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I was merely refuting the point that there was money behind smoking, but none against it. And it would make more sense for an insurance company to invest in anti-smoking over other things, as statistically playgrounds and beer don't cost them quite as much. On a side note, the playgrounds are...

While I have no facts to back this up, I don't think it's an unsound logical leap. Occam's Razor would point towards the health insurance companies first I think. Isn't it a bit strange that you can still smoke in public places across Europe? With socialized medicine smokers who spend the...

Just had to comment on this. There is huge money behind squashing tobacco consumption: Health insurance providers. The last thing they want is to have to pay out after someone has payed in for 40 years. That would be like offering a product or service in exchange for money!

So the goverment giving 700 billion to financial institutions and attempting to nationalize them isn't "socialist" ? It's amusing, the most insightful statement I've heard about the whole bail out thing came from a crazy homeless guy, "When I don't pay my bills the powers that be take away...

A great player base is a definite positive, but the game itself has to be fun to retain people. Also, those pimply-faced kids are a fabrication of some people's collective imagination. The WoW player base, in my experience, is dominated by people in their mid-twenties to early 30's and looks...

I don't see how someone could glean "FOOL = WoWclone" from those few paragraphs. From the information we have so far (admittedly, very little) I think the positives outweigh the negatives. From that old GameBanshee interview with Jason Anderson, it sounded like he had no immediate need to...

Great Idea! Oh wait, governments have been having the destitute fight their wars since the beginning of the game. Nice try though. @ScottXeno When you're homeless what do you fill out as your address and phone number to be reached at when you fill out a job application? Say you get...

Maybe he's got some insider info from ol' man Fargo? BN's assumption is most likely though, probably an ancient Fallout design doc. @Eyenixon God forbid someone who enjoys video games plays video games! Or an MMO designer plays MMOs! What a sellout! ;)

Madness. Prolonged alcohol abuse will destroy your liver and potentially kill you. Prolonged marijuana consumption will make you sleepy. The only negative about THC being stored in fat cells is that it can cause you to fail a drug screening for a month or longer after you've last smoked...

Simplificate is my new favorite word.

I prefer that over any other system if the the dialogue is voiced. One of my biggest problems with Mass Effect was the abridged two or three word phrase option. I would pick something expecting my character to say one thing, and he would say something completely unexpected. Having your...

Interesting article, some good debate in the comments as well. I found this point interesting: The first thing that came to my mind after reading that was a mod where you gib a child and then balloons and confetti rain down and an applause track plays in the background. Now that would...

From the sounds of it you can do just that in FO3. No ones trying to argue that you should be able to skip through the game. It's just a question of how you progress the story. No one was saying linear plot progression was a bad thing either, if that's your preference more power to you...

While it is a spinoff as BN pointed out, and does not have to follow the originals, I'd wager anything I've got that if this thing comes to light it will look, play, and feel more like the originals than FO3 does. I think SPECIAL combat could work fine in real time. Think something along...

The way it looks to me is that Interplay is letting it all ride on Fallout online. I think all the other noise they've made has just been to make it look like they have a lot of potential. As far as I know they've only hired staff for fallout online, and maybe one person to port their old...

I don't think you can really equate this news to fallout either. It's KOTOR: The MMO, not KOTOR 3. Setting an mmo in the knights universe doesn't negate the possibility of an actual sequel somewhere down the line.

As far as WoW being released when MMO's were new and interesting... that's not very accurate. MMORPGs had been around and successfull for years by then, longer if you count muds (though you can't argue they were very successfull) Ultima Online was the first big one I played, and that...

I was kind of floored that they managed to make the inventory look even more cumbersome than the original fallouts. I also loved the item descriptions and the icons for them in the inventory, both of which are axed. I also got a chuckle that fallout managed to make death animations for 2d...

Played through 90% of it at least 5 times, but for some reason I never finish. One day! I love broken toasters. And to anyone who picks it up for the first time: Axes are your friend early on and don't forget a Geiger counter!

As far as something recent you may not have seen goes, I'd recommend Persopolis. Fantastic French animated flick about a girl growing up in Teheran around the time of the Islamic revolution. Best film I've seen in the past couple years. I'd also suggest Miller's Crossing. It's a Coen...