Meh, Geo is right. I like the vid too even though there are no celebrity cameos or unnecessary crotch shots. >> ^Truckchase:

Video is low budget; audio is not.

Me too... I figured with today's standard being at least 5 real explosions and several unnecessary crotch shots it would fall below what is now the bar for global acceptance. Thanks for the upvote and the alt embed.

In reply to this comment by geo321:
I kind of like the video.

I agree with dismissing magic, it was a very interesting system to screw with for quite a few levels, but once you know two magic schools the "hard" factor that was in the game initially (like forcing you, as a mage, to find high ground and develop some useful tactical spells) became a complete slaughter. Then if I summon 8 guys to defend me I might as well sit down until their timer wears out (summoning needed to be powerful, but with a much longer casting time, longer shelf life, and a "slot" system depending on what you summon).

Don't get me started on Earth magic being completely overpowered and buggy to hell and beyond.

The item system, while at first seems neat, but even by level ten you realize that every RPG I've ever played extended and amplified their item systems over time. In Two Worlds you can metallurgically upgrade it then add crystals/stones to it to enhance it. This would have allowed for an amazing system, but again they spent minimal time and effort doing it--so it sucks.

The A.I. is a mixed bag. They do well at first, but have HUGE clipping and line-of-sight issues (archers and mages are happy to stand behind a rock and shoot at you: hitting the rock. Then many enemies get stuck in planer or clipping joint areas that have small gaps and IT HAPPENS A LOT! Most engines have dealt with this issue in some form (as it's been ten plus years to learn how to stop them; programmers still screw it up; yes, I know the engine is complicated, but give me the same game on Crytek's engine and I'll be much happier)...

The trade skills are alright have a little promise with them at least starting in the right direction, but as you level up they become useless except for ones you can do on the fly (mostly, metallurgy and fusion).

The rest of what Yahtzee said is correct. The game is buggy. The multiplayer is a let down (where the hell is open roaming or campaign playthrough?) The spell system is terribly broken in some areas (I'm looking at you Fire and Earth) and weak in others: Necromancy or as I call it Necropansies--you're forced to learn another magic or you'll die, unless you really love summoning and waiting the required 5 minutes per fight for a MINOR fight... But, again, the spell card system with maybe Magickas combo system together would make spell-casting an AWESOME experience.

Anyway, I would only suggest this game if you desperately need an RPG to play. If you've yet to play Torchlight play that instead. Otherwise, get Bulletstorm as the comic value and writing (Duke Nukem type one-liners and more) make it worth buying alone.; I hope Duke can live up to this--if it has full Physics I think it will. BTW, the Unreal Engine sucks, bad... There are a lot of games I've liked on it and it looks pretty, but the physics and map abilities leaves A LOT to be desired, BUT it is also a good engine in the manner that it's easy to develop for and very flexible in what it can do (Deathspank is an excellent example; same with Dungeon Defenders on the iPad). At this point though it is by far more a console engine than a PC one.

/My two cents and review for Two Worlds II, with a small peppering of Unreal Engine talk that has nothing to do with the review...

//No grammar check just spell; Deal...

>> ^Psychologic:

Fountain Lady was in the same boat. No one knew (or cared) who that blurry silhouette on the video was until she decided to go on TV and threaten the mall with legal action.
Keeping quiet might have kept her criminal record from going public as well. I hope she wasn't trying to keep those felony charges secret. =X


I don't know, I give her more credit than that. She didn't start giving interviews or go on the today show to lessen her public humiliation.

Her civil suit will be centered around the grief caused by that humiliation, so anything she can do to amplify her grief now will translate into gravy further on. However, this only works as long as she doesn't appear to be courting further abasement, which is why she pretends to be sort of dumb. A cunning plan.

That was touche friend, that was touche. I applaud your wit and deoderant! You are an old spice man right?

>> ^gwiz665:
Your mother's a fag and your father is a douche. I'm like the anti-troll. <IMG class=smiley src="http://static1.videosift.com/cdm/emoticon/monocle_smile.gif">
>> ^Lawdeedaw:
I never scolded you Yogi. I do not consider your opinion stupid, or dumb, or ignorant. It is cookie-cutter and lacks cause-and-effect, but it is no less than every one else's opinions.
So tell me what was troll-ish and I will attempt to change the content while still making my point. Do not knock the actual points made (How we voted, that we are in a Democracy, that the good guys never win because nobody cares about them, ect.)
Save the "troll" label for those who are real trolls please (You know the ones who call your father a fag and your mother a douche.) Otherwise tell me how my comments were just like theirs.
>> ^Yogi:
>> ^Lawdeedaw:
>> ^Yogi:
I maintain that he's better than McCain...I also maintain that my participation in this non-Democracy makes me feel disgusting sometimes. We need a real democracy.

