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I love Top Gear. Especially the episode where they destroy the Prius.

Someone once said "Beware he who tries to limit your access to information, for in his heart he fancies himself your master." I also understand the necessity of sometimes immediately censoring things durring wartime or other serious event, but no rational government should engage in routine...

I shall never touch Vista. Hell, as it is I can't stand Media Center. Fortunately I don't have it (it came on my ladyfriend's laptop... her X-mas present was XP Pro). If I ever do need a new OS for whatever reason it will have to be some Unix-based thing. I'm technical enough to understand...

Sometimes with weird weapons like knuckle dusters or grenades you will have to set the weapon prefference to "none" in the combat settings. The other restriction is what animation frames somebody has. This can make certain NPCs a pain to equip, especially Sulick, which is why I never bother...

Some CD-ROM drives have better tolerances than others. Modern DVD drives are particularly finnicky -I have a DVD-ROM an a CD-WORM drive and if ever the DVD drive won't read a CD the CD drive can sometimes make it work, especially with odd, old, or burned CDs -naturally its capacity to burn...

I shall add that yes, for certain, Doctor heals hit points. More than First Aid, even. But it's good to train both skills (use the books to train First Aid even if you have to pay for the books) since you can heal yourself more in a given time with them. You may think you can just rest but...

This happens to me on my IBM laptop with Fallout 1 only. Quitting and starting the program again works just fine for me -your mileage may vary. I have no idea why it happens on my machine, nor do I have any reason to pursue it any because the fix is so simple. But if that doesn't work keep...

A nice way of doing this would be to have an occasion in the game where you need to blow up something from afar -it is defended, or whatever reason. A group or individual has a mortal laying about. If the PC put enough points into Big Guns he can just fire the mortar and finish the task...

Anti-material and Anti-tank rifles spring to mind. Remember, the weapons in the Fallout world evolved to deal with an armored foe, so something like a Barret Light Fifty would be an ideal solution. Mortars might also be considered "big guns", and, while you can easily pack a mortar around I'm...

Herve Villichez AND the frog mask that strangled people from Dr. Phibes? !!! I have to check this out...

Civil Defense triangle lives on in the logo of the Civil Air Patrol. (Circle with triangle and a propeller inside) Now I think nobody will know the two are related.

This frosts me to no end in some games... I loved being able to wax someone I disliked when I was finished with him... So what's the one exception (not that I need another game until the semester is over... :) )

I hold out more hope for the pen 'n' paper game than the MMO game. I admit there's a small percentage of a chance (like hitting a deathclaw in the dark with a pipe rifle and a crippled eye) that it will be something interesting, but since the setting almost runs completely contradictory to such...

The working geiger counter idea is cool -with the way solid state stuff is these days no doubt some Chinese firm can churn them out on a single board for a pittance. I'd like to see a real printed manual in a nice binding, a map printed on paper made to look like a road map that's been folded...

Shadowrun was on both the Genesis/MegaDrive AND the SNES.

Shadowrun was supposed to be great. I've got a Genesis (USDM name for Mega Drive) kicking around somewhere... I think... or I gave it to Sam...

Great! That would almost get me to play WoW. Almost. It is priceless in concept though.

Felix the Cat was a great game. Anyone ever play "YO! Noid!"? Buddy of mine had that ages ago. Legend of Zelda is classic.

ADOM is better than NetHack. That said, NetHack runs on my Dell Axim, which is fun. I have to agree with Per's assessment of Fallout 2 over Fallout -I can't even paraphrase it and imrpove it any "I dare say that anyone who'd rate Fallout over its sequel is thinking of something other and...

I'd agree that VC is the best, hands down. It fixed all the problems of 3 without actually causing more. Sure you still couldn't swim or climb, but it's not like anything new was broken. VC had the best story line and the best characters. Tommy is priceless, Lawyer Ken Rosenberg is his...