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Depends on who decides whats canon at this point. Obsidian? Beth? Interplay? The only evidence I can produce is the fact that the western BoS wasn't in the Capital or Pittsburg. True there was some BoS but nothing about the western bits (FO:T) was mentioned so I think they are not canon at this point.

Reminds me of Travis S. Taylor. The guy is a martial artist and a shooter on top of the list in there. His books are in the category of average - above average in quality but immensly enjoyable for nerds Hate those kind of people that have more than 1 qualification. (Beautiful and Intelligient, Educated and Not Socially inept and similar or better (worse?) combinations )

RPGmasterBoo: In the Late Roman period Alexandria was the heart (or stomach) of the eastern Roman empire (aka byzantium) Starting from there and continiuing up to the Levant, the whole region hosted a lot of Monastries. If you research about the time period, you can find a lot of instances where Extermists of one side clashing withe the Extermists of other. When the Islam appeared, who do you think became Muslims after the southern Arabia and it's trader clans converted? Do you think all those normal, non extermist people just dissapeared? Yes Islamic region did grow by sword after Muhammed but and this is a big but, in Muhammed's era, Islamics weren't attacking blindly; War to secure threats to their area? Yes. Taking out a Jewish controlled castle on a strategic location that could secure or threathen trade routes? Yes it happened. (Can't remember the place's name from memory) BUT The Islamic state also wooed other cities with trade, prosperity, missionary teachings.... Now we skip ahead and Islamics get mired in inner clan squibbles and become idiots while Western and Eastern Christians start to employ the things that made Islamic State stable. Also this brings me to Fatvas. Now Christianity took more than 1000 years of bloodshed and loss to learn that knowledgable (in holy writings) elders (not senile, the people who could make just decisions) had to interpret the rules with current times and there was always going to be variations. And they could live with it without constant slaughter. Islamics on the other hand started out with that little bit of knowledge and promptly twisted it into a freaking power tool in 50 years. Man... I am ranting... sorry it just makes my blood boil....

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And after reading the article, I rage again. I just love these sadistic, self loving, power hungry, small minded, selfish, inbred bastards. It just makes you want to hug them to death with a car crusher. One bit at a time. Monotheist Cristians didn't become Muslims by being forced by Muslims when Muhammed was alive (They were sick of Ultra-orthodox Cristians) , Turks didn't convert becouse they were defeated, they converted becouse they learned from the wise men that were decades ahead of everyone else, Persians and Indians were not converted by the sword. Make total war only to defend. Where the **** these idiots get the idea that being soulless mass murderers helps their cause ffs... Human shortsightedness wins once again............

Naah, The Great Satan is always your neighbour, preferably the one with old feuds and bullsiht nationalist propaganda to cover your own low hits on them. America is currently the only "superpower" with long reach in the world. And it's help always comes with strings attached. Lots of strings attached. Getting screwed over a deal makes people mad even if it is done fairly, when the other side shows Uncle Sam and IMF and other sticks so openly, it makes the grudge even worse. Then there is the International Face factor. A lot of vocal americans hate Clinton for his internal policies but when looking from outside, the Clinton era was a time where people did trust America to keep its word and refrain from doing much other than steal a kiss or grope a bit. Bush administration really put a very bad face on US and seeing nothing concrete from Obama also didn't help. (I am not saying they did right or wrong. I am talking about the effect their actions had.) In a lot of common people's eyes US has become a very hungry and very selfish giant, Today people expect to see corporate suits to come and do bad things when you say US is coming.

Sigh. Wals your guys are doing the dirty deeds of **** and money grubbers. Those guys (Taliban and Islamic Extreme and other vermin) are like friggin rodents of humanity. They are sadistic, perverted, godless, selfserving and "evil" (as the most darkest and worst kind of way.) The fact that those vermin exist does not justify your boys robbing the house on the side.

Come on Walsh, the books were written in 1930 to 1940, the guy is among the people who created the sci-fi cliches we see today. And they are not that bad when you think that it was an age where the romance was still alive (instead of it's plastic surgery creation shadow we see today) and heroic quests and face offs were the cool and people were able to hope without effort.

Doesn't seem to be a reflection. It seems like some sort of "in helmet" "to shine on the visor's inner surface, some kind of display?" light (why red?) . And did his red lighted faceplate looked like having a skull image? I wonder if Legion will be in?

