Zoraptor

'Troll' is a hopelessly ill defined group, are we going for subjectively judged trolls or self confessed ones- in which case, lol, self confessed psychopaths/ narcissists. And in the other, might as well write a paper saying that, I dunno, gamergate people/ sjws are psychopathic narcissist machiavellian sadists, because they consider each other trolls; and you can find some people in each group who clearly do exhibit those same traits.

Canadian thanksgiving celebrates the time the US invaded Canada while Britain was fighting most of Napoleon's conquered Europe alone, then got the White House and Washington torched for their cheek. Still, at least you guys got the most hard to sing national anthem in the world out of it.

Yep my bad, March was when it was acknowledged but it did actually start in December.

(Slow) exponential growth is a concern for Africa, but not for western countries. See the 15 week span for a (airborne transmission) flu pandemic, this Ebola outbreak has been going since March so is already twice as long as that projection and has infected 'only' thousands despite the poor healthcare in the effected countries. Having a slow transmission rate it is very susceptible to plain old quarantine, you are not going to get thousands infected as a single flu patient zero could easily do.

Jericho is good, though the abbreviated second season was a solid step down in quality. Survivors (which I'm pretty sure Monte linked to the original iteration of, given the Terry Nation ref) was very good as well. Second season of Revolution was actually pretty decent as well, though the first season, especially the first part, was not great at all. I'd tend to put TWD (which I like, a bit despite myself. The story flip flops too often but the set pieces and atmosphere is probably the best of anything current) or Falling Skies (don't like it much, can't really explain why) into different criteria though, as they have primarily zombies and aliens as threats rather than the environment/ humans. Which is a bit inconsistent, as I'd definitely put Fallout into the post apoc box despite the super mutants...

'Experts' haven't had a great record with the previous scares. There certainly will be another Spanish Flu type event at some stage, and even another Black Death is probably inevitable long term as well, especially if we keep on abusing antibiotics ridiculously. Ebola, as it stands, simply isn't infective enough to be either though. You still have a miniscule proportion of the population in west Africa infected even though they have very poor health care systems and Ebola has been present for months, a few thousand deaths in an area with 100s of millions of population is not going to destroy civilisation, western or otherwise. There are three reasons why you end up with hysteria, it is in some people's best interests, bad news gets reported so you tend to hear from experts with strongly negative views rather than those who are more measured, and there is the potential for a genuine game changing epidemic from something which kills around half of those infected and for which there is no confirmed effective and no mass producible cure. The last two are strongly related, if you have someone say that there is little cause for concern at present, but there will be if Ebola goes airborne it tends to be the last bit rather than the first that gets the major coverage and attention.

Haven't heard that they are, but there is at least somewhat of a tradition of it- the Hashashim and Sudan's Whirling Dervishes were pretty famously off their trollies most of the time. And there are allegations that a lot of suicide bombers are doped up as well.

Shot full of arrows, fell off tall building, hit dumpster on way down, hit concrete at bottom. Guess that's one way of trying to avoid the comic book 'nobody is really dead' cliché, though it approached South Parkesque parody in execution.

I'll admit it's actually one of the smallest problems I had with DXIW, as I see what they were going for and why they took that route, and actually have sympathy for them trying as well.

Dell owns Alienware, actually. But I would imagine it just depends on what you buy from them. Yep, they make overpriced pieces of **** as well as run of the mill pieces of ****. (University I worked at used Dell, and they were OK. Apart from the laptop whose battery caught fire, motherboard warped and HD failed all within six months)

As long as they don't go the Deus Ex: Invisible War route and try to cover every option for end game choice despite them being mutually exclusive I'll be right with whichever ending they pick. I'll probably pick up ME4 at some point, assuming it isn't MP only or something silly, but there's just too little information to really know when and for how much.

Pretty sure that the canon (or 'canon', now) is that both Handmaiden and Disciple were present with (female) Exile in any case. I'd go for that fine fellow HK47 on the romance front, has the most game friendly philosophical take on it plus takes the mick out of both Carth and Bastila romances. And I didn't even like him much in K2.

My big issue with ME2's combat was that near everything felt plink-plink, not just biotics. And as such playing on higher difficulties was not actually more difficult, it just meant that everything took a lot longer and was a lot more boring. I actually quite liked ME1's overheating mechanic.

Who would have thought Al- Baghdadi was a fan of Crusader Kings Jihad Emirs 2? He's done quite well with 12 Emir level titles, more than enough to claim Caliph. Bet it's not an ironman game and he's been abusing save/ reload though, understandable as those F18s from the Sunset Invasion dlc are totally OP and need nerfing, typical Paradox with their balance failure.

They should have made Revan a woman rather than The Exile. Works better, and would have the added bonus of making all those 14 year old Revan/ Bastila fans cry bitter tears.

Yeah, I got three copies of Jack Keane. Actually I did get some completely random indie game I'd never heard of last time they did something similar.

