Orogun01

I am torn between the good humor in this thread and the impending horror that its the First world's dominion over Africa. So I'll laugh and cry at the same time.

Oh Nonek, 7/10 is a 10/10 game nowadays.

The real question is what is so different about Rockstar and Bethesda that they don't get on the annual bandwagon.By now it's becoming the industry standard. Are the people behind the industry so daft that they don't realize that a lot of the ideas that go into a game might work better as their own separate games? They want to make an AC game about pirates? Then why don't they make their own separate series about acrobatic pirates? Instead they cram those ideas into places they shouldn't be; I think there's a word for forced entry that describes that.

I also was there since it's inception since they migrated the DA forums there. It wasn't a place open to much discourse and debate, it got to the point that you had to wade through a sea of inane post to find a small gem to which if you responded it would only end up in the sea again.

I quit marvel after that whole Schism debacle in the X-Men turned into the Phoenix Five, the blundering stupidity of the characters was too much for me to maintain any suspension of disbelief. Would you recommend any of those for a now jaded ex-Marvel fan?

You should probably stick to text adventures if that's the way you feel. Don't knock them down, they run on the most powerful engine: Imagination.

It can be done but it requires Obsidian releasing a mod tool and Sega agreeing to it and since Sega wouldn't even support the game with patches: perish the thought.

Paladin Master race here, high leadership, high bounties keep the troops stocked. Also, more runes per level.

I'm playing Skyrim with the famed Dawnbug quest where you have to find a fix for a runtime error that Bethesda hasn't fixed for a year. Good times.

Get a lifeboat and get out of a sinking ship? OTOH a gig is a gig.

Even though that makes sense if they just singled out the Russians if would be seen as discrimination and there credibility as a reliable investment country would be effected. Also the Russians own about 30 % of all the money in the banks in Cyprus so they wouldn't want to annoy them. What has been suggested is a tax on any deposit over 100k Euros. So that shouldn't impact the average person On the other hand a lot of the Russian that invest in Cyprus are rumored to be either involved with shady dealings or with the government (or both) so they aren't likely to make much fuss if they fear any backlash from the Russian government. Of course, that is sort of an educated guess.

Good that you are aware of the double standard that is human pride, even though the thought of humanity as being inherently noble is a pipe dream.

Maybe its just me, but that doesn't seem to be out of the norm. Modern popular critical thought seems to boil down to snark and clever one-liners. The sad part is that discourse today is less about presenting ideas with rhetoric and more about one liners, catchy catchphrases and overall just being an ass.

This thread is turning me gay.

If someone makes a ****ty remake of the LoK series I'm blaming you. It's bad enough that they turned Thief into some edgy action game.

@Raithe: I haven't cried laughing in a while, thanks for posting that.

Drawing is like training for a marathon, you should start by building resistance and drawing a little more each day. Doesn't matter what, but eventually you will get a lot of practice, you will be able to get through the basic steps faster and draw for longer periods of time. If you having trouble getting yourself on the right mindset because there are other things you want to do then remove those temptations and give yourself no other choice but to draw.

Dear bot, Congratulations at winning your own game, everyone now hates you.

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You're wrong, the free market is a detriment to healthcare as they often abuse the necessity of their products to hike up the price. Products which you can get from third world countries at relative null values. They also keep most people away from the doctor for checkups since they are an unnecessary cost and can ultimately lead to people putting off their doctors for too long until it's too late. The problem is that most people can't afford a good insurance and insurances are notorious for skimping out on cost as are hospitals for charging for the most measly things at an overprice. So do consider consumer habits and their causes before you place the blame solely on the consumers, if medicine wasn't a necessary good hospitals would had changed their practices already. But they seem to have a moral vacuum when it comes to realizing that they are not providing a service, they are preying on people's misery.

I think that after watching one of the videos that Calax posted I have a clearer idea of why I don't like them. They don't know what they are talking about; they have the simplistic approach to problem and problem solving that every layman has. So instead of showing what they actual people who have an insider's view into the industry think the industry could be, what direction is moving towards and how to get it on the track to progress, they give opinions. The worst part is that they appear to make sense, in the same way that whenever facing a problem asking "Why don't we fix it?" makes sense. Yet they offer no real insight or solutions, so I can't really say that they offer anything of value to the observer be them insider or laymen.

They are pretentious, self absorbed and accommodators which end up taking the high middle ground of non compromising for fear of offense. Which in turned makes me believe less in their opinion since it's not actually theirs. I actually don't see much difference between them and other opinionated bloggers. BTW, do they actually report on actual issues that the industry currently faces or do they just give their arbitrary opinion on what the industry should be?

I always found Rand to be a heavily biased philosopher, so much as to say that she could give Plato a run for his money on that aspect. The experiences she had in Russia made her adopt this distorted, romantic view of capitalism and I disliked her views on ethics which felt that was just there for the sake of completion. All in all, not a big fan.

Can you perhaps explain why there's a surge in recent mergers? e.g: MetroPCS and T-Mobile. Or the recent philosophy of Too Big to Fail?

They made the disastrous decision to go to Vietnam in the first place, they ran the war in the most improper way possible and they are for all intents the leaders. They bask in the victories and they take all the blame. Ultimate responsibility.