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Couldn't you just hook up the MP3 player to your stereo, and the higher ups would be none the wiser?

It looks like AI because it still is AI.

That seems like a rather arbitrary restriction. Why no MP3 player, but CDs are A-OK?

What do you mean? When talking sales, you're talking how many units are sold. The low price is an advantage of the Wii, and according to the numbers, it seems like it has quite an advantage over the PS3 sales wise. It might be closer revenue wise, but even revenue is a moot point. We'd really have to look at things from a profit perspective. Though the PS3 is likely designed to be a loss leader anyways.

Just because they are playing it doesn't mean they are out buying their own. The instances I have heard about have been at family gatherings, which require only 1 Wii to be present.

I don't know if it's actually the case, or just my confirmation bias, but my submarines seem to be wreaking more havoc along the Japanese shipping lanes. Another huge shipment of troops heading to Brisbane from San Francisco. Time to retake those Dutch East Indies. I did some experimenting with the Japanese, and it looks like the logistics side of things will be a lot of fun. Have to keep the factories in Japan fed with Oil and Resources, and then take the fuel and supplies they make back out to the colonies!

I brought it up because your stance was that, "successful" nations have had either civil wars, revolutions, or devastating conflicts. I figured for sure you'd have mentioned the natives, since I thought it was pretty obvious. The thing is, your statement didn't mention nations that were at one point considered colonies of other nations, nor countries that were "close" to other nations that had civil wars. I'm sure there's a point in being purposefully limited in your scope, but I can't see what it would be. Trying to understand how modern society came to be without taking into consideration the weight revolutions and other conflicts have had is like reading only a book's even pages. The thing is that western culture and history have been written in blood. We have peace now because our forebears paid dearly for it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Because your situation included civil wars, revolutions, and devastating conflicts. I don't know, but wouldn't "devastating conflict" already be something in Iraq that has been satisfied? Furthermore, had you followed the dialogue I had made with Hades, you'd see that he was talking about how Hades was basing his opinions on the fact that the US had a civil war, and that "it was a necessary event that made the US stronger in the long run." Had Hades been talking about revolutions, as well as devastating conflicts, your comments that included them would be more relevant.

I don't think it's a stretch that the average education, even for the much vilified American education system, of western countries probably exceed the average education of say, Chad.

I enjoy my emotions and my emotional connections. It's what makes me feel alive (and in a twisted sort of way, why I feel sorry for psychopaths). If it were to come to a point where I'm so focused on "bigger" things that I no longer felt emotional pain, then I might as well be dead.

Well, the first of January has come and gone, which means that the Americans have finally made some improvements on their torpedoes. Any torpedoes with a dud rate of 50% or greater (i.e. American Torpedoes), improved their dud rate by 20%. And that means that the craptacular torpedoes that the submarines had, have gone from 80% duds to 60% duds! Most have gone from 50% to 30%. Later this year, the improvements will put all of my torpedoes above 20% dude rate (i.e. American torpedoes) to a dud rate of 10%(!!!!) which should significantly help both my sub operations, as well as carrier operations. EDIT: Word on the street at Matrix games is that WitP is actually quite playable COOP! Hmmm, vewy vewy intewesting.

It certainly was! :D

Who's to say they don't still do that? Is James Earl Jones' voice bad because it was dubbed in over the dude with the heavy British accent when he did Darth Vader?

Not true, since I did just that both times.

And you'll probably see games for the Wii that aren't on the PS3/360. Also, the only way the game needs to be "gimped" from what I can tell, is graphically.

I figured they were still third party developers. The bizarre classifications people feel compelled to use.

I know speaking with John Buchanan, University Liason for Electronic Arts, they have been reticent about AI advances, particularly when it's dynamic. I wouldn't be surprised if Wizardy 7 wasn't actually AI sequences, but rather just a script based on game time, or perhaps game events (the game was released in 1992). The big thing that worries them is that there's less restrictions. Electronic Arts worked with the University of Alberta Games Group on making excellent, adaptable AI for their FIFA lines of games. The big problem is, since it could change itself, what assurances were there that it wouldn't possibly learn something that was completely stupid and game breaking. It was a very interesting discussion, and seemed to be at least somewhat echoed in my talks with Jonathan Schaefer. A lot of love for using learning to build an AI base, but not so much confidence in keeping the learning enabled.

I am aware that the concept of a nation is relatively new. Well, the Nation-State anyways. How specific do you have to be though. Australia committed atrocities against the indigenous aborginies, but did they have a civil war, revolution, or a devastating conflict? The British and French frequently had colonial wars, but what is Canada's history of civil wars, revolutions, and devastating conflict? What civil wars, revolutions, or devastating conflicts did Sweden have after the concept of the Nation-State was conceived? They took part in conflicts prior to that (as did many other European countries), so I suppose that that is what you are looking at? Besides, I specifically said "civil war," not revolutions, nor devastating conficts.

Oooo I remember watching his final game. Watching it again still gave me goosebumps, like it did the first time. Here is , which is awesome because I also love the Last of the Mohicans soundtrack

Well, I am close with all my family, and have been friends with my best friends for 13 years now.

Having an AI that completes quests sounds good on paper, but whenever I talk about the idea of making urgent parts of the plot be actually, well, urgent, I am typically greeted with opposing remarks. A lot of people seem to enjoy taking their time in RPG games, exploring every nook and cranny. Would an RPG where NPCs ended up doing a large chunk of the quests in the game really be a fun experience? A few isolated incidents would be pretty cool. When you realize that your character literally accomplished nothing of any real significance in the game, and didn't get to experience most of the story development, quest rewards, or whatever else your motivation to do the quest would be, would you really have had any fun?

I think being immortal would only be "good" if I wasn't a social creature. The idea of staying young, while my friends and family get old, and ultimately die, could very easily lead to being horrible. I wouldn't age with my friends, and would essentially still be a young man and would probably find myself with shifting relationships. Even if I remained friends with them, watching my children grow up and die, in addition to their children, and their children's children, would be a never ending cycle of trauma that would come at least once a generation. Recreating myself and reforming new friendships, new intimate relationships, would eventually become an emotionally straining monotony.

But you said it will be because the Iraqi will get sick of fighting. Why would they get sick of fighting?

I think being immortal is overrated.

Is following in the footsteps of the United States really the best thing? Have all "successful" nations had civil wars?