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Fair enough. I am not surprised I made some mistake there. Speaking of Kukoc, I remember Pippen and Jordan really keying on him in the olympics because of all the hoopla and love affair that Jerry Krause had with him after drafting him.

Psssh. My last name is Schumacher. I'm genetically predisposed to attempting world takeovers every few decades are so.

I was thinking we should do something unique and exclusive for each country. Naturally Canada gets all the stuff cheapest!

Noted and sent off to high command!

You don't see too many in Alberta. Though our racial minority of issue is the various First Nations tribes. A looot of corruption coming down from the top in those circumstances and gang violence is so extreme in some of the towns and reserves. Tragic for younger kids growing up to basically find themselves forced to affiliate with a gang for their own protections.

Rodman was definitely a "hate him when he's not on my team" type of guy. Although he did always induce a sort of anxiety that he'd lose his cool and do something absurd (like kick a cameraman), hahaha. I saw Once Brothers. Pretty tragic situation. Though you mean the Yugoslavia team (and croatia, serbian stuff). It's kinda sucky that their friendship fell apart due in large part to a misunderstanding. Vlade didn't feel that a Yugoslavia world championship in basketball was an appropriate venue for some Serbian nationalists to come talking about separation, and when he grabbed the flag of one of them and told them to go elsewhere, all Drazen saw was a perceived sleight against Serbians. It sucks to not get the ability to reconcile torn friendships like that, too.

What makes the Colt Single Action Army "the best handgun ever made?" It would seem like it's reputation in older times precedes it, and as a not too extreme gun nut, would figure it such a claim were true it'd still be used as a standard issue today.

I already suggested that we make the castle require an always online connection with streaming ad revenue. WIth the ads, we can give it to you free!

I have a feeling I am missing some context.

Everything in moderation!

Big tangent, since I always see this, but what does God have to do with the rights bestowed upon citizens of a country by the men writing some stuff down in the Second Amendment?

We call them flamethrowers in Canada! Or maybe you're referring to Ignus? <.<

You didn't. The media did. As you pointed out. Zimmerman has nothing to do with Stand Your Ground, but Alexander was, and it went viral that it was just like Zimmerman's case. I suggest not being quite so adversarial in how you read into posts, however. At no point did I refer to you in that post, nor was it in response to something that you said, and was frankly on a different tangent for the thread (racial implications). Because we had a disagreement on some things in this thread doesn't mean that all my posts are anti-ravenshrike. I only brought up Alexander because it was ALSO a case with racial implications, and due to the misrepresentation people feel the situations are similar, people were concluding "Oh, a black person is punished but when a black is killed by a non-black, it's a valid defense." Unless you feel that the media has not represented Alexander's case in comparison to Zimmerman's... In fact, based on the things you pointed out, I actually stated in one post I made to you that I'm less inclined to feel that Alexander's case for self-defense is actually valid. I suppose I didn't explicitly state "You're right, you have provided an insight to cause me to investigate this more thoroughly and I agree that Alexander's case details were not what I originally thought," but to make it clear, you can definitely conclude that you won that aspect of the discussion. I concede the point regarding Alexander's presumed innocence (although I disagree with the charge of attempted murder) in the situation.

I'm going to stop this before I contribute to it getting oh so wrong, oh so very very wrong. Because I will! <.<

She doesn't murder them in her sleep. She's quite awake when it happens. And talks smack while doing so.

I just found the video cute. Cynics everywhere though! I am not any more inclined to buy Cheerios.

Eh, given that she actually states that she's rather surprised at how easy all the killing has been, I think it's safe to say that she's just sociopathic and will have no issues

Eh, for me it's pretty universal. It's about a general concept and I understand why it's created, for the 3D people to have references and whatnot. But yeah, a lot of stuff gets a concept but never actually makes it into the game. The shots of Kirkwall only ended up existing within cinematics, and while I could open up the level and see how accurately that concept art matches the level, it is true that we'll probably never actually see anything in game from that vantage point, barring a cutscene showing it. I still remember the Mira outrage when her character model was shown and some felt it wasn't nearly as well done as her concept art, so it still flows that way as well.

