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6 graphs, i wonder in what crappy pc and what vga he used as you can see in the screenshots the graphs are FAR better than brother in arms that came at the same date so tell me look at the screenshots and tell me which one looks better? hell this game got good physiques if you blow something up it will break , and boxes and corpses will fly on the air, juddgin by this game good perfomance and ageia physx high requirements fo the same physiques while i think those were amazing , eg brother in arms came out at th same time but it didnt even have physiques!, bulletholes are cool too!
Holy Cow, this anti-review needs a dramatic reading!
Shorthand for the literate reader:
graphs = graphics
vga = resolution
physiques = physics or perhaps “a physics engine”
Wow, this guy is serious. I thought at first he was some sort of sock puppet for the game’s (Psychotoxic) producers. I think I am wrong, this is just an emphatic fan.
If I remember, I will have to sit down and record this as a dramatic reading; it’s GOLD!
I wrote this out in various forms over the years, but I can’t seem to get it down in a way that will make me money. Maybe this will make you money.
Short Synopsis: A middle-aged social worker is left holding the bag when one of her care in the community clients goes missing on the subway after a meeting. The client is haunted by dreams of being a fighter during the crusades saved by monks of an unholy order, worshippers of a devil older than Christianity and darker than the black halls of their cloisters. The social worker enlists the help of a down on his luck police sergeant and his teenage runaway son in a search through the halls of the city’s underground and the dark reaches of the tortured mind of a man lost in time. Now the homeless are going missing and body parts are being found in dumpsters all over the city.
Long Version:
Our hero is a Social Worker, she’s middle aged, single and committed to her job. She’s smart, capable and single-minded. She is literally married to her job and has little time for social contacts. She splits her time between her care in the community office job and volunteering for local NGOs and social programs. What spare time she has is spent researching the histories of her clients, she has a voyeuristic bent that drives her to delve deeper and deeper into the pasts of the lost people who wander into her life. She keeps a telescope hooked to a webcam that she can control from her website so she can observer the streets outside her apartment at any time and from anywwhere.
The mystery man is a vagrant who drifts from care facilities to the street and back again. Violent and disruptive, he often finds himself in trouble with the law, which suits him fine as they keep him heavily medicated and trapped behind bars; where he feels safe. He is plagued by dreams of being a crusader, cutting down men in the middle east, only to be felled by an arrow to the chest. He dreams of being taken to a monastary that hides a deep and deadly sect of Faustian monks, who have dealt with devils and demons older than Christianity. He also dreams of stalking the streets of the city, unleashing these same demons on the poor and unfortunates in the alleys and subways of the city. After his last visit with the hero he has decided to seek refuge in the deep tunnels of the city, only to find that the Monks that he dreamed of are real and operating under the guise of a Charity for the homeless in the city.
The Sargeant and his son are at constant odds, typical father-son conflicts; but the son has run away and the sargeant reaches out the hero for help in locating his son in the system. The Sargeant is burnt out, sad that he has lost his son to the streets. The Son left home to try and stretch his wings and gain some freedom from his “cop” father, he meets our mystery man in the streets and befriends him. The son witnesses some of the horrors that creep from the mystery man during the night and looks for his father and our hero.
The “big bad” is a demon of the C’thulu level mythos, an old Demon who has been working with “The Order of the Whole” since before the Crusades. The Monks are led by a charismatic old monk who is a figure in the city of ill-repute. There is a vague air of menace around the order, but they are a generous charity who house and feed anyone who comes to their door. They are feeding the homeless the remains of their compatriots, used in dark rituals to commune with their demon lords.
Plot arc: The Mystery man is introduced, walking into a police station and assaulting 5 police officers in acrobatic fashion, breaking at least two arms. He is left in the care of the hero, to whom he relates some of his story (leaving out details about what he gets up to at night). She concludes that while he is violent, he needs care and he is taken in an ambulance to a sanitarium for further observation. Our hero looks into his past hsitry and sees hundreds of arrests. The mystery man is “lost” en route by the ambulance drivers, who stopped for a bite to eat. This sets in motion the events that lead to the sargeant and the hero meeting. After finding the monks, the mystery man is led by the demons to commit more and more horrors. It is revealed that he is in fact the Crusader that he dreamed about, and he has been alive these many years, cursed by the demons after he slaughtered the whole order save one initiate (the leader of the order now). It is the hero who in the end must face and defeat the whole order and the demons themselves.
I’m writing this stuff and starting to feel a bit like John Pinnette “who stole the food!?”
Corn rose as much as 3.5 percent, and soybeans, wheat and rice gained. The Midwest floods probably will cause “hundreds of millions of dollars” of damage, according to the National Weather Service. U.S. corn stockpiles may fall 53 percent to a 13-year low before next year’s harvest, the USDA said June 10.
