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So from what I'm reading, here and elsewhere, Bioware may have swung and missed on DA:I in a big way. That would be a shame. I never played DA II but I was a fan for the most part of DA:O. Not so much for the story or the terribly repetitive combat but the interaction with the characters made that game. It looks like DA:I didn't do so well on that.

There are several excellent mods that fix that awful X-Box look and interface and make Skyrim much more PC friendly. I don't think I'd ever play a vanilla (unmodded) Elder Scrolls game.

I've found that people here are becoming more and more involved in their community and being nicer - mostly because of twitter/snapchat bragging right, but I don't really care. Nice people are still nice people, even if they are doing it for the credit. True. I've always thought outcomes are far more important than motivations.

Too late for that. I got you though. Jab infers you were trying to undermine the argument by bringing up a point that had nothing to do with it. You weren't doing that. Poor choice of words on my part.

Yes I am aware of the view many of them had of God. It has nothing what so ever to do with the point I was making. But you got your little jab in so it's all good I guess.

Oh that's ok. We beat the mid-term election thing to death. This is a more interesting topic anyway. I agree with you (and so do the founding fathers BTW). If our basic rights, to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, are granted to us by a cabal of humans they can be taken from us by a cabal of humans. I believe they are granted by God and are inherent to EVERYONE. The laws are the things we agree on they serve to put a check on the passions of humans but are also used as a check the authority of government. Barack Obama has criticized the Bill of Rights as a bill of negative rights. It limits what the government can do to you. He'd prefer one that mandates what the government will do FOR you. You have the right to a home, a right to a job. Sounds great right? It's not. If the government has the responsibility to provide you a home and a job then the government will decide where that home will be and what that job will be. Self determination is removed from the equation. Pride of ownership is removed from the equation. You guys ever see HUD housing here in the US? It's a slum. The people how live there care nothing for it because they don't own it and are in no way responsible for it. Even if you do not accept the governments hand out you are still impacted by it. The government does not earn money. It takes is. Every dollar someone receives without working for, someone else worked for without receiving it. Every acre of land the government builds something on it took from whoever owned it. Our founders figured the most important rights, the three I listed above are granted by God. That is a profound wisdom that I certainly agree with. I'd sum it up as the right to be left alone. Everything that cabal of humans, the government, does limits that to one extent or another.

Yeah. Let's start our own forum. With blackjack, and hookers. Count me in It's basically become a place where the active threads are about bashing Americans, the police, women, or video games. We had all that in the past, but it was a lot more balanced with reason and civility. I'm tapering off for now, I think I'll wait and see if the storm passes after PoE releases. Sometimes I think we humans treated each other better before the internet allowed us to be asholes with anonymity. For a while people were still being fairly polite in public but, from just my own observations, public behavior is mirroring online behavior more and more. But what do I know. I live in the woods and take pains to limit my human interaction to just my wife and the guys at the VFW once a week.

Yeah. Let's start our own forum. With blackjack, and hookers. Count me in

Now imagine one that does all of the above! Women would be obsolete! Long live the patriarchy! yeah. well unless you would be immortal, I see that survival of humankind could be in jeopardy Sure the future survival of the species might be at risk but for those of us with robot wives life would be a lot less complicated!

Not sure it would work. Daggerfall doesn't work either. Apparently it won't play nice with Windows 8.1. Morrowind does though.

Now imagine one that does all of the above!

Will we be able to f--k them?

I downloaded Daggerfall from Bethesda's website, reloaded and modded up Morrowind & Oblivion. Now I'm going to play them all back to back all the way through Skyrim. Only this time I'm going with all magic user PCs. I've never used that kind of character in any game so I've never done any of their specific guilds or quests. Hopefully by the time I'm done: 1) DA:I will have all it's DLCs out so I can play that (probably will) 2) Fallout 4 will be out (Possible but unlikely) 3) Elder Scrolls VI will be out (Almost no chance)

Required reading: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2841273/The-hyper-real-robots-replace-receptionists-pop-stars-sex-dolls-Unnervingly-human-androids-coming-future-near-you.html Ok, this just creeps me out. I can just see Harrison Ford hunting these things down in a dystopian future city. But the best part is this: Wow, here is this marvel of modern robotics and the first thing they think is "yeah but can you f--k them?" Didn't know there were rednecks in Japan!

