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Hey, Ryu's an honorable fighter. It's hard to balance the cheapness of the juggler. Did you see Scorpion spamming those harpoons. Jeez what a cheap fighter! Fortunately, Ryu's got friends!

I totally agree. I loved the 6th Sense. But The Village was bizarro because he tried to have twists, and fake twists, to make you think that that was the twist, because we all know that there's going to be a twist. I think in his next movie, his "twist" should be that there is no twist.

Aaaaaahhh, put it away!!! You know Kor, as silly as it sounds, as long as we can keep scoring more than the other team, I don't care about our goalie situation

I'm sure it's been mentioned, but I got a kick out of the "That starship doesn't fly with me" quote when Bastila was trying to redirect your advances.

Wasn't that your ammunition reload? I'll have to (happily) play that again. I don't remember, been a long time EDIT: Hmm, I see the health bar. It doesn't go down though when I get shot though.... The big red bar does go down (obviously).

Scorpion is a cheap-ass juggler! I Ryu!

For any doubters, look at their record against the top teams of the NHL: Rangers: 0-1 Flyers: 1-0 Oilers: 1-1 Kings: 2-0-1 Flames: 1-0 Stars: 1-1 Not too bad. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> But but but...it's because of all the momentum they gain against the weak teams Seriously I like Nashville. Fast fun hockey. And yeeeeeeees we are now in a tie with the Canucks for first place. "Unfortunately" Calgary was unable to win tonight, so they remain two points behind It wasn't a pretty game....more of a laugh out loud game. Lots of goals

First one. Definately worth

well considering that this was at a landing on normandy... I don't think there would be that many men... And it happens everywhere... Even in missions where you are cut off from reinfocements all of a sudden a new army dude arrives to fill out the squad... this especially bad on a mission where you have to hold out for 5 minutes against a nazi attack so that you can be relieved by your own forces. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If it was a landing on Normandy, than there probably wasn't enough men. I understand that it's fake. But I prefer it hands down over you being an even bigger supersoldier taking on the third reich on his own. I rationalize it via technological limitations. Honestly, how many friendly soldiers exist at any given time? You can't have entire battalions, or you'd chug the game down. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that even with the "you're cut off from reinforcement missions" there still isn't anywhere near enough men represented in the game as their should be if it was trying to mimic real life.

Seriously, give it a try. It's probably one of the most exhilirating things you can do if the map is heavily populated with tons of infantry. Running around healing, making that bold dash in front of the tank to get to the guy across the street, zapping people with the defibrilators....yeesh. It can seriously be a huge adrenaline rush if you stay in the thick of the conflict.

I'm going to be a jerk and take away from all Nashville has done, and claim that a big part of their record is the fact that they get 24 games against Columbus, Chicago, and St. Louis. Sorry, I'm just a jerk like that

Just because I'm an annoying nitpicker, the original Athlon processor was the K7, and it was the one that reached the 1 GHz plateau. My 1 GHz Thunderbird core (on die L2 cache) was an absolute beast when I got it. I remember playing Counterstrike, and the only team I ever was was the CT, because I loaded into the game way faster than anyone else. It was cool :cool:

That's the point of the game though. They wanted you to feel like you're part of a bigger picture, not the only person fighting the fight. I prefer it immensely to all the solo action. CoD also had people being invincible (like Cpt. Foley), but it's a minor oversight as I much prefer playing as a part of a squad. The worst missions for me in that game were the SAS missions where you did so much alone. It didn't seem to have the tension or the atmosphere. The Soviet missions, especially in the various city missions, had tons of this and were a great way to finish off the game IMO. I'm looking forward to CoD2

He's probably saying that you can make a PC that has no real differences between either.

XBOX 180? Except that we've been saying that for years. I still say it, only to be continually wowed year after year. I'm kind of hoping we hit a ceiling soon, with increasing diminishing returns on graphics. This would mean more focus on other "gimmicks" like "Artifical Intelligence" or "gameplay" to separate your game from the rest.

Haha me too. I only played the demo of No Regret, but I thought it had more promise than the first game.

