Wrath of Dagon

Scientists to resurrect mammoth : http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110117/wl_as...nsciencemammoth Just because we can do it, does it mean we should do it?

Branching dialog wasn't the point in Oblivion, so it doesn't make sense to complain about it. It's like complaining there was no dialog in Halo.

This guy is so awesomely naive, I have to quote him

They claim they announced on their forums that Oblivion Radiant AI was being cut back. Somehow that never made it into the press though.

How does "Protesting killing" (which is basically what they're attempting to do I believe... the military protests and such are protesting the taking of lives and not living by the strictest code of the bible) fall under "satanist"? They're not protesting killing, they believe it's good that our soldiers are dying because US allows homosexuality. They also believe that it's good that a small child was killed for the same reason. They also try to add as much as they can to the anguish of the families of the fallen. So if they believe their deity approves of them, their deity must be Satan.

I judge people by their actions, not by what they claim about themselves.

First up: 34000 year old living organisms discovered: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/201101...oundburiedalive

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/135348-f...e-with-virtual/ I guess I have to give one thing to Bio, they know their audience.

They're a small group of sadistic, publicity seeking lunatics, previously best known for picketing soldiers' funerals. I'm not convinced they're religious at all, though if they are they're probably satanists. I was very surprised and heartened when mental health became a tripartisan mainstream election issue in Australia last year. I like to look on the bright-side a lot of the time. So I'm simply going to say that if an overhaul of mental health treatment in America occurs as a result of this, that will be a very good thing. Americans can't change what has happened, but they can shape what the consequences of this massacre are. I'm not holding my breath for anything beyond something symbolic.

Better than NV? I don't think so, precisely for the reason he stated, lack of a game world. But may be he doesn't consider NV a shooter hybrid. He didn't like NV much in any case (mainly due to bugs, somewhat ironically). AP was more buggy for me, because cover didn't work properly a lot of the time, and that was a major game mechanic. NV would just freeze once in a while, which was annoying but not that bad. I can forgive an RPG bugs so long as it gets other RPGish things right, unless the game is actually unplayable.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...3345594508.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...d=ITP_pageone_2

Better than NV? I don't think so, precisely for the reason he stated, lack of a game world. But may be he doesn't consider NV a shooter hybrid. Also all the different approaches to missions that he claims? I haven't noticed those, certainly not to the extent of Invisible War.

http://kotaku.com/5731751/accused-tucson-s...-aggression-247

Slippery slope arguments can be applied to anything. Doing something is still vastly superior to doing nothing. So the solution is what? Don't check on the children and let the insane run loose? A civilized society has certain responsibilities. The fact that we're not meeting them in one area isn't a justification for anything. I'm not a psychiatrist so I can not give you a general answer. I do know that leaving paranoid schizophrenia untreated is not an option, that has been proven over and over again.

Apparently some countries do have a better handle on this issue: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/loughner-and-...s-mentally-ill/

No, you require them to check in once a month or so, to check on their condition. Those who couldn't or wouldn't comply can be placed in a supervised environment, it doesn't have to be a hospital, just a special residential project. Your response isn't really relevant to what I said, and anyway I already explained institutionalization is not usually necessary if proper treatment and follow up is provided. People who remain dangerous to society should absolutely be institutionalized, this is different from criminal law. This is a tremendously difficult issue for people to deal with, for one thing you can't make someone get treatment if they don't want to. Also the worse symptoms of schizophrenia often appear around age 20 or so, when parents can't do much anymore, either legally or practically.

Depends on the type of mental illness. Definitely people who suffer paranoia are very dangerous, it makes them hostile and obsessed with guns. You're right to an extent that mental hospitals don't do anything since there's no real cure. However, the medications now available are generally quite effective in dealing with symptoms. The problem is no one makes sure that the patient takes them outside of the hospital once he's released, and since medications generally have side effects often the patient will stop taking them and become dangerous again. Also, a lot of people can't cope with their illness, and either have no one to look after them or refuse help. Those wind up living in squalor in the streets, and society just accepts that as normal. Unfortunately they usually don't get locked up until someone is already dead. Also to be criminally non-culpable it's not enough to be mentally ill, it's to be unable to distinguish right from wrong, just as an aside.

They basically rely on the shops to judge the mental state of the buyer who hasn't been declared insane by the state because he hasn't undergone treatment. This is just another example of the government hoping that every state is capable of ruling themselves, but neither the state nor the federal government do anything to prevent events like this from happening. When they do they become a media frenzy game of hot potato to see where the blame lands and the problem continues unsolved. Deja Vu from Columbine, anyone? It's actually worse than that. The store can't judge anything, they check with the FBI computerized list of people not allowed to buy guns. The problem is even if someone is committed by court order to a mental institution, they're not reported to that list because of privacy laws. It takes a separate court order to do the report, but hardly anyone knows about that so it's almost never done. Add to that the liberal/conservative conspiracy not to treat the mentally ill but instead turn them out on the street, liberals because they are protecting their civil rights, conservatives because they don't want to pay for it.

I meant people paying $5000 a month for a game. Obviously they're addicts being exploited by EA.

Soon EA will own your soul: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/09/riccitie...ertakes-retail/ pathetic

IS7? Is this a fantasy game?

The real reason these things happen is because we let lunatics run around free in this country. You basically can not make someone get treatment if they don't want to. In addition, because of privacy laws, the mental institutions can't even inform the FBI to keep guns from the insane. Congress had hearings on this after the Virginia Tech massacre, but apparently being Congress they didn't actually fix anything.

26 quid is perfectly reasonable for (by my reckoning) 180 hours of gameplay. I was talking about the DLC, I already finished the main game.

Good, I'll get it when it's all available, and for a reasonable price.

The simple solution to all this is not to buy the game. No bloodsucking EA rip offs, no horrible cloying Bioware dialogue, no tedious and generic game design. Plus you save $50-$60 and a ton of time that can be better spent elsewhere.