Wrath of Dagon

Hey, those Navi are hot, may be I'll have my boyfriend paint himself blue!

You want them to create a new pedestrian universe?

You don't understand the liberal mindset, to the left Christianity is evil and mutliculturalism is good, they see all issues through that lens. As far as genocide in Kosovo, I don't believe there was one, although there were atrocities on both sides. The West really had other options to improve the situation besides going to war, but US basically stumbled into war through the incompetence and arrogance of the Clinton administration, the war never had popular support here, in fact a lot of prominent people were outraged. Other options? Surely if we've learned anything from the '90s - and let's look at Rwanda since we can't agree on the Balkans - it is that other options are just a euphemism for talking while people die. There were European observers in Kosovo, we could've insisted UN or NATO peacekeepers come in to monitor the situation and prevent civilian casualties. Instead Clinton and Albright gave Milosevic an ultimatum they knew he couldn't accept. In fact I've read a couple of reliable sources that they actually insisted NATO troops be allowed anywhere in Serbia, not just Kosovo, but that's so incredible I'm still not sure if I should believe that. And again, Kosovo wasn't Rwanda, there was no genocide, there was a civil war. There was also a civil war in Colombia, with many more thousands of people dying there than in Kosovo, yet we didn't just go and bomb Colombia. Edit: Clinton also militarily intervened to restore an American hating communist in Haiti, with horrible consequences for Haiti. Sometimes our government just acts completely irrationally.

You don't understand the liberal mindset, to the left Christianity is evil and mutliculturalism is good, they see all issues through that lens. As far as genocide in Kosovo, I don't believe there was one, although there were atrocities on both sides. The West really had other options to improve the situation besides going to war, but US basically stumbled into war through the incompetence and arrogance of the Clinton administration, the war never had popular support here, in fact a lot of prominent people were outraged.

Just came across this: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32487.html An interesting inside look at US foreign policy wrt Georgia.

Exactly, and that's only because they're trying to build a nuke. So you're contradicting your own argument that they want nukes to defend against the US, since building nukes is just about the only way they'd get attacked. At the very least they want the nuke to have hegemony in the region, at worst the more fanatical among them would actually use it. Edit: Castro, who is more or less rational I believe, wanted to use the nukes in Cuba against the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but was overruled by the slightly more rational Russians. Nevertheless, the whole thing came awfully close to the Big Bang. We were just lucky Kruschev was running the USSR and not Stalin, I don't think Stalin would've backed down.

Who needs plastics when we have glass: http://www.physorg.com/news184310039.html

You're just being a troll now.

Why compare an RPG to dedicated fighting games? No one is good at everything. Edit: Ninja Gaiden didn't allow camera control to my knowledge, so right there the comparison is unfair.

Khomeini said let Iran burn, we don't care about Iran so long as it benefits Islam. Others of his ilk have said that it would be worth whatever damage the Islamic world would take if Israel were to be destroyed, since Islamic world would still exist. Religious fanatics are not rational, so it's useless to assign rational motives to them. There's no benefit to the US in attacking a nation of 75 million, especially after the Iraq experience.

Well, I'm glad you have a personal connection to the Iranian government, so you know what they want the nukes for. And Iran wouldn't have to worry about any action from the US if they weren't developing nukes and supporting terrorism. Also a couple of nukes wouldn't deter a US attack, they would only make it more likely. Ahmadinejad is known to believe that the Mahdi won't come until he causes an apocalypse.

I don't know about PC, but combat was good on the Xbox. It's a fighting game for people who suck at fighting games, i.e. RPG players. Not as complicated as a real fighting game, but enough meat in it to go with the rest of the gameplay, and give some variety without having to pull off difficult combos. Also deciding on using focus/chi attacking/defending seemed surprisingly tactical, especially against boss characters at high difficulty setting. The small world was obviously due to the game not being really a full game but a cut and hastily finished rump of a game, my first experience with a non-quality Bioware game.

Taiwan is not a threat to China, it's the other way around.

Good sig.

No, actually I full support Native Title, and you just made one of your more idiotic post just then with that pathetic attempt at analogy. The issues of Kosovo or Taiwan's independence are not related to Native Title. At all. Edit: And indeed, it is ironic that you should bring it up, because I would be surprised to see China enact anything near as progressive as Native Title for its indigenous populations. C.f. Uyghurs, Tibetans. All I see is oppression and population displacement/replacement, and China doesn't have the excuse of history. Isn't that kind of weasel phrasing? Would you support the aborigines kicking the Australians out of Perth?

I'm guessing you think Perth belongs to Australia and not to the Aborigines.

The issue is we consume more than we produce, because we buy goods from China and then borrow our own money back from them to buy more stuff. Also buying up our bonds is what enables China to keep their currency artificially low, which in turn makes it more attractive to us to buy Chinese products instead of domestic ones. As far as the President signing laws, of course he's just as responsible for the law as any Congressman that votes for it, since he can always veto any law he disagrees with, in a sense he has a super vote.

If you go under Patron in the store, they have donation cards and if you buy those, almost all the money goes to ITS.

You heard of the Great Depression? With the endorsement of the Clinton administration, and Clinton signed it into law. So, if a bill is passed and a president signs it he automatically is a supporter of said bill. Are you saying he's not?

New version of the demo available: http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index...pic,1259.0.html Supposed to be a lot harder.

With the endorsement of the Clinton administration, and Clinton signed it into law. The problem with the US banking industry is not that it's not heavily regulated, because it is. The problem is the regulators didn't do their job. But the roots of the financial crisis are far wider than just problems with the banking system, it really has to do with us trying to borrow our way to prosperity by buying Chinese goods with the money we borrow back from the Chinese. Relatedly it was the easy money policy of the Fed and a host of other factors.

Actually US recognizes Taiwan is a part of China, it just insists that reunification takes place peacefully and preserves the Taiwanese democracy, sort of like Hong Kong.

Got Arcanum and installed the mods, thanks for the links guys.

Yes, bankers caused it all by themselves. Always good to find a scape goat to throw stones at. Btw, I read the TARP is only going to wind up costing $25 billion or so, as most of the money has been paid back.

Someone said there's a way to scan quickly until you get a blip, then you search slowly in that location, but he was on the 360.