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It's not all that surprising. Sort of crafty of Paul, making a (fruitless) show of endorsing third parties but not running with one, where he'd be the strongest of any this race. Not that it would've mattered had he endorsed any actual candidate. The logic is the same as in any American national election. You can think of voters as a big pool, divided up. Whoever has the biggest share of the pool in a state wins, but you have to figure that third party voters only really affect elections in the same way people who don't vote do - they subtract from the vote pool of the candidate they'd otherwise vote for. Ron Paul's fanbase has been up its own ass for so long that they'd never actually say they'd vote for McCain even though he's closer in ideology to Paul than Obama is, and more importantly, he's much whiter than Obama. But I'm betting that, just like the evangelicals, they'll fall in line come election day. He's endorsed McCain, he just doesn't know it. Or maybe he does? Anyway, watch McCain walk into a beatdown at the View, of all places. Also, Slate examines the many personality similarities between Palin and GWB. Here's one difference she has with Bush - apparently she still believes Iraq and 9/11 were linked. Another interesting developing story - Palin charged for rape kits? Now that's libertarianism. The City's records are open to the public, and if you read the figures, they seem to bear out the claims - $15,000 was set aside for the department's 1st year of existence (1993-1994), $5,000 for 1994-1995 and 1995-1996, and $13,000 for the last year of the first police chief's employment (Palin fired him for "interfering with her governance") in 1996-1997, spending $11,625 of that $13,000. Charlie Fannon, Palin's new chief, took the budget allocation from 1997-1998 and about halved it, requesting of $7,298, spending $3,454 of that. After that in 1998-1999, the "personal responsibility" initiative kicked into gear. That year a measly $3,000 for sexual assault victim assistance was requested. Just $205 of that was spent. Palin's signature is on all the documents, so she either wasn't diligent or she had knowledge of the policy. Thankfully the state legislature (who, let's face it, are probably socialists) got wind of it and banned the practice statewide. As to if anyone was affected by this (lord, I hope not) nobody knows at this juncture.

Really? When was it confirmed that jumping was an adjustable skill?

Could be that he fell from a higher ledge. Hence downward mobility, but not upward mobility. Helps linearize the levels.

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Please, please Mr. Molyneux, please make a PC game, for the love of God.

Also Thorton starts the game with a list of contacts. Ostensibly they would be able to hook him up with whatever he needed.

Myron talked up real drugs a bit. Other than that, nothing I can remember.

Like Kotaku pointed out, it may have to do with MGS' lack of faith in the PC market. Most likely an aggregate of that and any number of other factors. Joystiq sez the key players are being courted by Microsoft to serve in some capacity outside of Ensemble.

That's a legitimate way to play the game, but a lot of people specifically avoid using their guns because they enjoy the challenge (and reward) of "accidents" and otherwise silent/untraceable deaths. Also at higher levels of difficulty, you were penalized for not taking care to remain inconspicuous.

Tribal stage was just awful. Civ was marginally better. Space is much better. But if I'm going to be forced to go through the first 4 stages to get to space again, I'll be done with this game after the first playthrough.

I'll be surprised if this game isn't as consistently overrated as its predecessor.

Don't get the "Triple Dose" pack, it won't install. The only part of it that works is Overdose, which Best Buy was selling at the same price as all three games put together (?!)

http://kotaku.com/5046552/amazon-reviewers...y-to-spores-drm That seems more like nerd rage poll flooding more than anything else. With The Dark Knight you had the phenomenon in reverse - the inhabitants of IMDB went about artificially juking the movie's score to Best Evar levels even before the movie was released. It just goes to show you how people on the internet will get stupidly and pointlessly enthusiastic about trivial things. One wonders how many of those "reviewers" actually played the game.

The expectation seems to be that it's going to be delayed, but it could just be that Sega really sucks at hyping.

Neither EA nor the countries in question have issued any statements regarding the state of the game. And since the game has not yet been published its banning would be blatantly illegal in Germany.

Do you really think so? In order to court the Republican base McCain has promised to pursue the same foreign policies that the Bush administration has enacted. We certainly won't leave Iraq (ever) if he's elected.

