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I've never understood the appeal of ferraris. I mean, they're nice looking, but they sound like ****. Give me a porsche any day of the week, the audio pron to go with the motor-wankery. Also, I agree with your priorities.

'xactly.

I get that when I'm in the shower. For some reason, the plumbing or something makes sounds like the door to my place is opening. It used to be a lot more fun when one of the possible results was a leggy brunette joining me, now it's just going to be the eastern block home invaders.

It's funny, I got the new kind of "artsy" flat aluminium almost laptop style Apple keyboards as a gift, and it's the first keyboard I've ever owned that doesn't give me repetitive stress pain in my thumb from the space bar action. While I realise I'm too verbose for my own good, it's still nice. Also using a logitech g1 or something. It's so worn I can no longer read the text in the bottom, it was the cheapest entry in their G series, but I've had it for more years than I can remember. 7? Just keeps working. :D

And Lexx never implied that his eventual purchase rested on that feature, either, so why the hell are you even saying that in the first place? Surely you are familiar with the concept of trolling? Slowtrain isn't trolling, he is genuinely unable to interpret comments concerning graphics as anything other than a claim that graphics are the most important and only thing that matters. He also has three nipples. Ah, social awkwardness on a gaming forum. Unfathomable!

Yeah, I think they said that it's the first Bio DLC with fully-voiced "teammates". Which was about time, some of the miming etc. in ME2 dlc was absolutely painful.

Clearly one of the finer things in life you've missed out on is going out with a chick more ripped than you. Mmm, general's daughter, too...

HAHAHHAHAHAH. (spontaneus reaction at considering 35 % tax rate "insane", especially with the arcane us tax deduction system).

Took me about three hours. I didn't do absolutely everything, since I missed out on one item from the armor set in the DLC, but I did get the achievement for completing all the side quests, so I guess I was pretty close. Felt like an appropriate length for the story, not rushed, nor artificially stretched out. Better than any of the DAO DLC (though awakening is close). The areas are all-new, by the way, also the end boss is pretty neat, both mechanically and if one is into the DA lore. Two thumbs up from me, but I doubt anyone on the fence around here is going to care about my opinion, anyway.

Source? Or, are we talking about the fact that since the top 5 % make more than the remaining 95 %, even with a regressive (in practice) tax rate, they still wind up paying more. Also, I can only speak about what the situation is here, in the old welfare state Europe, not in the U.S. *shrug* I really should have cut back on the daily dose of conspiracy theories before summarising fractional-reserve banking, but yes.

I do.

Aye, Deathtrack had better portraits, and it came out in 1989, with 4 guys on the team.

Are you sure about that? It is part of your main Google account, so if you've got a Gmail account for example you can access Plus. Google business and brand pages are being rolled out at the end of the month, and full integration with things like search will happen probably this year. It is already integrated with at least Google Translate, Google hosted news articles (e.g. Associated Press), and Gmail. You can imagine YouTube integration isn't far off. Frankly, can't remember the exact type of account it is, but it's an "organization account", so could be in the business pages. When my dad retired and had to drop his previous work e-mail, we got a domain for us and the e-mail etc. stuff via google apps. Works pretty well for <10 people.

It's the accepted SWPL reaction. Maybe joined by a big full-page news item about the lesbian couple who were helping survivors on the beach. Considering the rather recent Islamist bombing in Stockholm, Norway's presence in some of the NATO ops etc., it was a pretty decent theory, at least. Certainly when several jihadists claimed initially responsibility for the act, one can at least posit that it wasn't something they found contrary to their goals...

'cept that AFAIK, U.S. banks at least can operate a money multiplier, where they can lend money that is even more imaginary than normal, ie. they have to be able to cover only a fraction of the money they lend out. (when I did high school economics, I was told that only central banks can do this, but obviously my textbooks must have sucked). Problem is, letting said imaginary money presses go bankrupt is generally considered a bad idea (not least because they have a good lobby, they can afford to), their losses tend to get recouped from taxpayer money (they were in Finland in the early 90s, they are in the US etc. now). Who pays the biggest relative chunk of their income as taxes? Hint, it's not the uber rich, it's the middle class. That was the short version, without the michael moore hyperbole.

And Lexx never implied that his eventual purchase rested on that feature, either, so why the hell are you even saying that in the first place? Surely you are familiar with the concept of trolling?

They still don't work with google apps accounts, right?

Mmh. I worked at a district court about a 30-45 minute train trip from the capital. We had no guards, armed or otherwise, no metal detectors, nothing. There was kind of janitor guy who was supposed to make sure that people went into the right courtrooms when they were supposed to, when he wasn't fixing the lamps or stuff.* We had a flick switch that was supposed to bring the cops from the nearby station and 7 inches of steel in front of the desk, but little doubt that we'd all have been dead by the time someone arrived. *happily, he'd been doing the job for decades and had lived in the area for all of his ~65 years. He knew all the scumbags, their scumbag dads and often dirtbag granddads. In that way, he was very efficient at keeping the peace. Now that he's retired, there's no way I'd want to work there. I don't think the guards carry firearms in the larger courts, either. Certainly we have nothing like the bailiffs in U.S.A.

But a scientist said it, apparently. Do you think you're better than a scientist? The problem is scientists reach conflicting conclusions on the subject. IIRC there have been a number of studies on the subject of video game violence effect on children and most were poorly done and written with an agenda. Just like with any controversial social issue the only thing science shows is that researchers themselves are biased and will purse conclusion their employer expects. While this is a fascinating tangent, the guy had been planning it for ~9 years, he bought a farm so he could get the fertiliser for the ANFO etc., so unless we're gonna go with duke 3d and the building explosions in there, could we get back to the gaming news? Like that DA2 Legacy DLC releases tomorrow. And wow, that's about it. Did we talk about the Golden Eye rework also getting x360 and PS3 releases already?

This is something that came up after our school shootings here a couple of years back. Instead of using even a local tactically equipped and trained "demanding situations" team, at least in the first case, they were waiting for the elite Helsinki PD unit (which, admittedly, had been training nearby and was available at an exceptionally short notice). I think the RoE was changed after, just like it was changed after Columbine in the U.S., so that basically the first support-weapon equipped patrol on scene will go in. Not sure of course, besides as police tactics it's probably classified, anyway.

Yes, somebody blew up a building in DA2, with magic. Yet instead of "magic", that guy used a car bomb, like has been done thousands of times in the real life. Wait, maybe he did use magic, he'd been planning this from before DA2 came out, so he probably time-travelled into the future to get inspiration.

Boy you got me, Volo. I didn't think my grandmother was bigoted because she talked about how evil Jews were. I thought my grandmother was bigoted simply because she said she wasn't. Isn't that a "hypocrit"? The powers that be knows I'm a bigot. I only deny it in cases where I'm unaware of my bigotry, not because I don't want to acknowledge my bigotry "hypocrite"... I think hypocrit is mmo slang for a max 2x critical. That was a joke.

Yeah, I noticed that too. Most of the really stupid/repeated questions were on twitter, though...

Of course, if they fail to find that right person, they are liable to "go Oslo".