lord of flies

The content of the e-mail in question: MOTHER****ER ARGH!!!!

Oh really? When have I appealed to the history of India under Nehru? Oh yes, that'd be never. Therefore, either you're a blatant liar, have serious hallucinations, or didn't even read the thread title. Which one is it?

Right down to the Five Year Plans. Oops, that blows your ideas about state capitalism being incompatible with democracy right out of the water! Deal with it, capitalailures.

NOT - Borat

I can't say they do a very good job.

I dunno, I've heard this game is "enjoyably bad," but I can't say that (besides the driving) I've found it to be so. Combat's so-so, but it's not awful or terribly awkward. You can get hurt pretty bad, but when I get hit, I always feel like it's my fault (except for one time when I discovered the "Observe" command does not pause time!). One little trick you'll want to know; when there's a fixed camera angle (while rare, they make controlling York a bitch), you can pull out a melee weapon and use aim mode to switch back to ordinary "tank" controls. Driving is pretty difficult, but the blinkers and windshield wipers really make up for it; instead of feeling like I'm bad at video games, I feel like I'm "role-playing" an FBI Agent who can't drive. The plot is, thus far, 100% good. Some of the characters are weird or w/e, but that's not really a downside. Some serious laugh-out-loud moments; the way the relationship between York and the local police (especially Emily) is done is simply fantastic. And, though I haven't beaten the game yet, I haven't heard that the grand finale is random nonsense bull****.

/facepalm. Everything that Sterling says in there about Deadly Premonition, other than obviously fake stuff (like "I hate the PS3, Blu-Ray is for gays" and "Heavy Rain and Twin Peaks ripped off Deadly Premonition."), is 100% true. I can't vouch for what he says about Heavy Rain, but it sounds pretty plausible. Shaving (and not shaving) owns. Running around town, stealing 10mm bullets from people's mailboxes owns. Driving like a maniac owns. What's really great, is that when you do some dumb bull**** and it turns out to have been for pretty much nothing, you still get money. Did you spend 5 minutes real time driving around for miles? Here's some money to compensate you. Did you shave your beard and wash your clothes? Here's some money to compensate you. Killed enemies? Money. Broke some boxes? Money.

Video you linked in your original post had seven minutes of someone walking around a small room with the occasional text popping up that I couldn't read. That was the *only* gameplay shown. Then you have a cut scene that's comedy with about five seconds of scary. It might be an excellent game, but I don't think the preview you linked to shows off that excellence. That "Red Room" pops up a few more times throughout the game, but you don't have to look at everything after the first time (from what I've seen so far). That bit makes the gameplay look much worse than it is. This is more representative of what you would be doing in terms of game play for most of the game (during the story missions and certain times of day/kinds of weather)

$20. 10/10 rating on Destructoid. The game is fantastic, honestly. It's funny, it's got decent combat, and the plot is genuinely interesting. What's more, unlike a lot of games nowadays, it has character. Some more fantastic video footage. I don't see why you wouldn't buy this game. In the droves of people who've I read the opinions of, I've seen like, two or three express distaste.

Sure it does. My question was to whether LoF believes it's good. Christ Almighty, why would I post that I like a game when I don't? Have I ever done that? Have I ever done anything of the sort?

A brief introduction; the first 10 minutes of gameplay can be found here. This is the game that you never knew you wanted. Did you think that adding in the option to turn on (and leave on) your turn signals was a good idea? Well, it turns out it's amazing. Driving around like an idiot while your right turn signal goes off forever is just so much subtly better than driving around like an idiot without signals. It adds that element of realism, like you're really driving around like an idiot, not just sucking at a video game. Did you think that a game about a dickish FBI Agent who puts out a cigarette on his plate, is very particular about his food, gets his fortune from his morning coffee and spends a good half of the game talking to his imaginary friend was a good idea? Well, it turns out it's amazing. Your protagonist (Francis York Morgan, henceforth referred to as "York") is an FBI agent who spends the early game calling the small country town he's currently in "uncivilized" and the people "cavemen" (he later corrects that to "the medieval era"). He blabs on about 80s movies, and (if you watched the above video) is first introduced to the player by telling someone over the phone that Tom and Jerry are sadomasochistic partners. Did you think that "free roaming world" and "third person survival horror" went together? Turns out they do. Drive five minutes to the next mission while York talks about what movies he and Zach should go see after this whole thing is over, or you can go fishing. As one player put it: Buy this game. For $20 and a 10/10 score on Destructoid, you can't go wrong.

Japan was not an "economic colossus rivaling the USA," it was a nation that was on a steady and (relatively) quick path to industrialization. The accomplishment of reaching first world economic levels is a Japanese one, not a United States one. In 1914, Japan had a GDP per capita on par with Russia, but they grew much faster. United States dickery in Germany started in 1917, remember (well actually before then since our relations were weighted towards the Entente already)? Or do they not teach you that in your history textbooks? Besides which, if Germany's WW2 army was so atrocious (it wasn't), then everybody else's was even worse. France fell to German force of arms, as did Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, North Italy, the Czechs, Poland, and large swaths of Soviet territory. It was industrial power and population statistics, not military discipline or officer corps, that allowed the Allies to defeat Germany. I'm not pretending like fascism owns. But the standard of living in Germany and Japan is wholly a consequence of the German and Japanese economies which existed and expanded before WW1 and WW2. "Battle is only one of the ways to destroy an enemy's will to fight. Massacre can accomplish the same end with less risk."

Is this a joke? Like, seriously. Japan and Germany were both doing extremely well prior to American dickery. Japan was competing with the British Empire in textiles in 1914 without tariffs. Germany had enough industrial and military power to damn near crush the French and Russians in WW1 (and, to a lesser extent, in WW2). The only good things the US occupation gave Japan and Germany was Article 9 and the mass shaming that lead to the extinguishment of nationalism for two generations, respectively.

