Volourn

"Do try harder, Volo." Here are some of the exaggerations and myths aka LIES spread by your precious ACS and fellow gob't agencies in Kanada (and US); 1. 2nd hand smoking is worse than 1st hand smoking 2. Smoking is a guaranteed death sentence. 3. 3rd and even 4th habnd smoke exist. STFU, ACS, STFU!

One of things the US asnd their allies have accomplished by hunting AQ leaders down like they have is it serves a warning for all would be big shot terrorists that you REALLY better be ready to die for your cause because it well very likely happen. And, as Osama is evdienced off, hiding in rmeote reasons 9or even near allies) doesnt' guarantee you safetly. No more sending OTHERS to die ala Osma did on 9/11 and living the good live. Plus, technology is gonna get you. No more hding the fact that you target muslims as often as you do non Muslims also tends to hurt your support.

"This is incredibly wrong. You can read up on it here. That's from the American Cancers Society, but you can find a dozen other organizations saying the same thing." Thiose organizations love to exaagerate ie. lie to get theitr message across. It's called a tool of brainwashing.

"Smoking has become extremely unpopular." Brainwashing does that.

"obvious things like put a strain on the healthcare system, lack of productivity, social isolation, insert a few more." None of their business. As fop 'second hand smoke'; it is largely exaggerated. It's got so out of control there's nonsense about '3rd hand smoke' and even '4th hand smoke'. Shutup silly gooses. 2nd hand smoke does exist I've heard morans talking about how how it's evenw orst than actual smoking, care exhums or other silly stuff. My believe, that smoking should be allowed anywhere the owner wants to allow it. This means most public/gov't owned places like scholls/hospitals (well.. in Kanada) and the like can ban it while privately owned business like restaurants and bars it is 100% up to them. If you don't like it don't go to said place. period. This is coming from a 100% non smoker (1 puff of a cigeratte when I merely 13 was all i've ever had); but this arrogant busybodiness of people trying to control others' lives is riiculous. We allow the murder of unborn babies for various reasons (some arguably legit ala rape or potential death for the mother) but not allowing people to put something in their body? GET THE HECK OUT OF HERE. Nanny states are for the weak, pathetic, and unworthy. If I want to stick a stick of dynamite down my throat and ther eis no dnager to others when i do it - get out of my face. Thank you very much.

This makes them good not evil. I don't give a crap if the foods are 'healthy' or not. Making a mountain out of a molehole is exactly what'sw rong with modern society and its complete desire to have control of everybody else's lifes. People should be able to choose what they want or not as long as it doesn't outright hurt others which this does not. Period.

Definitely a balancing act between right of priavacy 9which I'm all for) and the reasonable use for crime solving and the like.

"Problem, Mass Effect?" Nah, not really. It still makes oodles of money. BIO - contrary to one tools think - has never been main stream enough nor big enough to get those kind of sales. That's why the 4mil+ of both DA and ME2 were HUGE deals for them. And, the 2mil+ in less than 2 months for DA2 was good times. BIO will not sell 10mil copies ever nor do they need to. R00fles! P.S. if it's a problem for ME.. it's really a problem for games like DS3 and AP. HAHAHAS!

"LA/EA/BIO don't wanna have Obsidian in the picture. They want them to be non-existant. Like they never made the game." I very much doubt the BIO docs are part of some anti Obsidian conspiracy - espciailly since they are major reasons why Obsidian got to do NWN2 and KOTOR2 in the first place. And, they do so, because of their close connection with FU. LMAO Conspiracy theoriests are foolish people who are very ignorant of facts.

NHL 12 is a worthwhile update if you play online otherwise it's just same game but with some extra features like usual.

MM6, MM7, NHL 12, and NWN.

" It's not like the MLB where everyone and their mother is testing positive for roids," Nothing serious wrong about roids other than potential abuse that comes with any drug - legal or illegal. They should legalize it and there'd be less abuse and more ways tod eal with the side aeffects. It surely doesn't make baseball players players better. I'd rather have steroids legal than people claimig concussions are 'acceptable' part of hockey. That's disgusting. "NFL/NBA where the star players are raping girls and getting away with it." L0L 'Rape' I like the way you claim that like it's a matter of fact and proven beyond a shadow of the doubt. None of us know what actually went on except the participants. "I just had a brief twinge of concern that Volourn hasn't been posting in awhile. Weird." I don't need your fake concern spammed in the hockey thread. Let's talk hockey. Volourn is off topic in thisn thread. If you concerned about some punk you don't even know make a thread about it and leave the hockey thread about hcokey or at least sports related tangents. Thank you very much.

"wish America would pick on an enemy her own size. Someone like Russia, y'know. " They did, and they won without even having to invade. L0LZ

99% of RPGs are grindy. This is NOT a new trend. Many of the beloved 'classics' of the early to mid 90s were ALL about the grind.

"You don't free slaves by making being a slave illegal. You don't resolve homelessness by fining people who don't shower. You're penalizing a victim for being victimized. It's idiotic." This.

"just looking for the right way to deploy it" Sounds like the army... Oo KOTOROL... nah, while some of it sound snice, not gonna buy it went it comes out. MMOs aren't my thing.. I get bored with them afetrawhile. I might get it eventually just to do the solo part than stop. R00fles!

I stated my opinion. Whether you like it or not, is not my concern. End of issue.

Game still looks awesome.

What's funny is some parts of EULAs would be laughed out of court (and have been) if fought.

"That's why ME2 is until now the most successful game for Bioware," Nah. Not quite. ME2 and DA1 are pretty much in the same rang for sales.

Miranda is confirmed back! Doesn't sound like she's a aprty member which sucks though. I hope she she can be an ally, though. And, we need to havea close up of her azz. Just sayin'!

"It's just a sad sign of the times that hype sells games better than demos do." Sign of the times? This has always been true. Hype has always trumped demos. Always.

"Within the confines of DA2, perhaps (though a lot of the major ones seemed forced on you). But strictly in terms of decisions carrying over to DA3, did the player have any major choice that can affect DA3 that wasn't forced on them?" That wouldd epend on the story, setting, plot, and focus of DA3 right? If you play Hawke again, there would be A LOT of choices that would matter in the game including what companions are still alive, are ystill your allies, and how they feel about you. If the game is set in he same city, how you chose to handle the end game would matter. Whether youd ecided to wipe out all the mages would matter. But, of course, if the game is set in a different part of the world with a whoel new main character than of course your decisions will matter less. "In DA2, the majority of the quests and plotlines have exactly the same outcome, no matter what you try (and fail) to do." No. This is plainly false. The end of ch2 for exmaple has so many different variations it's ridiculous. Youtr exmaples are ridiclous. The first two aren't evenq uestions and are story points. You can ulktimiately get the Quanri to leave. You don't neccessarily fail. You'probably' don't anything. You can get the relic and jkeep the companion. Gues what/ C&C exists for a reason so yeah sometimes you ahve to choose. I didn't fail to save Merril. By the end of the game, she most certainly learned her lesson and even purpsoefully broke the mirror. The vast majority of mages are not blood mages and the vast majority of them are not aggresive towards you. You don't fail to keep the peace. The epace was always doomed. Peace is never possible between the slaver and the slave if the slave has a way to fight for freedom. Really, what game did you play? Also.. quests that you succeed at... Seriously, what game did you play?

"The story of DA2 is so rigid that DA3 won't have a save game importer - because none of your choices will matter." Dunno about the save game importer, but lots of chocies in DA2 mattered. A lot more than certain other games.

"bioware statements is less dependable than they once was." fLAT OUT LIE.