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Since Libby was convicted of 4 charges and Clinton was accused of 2, no.

Natch. I'll have to upload the last 3 songs. Missed those. *edit - Actually, quite a few more than that. Uploading presently. Arroyo Redding

You've got your head on wrong if you can't tell the difference between lying to cover up an affair and lying to cover up violations of national security, which is exactly what the Plame leak was. That Valerie Plame wasn't in another country and in immediate danger is irrelevant. She was covert (yes, she was undercover. The CIA said this. The CIA referred the leak to the DoJ, there's no sleight of hand to be made over this) and her cover was blown by somebody in the Bush Administration. You don't do that ****. Ever. So to protect the office, Libby tried to shine on the DoJ. He didn't have to, the actual leaker (Armitage) told DoJ the straight story and got off. But Libby tried to obstruct justice, and thus he was put on trouble. Yeah, he was part of an unpopular, delusional administration. But he's not Jesus Christ, and the democrats aren't Pharisees. Libby was prosecuted because he broke. the. ****ing. law. And he should have done his time.

WOOO SOCIAL DARWINISM YEAH HIGH FIVE BURN THE UNDERCLASS I've got a better idea to protect homes from fires: Don't smoke.

I bet the Obsidian developers who peruse this Obsidian board are going to be stunned by the overwhelming popularity of Obsidian on this Obsidian poll. And I voted Bethesda, because it's punk.

Somehow, I don't think tolerance with a healthy dose of fatherly "be careful now" is going to affect whatever impact the games have on children at all. You can have a little thing about how violence is wrong and shouldn't be practiced but it's going to be about as useful and effective as the FBI warning that you can't fast forward through before every movie. You have to have a willing audience to educate, and **** if I'm going to play Manhunt 2 to be educated, I'm going to play it to strangle people with plastic bags and **** corpses. You need to be willing to give complete and utter trust in children's judgement, comprehension and maturity to justify "education over censorship". I know kids, and they're not to be trusted in such a way.

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Maybe not Tarantino, he's far too self-indulgent to use violence for the sake of anything other than style. Roth would be a start. Rape chic is a film trend that should be nipped in the bud. It's hard to say if this really is a coup for Take Two. It all depends on when and if the game is recut to a Mature rating and whether or not the banning will boost sales more than they already would have hit, let alone recoup the money lost through the banning. Manhunt 1 was a pretty pointless game (there was supposed to be some kind of story but it only ever went as far as "move to the next area and execute more people") and whatever thrills it had petered out by the halfway point, when it became a clunky GTA-style 3rd person shooter. Manhunt 2 looks to be more of the same. Postal with extra gloss.

Is this 'un compatible with Unfinished Bizness? THROWBACK Heh, since there was no BG3, I always fit Marophet (my first character to make it through all of BG, NG 30th level Conjurer) into my PnP campaigns. Fun stuff.

EA doesn't have a niche, they're big-tent publishers, the super-Walmart of gaming.

That's all great if you've got a nice, functional family. And charity shouldn't be a part of it. A single day in 365, or a single week in 52, in which everybody chips in and helps everybody else serves no greater purpose than to make the charity workers feel good about themselves. The reason Christmas is so unsatisfying is that what it represents is supposed to be special as opposed to being normal.

Keith really, really wants to be Edward R. Murrow. He should be somewhere other than cable news.

If the latest little peripheral details are to be believed, there will be dialogue options that won't be accessible to those without sufficient abilities, ala Fallouts 1/2 (whether or not this is restricted just to Speech and Charisma or expanded to other things, science, doctor, etc. remains to be seen) and the dialogue system itself is not the 1-word "speech" in Oblivion. It's slightly heartening. Overall, still looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

Do you know what a "signing statement" is, Vol? You play D&D, right? You should know the difference between the letter and spirit of law. The power of pardon is assigned to the President as a check (as in checks and balances, see high school Civics for further detail) against the power of the judiciary branch. He can't strike down a Supreme Court ruling, but he can step in on matters of punitive justice. This doesn't mean he should. A pardon is supposed to be intended for matters in which the judiciary has been overzealous or has ignored mitigating circumstances. Historically, it has instead been used as a tool of political expediency, from the pardoning of Tricky **** Nixon by Ford to the pardoning of the six Reagan officials fingered in Iran-Contra by Bush I on down to the pardoning of billionare fugitive Marc Rich via Clinton. Very rarely has a pardon been meted out to, say, those punished by three-strikes laws, sentenced to effective life sentences for petty shoplifting. This is equivalent to, say, the Supreme Court striking down a law passed by Congress because it cuts into the payroll of the law clerks under the Court. So was the Libby pardon illegal? No, not really. Was it justified? **** no, it wasn't. 30 months is nothing, given the nature of the crime and the minimum security facility Libby would have ended up in. Read the transcript of Bush's speech that he made upon his decision. He openly admits that Libby broke the law. He just feels that, you know, Libby was a loyal friend and he doesn't deserve to be treated so badly. If adverse reaction to this really rubs you the wrong way you're way more obtuse than we give you credit for.

