Volourn

"Remember Rule One? My beef with new D&D is the corporate sameness of it. " Then your beef is silly because all Rule One still applies. It always applies. Nobody is gonna knock at your door, and tell you to play a certain way. L0L "tell you what, go through and dredge up posts by obsidian developers on the matter..." You make it sound like just because Obsidian thinks a certain way it must be true. Which is funny consideirng how you spend your time mocking them for their decisions in game development. Besdies, I doubt every single Obsidian employee believes the exact same thing. That's 100+ people. They're not all going to agree on every issue.

"So much for the promised moral ambiguity." L0LZ FO wa smostly black and white. Nice try, though. As above, the vast majority of characetrrs in FO were black and white. That espicially includes the Master.

"I could perhaps understand why people are so eager to side with Georgia though, since it's such a cute and small country at war with the vast Evil Empire Russia." Russia is still Butthurt over Cold War. Heck, they've already threatened Poland with a 'strategic preemtopive nuclear strike'. L0LZ And, let's not forget that Russia invaded Georgia; not the other way around. And, yeah: Georgia > Butthurt Russia any day of the week. Georgia may not be 'innocent'; but it's not the failure known as Russia that was so full of itself it had to change its name L0LZ from USSR/Soviet Union to Russia or whatever. HAHAHAHA! Because, multiple countries including georgia had enough being Butthurt like Russia is. R00fles!

"US 'got away' with Iraq, I wonder who'll they gonna get away with next" US didn't go into Iraq alone. They had quite a bit of support. Meanwhile, Russia had NOBODY. *shrug* Nope, Russia didn't win any 'democractic' or 'political' war. Russia did the invasion because they are still butthurt over them losing the Cold War and losing territory because they have too big an empire they couldn't keep the country together cause they FAIL. But, that's okay. Revenge for Cold War Butthurt tm is cool. Then again, Russia has already threatened a 'strategic premeptive nuclear attack' on Poland. LMAO Them Russians! FOR PEACE.

L0L I'm just thankful the Mets got rid of Old Man Glavine when they could. He won't be choking away a division title for them this season on the last day. R00fles!

"runs a 2 party presidential sytem" Not true. They have more than 2 parties - the other ones are simply unpopular. HUGE difference.

It's ok. Russia may 'get away' with their attacking Georgia; but they keep it up they'll be back where they started after the Cold War. Heck, they've already started not so subtley threatening Poland with a 'strategic preemptive nuclear strike'. But, Russia is cool, I guess. *shrug* L0LZ

If they are good at what they do, they'll find jobs. Look at the BIS guys. Most, if not the majority, of them found employ somewhere. *shrug* Companies closing does not mean the death of the employees.

"And what is wrong with that if I may ask?" Well.. the alst Cold War certainly didn't work to Russia's advantage the last time. Afterall, the country it sued to be got cut into multiple pieces. It was so bad for them, they even changed their name from USSR to Russia. *shrug* But, hey, if they want to suffer through that again, go ahead.

L0L, Guys, get over yourselves. We're talking about busienss thate xist to make money. They're not charity cases. I ahve no mercy if they get taken over, or go out of business. They're not some poor bum on the street, or some penniless guy who'd I would ahve no problem out. That's what REAL charity is about not propping up money making businesses.

"Way too removed from previous editions to be even considered Dungeons and Dragons." No.

"Russia is just taking back what was theirs to begin with? Georgia was part of the USSR after all." L0LZ!

"I do hold the US government, as a whole, responsible for the treatment of the native populations, so yes." I blame Europe. And, yeah, China likes to fake stuff. But, that's ok. It's a tradition they share with all governments, and peoples so I forgive them. To bad the Olympics in general are so boring with the so called 'sports'. Meh.

"Well, we had less justification in invading Iraq so we might as well start yet another war." Um? The war was alreayd started. But, yeah, both the Russians and Georgians should be ashamed. They're both at fault here.

US won't do it. They're cowards like the rest of the world. Just like when Russia and other coutnries whined about the US invading Iraq yet did NOTHING; the same will go on here. The US will pout; but NOTHING will be tone. Which is too bad. People should grow ballz, and stand up for what they believe in.

"Ever heard of hostile takeovers, Volourn? EA is still out to "kill" Take 2." If a 'hostile' takeover occurs I blame the oen taqken over. they failed. They killed themselves by letting themselves be pathetically weak, and hence don't deserve toe xist. I got no mercy for companies in the business to make money. Sorry. If Take Two dies; it's their own fault.

I blame the 'ol geezers who brag about how the days of Hilter, hippies, and Korea were some kind of sign of greater intelligence. L0L Besdies, if it is a 'fact' that kidies nowadays are 'stupider'; I blame the 'ol geezers who thought it was cool to get high or aid their lovers get high while pregnant. Not to mention the inbreeding that was more common back then. It's called evolution coming back to haunt us. Eitehr way, any problems todaya re 100% on the old geezers' heads. Sorry, but it's true.

"Over course EA destroys companies that they purchased" No, they don't. The moment those companies 'sell out' is the moment they are destroyed. They commit suicide. There is no 'company' for EA to destroy.. just an EA division for them to remove when they feel it's no longer worthwhile to keep. Don't blame EA for the owners' killing their company.

"Mask of the Betrayer was great despite it being short)." MotB was about 20 hours. Heck of a lot longer than 6 hours.

"The last truly great NHL game was NHL 95." Nope. That's NHL 2008. NHL 95 and all other hockey games in history are absolute trash in comparison.

I ndon't hate 2KJ. I just thinkl their hockey socks comapred to EA's. 2K's basketball, on the other hand, is superior. "There is actually a rather fun and amusing "battle" between fans of both companies sports games with zealots on both sides, whose opinions can't really be taken seriously when you consider the absolute hatred for the other company." The best ones are the ones who go on the otehr game's site just to bash it. What a waste of energy. Just stay on your game's board. L0L P.S. I meant 1000s of games. Problem with 2K9 is that one of their 'BIG' features they're hyping is the ability to drive a zaboni inbetween periods. OMGZ! *must buy*

"NWN PW ALFA - This persistent world really captured my imagination and gave me a PnP experience I missed from High School" Ahh... So you are one of those actors who think role-playing = talking on a park bench with funny accents, and doing repetive quests. L0L Seriously, ALFA was a fun little PW; but it wasn't that good at role-playong. It's real strength was social chatting.

"So since you`ve allways believed in the prectice why cry bloody murder now when Russians are following suit? lol? See it works perfectly the same both ways... Round and round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows." Eh? I'm not defacto against 'regime change'. But, from what i've seen there's a huge difference between Saddam Hussein who slaughtered Iraqis, wasn't truly democratically elected by those he suppsoeldy represented, ruined his country, and wa sinvolved and multiple wars of his own doing and the Georgian president who was elected (as far as I know) by his fellow Georgians. *shrug* Plus, it reeks of hypocrisy on the Russian part sicne theyw ere against unilateral regime change. At least the Amerikans had support when going into Iraq - upwards of 50 countries actually. Russia has nobody else going in with them. Talk about unilateral. L0L R00fles! P.S. Of course, all countries can be hypocrites including my own. *shrug*

2K isn't even on my radar. I have already reserved, and paid for 09. I have played probably played 100s of games with 08, and 09 sound slike 'more of the same but better'.

So... Russai *does* believe in regime change based on force? K, then. I guess all their whining about Iraq was bull? Yup, it's as I thought. Yet, people seem to be shrugging their shoulders over this while theyw ere crying blooody murder when the US and others were doing it? L0L