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Yeah, a part of me wishes that he would get some medieval inquisition-style treatment. But then i have to remember that the laws are made for the reason to rehabilitate the prisoner, and everyone should be equal in the eyes of the law. Also, everyone knows that no matter what materalistic environment the prisoner is in, he's been robbed the most important thing to the human spirit: Freedom.

R00fles! You're just too much sometimes. No one should expect common courtesy unless they 'owe' to them, gotta love that mindset

Now, now. Their marketers have carefully analyzed the results from their focus-groups and came to the conclusion that the most important segment with purchasing power are the common plebs, er...i mean the SpikeTV viewers. Somebody has been reading too much Marx, Orwell, Plato. Everyone should read atleast Marx, Orwell and Plato But yeah, i have worked at multi-national companies, and have been in contact with their marketing departments. A very cynical and masochistic bunch they were, with the "The customers are usually too stupid to understand what they want anyway"-mantra being handled as a truth, then you know what you're dealing with. And don't get me started on the information system designers and other "Business engineering"-groups. Bioware's (EA's) marketing department is probably several times smaller of course, but i can certainly detect the same cynical aura with this kind of marketing. Shortsighted "Har-har, well we got you interested, and that is all that matters"-manner like this is detestable, since they basically treat their customers as idiots.

Now, now. Their marketers have carefully analyzed the results from their focus-groups and came to the conclusion that the most important segment with purchasing power are the common plebs, er...i mean the SpikeTV viewers.

Pictures are very welcomed!

Probably a something sprung from a "I dare you"-moment at /b/ at 4chan.

Hah, it's actually July 10th here, and no update yet.

Oh come on... Proof that OFLC needs a shake up, what in F3 could seriously be that bad? based on earlier rumors it seems to be drug use. It has to be more then that, otherwise we wouldn't of got Dues Ex. Not really, there is all sorts of crap in older games that would have been banned by the current crop of oflc jerks have they been made today. The problem is just as newc0253 described, that games are seen as inherently kids stuff, so WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN! Ah, the precious children. Never to be exposed of the world hypocricy that the adults indulge themselves to. How noble by the ethics board of Australia.

Speaking of which, do the Irish still love video-games as much as they love abortions?

And Fallout 3 will sell by the tens of millions! (Sorry, i just had to)

Nah, no how hard they try, the buggers still want to pursue something silly as an education or higher learning. But atleast they're making a moral statement on the taxpayers money, because that's the most important thing in life, you know

Didn't Baldur's Gate 2 sell 2 million? NWN and expansions 3 million? KotOR 1 did 2 million, and Mass Effect is approaching 2 million as well. I actually agree with Volourn here 1-2 million is not excessive by Bioware's standards.

Then Bill Hicks is certainly NOT pleased (or is he ). 'Actually, I'm against drugs being legalized, and this is why. Last weekend, my friend and I went into a farm, took some mushrooms, and we sat on a field. I looked up into the sky and saw God. He told me that there is nothing to fear, that he loves every single creature on this planet, and he showered gifts of forgiveness and love onto the Earth, and I realised that there was nothing to fear, and I loved everything ... Now, if that isn't a bad thing for this country, I don't know what is. How can we continue to make weapons if we love everything?' //EDIT: Wait a minute, i just contradicted myself. If we all love everything, then Fallout 3 wouldn't been banned. But if we love everything, then there wouldn't be a Fallout 3 to begin with. Just forget about the quote above and let's continue to laugh at lower class' simple and neanderthalian concept of reality: "Prra-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaa"

Btw, i am currently reading Plato's "The Republic", so i am a bit biased at the moment. But apparantly, the ethics board weren't a round table of men and women, sworn to reassign the taste of the public for the greater good. Instead, they are a bunch of soccer-moms wanting to keep to the population at mental and emotional level of less than 15. Nietzsche is not pleased.

Ofcourse it was awesome. The bands were able to play for ME, witness MY greatness, and had the oppurtunity to see ME in person. I am that awesome.

