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Because I agree with the people who say that it cheapens the product, just participating in this forum has been enough to convince me of it.

Or just skip straight to aluminium foil.

I don't know? Where I live, the assumption would be that any citizen would let the police use their house, and if the citizen would disagree, that the police could politely do as they wanted anyway, of course recompensating for any inconvenience. Additionally, most people would rather go to the police than be bullied by any criminal. It's hard and/or pointless to threaten people if you know the stakes are against you, and we can only make this so by acting collectively in support of the law enforcement. I don't think you've actually had to deal with any "real" criminals in your time. In a fundamentally safe, liberal society like the nordic countries individual criminals and troublemakers can get away with a lot more than they would in a more repressed society. Truely, whoever wrote Ra's al Ghul's line ("Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding.") in Batman Begins was right on the money. I have to deal with the "dark side of the welfare state" on a daily basis. I wouldv'e acted as the plaintiffs did in this case. (including probably calling my mother when police start to force their way into my apartment :D)

Which Finnish police are we talking here, I seem to have missed something? Finnish police have 9mm pistols, CS spray, nightsticks/telescopic batons, most patrols also have tazers and or SMGs, some patrol units will have further specialist gear due to local/national SWAT teams spending a part of their duty time on regular patrols. But generally a skilled person can use a baton so that it causes maximal short-term discomfort with no long term harm. For example, naked people are almost impossible to subdue using lighter tactics simply because you just can't get a hold of them. I suggest you try this with a willing partner, it can be quite fun to try when your life isn't on the line. So, what were we talking about so that I can comment the individual case?

It's not just the superiority of PC as a platform, it's that PC is a more progressive market, especially with the onset of digital distribution, something consoles have been woefully slow to embrace. Everyone, from developers to customers, have more options on PC. It's the console business models that are outdated, out moded, and not really good for the industry as a whole. Outmoded maybe, but I have serious doubts that the current freemium/steam sale trends are actually good for the industry in any sense.

Or just facepalming really hard, like me.

Sure, but often updating the wording just not viable for one reason or another, often because somebody would try to sneak something in that the others wouldn't want etc. Sometimes you just have to live with really old rules and deal with problems like these. There's no date of expiry on laws. And a good thing, remember the fiscal cliff?

Mmh, we've got some laws going back to 1734 in Finland, so we occasionally have to deal with these issues. You'd have to look at the purpose more than a dictionary definition. In this case, I'd say it would boil down to whether there would be the need for such a protection in general (us courts would probably say yes) and whether the police are sufficiently similar to soldiers/militia/etc. I could argue it both ways, but the fact that there were no police at the time wouldn't automatically put them outside the scope.

Even the story you link to says it prohibits the quartering of soldiers. When the Third Amendment was written the quartering of troops among civilians was a serious problem. Troops were frequently convicts, in ill health, drunk, rapacious etc etc. They might end up living with you years. Having one suddenly dropped on you was a cause for unrest and so forth. Hence it seems the constitution took care to allay fears about it. However, at the time of the amendment Robert Peel - inventor of the the entire concept of police - hadn't even been born. To the best of my knowledge the only paid permanent officers of the peace in the World were the Bow Street Runners. And there were only six of them. So I find it exceptionally hard to believe the constitution was talking about police. I presume you know the story about the boy crying wolf? Frankly, I think your argument speaks more for including the popos under the heading of soldiers in this case than against it.

Shh, let's keep my secret secret.

I'm not sure how "uncluttered" and that technicolor vomit of little boxes have to do with one another. Admittedly it's a bit less that in it's computer incarnation, every time I see a windows 8 phone I'm utterly mystified by how anyone could think that messy mosaic is a good idea.

Had my starting at work medical today (just ~4 months late). It was... surprisingly enjoyable, I've now added tattooed nurses to my earlier list of tattooed lawyers and economists as females of particular interest.

Alan, can you tell us is this true or fake? Judging that Chris himself answered at that twit it looks like it's true after all but better be sure. Lateral move within EA?

Most criminal attorneys strive to have an excellent working relationship with the police... because when someone demands a lawyer, it's often up to the police to find one for them unless they are "old hands" and already have a regular one. Also, you can generally safely consider yourself to be in the top firm in the county when they turn to you with their own legal problems.

I'll link another personal favourite from earlier this year, mostly because of the perfect swan dive I managed to execute to evade that Audi a bit higher up on that pedestrian street http://www.hs.fi/videot/Pelti+rytisi+hurjan+takaa-ajon+p%C3%A4%C3%A4tteeksi+-+tallentui+videolle/v1305659898942 Admittedly, the busker adds quite a bit to it.

I prefer shipped products over canceled ones, I can think of some products that I would rather of seen canceled, than released. Most of the time it's easier to just not buy those products, who are we to deny masochists their fun?

Finland, our Popos can keep their cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs_KvzSjXhk

I prefer shipped products over canceled ones, but since this is the Obsidian forum, I understand how people here might not agree with me.

Because they had a planned budget for a $ 400 000 experimental project, which was as much about how they make the game as it was about the game itself.

I did ask for some shooters, but honestly had something more along the lines of Jägermeister in mind.

That's the American interpretation. I would have described the American system as two intractable lines of blindfolded pikemen stabbing each other very slowly, while trampling a lot of people who are pretending not to notice while discussing celebrities. Rather than mobs of goons. As my learned friend has yet again demonstrated, sniping is more effective than drive-by shooting.

That's the American interpretation.

I'd say more than a bit, that kickstarter ended less than week ago.

I'm not, obviously the first time something's being attempted will make it more prone to error than subsequent ones. I have a lot more faith in, say, Project Eternity because they approached it as something that's definitely viable and could adjust their pre-kickstarted planning stage in such a way (as opposed to, "hey, let's give kickstarter a shot!"). Same with Larry and Shadowgate.

Having a high-efficiency day, getting all sorts of stuff done that's been left undone for weeks. Of course, turns out the reason I haven't done any of these is because they aren't billable, so I'm now sweating for nothing. Oh, well. I'm sure it'll pass soon.