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Everything I've heard about CoD WaW basically says it's CoD 4 in WW2. I'm also putting it on my short list as IMP CoD 4 was one of the best shooters in years. Anyone still play WoW? I'm a casual fan, mainly because I didn't care for the Burning Crusade expansion pack, but that's about to change. I went and got the new one (Wrath of the Lich King) and I gotta say I'm very impressed with the new areas. It's much more "WoW-like" - old medival style castles/keeps, big mountains and trees, viking looking dudes with long hair and battle axes. So far so good.

We just started up Disc 1 of season 3. I love how the menu opens with Frank saying "I'm gonna trip balls!"

for someone who couldn't get into oblivion, is fallout 3 worth picking up? I hear that even if you aren't into the main story element that it's still a decent FPS.

I though the reactions were hilarious ("Woo! Yeah! Change! Everything is diffrent now! Woo!") but the rest of the episode was lame. They could have done so much more.

I can't believe he was 66. Up until about 5-6 years ago I read every single one of his books (Airframe I think was the last). Timeline and Jurassic Park are my favs. Lost World was a good book...too bad it was a terrible movie (though same with Timeline)

Don't you think they might have stopped "intimidating" once a video camera was shoved in their face? What other purpose does carrying a night stick serve btw? Who carries one around in the middle of the morning, let alone on an election day.

I can never remember how to embed a video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCeD1RcJjAg

McCain vote here in Chicago just north of Wrigley. I also voted against the Constitutional Convention (waste of money), for recall voting (how nice would that have been recently), and mostly Republican for everything else (a few green party throw aways mixed in). This was my first time voting in person on election day. I think it's terrible how complicated the ballot is and I can see why people can get confused. Also, my polling place had about 25 people in front of me, but it still took over an hour because the three judges were more concerned about their coffee and socializing than getting people through the line. I would also say that of the 40-50 people I saw there, probably 90% were under 30 (got there at 7:30am).

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 31, 2008 -> 10:43 AM) How much are you offering? Lol, I dunno. I thought I could get a 360 all set up for under $350, but the more I look into it the more it's looking like it'll be a $500-600 dollar investment - pro system (300), extra controller (40), wireless adapter (90), game (60) and a year of the online membership (50). That's insane to me for a system that's 3 (or 4?) years old and is nearly guaranteed to break on me.

So who's got a 360 they want to sell me? Fable 2 looks pretty sweet. Anyone get it?

QUOTE (Texsox @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 07:52 PM) Interesting, they said the same thing about audio CDs. Yeah but I think there are a lot of differences. For one the price point is greater. The draw with mp3's is that you could buy one song for a buck instead of a whole CD (half of which or more usually sucked unless you really liked the band) for 15. Second, there's not the worry of losing digital content because you can just back it up on a cheap cd using a recordable cd that every computer has (an option that was available when mp3's first started to come out). Blu-ray playable drives for computers have just hit the market and are still expensive. It'll be years before you get a recordable version that comes shipped with your PC. I think too that you'll see a greater use of blu-rays in video games. It holds something like 10 times more capacity than a standard dvd. Microsofts next machine will most definitely be a blu-ray for that reason alone.I'm not saying downloadable content isn't the future, but I think it'll be beyond the life cycle of the blu-ray.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 02:54 PM) And you don't see the memory being cheap enough in the next year or so to compete? I think people will always cling to the physical part of purchasing a movie or game (at least I will). MP3's are cheap, but when you start talking about $20-30 (or $50-60 for games), people want the security of knowing it can't simply be deleted by accident or out of necessity.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 12:27 PM) Maybe that's an occurrence which came up. It's a good plotline. He has a choice to make in which he would be in a ton of power, cast whoever he wants for movies and for movies he wants to make all while making 10 million a year. You forget though, he runs his own agency right now, he's his own boss and Vinny and the guys are basically his best friends. Plus his wife doesn't like the fact that he would be working with Dana Gordon if he did take the job. There are a ton of people who rather live comfortably with friends and family than live an extravagant lifestyle. I mean he already has a Ferrari, a nice huge house, could buy his family anything they want. So what more else is there? Yeah but that whole line about him being his own boss isn't true right? He might be the main guy of the agency, but financially it's all backed by one of his partners. Plus, he'll be the HEAD of a studio. The only person above him would be, you guessed it, the guy that is financially backing him. On top of that, Ari's character has been ALL about money and status. I have to think that becoming a studio head gets you both of those. I found that storyline intriguing, but I do think it was a bit out of character for him to say no.

