Meshugger
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If you want to question the Big Bang, you will have to up with exceptional evidence. Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Dirac and alike weren't welcomed with open arms like prophets when they started. I think it took 20 years for Einsteins theories to be verified and i do not think that people have yet fully understood Feynman's implication with his Quantum Field theories. Best of luck!
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I've always been irrititated by the speed of light being the maximum speed anything can travel, well with a mass, that is. It's like an imagenary "nuh-uh!" constant. That form of restriction is not like mortality, since we have children to take up where our parents left of.
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The People's Republic Forum of Best Bioware, eh?
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Why am i suddenly watching Waco-documentaries after reading this thread?
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I do not think that Gromnir is referring to having no rules at all, rather to bad rules.
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Hear, hear. I remember my granddad's, a decorated WWII-veteran, last words before dying. "Always remember this, kid: We did not fight for our homes, our families, our lands or our freedoms. Know that we fought for the most precious desire of any friend of liberty. Know that we fought for the security apparatus mandated the central intelligence community, right, yes RIGHT to spy on us, check our movements, read our letters and interpret our intensions and thoughts. That is the true will of any free man to do for his country. And when the times comes, you will have to fight for it as well. Always be ready, my grandson. You are my blood, know that it is your destiny, know that you that you have to FIGHT with every fibre of your being. Know that security through the checks of the authorities is true freedom for your children. Always remember. .Always." I am such a failure
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He should've contacted his superior, and if the answer was negative, he should've just let it be.
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Punishing criminals is a good thing. Revealing criminality is a good thing. What Snowden did was criminal. You work it out, sparky. The Washington Post and the Guardian just got the Pulitzer price for their work with Snowden and the leaks. Heroic nerds: 1, old farts: 0.
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Only if it is single-player. Otherwise, bleh.
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Exactly, that's the natural order of things.
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All these subtitles are damn confusing. *sigh* Why have keeping it simple with numerical values when you can make it difficult with different subtitles?
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Alpha male. ;D Pfeh, typical patriarchial behaviour.
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Okay thanks for explaining, I may be overreacting No worries, it's alright.
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I don't know but your post just seems to me some indirect way to get some kind of rape example into an RPG and have a way to justify it. Like when you say "that the girl having deliberately broken several taboos before the rape" I know RPG can contain mature topics but any example in any game where the developers try to position the rape as " the victim may have deserved it" I would find highly offensive and unacceptable. And the reality is no gaming studio would position rape in such a way You missed my point entirely. In order to have an interesting conflict, you have to both parties feeling justified for their actions. After all it, is all up to the player on what to do in that situation and the consequences those actions provide. In no way did i insinuate that the developers were pro-rape. It is all in your head. I never said you said that? But why would you want to have a subject like rape in an RPG where there is chance if not done properly, and since I know you don't place much credence in deep and meaningful writing in RPG as you mentioned around your view on Romance (well I think you said that ), it would lead to an unintentional trivializing of this serious social issue Well Alan brought up all those horrible stories that were even worse than my example, and consequently i thought how that could be repressented in an RPG in a serious manner...well atleast tried to. As for romance, i do not like it in an RPG since it is handled like a vapid romantic comedy, which i hate with a burning passion. Love however, would be great in an RPG though, think of the interaction that would be at par of "The Eternal Sunshine and the Spotless Mind", "Lost in Translation" or "Her".
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I don't know but your post just seems to me some indirect way to get some kind of rape example into an RPG and have a way to justify it. Like when you say "that the girl having deliberately broken several taboos before the rape" I know RPG can contain mature topics but any example in any game where the developers try to position the rape as " the victim may have deserved it" I would find highly offensive and unacceptable. And the reality is no gaming studio would position rape in such a way You missed my point entirely. In order to have an interesting conflict, you have to both parties feeling justified for their actions. After all it, is all up to the player on what to do in that situation and the consequences those actions provide. In no way did i insinuate that the developers were pro-rape. It is all in your head.
