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Oh please... I like b00bs, I like pictures of b00bs, it's all win. Quit your whining. +1 If the boob-cards where the only things that you remember, or being the only ones worth mentioning about the Witcher, then you had your focus on the wrong place //EDIT: nvm, i didn't notice the smiley until now.

God Jul, everyone! We managed to get a lot of snow in time for christmas this year. It looks outside like all those christams-cards that you get: A lot of snow that is sparkling in the moonlight. I'm now off to eat some more and to drink some "gl

uh, kyoto wasn't successful, at least, it has not accomplished what it set out to accomplish. even if the copenhagen summit were "successful," neither would it have really accomplished anything, either, other than funding 3rd world despots with our money. interesting that you acknowledge that it was a trick in the first place. taks These political meetings seem to confuse me at times, but how would third world dictators gain any monetary aid from cutting on emissions? Was not the intent of the meeting to get a global cap on such things? Or are there darkroom meetings that i wasn't aware of?

Hoho, so China is flexing its muscles i see. They will never replace the american cultural hegemony though, unless they develop some better popular culture than sex, drugs, and rock n' roll.

Why *ofcourse* they have to release the damn thing while i happen to attend a conferance in Germany. I only have 1-2 international conferances per year, but they have to release it on the very day that i have no access to my PS3. Typical.

Every third owner of the PS3 bought FFXIII? Stagnation indeed. We might as well complain about Hollywood stagnating while we're at it.

I just leave it at this.

That would make a good start for another topic.

I had to check up on youtube to verify that, i wasn't even aware that some songs have been leaked/released. The "Main(Menu) Theme" was an instant bliss. That piece alone was more Final Fantasy than Final Fantasy XII as a whole.

I was not a big fan of FFX, and I'm really enjoying the storyline in the game so far, even though it's quite confusing (both because it IS damn confusing, but also because my Japanese isn't perfect). The soundtrack is pretty good, I have to admit. I'd definately put the piano arrangement on my iPod (not a big fan of listening to original soundtracks). I also like the progression system. The game no longer has levels per se. Instead it has crystal points, which you spend on upgrades and new abilities (similar to the sphere grid in FFX). Now you also have roles, which you can switch in battle, although with a bit of twist. You have these things called optimas (or paradigm in the English version, I believe). You assign characters to roles (defender, healer, blaster, attacker etc.) and each role has it's own crystarium (the FF13 equivilent of sphere grid). You have to progress each character's crystariums individually, so one generally opts to choose one or two roles for each character and stick to them. When you first get into the whole optima system, you start out with two preprogrammed optimas. One is a pure attack optima, where all characters are damage dealers. The other one is more structured like a group you might find in an MMO game, where one is a tank ("defender"), one is a damage dealer ("blaster," "attacker") and one is a healer. When you're fighting weaker enemies you generally go with the pure damage dealing optima, but if you fight against, say, a boss or tougher enemies, you first use the damage dealing optima until your characters are running low on hit points, turn to the defence optima where the defender absorbs all the damage and the healer tops everyone up, and when all your characters are fully healed you go back to the damage dealing optima. It's completely different from other Final Fantasy games (even compared to FFXII, IMO) but it's definitely worth its money. I'm totally playing it through twice, once in Japanese and once in English. Thank you, i have to hand it to Square for changing the gameplay dynamics for iteration of Final Fantasy.

YOUSONOFABI ehm, i mean i am happy for you. How's the game so far? How's the soundtrack? Does the story and atmosphere suck you in like in FFX?

I will probably see it, sometime. At the end of things, I am sucker for special effects and explosions. It doesn't really matter if Cameron has grown a mangina and made a movie about saving the whales/gorillas/ewoks and how evil the western civilization is, as long as he blows **** up in a wonderful way, i am all good. And lulz at the comments against Morgoth. Where do you guys work/live? In the land of unicorns, rainbows and shiny, happy people? Grow some thicker skin and learn to accept his opinion. Personally, i think that it is good with him around and the likes of him, otherwise this place would be really boring and dull.

Didn't the previous installment sell 2 million in its first week?

The Last Remnant was awesome. There are few RPGs with a story that actually span through epochs, which Last Remnant happen to do. I think i spend something of 100+ hours on that game. Beware, sidequests (including separate towns and continents) make up for 70% of the game.

What you simply want is that people should not feel entitled to a social safetynet. Instead, they should be grateful for it, and do their best not to be dependent on it. What you want is to change is the common attitude towards the social services.

Funniest review in a while, that's for sure.

[Godwins law] Hitler came to power without killing anyone. [/Godwins law]

I have to aplaud them for making every character look like they are from a Kaurism

Didn't you guys know? Pretty much every civilization before the post sexual revolution of the western civilization has been, very, very, very evil.

What numberman forgot to mention, was that in the Soviet Union there was no logistics plan. Without it, it was a wonder that the Union held together for 70 years or so. It simply collapsed on its own infrastructure. Anyone remember the missing nukes and missile silos?

Well first, that has a different perspective to it, since the coalition is more or less morally obligated to do it. Second, the whole deal with Citi has little to with any moral imperative at all, it is just patting friends on the back with the taxpayer's money. "Too big to fail", my ass. The whole damn Soviet Union crashed utterly and completely, but they(Russia and others) never came close to become a post-apocalyptical fallout society in any way. Many of them are enjoying a higher standard of living in this day to boot. Petty politicians afraid of their own careers, played right into the hands of the bankers (hey, they had one of their own in the very top seats of government for pete's sake). Meh.

So you are ok with it? Fair enough then.

The article isn't about that. Read it. It is about blatant corporatism, which should be your greatest consern with him. All I need to read is this to know the author is a left-wing nutter and not worth paying attention to. You mean that this doesn't concern you at all?

The article isn't about that. Read it. It is about blatant corporatism, which should be your greatest consern with him.

You guys dislike him for inane reasons. At least try to attack him on issues that matter (A long read, but very well written one). I love that kind of writing. It's...colorful.