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FEMINISM KILLED ROBIN WILLIAMS! The reason for his suicide has started to come out. Apparently he has been having financial problem due to alimony: Robin Williams Had ‘Serious Money Troubles’ In Months Before His Death, Claims Friend Robin Williams had 'serious money troubles' before his death Robin Williams to return to TV after three decades because he is so poor from two divorces that cost him £20million Why Robin Williams Returned to TV: He Needed the Money

Here in Los Angeles, I-10 Freeway is one of the most congested highway in the world. I-10 was always congested during work hours. In 2006, there was a citywide strike in Los Angeles over immigration reform. The Hispanic illegal immigrant population just went on strike and refused to work on that day. I drove through I-10 on that Friday, fully expected the traffic to be horrible. The entire freeway was abandoned. Empty. It was a smooth drive on I-10. That's when I realized, holy ****, Los Angeles must be a full of illegal immigrants.

I had an "encounter" with illegal immigrants in Los Angeles a couple years ago. I lost my Samsung S3 phone, which was brand new at the time. Fortunately I had a phone finder app installed on it. It was a rooted app that could not be removed by resetting the phone. I was panicking because almost all my life information was on the phone. I used my laptop to try to locate my lost phone via the phone finder app. The phone was turned off throughout most of the days. I waited and waited. Finally, the thief turned my phone back on, and then I was able to pinpoint the phone's location. I went to location, which was a Hispanic neighborhood. I confronted a kid whom I suspected had taken my phone. Obviously he denied that he had the phone. The parents thought that I was bullying their kid. They wanted me to deal with them instead of the kid; but I could not communicate with the parents because they could not speak English. It was a mess. Soon enough, the entire neighborhood, which was Hispanic, descended on me. I felt threatened so I left. I immediately called the cops to report the incident. I waited until the kids turned my phone back on. Then I called the cops again. A cop accompanied me to the kid's home. I used the laptop to activate a loud alarm on my phone. That was how I recovered the phone. The kid was in trouble. Turned out that the kid's family was illegal immigrants. (I was not quite sure on the kid's status, but the parents were definitely illegal.) I was still ticked off by the whole experience. I wanted the cop to file a charge. Here is the unbelievable part: the cop actually told me to just let it go. He said I got my phone back so all was fine, and he just gave the kid a stern warning. Supposedly if I pursue the case, the entire family could end up being deported. The cop was actually trying to help the family who were illegally here in the United States. I generally respect cops so I just walked away. I am still kinda upset every time I think about it, (because the kid had reset my phone and deleted a lot of important information on my phone.) I should have called the ICE (Immigration and Custom Enforcement.)

In May 2013, Electronic Arts and Disney signed a ten-year exclusive licensing agreement for EA to publish Star Wars games developed by BioWare, DICE and Visceral Games. i.e., I do not believe it would be possible for Obsidian Entertainment to develop a new Star Wars RPG under those terms between EA and Disney; and I see no reason for EA to contract Obsidian Entertainment to do another Star Wars RPG when EA has BioWare in-house. Disney retains the rights to make casual and social games in the Star Wars universe on mobile devices, tablets and the web. I assume social games cover MMO, which means EA will not be able to make another Star Wars MMO under the current terms. And why would EA want to make another Star Wars MMO to compete with Star Wars: The Old Republic? EA has only ten years to make Star Wars games. So I assume EA would want to make as many Star Wars games as possible - especially during the next ten years when the new Star Wars movies will be released. Given the wording of the EA-Disney agreement, I assume BioWare, DICE and Visceral Games are separately working on at least three different Star Wars game, likely in different genres. Wikipedia lists BioWare as currently working on an unannounced Star Wars game. Given that: EA already has an on-going MMO (i.e., Star Wars: The Old Republic) and BioWare only makes RPG, I assume BioWare is making a non-MMO Star Wars RPG. Sources: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-11-20-eas-star-wars-game-deal-lasts-a-decade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioWare#Games http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/05/07/five-star-wars-games-ea-will-hopefully-make/

I am hoping Obsidian will make am RPG based on the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. Players can choose to be either a Waterbender, Earthbender, Firebender, or Airbender, (but not the Avatar.)

Under the current US rules, I do not believe those children should be granted asylum or US residency. BTW, an asylum is the permission to stay in the US. It is not citizenship. After a person stays in the US for a certain number of years, he can then apply for US citizenship. Different countries have slightly different rules on granting asylum and refugee status. Some Western nations recognize people who escaped general violence (wars or crimes) in their countries as refugees. Others recognize them as refugees but do not grant them asylum, i.e., they can stay but would not be granted permanent residency, in which case they may have to stay in a designated refugee camp and can not move freely in the country. That is why I said the US has "peculiar" rules for granting asylum and refugee status. I think the US has one of the stricter requirements for someone to be considered as a refugee. What I do not like is how the UN or some Central American nations butting in to tell us how we should change our rules or laws to accommodate the women and children who have recently flooded into our country. I also do not like how so many people are already calling them "refugees" to gear the conversations towards letting them stay in the US. They may be considered as refugees in other countries but certainly not in ours. I used to support immigration reform and creating a path to citizenship for people who have been illegally here since childhood, even though that meant changing our laws to accommodate them. I thought, if it was a one-time thing, fine, let them stay. However, the recent border crisis has changed my mind: I am now against immigration reform. I just do not think we should keep changing our laws, again and again, just to accommodate more and more people who are coming into our country illegally.