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As soon as i have the position of Create Lead at Obsidian i will let you know
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Do you have a Ph.D. in missing the point? Let him answer himself. Unless you want to tell what you really feel.
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Alan, settle down a bit. No one here is pro-rape or suggesting that any victim of rape was asking for it. What you are describing could be a good scenario in DA:I. Our hero the adventurer has to protect a victim of rape under dubious circumstances (who said what to whom and did what when and where) from a village of bigoted peasants. You could even make it more interesting is that the girl having deliberately broken several taboos before the rape (slept with married husbands and bragged about it) and the rape itself was a not a result of mob rule, but rather a highly controlled ritual with special robes, chanting and such to give it a sinister vibe. Heck, have the victim being partly brainwashed into believing that the rape was justified according to their local code of conduct. Finally, if our hero defends her and tries to help her escape it will result in a massacre of the whole village, unless the hero has a reaaaaally high wisdom/diplomacy-stat, and having her alone without any previous friends or relatives.
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As if art can't both reflect and reinforce social mores. Ofcourse it can, but so far i have only seen vulgar results. In Bioware's case they better not bother to either, judging by the type people on their forums. But in the case of the three companions presented so far, i have seen little of that. Which is nice.
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The truth might sting and hurt a bit, but it is alright. We have all been there. But alas, tomorrow you will all feel better; with the air will feeling cleaner as you take a deep breath, the food will taste better, and you will love yourselves and everyone else even more.
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Because being a scientist or a philosopher is obviously beyond the reach of anyone who might agree with the idea of feminism. Got it. Now, now, settle down there. I hope that i am not taking the matter too personally for you my good sir, but surely you were taught at your local academy that it is quite ungentlemanly and a bit impolite to put words into other peoples mouths, were you not? In no way did i mention that all men who agree with feminism do so in order to get into girls knickers, just some, or only Jack. Back to things that really matter, namely the female anatomy in Bioware games. While i highly appriciate it, i find it quite immature that a game tries to take itself seriously with the same gags as in pornography. Uncensored plowing in captains cabin is welcome if it matters to the narrative on the relationship between the character and the rest of the crew, or to the story. Sadly, as demonstrated earlier with Mirandas buttocks in ME2, they do not quite get it. As for DA:I, i have seen no indication of that sort rubbish included there, and i am thankful for it. As for trying to politize gender in an artist's creation? Now that is just plain vulgar.
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*sigh* this again?! It's always the same thing: the boys do something on their own and suddenly the girls wants to tag along, but things have to change to accomodate the girls, because boys and girls think and behave differently. First they try it out, then the boys give up and move on to other things while the girls stay until they get curious about what those boys are up to now... So putting this into context of male game designers doing what they do and what they are interesting in, but suddenly that tit is too big for Daisy because it makes her feel sad about herself and now Johnny, who didn't pay that much attention, suddenly have to think about how other people would feel about his work or how it might affect the very culture he lives in. So now Johnny has to sacrifice his integrity to make everyone feel good about themselves because the best progress is made when all the Johnnys adapt themselves to the world around them. Or so Sally thought, how silly of her. Jack agrees with her, hoping that it will finally make her see that he is the one that she will give her first kiss to. Meanwhile we grownups are measuring the stars, studying medicine and are reading literature about the human condition. Sometimes we check on the children to see if they are behaving well and laugh at their antics. Oh look, Timmy is teasing Susie again, i wonder if they will become a real couple when they grow up...
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Okay, okay, okay. Maybe not children then. Teenagers full of hormones and not being able control their emotions.
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To be fair these weren't professional killers, just people who were prepared to kill someone for £1500. And yes you would find people prepared to do it in SA for that price, not many but some but they won't be very efficient or thoughtful about the job. As you can see from this murder So you can walk around in a city in SA and find these kinds of people? yikes!
