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I can incorporate that stuff into my script. I'm working on it right now, I have some basic functionality down so an early beta should be ready by ~Sunday.

I'm working on an eventscript for this. Should be easier to do it there than in hammer ;).

Grats guys! You deserve it!

OMG PONIES!!! Also, this clearly can't be Haggard's wife. Everyone knows there are no women on the intratubes!

Total omniscience.

I'll bring the festive C4.

It wasn't Donkey Kong foo, it was on the PC. Something like this. I think that's just a picture of a game the guy made, the game as I remember it had a monocolor landscape and the apes were a lot less detailed.... Old school stuff. My Dad used to work for IBM, Quantum, etc... so we usually had a computer.

Probably Super Mario Brothers 3 was the first. I think I remember playing it in daycare. That or it was a PC game, I don't remember the name of it. Two monkeys and you threw exploding bananas at each other and had to get the angle and power just right to hit the other guy. Then again I must've been about 6 then... So probably Super Mario Brothers 3.

Most likely suicide*. I don't believe in an afterlife, therefore if I'm right I won't be conscious after I'm dead. If that's the case then I won't be able to regret what I didn't do for a week. I can't take the experiences with me, so there's no point in carrying them around for a week only to lose them. When your death is inevitable and assured all the fun has been sucked out of life and there's no reason to continue. * I could be on the verge of an Einstein/Newton type discovery, assuming everyone else wasn't about to die as well, I'd continue to work on that for a week.

StarCraft released: March 31, 1998 StarCraft 2 announced: May 19, 2007 Blizzard simply took their sweet ass time coming back to the Diablo and StarCraft franchises (ignoring the StarCraft: Ghost abomination). Seriously, they can't milk WarCraft forever. Including Wrath of the Lich King that's five WarCraft games in a row. WarCraft 3, WarCraft 3: Frozen Throne, World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. That's about 6 years of WarCraft, the franchise is getting old. Now it's not like I'm complaining about the first two, WC3 and WC3:FT were quite possibly the best single player RTS games I've played. WoW on the other hand is just a cash cow for Blizzard. I'd like a WC4 =/. Then perhaps you're confused about what MMO means. Specifically the first M (hint). Yes you could play online (and offline), but that doesn't make it an MMO. Compare and contrast Counter-Strike with PlanetSide. There's also some differences between open and closed servers. So while Diablo 2 does share a few mechanics that typical MMOs have, it's definitely not one. Depends what you want out of the game. I personally love RPGs for the story, so I'd say yes. But if you just want a clickfest RPG where you slaughter foes by the dozens then no =). And for the record, Blizzard has always employed misdirection when they're about to announce something. P.S. - EsKon, don't think I'm picking on you. Merely pointing out facts.

Starsiege: Tribes, Half-Life 1, Goldeneye, Rainbow Six (original), System Shock 2. In that order.

No, it's because people keep buying them up. I remember when they gained popularity a lustrum ago (or more). Now the WW2 theme is getting old and tired, so they're moving on to "Modern Combat" themed games. Mark my words, you'll see five years of "Modern Combat" games and you'll be sick of them and ready for the new theme.

I don't have a problem with people talking in game. I mean it sort of depends on the game. If you're playing a match of CS:S then keep off the mic unless there's a reason to use it. If you're playing a pub game or gun game or something then a little chatter isn't that bad, but it's still a fairly competitive game. If you're playing ZM or Death Run or something similar then meh. They're social games and not that competitive, so I don't see a problem with chatter. If you start talking about your day when I'm trying to cap the bridge in Sinjar I'll probably TK you though =P. Basically the more competitive the game the less unrelated chatter there should be. However, that's not the only problem. Constant chatter in a social game isn't bad because people are talking, it's bad because it's hard as hell to understand. The three things that drive me up the wall are: 1. The voice volume. It's a continuum from barely audible to clipping. I'm unable to hear one guy so I turn my headphones up a bit then my ear drums get blasted out by someone transmitting at 130dB. That sort of thing just really drills into your skull and gives you a throbbing headache. I'd prefer it if ValvE improved the system so the voices were played within a certain bounded volume range and attenuated everything outside of it. That way if some 14 year old decides he absolutely must scream into the mic with his prepubescent voice then I won't go deaf and likewise I'll be able to hear someone with a quiet mic without adjusting my overall volume. 2. Everyone talking at once. Assuming that I don't get a buffer overflow from so many people talking and my sound doesn't cut out then I'll just hear static. Four people talking at once is the best way to assure none of you are heard or understood. In game voice really needs a priority queue for talking tbh. 3. Speakers. Fucking speakers. Please do me a favor and get a set of headphones. Feedback loops are very unpleasant to listen to and cause me to grind my teeth. I don't care if your speakers cost $12,000 a piece, get some headphones. They're better for gaming anyway. So I guess too much chatter is when one of the above three things happens (assuming it's a social type game).

I lost my virginity almost a decade ago... I'm starting to feel a bit old now. Oh well, at least I'm pretty sure I don't have any kids... Pretty sure...

Here is a similar equally funny-at-someone-else's-expense story by Tucker Max.

Oh don't lock it, this is the funniest thread I've seen in a long time!

If anything will kill off PC gaming it'll be bad DRM like this. Sometimes I enjoy console games just because I don't have to mess with this crap, just pop it in and go. As a side note, I have Mass Effect for the 360 and I have to say this is easily the best game/trilogy the 360 will have. Quite simply amazing in every way.