What is it with MMORPGS and stupid names with pointless apostraphes? I mean, it makes it harder to type, and harder for me to complain while still spelling apostrohpes wrong.

And there was a gray haired redshirt once.

He must have been a wily one.

I reckon that’s why they give the rookies red shirts – hides the blood stains.

Nothing is certain except death and respawns.

What if someone is standing on the tel exit? – IT counts a KILL with extra gloating rights (i dont even need to shoot you to kill you). ENGIS FTW

What the hell are we being existential for:
DIABLO 3!! RED ALERT 3!!!!!! LEFT 4 DEAD!!!! (and thats a years supply of excalimation marks spent lol. (damn should’ve planned ahead wanted a couple there as well))

P.S for some science to those who thought i might be a troll – we are all different matter to that which we were years ago, so a tel would just do what happens normally over a very short timespan.

The fart noise has undermined many once promising moral philosophies.

I imagine that Kant would have had serious trouble if Yackety Sax had been discovered at the time.

Star Trek transporters largely get around the primate moral issues by doing it atom by atom.

It reminds me of a great scene in a Richard Morgan book where two clones of a man get drunk together, weighing up their relative experiences in order to decide which one gets to live on.

Which one is you? Is it the one on the pad? And if it is, wouldn’t ‘you’ be dead if it had worked right? As Justice says, from an outside perspective you’ve got a man who remembers being teleported, but is that what it’s like from the inside, or is it just lights out?

Disappointingly, no Star Trek transporter malfunction episode ever grappled with these issues.

What if we haven’t got a teleporter working yet, but we can use the same technology to rebuild any part of your brain should it be damaged in an accident? What if a car crash crushes a third of your brain, and the machine rebuilds it? Have you died and been replaced, or is it still really you? What if, on the way home from that operation, you crash again and the other two-thirds of your brain are crushed – rebuilt in an operation the same day? Is that entirely different from you being killed outright and rebuilt by the machine?

The Prestige is a good film.

Yet, while this EXACT copy retains every memory and every physical condition you had, so to all third parties would act EXACTLY like you, even believing that it had experienced a successful teleport, I can’t shake the feeling that somehow it wouldn’t be ME…

Continuing on an irrelevant tangent (reminds me of the PCG podcasts), just got to the one niggle in Zarathustra. Ol’ Nietzsche wrote it in a time of incredible sexism (I think), so I just read a chapter where Zarathustra says women should be discussed only with men, and should stay at home while the men go out.

I was also reading an old PCG and noticed The Sun (eeeevviiilll) have a golden joystick award. Now the Daily Mail just need to sponsor the whole thing.

PS: I think sacred 2 looks like a copy of Diablo 3

Yeah, I did Maths and Philosophy. My dissertation was on the morality of teleportation.

On a side note, did you take philosophy at uni, Tom?

D3’s stats are much more useful, and remove the game balance horror that is stamina-stacking.

I played the demo at blizzcon – took me a few rounds to finish before I got called off to make way for the next set, and I really like the new skill system. At blizzcon usable skills had 1 rank and passive skills had multiple ranks, one of the panels said that they’re planning on giving the used skills multiple ranks in future versions. Being allowed to have more than 1-2 skills is a huge step up from D2. Also something that I haven’t seen mentioned elsewhere – the Barbarian used rage rather than mana, like WoW warriors. Also, you could remove runes from skills non-destructively, but only wizard runes worked in the demo (even though they demonstrated wdoc runes in a panel). Also awesome: The wizard trailer.

Try and find the panels on youtube.

“We have a saying at Blizzard when something looks like too much work. How about we pay you? You can work on it, and every two weeks we’ll cut you a check.”

Mind you, the standard of English translations of German philosophy in general is terrible, partly because our language is so wretchedly imprecise. I got so irritated trying to sort through the Schopenhauer text we were given in Continental Philosophy that I eventually gave up and just learned some German.

Diablo is one of those things I’ve missed! I think it’s very probable I’ll be giving D3 a test drive at the oonest opportunity – I like a shiny action-grind RPG as much as the next sentient being. I’m hoping character customization in abilities will be sufficient to promote long play with one given class.

Also: Ever since the LBP hype machine hit overdrive I’ve had an uncontrollable urge to dig out my old copies of Little Big Adventure and sequel.

Second Also: Diablo III… Woo!

Not quite the same, it has the same meaning, but it’s far more… epic.

@J-man, Spake is a perfectly acceptable replacement of spoke, it means the same thing.