http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aSjf2kRIZE&feature=player_embedded#!

For the acronym-challenged , I'm looking for Strategic Command 2 with BOTH expansions, Strategic Command: Pacific Theater, and Strategic Command:  Global Conflict.

Willing and ready to pay good old American $ via Paypal.

I know the physical version of these are Starforced (!#!#@!#!@ you 1C)...does anyone know of a digital download service selling these WITHOUT Starforce?

Good.

Lee, is being a jackass a natural talent for you, or did you have to develop it?

Imagine my delight when I was in Walmart today and saw Civ 5 on the rack three days early.

Imagine how pissed off I got when I got home, installed it, and Steam wouldn't let me start it because it's before the release date?

To hell with this garbage.  If I buy it at a store and take it home I should be able to play the game, PERIOD.  Last Steam game I ever buy.

So, the Muslim investors championing the construction of the new mosque near Ground Zero claim it's all about strengthening the relationship between the Muslim and non-Muslim world.

As an American, I believe they have every right to build the mosque - after all, if they buy the land and they follow the law - who can stop them?

Which is, why, in the spirit of outreach, I've decided to do the same thing.

I'm announcing tonight, that I am planning to build and open the first gay bar that caters not only to the west, but also Islamic gay men. To best express my sincere desire for dialogue, the bar will be situated next to the mosque Park51, in an available commercial space.

This is not a joke. I've already spoken to a number of investors, who have pledged their support in this bipartisan bid for understanding and tolerance.

As you know, the Muslim faith doesn't look kindly upon homosexuality, which is why I'm building this bar. It is an effort to break down barriers and reduce deadly homophobia in the Islamic world.

The goal, however, is not simply to open a typical gay bar, but one friendly to men of Islamic faith. An entire floor, for example, will feature non-alcoholic drinks, since booze is forbidden by the faith. The bar will be open all day and night, to accommodate men who would rather keep their sexuality under wraps - but still want to dance.

Bottom line: I hope that the mosque owners will be as open to the bar, as I am to the new mosque. After all, the belief driving them to open up their center near Ground Zero, is no different than mine.

My place, however, will have better music.

C'mon, no one else picked this up this weekend?

Picked this up yesterday in their sale and didn't check first to see if it was Starforced or not.  Anyone know if it uses the dreaded Starforce virus? .  Thanks.

I was looking for a nice black theme to jazz up my Windows 7.  Anyone know of a reliable place for free themes (e.g. NO spyware/viruses/etc.) BESIDES deviantart?

I'll try it.  Thanks.

Late to the party, but has anyone actually ever seen how one of these places is run?

There are countless sex offenders out there, but the ones deemed not fit to return to society are placed in a 'civil commitment center' for treatment, which if they actually do it takes around 5 years.
During those 5 years, they are living the life off your tax dollars. They have air conditioning, directv, free medical and dental (well not free, since you're paying for it) have access to all kinds of classes like TABE, GED, CDL, and computer programming, so when they get out they have mastered a skill. They wear civilian clothes and have free roam of their little paradise city.
They have giant LCD tv's in every single dorm (usually 2), playstation 3's and xbox 360's, incoming and outgoing phone lines, psp and xbox 'multiplayer sessions' where they play against eachother in tournaments, a huge gym, a chapel, pool tables, a volleyball and basketball court. It's almost like a Hilton!
For every "resident" housed, we are paying around $37,000 annually to hold them.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg..

So yeah I agree it's good we can detain or commit these guys (sexually violent predators) but if you saw the way these kinds of places are run courtesy of your tax dollar, it'd make you sick.. you can rape and torture a 5 year old kid, and end up in a place like that for the rest of your life, should you refuse 'treatment'.

My solution? Run the commitment centers like a regular prison. At least in Florida, they have basic tv (4,7,10) they have NO air conditioning, have to wear uniforms and live in a very disciplined environment. That'd save the tax payers a lot of money if we ran them the same way.

Do you have any evidence proving any are actually run as you describe?

Anyone else unable to connect?  Went to redownload my games onto a new system and can't access.

BUMP--anyone?

Does that Greenpeace thing mean I can park my boats in front of oil freighters and cause accidents? Or perhaps picket on a boat while watching helplessly as Japanese whalers kill whales?

I bought the first one on a big sale. Wasn't all that good... if you think about how Flight sims abstract land, but realize that a boating game will take place 90% of the time over wide expanses of water... well... you get the point.

My biggest beef is the lack of a "free sail" option like Flight simulator. I should be able to disembark at Marseille and get a reasonably accurate Mediterranean experience as I sail to Algeria. But it just isn't like that at all. You have either close to Marseille (not even the whole area around the city) or open sea.

Bael

Exactly.  Saw this criticism made of the last version of the game.  Guess the developers didn't care too much.

Not DRM free though, according to their own FAQ.

Looking to pick this up DRM free--any of the download services have it that way?

