I like night and blood elf chicks as much as the next guy, but what's WoW have to do with Perp?

Well, I've finished them both off now.  Curse you GOG.com for giving me these games again so that quite a few weeks ended up being absorbed by them.

Actually Sundial, it seemed like the problem with the Freespace series wasn't the advertising of the games themselves, but issues with ownership of intellectual property as publisher companies changed hands.  I recall seeing quite a few adverts in PC mags when both games were released.  They were sufficiently well known, I think.  The Freespace series was a victim of business problems IIRC.

I'm a bit discouraged by Metro, actually.  Navigation requires unnecessary clicking and dragging on a conventional PC without a touchpad that supports multi touch and gestures.  It seems like a lot more thought is going to need to be put into building a universal interface to handle to differences in usage models between touchscreens and conventional hardware UNLESS next year brings about more touch interface computing platforms and drives the nails into the coffin of how we currently interact with our computing hardware.  MS has stated that their current goal is to build a single OS that spans a wide range of computing usage models...one OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.  It's too early to tell since 8 isn't even in beta yet, but I'm not so sure this is the right path moving forward.  Perhaps using the same core OS makes sense, but vastly different means of interacting really do deserve a UI optimized for their unique advantages.  Given the fact that quite a few people who own tablets (including myself) use them mostly as an expensive means of collecting dust, I'm not sure the way forward is in tablet technologies.  Perhaps ARM processors have a place in the coming new order, but I have my doubts about tablets when phones are already able to do everything a tablet can and most of what a conventional computer could though on a more cramped screen.  Dock those things to a larger screen, keyboard, and touchpad with a beefy battery or just a touchscreen and the whole point of a tablet evaporates away.

On a side note, my ancient D620 with its pathetic Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics card tosses 8 around with little trouble.  Microsoft is living up to one of their other goals in keeping system requirements quite reasonable.  It's a pity that MMO developers don't also acknowledge the lowly 950 so I can keep playing things like Perp.

It is broken.  Increase the multiplier to put it on par with basic robotics so you can't EP dump it to 10 right away.  It will thereby become a useful skill not automatically trained to max.

That sort of thing happens all the time around here.

I think the appeal of Google+ is that it isn't Facebook.  It's sort of like how people buy a Unix PC with a certain fruit branded logo.  The functional objective is the same regardless, but standing out as a differently minded thinker (regardless of whether such is actually the case) is a psychological need that is rooted rather deeply.  In this case Google+ might be an outlet for that need.

You mean Between the Lions?

http://pbskids.org/lions/

I knew there was something okay with expressing a deviant love for Sundial.  Anyone who puts this in a feature request thread is worthy of worship, praise, and several gallons of drool.