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Concept arts in general are quite great tbh Everything else blows

Tale hit the nail there Can't resist temptation however

Actually, it was a period of unprecedented advancement in the region, not seen since the fall of the Roman Empire... Of course, it eventually came down to petty plotting and backstabbing, and things declined. And then... the Empi... er... Christians Struck Back! Don't make mistake I wouldn't know about this. History has always been no.1 interest as far as sciences go. I remember making huge (15 pages when it had to be 3) presentation on history of racism and discrimination in case of Reconquista. (Then I got only average grades because "it was too deep for secondary school, students can't understand that. If you were in High School this would be straight 10". After that I haven't really, really dug in schoolwork ever again. The one time I have will to work hard and then it is too good? Oh **** it all) If I had to choose where to live in Middle Ages I would've propably chosen Moor Iberia without second thought. Or maybe some other highly cultured region in arabian empire. But being a moor would've been number one choice However nowadays it is often exaggarated how moors were sooooo gooood and civilized and nice etc. that people forget they did nasty stuff too for their minorities among other things. They weren't that much better in this regard though still culturally far above "europeans" Why? Religion is just like any other social tool. You think TV or the Internets are actually opening your mind? Hominids killed their peers long before they had firearms. It's just a scapegoat. And, as Wals cleverly pointed out, we're just playing into the hands of the fundies by centering on Islam, instead of those pulling its strings. No, but religion can and does work as motive for deeds just as well greed or anything such. It is rare but not nonexistant I think Dawkins has written on this, how religious people often hide behind "it's not the religion, it's the nasty people!" argument and then decide not to bat an eyelash for morally ambigious and dangerous aspects of religion that can on their own work as motivator for ill deeds.

I'd be very surprised if you were qualified to discuss that subject on equal terms with Pid and me. ooh, wikipedia had some actual information!

...but that's opposite of cool Me, this day is one filled with lazy, meaningless summer dreams and nothing worthy of notice happening edit: lol hivemind

That sucks (unless you wanted it of course)

christ, you've been lurking in here since 2004 without ever registering? That is kinda scary

You're from Spain or what? There were pogroms and such in Moor era too. They weren't as numerous or often as in christian western europe (it should be noted that slavic people had good relationships with jews so it was more of a western-southern-european thing than christial thing) but they did exist. In other parts of muslim world Middle Ages contain time periods when christians and jews were persecuted just like in western world. Of course it's not the religion that breeds the violence, it's the people who use it to their own ends is old, valid argument But taking away religion's significance in equation is wrong. Islam has - just like Christianity - give birth to violence by itself. Not to say it is main reason but saying it is never ever reason is ludicruous too

Muslim tolerance in Iberian peninsula is often vastly exaggarated however

What an idiot

ROW ROW FIGHT DA POWA

Hahaha, that's real? Looks like we finns were bunched up with our dirty commie neighbours

Yeah, it isn't exactly good thing that when guy leaves to Iraq and stops appearing completely... Well, judging by his signature I couldn't have stand him

Johnny Cash - Hurt

Pink Floyd - On The Turning Away

Haha, epic win

That's one of Radiohead's profoundly moving songs Pink Floyd - Hey You Hey you, out there on your own Sitting naked by the phone Would you touch me? Hey you, with you ear against the wall Waiting for someone to call out Would you touch me? Hey you, would you help me to carry the stone? Open your heart, Im coming home. But it was only fantasy. The wall was too high, As you can see. No matter how he tried, He could not break free. And the worms ate into his brain.

Actually is it even possible to NOT know about C&C franchise with it being one of the best known ones out there?

Oi! All you friends of Gurren Lagann! Don't forget to miss out this canonical "Ep 5,5" 10 minutes OVA made for DS Game Kamina is kicking ass like always and "I love how the argument between Jigitalis and Kamina is like a furry arguing with a /b/tard from 4chan."

I doubt anyone here would write AP as bad game due to some as small part as infinite ammo I would say scour the interweb and newsstands for more info on AP in the upcoming months. I'm sure that something will turn up. Alvin, even though Bleach is kinda cool you must watch Gurren Lagann. After that you can't help photoshoppin' The Badass Shades Of Awesomeness everywhere (just look what I did to my Lennon!) Mechas that use Galaxies as shurikens Did I sell this show for you already or what? If our game had so little to offer that unlimited ammo was a big enough turn off that people wouldn't buy it, we'd still have much bigger problems than just having made an unpopular choice on ammo. Indeed And I am still eagerly anticipating this game, perhaps more than any other currently on the horizon. Game mechanics overall seems to be great (though this infinite ammo seem to be HUGE backstab against whole combat mechanics and that's why I'm campaigning against it) and this game will be Absolute Winner Material by writing alone. Add that together with propably best gameplay from OE game so far (again, with exception of infinite ammo etc. : ) it'll propably be blast to play. But if nothing else you really must add body dragging in the game. It isn't even question. Real question is what the heck happened to Mitsoda. ...he didn't leave Obsidian, right?

...Jorian, you're stalking developers again?

nooo tv tropes how could you betray me like this Which one should I believe then? edit: it redirects to that if you type GAR in search field

shut up, I know my memes Gar = Awesome in manly way ....right?