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I'd not be surprised in the least if it becomes an optional paperweight. It's a very good way to make up the price difference between it and the PS4, and they've already gone some way towards making up the performance difference. I just don't see MS caring that much about people thinking they're spying, whereas being able to reduce the price of their console to a more affordable level and having another peripheral to sell, that I can see. Kind of depends on how the Kinect is connected kinected to the main console as to whether that is practical, of course.

Disestablish the military and reestablish states' militias; then people could properly bear arms as part of a well regulated militia and hono(u)r the constitution. Might actually be an interesting (if unrealistic and almost certainly unworkable) idea. The only realistic defence against the military has ever been having them well connected, grounded and integrated into civil society, so that if given an illegal order they'll disobey it. And that requires being under the control of the civilian government, anything else is a recipe for military dictatorship.

I'd be very surprised if they weren't storing pretty much everything text based- text is small, easy to search and easy to store; and easy to remove duplicates so no need to store the million Nigerian Money Scam and other spam that could gum the system up. It's a byte per letter, plus some for the headers without any compression at all. Images and audio, especially on the fly stuff, would be far more difficult as the sizes required are more massive and it's far more difficult to search effectively. Would it? They've already shown that they are willing to monitor journalists in a way Woodward and Bernstein never had to worry about, and the response to exposure has been, basically, to label those doing the exposing as criminals and traitors. Certainly, they can get a lot of useful information out of their monitoring system if they ever need leverage, because whatever anyone says people always have something to hide whether it be skiving off to go skiing, smoking a joint, having an affair or lying on the tax return about that hotel stay being business related rather than a holiday. Mostly though, it will be used to enforce ideological purity and to make sure that employees can be relied on to toe the party line much- as attempts on such systems have always been used prior. It's Panopticon Theory, a person watched or who believes they are being watched polices/ censors themselves, most of the time.

Even better if there is a spot on the doll marked 1.6% 1.6%? Pft. I'd need a 1.9% label, at the least. Why wouldn't they though? The amount of storage required to do that is truly trivial. "Walsingham visited Obsidian Forums on 12/08/13 1507 GMT" uses... about 40 bytes, without any compression or other tricks, and it's entirely plausible that it's actually easier to dragnet everything than administer some sort of always fluctuating 'undesirable' person/ site list where if you drop people/ places or miss them you may have to carry the can if something bad happens. Easier and safer to just target everyone, after all, nothing to hide == nothing to fear!

Typical Valve. Hire a real life economist and all he comes up with at the end of his contract is a microtransaction scheme for those blessed with OCD. If only he could've done the same for Greece they'd be saved. I can certainly understand selling the things since it's free money store credit, but who buys them? Someone must be doing it, and I'm torn on my reaction to those poor unfortunates. I can at least understand the reasoning for most stuff people do but I just can't quite twist my brian to understand that. I don't get it, I don't get it at all.

It's also not really much of an excuse, you simply should not have 100+ people that have never been prosecuted and aren't going to be prosecuted locked up for 10+ years. Wringing one's hands about the difficulty of it all says nothing and excuses even less; it should not happen, it should be fixed and it should be made impossible for it to happen again. And Obama did have a majority of his party in both houses at one point, lest we forget. They just spent that two years as a bunch of utterly spineless jellies, quivering and puling because of those meanie Repubs calling them names.

Meh. The judicial style used in many European countries is often referred to as an 'Inquisitorial style' system and it doesn't mean that they're all thumbscrews and red hot pokers in places even Renly never found, just that it's different from the adversarial style used by anglos. Just about every term usable for a quasi religious order has negative connotations- including, say, Templars.

Yeah, but that's just people complaining it won't be exactly like MM VI, which they've stated from the get go it won't be like. It will be like another prior game in the series though. That sort of complaining ain't constructive and is wholly subjective ("I don't want a chocolate milkshake, I want a vanilla milkshake. 2/3 of all milkshakes sold are vanilla, so I'm right!"). It's not going to change at this point, either build a bridge and get over it, or don't buy. I do have some sympathy as I'm moderately peeved about Thiaf with emo Garrett, his stapled to the ground legs and new found ability to struggle when fighting only three guards simultaneously, which is equally subjective, but that ain't going to be like anything prior in the series.

M&M 5/ World of Xeen was their stated target. They never promised VI/VII gameplay which is probably sensible since I'd have difficulty explaining a single good thing from VI/VII even though I actually liked them rather a lot. No doubt Grimrock having good sales played into the game being made at all but that was more in the 'blobber' style sense, not in making it into a strict dungeon crawler.

