Wrath of Dagon

I don't know that 64 bit has much to do with it. NWN2 crashed quite a bit on my 32 bit XP machine, especially towards the end of the game. MotB ran rock solid on that machine (except for the horrible lag, but that's a spec issue). When I started it on Vista, it got many crashes, which I'm pretty sure are related to the video driver, but I seem to have accidentally fixed it, at least so far.

More from Ralph Peters: http://www.armchairgeneral.com/the-guns-of...amas-reacts.htm

The answer is simple: only 15 Israelis have been killed by rocket attacks (since 2002) while over 600 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza in response to these attacks. Tell that to the children being killed, and who watch their friends being killed, in both sides of this conflict. The violence has to stop if those are to get a chance to grow up to anything else than violent fanatics themselves. As usual liberals display an awesome inability for logical reasoning. You were talking about dealing with children, and I answered in that context, now you completely change the subject to something else. And the issue is not just casualties, the issue is the whole Israeli population within the rockets' reach being terrorized daily. How would Sweden respond if Stockholm came under daily rocket attack? Did the grand hypocrites think that through? You're right, the violence must stop, and it will stop as soon as Hamas quits firing rockets at Israel. Edit: And in case you're not following the news, Hamas rockets are getting longer range and more powerful. Is Israel supposed to wait until they have the same missiles as Hezbollah, so in the next outbreak they'll lose 140 people or more?

Hamas doesn't just want statehood or the settlement land. Their stated goal is complete destruction of Israel.

I had some crashes with MotB on Vista 64. I messed with some graphic settings in the game and so far it's been working.

These are not children they're dealing with. It's kind of hard to improve living conditions for someone trying to kill you. They tried to set up industrial zones etc, but of course any Israeli who tried to show up there recently would be instantly killed. You'll note the living conditions on the West Bank have improved significantly since PA decided to engage Israel peacefully.

What, you think there's actually an infinite number of Hamas members? And they did agree to ceasefires in the past after getting enough punishment. Edit: No there isn't, if there is what is it?

Yes, they're not infinite, and their behavior has been modified in the past. When someone attacks you, you have to retaliate, that seems so obvious I don't see why I would have to defend that idea. Perhaps you think they should just accept their fate and agree to being murdered without protest, in which case there's really nothing left to discuss.

And your alternative would be what? Just sit on your hands while your people are being murdered?

FO3 going to more countries. http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3172088 They would allow it in Saudi Arabia? Really?

Not sure what your point is. Whether it's intentional or incidental makes a huge difference. Any country has the right to defend itself. No one has the right to intentionally target civilians.

What the hell does that mean, when terrorists intentionally kill civilians it's more OK than if a democratic state does it?

We elect the government, so we are responsible for its actions, yes. And I never said that if we do something wrong, it's OK, and I don't think that's what Peters is saying either. I think he's pointing out the effect of the totality of American actions.

Well, without military intervention it would be East Germany. Edit: I think a quote from Ralph Peters is in order here That was written in 1991.

The fact is there was very little internal resistance, and most of it came when Germany was already losing badly. And it's not like hitler didn't have methods to deal with the opposition. Back on topic, the Iraqi Baath party was organized along the lines and in the image of the nazis, and it stayed in power pretty successfully in spite of huge amount of opposition and military losses.

So why did hitler invade Russia then? They had an alliance with Germany to split Poland. As far as Stalin's popularity, he did come in third, after a liberal reformer, and the article mentions the current government's attempts to rehabilitate him and the credit he gets for winning WW2. Also the greatest doesn't mean the most beloved, only the one who did the most, like Herod the Great. Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great were some other great tyrants. Anyway, that's all besides the point, you still haven't offered any evidence that nazi Germany was any less stable than the Soviet Union.

I question your assumption that most Russians admire Stalin, and those who do most likely didn't live under his rule. It's not like there are no people who still admire hitler. I don't think you have any evidence that nazi Germany would've been any less stable than the Soviet Union, if it won WW2. In fact all the evidence points to the contrary, as well as Stalin being far more mentally ill than hitler, I'm not even aware of any real evidence that hitler was insane.

The university built this big setup which they are expanding so they can test it's practicality on larger and larger distances. Experiments with faster than light communication and teleportation across the Danube: http://www.univie.ac.at/qfp/publications3/...les/2006-10.pdf They hope to be able to get their own satellite in space one day for testing their communication technology Well, this is all way above my head, but it seems it's generally believed that no useful information can be transmitted through entanglement alone, thus it still obeys relativistic principles.

That's entirely not the case. The Soviet government was never popular with the people, and only stayed in power through brutal repression and terror under Stalin and later mostly through apathy and institutionalized fear. And the communists didn't have anything to learn about atrocities from the nazis. And at least Germany had a functional economy, which the Soviet Union never did, which was the biggest factor in its eventual collapse.

Yes, just like the Soviet Union crumbled on its own. But I guess you people wouldn't mind 70+ years of nazi rule.

A perfect example of where they do a lot of good, but they also do a lot of damaging crap, because they don't really care about the country they help carving their own way out in the world, or the country's long-term strategic goals, act with overbearing arrogance and coercion, and so forth. It's still a given that they did a very good thing by coming in and helping, but it's a classic case of how they come in and help and do good things, but then do enough to get reviled by the beneficiaries. Then quit running bellyaching to us every time you have a problem. You'd be in North Korea right now if it wasn't for US.

What? I never heard of anything travelling above the speed of light. Theoretically it's possible, but such an object could never go below the speed of light. According to Lorenz equations, it takes infinite energy to accelerate a finite rest mass to the speed of light, or by symmetry to decelerate. Now some day some one may prove that wrong, but so far as I know that hasn't happened yet.

Don't care much for fantasy myself, but setting is secondary. What's important is the quality of the game, no matter the genre.

Relativity is maintained at sub-atomic levels, and it's important since particles often travel at or near the speed of light. Newtonian laws don't apply at all, that was my point.

Newton's law is correct for normal objects, because there's no observable difference between it and relativistic calculations. Newton never said his law applies to sub-atomic particles.