I maintain that nobody cares who is "better" than the other. America voted for the guy in the bar--slick talk, with a Cadillac and we wonder why we have a rash now?! This is our culture. The truly good guys never win. They never won in grade school, they never won in highschool, and they never won in politics.
And this is Democracy. Democracy is like any other government--based upon the people it can be very evil or very good. To call it a non-Democracy is simply because we have no voice--like every Democracy.
"When you amplify everything (Everyone's votes,) you hear nothing." John Stewart.

Thanks for scolding me troll.

Your mother's a fag and your father is a douche. I'm like the anti-troll.
>> ^Lawdeedaw:

I never scolded you Yogi. I do not consider your opinion stupid, or dumb, or ignorant. It is cookie-cutter and lacks cause-and-effect, but it is no less than every one else's opinions.
So tell me what was troll-ish and I will attempt to change the content while still making my point. Do not knock the actual points made (How we voted, that we are in a Democracy, that the good guys never win because nobody cares about them, ect.)
Save the "troll" label for those who are real trolls please (You know the ones who call your father a fag and your mother a douche.) Otherwise tell me how my comments were just like theirs.
>> ^Yogi:
>> ^Lawdeedaw:
>> ^Yogi:
I maintain that he's better than McCain...I also maintain that my participation in this non-Democracy makes me feel disgusting sometimes. We need a real democracy.

I maintain that nobody cares who is "better" than the other. America voted for the guy in the bar--slick talk, with a Cadillac and we wonder why we have a rash now?! This is our culture. The truly good guys never win. They never won in grade school, they never won in highschool, and they never won in politics.
And this is Democracy. Democracy is like any other government--based upon the people it can be very evil or very good. To call it a non-Democracy is simply because we have no voice--like every Democracy.
"When you amplify everything (Everyone's votes,) you hear nothing." John Stewart.

Thanks for scolding me troll.

I never scolded you Yogi. I do not consider your opinion stupid, or dumb, or ignorant. It is cookie-cutter and lacks cause-and-effect, but it is no less than every one else's opinions.

So tell me what was troll-ish and I will attempt to change the content while still making my point. Do not knock the actual points made (How we voted, that we are in a Democracy, that the good guys never win because nobody cares about them, ect.)

Save the "troll" label for those who are real trolls please (You know the ones who call your father a fag and your mother a douche.) Otherwise tell me how my comments were just like theirs.

>> ^Yogi:
>> ^Lawdeedaw:
>> ^Yogi:
I maintain that he's better than McCain...I also maintain that my participation in this non-Democracy makes me feel disgusting sometimes. We need a real democracy.

I maintain that nobody cares who is "better" than the other. America voted for the guy in the bar--slick talk, with a Cadillac and we wonder why we have a rash now?! This is our culture. The truly good guys never win. They never won in grade school, they never won in highschool, and they never won in politics.
And this is Democracy. Democracy is like any other government--based upon the people it can be very evil or very good. To call it a non-Democracy is simply because we have no voice--like every Democracy.
"When you amplify everything (Everyone's votes,) you hear nothing." John Stewart.

Thanks for scolding me troll.

>> ^Lawdeedaw:

>> ^Yogi:
I maintain that he's better than McCain...I also maintain that my participation in this non-Democracy makes me feel disgusting sometimes. We need a real democracy.

I maintain that nobody cares who is "better" than the other. America voted for the guy in the bar--slick talk, with a Cadillac and we wonder why we have a rash now?! This is our culture. The truly good guys never win. They never won in grade school, they never won in highschool, and they never won in politics.
And this is Democracy. Democracy is like any other government--based upon the people it can be very evil or very good. To call it a non-Democracy is simply because we have no voice--like every Democracy.
"When you amplify everything (Everyone's votes,) you hear nothing." John Stewart.


Thanks for scolding me troll.

>> ^Yogi:
I maintain that he's better than McCain...I also maintain that my participation in this non-Democracy makes me feel disgusting sometimes. We need a real democracy.


I maintain that nobody cares who is "better" than the other. America voted for the guy in the bar--slick talk, with a Cadillac and we wonder why we have a rash now?! This is our culture. The truly good guys never win. They never won in grade school, they never won in highschool, and they never won in politics.

And this is Democracy. Democracy is like any other government--based upon the people it can be very evil or very good. To call it a non-Democracy is simply because we have no voice--like every Democracy.

"When you amplify everything (Everyone's votes,) you hear nothing." John Stewart.

This video changed his life. Awesome news.

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/amplifier/51933/golden-voiced-homeless-man-captivates-internet/

Well, in honesty, I covered the cable lay (PPC-1) for a final year project in my telecoms eng. course, so it wasn't a recent research effort

Theres a few videos of them pulling the fibre through the manholes on land, and at the manhole underwater too. A few shots of the side-scanners, and the plough, and the amplifiers, and the divers placing it on the seabed in shallow waters...just a massive ammount of content. It also covers the deployment of the datacentres that feed the fibre.