Arabs and Jews haven't even existed as distinct groups for 5000 years, and had a far better relationship than Arabs (Muslim Arabs) and Christians or Jews and Christians up until around a century ago. It's no coincidence that when Izzy and Ferdy went full pogrom post Granada most of the Jewish refugees went to the Ottomans, for example. And 'victory' is achieved the same way it always has, make the other side unwilling or unable to continue, or come to an agreement prior to that point.

I wish sometimes the west would hold the west to its own standards of human rights. Don't see much 'boycott USA' stuff over Gitmo or Abu Ghraib or Collateral Murder or Drone Mediated Extra Judicial Killings or NSA Dragnets. The thing about being holier than thou (as Fry is being in the quote) is that if you don't live up to the principles yourself then you end up looking a hypocrite. In this case Russia is just an easy target for the lazy, guaranteed to get coverage and a 'bad guy' as opposed to Qatar, a 'good friend' even if they're objectively worse by a large margin. (FTR the russian law is stupid pandering, and Fry is still awesome)

Is the new ME actually counted as a Bioware game though? It's being made by the Montreal branch, isn't it, which is separate like the Austin studio? I'd actually presume it would DAI '14, new IP/ JE2???/ SWRPG??? '15/ '16. ME4/ ME:X from late '14-'15? and as more of a 3PS than an RPG. Yeah, lots of ??? in that.

From the text of the update I presume EA actually sold the rights completely ("after getting the game in our hands[..] we plan on distributing it for free [then selling]"). If they were talking about EA as part of the we they probably wouldn't say 'our hands', as it's always been in EA's hands. Might be overthinking it, but EA has sold most of the Wasteland stuff off to InXile prior, rather than licence it. In any case it clearly isn't pure kindness on EA's part that it's happening, but they could have just sat on the rights which is what most companies do.

Yes, Stephen. But I think you meant: (Still, not as bad as Candidate Obama vs shambling soulless shell Pod Person President Obama who can't even shoot free throws any more) He really hasn't left himself much room for the outraeg!!! in 2020 at Qatar's laws on homosexuality if he's already playing the Nazi/ Hitler card for somewhere where they won't actually kill you for being gay.

I have this amazing, newfangled contraption for centralising my games library- it's called a computer. All the PC games I own are available on this 'computer', wherever I purchased them from. It's great, it has awesome social functions (I'm posting this from it RIGHT NOW!!! for example), a built in word processor and plenty of other software you can add, I can edit images and post them to the internet, browse the internet and buy real cheap games on it too. And best of all I'm not obligated to give an obese ex MS Seattleite 30% of any purchase I make I can buy from whoever I want, cut out the middleman and give the game makers 100% of the cost, most of the time. People should really try gaming on the 'computer' some times, it's awesome! (oblig never had a problem with Origin and so long as there's no monopolistic 'originworks' attempt to metastasise the market I'll remain utterly indifferent to it)

Abandonware is definitely illegal and is a term that has no actual basis. It's just shorthand for "a game that is no longer sold and the copyright holder doesn't issue takedown notices for". It's still piracy, just piracy nobody (well, except the odd brave crusading volunteer corporate warrior, whiteknighting shonky laws and parroting shonky advertising to get meaning in their life) cares about because it isn't costing money. Oh, and because no one else will say it; thanks EA for being so reasonable.

Meh. Apart from the Battle of Britain and (marginally timewise) El Alamein- which involved 3 understrength jerry divisions instead of an Army Group for Moscow and a full army + bits of a panzerarmy for Stalingrad- Britain lost every major battle against the germans over the same time period too. German losses in the first 6 weeks of Barby were more than their losses over the entire war up to that point even with the poor russian performance.

I am enthusiastic about races and non auto regen health. Might be a bit odd with the voice overs presuming they still have a voiced protagonist (and I cannot see that changing) if they all use the same voice sets but sounds good overall.

