Wrath of Dagon

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.

There's definitely a decline in quality of Bioware RPG's. I liked Oblivion better than Morrowind, so from my point of view Bethesda is improving, haven't got around to Fallout 3 yet. My biggest problem with games is there's just not the same variety there used to be a few years ago, because many great games last generation were commercial failures. And Halo does have a plot, and a very good one for its purposes.

I noticed three red lights yesterday.

You mean Uncharted world. The most atrocious single piece of game design I've ever seen. The reason you're mother Teresa is you're either light side or dark. In ME you're still an evil dumb thug, but that's beside the point since that's the least of its problems.

Shouldn't cost any performance, the game is always rendered the same way. They have a scaler chip to put out different resolutions. So far as I know all cables work OK by now, so probably HDMI would be a better choice, but I don't have first hand knowledge.

Not really, Stranger seems to be a completely different engine. May be just buy an old Xbox cheap, so many great games, at least from my perspective. Also when emulating, the colors are really washed out and black looks gray, although no one except me seems to notice.

Great game, though I found it works better in small doses.

By nothing there, I meant content, not game mechanics. Also the writing in KOTOR is great, but mostly awful in ME, especially the story itself. Planets in ME are almost completely linear with nothing to do but shoot your way from point A to point B, while occassionally making an abrupt and meaningless decision which has nothing to do with anything. In contrast, KOTOR has interesting planets to explore, with tons of great quests to do.

Can you justify that statement?

Why anyone, let alone a developer, would want to play ME a second time is completely beyond me. There's just nothing there.

What I wouldn't give for another near great! It's like a desert out there.

Yeah, yeah, a polished game is better than an unpolished one, what I'm trying to point out is that people get so obsessed over details they don't see the forest for the trees. A polished piece of crap is still crap, no matter how much shine you add to it.

I don't care about polish, KOTOR 2 was the definition of unpolished, and still one of the greatest games ever, especially compared to all the boring atrocious crap being put out these days.