10 over. I went 10 over in a work zone in CO and got a $120 fine, but Hij was on the interstate and there wasn't a work zone or a school crossing or anything, and apparently it was very late at night and she was basically alone on the road. Who knows.

Meh, I dislike a lot of atheists for the same reason I dislike a lot of vegans. They're the Riot Grrls of the 'aughts, stomping around and bloviating like living Mountain Dew commercials. Do you have it in you?!

I really don't like Christmas. Not because of the big spooky capitalist overtones and all that ****, I couldn't care less about a holiday based around the exchange of gifts. What I take issue with is the all-encompassing notion that you should be happy during Christmas. Nobody's happy during Christmas. Winter's getting bad, there are hordes of busy, frantic people all around, the same banal Irving Berlin tunes are blaring every****ingwhere saying how ****ing great everything is during Xmas, the same too-strong poutporri is burning in every red-and-white adorned shop, everybody feels entitled to be treated specially and obligated to treat everyone else in kind. No wonder the holiday season boasts such a high suicide rate. I mean, it's great when you're a kid. Christmas of '98 I got Fallout, I would have never played it were it not for the holiday, but it's a sour and hollow thing when you get older.

I've learned that the louder and longer you can argue about something, the more people seem to think you're right. I've learned that 99 percent of the time, people prefer to bitch and not act. I've learned that pissed off Iranian kids are just like pissed off American kids in nearly every way.

Just finished a game of Alpha Centauri, played as the University and kicked much ass. By the end I was getting 1473 credits and 1 tech per turn, and all that cash let me get a new Secret Project every 3 or so turns.

A friend of mine in Georgia got a speeding ticket that cost her $850. I thought that was harsh, heh.

I wasn't exactly jumping for joy when Marc Rich was pardoned. The salt in the wound in this case is how it fits into the bigger picture of above-the-law antics the administration loves so much. And I just love how every conservative pundit on and off the internet pissed and moaned like Libby's sentence was harsh. 30 years for a bag of dope? As it should be. 30 months for obstructing justice and compromising state secrets? Get that man off the cross. But I can still be glad that the Bush administration is 30+ years older than I am, which means that in all likelihood I will have the opportunity to **** on their graves.

Can't say I'm surprised. The rule of law was never important to the Bush presidency. Anybody got a link about that born-again christian in Texas that Bush executed while he was governor? That's a nice contrast. I hope the press runs with that one. But they won't because, you know, Paris Hilton just got out of jail.

What Bethesda isn't doing, amirite? The only thing groin shots ever did against my enemies was inflict extra damage or knock them out, which given headshots, makes them arbitrary. If I was able to get a good shot off to the groin, I'd be able to get a comparable shot off to any other part of the body, excepting the eyes (also missing from F3, it seems). The prospect of crippling an arm or a leg was more appealing than the slim chance hitting the groin would do anything other than provide funny flavor text. Because that's what the groin shots were all about, ****s and giggles for the Chris Farley fan in us. That doesn't mean I won't miss them, but their absence is not a human rights violation. either.

The little bit about the dialogue mechanic was not encouraging, if not just for the very mention of percentages (that the player can see IN GAME!) what I liked the least about Oblivion was that the PC was less a character than a set of different statistics and numbers, and this points to more of the same in that regard. I'm curious about the "limited scaling". Ostensibly, they've taken their game out of the frying pan and into the fire. Instead of everything being as difficult as would befit your character as it presently is, everything is instead as difficult as your character was when he first entered the area. What's to stop me from breaking the game by just running through the areas and attempting to level up as little as possible? Are they implementing certain measures to make sure that only players of certain experience continue on to the later parts of the game? Because that would be unlike Bethesda. For all that we know, it would be incredibly easy to rush through the game and fight a horde of crippled giant ants at the end. And the groin selection is patently irrelevant. What made shooting somebody in the crotch fun? In-game, it appears to be just like any other attack. What made it fun was the flavor text. There will be no flavor text in Fallout 3.