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Rome: Total war. I bought it recently and I'm totally hooked. It is rediculous fun reducing vast Gaulian hordes to a massive field of squishy bodies and the same happening to your own Roman Legions at the hands of those dastardly Carthiginians. Massive city sieges, political maneuvering and populous management galore. There's something to enjoy for everyone.

I still don't get what so wonderful about their la-dee-da new "Aero-display". Just give me some fucking decent 32/64 fuctionality and piss off.

Sweet lord in heaven! :shock: Are you sure this isn't some kind of sick joke?

I've had to get stiches in my head twice, both when I was quite young. Once when I cracked my head against a metal pipe, and then a few years later when fell off my bike. Not cool.

The police and government already monitor much of the nations online activity - heck, there's probably a SIS agent in an underground data centre in Yorkshire looking at this very thread. Father knows best and all that.

Mid-range GFX for me! Only with model detail = high HDR on and water = reflect all. Stutters ocassionally, and FPS hogs would probably rather kill themselves, but that's the way I like it.

Those secret torture flights and kidnappings throughout Europe for a start. Stick "CIA kidnap" in the BBC search engine. Scary.

I'm not nescerrly saying that as soon as these ID cards come into force we're all suddenly going to find ourselves wearing grey overalls and sipping Victory gin, but I still do worry. The big scare of George Orwells 1984, as I'm sure many who have read it will testify, is not simply that one day the world could be like that, but that elements of Orwells horrifiying vision already exsist in society across the world. It's a vision which I would like to stay as far away from as possible. It's true, the government probably won't try anything wildly insidious with it, but that doesn't mean I should trust them with the capability to do so. I will admit that I have varying opinions on the methods deployed by the government to monitor us, but I feel it is a fundemental human right for people to live their lives with a significant degree of anonymity and privacy. I feel that ID cards encroach unnescerrly on that, and I would seriously consider to refuse to carry an ID card if ordered to do so.

I don't like these. I just fail to see what they will achieve. It almost just sounds like another new form of identity theft waiting to happen and it will undoubtedly be hugely expensive to implement. I daren't even hazard a guess of what the government will do with the information that could be potentially avaliable to them. Potentially the government could track your every movement, everything you buy or sell, everyone you meet, every phone call you make or message you write (although they do some of that now). I know it's all just Orwell-esque conspiracy theories, but for me, the whole thing still doesn't fit. The whole point of ID cards seems to me to be to collect in one place a raft of information of any one indvidual, and that kind of knowledge could award someone immense power and control. I simply don't trust anyone with that kind of power. I'm not willing to take that risk.

Me and my fellow asmatic whisky enjoying socialites will be positively frolicking in celebration. Although the ban will already soon be comming into force in Scotland anyway (where I currently stay) it's great to know that soon I'll be able to go into any pub in any part of the country and enjoy a large Famous Grouse without the fear of quite literally choking to death. I like pubs, and would have enjoyed them more in the past if it weren't for the smoke. I've got nothing against people who do smoke, but it's generally not a pleasant habit to have to be around, especially in a public place. Besides, there's nothing to stop anyone from enjoying a ciggie in the comfort of their own home or in the open air.

Urgh, it isn't the "Emo culture" that's to blame. Some guys just become an asshole. It just seems to happen to some people. For example, a couple of people I know has been on the "Emo" side of things for a while, but they are still perfectly nice, pretty cool, decent people. I another guy who I used to be very good friends with however (who is a massive anime' fan/obsessor - a veritible otaku) has been just a total ass to all around him, ever since he went to university. He's just an arogant, drunken, self centered prick now.

I intend to get into an MMORPG soonish, but I fancy something just a little different. Wadda ya' think - Eve Online or City of Heroes/Villains?

I'd love to see some kind of shape-shifting Pikmin character. The Pikmin would all join together to create some kind of big bad-ass giant killer Pikmin of doom. Olimar needs to be in their too, maybe in tandem with Louie a la' Ice Climbers. Also Reggie, stomping and spitting fire 'zilla style. That would be cool.

Being a werewolf, I think I'll just settle for tearing around Paris at midnight in my canine form, praying on young couples with amarous inttentions in cars. Then again, I do that most nights.

People doing good things and bad things, being open minded, liberal, closed minded, conservative or extreme has in my view got no excusivity as to with wether or not they are religious. There are many devout Christians, Muslims, Seiks, ect. who are little short of tree hugging free-loving hippies, and many atheists who are just violent dickwads. The opposite of both is also true. All people are individuals, and remain so regardless of if they are part of a religious community. Believe it or not. As for the newspaper that started all this, they did apologise, but not until it was far, far too late.

Shhhhh! Don't jynx it!

These characters are supposed to have depth?

It's a pity real life isn't more like Murder She Wrote. Approximtely three days of some old hag trundiling around interviewing people before finally devising an ingenious and totally correct soultion to the mystery, despite the fact she still has absolutely no evidence to back any of it up. The perp always comes quietly though. Why? Nobody knows...

This one works best in a crowded bar or on the dance floor: *"Accidentally" lightly knock/kick girl, ideally on some seggestive body part if possible* "Oh I'm sorry, here, let me kiss it better..." Inspired by a true story.

Happy birthday Ashely! Hold on, I'll go get the chips and dip. *Dons a black thong and grabs pike and net.*

I'm pretty sure they have to show their faces when moving in and out of passport control. Also I think most hijabs are just like head scarves, as opposed to those full body affairs. Where's Fierce_Link when you need him?

Most of what khilafah is rubbish. That would be like saying all Christians and the Ugandian LRA are one and the same. I think he has a point about the total ban on religous cultural symbols in French schools though. The French government's ironically religious devotion to the secular state is proof positive that atheism can itself be fundementalist, even to the point of extremity. Also the intellectual bitch slapping between the "free speech" supporting European newspapers and the "outraged" press in the Islamic world continues on it's own pointless and inane path. Apparently a newspaper in Iran intends to release cartoons satirising the Jewish holocaust. This whole exercise is now officialy, totally pointless. We'll all laugh at this when it's all over. You see if we don't.

Whoa, that's tough Raining_again. Now I'm sitting here feeling like a pretty lucky fuck that I haven't had to deal with this kind of shit in my life (so far). I honestly can't imagine how I would handle it if one of my mates got hit by a car.

I just thought it was slightly ironic that you were threatening to commit acts of violence against people who were threatening to commit acts of violence.

What? Sony make great TVs. Furthermore, you can't play video games on projection TVs or else they may damage it. A stand alone projector doesn't have much calrity, unless you also have a big wall and a screen board. And where to install the projector? Go get yourself a nice HD flatscreen.