Monte Carlo

Sorry, but it isn't it a bit hyperbolic to equate protecting basic property rights with totalitarianism?

If a shop opened up in your local mall with a sign outside saying "Buy your 100% WAREZ HERE!!!" it would be shut down very quickly. Why is the internet so freaking different? The online culture has an unrealistic sense of entitlement when it comes to breaking the law.

The primary problem with that comic is that artist, bless him, can't actually draw.

If the Swedes are so passionate defending freedoms and stuff why are they such ardent pacifists when it comes to fighting wars against the Forces of Evil?

I blame Sam Peckinpah. I give you a Quentin Tarantino and raise you ten dollars.

To me it is not obvious. All these boards, in different countries, are roughly "advertising" (as you put it) for these various companies. Why is it OK to write **** on an advertisement in Sweden but not in America, if it is completely unrelated to American moral standards? What drives them to censor their own board? What are they scared of? Note that I am not claiming it to be written in law either way, I know they're 'voluntarily' censoring us (which you laughably refer to as their "liberty" to do so, unless you can find a place where self-censoring isn't allowed), just that it is what I believe Obsidian conforms to: they are scared of what the general American consumer thinks of them. OMG! It's called private property rights, a novel concept I know.

It's the Special Relationship, duh.

Mass Effect 3. Because, like, making new games is just so mid 1990s.

This is the problem with written constitutions. You need Common Law and the Monarchy. Come back, you know it makes sense.

I think making students live in barracks is a good idea. They should also have to have haircuts, wake up early, polish the insides of dustbins and bascially have a Drill Sergeant-from-Full-Metal-Jacket type character chase them around screaming. Constantly. This would do wonders for grades and the US economy in general.

The Daily Telegraph in the UK liked it.

Nice jacket, all you need now is a haircut and you're good to go.

What a bizarre marketing strategy. They are a brilliant resource though, which is why I suspect they'll be forgiven.

I have some friends who are into WoW, and trust me you'd need a nuke to separate them from it. It's scary. And it's not like they are gamers. By that, I mean that prior to WoW they weren't really into games and apart from WoW they're not really into anything else (not that they'd have the time given their MMO fetish). I've seen it being played and the appeal escapes me. Online RTS, where you can play missions for a couple of hours then not worry about it for a week, are more my thing and I suspect the majority of other gamers.

+1, Buscemi has turned into one of the best character actors of his generation and lights up everything he appears in. He's up there, almost, with William H. Macy.

[big confession]I never worked out the lockpicking minigame in FO3. I hated it. With a fiery passion. Why can't I just dump points into lock pick.... and pick locks.[/big confession] And how about an options tab that says "Lockpick Lite" or "Lockpick Minigame"?

Don't tell him your name, Pike!

^ I can't let it go, there are a lot of seriously bright people in the military despite popular misconceptions to the contrary. The Team America tendency in the Bush Whitehouse merely compounded the lazy, flabby errors and indifference of the Clinton years.

^ Do you honestly think that there is a coherent 'Right Wing' in the first place? It's about as useful as saying that the 'Progressive' (LOL) Left believes in nothing but statist solutions, nationalisation, punitive taxation and creating client voting groups to be bribed with taxpayer's hard-earned money. Because the left is bigger and more diverse than that to the factor of a hundred, and so is 'the Right Wing.' You'd be laughed out of a politics class. Are you an economist, perchance?

After a lengthy pen and paper gaming interegnum, and having read the fundamental wisdom of the game design ethos, it might be time for me to crack open my box of polyhedral dice after all.

I usually follow the sage advice a la Dr. Wals and it works a treat.

You post 'hard facts' from a partisan political website to bait the right-of-centre forumites then get all pissy when somebody makes a joke? Gimme a break.

That was Channel 4, a non-licence payer funded, commercial, 'version' of the BBC and where I think public service broadcasting should be.

+1. I vote for Hackmaster, oh yes!

89.7% of all statistics are made up.