Wrath of Dagon

All is not well in Obamaland: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38852.html Edit: Here's the link to the Rolling Stone aricle in question: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236

Yes, no force. In the face of overwhelming show of force, there was no military resistance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring

Wouldn't the path you don't take be hidden content as well? Yes, but you get alternative content instead. Plus if you miss content, it should be for a logical reason. Like if you're a goody-two-shoes, you don't get to do an assassination mission. It shouldn't be that you miss content because you didn't guess an arbitrary phrase somewhere.

Hiding content is the cheap way to do C&C. If they really want to do C&C, they should provide branching paths.

Yes, KOTOR 2 influence system sucked, because it made you miss major parts of the story unless you gained enough influence with certain characters. For example everything on Nar Shadaa didn't make much sense unless you gained enough influence with GOTO. Then DAO ripped off the same system, which means I missed a bunch of content because I don't enjoy sucking up to NPC's in a game that already has a piss poor amount of content.

If they really have different ways to accomplish objectives and some exploration I'd be pretty happy.

Some gameplay from TOR: http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/star-wars-...-gameplay-clips There's a small quest at the end, pretty lame IMO.

BP was running the rig, even though the crew was contracted, BP had the final say on everything. At issue is whether they cut corners to save costs and didn't follow standard industry procedures. BP was also responsible for a refinery explosion in Texas City and an oil spill in the Alaska pipeline. I also heard that even their contractors say really bad things about how they run things.

Not to worry, US Congress to the rescue: http://www.physorg.com/news195752582.html

OK, the sunspot cycle has been called off: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2062...sun.html?page=1 Which can only mean one thing ---- THE SUN IS ABOUT TO BLOW UP!!!!!! AAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!

I meant my original post in the sense of "**** or get off the pot". If we can't even stop our putative ally from arming the enemy with the billions of dollars we send them in aid, how in the hell are we ever supposed to actually defeat that enemy?

He's negotiating behind the back of NATO, since he's become convinced they're on the way out. Add to it Pakistan's sponsorship of Taliban and Obama's fecklessness, and it's hard to see a good outcome here.

It'll happen anyway, just watch. Karzai is already trying to cut a deal with the Taliban.

You do have a Faraday cage around your PC. It's called "the case". I recommend it put it into a Fahrenheit cage, just to be on the safe side.

I thought all the computers self-destructed during the great Y2K apocalypse, and now everything is either hand cranked or driven by oxen?

So how come the solar flare in 1921 didn't burn down every telegraph station and every house with a telephone? And ground current? That's a lot of ground current. And how come the entire power grid didn't shut down, they had electricity back then. There are fires and equipment damage by lightning strikes every day, so what?

Wow, it only took MS 5 years to fix their 360 POS to what it should've been to start with.

Meh, more panic mongering.

You probably have no idea what you're talking about. Hold on. Let's check. Hands up, any commandos on the forum? I watched the "The Deadliest Warrior". Does that count? I think it's one in the head, two in the chest.

As commandos, they're probably trained to shoot in the head. Plus if you're close, that's where the shot naturally lines up, and there's no time to aim.

Clubs are used at point blank range, in case you didn't know. If the militants were far away, there would not be any need to shoot them. And it wasn't Israel editing pictures, it was Reuters to make Israel look bad.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100613/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan IMO, if we're so weak and incompetent that we can't even prevent our supposed ally from sponsoring our enemy, we ought to just quit and stop wasting American lives.

Just a bunch of political posturing all around, doesn't mean much at all.

Some good points here: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/helen-thomas-weimar-moment/

Actually, they appointed Nouri al-Maliki to speak for them. But I understand your confusion, we look very similar. That link says he demanded a timetable for withdrawal, not an immediate withdrawal which is what you claimed. To my knowledge we are actually ahead of the negotiated timetable.