Heh...I've been to Amsterdam. I'd hate to drive there. The damn city is laid out in circles... for anyone used to grids (like...well...everyone) that's got to be horrifically confusing.

The US is a very young country, hence the wider roads everywhere. Sucks when you can't tear down half your city because it's 1,000 years old.

Heh, I was waiting for the controversy

And I'm glad you can drive a real car with stick shift - automatic is just boring!

But I'd take our roads any day over a grid system, much more interesting

We usually just wait for a war to come along and destroy half of the historic buildings. There's a marked difference between the current look of the European capitals that were involved in WW2 and those where there wasn't really any fighting going on. It's one of the reasons Prague is so beautiful, barely saw any fighting (if any) and the communist regime was kinda big on the whole 'prestige' thing so didn't touch any buildings either. Instead of tearing down the old buildings to build apartments for the influx of new people they built entire new neighbourhoods at the edge of the city. Really dreary, dull, uniform apartment buildings with original names like "Jizni Mesto" ("South City") and/or streets named Severni I through V. See for yourself:
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I actually lived in one of those blocks for a month or two. About 100 metres from these, in a similar building (although these are renovated).



Just to show you the contrast, some pics from the city centre and the river










So yeah...it's kinda hard NOT to notice the difference once you're there. And it makes you want to pay the much higher rents in the city itself...if only for the esthetics.

This is kinda fun: a little game about office politics. Basically you need to deal with all the typical office opponents...in space!

Takes a while to get going and is dead easy, but ok to kill some time. And it's funny.

http://stuandrews.com/space-office-fight/

[quote]CHARACTERS

The Player

The Player, an unknown hero. Although it’s you.

Frustrated and dejected, you have stumbled into the core of the earth, which as it turns out, isn’t burning liquid magma. It’s space. And it’s full of Bosses and Management Types and other nasty things.

Oh, and you’ve got a laser gun filled with CDs.

Manager

Manager. Plentiful in this place, and easy to dismiss. However, be careful because they are Insta-Death for the unwary.

Visiting Suits

Visiting Suits. You know the drill. They’re looking at you in your cubicle, being ushered around by Management. You’re told to smile and act nice like a good monkey, and the bananas will be given out later.

But the Bananas never came! THEY NEVER CAME!

Visiting Suits move a little faster than the Manager, so watch out!

Upper Management

Upper Management. Wiley individuals, their cry is “COMPLETEâ€

Don't copy that floppy

Seriously, I'll never copy that floppy.

Lol. That's awesome man. But it's so excruciatingly LONG...I wonder if it's true that kids had better attention spans those days.

And whose idea was it to have the song interrupted by a bunch of bionic supernerds talking about how sad it would be if they wouldn't make another game because you copied that floppy? They're not exactly camera candy.

Good times. I miss the 80's. (not really)

By the way, there really is a naked ass in there. Pause it at the fast flashy part.

Scary.

More 80's scary stuff, this time including Mr. T!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_rBidCk ... re=related

Ok that was horrible, thank you mole for ruining any respect i had left for the man.

Ken Levine talking about himself, the team who worked on Bioshock and his gaming habbits. I found this in his speech:

Heh...here's to hoping Shiny's sacrifice will involve the tank, the escape vehicle and some hot coco at the army base.

But he's not lying, GOG.com is a dangerous place to spend time in with your credit card. And Sacrifice is a heavily underrated classic.

Capitalism Plus!
Blake Stone : Aliens of Gold!
Arx Fatalis! (one of the best RPG's ever, don't try it on vista tho)
M.A.X.!
[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/redneck_rampage_collection]Redneck Rampage! (so much fun)
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Not to mention the Fallout Series, Jagged Alliance series and a host of adventures of great quality (Broken Sword 2 comes to mind).

*hides credit card from himself*

oh my. im having serious fuzzy warm feelings browsing the games on that website.

Oh yeah. I remember playing Blake Stone when I was like 10 years old and didn't understand half of what was going on with the gaming being in English and all. One of the things that confused me the most were the "tokens" you would find (and then use to buy ammo and food in the vending machines you encountered).

I spent a long time trying to figure out wtf a token was. Something to eat? Ammo? Some sort of exotic alien artifact? Mind you, this was before I had internet.

Yeah...come a long way since then.

Sorry, I love PA

This is hilarious. Tim Schafer, of Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Monkey Island and Psychonauts fame, was the host to this year's GDC and his company Double Fine made a small point & click adventure based on this fact. He's in his dressing room and realizes he has no jokes...up to you to find them in old-fashioned p&c style. It's certain to make you smile and takes the piss out of Schafer himself at several occasions.


http://www.doublefine.com/news.php/mini ... ost_Master

Apparently there are up to 22 jokes you can find. I found 7 in my first run through, but might try again today at work. There are 4 different endings (no jokes, 1 joke, 7 jokes, all jokes). The one with no jokes is already hilarious.