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I so badly want a pipboy. Collector's edition for me.
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My problem with Doom is that I spent hours and hours and hours playing it on my original Playstation in 1997. Seeing it all glammed up with state of the art graphics feels wrong. They should have gone sort of retro in my opinion. It doesn't look like Doom. FWIW Doom is one of my favourite video games of all time - what made it creepy was the superb music / audio and weirdness of the maps. I can't help but wonder if the new Doom will capture that.
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I Googled some opinions and got similar feedback. Wolfenstein: the New Order was on sale ludicrously cheap - bought that instead.
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^ That looks like fun.
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You see, this is why I come here for advice. Thanks teknoman, that's taken on board.
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The new non-subs TES is 33% off on Steam. Are there any players out there who can comment / advise? Or is dead game dead? I liked Skyrim but am a MMORPG noob. Thanks in advance.
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God is green, because Cthulu is green. Duh.
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Alternatively you could point out SA's GDP, infant mortality rates, rape stats, health iniquities and all the rest of it. Let the stats speak for themselves.
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'X' Privilege is a classic leftist debating tactic. It's very clever - you win the meta-debate by defining the intellectual battle-space. The counter is simply not to acknowledge it. In fact, throw it back in their face, explain what it is. A trick. "So I can't possibly have an opinion because...?" It's one of those no-platform type, morally superior debating tricks you get on that side of the fence. By asking the other side to explain what it means, it makes them sound like even more of an extremist you'd choose not to break bread with.
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"A liberal is someone so open-minded their brain fell out." Bruce, you're priceless. Honestly.
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I found this quite an interesting and reasoned take on the debate. http://observer.com/2015/06/the-pecking-disorder-social-justice-warriors-gone-wild/
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Unlike Hurlshot, and possibly because I'm not American, I don't view everything along such a totally partisan, binary axis. 'Conservative' means a lot of things. It's as least as broad a church, if not broader, than those of the Left.
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That quick transition from, er, the 1950s?
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Which is What They Want. So the social media libtards can McCarthy the **** out of people for not submitting to groupthink.
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Gromnir is correct, easily fifty per cent of the pleasure was discussing stuff with the kid about the book versus movie.
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The Hunger Games, 'cuz my son has just finished the books. I think the films are OK, actually. Especially Lenny Kravitz and Woody Harrelson.
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I say we nuke the site from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.
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Slow-cooked lamb with flatbreads and hummous.
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My youth was all about UK comics - I give you Kevin O'Neill Carlos Ezquerra
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Greece, EU and why we can't have nice things
Monte Carlo replied to 213374U's topic in Way Off-Topic
Ah, but Melkathi although you are correct, such commonsense is derided as neoliberal bastard-think. Numbers also highlights the problem. I think Spain, Italy and Greece need their own 'Mediterranean Spring' to be honest. Maybe a trading bloc. Top-down technocratic imposition of governments from Berlin Brussels won't work. Edit: In fact, I think this radical idea has legs... Hmmm. Let me think of a descriptor.... got it! Independent, Sovereign Nation State -
Greece, EU and why we can't have nice things
Monte Carlo replied to 213374U's topic in Way Off-Topic
Nope, SOP in the PIGs -
Greece, EU and why we can't have nice things
Monte Carlo replied to 213374U's topic in Way Off-Topic
Numbers, you know and I know that the endemic, low-level corruption in Spanish and Italian local government is a direct driver of low productivity. As for Greece... I have friends working in Spain, nothing gets done without a bung. It's part of the Latin malaise, and nothing you and I say can change it. Voting for student union Waaaahhhh! parties like Podema and Syriza won't change it either. -
No austerity can be and is effective Its also about countries making structural reforms like reducing government debt, selling assets and reducing bloated staff counts from departments. So by making some difficult but not egregious reforms a country can gets its economy working again. Ireland and Spain are successfully doing it It's not that I necessarily disagree with you, and your point has some merit to it. But I also think it's worth pointing out you've happily revealed your considerable family wealth on this forum: you are, to be frank, loaded. So it's worth considering your robust defence of the status quo in that context. I'd have more respect for you if you'd ever held an opinion you couldn't afford, or if you offered a muscular Gordon Gekko / Randian-style defence of capitalism. Instead you come across as the worst sort of middle class, libtard SJW.
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He's a polemicist, which is an old-fashioned word for superior troll. Inconsistency is to be expected.
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/07/16/ive-been-playing-video-games-for-nearly-a-year-heres-what-ive-learned/ I like Milo because he annoys people who annoy me. What do you think about his latest article?