Wrath of Dagon

Well, since we're bankrupt, may be he can teach us how to scam our creditors.

OK, he's finally stepped down. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110211/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt

The Woman in Black. Creeped the hell out of me, I wouldn't watch it again.

I have Silent Hunter 4, I tried the campaign but it was boring (probably my fault, not the game's), the individual missions seem quite exciting though, I only did one so far but quite enjoyed it.

I'm not ignoring failings, I don't see the failings. Star Forge being a space toaster isn't a problem, it wasn't supposed to be a sentient evil being. Really I don't see anything silly about it, in a modern war destroying the enemy's means of production is a priority. In ME the entire premise of Reapers unable to get back home like ET was ridiculous from the start. That's not a minor plot hole Oblarg, that's the foundation of the plot.

I'm not talking about whether it's a cliche or not. Also I edited the post you quoted to answer your previous post.

So? ME is an infinitely inferior attempt to copy KOTOR in a lot of ways, that doesn't speak well for ME. I'm not talking about flaura and fauna, I'm talking about the society of each planet and their distinguishing characteristics, that was the interesting part. As far as star forge being stupid, that's a matter of opinion, I was quite interested in finding out what that thing was. It was certainly a lot less stupid than a giant evil space toaster. It worked pretty well according to the game, but their system was completely idiotic. Considering how hard it was to defeat just one Reaper, all they had to do was come in and blast away all the navies and then do whatever they wanted. Also, how come the Protheans that survived on the Citadel didn't leave some kind of pictogram to warn everyone else? Don't even get me started on Saren. There are literally dozens of obvious plot holes in that game.

Well, they did publish the full cable, so unless they faked it, it's pretty good evidence. I don't know if the Wikileaks site has put up that particular cable yet. It does occur to me that this may not be that big of a deal. If all US provides is a unique identifier for each missile, that wouldn't enable the Russians to track it or anything like that. US does have to account for all the missiles it sells to allies, else limiting their numbers wouldn't be very meaningful.

okie dokie... but am recalling that you liked kotor, no? a hero and his companions must band together and overcome obstacles small and large as they fights to save the village/nation/world/galaxy/universe from the predations o' an Evil force. gots different window dressing, but basic scenario o' me and kotor is very similar. in fact, the greatest strength o' the kotor story is that it is unapologetic 'bout the manner in which it parallels the major plot points o' the original star wars trilogy... another save-the-galaxy-from-evil story. Just because two plots can be reduced to the same summary, doesn't mean they're equivalent. The KOTOR plot was serviceable, you had an immensly powerful evil dictator modeled on real-life evil dictators who our plucky crew of heroic misfits had to take down. The real genius of KOTOR was what they did with that plot premise and with Star Wars universe. They created a mysterious goal to work towards (the Star Forge) and with that as motivation sent you to various planets to solve the problems there. The difference from ME is that each planet was unique, had its own character, and had a problem directly related to its character and theme. Which answers your other question of how to explore lore through gameplay without resorting to heavy exposition. They were a bunch of bumbling fools to start with, Simon bar Sinister could come up with a better plot to take over the galaxy than them.

The plot is unsalvageable because it was crap to start with.

Successfully? You mean like bankrupting them twice? Though apparently he did do a bang up job with the NY ice skating rink. May be he should run for mayor of New York first, can't be any worse than Blumberg.

Apparently Mubarak is resigning tonight, and the army is taking over.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110210/wl_time/08599204672600

They don't love them in the hands of their enemies, because they can't get away with assaulting them. I posted an article a while ago about Nicaraguan goverenment thugs beating up opposition. That can't happen in the US. Edit: Yes, they love fighting, but only if their victim is a lot weaker than them, like all bullies.

You guys should read The King in Yellow.

Why is this surprising? The guy's the biggest attention whore ever.

So can we negotiate with dragons instead of killing them?

I didn't say they were actually fighting fascism, and that's why I said "all forms of fascism". precisely. In general I think you just misunderstood my meaning. I'm not sure if this was a direct response to Monte's (tongue-in-cheek I think) remark about the 2nd Amendment but, do you really think that small arms protect you from fascism? Really? Yes it was, and yes it can, among other things. If you think that was actually representative, then lol.

No, fascism is not another word for tyranny, look it up on wikipedia.

The real problem was the entire game design. They just couldn't come up with anything better than a long, repetitive dungeon. There were no real quests to speak of. Fade wasn't too bad since at least it was something different.

Madison meant auxiliary to democracy, not to government. Such as the constitution and an idependent and unbiased judiciary to interpret it, in other words the rule of law.

FDR is also a giant, he certainly conducted the war effort much more effectively than Churchill did. I agree about Europe, but there are extenuating circumstances. As far as Joe Kennedy, see my edit above. You can't just ignore FDR, Harry Hopkins, and a bunch of others who were very pro-Britain and single out one guy as representing the US. I believe there were quite a few upper class twit nazi sympasizers in Britain also.

WoD I'm extremely Pro-US, but you're talking utter balls. The most cursory reading of history in that most fun of all periods (WW2) will show you how strong anti-British tendencies have run in the US> If that fails to grab you, have a look at what the US State department did to back us up during the Falklands war. Not familiar with any of that. You'll have to educate me. If you're talking about US resisting various Churchill hare brained schemes, I'd say it has nothing to do with being anti-brit and everything with being sane. Edit: You hold the entire US responsible for Joe Kennedy? He's probably as reviled here (by people who know anything I mean) as much as anywhere. Falklands, so far as I know US did everything possible to help Britain except join in the war.

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When you say "you", you imply the government. Surely you don't hold me responsible for what someone else might be doing? Besides, we're discussing a UK government act, so I understood you in that context. Edit: Btw, there is no anti-British tradition in the US at all, quite the opposite, excluding people of Irish descent of course.