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It was also the Iraqi's decision not to renew the status of forces agreement, and the Iraqi's choice whether US troops stayed or not. If Obama tried to keep troops there- against the wishes of the Iraqi government- it could hardly be an improvement over the current situation, certainly not so as far as the US is concerned. Which really illustrates how easy it is to pot shot Obama using hindsight. It was the right decision for the US to leave Iraq and the only realistic option, indeed it was the right option not to bomb Syria. Obama just ended up looking spineless and weak for doing both things, but that was far better than the alternative 'strong, but stupid' from a McCain or Bush.

I wonder if it's to do with Valve's DLC policy that also got EA games removed. I haven't heard anything about the policy changing, and Ubisoft didn't fall foul of it as EA did since you could buy their dlc on steam as well as via uplay- though the current situation is exactly equivalent to EA, you can buy them just about anywhere DD that isn't steam (eg the Gamersgate and even Origin versions of Ubisoft games are still there, as you can buy EA games on Uplay and Gamersgate). Can only presume at this point that they have genuinely pulled them or decided that the dlc policy is just too restrictive. Avoiding the 30% cut on most sales has to be a consideration too, especially as EA's digital revenues have increased massively over the past few years despite the supposed hatred for Origin. And there are rumours of others doing much the same- WB most persistently, but also Rockstar with RSC. I'm actually a bit surprised that the latest CoD is still steamed, since I'd heard that one of Ghosts' services from the console versions got scuppered on PC due to Valve's TOS (CoD: Elite? Big IIRC on that though)

Ubisoft have pulled their upcoming games from steam. Surprised they've kept them there this long, really.

(Classic Alternative: But thou must!)

McCain went bonkers after Rove did his kneecaps in 2000, before that he was relatively sane. You never really know whether politicians actually believe what they're spouting or are just saying it for effect, in McCain's case safe in the knowledge that having lost in 2008 he doesn't have the power to implement them anyway and trying to establish an alternative narrative where Pres McCain would have avoided all the pitfalls Pres BHO fell into.

I feel rather sorry for her, to be honest. Just doesn't seem to be either very happy or successful, and that seems to have gone back a fair way. Easy to play amateur psychoanalyst with someone who you disagree with though.

This is wrong as well, he would have attacked after the 'red line' was crossed whatever the UN said- after all, Russia and China weren't going to allow anything authorising force through the UNSC- but couldn't muster the support needed from allies or US politicians. Then he had to be bailed out of the mess/ was out manouevred by the Russians which was deeply embarrassing. And that pretty much encapsulated Obama's problem, it's now apparent from many events that he has no real spine. It's a different problem from GWBush's consistent poor judgement- and rather less serious in its practical effects for the US- but no less fatal for a politician.

Plus Blaise C was spirited out of Burkina Faso on a French helicopter, and had extensive support from the french over the years. Certainly a bad example.

Why don't they just include them in the base game? Why are they chopping bits out to then just give them away? Typical CDPR. At least when other companies do it has the purpose of making money, CDPR cuts bit out just to get good PR. And their continuous patching and support, horrendous, all just so they can sell the enhanced edition, super enhanced edition, ultimate edition and really ultimate edition later, and it shows they didn't test thr original game properly as well yet people lap it up. Why do people fall for their nonsense?

The Chinese are hardly benign philanthropists but at least they are giving something back in terms of infrastructure. They're far better than that bunch of hypocritical holier than thou carpet baggers from the Old World. And going back to the original topic for a second, we tried the catcall video here to somewhat different results.

I won't be playing on release, still haven't got around to ordering a new computer and won't prior to Christmas. It's not so much the ordering which would take ten minutes but the price/ performance research that will stop me. Strangely enough, the only part of my 8 year old current PC that is below min spec is the CPU.

http://www.gamesradar.com/ask-gr-anything-how-much-do-game-journalists-earn/ Keep in mind it is dated 2011 though. It should also be borne in mind that some major players employ unpaid interns to do a lot of work, indeed Gawker (and hence Kotaku) is currently being sued for 'mislabelling' employees as interns and not paying them properly. On the matter of what reviewers should and should not take into account when reviewing it is very much a question of what I can only really call 'declaration of interests'. Explicit interest sites can mark on 'ideological safety' whether they be SJW, Christian, Muslim, Communist or whatever. You don't go to a Christian gaming site without expecting Christianity to be a factor, that's not reasonable- and if you do then that's your problem, not theirs. If you're a general interest site you should not mark on ideology unless you have specifically said that you do so. That's not to say that it can not be mentioned, but if the outside, external interests of the reviewer are given undue weight the review cannot be good. Judging on gameplay, graphics and the like are inherently necessary to the process of reviewing, and you have to assume that your views are legitimate when writing or you wouldn't write one at all. OTOH, external ideology is not inherently necessary, you don't have to assume your views are legitimate and necessary in that case. The example I'd give is something like ME2, I thought some of the poses and camera angles on Miranda were pretty cringe inducing. Mark it down for it? Nah. Same as I wouldn't mark it down for being made by Bioware or EA- or more accurately since I have nothing particularly against Bioware/ EA, mark Fallout 4 down for being made by Bethesda. That's all external from the game itself and just me pushing my own agenda which others reading the review may well not share. If I'm pushing any other agenda than whether my readers will like it I'm not doing a good review. (I have rather more tolerance for activist reviews when they aren't actually labelled as reviews, such as the 'Wot I Thinks' that RPS do and do not give scores as they are not reviews per se, but are explicitly what the person thinks- and can not be metacriticed either)