Don't forget the Japs and Colonial English and the Allied High Command and the Mongols and the Huns and Reds and Vlad and.... Without any sarcasm I hate when people cut the scope too narrow to specific instances when the whole thing has to be seen as a whole Hitting your enemies' population is a prime tactic as long as you can vipe them out (nearly) completely without expanding too much resources. It's all about cost vs efficiency spread sheet. Anyway, It sucks that Obsidian isn't allowed to speak on their own forums. Edit: Mr J.E. Sawyer, we see you. Please at least say I'm awake (or about to go to bed. dunno what time is it there) Will we get anything here from you or are we stuck with the sub-optimal Publisher based forums?

Or the nuke might have targeted Ellis or an Industrial site as you know, when you make war you try to hit the other guys production and military centers first. Besides as far as targets go Civilian Population centers are the worst things you can hit, the more people other guy has to feed with smashed up infastructure, the more trouble he is in Lastly the place might have been hit with a Neutron Bomb to clean out the living without too much damage to infastructure for future occupation plans.

A snip from Fallout 2, Tycho the Desert Ranger's words on his organisation: Also Tycho's description in Fallout 1: He was already a nod back to the Wasteland (Tycho's grandfather was a Desert Ranger (The Desert Rangers themselves are a reference to Wasteland. Tycho also makes a mentions the "fat freak" from Las Vegas, which is a reference to Fat Freddy from Wasteland.) Related or not it is nice to see / think this as a nod to rabid fans (Except you Oner! You Beth fan-Boi! )

Need Gameplay. And I sure hope NCR is the encroaching guys. Don't know if the city is good or bad. I would like both / all major factions not to be good or evil, just netural and composed of selfish, power hungry statesmen

Walsingham: I'm sorry but if you are not living in Europe or America or Australia, and have some basic knowledge of semi recent history (poast WW2); there is no way you can symphatise with the English (Churchill and his babylonian fetish for the middle east to start with), Western European Mainland Countries (Africa) Soviets, Americans and Chinese. A lot of countries including mine got pretty messed up thanks to the us or them mentality. When you see this or that sick regime being still alive thanks to US support or this or that regime fallen into sick bastards during multi faceted revolts against US supported (the rest of the facets get killed during the chaos somehow. You can substitute Soviets oc Chinese to the US parts. As far as I know there isn't any country that got decent regime out of cold war except South Korea. Didn't US do good things? Of course they did but for every Positive influence there are 10 messed up places and 10 abandoned groups. Then we come to today. What do we have? We have European pharmatecual company depots and Oil cartels in every "humanitarian" intervention. People are also completely skipping the Shi'ite vs Sunni part about the middle east. Yes Iran hates US but Iran is Shi'ite (in a way, don't ask too long to tell that mess). Extermist Shi'ites hate Sunnis more than they hate US and vice versa becouse its a personal Feud. Most of the Islamic idiots that you see around the world come from Sunni Extermists bankrolled with oil money. (Shi'ite extermists are focused on Iraq, the only other Shi'ite country in thew world. It was also under the US supported and installed Sunni regime of Saddam.) Besides, Sunnis don't accept Shi'ite fatvas and vice versa. Hell even sub sects don't even accept other sub-sect's fatvas, which have become nothing more than some cheap tabloid screaming for death instead of wise old man explaining obscure or new questions that arise about religion... Currently there are 3 main reasions that make Iran evil (in International arena); 1- It's regime was created as a direct opposition to western menddling in the country (unfortunately it's full of power hungry, worst selfish specimens of Islam) 2- It's people are fiercely independent and resist outside meddling. This even goes as far as being independent in most manufactring sectors. Sure their Tvs or Tanks may suck but it's their own Tv's and Tanks. Maybe not good as made in China assembled in X Tv's or Tanks but thet are really independent. 3- They have oil and a lot of arable farmland. If this whole charade had been about Terrorism, US would have hit Saudis instead of Oil digs and poppy fields. (And no I actually despise the godless selfish dregs of humanity that lie hiding behind the seraph of real religion but this doesn't change the what Persians have accomplished in the current global sinkonomy)

There are 2 different weapons, Bolt Pistol and Bolter (Rifle version). And besides, All Space Marine (Loyalist or Traitor doesn't matter) are sub par. You want good WH40k? You read Caiphas Cain!