Ostensibly the UN was placed in America to ensure our participation, since we had the least to gain. But the truth is, it was built on donated land by the Reptilian Illuminati Jews who live in the center of the Earth, as a stronghold from which they could infringe upon the freedoms of good-hearted smalltown America using socialist doctrine disseminated through institutions of higher learning. Most nations flout the UN in any case, at least the P5 and those countries whose interests are entwined with theirs. It's just that the executive branch has made a bigger show of being cowboy ****heads than usual, as of the last 8 years.

Oh noes! It's teh global elite!

Here's an interesting tidbit making the rounds of papers and blogs - Anne Kilkenny, a citizen of Wasilla, Alaska sent out this email critiquing Sarah Palin's career to curious friends, and it's since leaked and become a relatively big story. Also in more amusing news, turns out Palin has a history of being criticized for wasteful earmarks by an anti-pork activist by the name of... what's his name... mumbly joe?... oh yeah, Senator John McCain. I think "disgusted" is the word of the day!

Eh. I'm already aware of Palin's policy positions and they're authoritarian enough that I would dismiss her if I had any libertarian leanings. She was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she realized it was politically expedient not to be. She's been active in subsidizing the oil trade, something that no libertarian of any stripe I know supports. She's presided over the single largest per-capita pork barrel in the nation as governor. She's a fiscal ****up as well, having turned her town's budget surplus into a considerable deficit as mayor. Positively Reaganesque. Palin is libertarian in the way a fundie Paultard might be libertarian, which is to say, not very libertarian at all. Her selection was made to appease social conservatives, but at this point they're blind firing to get as many conservative types on board as they can. Given McCain's silence on the warrant-free wiretaps and support of the suspension of Habeus Corpus the libertarians I know who aren't stupid (which is most of them, actually) have sworn off McCain completely. Even if Palin was in actuality a libertarian, her selection would still be pandering without any real assertion of a line on policy. The GOP's cracked down on civil liberties and the 9/11 porn shown tonight is as good an indication as any that it's not going to stop.

Uh... That's exactly what a banned book is. I'm not aware of the government ever banning a book from being made or sold, outside of copyright infringements and other such technicalitites. When we talk about "banned books" we generally mean either books that are disallowed from distribution in public libraries, or books that aren't allowed to be disseminated or taught in a classroom setting, usually because they contain godless faggotry or curse words or other such (socialist and unamerican) things that harm our children. This sort of "nannying" is exactly the sort of thing civil libertarians rail against, but it's interesting that when Palin endorses such action it's alright and even commendable. That her constituents want books banned is immaterial. Libertarians are supposed to get their panties all twisted over tyranny of the majority in any case, if a majority really wants books banned.

lol reaganomics. I was a toddler during his presidency, but studying his politics, he was horrible. He was a terrible governor of California--he gutted the state's education and health systems--and then he did the same thing to America as a whole. People give him credit for winning the Cold War, but that's total bull****. The Soviet Union collapsed in on itself. It fell on its own sword in Afghanistan. Reagan leveled harsh rhetoric at the corpse and thus took credit for ending the Cold War. His diplomatic skills were legendarily comedic. Of course, all of that is consistent with far-right social darwinist rape politics (observe taks' use of the socialist boogeyman) that sprung up in the 80's as a reactionary response to the Civil Rights movement in the 60's. But for people who aren't belligerent, voodoo econ is the second most discredited economic system, behind communism. Also, Sarah Palin, protecting our children from the (socialist, no doubt) influence of literature.

The Department of Health and Human Services found that abstinence-only education is ineffective as a deterrent against teen sex. Data seems to indicate that oral sex increases with abstinence ed, and that's only reasonable, as either kids are smart enough to know that oral doesn't get you pregnant or just dumb enough that they don't think oral sex "counts". It's a safe bet that Bristol Palin was not taught safe sex, her mother being a rather strict social conservative and promoter of abstinence education. The father of the child was vocal about his being a "redneck" who "doesn't want kids". Given that they're not married it's probably an accident. Anybody who's lived in a college town with fraternity chapter houses knows that this sort of thing happens all the time. But, given that Bristol Palin is white and not living in an inner city she didn't really make a "bad choice" so much as "mistake". In true conservative fashion there's a shotgun wedding on the way. I give it three years, assuming Palin takes office, otherwise I'm putting money on one year.