If you're having trouble with cities growing too fast and turning sick or unhappy (worry about unhappiness more than sickness), try turning some of your population into specialists, or onto foodless production tiles.  If you're using the automated citizen allocation, there's a button to "halt citizen growth" that'll do its best to keep the food income neutral.  Or, you can set it to prioritize production and commerce, and it will put food tiles at a lower priority.

If you found a religion it means you have that religion's holy city.  Every turn you get one gold for every city in the game that has that religion.

Just to clarify, you don't start getting the moolah until you get a great prophet and build the supershrine or whatever it is in your holy city.

depward, stop killing your missionaries!  If you can get him to a major city of an opponent, you'll have the fog of war cleared for that city and anyplace else the religion spreads to.

How can anyone buy a TV that expensive and then get the "core" 360?!  (corded controller)

The Brando Ultra Clear screen protector is really worth a try.  You have to be completely anal and make sure not one spec of dust gets between it and the screen, but once it's on it's invisible.  It doesn't have the awful distortions that you get with other kinds.

Their website seems to be having some issues at the moment, but the DS is under the PDA column in the above link.

Even if you don't go with Brando, in general it seems like the protectors that are a hardish plastic instead of a thin film are much, much clearer.

You saw that pic on someone's livejournal?

If anything ever deserved a wtf, this is it.

Lot's more information about what's going on at their thread on Octopus Overlords.

Sad, just sad.  I am happy to hear that Rich is alive, but wow, he's really a different person now.

If I understand it right, no information is being lost, it's just the domain name being changed.

Are my eyes that bad, or does that one name say tit bomb?

 :D  That's the first thing my perverted eyes saw when I looked at that screen.  Now that I look closer though I think it says 'lit bomb'

whew, so 'tit bomb' isn't taken yet?

You sick, cruel, person.

Sorry, Timmy, Christmas isn't today, it's been delayed for you.  But look at how much fun other kids are having!  Sulla's already opened all her presents!

[EMERGENCY!]

As to EMERGENCY! what is it? I have never heard of it. Ever. Does someone have a relevant link to both description of the show, movie, etc? How about links to rehabilitation facilities (it may help StarShifter out). :D

Browse through Starshifter's posts in this thread and this thread...they'll be easy to find. :)

EMERGENCY!

The Ur-Quan Masters version works just fine on my XP system.

Unreliable local FedEx guy notwithstanding, Civ IV all the way.

Using the L1 key to turn the camera towards the colossus helps me bail out of most camera issues, especially when using the bow.

Insert Dumb blonde joke here...

I guess it would help if I knew that Peter person... unless thats the fate guy...
As for deus Ex, which one sucked?

Peter Molyneux is guilty of Black & White and (although some didn't think it was so bad) Fable
A lot of people were let down by Deus Ex 2

Its Civilization...  It is good.

It's Master of Orion... it is good.
It's Peter Molyneux... it is good.
It's Deus Ex... it is good.

Did you play MOO 3?
lol

(I think that's LE's point)

haha, hilarious, great work!

Honestly, I think your trailer's gotten me more tempted to buy this game than any of the official trailers.

[The cute red-headed girlfriend (who found you and your insanity adorable) and yours truly finally saw the 2 hour pilot of EMERGENCY!]

It's official!!!
The cute red-headed girlfriend (who found you and your insanity adorable) and yours truly finally saw the 2 hour pilot of EMERGENCY!

We really liked it a lot!!!!!

We'll definitely be Netflixing THE ENTIRE SEASON because of how much we enjoyed the first episode!!

We're probably going to limit ourselves to one a week,

EMERGENCY! NIGHT

so the fun can last that much longer.

GREAT CHARACTERS!!
GREAT STORY!!
GREAT MUSIC!!
GREAT DIALOGUE!!

THANK YOU!!
THANK YOU!!
THANK YOU!!
for introducing us to the majesty of
EMERGENCY!!!
 :!:  :!:  :!:  :!:  :!:  :!:  :!: :!:  :!:  :!:

[Spoiler]

So, I'm apparently an idiot.  How the &*#% do you get on #2?  I've shot about 50 arrows into the only spot I can see light coming out of (his feet), and it doesn't do anything.  Am I missing something blatantly obvious here?

Spoiler for Hiden:

Shoot an arrow into the bottom of one of his feet where it's glowing, then you can climb onto him.