Very cool and transparent project. I was going to buy shares when they opened, but didnt have the capital at the time
They opened at something like 20c, and the company sold to an aussie ISP here for something like $3 ea. Insane stock growth over 18 months.

This in no way was us students asking for everything for free. If you believe that, then you truely are ignorant and moronic. There are two arguments in this. The first being the increase. University costs enough as it is without having it increased almsot three-fold. There are far better ways to reduce spending (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYtNwmXKIvM), and higher education is not one of them.

The other problem is lack of trust in politics. Yes, sure, when you form a coalition, sacrifices need to be made, but when you make a policy which got you a large majority of your votes, you should fight for it. This, to me, amplifies the cowardice and lack of trust in politics.

Since you're a Haligonian perhaps you can tell me what is that honkin big white tower on Citadel Hill. As soon as I started watching this vid I recognized the street and the background view but I couldn't place that tower and it isn't even on street view. I also couldn't find any pics on google with it in them.

In reply to this comment by notarobot:
More on Portugal and Spain in this vid, also filmed in Halifax: http://videosift.com/video/22-Minutes-EU-Bailout-of-Ireland
>> ^EMPIRE:

Can Portugal and Spain's situation really be compared to Ireland and Greece's? I mean, yes we are also in a bit of trouble, but I truly believe the whole situation has been amplified by fucking speculators, messing with our credit ratings.

I'm not a nationalist at all, and I'm ever more inclined to consider patriotism and nationalism a damn mental disorder than anything else. Feeling all proud and somehow better than others because you fell out of your mother's vagina in a particular geographic location is completely stupid.

I'm all for unification of mankind, not the other way around. Unfortunately, very few people seem to think like that. Hell, I wouldn't mind if Spain and Portugal united as one country called Iberia. We have europe's oldest borders. That says a lot about your relationship with the neighbours.



>> ^radx:

>> ^EMPIRE:
Can Portugal and Spain's situation really be compared to Ireland and Greece's? I mean, yes we are also in a bit of trouble, but I truly believe the whole situation has been amplified by fucking speculators, messing with our credit ratings.

It certainly is amplified by speculations, for which the blame primarily rests with Merkel, if you ask me.
At current interest and growth rates, Portugal's national debt is noticably less threatening than Ireland's, but considering the agenda of cuts and savings, growth will remain abysmal or even turn negative, as is the case of Greece. Add the account deficit of 11.6% of GDP in the first half of 2010 and I'd say Portugal is quietly insolvent.
Spain on the other hand with its national debt of mere ~57% of GDP looks somewhat more stable, but look at the foreign exposure of the private sector. That's up to a cool €700B once the lid is taken off. And that would stretch the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) budget to the limit, a budget of only €750B. Which is why some argued that it should have been closer to €2T from the start.
And that's when a haircut is inevitable. Folks around Europe won't just accept massive cutbacks, causing massive unemployment and the following nightmares, just so investors can cash in on their situation. There's going to be some serious debt restructuring, including haircuts.
The real shit would begin if Italy, due to national debt and political instability, got sucked down as well. That'd be fun, yap.
So I'd say let's take Jean-Claude Juncker's advice and finally make it a proper union, not just a shared currency with opposing interests. Unfortunatly, my own bloody government won't play along with that.

>> ^EMPIRE:

Can Portugal and Spain's situation really be compared to Ireland and Greece's? I mean, yes we are also in a bit of trouble, but I truly believe the whole situation has been amplified by fucking speculators, messing with our credit ratings.

It certainly is amplified by speculations, for which the blame primarily rests with Merkel, if you ask me.

At current interest and growth rates, Portugal's national debt is noticably less threatening than Ireland's, but considering the agenda of cuts and savings, growth will remain abysmal or even turn negative, as is the case of Greece. Add the account deficit of 11.6% of GDP in the first half of 2010 and I'd say Portugal is quietly insolvent.

Spain on the other hand with its national debt of mere ~57% of GDP looks somewhat more stable, but look at the foreign exposure of the private sector. That's up to a cool €700B once the lid is taken off. And that would stretch the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) budget to the limit, a budget of only €750B. Which is why some argued that it should have been closer to €2T from the start.

And that's when a haircut is inevitable. Folks around Europe won't just accept massive cutbacks, causing massive unemployment and the following nightmares, just so investors can cash in on their situation. There's going to be some serious debt restructuring, including haircuts.

The real shit would begin if Italy, due to national debt and political instability, got sucked down as well. That'd be fun, yap.

So I'd say let's take Jean-Claude Juncker's advice and finally make it a proper union, not just a shared currency with opposing interests. Unfortunatly, my own bloody government won't play along with that.