Malcador

Well, have they really worked ? Crimea is still in Russian hands and the Good Ukranians still haven't won. I guess hurting Russia was an end in itself, but is it oil prices falling hurting more than sanctions ? Wait, what genocide was going in Libya, by the way ?

Why is this the right thing to do ? Manhunt is on Steam, too.

Fiddling with mods for GTA 4, rather shiny now, even if the night sky box is broken. Also finding it interesting how many shots civilians can take and not die.

France has never really been cozy with NATO, I had thought.

Borderlands 2. Next one I buy will be GTA 5 for the PC, spare myself the 50 GB download.

We are concerned with the important things.

Shame she has too much ink for me.

If your conduct is dictated by reciprocity, perhaps you should stop pretending you have standards, it's that simple. It's also pointless, the quote from GTA V that torture is for the torturer to have fun is pretty accurate thinking about it. Also, are you trying to imply torture has stopped any attacks ?

Christmas party saw a guy get drunk while the rest of his table were egging him on to do stupid stuff, rather disappointing. Went over there and tried to dissuade them from doing that with little success until I called them a bunch of **** and left afterward. Was a decent party, Italian restaurant run by Russians, heh, but the waitress was pleasant as well

Interesting standards you hold. Also, why does it matter that we remember who we are fighting, exactly ? Funnily enough though, terrorists are probably operating under this kind of logic as well

This popped back into my head today

Keep safe LC.

Aren't gang members really victims of social injustice that disenfranchises them and pushes them to a life of crime as they are ostracized and isolated due to racial or soci-economic factors ? Should probably stop killing them in GTA. I guess games should portray reality ?

If they get rid of prostitutes ? Nope it wouldn't change it. That isn't his point, his point is why it is needed - else he's trying some "why not?" argument, which is very poor. I did get a laugh at some comments on that - one suggested a permanent wanted level for offing hookers

I did read the whole article, he doesn't really give a good answer other than indicating he has some issues with hookers. You can kill them just like anyone else - GTA's freedom to go on rampages is part of the fun of the series - but you don't have to do so to progress the completion of the game. Killing an NPC hooker is indeed just the same as killing any other NPC - these things aren't real, I really hope he is aware of that. If killing virtual hookers is bad though for whatever reason (I guess perception of them will be the best shot he can offer) - how can he be okay with killing NPCs with glasses ? elderly ones ? ANY NPC ?

https://archive.today/1DbIe This was pretty funny. I am not sure the game is especially reveling in the deaths of hookers versus other NPCs (you get money from them regardless, right?)

Agreed, nothing lasts forever. Fortunately Im not worried about forever. Im worried about the here and now that I live in and currently theres nobody that can take the US down. If we wait long enough, approximately 7.6 billion years, the sun will become a red giant and engulf the Earth. Hahahaha, suck it China. Think it's 4 or 5. Saw a show once detailing what might happen, was rather neat when it got to the planetary firestorm that results from a resurgence of oxygen into the atmosphere.

Snow all over the place here, so as a result the city has stopped working. Pretty lousy day today, have to go the office Christmas dinner tonight, free food is the only good point. Tomorrow off work though, huzzah!

So what do you expect then, as you apparently have the read of this ? Ah, never mind, late refresh. Am not too sure that the US doing shady stuff as every nation has done is a damning indictment of the high level government ideology it follows, though.

US played a different role before it as well. But if you do, then you'll have multiple agencies (even more than now, currently), which is inefficient.

Well his point was basically that nothing lasts forever, so he's right. But even so, the US has done a good job of playing the game post WW2. Testament to power in that the reaction to this will be mainly words from other nations.

Funnily the scuttlebutt is that this is nothing like actual gameplay. Terrible music too.