[As far as differences, if you’ve got a fast PC with a graphics card with full shader model 3.0 support, the differences should be miniscule in nature.]

This is promising to those of us wondering how PCs will be able to stack up against the 360 version:

Elite Bastards: With the Xbox 360's advanced Xenos graphics chip from ATI, are there going to be any graphical differences between Oblivion on the PC compared to MS' new console? What are some of the technologies supported by the Xenos chip Bethesda's programmers are most keen on taking advantage of?

Gavin Carter: The performance of the Xbox 360 GPU is something we’ve been extremely impressed with even going back to the alpha kits. It’s really a beast thanks to innovations like the unified shader architecture. It tears through our longest shaders like a hot knife through butter. As far as differences, if you’ve got a fast PC with a graphics card with full shader model 3.0 support, the differences should be miniscule in nature. (emphasis mine)

They better include that flyswatting game!

They're dating, apparently.

Is the game boiling down to.......shining your sword to find where to go, riding your horse there, shining your sword at the colussus for it's weak spot, climbing on it and killing it.  
Repeat. ?

I suppose if the "climbing on it and killing it" wasn't incredibly fun and original, this game would be a real stinker.

I for one am blown away by the "climbing on it and killing it."

Come on, Zekester's inner child, get him to boss #3 and make him see how cool it is to just hold L1 for a good view and see the giant monster smashy smashy!

Flashback is not a sequel to Out of this World (aka Another World).

Flashback was developed by the same company as Out of this World, it's more thought of as a sequel in spirit.

I can't wait for the bookstore to soon be stocked with Songs of Fires and Ices: A Feast for Crows.

Funny timing, I've had Star Trek IV at the top of my Netflix queue for the past few weeks.  It's been "very long wait" this whole time, and now I know it's because the Air Force has been using it for research.

But to be honest, part of feels kind of bad for killing them.  I mean afterall, what did they ever do to me?

I completely agree, I almost feel like I'm going around killing endangered species!

The solution?  I put the game's story out of my mind, and imagine that this bastard colossus has been terrorizing the kingdom for years on end.  The best armies in all the lands have been wiped out by this menace.  It's nearly upon my home village, if it isn't stopped soon, all that I hold dear will be lost.  I take up my hunting bow and my father's sword, and set off with my faithful steed against all odds to do what must be done.

Cheesy and cliche, I know, but for me it gives the fights a purpose.

Aside from the weak story, I am loving this game.

Civ IV is going to be in real time?!

Since Batman Begins is over 2 hours, you're definitely going to need at least a gig of memory.  I crammed Star Wars IV onto a 512mb stick, but I had to reaally drop down the video quality.

I followed this How-To guide, which is a bit technical. There's probably a better method out there by now.

For reference, anyone who votes yes in this poll is still running Windows 3.1 on a crappy LCD display.

Wow, this guy is really something.  From Penny Arcade, here's something Thompson just said on CNN tonight regarding Midway's football game.

"The NFL wouldn't allow it's name to be used, so that tells you something."

Never mind that whole thing about EA paying lots of money for exclusive NFL rights.

I'm just fine with there being crazy people in the world spouting off nonsense, but it's pretty scary when you start seeing them represented as "experts" on CNN.

Here's the fax, if anyone's curious:

Heh, the 0x just signifies that it's a number in hex.

Stop it!  I don't have much willpower!

I'm so very tempted.  If I wasn't just about to buy Shadow of the Colossus and Civilization, I'd buy Ossu! for sure.

I guess, but...



No 2d game today looks as bad as that.  The visuals are dated.  But somehow I have no problem at all replaying Space Quest III, and I do have a hard time looking at Majora's Mask, a game released eleven years later.

I tried replaying Majora's Mask recently, but I was shocked to see how dated the graphics are.  I can't believe I used to be amazed by these visuals!  The funny thing is, I can usually look right past dated graphics--I've replayed the NES Zelda very often, I still enjoy text-input Sierra games...  

I think old 2d games just age better than old 3d.

Shadow of the Colossus, woo woo!

Tempted by X3 too, but I'll wait for some forum impressions.

I'm debating trading in my GBA SP for a DS, and notice that it is backwards compatible iwith GBA games.

Keep in mind the DS is compatible with GBA games, but not old non-Advance GB games.

Also, the screen and resolution is bigger on the DS, so GBA games have a black border around them.  Doesn't make them look bad, they look great on the DS, but just so you know.