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Yeesh, I like that at one point he talks about how he seems like they've just used the ME2 influences to design the game..and then a few paragraphs later he's talking about how long AP has been in production.. It's always fun when journalists don't seem to link their facts.. Or is that just me?

"Should I be upset that everyone thinks we're murderers, or just happy that they're all trying to help us get away with it?"

Now, I'm willing to admit I might be partially mistaken... but from what I understand, a lot of the various European countries use legal systems are actually based around the old Napoleonic Code.. While the UK never did. So a lot of issues with the EU has been the clash of those two styles of systems. Kind of like how the French spent years talking about how they had high safety standards for MOT (but didn't enforce those standards) while the UK has lower standards but rigidly enforces them. Note how much fuss was caused a few years back when after several accidents involving French lorry drivers, the UK stopped incoming Lorries and gave them mechanical checks according to the French standards.. and the French truckers went on strike due to how many failed... It's the joys of totally different attitudes.

I think they're being a bit wishful thinking from the "no comment / we're not allowed to say" response to the questions about what they're working on..

We've been trying. Or at least, the general public has. The trouble being half the labour MP's keep trying to slip it around, and keeps sidelining the whole concept of any form of national referendum on it... Which seems to have us having engaged in treaties and signed onto the EU regardless... The LibDem's and the Tories both seem to be mixed on whether they're for or against it.. We get the politicians and the qwongocrats who keep saying that x treaty won't limit us, and that it doesn't allow x to happen.. then whoops, a year later something turns up in the fine print that actually does mean x can happen. (for the slightly non-pc joke, it kind of has the feeling of Chamberlain coming back and waving a paper slip in the air saying "it is peace for our time".) And it's the fun of Europe, so many hundred years of grudges back and forth...

"When I die, I want to die like my grandfather--who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car." "Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, and the day before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp." --Bob Ettinger "Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student! At least they can find Afghanistan ." --A. Whitney Brown

I absolutely love this. A shame you can't recall where you heard it. Well I've found variations on the "A Conservative is a Liberal who's been raped" in assorted books (fictional and non) that have been published throughout the 20th century going back to early pulp novels.... So it's probably one of those "universal lines" that's emerged somewhere...

Always good to hear someones take on it all.. I just want to get my own hands on a copy

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar." --Drew Carey "Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God.... I could be eating a slow learner." --Lynda Montgomery

"All my bullets have someone's name on them. To save time, I simply label each one 'Spaz'." "Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope. Statement: This definition, I am told, is subject to interpretation. Obviously, love is a matter of odds. Not many meatbags could make such a shot, and fewer would derive love from it. Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticle, and together, achieving a singular purpose, against statistically long odds." - HK-47

.... and now I'm getting flashbacks to the board game "Junta"

Why does this feel like a continuation of the EU doing it's best to screw over the UK as much as possible? Maybe I'm being cynical. Maybe I'm being a touch "nationalistic"... But it does seem to feel like over half the things coming out of the EU are designed to give us the short shaft...

And I think I can speak for many of us (especially those of us on the wrong side of the Atlantic to catch the fun demo events...) who won't get to see the game for another couple of months... Git

To partially cross threads here.. some quotes for the situation.. "If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed." - Benjamin Franklin "I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone." - Peter Steele "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. " - Sam Brown "People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people. " - Mike Tyson "The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people." - George Bernard Shaw "We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified. " - Graham Chapman "What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist." - Salman Rushdie "Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views." - William F Buckley, Jr "This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. " - Neil Gaiman

I'll have you know I have a Certificate proving my sanity. And it's in nice shiny crayon. So there.

"We live awhile, and then we die sooner then we expect." "Where's the treasure? Damn it, I'm an adventurer! I demand fiscal rewards for acts of premeditated homicide!"

"If there was a way to get magic for free, do you really think I'd have spent so much time sacrificing children to my dark gods? For spells, I mean. Obviously there'd still be sacrifices. A hobby's a hobby." - Blackguard

If you liked Sun Tzu, you might want to have a gander at T'ai Kung's Six Secret Teachings, the Three Strategies of Huang Shih-kung or The Methods of the Ssu-ma. Just for the slightly more esoteric military classics from ancient china

"In wine there is wisdom,in beer there is freedom,in water there is bacteria" -Ben Franklin

Well Kipling does seem to last in the Military.. and there are a lot of damn quotable moments from military history..

Logged in and can't vote.. hm...

Realising how often I pull out obscure quotes that for various reasons I find amusing or thought provoking in one form or another... I thought I'd see what quotes other forumites might have found sticking in their minds, or just saved for later dates.. Such as:

Well, Sun Tzu did write about human nature. Considering that people have been using his advice in one form or another for around two millenia now, you have to say he probably had a fairly decent grasp on human nature. Hell, he's the one that said the best general is the one who doesn't need to resort to force and solves the problem before armies have to start moving.

Well I nearly said Confucious before double-checking So don't be too embarassed.

classical chinese thought.. otherwise known as Sun Tzu.