Wrath of Dagon

Well, they can't print money, which I guess has something to do with their credit worthiness. But then again neither can any of countries using Euros. I think California's problems are due to their soft headed liberal government, but make no mistake about it, it's still one of the richest places on earth and the richest state in the US.

Right. Use the difficulty slider to correct a totally flawed and unbalanced character development system. No thanks. I just play all my games on default difficulty. SO any comments on a games diffciulty can be read with that in mind. It's unfair to say the character development system is totally flawed because power gamers exploit it. It's there if you consider that fun, but you don't have to use the exploits.

Canada is less affected by the current crisis mostly because their home mortgage rules are a lot saner than ours, ours are basically fraudulent. Australia is benefitting from the Chinese growth engine, while we lost most of our industrial base to them.

Only if you invest it into something productive. Governments invest it into spending irresponsibly.

Hence the difficulty slider. Oblivion was actually tough at mid-level, after about level 20 you could plough through anything. Shivering Isles was a little different, as it was designed to be played at higher level.

That actually doesn't look half bad. Reassures me atout getting the 360 version.

Sweden has some of the highest taxes in the world (it not THE highest, 30% higher than the US!), and from 1979 up until 2008, Sweden and the US has had roughly the same economic growth, give or take a few percent. From 1995 and onward, we've had higher economic growth than the US. This with twice as high taxes! Source: http://www.newsmill.se/artikel/2009/09/27/...t-hogre-skatter The source is in Swedish, as I couldn't find the English original (International Comparisons of GDP per capita and per employed person. 17 countries, 1960-2008. U.S Department of Labor Statistics. Division of International Labor Comparisons. July 28, 2009). Translated from the article: "Lower taxes in the United States gives the same growth as high taxes in Sweden. Higher taxes in Sweden gives the same growth as in the United States. The difference is that Sweden is a welfare State, where all citizens are relatively economically and socially secure, while the U.S. is the social divides country, including nearly 40 million poor and near 4 million homeless." ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/Fo...abor/flsgdp.txt Here's the English original. Taxes aren't the only factor in economic growth. No doubt our economy has been mismanaged over the years. Sweden also doesn't have to deal with the same social problems as us, or the huge drain of our military budget. Edit: Just noticed those GDP numbers are per capita, no wonder they seem low. Ours would be skewed by higher population growth, higher percentage of children, and influx of low earning immigrants.

Oh, but it's OK to have minimum wage laws, and then exploit the people who can't complain about it? Also I'm not advocating immediately deporting everyone, only stopping new illegal immigration.

The benefits would be huge, I don't want to become part of Mexico. Sorry for the right wing link: http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/...rapeutic-style/

Why exactly is closing borders not a solution? Also the economic effects of illegal immigration are debatable, but the effect on crime is not, you also have to consider the political implications, hence my comment about 20% poverty rate. Basically we're letting Mexico shift their poverty problem to us, which in turn causes problems in our society, including but not limited to economic problems. Edit: The reason it's the same as 1984 is probably because a lot of them got legalized in 1986. Not coincidentally, California became a Democrat controlled state soon afterward, and the decline began.

It's come to a tipping point. Who doesn't? I have no doubt California will pull out of this unless the national economy collapses. I expect the slow decline to continue though.

Like I said, it's vaporware, it's available, you just can't buy it.

So was Karl Marx. Not that I'm accusing Enoch of being a Marxist. Comparing a poster to marx doesn't refute the fact that you were incorrect in your initial post. I only compared him in a positive way, for the sake of the argument. And why don't you show how I was incorrect?

So was Karl Marx. Not that I'm accusing Enoch of being a Marxist.

Yeah, the state government is almost bankrupt because taxes are too low! Do you even understand economics at all? Lower taxes cause economic growth, which causes higher revenues in the long run. When you tax and environmentalize businesses out of the state, of course pretty soon you've got no one to tax. California has been controlled by Democrats for a long time now, and is one of the most liberal states in the country. In addition the Federal government doesn't do anything to control our borders, hence Californina is flooded with illegal aliens, so there's your 20% poverty rate.

Had that been confirmed? Because last I hear no-one was sure that was the case. That's what I recall, can't give you a link though. Sega paid for it in any case.

AP belongs to SEGA, it's up to them to do as they please. Bethesda would probably be a pretty good partner, if Obs doesn't mess up NV.

I thought for Martha it was a year or so.

The stuff they showed before looked promising. After the SZ video I went back to being very pessimistic. They still have a chance to convince me though.

The bad stuff with the PC is that everything gets pirated up the wazoo, which even hurts console sales. That's why a lot of PC ports get released a while after the console game. The same might happen with BL, depending how well it does.

Btw, here's Patrick Weekes explaining why ME1 seemed so disjointed at times (well, he's actually explaining a particular instance related to voice acting but I got the same feeling in lots of places)

Can someone explain to me why the hell people pre-order games, and not just wait until it comes out and then find the lowest price?

You form a theory on the basis of all available evidence. At that point it should predict all new evidence coming in. If it doesn't, it has to be modified or discarded. It's true that in science there's no absolute proof, you must be ready to discard any theory, although some are so established they're unlikely to ever be discarded, like evolution.

Spaghetti code is poorly structured code. It's not necessarily buggy, but difficult to debug or change. See FORTRAN.

If the judge doesn't accept the plea bargain, there has to be a trial though, which I don't think was the case here. In any case, if there were issues they need to be worked out through the legal system.