[Ask me about Communism.]

The reason calling women "fat" is bad is because it perpetuates an unhealthy self-image problem endemic to western patriarchal society that causes serious psychological and physical damage to women, not because the word is evil in and of itself.

 

Back in the middle ages, when the patriarchal power structure was even more powerful than it is now, being fat was considered as beautiful among women.

I don't know about beautiful but I think it was a sign of wealth. I remeber reading that somewhere.

 

Yes, you're right. Wealthy people had the luxury to eat themselves fat in those days. However, if you look at the paintings from the renaissance, you can not find any size zero women. "Fat" and wealthy women were the beauty ideal back then.

You are absolutely right, just look at the ass on the Mona Lisa.

[Rapper acts like ****]

Become?

 

You think Ice-T would give a **** if he came up against someone who inevitably doesn't like him. I'm not saying Ice-T is some sort of general role model, but most 'gangsta' rappers these days are just fethwits actually trying to get into gangsta rather than people complaining about it.

Rage against the Machine were better.

[The Great Alpha Protocol release month pool!]

October, just because putting all those boxes and barrels on the right places is going to take a long time.

[Are there zombies in this game?]

This is of course the reason for the delay, there weren't enough zombies. After a lot of though the developers decided to replace all the capitalist factions with zombies, to make a statement on the consumerism that plagues America and how brainless it's population is. Of course all of the zombies will be fat.

[So the main conflict in AP would be Left and Right?]

Although I fear to say anything because I think it'll be a simplification, I would say that the major theme of AP would be one of loyalty. Loyalty to country, to a person, to a cause. Different people feel loyal to different things, or don't feel loyal to anything, or are loyal to something or someone that betrays them. How do you deal with that? You'll find that the characters of AP have very different reactions to betrayal, and have very different conceptions of loyalty. And how those reactions play out will impact the storyline as you discover it.

I assume I can be loyal to the worldwide revolution, yes? Otherwise, comrade Rorie, I may not end up purchasing this game.

You should not buy it at all comrade. Since it's just going to feed the industrialist machine that is the video game industry. Contribute to the revolution and stay bored.

[What's that I sense? A new AP Blog Post?]

A little to late, this would had been great news a little earlier. Like, RIGHT BEFORE THE DELAY!!!

[Alpha Protocol has been delayed.]

*lights a cigarrette* Life is good

SMOKE

[So the main conflict in AP would be Left and Right?]

kreese, while what you say about tribal living is true it can't be applied on the large number of people that live on society. Bartering isn't enough for big exchanges that's why the necessity of a bartering chip began, thus proto-money. Plus there is the fact that some are going to be greedy, want for more than they deserve; tribal economy works mostly because there is only a primitive notion of evil.

About modern democracy, the flaws that you counted are the same flaws that are inherent to the democratic system. But your economic doomsday scenario seems unlikely, just because conglomerates grow doesn't mean that they will siphon the wealth out of society. But you seem to be thinking along the lines of Marx, so congrats tovarish you have joined the struggle.

[Alpha Protocol has been delayed.]

Thank you Still not enough to make me salivate. It seems Sega is playing the spy game and holding out information on us.

[SEGA makes statement]

And so we move on to a + six months wait, filled with discussions about the left and the right.

Hopefully they will give us something to chew until then

[So the main conflict in AP would be Left and Right?]

Can't wait to unlock my ultra marxist's "5 year plan" special ability. Someone make the economic alignment matrix and think of some cool prestige classes.

 

Those abilities would be right at home in Freedom Force, btw.

Communist have no class.

[When are we going to get an official comment from Obsidian?]

So we're decrypting the secret messages hidden in MT's tweets now?

 

Is that really how desperate we are?

It is a necessity, in order to get through Sega's iron wall of silence. Besides some of us are still getting over the release date delay shock.

[A small request...]

Well, i'm hoping that in all these months they take the time to make her romanceable. How else i'm going to role play my James Bondesque character that humps anything that walks and makes witty comments about it?