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It doesn't bother me at all. I don't need every book to be written that way, but I'm quite happy with it. I will say, just for argument's sake, that doing so makes the book's focus more about the plot and less about the lead character -- the fact that the author is splitting viewpoint time...

I use Bulletproof MP3 ripper. It's done just great for me.

TwistedBishop: You kill me, man. You kill me. PS: I hear you. I imagine that there'll be a PC version someday, just like there was for Jade Empire. I just hope it isn't too late, that the field hasn't moved on to newer tech by the time it rolls around (as, arguably, it did with Jade). The only...

It's in, but "it" doesn't do a whole lot that hasn't been done before. Say somebody is giving a line, and at the end of the line, you have the usual range of responses. You now have two ways to handle that: 1) The normal way, which means that even if you hit the choice while the speaker is...

I was, from late October to late June. Now I'm off of M.E. and on an unannounced project (still at BioWare). I don't have the battle scars of the guys pulling the all-nighters for the past couple months (although as a writer, my need to pull all-nighters at this stage of the game were shaky at...

I think that Deus Ex is a great comparison. It's not a first-person shooter, but you can try to play it like one (and some few people might succeed, albeit with some pain). The way most people are expected to play is with a rhythm that goes something like "shootshootshootPAUSE, okay, I can take...

Thanks for keeping us posted, Olaf!

Yeah, I've seen it firsthand a couple of times now. I wouldn't tape it. :) Good luck! As I recall, one of the healthiest and easiest things to get labor moving along is nookie. Just sayin'. :D

Wow. I was just looking at the website today and noting that I should really update it. :) Not that I've sold anything, but I've done some interviews and moved on in my writing and such. And, well, I should be yammering about Mass Effect. Ah, well. When I have time. :) Got your story --...

Huh. Likely just me, then. :) I was actually really jazzed last time I played. Hacked a turret and a helicopter drone, then led a Big Daddy on a merry little chase -- opened fire, ran while he killed my helicopter drone, then led him from corner to corner, taking a few shots with armor-piercing...

Fire away. I write (but haven't sold) novels and have sold some short stories. I'd be happy to take a look. When you send it, could you let me know what state it's in, and where you're planning to send it? I'll crit a story differently for a potential submission to Realms of Fantasy than I...

I'm sure it is. I'm roleplaying "guy who doesn't want to use vita chambers". I did like the game's level of resource management. I was wandering around going, "Man, I can't even PICK UP any more first aid kits. I'm completely loaded down with... uh-oh..." And when the Big Daddy fight was over...

This is a bit far afield for most, but I had a good time last year, and I'm running a game again this year. The convention (now called a Festival) is called Pure Speculation: http://www.purespec.org/ I haven't figured out what game I'll be running -- last year, I pulled off a heist caper, and...

I'm playing it on the 360. Haven't had too much trouble aiming. If I'm feeling it correctly, there's some targeting assistance as well -- my camera followed somebody I was aiming at as they moved. Could have been my imagination, of course -- I only noticed it because Mass Effect did the same...

Ferret, to explain it, I'd have to know what I was talking about. :) But I'd imagined, well... I've seen ergonomic keyboards that are actually split into two pieces along the "TGB -- YHN" divide. If you took those two pieces, turned them upright so that the keys faced out, and then pushed them...

It might allow more fine manipulation with different types of grips. Like, if you're trying to reach into a tight spot to put a screw into a slot (no dirty minds, I'm thinking of furniture construction or the like), sometimes you have to either strain or switch to the opposite hand to get the...

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Could you put the spoilers behind a spoiler tag? I'm liking it a lot so far, and I hadn't planned to like it. I bought it for work research, because if everyone is gonna be saying, "Let's do _____, like they do in BioShock!", it helps to have played BioShock. :)

Yeah, I'm not sure that it's really possible to talk about this one without it becoming political.

Ditto les autres. Buy it, love it.