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Reply to TotalGaming Phase 2 Prelaunch Has Begun! in Game News Stardock Forums

Existing TotalGaming.net customers will get the existing 10 or so games on there. PLUS they will get Galactic Civilizations II when it comes out (nearly all of you would have had to re-subscribe to get that) PLUS they will get 10 tokens to put towards the new games (which means you'll effectively get a new games for free too). Y'know, I've had my share of grumbles (most of them private, some public) about the kinda petering out of the

Reply to TotalGaming Phase 2 Preview.. in TGN News Stardock Forums

How about an idea of when the changes are going to go in? At this point I'm beginning to wonder if I'll end up getting into Phase 2 before my subscription goes out, and since the original claims of game releases on a regular timetable slipped, I feel a bit put off by the whole system.

Reply to The ACLU is trying to embarras the United States in Society Stardock Forums

Actually, there are many Americans who feel that the entire original civic values of America were founded on the basic assumption that the rights we set out for ourselves are, indeed, universal rights. This is the argument that's used to justify (retroactively) our continued presence in Iraq: The inherent rights we afford others by default are better than the ones dictators provide to their subjects. <

Reply to Lack of DX creativity ? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

A lot of the problem seems to be that we're used to working with things in specific ways, so, for instance, if we want to access a word document, we either go to our document folder or open up word and open it from the most recent documents or navigate to wherever the document is directly. There's really only so much functionality a desktop needs unless you're replacing the windows UI interface paradigm. Some ideas, though: A full-featured script that easily takes a music play