability to deliver good games, and NWN's editor is supposed to be even easier to use than Morrowind's.
Still, I am an Elder Scrolls fan, so I guess I will check this game out... eventually. I've learned that patience is better when it comes to getting bug-free games.

It's gonna be delayed for the X-box. (Suprise, suprise.)

I'm not going to touch this game for the PC until I've seen multiple reviews saying how stable it is. Bethesda sold me it's last bug-filled game with Battlespire. Sure, they -say- they've done lots of testing, but I'll believe it when I see it.

Eek, not only do you have to register, but they throw up seizure-inducing pop-under ads when you do reach the site? Thanks for that login, I don't want those kind of ads going to my home email account...

The Starbucks guy- I was amazed to see my local Starbucks on the photo list (even though I never go there). I was equally amazed to see at least three additional ones almost as close. I had a co-worker who used to be a manager at Starbucks- when they opened another one two blocks away, it stole all his revenue. There's so many, they're competing with each other now... I'm suddenly reminded of micro-organisms reaching the population saturation point... either they're going start dying off, or (and this analogy is scarier) they're going to combine into one large macro-organism...

Eggs in the shell, and potatos without their skin cut/pierced don't do well in microwaves either. As for the microwaves themselves, there's a lot of stray microwave radiation floating around from various sources. It's not that harmful unless it hits you in concentrated amounts.

As for Spiderman, I heard the spider he gets bitten by is "genetically altered" rather than radioactive, but that's about the only difference.

The tough thing is finding spyware sometimes; which is why I use Ad-Aware (as mentioned below) and also the -free-ZoneAlarm firewall, the only firewall recommended on www.grc.com

This patent can't be real. If it is, then the US Patent office is in far worse shape than I'd already thought it was.

Actually the phrase "Death and Taxes" is a common mistranslation dating back from Roman times. It should be "Death -by- taxes".

Guys, it's poor form to go on a site just to rag about it (though that never stops anyone in these days of mudslinging- see where using politicians as role-models gets us?) Although many anonymous posters lately have had legitimate comments, this thread is seriously tempting me to click the "Don't show anonymous posts" box.

I haven't been crashing either on the main or the comments page. Then again, I'm still running IE 5.0
You're all checking for spyware, right? Nothing like some independant company running an ad server directly on your own PC for causing crashes and instability...

I heard about this Deaf Culture thing earlier, and did some research, because, frankly, the whole concept seemed far too bizarre to me. What I saw worried me- some of the people in "Deaf Culture" are convinced that being deaf makes them better than people who can hear... Now, I really hate prejudiced people, and, to me, this sounds really prejudiced (but heaven forbid I dare insult a disabled minority!) I don't care what individual coping mechanisms people use; it's good to have self-confidence, however you derive it, but don't tell me you're better than I am because of a specific genetic trait.
Those in Deaf Culture argue that because they speak their own language (American Sign Language), they should be considered a seperate culture, and the collective experience of growing up deaf gives them a cultural identity, sort of like being a member of an ethnic minority. Well, folks, lets think about this- ASL is not a written language. It's a subset of standard English, converted into a visual form. If you want to write something in ASL, you need to use standard English. That just about eliminates "Deaf poetry". You can be a Deaf poet, but any hearing person can still read and understand your work, and, if you're a good poet, maybe even be able to relate to it in some small way. Additionally, looking specifically at syntax and grammar, ASL as signed is semantically different from English as spoken (ie, verb and adjective placement, etc)- so if you try to write it down, you end up with poorly written English. This is really bad if someone was taught in ASL so exclusively that they can't write grammatically proper English (which does happen on occasion, especially if Deaf parents want to be sure their children maintain their "Deaf Identity".) This further seperates them from functioning society, which is a shame, because it doesn't need to be that way.
Okay I've written way too much already, but I seriously feel it's wrong to purposely inflict a disability on a kid. When that kid does get old enough to understand his choice of having a hearing aid or not, is he going to hate his parents for not giving him one, and making it that much more difficult to learn spoken english (and probably extremely difficult to speak it himself, without sounding "funny" and getting odd looks from those he's speaking to.) - and therefore forever carry hatred and resentment towards his parents? Or will he be so steeped in Deaf culture by then that he dispises the lowly, pathetic "hearing people"?
Forgive me if I've offended any deaf person not a member of Deaf culture. You guys probably can see how silly those Deaf people are being. To the Deaf people, fine, go ahead, tell me you don't have a disability. Just don't blame me when you walk in front of a train because you didn't hear it coming.

From the sounds of it, an ungodly amount of energy is needed to make even an elementary particle travel through time. I'd assume sending a person through time would require the power of a few supernovas. That's a bit more than 1.21 gigawatts.

Interestingly enough, when I kept trying to log on to Blues News, I would get an error page from MSN reading, "We cannot find the site, www.bluesnews.com, that you requested. Were you looking for the site www.bluesnews.com instead?" More proof of Microsoft's... well, nevermind.

As for the MEG... it sounds too good to be true. Then again, you can get power by sticking two electrodes into a lemon. Still, I can't believe this one; I'll just have to wait and see it actually working.

Can O Kickass- I dunno, maybe I'm too picky, but interaction without plot gives you a game like Black And White- fun for the first week and a half, then you figure out the AI and get bored with it.
I prefer my games to be like Deus Ex- NPC interaction AND a plot. Thats when things get interesting. Mmmmm, can't wait for Deus Ex 2...

Oh gee, just what I always wanted. A game about picking up milk at the grocery store... ON FIRE!!! (Old "The Tick" reference.)
Just because a game has guns in it doesn't mean it's fun. Call me old fashioned in my views about game design, but shouldn't there be some sort of plot? Needless to say, I don't expect much from this game...

Nah, take the egg, and smash it hard on the table. It'll stand on its crushed shell. Of course, you may want to hardboil the egg first if you don't want to make a total mess

Yet another attempt at PC (politically correct) reform that goes rather flat when implimented. Of course, who cares what insurance lawyers call something- the sailors will call it whatever they want, just the same.

Those of you who are positive that global warming isn't happening because it's been getting colder lately aren't considering that small temperature changes can seriously alter global weather patterns, sending severe storms and cold fronts into unusual areas (and creating unusually cold winters in warmer areas). Soon (geologically speaking) it could lead to tornados and hurricanes and other fun stuff (ie, look for -really- nasty weather in the next few hundred years).

If this trend's been going on for more than several hundred years (which it might have been), then it's not humanities fault- we didn't start really polluting until the industrial revolution. Nevertheless, we'll still have to deal with the weather and other effects.

I still think that near-miss by the asteroid is scarier, though...

Hell yeah, I'm psyched for this one. Been spending too much time in console land due to having a 56k connection. When I hear I can DM NWN on a 56k, well... even if I can't, it may just make me upgrade to DSL.

Hmm, I think that nearly one-up's the urban legend about strapping dear, departed granny to the roof of the car and driving home. (See National Lampoon's Vacation for a variant on this.)

frederickson, ever suspect that those popups are coming from a different source rather than BluesNews? I get no popups with Bluesnews. However, if you've installed anything from Gator or Comet Cursor, or other such programs (that like to piggyback on programs such as GetRight and PKzip), you may be running a pop-up ad server right on your own PC (I kid you not).
Check out www.lavasoftusa.com for Ad-Aware, it'll kill spyware on your PC. Also check out Portal of Evil's interesting article on this- "Where Are These Pop-ups Coming From?" at http://www.poenews.com/inhouse/vx2.htm