I thought I read on espn.com yesterday that they were NOT going to try and sign him. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3669977

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 06:30 PM) Dean had everything to do with this. Dean was instrumental in working hard to get a candidate in every district in Congress, a candidate in every Senate race. Dean went and helped the Democratic party start working with the people who make up the party, not the people who "funded" the party. Dean brought an idea to the DNC that had long not been the case - he wanted to see every state matter for the party. And by and large, these reasons are why states that shouldn't be in play, are in play. Obama became the nominee, in part because he represents the Dean wing of the Democratic party. If Clinton got the nod, Dean wouldn't be the chair, and we wouldn't really be talking about a hugely expanded playing field. Because that's not how her wing of the party operates. I guess I didn't realize the Dem party was that bad before he took over.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 06:36 PM) The Dems were running as fiscal extremists in 2000? Guess it depends on how you define it. I remember Gore running on a platform of balancing the budget and keeping taxes as they were (i.e. not cutting them). He also hit hard on socially extreme policies (national healthcare, environmental reform, etc).

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 06:01 PM) It really depends on what the Republican brand wants to become. If they want to move towards being economically conservative while being socially moderate, Palin is done and the Republican party will come back strong. If they want to move away towards economic conservative thought while moving their party more socially conservative, then Palin will become powerful and the Republican's are going to struggle to gain back congress as most of America I believe will reject social conservative thought. I personally think if the Republican's get hammered this election that Palin will be done and that they are going to start distancing themselves from the Christian Right. But thats speculation. I agree. The party has to get back to the middle. For the same reasons the Dems lost in 2000, the Repubs lost in this one. Extremism (either fiscally or socially) is not a winning strategy. I've been ashamed at what my chosen party has been the last 6-7 years.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 05:58 PM) Let's assume for a moment that the polls are accurate and the Republicans are in for a bloodletting next Tuesday. Bigger Dem majorities in the House than we've seen in 50 years and 60 or so Senate seats for the Dems. After the 04 beating the Dems took, the first thing to come up was the election for the DNC. A bunch of the people who were sick of the way things were being run out of Washington in the party banded together, put out a "50 state strategy", and picked a guy who wanted to head a strategy like that, Dean. The Repubs and Fox news naturally went after the Dems, "They're lurching left", "Yeaaargh!", and so forth, but in hindsight, the strategy wound up working. I have a very hard time believing Dean did anything to deserge credit for the turn around. It's pretty simple to me: Mix (1) very well-spoken young politician (boosting interest in all elections, not just the prez one) and (2) an old moron 2-term president that nearly everyone believes (either rightly or wrongly) has blown up the country and it's future (causing an association of all other people with "R" next to their name - 6 years of a Republican congress that did nothing but back him hasn't helped). Everything about the shift from Republican to Dem in the last 2 years is a result of Republican's becoming more and more extreme. I have a feeling that when government becomes all Dem, nothing will get done, as the extreme left and moderate left battles it out. They're Dems afterall (see: last 2 years). I'll give this 8 years tops before the country is back to true Republican values - smaller government, less spending, lower taxes.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 12:13 PM) Yeah, so you know she's banging him in real life right? Im not so sure Jerry is that different from Turtle. Banging? For real?

