RPGmasterBoo

Apparently there is a part of the game thats a theme park for Ryans propaganda, which explores moreof the issues behind Rapture. Also the *villain* so to speak is not just the Big sister, there is a character espousing a collectivist ideal. She was a dissident in Ryans time. She's the principal bad guy because shes hunting for the original little sister who is somehow at the core of her philosophy. Your goal as the experimental Big daddy has nothing to do with the Big sister - it to find your original little sister. The Big Sister is just a tension making device, so the player feels intimidated.

O.O ... That's cheap and vulgar incarnate. Who's the sad case doing the comic

Never heard of that happening. Well did you at least export your character?

Let no one say its Imoen.

Wishful thinking, I know.

Praise the loooord They must be short on resources indeed ... edit: oh shucks, I fell into the same trap as DD.

*sigh Wake me up when its over.

I mean there were Scots there, the English some castles and green grass. That's the kind of resemblance I'm talking about.

Mel Gibson's movie had a basic resemblance to reality. This doesn't. Frankly I'm horrified. *shakes head* What's the world coming to... Next thing you know they'll be making Don Quixote vs the steroid enhanced giant windmills. Or Jesus vs zombie roman legions.

They actually had the gall to say that?

The cat is out of the bag anyway, I dunno why they bother. XBOX360 version is all over the place.

It doesn't look like anything special, what's the deal? Actually it looks like a DMC rip off, all colored in ****ty brown. *Poor Dante's turning in his grave

The reward doesn't match the risk.

It's like you don't know her at all, Boo. She's obviously in it for the hot alien lovin'. You learn something new every day

Yes? Glad we agree on something though In a curious streak of tolerance I vote that Bioware gives their female gamers everything they want, as long as we don't have to suffer through it as a male PC.

Why would you want romances for the female Shepard?

You're way off the mark. In Bosnia there are Serbs (christian) Croats (a minority, christian) and muslims. The term Bosnians is misleading, there is no such nation. We all speak the same language, and you wouldn't be able to tell us apart, since even we can't. There was slaughter on all sides, muslims vs serbs and muslims vs muslims (there was a fraction of muslims that didnt want to leave Yugoslavia, it was wiped out by the other muslims). Croats dont figure too prominently though they are in general on the side of the muslims. The reasons for the war are too complex to go into. You might wonder why we all speak the same language, yet divide so sharply by religion. This part of the world was once conquered by the Ottoman empire (Turks, muslims). A part of what was formerly Serb chrisitans in Bosnia assimilated with the empire, and accepted their religion. Some of them today are also descendants of Turks, even though they only speak Serbian. They are whats today considered muslims in Bosnia, though for all intents and purposes they are converted Serbs. Of course telling any one of them this is a very bad idea, because they feel separate since their muslim identity eclipses ethnicity completely. Croats are a slightly different people, the language is 95% the same though the divide between us and them goes a thousand years back - so we can truly be considered separate nations. The divide stems from the schizm of the churches. Croats are roman catholics, and under the influence of the the west and we were under the influence of the Byzantine empire - thus orthodox christians.

It was a hoax (the bulldozed mass graves, not the fighting itself). The supposed imagery is so muddled you could see whatever you wanted to see on it, you could even see Saddams chemical factories if you were so inclined. Which incidentaly were also supposedly documented by sattelite. The Dutch let it happen. It was necessary for it to happen so the US could intervene. Apparently in a discussion of Izetbegovic and Clinton, Clinton told him that they would need a major massacre to mobilize the international community for war. Thus they (muslims) left Srebrenica almost undefended knowing what was going to be the result after the massacres commited by Oric beforehand. That does not of course excuse anyone, but it was a well thought out trap which the Bosnian Serb leadership swallowed - hook line and sinker.

A recent and interesting affair was the apparent kidnapping of Serb civilians, them being shipped from Kosovo to Albania where they were killed, dissected, and their organs sold on the international black market. I actually disbelieved it at first until Carla del Ponte herself was credited as the source (she being a dedicated hunter of Serb war criminals) Also something to consider is that now, there are almost no Serbs left in Kosovo.

I must ask... do you believe that the massacre of Srebrenica never happened, that 8,000 men and boys were not slaughtered in front of a Dutch Peacekeeping force? Do you dispute that dozens upon dozens of mass graves containing Kosovar civilians were uncovered after the shooting stopped? That the burned-out church with more than fifty charred civilian corpses was fabricated as a photo op? I realize that you live in the area and I do not, but to blindly dismiss the evidence that has been put before the International courts as non-existant, and to insist that the USA has the power to force the International court to take action it did not feel appropriate to take strikes me as a rather strident state of denial on your part. Is this really your position, or have I misunderstood you? In short - yes. All of the institutions doing the "proving" come from or are under the direct influence of the countries which have an agenda in the war. The US can impose its will on any of those institutions as it sees fit, though the EU is equally likely to do so. There is nothing International about the international court, and as an institution it has an agenda of its own. I could list piles upon piles of evidence, but it would serve no purpose because you aren't inclined to believe me anyway. The web of influences and agendas is so intricate it would take weeks to explain, even to one who comes from this part of the world - let alone someone like you. However, just so you know, I'm on my final year of political sciences/international relations - and I'm not likely to support any theory that I feel can be disproven. A note on what you mention: - to this day only 3 thousand bodies have been exumed in Srebrenica, and among them are only males. This is at odds to Clintons pre war statement of 200000 dead in Srebrenica. Even though it has the makings of a massacre (not genocide, for genocide presumes total eradication males + females), id doesn't come without a background. The massacres perpetrated for a while over the Serb civilian population by the militia of Naser Oric (released from the Hague, even though there are videos of his proud statements that he killed his first Serb when he was 18, or the particularly interesting video of his soldiers and mujahedeen playing soccer with the decapitated head of a Serb villager). These massacres (number of dead unknown, probably similar to Srebrenica) served as a prelude to what happened in Srebrenica, because Srebrenica was effectively - retribution. While I do not have anything against anyone answering for his/her war crimes, all the Bosnian muslims were either never charged or released. -The supposed mass graves of Kosovo, (unlike Srebrenica which has a grain of truth to it) were in fact a fabrication. The statement about the church I'm afraid is a display of ignorance on your part. Albanians are almost completely muslim therefore any casualties in any church could only be Serbs (since we are uniformly christian). That's also quite likely since around 400 churches were burned to the ground during the war and in the aftermath.

yeah, plus a fee for paying with a credit card, which in my bank at least is more than 3 euros, so these micro transactions don't really work for me, I have to lump a lot of stuff together for it to make sense. Dunno what you're talking about, my card wasn't charged anything extra. Its a Visa.

I just bought it, but I'll need some time to install it. (1MB connection) Plus I'm not what I once was in the game, so I'll qet pwned easily. That said, Id still like to play

@Enoch: no because you said you bought it so you could complain about it. Mission accomplished Btw swamps, chapter 2 were the most tedious part of the game.

Still playing Machinarium. Bloody wonderful game. Company of Heroes is dirt cheap now on Steam people! 3 euros for the original game + expansion!

Five?? What are they making, a spiritual sequel to Love Hina?