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In no particular order because fuck deciding. I don't even know if they are the absolute top 10, but I've played them all a hell of a lot. 1. Deus Ex 2. Europa Universalis 3 3. Commander Keen (3 or 4, don't remember which) 4. System Shock 2 5. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 6. Civilisation IV 7. Heroes of Might and Magic 3 8. Alpha Centauri 9. X-Com 10. Mount & Blade: Warband

Don't buy a headset, they're shitty headphones with a shitty mic for 3 times the price. A nice set of headphones and a desk/clip-on mic is a far better investment. I absolutely love tribes, but there's no way you could make a good LP of it, a few cool matches and post-match commentary would be pretty sweet though.

Votes don't work for me. I think Wallachia would be interesting, I've never formed Romania before. Byzantium is way to easy.

As excellent as it is, are we considering mods other than DOA + Miscmods? WizEU3 is really, really good and has basically re-invented the game for me. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3429306 Play anything except Dark Continent, it's boring as fuck.

I use Foobar2000, it's an extremely lightweight, fully customisable player that, properly set up, is a lot nicer to use than Winamp (which I also really like) it sounds better with a few addons too. It can get really fiddly though and is a bitch to use if you don't read through a guide or something. Put it as a voting option so I can vote for it. How mine looks: there are only 800 songs in 'All' because it's a new hard drive, I haven't copied everything across yet. I have about 6000

Jesus Christ, calm down, I had already backed off and she wrote a good thousand words which included adopting people and <3 you guys. I'm not trying to incite any hate here,just giving my impressions from one glance, if I'm wrong that's fine. 'facts from personal experience' Oh lord. I'm not attacking anyone's character, not once did I say that he wasn't a nice person or smart, but that isn't what we were arguing about. Also I couldn't care less about how well-liked you are and how many boyfriends you have.

Didn't read. I'm quite proud someone actually took the time to type out that much for me though. Love you, Sona <3

Respect goes deeper than simply telling your children what they want to hear all the time. He may not like his parents at the moment, everybody goes through phases like that, but I'm sure that they think this is ultimately for the best. I agree there may have been a lighter way to put it though. I'm only going off what I've been told, I have no idea what his situation is really like. To me it sounds like this has been an on-going thing, you have to be able to change yourself before you can try to change things around you. Being treated like a failure is certainly never a good thing in any aspect, but being told these things can force you to face up to your problems, be it school or whatever, and work towards fixing them. Regardless, I'm not going to continue to argue a point when none of us have any information; it's really not fair to Aurora. If he made this thread looking for help I'm sure the people here will try to give him some good advice providing he gives some details about his situation, but at the moment it just looks like he's using it to vent his frustration and get sympathy. Nothing wrong with that either if he's angry.

I'm sure Aurora's parents do love and support him normally, but it would take quite a lot for a parent to call their son a failure, there comes a time where 'You can improve' just doesn't cut it anymore. Sometimes you have to actually be told these things and take a look at yourself rather than constantly blaming the world. Be cruel to be kind and all that jazz.