Recently, the US borders have been flooded by women and children who escaped crimes and gang violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. The UN is pressuring the US to change our immigration rules that determine asylum and refugee status, so that we will allow those Central American women and children to stay as refugees. The US has very peculiar rules for granting asylum and refugee status. In order to be granted asylum and permission to stay in the US, the refugee has to be persecuted in her country for one of these five reasons: her race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or her political opinion. Targeted group-specific (i.e., discriminated) prosecution is the key here. The US do NOT grant asylum or refugee status for "general" violence that indiscriminately affect everyone in the home country, (e.g., war, crimes, or gang violence.) Specific examples: During WWII, Jews were granted asylum and permission to stay in the US because they were targeted by Nazi for their race and religion. After the Vietnam War, Vietnamese targeted Chinese, Laos and Khmer (Cambodians) in Vietnam for cleansing. That was why those particular groups were granted asylum in the US. They were targeted by Nazi/Vietnamese based on their races, religion and/or nationalities. The recent immigrants and children from Central America escaped gang violence that affects everyone in their countries, indiscriminately, and not just specific groups. Therefore under current rules in the US, those children certainly would NOT be eligible for asylum or refugee status in the US. When they appear in the immigration court and make their cases to immigration judges, they would most certainly be deported. I just want to clarify because there seems to be some confusion as to whether those children are refugees or not. Under our current rules, they are NOT.

A new low for humanity. Yes, it's an RPG.

I think casting Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman may hurt Batman v Superman. Gal Gadot is a very outspoken supporter of Israel and Israel's military actions. I expect people to call for a boycott of the movie when it comes out. The upcoming movie already suffers from an underperformed prequel (Man of Steel) and a series of bad press. While I do not think the boycott will have much of an impact in the pro-Israeli USA, it will definitely have some impact in the international markets.

The movie series that inspired Wasteland and Fallout. Now has a teaser trailer. Tom Hardy is Mad Max.

Link: MTV News: Here’s Your First Look At Wonder Woman In ‘Batman V Superman’

I was actually more pro-Palestinians... until about a week to two weeks ago. I had some vague ideas about the Israel-Palestine situation, but did not know the details. So I decided to find out more about the history and situation. I read many articles, including these two on Wikipedia: Islamization of the Gaza Strip Hamas Covenant Last night I took the time to read through the Hamas charter: Charter of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) of Palestine in PDF (13 pages) So now I try not to care about either Israel or Palestinians. I do not like Israel indiscriminately -- and, IMO, deliberately -- targeting and killing children. However, I no longer have any objection to Israel coming down hard on Gaza or Palestinians. Israel needs to exterminate Hamas, with whatever means available and necessary. If Palestinians stand in the way, so be it. After doing research into Hamas, that is how much their objectives, their politics, their ultimate objectives disturb me. I am willing to reconsider my position when Hamas are out of the equation, and only Palestinians can stop supporting and electing Hamas. P.S. I am of Chinese descent and a lifelong atheist, so there is no dog for me in this fight.

That is Sam Raimi (the director of the Spider-Man movie trilogy and Evil Dead franchise) on the right. At 7:00: Maisie Williams (who plays Arya Stark in HBO's Game of Thrones series) is in talk for the role of Ellie.

I do not play any MMO or any sort of online or multiplayer game. That just how it is. So thanks but no thanks.

I know the game support having a full party of four characters. The multiplayer allows four players to play the four characters, (i.e., Lucas, Anjali, Reinhart and Katarina.) If a player leaves the game, the AI will take over the player's character; effectively, it's like playing as a main character with all three companions active at once. So the support for four characters is built into the game. However, the single-player mode disables multiple companions. So a solo player can have only one companion at a time. (I hate it when game removed/disabled a built-in feature from single-player to add "value" to multiplayer.) Is there a way to enable multiple companions in the single-player game? A mod? Hack? Tweak?

I'm playing the game for the first time as Lucas, and Katrina just joined at level 15. I'm overwhelmed by having too choose so many unfamiliar abilties/proficiencies/talents all at once. The descriptions for Katrina's abilities/proficiencies/talents are also vague and missing important relevent information. (i.e., Lucas and Anjali's skill descriptions are useful because they give exact marginal percentage or numbers; Katrina's descriptions say "increase damage" or "increase healing" but do not give a percentage or number - they are just vague.) Anyway. I'd like some recommendations on how to distribute points into her abilities, proficiencies and talents, to be a companion for Lucas.