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My message to Viacom: "Go F*CK YOURSELF" And good luck trying to pry on IP's located in the EU. It is a clear breach of privacy of it's citizens.

Certainly not love and peace. These fellows were in power: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and Franco. Hindsight FTW Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stop being serious. Ofcourse there was positive talk of the red revolution in Russia, where the workers enjoyed their paradise on earth under the great visionary leader of Stalin. English nobility were envied of Hitler managing to rally and gather the german public and industry. The world were astounded by the high standard of living among the germans during the olympic games in Berlin in 1936. Mussolini united the Italians and restored common order, eradicated malaria from the adriatic sea and crushed down the cosa nostra. There were even times of utter most delight when Chamberlain came back to London with a paper of Germany's peaceful takeover of the Sudet-area of Czechoslovakia, where he, the audience and the rest of the world, valiantly declared: "Peace in our times!". I still trying to figure out a point of this post...

Certainly not love and peace. These fellows were in power: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and Franco.

In the Nordic countries, there is no dubbing at all. Everything foreign has subtitles, which i agree upon. Dubbing is lazy and it gives another layer of abstraction to the original content. The whole 'national identity' is very strong in many european countries. The history, language and culture are one of the main social contracts that gives them an identity of the particular nation. It is pretty much expected that, while immigrants can bring new ideas and add spice to the food-culture, that they will become 'germans', 'french' or 'italian' in terms of customs, body language, language and culture. In Finland, which has a very restrictive immigrant policy, this is very apparent.

I thoguht you drunken finns always used knives? That's for more ceremonial purposes. Weddings, funerals, baptisms and so on

Most likely, yeah. A friend of mine turned into a real gun-nut and collector. He now stores all his guns in a huge vault at his home with a computer that registers every time the vault-door is opened, along with an automatic camera taking pictures as well. I think that he pretty much owns enough to mobilize a private army.

Speaking of which, "Slayer - Raining Blood".

mkreku, do you realize that the 12,7mm calibre rifle used for "moose-hunting" qualifies as a anti-aircraft weapon in some countries?

Yes. In the army only, but the following: STG 7.62mm Assault Rifle I used that one, A LOT. But could handle any type of weather condition and climate. Sand, ice, water and mud, you name it, the damn thing never jammed. MG3 Heavy and difficult to target with, was clearly made for moving down groups of people. Atleast you looked cool when carrying one like Rambo in "Rambo II" M72 LAW Was fun as hell, but i was only allowed to fire twice with real ammunition

Geopolitics: The EU will become a bigger powerhouse with more centralization of power. However, it will also be pretty inefficient due to beaurocracy. There will also be a larger rift between the people and the politicians, with several extreme-moments getting more votes than before. These extreme groups will abuse issues on immigration and other social problems, since the political correctness has driven any sensible debate out of the window. Turkey will not be a part of the EU within the next 15 years (This is just an assumption, from my perspective from being there, and from a turk that has married a friend of mine. He left Turkey due to the rise of anti-western, pro-islamic sentiments of the general population in Istanbul, of all places) China and other East Asian countries will continue to be westernized in terms of popular culture, but democracy will still be in the backseat as long as there's a sense of security and economic prosperity. Due to the rapid transit of culture, expect culturally reactionistic groups getting more influence. The same goes to Russia, where "democracy-lite" is the way. India will also continue with becoming more westernized, but will have more trouble with the arising differences between the classes of society. Pakistan will remain a totalitarian government as long as there's a clash between the Sunni's and Shia's. USA will have a smaller recession due to the politics of the current administration, or at least will get the blame. The next president will have a lot to do in order to maintain the american economical and cultural hegemony. With the situation becoming more stable in the middle east, as in not full-scale civil war, the problems will be focused on more domestic issues. State rights vs. the federal government will continue, as i expect someone that is Ron Paul-lite will be elected within the next 20 years. Culturally, east will meet the west more, but the american way will have the upper hand. The Middle East will be volatile as long as the neighbouring countries don't accept the state of Israel. The situation in Iraq will be difficult, but will calm down. Local governments will become more powerful in the Kurdish north, the Sunni triangle around Bagdad and the Shia south. Expect Turkey and Iran to continue to try to incluence politics there, as with Syria, Iran and Israel in Lebanon. Africa will continue to be god's forsaken continent. Sad but true. South America will become more rightist as a reaction against Chavez. However, problems between the left and the right will continue due to scandals with drug lords and such. Also, one has to remember that the rightist-governments have been proven to be heavily supported by Washington, which means that they will be met with high sceptisism. Technology: As taks and Guard Dog stated, the Internet and wireless communication in general will press forward with VoIP and IPTV becoming the norm. Expect most new households to have atleast 100Mbit fibre-optic connection. Mobile phones will continue to press to become more like multimedia devices. Alternative fuel source will be tested and some might get more recognition, but the oil will be the king of the hill for the next 50 years. Processors in CPUs and GPUs will have more dedicated components for A.I., rendering and movie decoding. Expect processors with up to 128 cores within the next 10 years, with hardware implementation of seperate vector processors, stream processors and 3D sound dsps (Good luck developing am efficient compiler to that baby). Fusion will still be difficult to get to work efficiently, but i expect a powerplant to be built in Europe or Japan within the next 25 years. Bah, information overflow. I need a break and continue later.

....and that's it. Congrats, Spain Sadly, this game goes down to one of the more boring ones in history.

lulz

Looking at those videos from the Blizzard main site made me go way back in time, back when i used dad's Pentium I to play the original Diablo. Good times By judging Blizzard's rigorous ways of polishing their games, i guess that the releasedate will be 2010 the earliest.

I'll will try for once: Germany [1] - Spain [1] Germany then wins 6-5 on penalties.

On a more serious note: Countries like Canada and Finland have the same amount of weapons per citizen as the US, but they are not even close on comparing with gun-related crime, in such cases of assault, attempted murder and so on. Maybe it is the dense population in bigger cities, or maybe it is a byproduct of the culture of strong individualism that makes it easier to form 'us and them' mentality on the individual and the group he or she associate themselves to. Do those factors function as a breeding-ground for people with a high contempt for the general society? I do not know. But the whole "GUNS! whooo-ra"-mentality isn't exactly helping either.

F*** YEAH! //EDIT ffs, just replace the stars with 'you know what' and a capital 'F' and you'll see the video.

Talk about jumping to conclusions. How come that the whole birth business, as well as the first steps quest, kid bullying, VATS, original character creation process and all (and that's just from this preview in particular, I just skimmed), "reduce the character's pathos" to HW toting and explosions going on in the background? Sure, the game does seem to have those things from the pics, but the game is not JUST that. You know, it's funny. Because you guys are trying so hard to mischaracterize a game that you know very little about (so that your prejudices seem justified), but in the end, you're all going to end up playing it. You should become a political or a social commentator on TV. Your ways of starting an argument are marvellous

That screams vapid, generic action game where the characters' pathos are reduced to carrying big guns while an explosion is going off in the background. Kinda like Tomb Raider porn but with orcs. Or like 80's action without any trace of irony.

I think it such a concensus at this forum that the story was so atrocious that one doesn't even have to bother to mention it.

I watched "epic movie". Then i quit.

The last 20 minutes of the game was more or less like: (Spanish team) "Hey guys! Wanna score another goal?" "Nah, let's run for a while"....."Okey-dokey, now i feel like scoring!" *goal* (Russian team) ...how the hell do you guys manage to be all over the place at the same time?...

Meh, my generalization got squashed

What the hell, i missed all the goals, except the last one. Damn powercuts.

*applause*

Metal Gear Solid 4