As finales go, Ron Moore brought everything to as triumphant a conclusion as you could expect. Maybe not as dark as some wanted. Maybe too dark. But ultimately Moore’s story of humanity’s survival is just that. A hard-won triumph filled with loss and pain, but leaving a continuous hope tempered with warnings of old histories coming back to haunt them.

Like all good space opera finales, it had everything a good space opera needs. A kick-ass final battle where our heroic warhorse takes the pounding of its legendary life. Character drama that rips out your heart. And deaths. Surprising deaths, funny deaths, and gory deaths. But deaths.

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The following is an account of my recent (as in today) experience with trying to play the new Games For Windows Live demo, Dawn of War II.

This is not a joke or exaggeration in any way.

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