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Watched the E3 trailer. I felt slightly underwhelmed about it considering the vast majority of it was cutscenes and the ingame footage seemed uninteresting.

What I'm concerned about is the timing of all this. We've had this information on hand now for almost five years, and internet conspiracy theorists have been doing their thing for just as long. But now, seemingly out of nowhere, it's starting to gain a lot of momentum. Why now?

The problem with this entire discussion is that no one can freely debate topic because even the suggestion that its a conspiracy means you're insulting national heroes and are instantly and forever an unpatriotic blaspheming heretic.

Although I, too, am fairly resistent to conspiracy theories, some of the conjectures made in that video are nonetheless convincing. However, the fact that I find to be most troubling is this: 4 and a half years we still haven't "found" Osama. I think we know exactly where he is, or he's working for us. We have technology that can see people through walls, hear conversations a mile away, and satellites that can read your newspaper from space(and god knows what else sitting in the basement of some NSA lab somewhere), and most importantly, we have the best and brightest people on the face of the earth with that technology in their hands, and they're trying to tell us that they can't find 1 guy riding around in the desert? That would be almost, ALMOST believable if it weren't for the fact that he also has enough time to leisurely sit around and make movies and deliver them to local TV stations. And in these videos, he has nigh a scratch on his face or speck of dust on his perfectly white turban. It's a pretty impressive feat for a man that's "on the run" for almost five years from the best intelligence on earth to carry around a portable movie studio, makeup salon, and have his entire wardrobe regularly dry-cleaned. There's no ****ing way. I call bullshit.

Personally, I think Oblivion is a great and masterfully constructed game. It has its imperfections to be sure, but I think it has more than enough personality to make up for it.

If we go down, everyone goes down. Before all the doomsday heralds rejoice at the demise of the United States, they ought to remember that.

I don't know. From what I've read about Vista, it just sounds like WinXP with some neato skins. Am I missing something?

OH NOES!!!1!!!one!!one

Everyone just needs to give up their peace fantasies and accept the fact that people will always kill other people until the end of the human ****ing race. This is going to go on and on until all the muslims are exterminated or we are all exterminated. And then even after that, we'll find something else equally stupid and outrageous to get pissed off about and it starts all over again. It's how we've defined our entire history and all we know how to do. So get over it.

I think you're just wasting cash at this point. The 6600 is going out of style quick, and is just barely hanging on as it is. 6 months from now it'll be useless. Besides, the 4x is acting as quite a serious bottleneck on your videocard, so I'm not sure if you'll see much, or any, improvement. My advice is to just save your cash and go for a full upgrade. I just built my new comp (pretty beastly) for $800.

I finally got around to trying the 14 day trial. I quit after a couple hours. Seemed like a generic MMO with a spaceship faceplate.

I didn't read the books, and as such, am not a fan. So I wasn't really sure what I was getting into when I saw it. I thought this movie was godawful bad. The witch is your stereotypical evil lady, the kids were annoying (Let's all giggle for no apparent reason!), and the plot? Where shall I begin? *spoilers* Okay, so the kids are going to be kings/queens because of "The Prophecy"? Hmm...that's a ripoff of...oh I dunno, every story ever? Lame. And then the lion guy dies and comes back to life because of some utterly random unexplained bullshit they pulled out of the hat? He basically just gets up and says "lol the witch is such a noob." WTF?! The two girls do absolutely nothing in the movie, and the two boys who can barely hold a sword in the beginning are suddenly master combat swordsmen in the end battle with no training whatsoever. *spoilers* I could continute to cut the story to ribbons, but I'm going to stop there on account of not being a nit-picker. So yeah, I give this movie a -50/10.

Sounds like The Core 2005 Edition.

Well, hey. I don't mean to belittle you, Prez. If that's what works for you, then go for it. As long as you're happy, that's all that really matters. As for me, it just scares the shit out of me to even entertain the notion for a second. That's the only thing I'm really afraid of. That my life will go by and I'll have done nothing with it. I don't want to end up like my parents did, y'know? Killing yourself everyday in an office and coming home and getting plastered just to make your life bearable, because you're too afraid to do anything about it. There's got to be another way to go about your life than under the thumb of some oppressive ******* who gets rich off of YOUR hard work. There HAS to be more. There HAS to be something better than that. And goddamnit, I'm going to find it. Sorry if I got emotional and perhaps overreacted. That's a very touchy subject for me. And about the soccermom thing, there's nothing wrong with rasing your children. My father's wife used to be a pretty cool chick. But when she gave birth to my sister and became a full-time mommy, her life ended. Her journey is over. She is now a passenger in her daughter's. She didn't really have anything in her life before she got married, and it's like she gave up the keys before she even got in the car. And although I'm sure people disagree, to me, that's just a waste. And uh... what did any of this have to do with Rockstar?

Wow. Good job making an uncalled-for personal attack, Hellbinder. But as for your point, no, working a 9-5 job is not what I call a fulfilling life, and I'm doing everything I can to stay out of that rut that so many fall into. I refuse to be like my mother and her boyfriend: working some cubicle office job in the ass-end of nowhere, completely broken and defeated by life, just trying to make it through the day. No ambition. No desire to move forward. Just trying to make ends meet. Just going to work and doing the same shit job every day for 30 ****ing years. I refuse, and I'll burn in hell before I turn into that. Raising your kids is by no means a pointless endeavor. However, these people that I speak of Hellbinder, live their lives with no purpose other than to reproduce and die, with menial hobbies like making scrapbooks of long-gone memories of how small and innocent their children used to be to pass the time. That is one of the worst things I can possibly imagine: having boredom be your only reason for getting out of bed, and to spawn more confused and aimless clones of yourself hoping they have more luck than you did. As for me, I'm a bit young to know exactly what I want to do with my life. I do, however, have a crystal-clear picture of what I DON'T want. You hear people talk about how the years fly on by. Is it because they do, or is it because people are too willing to settle into the ordinary, and live in the fog of mediocrity? Do I want to be another guy who wakes up and realizes he's 55 and wonders where his life went? To have nothing to look back on but pictures and fond memories? Shit no.