Let me help you out there. Islam is as valid a religion as any other. Revolutionary socialism is the best political ideology. If I could kill one person in history, it would be Fanni Kaplan.

Infinite ammunition is a gameplay device used to streamline the game. Dual wielding SMGs is (more or less) a wholly aesthetic concern. They are totally different.

If we close down all our embassies, how are we going to negotiate trade agreements with other nations? Think.

Income tax is 100% better than sales tax, sorry. Sales tax disproportionately effect the poor, whereas (when used properly) income tax disproportionately taxes the rich (but doesn't effect them as much, because the difference in quality of life between 2 million a year and 1 million a year is much less than the difference between 20 thousand and 10 thousand). Why do we leave the UN and close all our embassies? That doesn't help with our taxes, those are tiny expenses in comparison to the massive military-industrial complex we've got going. It will actually hurt us since trade relations will become strained.

Actually, if you'd check the topic, you'd see the discussion is "Did the Soviets do anything equivalent to what the Nazis did?" So "But you're worse!" is a perfectly valid defense, and, in fact, the crux of the argument. Style over substance? What does that have to do with this? If I can't trust your source on one subject, I can't trust your source. If your source was written in broken, misspelled English and didn't include obvious falsehoods, then I might have fallen prey to the "style over substance" fallacy.

What, so imprisoning people on the basis of ethnic identity is genocide? Don't tell that to the United States, then. lol not even. It is historical fact that Lenin and Stalin's nationalities policies wildly diverged, to the point that Stalin's treatment of the nation of Georgia in the Georgian affair was what made Lenin hate Stalin (unfortunately, Lenin was dying by that point). If your article can't manage to correctly state facts I know, why should I trust it to do so for facts I don't? Besides, "kulak" and "bourgeois democrat" are not, despite your best efforts to claim otherwise, ethnic groups.

What, you mean that if Google can find it, it's not a valid source? That's is a new low, even for you, tovarisch. Let me remind you, that ALL the evidence you have come up with so far is your own weak rhetoric ("they didn't cause the famines on purpose!"), a chart that as far as I'm concerned you made yourself, and some links in the past to the web of the "people's party of somethingorother". And now you demand that others deliver academic historiographical sources, when your own are merely one click removed from "I'm getting lucky". Pathetic. I pointed you to Conquest's book "The Great Terror", which gives a figure of ~14 million murdered by the Soviet state. A figure that doesn't include unlawful killings by the RKKA in wartime, or various deportations including (but not limited to) that of Germans (Against their Will, p.279) or Latvians. You also claimed that the RKKA didn't engage in any active genocide, which is a patent lie. Even if we write off the all too common unlawful killings, mass rapes and general mayhem as "lack of discipline", the mass deportations to labor camps ARE genocide. If you're going to assume dishonesty on my part, why should I even bother to debate your childish bull****? "Labor camps are genocide"? Again, the Gulag was not a murder machine, unlike the Nazi concentration camps. As an aside, anybody who says Stalin "perfected Lenin" with respect to Stalin's treatment of various Soviet ethnic groups is a complete, objective idiot (and that's not ideological; it's fact), so your source (that I can check right now) is obvious ****.

Thorton wields his SMGs like he is riding a motorcycle, and the SMGs are his handlebars. If you're asking how I do it, I use both hands to get a firm grip, line up the sights with my vision, and make sure to keep my arms slightly relaxed (rather than straight out). If I was using two SMGs at the same time (because my brain had left my skull), I would still hold them right-side up.

Here are my questions: - During playtests, have you found that players tend to favor any particular route or personality type (e.g. people generally prefer to be professional or use stealth)? If so, what? - I have heard that the game was basically finished prior to the latest delay. How finished is "basically finished"? - I have heard there is an "orphans created" statistic at the end-mission readout. Will this statistic be tracked constantly throughout the game, so we can see how many orphans we have created on a particular playthrough? - I have heard that Alpha Protocol takes place in the near future. Has anything significant happened in the time between now and Alpha Protocol? - What design concerns lead to switching from infinite ammo to finite ammo? - Are there weapons other than those for which the character has skills (i.e. Pistol, Shotgun, Assault Rifle, SMGs)? - Why does the protagonist, Michael Thorton, duel wield his SMGs, and then doesn't even use the sights? Do you not realize how ridiculous this looks?

Is this where we're going? Posting random images we made? Do you even have any ability to defend your side? Googling "soviet dissenters" doesn't tell you anything about the Gulag. If you would care to cite some actual sources and offer some actual data rather than "hey, check out these fifteen different authors I just googled up," I'd be more than willing to go into depth. The measurement on the left is percentage of Gulag prisoners who died that year. Since the highest was a little less than 25%, that doesn't work logically.

You can look up Gulag death rates in any reputable (i.e. not "100 million deaths") you like and find that the death toll was quite subdued outside of 1942-1944 and one outlier in 1933. Here's one graph: I have this information on recall; I don't Google for "someone who at some point said something good about the Soviet Union" and then put their name on a vague and undefined list.

The Soviet Union's treatment of prisoners and subject populace was not as bad as that of the Nazis, except for the most insane of anti-communist children, who vehemently deny "history" and invent atrocities on ludicrous scales, like Stalin killing (as a portion of the population) as many Soviet nationals as Democratic Kampuchea. The Gulag was not a "genocide camp," it was (like many countries in WW2's lowest segments, such as British India) merely the part of the USSR which bore the brunt of malnutrition and disease caused by war conditions.