There's really no point in stating this though. The odds of any Star Wars game being made without Lucasarts involvement is 0%.

I liked Crusader no remorse. It was cool being a "bad guy" that turned good, and had a sweet choice of weapons I remember. It was cool because I remember the manuals for that game being propaganda booklets from the "bad guys."

You work at Safeway?

Be an engineer and hop into a tank. That's where I get my best KDR. Or be a medic. Your KDR won't change much, but you'll get a ton of points just reviving people.

It's easy to say that when you aren't the person being kicked out of your home (or water just got cut off, or just had your power removed, etc). I've also yet to see a bank tell me to change my way of life when applying for a loan, or to tell me how to run my house (or even business). And in many cases they were put in "forced" situations, because often times a natural disaster had just occurred into a poorer country. "Free aid" from countries, such as the tsunami incident, didn't occur all that often back in the day. When natural disasters occurred, they had to go to the IMF and World Bank to request funds. And even then, the IMF has a history of waiting until the a country has experienced years of poor economic conditions...which conveniently is when the countries are at their weakest and most exploitable. It's also naive to think that there may or may not be pressures. Ask Salvatore Allende what he felt about the US foreign policy back in the 1970s. It's also believed that the main cause behind the collapse of Argentina, which was considered a model country by the IMF, was the IMF's demands that undercut the government's ability to sustain the infrastructure. Ironically, it's left a left-wing movement in South America which went against the goals the IMF had for the area. Kenya is another interesting incident, where the IMF demanded that the Kenyan Central Bank to remove limits on the flow of currency. This allowed Kamlesh Manusuklal Damji Pattni to remove billions of shillings out of the Kenyan economy. I wasn't whining about the situation. I was just explaining it. To an extent. Pureform capitalism is also largely responsible for the Great Depression. But I suppose the large amount of people that are poor (particularly in the poorest countries) is because they haven't been willing to work at it? For the record I am definitely right of center, and do not particularly have any problems with the United States, and tend to hate much of the anti-US rhetoric that I read, which is not particularly uncommon here in Canada. I'm probably more playing Devil's advocate than anything else. At the same time though, I respect Canada's decision to drop its debt to the 10 poorest countries in the world, as interest payments alone continue to undermine the growth of those countries (U2 thanked us by releasing one of their songs here as a single first ). I'm also not too sure about how truly "poor" the United States started out. Purely speculating, but I could imagine that being a former colony of the United Kingdom probably didn't hurt a whole lot. A large amount of the colonists were Puritans, that had become quite wealthy with the trans-Atlantic trade. These Puritans also value education for all (an enlightenment of the masses, especially so that they could read the Bible). Furthermore, how much infrastructure and construction was developed at the expense of the British Empire? And wasn't one of the main reasons why the UK wanted to tax them was because it was clear that the American colonies were becoming paricularly wealthy?

That game was best game I've seen this season. It usurped that title from the Vancouver-Edmonton game on Saturday.

Actually, they imposed conditions on loans such as privatization of public facilities and stuff like that. As a result, overnight people are suddenly without power and water. People also have their land taken from them, as countries are actively encouraged to create "cash crops" to repay the loans. Getting nothing at all is actually better, when you can self-sustain and self-regulate amongst yourselves and your neighbours by growing your own food and whatnot (kind of like the early days of frontierism in the United States). These people are displaced by the government as a condition to loans from the IMF, and to a lesser extent the WB. The end result is you get mass-migration to cities, severe overpopulation, and people that used to be self-sufficient (in "traditional" village settings) are now forced to place themselves in as the lowest bidder. I took some option courses about globalization, and while it didn't really change my perspective of things too much (I tend to be right of center, and think the whole "globalization" issue is blown way out of proportion), it was interesting that it didn't seem to be all left-wing propaganda. EDIT: To all those using "First-World" and whatnot, those terms are effectively outdated. First-World referred to the developed, industrialized democratic/capitalist nations. Second-World were the communists. The third-world was literally everyone else.

The funny thing is this would probably be exceptionally devastating to the US economy.

That's just it. It seems like you are criticizing the US for not getting involved in WW2. But now you are criticizing them for getting involved.