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I'm pretty sure you aren't supposed to hot-switch skills in the middle of battle. 

They should cost each track respective of their length so that the total comes to the same amount as purchasing the album as a whole. So, for example, one track will be $2.35, another $1.97, etc. The 99 cents per track thing doesn't work in all cases.

I dislike betas anyway. It's better to wait until release, rather then getting a taste and left to be wanting more.

Yup. Pre-ordered, along with seven other close friends.  Too bad multiplayer is only four players. 
We've all been looking forward to playing it for too many years. Heh... Hopefully it doesn't suck. 

Interesting read, and I learned something I didn't know about bit-depth.
I still believe that lossless codecs should be future of distributable/downloaded audio though. 

This looks to be hilarious.

Iron Sky Official Theatrical Trailer [HD]

Something else to consider when purchasing music online:  Think of the future.
Ten years from now, who knows what kind of formats will exist.  If you purchase your music in a lossless codec, you can compress that to any format without any additional damage being done to the audio.. vs MP3 or AAC to another compressed format.

The biggest problem was that the shipped game was limited to using 2 gigs of ram, which would cause it to crash later on (especially if you were using high resolution texture mods).  They've since fixed that in the latest patch so the game is very stable now.

However in saying that, the longer you wait, the better the experience is going to be.  They've said they will be supporting the game for a while, fixing small bugs and whatnot.

This is something I've thought about for years as well.

Why do electronic artists usually feel the need to innovate and change their sound for each album?  Is it simply because they can due to the tools at their disposal?  But if an artist strays too far from their original sound, some listeners can get upset that it's "not like the old stuff".

They're damned if they do, damned if they don't.

This is something I think about often with my own work as well.  I enjoy revisiting and refining themes, ideas and processes I've done in the past.  But there's the fine line between just creating music, and creating music worth listening to.

Drone On hit the nail on the head with this:

...my theory is that every artist reaches a creative peak in their career and it's very hard to replicate that undefineable "something" they had going on after they've crossed over that peak.

This is absolutely true and I personally feel this has happened to Steve's work.  That won't stop me from following his work, and I'll still purchase music of his that I feel I'll enjoy.  But as I've mentioned in another thread, I won't blindly purchase all of his music anymore.  (I haven't for years now)

I'm level 34 now (around 65 hours played), and it seems like the rest of you, I've barely scratched the surface on the main quests.  It's just too easy to start traveling in one direction and get lost in the world.

So much fun!