Davoren

Mine was in TFTD, during a terror mission on a vacation beach map thingie. The beach was on the lower left, and all the way over on the upper right was one skyscraper type building where I had one guy stand on the roof (the one with the most accuracy obviously) while the rest was roaming all around the map trying to find those irritating tourists. Or aliens. Anyways, I had most of the map cleared and was just trying to finally get the last one. I got impatient and didn't save any TUs, just ran my guys as far as they could, when one last lizard guy (been a while) popped out of one of those underground tunnels right by the beach and none of my guys had TUs left. And the guy on the skyscraper had just enough for one snapshot due to...hmm collateral damage caused by impatience (had him grenade all the surrounding buildings out of boredom). So I had him fire his Gauss Rifle on snapshot, across the entire map. The camera follows the lone bullet across one screen, another screen, another screen, and another screen and Boom, headshot, alien dead and mission won. Was totally awesome haahaha. Ah good times. Gtg load up my copy

I reject this screenshot on account of there not being enough options ^-° Also there are no pictographs explaining what each option does so I would actually have to read them. What gives??? ^-----^ Don't even remember how often I finished that game. It truly is one of the all time best. Endure, and in enduring grow strong.

So.....what CAN change the nature of a man?

No, what I meant was I was sure I'd hate it but it turns out I'm ok with both although I still prefer paper. I just can't wait for deliveries anymore because of my inherent lazyness combined with impatience. While I love reading in libraries, I can't stand reading books FROM the library. In my mind, once I read a book, it's mine. Giving it back? No chance at all.

To my shame I have to admit that I've never actually read any of his comics. His Warhammer books are what got me interested in Warhammer 40k in the first place and he seems to be well above the rest of their authors, quality wise. Not that I've actually checked all of them out (yet). I mostly got Embedded because I couldn't find the Gaunts Ghosts novels on kindle, and I'm lazy like that. Come to think of it, considering how I used to be swearing up and down all day long about how electronic books could never ever compare to real paper, I've been blowing way too much money on that thing lately... it's just so easy to get the next book in a good series in just a click and a few seconds downloading instead of ordering and then waiting for delivery. Curse you, userfriendlyness, curse you.... Eh, I think I gotta find me some hardcovers now just because ^^ Edit: gnarly, did you read the great north road yet? I can't decide wheather to like or dislike it somehow. Thinking back on it it just seems frustrating. regards Davoren

Oh boy, where do I start.... in no particular order check out the following: Anything by Neal Asher, his first novel is Gridlinked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlinked His characters are pretty flat but the worldbuilding is great. Also anything by Peter Hamilton. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_F._Hamilton The most conventional out of his books are probably the Commonwealth Saga. John Scalzi writes good stuff too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scalzi just stay away from Redshirts, but Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades and The Last Colony were all good. I probably don't need to mention the books by Lee Stephen since he wrote Crimson dagger, but there you go, did it anyway...^^ Also, Leviathan Wakes and Caliban's War by James SA Corey is also pretty nice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_Wakes One more, then I'll shut up ^^ Embedded by Dan Abnett (of warhammer 40k fame, Gaunts Ghosts and whatnot) wrote an original military sci fi story that is pretty good, but not as good as his other stuff. Phew. Hope any of that helps. regards Davoren

Been a while since I played, but from what I remember there are less spawns, less enemies total but still in groups of three. Can't comment on how smart it feels, since it never did on any difficulty. I'm not claiming to be a great player, cause I'm not, but smart enemies aren't what make the higher difficulties hard. regards Davoren

Michael Ironside AND Neil Patrick Harris in the same movie!!! 'Nuff said

I used to play DSA (kinda like D&D) for a while and a few games of Shadowrun. Never really had the luxury of time to get into it though. Or a willing group on the same schedule for that matter. I don't think either of them actually IS socially more acceptable, but I do get the impression that videogames are more socially acceptED. Make any sense? On the other hand, here in germany where nothing makes sense, it's probably the other way around, seeing as in one kind everything happens in your imagination, and in the other kind you are trained to shoot up people for real (if the term killer games means anything to you). *cough* Oh well. Don't try to understand what's socially acceptable. It's like saying don't argue with idiots, they will drag you down and beat you with experience. regards Davoren

I got them all on kindle, so yeah (couldn't wait for getting them through the mail ^-^).

I didn't mean to imply he was evil, but yes, you most definitely succeeded in making him human. As soon as you get a reader to feel strongly about your characters one way or the other, you've already won. If half the other authors out there could do that, they'd sell much better Hot damn *speechless* hahaha that is too awesome My hat is off to you for that. Thank you for your answer. regards Davoren

.... After reading about this I just had to check out your books, Lee. Now that I'm done with book 4 after a week (just couldn't put them down. Made for a sleep deprived, yet awesome week) I just have to demand you release books 5 through 8 immidiately. Go ahead. I'll wait... ^-^ Ok seriously, very nice work. Thank you for getting into the business ^.^ I've been waiting for novels like this ever since I first played UfoEU. Two questions though, the first one mostly rethorical. Why is the main character such an ass? He starts of sort of ok, but I just can't stand him... And I'm not talking about his actions so much as I mean his attitude. Damn, I wanna go into the book and give him a good beating. Ah well... Second question...why in the world did you make the supposedly best soldier on the world german? It's like some sort of mirror universe ^-^ Don't get me wrong, being german myself that's a nice change of pace not having all my countrymen being the bad guys, but it's just WEIRD. Anyway, keep up the good work. regards Davoren

Sounds good to me too. But dare I say it... how about adding a....toggle as well? *duck and cover* regards Davoren

Well that's a relief then. As long as it feels like a good natural progression, everything is good. regards Davoren

We used to have the draft here and I clearly remember thinking "damn, this is not fair. If women don't have to do it why should men? Make everybody go or nobody. WOMEN IN THE ARMY!!!one11one!!!". Ah well... Realistically speaking...I have no idea. It doesn't bother me one way or the other. regards Davoren