QUOTE (shipps @ Oct 28, 2008 -> 11:37 AM) Yeah me too.Hearing her talk dirty really was enjoyable with it sounding so genuine on top of that. Meh. That line at the end where she says "Yeah, well I woulda f***ed him too" was ubber-lame. Sorry, not believable in the slightest that she would do any of that with Turtle. It would have been much more believable if the hand job would have happened an episode or two down the line after they got to know each other. I'm in the camp with those that think the show has gone from a must watch every Sunday to a forced watch. At the end of last season I was ready to drop it from the Sunday night line-up, but I kept with it, if only to see the hot girls. So far I've only been slightly repaid for my investment in it. It seems like every other episode is entertaining (the best this season have been the Ari episodes...as per usual) My big complaint is that the show hasn't evolved at all. It was cool in the beginning because it was a show about 4 "normal" guys who live out every guys' fantasy - single with tons of money and tons of hot chicks to bang. Then it got into some stupid plot elements with Vince, and absolutely no plot development with any other character (nothing too serious anyway). Basically they've kept this mold without changing, but at this point it's just getting old. The "wow" factor of the first season has completely warn off - we need something new. I don't have a problem with E, at least they've tried to do something with his character (though still not enough if he's truly the main character... if he is why didn't they have Ari become the studio head and have E step in as Vince's agent?). Turtle is quiet enough that he doesn't bother me. The worst is Drama. He's the most annoying character with his rants about nothing. It made sense for him to be the "know it all" in the first season, when Vince was a new star and big brother wanted to talk about his experiences in Hollywood. But at this point Vince is ten times more famous (and successful), so it's just stupid (and annoying) for Drama to keep up with that schtick. I get that that's his personality, but at some point in real life someone would have told him to shut up. Plus he constantly whines. It was funny at first, but like everything with this show, it got old.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Oct 28, 2008 -> 12:51 PM) I'm really sick of people calling higher taxes on the wealthy "punishing success", it drives me wild. It's not like the more money you earn the less money you take home, if you're banking $600,000 a year you're still going to be pretty well off in both Obama and McCain's tax plans. Except that the issue really isn't about whether it's fair to tax people who are well off more than others - obviously that's the case now and it's not going to change. The problem is, with an economy like ours right now, does it makes sense to take the money that's going to grow the economy (the rich's riches) and put it into ADDITIONAL government services, which won't help but a small minority of people? Average joe gets 1500 bucks in tax savings, which he'll prolly use to pay down bills. Above Average Tom gets hit with an extra 25k-30k tax increase, money that he might have used to invest in other companies or to start his own business. That's not a recipe for creating jobs and getting us out of the rut that we're in.

I don't think this was the best of the season, but that scene with Dee and Charlie dry-heaving at the comedy club had me rolling on the floor. "So what's with those hands-free sets? Those are weird huh? BAAHHhhh"

anyone following this closely? Is this likely to continue so long as the economy keeps "tanking" (pun most definitely intended)?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 12:26 PM) For heros, I am not sure how they could have done it, but for me, it just took them too long to get to where they are at now. NOW you can start to see the battle lines. Why did it take half a season to get there? And for the love of God could they just PLEASE kill off Mohinder, or however you spell that name? Heroes has to be the worst show in the history of TV. To start out with such a great premise, great production value, and just a great first season, and to end up where it is now? Terrible. The writing is just absolutely horrendous. They simply forget about certain characters (the senators wife and kids? the cheerleaders boyfriend?), they kill the coolest characters (how could they kill Adam so quickly? The villian they spent a whole season covering!), and they allow the worst characters to stay on (someone already mentioned Mohinder, and I totally agree). Moreover, there's simply no point in watching the show consistently. If you did you'd be given a complete mess of plot, with characters switching sides for no reason at all (Syler is going to just stop his killing/brain collecting spree because he has mommy issues? Seriously?!). On top of all this, I think that actor that plays Peter is simply the worst actor ever. And he's on screen 50% of any given episode. I gave the show two episodes this season to bring me back. Now all I do is watch with my gf (who still believes there's some hope there) and laugh for 60 minutes.

lol, so at the 1:35 mark there's like a 12 year old kid that has the voice of a 45 year old. I take it someone was missing in this performance?