Orogun01

The only solution to the drug problem is for the state to take the role of the druglords and turn the drug trade towards alternative venues, not one of them a consumer. Legalization, i'm afraid that it won't be effective since most of these drugs were permitted once and even embraced. It was the series of drug epidemics that led to the banning of many products that used narcotics.

Maybe to reduce the health risks of heroin use they could do like Russia and give proper instructions on the use of needles . . . and condoms.

Its a little hard to get a handle on it, but the biggest kill; and we knew this before its release, was the fact that the DA toolset is a power tool. So not everyone is going to know how to use it, the amount of experience required to make a decent mod is a little high. So any great projects eventually fell through the cracks because of this. Maybe there will more mods coming on the next months, but seeing as there is such little involvement and that DA2 is coming so soon I seriously doubt it. From the looks of it DA2 will be even less user friendly than its predecessor.

There is little room for impartiality when there is atrocities like these committed.When the best you can do to a balanced report is say that not everyone is like the Taliban or that not everyone participates on their atrocities, you realize the extent of control that the Taliban has over the area and why interference is necessary. The media itself i'm a little on the fence; I don't know if it's because there aren't as many reporters on the area, or the military wants to keep a lid on thing, or the companies agree that the war doesn't equal ratings, but there aren't as many news as I would like. This a war that is being called "The secret war", maybe it's just here on the US but the subject has fallen off anyone's radar, it takes a scandal to remind everyone that we are still at war.

It is really hard to make anything, everything about the game is a little to constricted for large scale projects. It lends itself, mainly for minor tweaks, and quests. Plus it's been like a year and all that the nexus have is a bunch of morrigan's headmorphs.

I believe the official word is "it's the same tools as Dragon Age, we're looking into making an update." So basically the mod scene will be another disappointment like DA:O

Speaking of disappointments does anyone knows if they are going to release the modding tools for DA2

When people say nemesis I expect confrontation, I expected to be haunted and hunted by it not a random encounter; fighting optional.

Howe for noble humans, the nobleman guy who tried to rape the elves in the city elf origin (he's in Howe's dungeon I think). There was none for mages, which a demon would had fitted the bill and reinforced the fact that possession was an ever present danger. None for the Dalish, and frankly all that the rest had was a different introduction to the same fight you would had faced if you had another origin. There was a lot that DA:O didn't deliver IMO they should fix that for DA2 instead of trying to make a completely different game.

It's nice to see what paranoia can achieve in the other direction. Orogun, sorry I snapped at you. I agree that the answer is not just military. But nor is it just economic. It needs a political spark within the country that I don't see. But while that may seem unlikely it is far from impossible. Your point was fair though and we have been over this before Whilst politics factor in the ultimate solution I believe that the only viable and durable answer is to treat their condition as pre-fiefdom. Just a bunch of military powers spread out that need a stronger force to rein them in; it may not be the most humane solution or modern enough but in this fight we need to compromise and lower ourselves to their level on some points.

The endings should have been much better. And the impact that your origin has on the gameplay, aside from the racial bonuses and the occasional "eww, you are an elf" there was nothing noteworthy. In the end you were the Warden, plus I remember someone talking about a nemesis from each origin showing later. Never saw it.

You either joking or high

There is a great difference, the area is more fragmented, just a bunch of warlords trying to push their interests. Even if we are able to topple the current strong force we are just paving the way for the next one. We cannot hope to destroy all of the groups and even if they are willing to cooperate with the allies now, tomorrow their allegiance may change. So yes, we need to remain in the area but the final goal shouldn't be stabilization of an area that requires more warfare than we may be able to churn out. Instead we should be focusing on strengthening their government so that they may be able to maintain stability.

Well, if we start naming games for what they do

Pulling out should be the main concern now because; let's face it not even a miracle would bring stability to that region. They should create a strong autonomous govern that can face the insurgents by itself. In the end no matter what we do it's going to bite us on the arse, today's allies are tomorrow's enemies. It was that way with Russia and with the Afghans.

Shouldn't you say something like previous thread last page or something like that?

Rigth now i'm drunk tooo so lests talak about pareticles

Of couse, you guys are the descedants of criminals! I imagine this is exactly the reason, frankly. Problem solved, now let's go ahead and have a ****ing barbie.

You are an animator?! What have you worked on?! Oh, and do not mistake eccentricity by insanity.

They are only different perspectives and intended usages, the most common example of a positive is Mark Twain usage of the word as term of endearment. The problem is that the word still carries a lot of hate behind it and it's negative connotations cannot be just forgotten, it was created as a derogative term to describe people who were considered below human. So there is a lot of history to the word. Black panthers were a reaction towards the abuses against the black community, there were still more successful groups and attempts at emancipation. In fact it is this militant view that hurt their cause more than anything since confrontation is not the best way to fight for equality, a mistake that it is common today. This is not about who is/was victimized, is about creating an equal ground for everyone.

Really? What about the wife's feelings. Offenses are still offenses no matter who says it as long as they intended it as such, there is no ownership of a word. Weren't the Black Panthers the same as those groups, or any gang of thugs. They were as racists and had the same militant view of the "war of the races". I'm against racism but I give just due were is deserved and those groups did nothing to advance their race and in fact alienated people from it.

He has gained weight, other than that he kind of looks the same.

Hey, not all loonies are creative. OK? Just because creative people share some commonalities with crazy people doesn't automatically makes every crazy person creative. They only share that they can't filter ideas properly. The difference lies in both the execution of the piece and interpretation of the idea.

But DA2 is turning into Dragon Effect, so it begs the question why a game that garnered success on its on values needs to imitate another.