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Couldn't sleep, up betimes and working. Ran errands. Now plan a short gaming session then back to work. Feels good to be busy but obviously not up to speed yet.

The point isn't quantum theory or the Big Bang Theory as instances. The point is as Alanschu says: our best scientific theories are Disprovable Yet Not Yet Disproven (I'm coining this as DYNYD). It's the heart of scientific progress. I really don't know why you're so hostile about it.

I'm with GD. I think I might use it maybe once a year in a summer salad dressing. I'm really really tired because I didn't sleep last night. But I feel as if we fundamentally have to accept that certain tides in our cultures and economies are beyond our control. I wrote six different third paragraphs and have given up. I don't know if I'm becoming wiser, more lazy, or more cowardly.

I did enjoy playing it. But I'd have enjoyed a graphic/UI rehash of XCOM apocalypse more. I just keep getting the feeling in game after game afte game that what we've gained graphically has been scoured out cognitively. By which I mean we have multi-layered shaders but single layered problems. I don't know why the arse the industry isn't interested in improving. I'd cheerfully buy an AI processor to sit alongside my GPU.

I just can't shake the irrational fear that if I start watching anime I will inevitably wind up on 4chan.

Hold on there fellah. If the state legalised marijuana they might actually have the policing resources to chase down gun owners. Not really what GD is after. I'm in favour of legalising it, before anyone jumps on me.

So, wait, are you allowed to shoot them and turn them into bacon? Wild boar sausages are some of my favourite things ever.

Aieee!

I liked the Dragon Age concept, although the helmet designs were so awful I refused to use them. Effectiveness be damned!

I won't have time in the next two weeks, but I've got a bunch of material kicking around on the science of influence, if anyone would be interested in me bashing together a short summary 'paper'.

Some very good comments already. But i just thought I'd ask: How many people remember that craptacular quest in Morrowind where the guy wanted first some sort of wedding gown from a bajilion miles away. ...and when you got back to him he demanded shoes from the same place... I believe I murdered him.

I haven't much to add over gumbercules. My view is that if the natural flow of the story takes you into bigotry then so be it. But don't go around looking for ways to throw it in. It's too serious and too complex a subject to go at half arsed. I like my racism fully arsed.

They've recently joined the Euro, so the obvious answer is bankrupt or part of Germany. Realistically though, in the absence of responses from actual Estonians you'll get limited usefulness from this thread if you're seriously considering moving there as everyone's experiences with it (including mine; backpacked through about a decade ago, nice country to visit but I cannot entirely disagree with oby's description either) are more tourist orientated. It'd be like getting views from tourists to New Zealand, they can only really say that the dollar is high and Queenstown is nice, they probably won't know important residential things like that housing is massively overpriced (cheers, overseas speculators/ supine government papering over cracks) and economically everything except things that go moo is a bit dodgy. You could also check expat forums, to see what experiences have been like for foreigners who have moved there. Something like http://www.expat-blog.com/forum/viewforum.php?id=280 I obviously watch too many horror films, because that sounds like a great way to wind up locked in some crazy old dude's basement, waiting for his fictional daughter to show up. Thoughtful advice though. Thanks.

I had no idea wild boar were so freaking huge. Spearhunting those suckers must take some guts.

As if by meaty magic:

<Bill Hicks> You go dancing up to cripple people too, you twisted ****? </Bill Hicks>

Its not skepticism keeping me away its just that I don't currently have access to my desktop so I can't play any newer titles. That said, my neighbor, who is much more tolerant about game flaws in general very quickly grew bored of XCOM. I still want to try it though. I finished and much to my surprise I'm completely unable to play through again. This is very much unlike me. 1. The difficulty is all wrong. The aliens just get crazier, and 'cheat' more. 2. It needlessly annoys me that all my 'men' speak with an American accent, despite being from, say, Brunei. 3. I could complain about the boring weapon loadouts, but ultimately it comes back to lazy alien AI combined with weak mission archetypes.

I see what you mean. Maybe go a bit PS:T? body inking, etc? Oooh, maybe different social interactions give you bonuses, like making a little girl cry? No, hang on, I'm thinking of Milkman Dan.

Not sure what you mean by dignified deals. I don't know anything about this studio in Russia but I have a bit of faith in Obs. Top of my head question: what's the MMO saturation in the ol' Sov Bloc?

I think you're being needlessly harsh with the idea. It's not the worst I've heard. People are jerks, and playing a game where they get to be bigger jerks makes sense. But I do think the OP has misunderstood how kickstarter works. Kickstarter funders don't do it for the product they do it for the bragging rights. So they can walk the Bill Gates walk for $50. That just popped out, but I think it's true.

... I'd still like some good hints and tips on Estonia if anyone's interested. Where do Estonians see their country being in five years? Ten? Obviously this just made me ask the same about Britain. To which the answer is that I imagine 90% of Britons will be in reality TV shows about 'heritage' or 'quaint' activities.

Gentlemen! I'd like to us to forget our differences and come together over this as one community. Can we just agree that obyknven's posts are annoying and mental?

A new low, man. I'm more confused than a chimp full of sherbet.

The gameplay wasn't great, I probably didn't dislike it as much as you did, but I agree it could have been much better, but I enjoyed the setting and just the idea behind it. Why on Earth have there not been more martial arts aRPGs? If there's one type of fighting that just screams to be made into an aRPG it's martial arts. Part of the reason I loved Sleeping Dogs so much, is that it gave me a chance to play a martial artist. It doesn't have to be BioWare, and it doesn't have to be Jade Empire 2, I just want more martial arts aRPGs. I'm so sick of pseudo medieval europe fantasy settings. If sick of ****ing elves and ****ing dwarves and ****ing halfling, but not orcs, because orcs will always be cool. I want games in other settings. Sci-fi space opera hasn't been totally played out... yet, but it's getting there. Cyberpunk hasn't been totally played out... yet, but it will get there in the near future. Steampunk is nowhere near played out... yet. Standard fantasy is ridiculously played out. Alpha Protocol was awesome partly because it was modern real world espionage. We need more games like that. Modern espionage. Far east martial arts, whether legendary or modern. Native American centric whether legendary or modern. Anything but more standard pseudo medieval europe fantasy. Note: Sorry for rant and for derailing the thread. Most roleplayers are kit-hounds. They want weapons and armour the way 30 year old women want dresses and shoes. Martial arts can never give them that. *shrugs and makes 'sorry' face*

Well, JadedWolf I got the gucci powerpack because under ANY circumstances, if I can go for the top of the line for a few bucks more I will do that.