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How is this a PR win for Iran? That's illogic.

Hamas even targets fellow Palestinians. Oh, the humanitarians they are.

"Which they were perfectly entitled to do." Why are the entitled to do this?

Isreal; doinjg a scummy thing like this in no way hanges Hamas being a scummy organization nor does Hamas beings cummy make Isreal in the right here.

"Women have a far more dynamic role in Iran than in many other countries." Sureee... Which countries are you comapring it to? One like Saudi Arabia? "I'm not saying its a great role, but if you want to move things forward you have to involve all sorts in the process." You coan be a aprt of the process of it without 'leading' it which from the sounds of it is what this position is supposedly deisgned for. This is an epic fail on the part of those countries who voted for Iran in this case. Don't you find to argue otherwise with a straight face that Iran deserves this position?

Why dkid the Isreal soliders board the aid ship in the first place? Why did the civilians try to murder them? Why did they go to live ammunition instead of less lethal means? Why didn't the soliders just leave before it went haywire? This entire scenario seems to have been hanlded wrong. If the story is true, and as simple as t is told in the artcile, Isreal deserves to face punishment.

"I actually thought the sex scene with paragon MaleShep and Jack was mature, yet very tastefully done. The one with Miranda... well... back to someone's puerile male fantasy." Riiighhht. Like the sex scene with miranda would never happen in real life. L0LZ

"It's just another excuse for the US to start a war..." That don't make sense. the UN isn't the US. I agree with it being near useless but it is no US mouthpiece. In fact, oftentimes, it seems to me, the UN is sued byc ertain countries to push an anti US/Isreal agenda than actually accomplsihing thing. Like you said, some of the apointments to certain positions are head scratching at best.

"From his POV though, he has to work for a living. Would you really compromise your work just to show that you have 'guts' ?" Then, he should have just shut his mouth (or not post as it was in this case). Simple, huh? I absolutely would 'compromise my work' if I gfelt I had to something to say. if you can't stand by what you beleive then don't say it. "You do realize that the vast majority of ANY posted information on webforums is anonymous and full of **** right?" You are talking about random posters like us? the difference is that none of us are claiming to have 'inside knowledge' or first hand experience with the goings on. We're just giving our opinions. Not the same thing. btw, I have no problem givuing my real name. Heck, i've given out my phone number and address before. Still, HUGE difference between random nobody posting crap and someone posting crap who claims to know 'stuff' - espicially a personal attack like this. Own up to it. Be a man (or a woman) and don't be a coward. btw, It doesn't even matter if what is posted is true.the person is a piece of crap coward.

"heck, we cannot think o' an obsidian release that were as buggy as any troika release... or bioware's nwn. " I can. NWN2 for one. It wasn't super buggy; but it surely wasn't bug free. NWN1 wasn't that buggy in the grand scheme of things. I didn't find ARC buggy either.

Warden's Keep was pretty darn good.

"His intelligence is 17." Irrelevant.

"Irenicus I don't know.. he seemed schizophrenic as far as his portrayal goes. He should be emotionless and yet he's driven by revenge and jealousy, and basically goes on to try to complete his plan again.. after failing the first time you'd think he learned the lesson, but no!" This is why I like Irenicus. He's a complicated mess, and it's largely his own fault. Like a true villain he blames everybody else for his problems when he's actually at fault. He's not meant to be really emotionless - at least not during the game. He is driven by rage and jealousy. That's the point.

"at least on PC." Ahh.. That explains everything. I'm so glad I'm mainly sticking to the 360 for games now and use my PC mainly for spamming on the internetz depsite it being powerful enough to play modern games. Just less bugs to deal with overall.

I don't take anonymous psotings seriously. The guy has no guts, and is therefore a pathetic piece of crap.

"Irenicus is driven purely by petty vengeance for something that is his own stupid fault. He's... pathetic." He's anything but pathetic. Yeah, his current state is his fault; but he's still awesome. "Sarevok & Melissan were both crafty, and their plans failed only by a hair. I like 'em much better." Sarevok wasn't crafty at all. He was cool, and strong though.. I have little doubt any 'craftiness' found in his plans were due to the brain surrounding him like step father. Melissan, on the other hand, is BIo's 2nd worst villain of all time. She is the veryd efintion of pathetic, boring, and just plain crap.

"but am not feeling like playing a game wherein our rogue pc cannot detect/disarm traps, a joinable npc may not join, and at least 1 potential game-breaker bug... " None of these bugs happened.

Common belief but not commonn knowledge since there was no real 'proof'.

"Nothing really meaningful was influenced by your decisions. Regardless of choice, the plot ended the same. Minor things like the Council and all that also proved to be, well minor, since really. It's like they weren't even around in the second game regardless if you chose to one option over the other. Stuff like that yeah. " This simply isn't true unless you are changing the definition of 'meaningful'. Lots of meaningful choices occured.

Nah. I don't go around proclaiming myself judge, jury, and executioner in a dismal future.

"disagree, the witcher was epic!" No. No, it was horrible. "the fact is that the majority of gamers that are bashing the AP ; are like you Bioware hard to die fans that are really blind idiots to appreciate other RPG that are not made by yours RPG's god." I haven't bashed or praised AP, actyually. I said it ripped off ie. looks a lot like ME . 8shrug* For the record, I like quite a few non BIO RPgs including Obsidian's own NWN2 and KOTOR2. Go figure. Don't be ignorant. "BTW, The quote function in the forum work great." I use quotation marks when quoting others.. just as we all were taught to do in school. Deganidwa: I don't believe cowards who don't have the guys to share their name when bashing something.

Must explain all the times schools are embarassed in court or before even reaching court ebcause they think they're above the law even though they are not. They are not above the law no matter how much you wish they were.

"LOL i am not a fan boy maybe you are a Bioware fan or Bethesda fan...the fact is that i love Bioware / Bethesda RPG's but that doesn't make a blind idiot to not enjoy another RPG made for other devs. " Your comment doesn't make sense. You accuse him of being a BIO or BETH fanboy 'cause he bashes an Obsidian game then claim that you yourself love BIO/BETH yet enjoy Obsidian games. That's a rather poor accusation as it's illogical. The fact he may be a fan of BIO/BETH is irrelevant as your existence proves. For the record, I am a BIo fan, a Beth hater yet I like Obsidian just fine.

"You do realize that AP entered production before ME was released, right" You do realize that ME was released 2-3 years ago right? Heck, ME's sequel came out before AP. No doubt that ME has influence on AP. The interviewes, and previews even suggest it. Even Obsidian themseves have compared the two games in the past. There'sa m reason when AP was first annoucned pretty much everyone went, "Oh, that was ME influenced!" It's beyond obvious. Nothing wrong with that on itself since ME itself is hevailyn influenced by multiple sources. *shrug* Don't take it too personally. The point is, I can't feel that sorry for Obsidian when people mention other games and developers when they themselvess have basically pushed the comparisons.

You can't guarantee anything of the sort unless you are judge on the case. Don't be so ignorantly arrogant to assume your opinion is agreed upon byu everyone 'cause as evidenced by this thread it ain't.