AC could be a very very sick game, there were so many horrfying things you could do like feeding entire populations to your hordes of mind worms for incubation as Gaians, Economically screwing over every other faction with Morganites to drowning others using UN sanctions . Not to mention Miriam and Santiago's uncomplicated ways of stomping everyone else via military. RA 2's best fmv was the one from allied mission to liberate the airforce. Go Tanya Go! Also the mission to infiltrate the Soviet silos had nice opening fmv too.

Well considering the fact that 75% of Warhammer "good" guys are also unmitigated bastards that sit on the "good being" side of the fence because they hate someone on the evil side of the fence, It shouldn't be too hard to get them working for bad guys hunting even worse guys.

Kirottu; I don't really agree. Sure the combat was largely unpolished but it felt better than Kotor's combat. The story on the other hand. They just took some chinese myths and steamlined them to be more accesible (read: deconstruct the story so an 8 year old can understand) which defeated the purpose of using an exotic setting. Still a sequel could be much much better GDM: I thought Bio didn't make any sequels except for ME2?

Gorky 17 (Odium) is intresting. Its combats are more of a TBS puzzles and the storry is really weird. Septerra Core plays like a normal JRPG but its story is actually more robust than your regular Jpop i mean Jrpgs despite the end of the world, big bad and such cliches. Original War is a weird rts. Your main and most important resource is your Troopers. You build up prefabric settlements using randomly teleported, pre packaged supply packages. The missions range from your normal RTS fare to managing a base (and its defences) with just 2 troopers. (Every building and vehicle needs troopers to operate.) Advent Rising, action game with a semi intresting story about the fall of mankind. Planned as first of a triology but it flopped and the series were scrapped. Hostile Waters is a mix of RTS and Action game using your created units in TPS Camera. So So but enjoyable story / mission progression.

You need to read the Anthologies and then the Crown of Slaves side series too. Once you experience Victor Catchat, you' will never be the same :D Although in general I agree with you, Weber's main story arc has grown so large that he either has to cut something short (which generally becomes the space battles and other action stuff) or the books will get too long and scattered I am still hunting for Survivalist (by Jerry Ahern) and other obscure sci-fi paperbacks through the second (or fifth) hand bookstores. Slow going but it is fun to find small bookstores tucked into invisible nooks and crannies that are home of nice semi retired people that you can chat about books.

True but it did have a horrible reload time and as you sait it was a unique weapon from far away lands. (And it was the only ranged weapon in the game if I recall correctly)

Settingwise? No Storywise? Yes. Despite the nice plot turns,the whole thing was too Hollywoodised. Some of the time it felt as if the devs opened up the wiki on ancient Chinese myths and just copy pasted the ones that took their fancy. Game play wise? 50/50. The emphasis on meele was a nice change in good direction compared to Kotor but at the cost of cutting out the other 2 paths(Sneak and Diplomacy) completely out of the game. The Warpath wasn't as polished as it could have been too. So in conclusion, I would say it was a nice step in the right direction but as it wasn't supported by a pre-existing fan base like kotor was so it was forgotten. *Not exactly Bi btw. In ancient chinese culture being soulmates and being joined to produce next generation for the bloodline was not synonumus. The culture was / is really alien to modern day western culture in many ways. In some ways it was much much more open and understanding. In others it was a bloody dark age.

Holy! Someone else has played Gorky 17, Septerra Core, Original War, Advent Rising and Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising! I am not alone??!

Despite being a fan of Yerli brothers (other ones include the Mount and Blade team ), I really don't like their games. Sure I loved Farcry 1, as far as I was battling mercs but the Genemodified thing parts were lackluster. Same with Crysis, the N. Korean gruntsa had no chance but it was fun to play with them. Then the Alien sections began and I fell asleep. Why can't they make a basic game, about bad men shooting bad men across the mystical Carribean (The one that has pirates, rejects from society and the sassy females, not the real one) for gain. I'm even ok with "idiot but lucky" as the main guy, using the size and envirolments of the engine...

It's funny, how the maker of the "most violent", the "biggest corrupting influence on youth", the "most controversial" games is also one of the few game studios that uses complex scenarios, tales that are both realistic and fantasy instead of pure mindless bite sized violence bits as games' story.