Concept art doesn't do much for me either. I actually got frustrated when Obsidian showed a lot of early prototyping for Project: Eternity, and naysayers came out wondering why their first stuff didn't look as awesome as Wasteland's stuff. Which was high detail concept art.

I have less issue with split second timing. It's when split second timing comes with "Well I see what you were trying to do, but because we have a rigid rule system, despite the fact that you've figured things out, we're failing you due to fighting the controls." I don't mind dying figuring things out. I dislike dying because the game controls lead to me going "Is this even possible or am I just not perfectly aligned?" I like a reasonable assurance that, if I tried jumping up towards that cliff, and it's pretty clear that I would have grabbed on if it was possible, I keep my death count at one. A common one was with the various "zip lines" as well, as well as jumping to land on a railing for balance. I make the decision of "I want to jump there" I don't want repeated failures because "You were close, but noooot quite close enough." The fun for me I guess is coming up with the strategy and tactics, and not coming away with the feeling that my strategy/tactics are now uncertain because the controls are so rigidly defined that I struggle to know "Is my plan even possible?" I feel like I'm rambling and not really conveying my point all that well.... I guess in the new Tomb Raider, I'll see something that looks like a zipline... attempt a jump and be more confident in knowing if the game designers have intended for it to be a zipline after one attempt, rather than Tomb Raider 2 often making me feel like I needed several attempts.

That's the point.

Haha, I enjoyed the new Tomb Raider. It actually kinda pokes fun at itself for being a murder simulator, and actually helps convey some level of progression for Lara's character as well. Though granted, they didn't need to have as MUCH of it to still do that. As for the platforming aspects, well I only played Tomb Raider 2 (which I still felt had a lot of combat), and I can only say thank friggin' god that the game was not excessively punitive because my precise angle on jumping to grab onto that ledge wasn't precision perfect. In situations like that, which frequently came up in Tomb Raider 2 (a game I eventually gave up on due to frustration of fighting the controls), I don't want to be punished because of not having excessive attention to precision rather than my general decision making process. With the new game, I found myself spending much less time going "It looks like I can grab onto that ledge, but I'm not sure" because with Tomb Raider 2, I spent a lot of time dying for two reasons: 1) I often wasn't putting Lara in precisely the right position in order to successfully grab onto something or something similar 2) Due to #1, I spent a lot of extra time dying because something looked like I could grab onto it, but I wasn't sure if I just couldn't grab onto something, or if I was executing the attempt poorly. I would have loved to have seen more actual tomb raiding stuff, and while I enjoyed the puzzles of the Tombs that were there, it was a bit too short and more of that would be fun. I still very much enjoyed this game though, and aside from the beginning didn't find it too excessive for QTE (or maybe I just don't mind QTE in general). It's the first game of its nature where I actually felt somewhat motivated to actually do a 100% playthrough (found every secret) which was also a lot of fun.

They did commit a crime, yes (barring outright foul play, which for the purposes of this I am hoping is minimal). Many, many, MANY MANY people commit crimes and get away with it. There's the idea of the Dark Figure of Crime. It spawns out from the idea of challenges about reporting crime rates, and such notions as "If no one ever reported any crimes, the crime rate would go down." No one here suggested such a thing. From my previous post even: So while they may not be incarcerated simply by being a minority, unless we feel that white people are actually more likely to carry weapons, there something at play here. It need not specifically be racial either. There are also large racial divides for education levels and socioeconomic status, which are also correlated with criminal activity. It's why there was some controversy over Pennsylvania cutting funding for public schooling while investing in prisons (although, based on this article there was some level of misinformation that went viral). Much like how, when police officers start abusing their powers (as brought up in other threads the past month), I do feel that it is important to be mindful as to why incarceration rates differ, to certainly make sure foul play is mitigated as much as possible. It could also go to show that investment in other avenues than purely reactive, punitive measures may also have impacts on crime rates and the like.

I enjoyed this http://www.dailydot.com/lol/kids-react-cheerios-commercial-race/ I couldn't be arsed to worry about scientific fairness or anything in this regards, because I was too busy smiling. Sue me.

I love Louis CK. That is all.