A serious analysis, well OK. 1) None of the Mass Effects are 'proper' RPGs. The character development part was always very very RPG lite. I find little reason to care if what was always primarily a shooter with upgradeable powers remains that way. 1a) Even the conversation based system was never more than RPG lite. There were plenty of forced decisions and 'fake choices' in every game. 1b) The minigames for hacking and the like were, like most minigames, pointless whether it be frogger equivalents or code matching. Don't care when they were there, don't care when they (and associated skills) were removed 2) Bell curve story is accurate. Like most games the end is poor, like many games the beginning is too. 2a) The really bad parts: Deus Ex Machina, Kai ****, Matrix 2 style 'end boss'. 2b) The good parts: Tuchanka, Rannoch in particular. Notably, both were built up very well over all three games of the series 2c) ME2 is to blame for many of ME3's story problems, it didn't do its job as part of a coherent narrative 3) I liked a lot of the misc changes 3a) Can't say I like the change to exploration exactly, but then exploration in ME1 was terrible, and in ME2 boring and repetitive- so ME3's was an improvement. 3b) I did like the incidental overheard missions. 3c) Allers was dumb, Vega was there so new players could get information on prior events since he wasn't there either 3d) Once they changed the requirements I couldn't care less about the MP hooks. 3e) Don't have any more problem with day 1 dlc than with any other, but Javik should not have been dlc, from a story perspective. Overall I'd still rate ME3 highest of the three games. It had the best combat overall which has always been the meat of ME, whatever anyone says. Its story shone when it had been built up properly by the prior titles, but stank when it was newly introduced stuff or retcons. The end was rubbish, but then the ends of both previous games (and most games in general) were hardly stellar either. Mainly though, I've never been a particularly big ME fan and didn't have massive expectations going in.

Their breath weapon is limited to 3/day. (Not actually sure if even the IE games implemented that rule...)

Third Mass Effect is best Mass Effect. Deal with it, h8rs.

Evidence suggests he'll actually go "A+++++ troll. Would read again. Bye". Which at least isn't more sexist than the preceding paternalism was. Unconvinced of that, they appear to be perfectly capable of simply deciding that anyone who disagrees with them must be misguided, malign or misogynist and they certainly do stick to their guns, much as I sometimes wish they wouldn't. Many responses show no worry at all about what people think of them because they're already convinced they're right and those who disagree can safely be disregarded as being wrong. If you're comparing #GG people to ISIS you're not really worried about what people think of you, if you were you'd realise how ludicrous they'd find the comparison- even if it were intended as a joke. That's one of the reasons I compare the typical sjw types to a cult, they aren't even really concerned with what people/ gamers in general think of them but are far more concerned with adhering to their particular dogma and being accepted by their own group. Not a problem unique to sjws though, of course.

Dunno if this dude's a troll, I've seen plenty of people quite seriously espouse hardline Randian/ libertarian ideals without any trolling intent. Completely agree with Monte though, one thing that unifies any and all extreme ideologies is their tendency to implode under their own contradictions when put into 'practice'. But, if all this forum's 'trolls' were the same person I'd seriously suspect that it was Ken Levine trying to get inspiration for the antagonist in his next game. Libertarian, Commie, SJW (OK, technically Jordan Thomas for that one), Nationalist, we just need the Constantine/ Anarchist archetype to complete the set.

Really? I know oby manages to effortlessly troll people (god knows why and how at this point), but do we really want to do that sort of thing, since nobody is going to look good there. What with the Abu Ghraib style "let's photograph ourselves building nudie prisoner pyramids/ urinating on corpses etc etc, what can go wrong?", accusations that Ferguson PD are better protected and armed than units that were in Iraq, complaints about British soldiers having to buy their own bullet proof vests etc etc. Even our own modest little armed forces manages to embarrass itself by having leaked combat and post combat footage that makes them look like a bunch of headless chooks or getting convicted, in court, for sending un(der)qualified pilots out in helicopters they then crashed.

What you need is a good delineation between contracts and projects, which unfortunately nobody really does even when they should. A contract may involve multiple projects, the projects are specific, er, projects or operations like drill long X lat Y; drill long X' lat Y'. Trouble is that people use 'project' interchangeably for both the overall contractual obligations/ operations and for each individual component. And everyone has already admitted that there's one+ projects still ongoing after the cut off date, so disputation there is moot. That Rosneft considers the contract with Exxon still active is primarily relevant to the initial correction I was giving oby, but it has added significance in that any alternative contracts that Rosneft may sign have to take Exxon's stake into account and the find remains a bottom line asset for Exxon- both of which are also 'practical matters', just practical matters that aren't supportive of whatever point it is you're trying to make. So really, you're extending a lot of effort to not actually disagree with me.

Iraq has said multiple times it will not invite US troops (the 'advisers' that are there already notwithstanding) anyway, so the question of boots on ground is moot for Iraq.

Guy on the left looks more Siegfried to me. Don't think that Mr Priestly being at CDProjekt should make any difference (unless it was Jason Priestly and they were going for a 90210 game) as it would not have been him setting the moderation policy at Bioware anyway, he'd just have been enforcing it. Not like the atmosphere over at BSN has changed significantly since Priestly left- not that I really know, I only check it out occasionally. For scientific and research purposes only of course, as a strict policy.