High food prices “are here to stay” as governments divert resources to make biofuels, amass stockpiles and limit exports, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, chairman of Nestle SA, the world’s largest food company, said in an interview in Kuala Lumpur today.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=awdVeAM6F4Qs&refer=home
It’s looking more and more like transportation and storage costs are going to drive the cost of food basics up and up. By food basics I’m referring to grains, roots and vegetable crops. Those food items that require transportation in large quantities. Even local gardens are being hit hard by the weather this year, some people planning to weather any serious food price issues with home garden may need to put forth more concrete solutions, like sturdy greenhouses for year-round food production.
Suburbanites, like myself are really starting to feel the pinch of the ever-rising gas prices. Trips to visit my Parent’s house have started to stretch into the 40+ dollar mark for each trip. 40 Dollars is about my normal meat and vegetable budget each week. It’s not like I can’t afford it, but I do have to make choices now about how to spend my wages.
Add to all of this the budget crunch of debt and many of us might be looking at food uncertainty in the next year.
There has been a bit of happy-talk about Bill C-61 in the news, but I think the spin has been mostly negative, however I missed the penalties here and wanted to highlight them for you. A Million dollar fine is somewhere near $9,999,500 away from the penalties that we have been told about in the news, which makes this Bill all the more insidious. It tries to target “actual pirates” but allows for so much more trouble for end users.
What happens if circumvention is trivial, like removing a bit of tape? Are there tests for circumvention, like if the producer of the material puts too little effort into anti-copying mechanisms, can they be treated as null and void? Can already known circumventions be treated as legal as they are widely known? Who decides what circumvention is? What if the product is used in a new way that the producer simply does not like? I remember how horrified some exec staff could get when customers used Symantec products in unexpected ways (read unsupported ways). Could those customers be liable for circumvention?
Further reading is really what this bill needs, hopefully our MPs will look this over and just bow to publci pressure to abandon it; failing that perhaps the Conservatives will find their rail ready for a swift ride out of Ottawa if it is proven that they are cowing to corporate pressure from south of the border.
For more information about this subject; I recommend you keep up with news about Canadian Copyright over at Digital Copyright Canada
(2.1) It is an infringement of copyright for any person to do any of the following acts with respect to anything that the person knows or should have known is a lesson, as defined in subsection 30.01(1), or a fixation of one:
(a) to sell it or to rent it out;
(b) to distribute it to an extent that the owner of the copyright in the work or other subject-matter that is included in the lesson is prejudicially affected;
(c) by way of trade, to distribute it, expose or offer it for sale or rental or exhibit it in public;
(d) to possess it for the purpose of doing anything referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (c);
(e) to communicate it by telecommunication to any person other than a person referred to in paragraph 30.01(3)(a); or
(f) to circumvent or contravene any measure taken in conformity with paragraph 30.01(5)(b), (c) or (d).–Section 2.1 Bill c-61 (as of 12:56PM edt June 16, 2008)
41.1 (1) No person shall
(a) circumvent a technological measure within the meaning of paragraph (a) of the definition “technological measure†in section 41;
(b) offer services to the public or provide services if
(i) the services are offered or provided primarily for the purposes of circumventing a technological measure,
(ii) the uses or purposes of those services are not commercially significant other than when they are offered or provided for the purposes of circumventing a technological measure, or
(iii) the person markets those services as being for the purposes of circumventing a technological measure or acts in concert with another person in order to market those services as being for those purposes; or
(c) manufacture, import, provide — including by selling or renting — offer for sale or rental or distribute any technology, device or component if
(i) the technology, device or component is designed or produced primarily for the purposes of circumventing a technological measure,
(ii) the uses or purposes of the technology, device or component are not commercially significant other than when it is used for the purposes of circumventing a techno- logical measure, or
(iii) the person markets the technology, device or component as being for the purposes of circumventing a technological measure or acts in concert with another person in order to market the technology, device or component as being for those purposes.
–Section 41.1 of Bil C-61 (as of June 16th, 2008)
Penalties:
(3.1) Every person, except a person who is acting on behalf of a library, archive or museum or an educational institution, is guilty of an offence who knowingly and for commercial purposes contravenes section 41.1 and is liable
(a) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding $1,000,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both; or
(b) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding $25,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.
–Section 42 of Bill C-61
Third-party Flaming of a Stranger
Published by NiteMayr on June 16, 2008Jesus, who worries about the treatment of Don Adams in the new “Get Smart” except for serious nerds? Didn’t years of Inspector Gadget dull any glow people had for Don Adams?