Wrath of Dagon

lol, we're horribly misinformed? I didn't say anything about their race, I was talking about ideology. Also Iran comprises many ethnic groups, not just Persians, including Arabs. IS has plenty of aspirations, and Iran's hegemonic aspirations is exactly what make them so dangerous. Iran is only internationally recognized because it was a state before the current terrorist regime came to power. US has no diplomatic relations. You're smoking too much of your favorite substance. Certainly a lot of the population does want peace, but that doesn't matter to their rulers. Neither does Iran, even if the Clown in the White House can't figure that out. Burying your head in the sand because you can't handle reality isn't a solution. You can certainly negotiate with Iran, they'll just string you along and do what they want in the meantime. We even have the recent example of N Korea to look at, as I already mentioned. Edit: Btw, as far as them not really wanting nuclear weapons. They can buy low enriched uranium for any peaceful purposes far cheaper than the billions they're spending on their nuclear program. The only reason to have an enrichment program like theirs is to make weapons-grade Uranium.

@Hurl What's ridiculous about it? You don't know Iran is number one terror sponsoring state, and their ideology is the same as AQ and IS, except it's the Shiite variety? Edit: It'll work about as well as the N Korean nuclear negotiations.

Or Bonyer and Kerry with Sandanistas, or a dozen other examples. Obola stated he's going to ignore Congress when making a treaty, a direct violation of the Constitution. The letter is a result of that. Anyway, negotiating a nuclear treaty with Iran is much like negotiating a nuclear treaty with Al Qaeda or IS.

Playing Black Mesa, never played the first Half-Life before. So far seems more an adventure game than a shooter, not doing that much shooting.

I'm neutral on net neutrality. We'll see how it pans out.

No one's ever made a better game.

Installed Oddworld : New n' Tasty yesterday. Finally I can play that game with a controller!

Yes, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. I would also argue the engine is not dated, since the game has its own unique look and wouldn't be improved by newer graphics.

The point of terrorism is more the terror than the casualties, thus the name.

Can't believer I finally beat the Berserkers in "Of Orcs and Men". Tried a bunch of times and usually couldn't even kill one. Looked at a guide but didn't have the skill they recommended. In desperation restarted the game on easy, and noticed in the first tutorial battle that if you use Powerful Blow the other Orc seems to usually get interrupted. So I went back to my old game and had Arkail use only that, while Styx Worked like a charm.

I'm OK with any graphics since I started playing games in 2002 but tend to avoid anything before that.

Continuing my quest to read long forgotten authors. Just finished "Sacrifice", http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22928 It's a romance but also a little disturbing.

What does taunt do? Decrease their defenses? Now I'm worried may be I upgraded the wrong skills.

Well, we're not required to vote, so why bother? You can vote for the enemy, or you can vote for the traitors who'll deliver you to the enemy, that's not a choice at all. May be the Conservatives will split off and form their own party if they don't get their Presidential nominee, supposedly 25-30% of Republicans are ready to leave. At least there'd be a choice then, and may be a tectonic shift in American politics, which is long overdue, both parties being so unbelievably corrupt.

As the only President to intentionally expose his own people to a Class A bioterrorism agent (as classified by the CDC), he'll always be Obola to me. As far as Bush doing the same thing, not at all. From the link above "on the grounds that they infringe on presidential authority or violate other constitutional provisions" A President does not have to do anything he considers unconstitutional, unless directed by a court. Of course he should really have vetoed the legislation instead of adding a signing statement, but sometimes that may no be practical. Obola did not claim the laws he ignored/violated were unconstitutional, his usual excuse is that "Congress has failed to act" or "We screwed up, but I'll just fix the law by myself". Edit : Hurl is right though, we do need a third party, although what he wants is probably diametrically opposed to what I want. The Republican scumbags lie and lie, then betray the people they claim to represent as soon as they get elected. It's unlikely I'll ever vote for them again.

That's true, but I find the results credible for the reason I stated.

You need to read up on Lincoln if you think Obama is bad about the law. Here is what a lot of the sites you read today would look like if Lincoln were in power: http://www.libertyforlife.com/constitution/politicians/dishonest_abe.htm Here is a less inflammatory version: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/mar/10/ted-cruz/ted-cruz-says-barack-obama-first-president-who-thi/ Lincoln was President during a civil war, what's Obola's excuse? The first link you posted is completely ridiculous, in the second link read Cruz's response, it explains it very well.

Great news, I thought they really missed the opportunity to explore the remnants of original colonies introduced in Mars. Sounds like they're expanding the game just in the way they should, hopefully they'll pull it off.

Obola is the worst president in history because he completely disregards the rule of law, civilization's greatest achievement. The economy might look good compared to the rest of the commie world, but if labor participation rate was the same as pre-recession, unemployment now would be over 9%, and wages have stagnated. Not that it's all necessarily his fault, but by the same token the good things only happened because most of his program was blocked.

The explanation is very simple, right after WW2 everyone knew exactly what happened, so they knew SU did most of the fighting. Now most people only have a vague idea, and they know France was liberated by Western allies, and of course they know more about the Western front, hence the result.

I think it was released for the 360 in Europe, but not in US for some strange reason, so I couldn't play it before. Now I've figured out most games for consoles are on Steam also, and if they're console they also support the controller on PC, so I turned my PC into current gen console so to speak. I'm mostly fighting the militia, but there are some tougher soldiers some times. The knight was so tough I had to assassinate him to win the fight. Depends on the difficulty also, on normal so far I haven't had to be too careful, but probably on hard you'd have to understand all the nuances. Too bad I don't see anything that explains all the stats, like balance, but I'm starting to get an inkling.

The only country doing worse is Sierra Leone, and even there the cases have levelled off according to the RC- and if the rate reduction continues the outbreak will be done in months*. And while it's certainly overly reductionist to simplify every action of the US to 'oil' I'm not sure that someone who was insisting the virus was actually airborne and everyone was lying about it/ it was going to rampage across the US and the world due to 'Obola' is an entirely rational thinking centrist themselves. *Yeah, unlikely since it's far more complicated than a straight rate analysis and extrapolation and there are dozens of factors; but if the doomsayers pseudo statistical 'look at the rates, it'll be infecting 30 trillion people a day in 2040!' panic crap is good for the goose then 'good news, everybody!' anti panic crap is good for the gander. I think you're misrepresenting my position just a tad. It is lucky that Ebola appears to be very infectious only at the very end, else it might indeed have spread like wildfire.

May be it's not genocide yet, but IS would like it to become one : http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/01/18/german-embed-reporter-isis-plans-on-killing-hundreds-of-millions-in-religious-cleansing/

I'm playing "Of Orcs and Men" now, the story, characterization, writing and voice acting are all really good. The combat is kind of like KOTOR without force powers, so not very deep, although it does have a couple of wrinkles, and the game is more combat heavy than I prefer in an RPG, but having a lot of fun nevertheless.

I have a question for the lunatic fringe. If our entire foreign policy is dominated by getting more oil, how come we're not letting Canadians build the Keystone-XL pipeline because that would get us whole lot more oil than some tiny African nation. But undoubtedly there is a large amount of self-interest involved in the fight against Ebola. We don't want it to spread world-wide after all. And good for Liberia, but I don't think the other stricken countries are doing quite as well.