Wrath of Dagon

Lots of undemocratic sympathies in this thread, lets put the will of corrupt politicians and law-giving judges above the will of the people.

A tyrant is a dictator who rules without regard to popular opinion. Thus there can be no such thing as democratic tyranny. The danger of direct democracy is mob rule, not tyranny. There is no mob rule in referendums, since things are not decided in the passion of a moment, but take a long time and are subject to normal democratic debate. Also as I already explained, the rule of the majority is not unchecked, and the majority of state costitutions are not flawed just because they can be easily amended. A state constitution does not serve the same function as the federal one, most state constitutions are huge and deal with everything including the kitchen sink.

How is it a tyranical situation, unless you believe majority rule is automatically tyrannical. Fundamental rights are protected by the Bill of Rights in the federal constitution, which is very hard to change, as it should be. Most state constitutions are relatively easy to change, and that's because there's the safeguard of the US constitution.

Silly according to whom? What we have in this country is tyranny of the courts. Edit: A state can not pass a law that contradicts the federal constitution, thus states can practice direct democracy without danger of mob rule.

The website is presented through the lens of marketing, it would be surprising if it wasn't high fantasy drama. And yes, it is high fantasy, but you can't know if it's plain vanilla until you actually play the game. For all you know, it has a story worthy of Shakespeare.

That's right, who do those people think they're are, voting their views like that. Government should be left to professional politicians and preferably unelected judges, who know what they're doing.

I don't see how you know it's vanilla high fantasy before you've even played the game.

I'm sure there are plenty of great coffee shops, in fact you can make great coffee yourself with a little effort. Since you're constantly singling out Bioware for your withering criticism, there must be a much better studio out there you're comparing them with.

Who's that legendary studio that's turning out hit after quality hit that the despised Bioware could never hope to live up to?

As opposed to whom?

The satellite launching story was just cover and for domestic propaganda. Having said that, everything NK does is humorous, but what's more humorous is us constantly kissing their ass because of it.

Actually the test didn't fail, they tested a ballistic missile and it went further than it had ever gone before.

Obama will skip right through socialism and go immediately to bankrupting and destoying the country. He'll accomplish in 4 years what it took Soviet Union 70 years to achieve.

Bought Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey and Abe's Exodus for $3.75 on Steam, the game is much harder than I thought it would be, and I don't like the KB controls, ugh.

There are plenty of people who like Carth, especially among real KOTOR fans. Here's the GDC ME2 videos: http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/24193 http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/24194 and here are the write ups: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/967/967506p1.html and here: http://www.giantbomb.com/news/gdc-09-mass-...ng-design/1021/

I played SoT on the Xbox, it's good but depends on how good you are at platforming. What really annoyed me was that you could not save checkpoints, thus if you quit before finiishing a level, you'd have to start that level again, so I only did 30% of the game. PC saves may work differently, I don't know.

Here's a very skeptical analysis, kind of what I was thinking too: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/gdc-why-...-article?page=1

nah, more because you said something stupid and so opposite from the general consensus (like saying the sky is brown) that it's funny every single time. There is no general consensus, and don't call me stupid again.

May be it's because you're Danish.

Bioware's quality has been declining since KOTOR, and took a dive with ME. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/bastard-...ublic-article_2

That's what I'm afraid of.

Well, I'm glad you have the inside line to Bioware. Personally I'll wait for some reviews: http://www.pcworld.com/article/161770/gdc_...c_wishlist.html

He's dead the same way he was dead when that piece of junk hits him at the end. What's the most sure fire way to rile everyone up and create buzz?

It's supposed to have a story arc that goes through all 3 games, and you're supposed to play Shepard through them all, unless they changed their minds, which is doubtful.