I'd be into this, but aren't the HL2 and HL2 EP1/EP2 linked to your Steam account?

That looks SWEET.

Wonder if Verizon has them.

$32 shipped?

This is the new one from Battlefront, WW2 covering the entire world.   Made an impulse purchase and it's just not for me.

They're getting $45 for it, download version...I'll burn it to a CD and send it to you with the registration number for $35 shipped.

So, I go to Best Buy and pick up Napoleon Total War.  Get it home.  Try to install it.  Get error message telling me this CD key has already been used.

Doublecheck my typing.  Try it again.  Same thing.   ****.

Take game and receipt.  Go back to Best Buy.  Ask for another copy of NTW.  Get told it's not their problem, and that I need to email Steam support.

Which I have.  Three times, over the last four days.   No responses.

Escalate at Best Buy, eventually get phone call from local DM..."You have to contact Steam support."

What's Steam's rep in handling these situations?  Am I SOL and out $43?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Enjoy.  Looks good, what you see of it.  I need more Fallout 3!

The article said they were going to do it as free-to-play.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/13/haiti.pat.robertson/index.html

Guess they shouldn't have sworn that pact with Satan, huh?

Seriously, is there anyone in this country stupid enough to believe this senile old a*****e's rants at this point?

Wait, this is America, 2010.  Don't answer that.

Seriously, though, I'd love to see him say that to the faces of the poor suffering people he's talking about.  Oh wait, that's right, it's easier to be a moron in your TV studio.

F**k you, Pat Robertson.

I'm looking for the following:

Commander:  Napoleon At War
Crown Of Glory Emperor's Edition (ONLY the Emperor's Edition)
Guns Of August
Harpoon 3 Advanced Naval Warfare
Gary Grigsby's War Between The States

If anyone has any of these I'd be mucho appreciative and would pay in good old-fashioned American $.

You all have my curiosity piqued.  Can someone play with one of these with a relatively inexpensive joystick, or do you really need one of the super-duper rudder-joystick combos?

I have a funny feeling he's not long for his office...

Pulled from one of the Windows 7 Party Packs.  Unopened.

I'd much rather sell this here than Ebay it...make me an offer.

Just to clarify, this comes with one license...but you can use it to install either the 32-bit version or the 64-bit version.

Can you jailbreak the new Touch 64GB yet?  I've looked online and haven't found a definitive answer.

I'm getting an error saying I have the wrong CD in the drive, after I install it

Will this play natively in DOS mode under Win98 in Virtual PC?

I really, really want to play this...but I find the camera is all over the place.  Having trouble controlling my view either driving or on foot.

Is there any way to make the camera behave a little more--any setup that'll make it be like it was in Vice City, for example?

These were the same folks who couldn't be bothered to support 64-bit Vista or 64-bit XP for the original?

No thanks.  Better people a plenty to give my money to.

You've got PM!

So you think he gave that kid $22 million because he was INNOCENT?

You have to be joking.

This is sickening.  What do people think--he paid that kid back in the 90s $22 million out of the goodness of his heart?

He was a pedophile.  Plain and simple.  The worst kind of human garbage there is.  And they're paying tribute to him as if he was Martin Luther King.

F**k BET.

Am I going to be able to max out the graphics with:

i7 920, 6GB RAM, 512MB Radeon 4850?

I'd love to.  I have no idea how to.

As a teenager, I used to like to go into Manhattan on the weekends--I'd take my dad's monthly railroad ticket and explore the city.

One weekend, i went in, and was about to cross the street at the corner of 7th Avenue and 34th Street when I just took a wrong step, and tripped backwards.  Before I knew it, i heard a loud crack, and then I screamed in pain and fell to the ground,
because the crack was my ankle breaking in two places.

I was 15 years old.  Out of my mind with pain.  Screaming and crying.  And spent a good minute or so on the ground like that as people walked briskly by, no one wanting to help.

Until I heard a woman's voice, right next to me, screaming for police.  She stayed with me and comforted me, through the police and an ambulance coming for me.  Told me everything would be fine.  Stayed there when other strangers just walked on by.

As they were about to load my stretcher into the ambulance, I looked up, to thank her...but she was gone.

In the ambulance, as we were on our way, one of the paramedics asked if I'd known the woman who'd been my guardian angel in my hour of need.   When I told him I didn't, he told me he did, and he told me who she was.

Over the years I'd thought a number of times about contacting her.  To thank her.  Even if she didn't remember me.  But for whatever reason, I put it off, and hadn't thought about it in years...

Until I got home a little while ago and saw the headlines on Yahoo.

Rest in peace, Farrah Fawcett.  And thank yiou for protecting a scared, hurting girl when she needed it.  I just wish I'd said it to you while you were alive.

Yea, but Lee, the whole point with Spore was that they had this stupid !@!#!@#@#! intrusive Securom DRM with installation limits, but at least you didn't have to have the DVD in drive to play.

Now they want us to deal with BOTH?  Gamecopyworld, here I come...