Zoraptor

Proper STV is a great system, us going for mixed member proportional instead when we switched from first past the post was a horrible decision.

I'd suspect there are tax breaks involved, but then I'm pretty cynical.

It's the first time ever it's been all southern hemisphere. Probably shouldn't have been given the admission that the final penalty in the Aus v Scotland game was incorrectly awarded but results are results. Shame really, an Argentina/ Scotland semi would have been a pretty cool result.

"Boring to who [sic]. Our personal opinions are irrelevant."-- Volourn; Avellone working on DivOS2 thread 3 Oct 2015, Obsidian forums Computer & Console subforum. This quote is going to get some usage, I think.

At least Christiansen was less annoying than Jake Lloyd as Anakin. Really though, Sir Laurence Olivier couldn't have spun silk out of the pig's ear prequel dialogue, that and the 'faster, more intense' direction is on Lucas. McGregor and McDiarmid managed to do well despite the material, albeit in McDiarmid's case by playing the panto villain and alternately mugging the audience/ chewing the scenery but Portman, who is a pretty good actor in other things had similar problems to Christiansen in the prequels. As for the trailer, well, it's Star Wars and I have to admit it makes older me feel like I'm ten again so mission accomplished there.

Heh, we've only lost one final, in 1995- in the other ones we didn't even make the final to choke there. Ironically the French are probably the biggest final chokers since they've lost three and won none. Doesn't look like we'll choke this time but then again it didn't look like we would in 1999 either. Bit of a shame for Wales in the first match, especially given their injuries and that they were leading with only five minutes to go.

You'd be best waiting for a discount probably, and unless you're desperate for a game to play. If you didn't like the demo that is usually a good indication. The story does get 'better' the more you play, but the graphics won't and in order for the story to get better you have to want to play; if you don't it won't.

Australia should beat Scotland handily, though Aus weren't exactly stellar against the patched together Welsh and the Scots are one of the few teams actually playing near their potential. RSA should beat Wales as well, would be near 50/50 or slightly to Wales if Wales weren't so badly effected by injury, but they are and in crucial positions. Wouldn't be surprised if Argentina upset Ireland though Ireland would be favourites, Argentina are limited in attack but they also have few weaknesses. ABs should beat France though neither team in that match up has been playing well lately. It's a worse French team than in either 1999 or 2007, but they've got a pretty good chance if the ABs keep playing like they've stuck in 2nd gear for 60 minutes a game, keep dropping the ball and giving away idiotic penalties and yellow cards from players who should know better like Read and McCaw.

Civilisation and Europa Universalis were both originally board games, and fairly well known. It's McIntosh anyway, he'll be hyperbolising same as always.

Various Zidane headbutt gifs were classic- the Mortal Kombat one and the death star destruction ones I remember in particular. I suspect there isn't a person who has played Italy who hasn't wanted to flatten one of the Italians in similar style (and what style) at some point during the match.

Slight over exaggeration, and slight overestimation of how much thought most people actually put into the internet. You get that sort of thing for sports stars getting injured, people actually dying and all sorts in between; doesn't mean they're Iosef Dugashvili reborn it just means that they're a muppet. The internet warrior of 2015 would soil themselves repeatedly and hide under the bed for days if they got the slightest inkling of actual Civil War Russia.

Nah, 99% of the time I just ignore you, so the last thing I'm going to do is trawl through pages of you following Sensuki around from thread to thread or whatever. Much as 99% of the time if there's a game I don't like I ignore it rather than wandering in to (not so) randomly diss it. Just thought people who weren't aware of your background and chip on shoulder with respect to the Codex/ VD etc needed to know where you were coming from.

Would anyone really be interested in criticism of other countries though? I do it a fair bit on here but I don't imagine that people really care much about New Zealand's internal or external policies because we're simply too small, not something you can really accuse the US of being. Fair suck of the sav, cobber, you've got a bonza little country over there and that's fair dinkum.

That rather depends though, if they were planning on selling T shirts or other merchandise with 'Diesel Stormers' on it then it would (or could for general merchandise) be a legit challenge from Diesel. The bigger issue is giving too broad context trademark protection to common words- as with 'Scrolls' or 'Saga'; albeit the 2nd seems to have failed, no more hail to the King Inc if you want to use it- in the first place.

I'd say that if there is one thing kickstarter has shown it's that there is room for a lot of small scale RPGs, it's not like the funding for DivOS(s)/ InXileRPG(s)/ POE or smaller scale stuff like SitS/ LoX means that there's no money to buy AoD, quite the opposite. They aren't really in competition when there's still one release every two months on average, indeed that may well encourage more buyers by getting more traction for the genre overall than the times when you might be lucky to get one RPG release every six months. And of those RPGs listed probably only SitS is in genuine competition with AoD which no one expects to sell even on the WL2/ PoE scale let alone the DivOS one. When it comes to RPGs the Codex is pretty hipsterish, big scandal when they voted DAO as RPG of the year and much navel gazing reflection. They all play Skyrim seven times while feeling dirty about it and claiming to do so only so that they know the enemy and most own consoles too. They're basically a boycott CoD steam group, though entertaining enough. Oh, and Gromnir hates them and has Pavlovian response to anything associated with them. Given Vault Dweller's long time association there it's no surprise he's in here saying how much he hated AoD, it would be a surprise if he weren't.