I haven't played it myself, but it seems CoH2 is roughly equal to a game about WW2 from a British perspective which only features planning an invasion of Narvik, bombing civilians in Germany to smithereens and sending underequipped colonial troops to their death. Focus on a brave group of Indian soldiers. Have Narvik, but don't have the Warspite. Next France, as Britain bravely abandons the french to fight jerry alone "when danger reared its ugly head the british turned their heel and fled" followed by going to Egypt. On the way, work in Mers-El-Kebir and the Brits sinking the french fleet. End, part I Arrive in Egypt after O'Connor's dash, but in time to stand still several months in terrible conditions before being sent off to Greece in a pointless political gesture ending in disaster. Then Crete, where you can have no air support and lots of ships being sunk plus lots more command snarl ups. Return to North Africa in time for some toffee nosed incompetent to allow a german party apparatchnik picked because Hitler liked him to stroll merrily back to the gates of Egypt. Have several utterly pointless offensives in which you get trounced. Quick break in old blighty to work in Churchill allowing Coventry to be bombed, maybe some emotional "child's toy in rubble" pics with stirring classical strings in the background. Get back to Egypt in early 1942, just in time for Rommel to trounce you again. End, part II Then a break, to Cassino, and an assault on a big hill with lots of germans on it, all the while getting information on the Bengal Famine (oops, sorry, that was the British mediated famine that killed more than Holodomor, I meant the british mediated 1943 one which only may have killed more). Make sure to show that it's the french who actually win the battle, plus that American putz strolling through Rome sorry, that's for the US campaign 10$ dlc.Then get sent to Palestine and blown up in the King David. End with Ben-Gurion being welcomed to London and pictures of all the violence in post independence India.

EA got voted worst company two years in a row because gamers- by and large- lack any sort of perspective, self awareness, sense of proportion or relativity; which is more than made up for by the hugely inflated senses of self importance, entitlement and ability to take truly trivial stuff serious. I find it deeply embarrassing even being tangentially associated with a group who think Day 1 DLC for their luxury pursuit is more of an affront than some of the stuff BoA and other entrants pulled. (Yeah yeah, sending a message, BoA always wins etc etc) Gamers. Like a three year old throwing a tanty telling mum and dad that they hate them at the top of their lungs...

Yeah, Alpha Protocol had that as one of its main publicly stated philosophies, for example. It's probably better than BG2's "evil= chaotic stupid, get less quests and XP for free" approach at least if handled well. Do have to agree on Steve though, he's basically a one trait character which always annoys me. I really disliked that accident prone elf (? Lini ?) in NWN for much the same reason though I was less likely to like anyone in NWN anyway. On the other hand, Shep getting shot down by his assistant for being a bloke was something I liked a lot in how it was handled.

TARDIS Initial Public Offering? Offer Richard Branson the chance to go back and witness the miracle of his own birth, for a small and reasonable fee? Hire G4S and notBlackwater to fight the Time War? Possibilities are endless.

The situation is a bit different when you have a genuine terra nullius being settled, the point of contention being the lack of continuous inhabitance (~reversion to terra nullius) by the Spanio-Argic-Platinates vs the current British inhabitance. Plus, most ethnic english people are still far more genetically celt than latin/ north german/ scando/ scando-norman. But yeah, the claim is silly, flawed, has been fought over already, and is largely posturing for domestic benefit. Spain's a particularly interesting case, as they complain about Gibraltar while keeping an enclave opposite in North Africa (Ceuta) which really ought to be Moroccan by their own logic.

They reuse actors pretty frequently- 2/3 of the Torchwood emplyees, even excluding Jack, were previously on Who playing different (or later retconned) people, Martha was, Amy was too (non speaking though, iirc). It's certainly not my favourite aspect of their casting though. I preferred Smith to either of the two modern doctors (albeit Eccleston got little chance with the short time and frequently dreadful scripts), and Moffatt as a show runner to Davies. I got heartily sick of 'love conquers all' endings and schmaltz, and lots of set up for no delivery. Plus many of the best Davies era episodes were written by Moffatt. Moffatt only really failed with the second part of the latest season and that largely because he clearly did not have much defined character for Clara (whose actor is perfectly fine) so relied on "she's mysterious!" as a hook, which wasn't enough. Should have made it Victorian Clara or Ep1 Clara or any other Clara other than Modern Clara, having the companions nearly all be women from contemporary UK is getting noticeably stale. My immediate thought on Capaldi was that he was fairly close to John Hurt in general appearance- both older, and quite thin and gaunt in appearance.

Personally, I've always found the 'human fighter' archetype most games are saddled with utterly boring as they're usually the RPG equivalent of playing Doom marine. If there's an option to avoid it I almost always take it. The race and starting vignettes from DAO were one of the things I liked most about it. But even though the levels were mostly recycled into the main plot at some point they were still pretty obviously prone to be cut if cutting were to be done as it's still a lot of work for something many will not see.