Oh no, and then it is even the weakest Fallout game. Well, if you rule out Fo3 that is. Herve Caen is pleased you liked FOBOS more than FOT and FO3.

Volo's being Volo more in the gaming journalism/ harassment thread, mispelling Awesome Protocol is pretty minor on the Volo scale.

Don't think there was any legal action though I'm not certain, a quick search suggests not. HH had no money to spare (which is one of the complaints about constructive bankrupting, the victim pretty much by definition has no money to make legal complaints with) and Bethesda... well, it's probably telling that despite HH refusing to work and seemingly quite clearly breaching contract by working on other titles there was no legal action from them despite their reputation for litigiousness. (Or in other words it ended with both sides walking away from the contract, the work reverted to Beth and HH had no further obligation to them)

Maybe, that was the game where the developer claimed that Bethesda were deliberately trying to bankrupt them by arbitrarily failing milestones and not paying them so as to buy them out cheaply, so there were definitely two sides to that story.

Same happened to me as well with full upgrades and loyal companions, castle or town could be saved but not both, I just put it down to only one place per game being saveable to promote replays.

Being called a moran is a mark of respect, and means that you're an online pal, better than a mere acquaintance though not close enough to be invited to a wedding.

That's the top comment on the video, written by him. He's implying the Utah threat was by someone out of country, something he could not know unless it was him. That the threat came from out of the country was very strongly suspected since it was made, as was that that was the reason it was not taken seriously by the University. His english ain't good enough to determine what he means at all, his pronouns, tenses etc are all over the place.

They rallied around him when VD banned him. He also has a unique special tag which he doesn't have here, and everyone knows unique tags at the codex are a sign of respect.

Unconfirmed list of LA releases for tomorrow. Can't be confirmed absolutely at this point but certainly looks legit. KOTOR (1) Tie Fighter XWing Sam and Max Hit the Road Indiana Jones Atlantis Secret of Monkey Island

While it has been pointed out by others, to illustrate... "Instead of being heckled by Tea Baggers and Conservatards, politicians would be heckled by voters" There's no implication of excluding LA majors or whatever, just of preventing them from setting the narrative and rules solely according to their own desires and wishes. And, perhaps, a certain amount of disdain for those who would use the cause of 'freedom' as an excuse to stifle debate and enforce their world view.

There are a lot of safeguards and precautions required when slaughtering meat legitimately, it isn't just that it is old, worthless hence very cheap horses being slaughtered and labelled as beef- that is after all what happens to the equivalent boner cows once their time dairying is up- it's also that if they are killed for mislabelling purposes they are often killed in circumstances where few of the hygiene etc costs associated with legitimate slaughter are present. After all, you're breaking laws and regulations by mislabelling anyway, so why abide by hygiene regs as well? So you have a cheaper meat usually used for petfood (or glue) being prepared more cheaply and then sold as a more expensive product, if you can sell at $2 premium you make several hundred extra dollars per carcass. Particularly in Eastern Europe horses are still used quite a lot in agriculture, so there are more available for slaughter than here or in the US.

Not really. Even if you're pro-gamergate you could get the rape/death threats, and doxxed. It seems being a public figure in this issue at all can get you doxxed/threatened. Most of the trolls are third party and simply have nothing to do with either side. It's a joke article, from an offshoot of The Onion.

Not necessarily. There's nothing precluding lots of pesticide use, you're just limited in the pesticides that can be used. Garlic sprays, plant oils (neem etc), derris, pyrethrum, btk (Bacillus thuringiensis var Karstaki) and copper sprays are all available. They all except copper have the advantage- from the consumer pov- of being non persistent, short lived and non toxic, withholding period on pyrethrum for example is 1 day which for some non organic pesticides it can be up to a month. And that's why one of the big complaints about GMOs is that when they create insect resistant plant strains that manufacture things like the cry proteins from btk they are giving a purely short term advantage, like engineering penicillin production into chickens or pigs would be it's only useful until resistance develops- at which point both the new strains and the original chemical are redundant.