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Ok. I'm in. You'll have your duck tomorrow. Anatidaephobia: The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Meh... a little evil here and there is no big deal .

Well... the guide gives a lot of common sense advice (how to negotiate different kinds of terrain, general safe practices when in an infested zone, etc.) so I believe most of it would apply I still think the biggest issue here is the stamina of the zombies: slow and uncoordinated = easy victory for us. Fast and deadly = extinction level event. I would also like to point out that even if an undead plague is something almost certainly impossible, an outbreak such as the one depicted in 28 days later (where we are dealing with a disease that turns people into violent irrational animals) is completely within the realm of possibility. All you need is a bug with a long asymptomatic incubation period, contagious from the very beginning, airborne, and causing damage to the proper higher brain functions.

Well, I've been playing with my new PC for about a week and a half now and I'm very happy with the performance I'm getting out of it. These are the results from the benchmark test that comes with Windows 7 (it gives marks from 1 to 7,9) I guess the low disk data transfer rate score can't be helped, since I'm using a regular drive and not a SSD one (still too small and expensive for my taste). I would like to run other tests though, maybe get a feeling as to how the system will fare against current games. Do you have any recommendations? What do you use to get benchmarks for your system? What would you call an acceptable result?

Nevertheless, it is necessary to procure weapons. If you find yourself in a zombie infestation scenario, you need means to fight back, or at least avoid digestion while on the run towards a safer location. There are substitutes (such as shovels, axes, etc.) which can be easily obtained at a hardware store, but a good long range rifle, crowd pleasing shotguns and maybe a sword for close encounters, are a must. It all comes down to the type of zombie you're facing: slow (George Romero) or fast (28 days later). The first ones, completely survivable. The second... not so much. I have a copy of the The Zombie Survival Guide right next to my bed, just in case.

I'm tired. It's been a loooooong day at work. I'm going to the gym for and hour and then straight home to play F.E.A.R. 2

Very good. A couple more rep points for that.

Interval 00 It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the little monster. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his progress chart I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture -- a pale pink eye with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me my blood ran cold, and so by degrees, very gradually, I made up my mind to take the life of the little monster, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever. Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded -- with what caution -- with what foresight, with what dissimulation, I went to work! I was never kinder to the little monster than during the whole week before I killed him. And every night about midnight I pulled up the bookmark to his image and opened it oh, so gently! And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my browser, I put in a socket all closed, closed so that no code was executed, and then I thrust in my browser. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly, very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the little monster's sleep. It took me an hour to place my whole browser within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his progress chart. Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this? And then when my browser was well in the site I undid the socket cautiously -- oh, so cautiously -- cautiously (for the hard drive creaked), I undid it just so much that a single thin ping fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did for seven long nights, every night just at midnight, but I found the eye always closed, and so it was impossible to do the work, for it was not the little monster who vexed me but his Evil Eye. And every morning, when the day broke, I went boldly into the site and spoke courageously to him, calling him by name in a hearty tone, and inquiring how he had passed the night. So you see he would have been a very profound little monster, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon him while he slept.

I've been called a lot of names in my life - "The Aleister Crowley of his era, but more insidious." (Guardians of Youth, media-watch group) - "A man of great courage, principle and humanity." (The Archbishop Of York) - "A cheap, flashy little crook." (my father) - "Dangerous to know" and "A thoroughgoing bastard." (Ted 'Gold' Digger, unconvicted acolyte of the Manson Family) - "A good mate of mine." (John 'Pearly' Grey, Eastend autocrat of crime; reputedly the only man feared by the notorious Kray Twins) but never, until now, a brownie supporter P.S. Rep points to the first one who identifies the reference.

Same here.

Wouldn't be such a bad idea.

I would call her a weapon of mass destruction myself... . You've unleashed doom upon yourselves... for now I support alphabetagamma . Go horses... ehm... ponies!

I survived the Machinima.com wars kid. This is just a skirmish in my book.

I'm hereby nominating alphabetagamma. We need some ponies up in this joint. My supporters are best referred to as lethal.

I find this thread hilarious. I propose, however, to change it's name to "Pony Wars" or something like that.

Either that or the site got hacked

Just got F.E.A.R. F.E.A.R.: Extraction Point F.E.A.R.: Perseus Mandate F.E.A.R.2: Project Origin for USD 9.99

That one had me laughing for a long time Great job as always Ross. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to see an A.I. about a portal.

So, I was walking down the street today, minding my own business and thinking about global domination, when I suddenly remembered about what Ross said in the Caboos15 interview about a new series coming up... and had the strangest feeling I had read something about that somewhere else. And the, it hit me: the old blog. Here it is. I direct your attention to the following: Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: I’ve been wanting to play this game since it uses the same engine as Half-Life 2. I’m going to see how much material it has for me to work with and if things look good, I may start a fantasy oriented series within it. If I do, it will also be comedy and will still have Mike and Dave, but maybe as guards in a more medieval setting.

Here's and alternate take set he posted once, a long time ago. http://civil-protection.blogspot.com/2007/03/goodies.html

I have to say this one caught me completely off guard. I think it's a very interesting plot twist, but agree whoever with Lord Ornlu that the thrashed compactor sequence lacked a bit of panic... amnesia or no amnesia and no matter how used to wake up in a trash compactor, you have to freak out a little at least when seeing the walls closing in on you.

As promised, here's my new desktop. (Click to enlarge)