Here i thought that Australia's board of ethics classification was an ivory tower of elitist, and bourgeois men and women, who easily could commend on what the common riff-raff should indulge in, in terms of litterature, movies and popular culture. Clearly Fallout 3 was nothing that could inspire men to commit greater deeds, no virtue to pursue, no new insight to provide the feeble mind, and no philosophy that challanges the boundries of one's perception of society, order and reality. It has to be a game made by the common pleb, that we call 'Barbarians', for the common pleb. Or maybe not.

...and they're up to build 1.b10. I still predict a late fall release.

These following lads have had the honor to witness ME in the audience: - Metallica - Slayer - Pantera - Tool - Nine Inch Nails - Opeth - Marilyn Manson - Slipknot - The Sounds - Morrissey + several others i forgot about. It's been awesome so far. (I've managed to miss every Iron Maiden concert, they sell out within 10 minutes )

Wait what, no SDK or editor included? Why? Didn't your focus groups like it? Did the information system and process-engineers deem it as unnecessary? Were the marketers afraid of a potential "killing children"-mod? Bah.

After reading the article, this game sounds actually interesting.

Hmm... Someone: -"Why weren't you raised by your own parents?" The kid: -"Because they were too lazy and were ****" Were is this "anti-****" law? I want to sue my parents retroactively for each time they treated me bad, as in not satisfying my material needs that i needed to grow in character. And in my humble opinion, for not always responding to my feelings when i felt sad.

Hopefully there will be gameplay-video of some sort released. Or even better, a tutorial that shows gameplay mechanics and character customization as well.

This leaves me outraged. I see this as the state behaves as the 'Big Brother'-thought-police in this case. The authorities has nothing to do with what the child's parents currently believes in. They may be hindus, anti-abortionists, nazis, wahabbists or militaristic-vegans, but their opinion is their opinion of their own. As long as the child is taken care of, and loved by it's parents, and show no sign of mental or physical abuse, NO one has the right to take their children away from them. Never, EVER.

Ok, now i have some time over to reflect on this. Here goes: - I would like your(Yuusha's) opinion on what exactly seperates a west-jordan citizen from a palestinian? Especially since the west bank was called the trans-jordan area, a part of Jordan until 1967. The same goes with Gaza, it was a part of Egypt until 1967. What exactly seperated them as a national identity from the egyptians and the jordanians? - You say that the ALL the palestinians were forcefully removed from their homes back in 1948, heck i agree that several were killed during this. But what about the arab coalition that said that they should free from their homes, so that the armed forces could frop the jews into the mediterranean sea more easily? In short, there were people 1) who were forced to flee, and 2) murdered by the jewish separatists, and 3) Volountarily left their homes until the Arab nations said that it was alright to return. Do you understand the implications of this? How difficult and a legal gray area this becomes? - Do you agree that some jews actually bought the land legally, or even emigrated to parts of the land that were completely incultivated right? After a while, conflicts started, and people died in a borderlining civil war. Should've the jews NOT been given the right to buy or run any uncultivated land, because they were jews? - When asking for a cease fire in the civil war, the jewish delegates ask the jordanese king for a solution. He only agrees on letting them to have a ghetto in Jerusalem, was that fair? Do you think that he even cared for a seperate palestinian state? Do you think that he cared for the palestinian people as a seperate national entity? - Should the West Bank and Gaza be returned to Jordan and Egypt? If not, why? I would like you to answer these questions without resorting to simple "yes/no"-aswers. Elaborate please. And now on to other issues you brought up: - You say that it was a wonderful time for the countries occupied by the Ottomans, everyone could practice their own religion as they saw fit, and justice prevailed. Now, do you think that they enjoyed to pay dhimmi-tax? What about converting FROM islam to another religion, was that legal and most importantly, enforced by the fully extent of the law? And of course, why did all those countries fight for independence from the Ottomans? - I see that you're from Indonesia. What's your opinion on what your goverment did to the East-Timorians back in the 1970's? Was that morally justifiable? In either case, please eloborate. - Please answer my question about the Kurds and Assyrians as well.