Wrath of Dagon

Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. So far it is, I like the dialogues, too early to be sure. I had to put graphics on min setting to keep from constantly crashing.

But did any of them actually believe that the government had no right to regulate personal morality? Religious freedom does not imply the absense of societal consensus on personal morality, for example I don't think it extended to things like Devil worship in their views.

They'd be voting against their self-interest unless every other state does the same. Legislative term limits are a good idea for the same reason presidential term limits are. It doesn't matter how talented one is if he's corrupt. Do you have any actual examples of that?

I don't think they really know what all the markers for virulence are. All they're saying here is this virus isn't the same as the other one, which of course is true considering how fast flu viruses mutate. On the other hand I heard a convincing argument on the radio that since all these tourists got infected, the infection must be very widespread in Mexico, 100s of thousands or millions of people. The fact that there aren't thousands and thousands dead means the virus can't be that dangerous.

We badly need term limits, having a professional politician class is completely contrary to the original intent. In case of Specter though, he said he feels more aligned with the Democrats now, and his own Republicans in Penn seem to hate him, so what's the downside for him?

Bummer

I disagree with you here. Socially liberal thinkers seek to brand everything as ok. Libertarians simply value maximum personal freedom. For example; Personally I think abortion is morally wrong and abhorrent. However, I also believe that everyone should be free to pursue that option if they see fit. I would never participate in one and would try to dissuade anyone considering one but I would never they to stop them and I certainly would not ask the state to do it on my behalf. I do not believe it is my place as a citizen to impose my personal morality on anyone and far too many people think the state is simply a tool to do just that. Well, you're right, I intentionally glossed over that distinction. The religious right is a major constituent of the GOP, I guess you could try to find/create enough libertarians to replace them, but I don't see that as viable. As far as not imposing morality, that's a very recent development, certainly when the constitution was written that was accepted as a matter of course.

Of course that's true, as Libertarians tend to be socially liberal. As far as Club for Growth, they're not the same thing as the Republican party, any more than Move On is the Democratic party.

So in 10 years if you still want to play it you buy it from whatever the equivalent of Steam will be for $1.50 Saying since I might not be able to play it in 10 years so I won't play it at all doesn't make much sense.

The Republican party is made up of social conservatives, fiscal conservatives and foreign policy conservatives, often in the same person. If you lose any of these groups, Republicans are through, pure and simple. On the other hand, driving someone who's moderate on any of these issues out of the party is equally suicidal. US has a two party system, thus a boutique party will never gain power, but I suppose they can feel good about their purity.

Just to clarify, I meant the Witcher's cost was $10 million.

So do you guys buy a happy meal and wonder if you'll still be able to eat it in 10 years?

It was $10 million, a huge amount for a Polish game.

You buy it for $10, download and install it, and enter the serial number. DRM, no DRM, who knows, who cares?

This is the same kind of idiocy that lead some the yammering morons to say that there was no difference between Obama and McCain during the election. That's what makes it difficult for me to cry for them, although I do cry for myself. It'll probably take a few more kicks in the ass before Republicans come to their senses. Nothing wrong with holding on to your principles, so long as you don't form a circular firing line in the process.

Just roll down your car window and flash a wad of cash.

Hey, if you're going to make an accusation like that, at least show where I did that. My point was actually quite similar to yours, any solution proposed seems to introduce as many problems as it solves. I was referring to the whole "America subsidizing pharmaceutical research" argument. It's weaksauce. Yes, the U.S. is the only major country where individuals make the purchases and usually pay retail prices, while the rest of the world buys in bulk at a heavy discount. The argument implies that, were the U.S. to switch to the bulk-buying model, the pharma companies would cease or reduce their research, which is ludicrous-- research is their core moneymaking function. Their whole business model is to keep coming up with new treatments and make money on them before the patents expire and they have to compete with generics. What would really happen is that the bulk buying discount would decline for everyone around the world to make up for the loss of all the retail-price sales in America. I'm not sure what bulk-buying means in the context of national drug purchases. Do they guaranty a certain amount ahead of time in the way US can't? I believe it's more accurate to say that drug prices are government controlled, and I doubt the rest of the world would be willing to pay more if US suddenly starts paying less. Thus I would expect a decrease in expensive research.

Just bought Mysteries of Westgate. Graphics look good so far.

Why, does DX get a lot better later? All I saw were long textureless walls, match stick figures, and pretty boring and clumsy combat.

Hey, if you're going to make an accusation like that, at least show where I did that. My point was actually quite similar to yours, any solution proposed seems to introduce as many problems as it solves.

I tried to play it by taking it on its own value, it's still rubbish. Their attempts at a streamlined, more user-friendly interface ended up to be intrusive, convoluted, and I'm still not sure how it works. It's a giant circle that is planted around the center of the screen and has a slot-based inventory, except there are two "layers" of slots except you can only see the first layer unless you stop and open the full inventory, and all sorts of crazy garbage like that. You select from a circular menu, what's so hard about that? Ah, no, that's not the point at all. If you're not screwed when you run out of ammo, there's no point of having limited ammo. The point of universal ammo was so that it was up to you which gun you wanted to use in any situation, but more powerful weapons used a lot more ammo, so you weren't overpowered. I didn't have any of these problems, but then I played on the almighty Xbox. I thought the areas were pretty decent size, in fact about the same size as HL2, and loading was about the same. Also the areas although not terribly large were quite detailed. The gameplay was about siding with whomever, and having several options on how to do the mission. There is a bit of reputation actually, like the Illuminati will send Elite troopers after you if you don't do what they want. In any case, the game offered a lot more freedom than most.

Most people who played the original seem to hate it, most people who didn't seem to like it. The people who hate it never seem to give a reason other than "it wasn't like the original".

Do you know how many tens of billions of dollars it'll cost if schools have to be closed? Do you know that with 1% mortality rate we could lose millions of lives?

All the infections still seem to be coming from Mexico, except for the New York outbreak. Seems it was a big mistake not to close the border right away.

I know, but when you say that it's taken for granted everyone's in a union, while in US unionized workers are a small minority, union power is the issue. Btw, since we discussed this yesterday, here's a good article on the new labor law outlook (well, it's good because it agrees with me that the chances are now much better) : http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21847.html