It went yesterday, sorry. Should really have edited the post to show that but I forgot the grace period for editing had been extended.

With Hillary I cannot shake the feeling that if someone were to write a politician AI it would look a lot like her. Everything seems to be politically calculated, tailored and vetted. It was probably the same with Bill too in practice, but Hillary lacks the charm and skill in delivery that he had. That was evident last time she ran as well, Obama isn't actually the best speech writer nor maker nor is he a particularly good off the cuff orator but he had the big advantage of not sounding as if some PR agent was using him as a ventriloquist's dummy most of the time.

So do american cars in some cases, eg Ford Cortinas had various mark numbers. Though I think they were 'export' rather than domestic US. I can forgive saying em-kay for mark if it's written as MK rather than (the correct) Mk, especially since- per Tale- there is the very well known Avtomat Kalashnikova. But one thing I shall never, ever, forgive is the incorrect substitution of clip for magazine. Consider me, uh, triggered. In other news Age of Decadence is releasing today, and it isn't Thursday.

I've got a copy of Wasteland 2* to give away and since the DC is out now seems a good time, steam (blech) or gog key from the Bard's Tale kickstarter bonus. PM if interested, standard restrictions (eg no new/ single purpose accounts) apply, first come first serve. *Can alternatively be a Witcher or Witcher 2 key but I presume everyone has them already and they would be GOG only.

Especially since British jets aren't even supposed to be/ legally allowed to be flying in Syria after their- rather well publicised- parliamentary vote not to allow it during the 'red line' débâcle, that really should have been an indicator that the Sunday Times report was a load of old bollocks no matter how 'respected' (L0LMurdochLies) the Sunday Times theoretically is. Pretty par for the course though, the quality of reporting on Syria is almost uniformly abysmal, despite Lavrov et alia saying that they would bomb all 'terrorists' just about everyone is still saying that Russia claims to be only attacking ISIS.

The download for a new install is 20GB on Galaxy, so it isn't downloading quite everything. Doesn't exactly encourage Galaxy's use when the non Galaxy download is which is a third the Galaxy size. The engine upgrade to Unity 5 is why the size is smaller.

Nationalist rebels are random, they require a rebel stack to be spawned with the right ethnicity and to capture a province- which adds the core, CAT for Catalunya in this case- and to hold it for an extended period. Practically I'm not sure I've ever seen a Catalunya form because Spain and Aragon gets Catalan as a primary culture/ they're in the same culture group which means there is no baseline chance of nationalist rebels. Other nationalities are fairly likely though. You can quite easily mod the game to make a particular country either be available from the the start or more likely to form by adding cores to its potential lands such as Barcelona from the get go, that just involves altering the province data in the ..\history\province folder, in that case you would add a 'add_core = CAT' line to start Barcelona with a Catalan core.

That's a bit harsh, whatever the result you'll still be Olympic Rugby Champions and likely to be the longest reigning Olympic champions of all time. Ireland beating France sets up a bit of a giggle; 2007 ABs v France in Cardiff where we lost and now we get ABs v France in Cardiff for another quarter final. I'm going to laugh if we lose again the same way, the butthurt last time was monumental.

They haven't got a chance of taking it off Russia, there wasn't enough time six months ago and there isn't enough time now. There won't be any open and frank examination of the bidding processes because Europe used exactly the same tactics to diddle RSA out in favour of Germany in 2006. Plus, while there's general political butthurt about Russia there aren't knives out football wise, Qatar on the other hand has caused some of the most spectacular butthurt ever seen. Though not without reason. I have to admit being highly amused by the former England FA boss they had on the BBC who was talking about how open and transparent UEFA- so transparent they act like their leader will inevitably be acquitted of his corruption accusations- and European administration was and how everyone else had to reform, so a nice 'non corrupt' administration should be appointed. Presumably from those nice, non corrupt Europeans... That's the wrong way around, USA bid for the Qatar won cup (came 2nd so would have the best claim if the bids were not rerun); the Russia accusation was that England- who came stone cold last in the 2016 bidding process behind two other Euro bids as well as Russia- was using the accusations to try and steal the cup from Russia. Given England's born to the purple attitude being awarded the cup hosting rights by fiat is probably the only way England will ever get it. I don't doubt they'd like to, personally, but Spain/ Portugal and the Low Countries bids got more votes, there isn't enough time to deal with the inevitable investigation let alone any following litigation if they try to and at its heart near nobody apart from England really wants England to host. Plus, there's no doubt at all that Blatter actually is corrupt, there's no need for a conspiracy theory to explain his downfall and if the main reason was to flip won bids doing it earlier would have been better. I will say this for Blatter though, on his watch they had the first two Asian, first African and first East European world cup allocations, prior to him Western Europe had more than 50% of cups- on his watch only one was awarded there. We even got 3 (!) age group world cups here in New Zealand over his tenure. It's not hard to see why Europeans hate him but most of the other confeds like him.

Glad Platini got banned as well. Gutless wonder wouldn't even stand until he was sure he'd win and left Prince Hussein to take the bullet in the last election. Plus of course anyone who knows much at all about European football knows that they aren't exactly squeaky clean when it comes to corruption despite their protestations.