One of the unique things about this forum is that it's had a fairly consistent core membership that have been hanging around for a really long time. That really is not the case in any other forum I participate in. Although more and more folks do seem to be disappearing into the cyberspace ether. BTW, welcome back Lady Crimson it's about time you came home.

Ok one last post (I had a lot of catching up to do) this is the actual story: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/12/12/Christian-Baker-Willing-to-Go-to-Jail-for-Declining-Gay-Wedding-Cake As I've posted before this does not rise near the level "We don't serve your kind here" One thing I noted though, the owner claims he is refusing the service because he is faithfully following Jesus. I can't speak for Jesus but He did tell us to 'Love one another: just as I have loved you". I suspect He would have made the cake. I would have too. Their money is just as green as anyone else's. It's the "comply or go to jail" I have a problem with.

I came for PoE, I stayed to post pictures of women and troll the off-topic. Heck I came here for KOTOR2 and never left.

When you run a business, you are subject to non-discrimination laws. Religious organizations can get around this, but I fail to see how a for profit business deserves a free pass here. Would it be fair for your local bar to only serve white people? Like I said to Bruce, he did not kick them out of his shop and he did not refuse to serve them. He refused a specific request based on his religious principles. If a Kosher butcher shop refused to sell you pork chops would you sue them or just go somewhere else?

When you run a business, you are subject to non-discrimination laws. Religious organizations can get around this, but I fail to see how a for profit business deserves a free pass here. Would it be fair for your local bar to only serve white people? This is really the point GD, substitute the word gay for African American and ask how you or society would feel about a bakery not making cakes for an African American couple ? Bigotry is bigotry and it doesn't matter how you try to sugar coat it That is apples and oranges on this particular case. He didn't kick them out of his store, he didn't refuse to sell them a dozen doughnuts. They asked for a specific thing he did not feel comfortable supplying

Bruce, I doubt this is a progressive victory so much as a libertarian one. I don't pretend to know the minds of the voters or legislature of Kansas and South Carolina but those are states where the Progressive idea of there being no such thing as right or wrong really wouldn't fly. But I think people are coming to see that it is not necessary to approve of gay marriage to realize it's wrong to oppose it. As you know I am a supporter of the right but personally I do not approve of it. I don't disapprove of it either. My personal attitude towards the idea is one of complete indifference. I don't think I'd ever attend or participate in one in any way. I firmly believe though that if two free and consenting adults wish to get married no one has the right to tell them no. If someone has a moral objection to it, fine and good but your morality ends at you, you don't get to impose it on others. What I’m seeing now is something insidious following this though. A number of businesses, one bakery in particular has refused to make a cake for a gay couple. They are now facing lawsuits and criminal prosecution. Just as no one should be able to stop a gay couple from getting married, no one should be compelled to participate in it either. That is the difference between progressivism and libertarianism

Just saw the Trailer... LOVED it. This game looks beautiful. I knew the Infinity still had some life in it!

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there's a difference between hardworking and ambitious though. I agree that someone who works his ass off builds a business etc should have a higher standard of living than a burger flipper, but someone who works his ass off as a burger flipper shouldn't have to live in poverty. I'm not saying the burger flipper doesn't work hard. But people should be paid based on the value of their labor. The value of a burger flipper is X, the value of an RF Engineer is Y. If Y is more appealing then stop doing a job that pays X and do what is required to get the job that pays Y. I am the living proof that any fool can do it of they want to. The burger flipper should not expect the government to apologize to him for his lack of motivation to improve himself by forcing his employer to pay him more than the value of his service is worth. I used to cut grass at a horse farm in Florida. I didn't want to do that my whole life so I joined the military, went to college and got better paying jobs. Anyone can do it. Heck we have free adult vocational education programs here in Tennessee. If the burger flipper is tired of earning X maybe he should check those out.

You can't see it Nep but I'm drinking a toast to you right now. And it's the good stuff too! Congrats!