Vin Diesel to star in Hitman: Codename 47 movie.

Living in Denmark, I've had the pleasure of seeing David Bateson, the voice actor for Codename 47, act in plays, and he's not only an excellent stage actor whom I am sure could pull off the icy appearance and demeanor of 47, but 47 was also modelled on his looks. See www.davidbateson.dk for comparison.
The Hitman is a good character and has the potential of being one of the better game to movie adaptions with good directing, but why have that ham Vin Diesel play the main character rather than the actual voice actor? Diesel looks nothing like the Hitman, and this movie will most likely turn into more bullettime John Woo wannabe bollocks.

Famous people who died in most uncool ways

Hello. After thinking about it, and being inspired by the Monty Python skit "Famous Deaths", I've come to the conclusion that there are two ways for a famous person to die: One in which he dies in a heroic and/or notorious manner to be remembered for the sheer badassery of it, and another where his death is wholly anticlimatic and embarrasing to his legacy and did most likely have Saint Peter slapping his thighs in laughter.

To illustrate: Captain Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach. Spent his whole life sailing the Carribean, plundering ships and executing people without mercy. Did at one time shoot fellow crewmember Israel Hands, whose name was later nicked by Robert Louis Stevenson, in the knee, just to demonstrate to his crew that he was a mean mofo. Had a habit of putting burning cannon fuses in his beard while in battle. Had huge dreadlocks.
Death: Killed while being boarded by British naval forces. Reportedly took 20 stab wounds and 5 gunshots and refused to die. Lt. Maynard, commander of the British forces, then decided that enough was enough and chopped off his head, mounting it on his bowsprit.
Legacy: Considered to be one of the most vicious and nasty pirates to have ever lived.

Now THAT is a totally badass way to die, one befitting his legacy!

Now, consider Lord Horatio Nelson. Dedicated his entire life to serving The Queen in the Royal Navy, achieved famous victories over Spanish, French and Danes, having lost both an eye and an arm to the enemies of Her Majesty.
Death: Killed in Battle of Trafalgar. Uttered famous last words to his fist mate Hardy: "Kiss me Hardy" Although historians argue that he might actually have said "Kismet, Hardy", meaning it was his fate to die that way.
Legacy: Remembered as an aging maritime queer with a crush on his first mate who somehow got stuck up on a pillar in Trafalgar Square.

WHAT a bummer for Lord Nelson!

Other famous examples of uncool deaths:

Genghiz Kahn: Ruler of Mongolia. United warring Mongol clans into the greatest warlike empire in the world. Kicked immense amounts of ass. Kept a starving man chained to his dinner table because he felt that made the food taste better.
Death: Fell of his horse. The ruler of the Mongols, a people known to be born in the saddle, fell. Off. His. Bloody. Horse. That is MOST uncool!

Wayne Maclaren. The Marlboro Man. An image of 100% Americanism, masculinity and a reminder of the ever-so badass cowboy/western past of the US.
Death: Lung cancer caused by smoking.

Thomas Edward Lawrence, AKA Lawrence of Arabia. Worked as an agent in Arabia during WW1, aiding the Arabs in their revolt against the Turks, also an enemy of the UK. Became one with the desert and its people. Highly praised by Winston Churchill for his efforts.
Death: After surviving war in Sandy Hell, Lawrence crashed on his motorcycle outside of Dorset, England. Pretty anticlimatic.

Goliath. Biblical terror of the Hebrew people. Stood 9½ foot tall. Challenged every Jew in Palestine, yet none dared face him.
Death: Killed by a kid with a slingshot. Uncool on a BIBLICAL scale.

Bruce Lee: Kung Fu movie superstar. Brought martial arts chop-socky to prominence in the West. Rebelled against stagnant kung-fu practices, sought to revolutionize martial arts. Great screen presence. Had lots of bitches.
Death: cerebral edema caused by allergic reaction to a painkiller he took for a headache.
Note: I am personally offended that Bruce Lee died of anything but a kung-fu deathmatch, preferably involving Ninjas, Dinosaurs and Lo Pan.

Elvis Presley. THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL!
Death: Died a fatass and an addict of a heart attack caused by said addiction and fatness. How the mighty have fallen.

Ferdinand Magellan: Famous naval explorer, first man to attempt a successful circumnavigation of earth in 1519. Has straight named after him to the south of South America.
Death: Killed by cannibals before even completing his circumnavigation, which was completed without him. Those cannibals really know how to ruin a man's day.

Will update this thoroughly saddening list as I think of more. Feel free to chip in. Historical cases preferred.

Note: the deaths of people like Tupac Shakur and Buddy Holly are unacceptable, since they died in ways very much fitting their life and legacy.

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Civ4 - your thoughts?

Personally, I can't help but feel a little let down. Sure, the rotational map and 3D is nice and all, but I just don't feel this has been as revolutionary for the Civ genre as it should have been. The new Civics system, while nice and easily customizable, just doesn't have enough options I feel, and it's obvious which civics are the ones to have and the ones to avoid, making pretty much every government in the world the same at the end of the game. Same goes for religion. As entertaining it is to have the Incan nation be the birthplace of Judaism, I don't feel it really adds a lot of spice to the game, being mainly just another thing you can do to generate culture for your cities.

I like the Great People thing though, and the interface is alright. The fact that workers now have more to do also pleases me. However, I keep on longing for my heavily modded version of Civ3, since there's just not enough new things in Civ4 to keep me interested for as long as Civ3 did.

What are your thoughts on it?

MMORPGs

1. I'm interested in trying out a MMORPG to see what all the fuss is about. I am currently downloading Anarchy Online, a game that recently became free to play it seems. Can anybody else suggest other MMORPGs I might try out to make an opinion of my own? Note: I'm not going to pay for them, neither to get them or to play them. Pay to Play is a pestilent boil upon the arse of online gaming.

2. What are your thoughts on virtual worlds? They're becoming so large they're now a factor in economics with lots of money being spent to buy in-game items.