Wrath of Dagon

Hey, look, TOR is out early! http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/09/15...ne-argument-ed/

lol at anyone who expects a coherent story from Bio

Iraq wasn't even in the same ballpark as Somalia. Afghanistan is under NATO, not UN, although that's not terribly relevant here. Hmmm, if you don't mind me saying so Wrath, that's a bit of a lawyer's answer. It matters not what the mission is sold as, the brains should be saying... "look we are gonna be doing a lot of fighting in failed states. Our light armour solutions are sub-optimal because peace-keeping RoEs forbid us sending in an armoured cavalry regiment. So we need up-armoured light vehicles." This isn't armchair general stuff, serving friends agree with my basic argument and the UK has made the same mistakes. No, no one was saying that after Somalia. Before mission creep, it started out as a humanitarian mission. After, everyone was saying "never again". It took 9/11 to change everyone's mind, and only if it was clear our vital interests were at stake. And if peacekeeping ROEs forbid armored cav, we shouldn't be in that mission in the first place. Well, that's as good explanation as any, except perhaps not everyone in the military was the tactical genius to see that writing in the 1990s.

Cherry picked statistics without historical context. For example, the richest states historically are Northeast and California, which are more liberal. The conservative South has always been more rural and less industrialized.

OK, I see this quote misinterpreted at least a couple of times in this thread. Obviously he doesn't literally want a government that governs least, since that would be anarchy. What he means is he wants a government that uses the least possible amount of coercion to still achieve the functions that the government properly has, such as provide for common security and rule of law.

The Somalian debacle was actually because they weren't allowed to have heavy weapons. Also the whole thing was run by UN. In any case, the issues in Somalia have almost nothing to do with Iraq and Afghanistan, it was sold as a humanitarian mission, not a counter-terror or threat to US mission.

Why, do you resent his success?

If you send an email threatening to behead our king and poop in his pants, the guys at the royal IT department would just delete it and go have coffee. You know, the sensible thing to do. Sure, they might forward it to the cops first, who in turn would delete it and then go have coffee aswell. How many kings have you had assassinated?

The military was build to fight the Soviet Union, the Humvees were never meant to be on the front lines, the problem is with counter insurgency everything is a front line. The Cold War ended in 1989 when everyone was seriously digging Francis Fukuyama. 2003 was a long, long way off. No excuses there, I'm afraid. When did Stryker come online, and your Marine corps has had LAVs since the 80's IIRC. And they still got it wrong. Let me get my position clear: I supported the Iraq war until I discovered the absolutely shabby, arrogance-laden lack of planning by the Bush administration. No one expected 9/11 though, so there was no clear idea what the next war would look like. Unarmored Humvees weren't a problem during the first Iraq war.

Translation: You better buy it from us, since you'll never be able to write it yourself.

I agree the woman had other issues. Probably after her husband died her mental state deteriorated, it's not just a case of a normal person being addicted. I've heard of similar cases before.

I don't think they'd ban him for insults, but if the police is right that there were threats, they would almost have to ban him, they take this kind of thing very seriously here. If it was a US resident, it's almost certain he'd be investigated.

The Russians claim their new plane is better than the F-22, and at the least it's a lot cheaper. Not really, it's all tax money, if it was left in the private economy, it would go to improve the standard of living. The only economic benefit is the R&D they do may prove useful for other things. Not that I'm against defense spending, but economic benefits are not a justification. The military was build to fight the Soviet Union, the Humvees were never meant to be on the front lines, the problem is with counter insurgency everything is a front line. Since the early years of the Iraq wars, getting all vehicles armored has been a top priority, and by now the situation is much improved. Humvee itself is being replaced by an explosion resistant vehicle (this is all at great cost of course). And yes, you still need tanks, even in urban warfare. M1 is the only vehicle we have that's nearly impervious to most RPG's insurgents are likely to have. To see what happens when you don't use tanks properly, one only has to look at the last Israel-Hezbollah war, and that certainly wasn't any kind of a super power conflict.

I don't think there are too many countries in the world who can stand up to China by themselves anyways, but everyone should at least have the decency to pull their own weight.

I'd probably watch that.

Seriously, what the hell, I can't get the damn droid to use any of the special built-in weapons unless I do it manually.

It does when you're the kind of guy who equates evil to "complete sociopath on a killing spree." Don't murder someone the moment you lay eyes on them, you're being good. That's not what the article's talking about though.

I'm sure he'll be the perfect fit for the Communist News Network.

What is that guy on? KOTOR doesn't force you to be good.

They have to do that to compete with day 1 pick up at stores with pre-order. They just started that a couple of days ago, before it was like $5. I did the same thing, looking forward to using my $20 credit to apply to the NV puchase. Installed KOTOR2 with the restoration mod on Win7 64. So far everything is running fine, fingers crossed. First time playing as a female, will go all the way Darkside and use a party of 2 psycho robots. Should be fun.

It's expensive to be constantly bribing your constituents to vote for you.

Just wait till the Ruskies use Kaspersky to shut down every Western computer.

I'm trying to decide what's better, Take Command Second Manassas or Histwar: Les Grognards. So far I've come to the conclusion you need to control the cavalry yourself in both games, the AI doesn't seem to know how to use them.

You have just forfeited your right to complain about any game, ever.

It works on the 360, but probably with more bugs.