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That is by no means clear at this point. In fact in US the "renaissance" met with major setbacks.

That's quite a lot of exaggeration. While Germany's 'green now' plans are questionable the sky is certainly not falling on their heads. In fact I'd like to hear about the supposed change of course from a more reliable source than a blog.

Slaves were not the logistical support but the cornerstone of their entire economy. States like ancient Rome/Sparta or more recently southern US states pre-civil war have become utterly dependent on slave labor and were unable to let it go. And to get back on topic: Fracking apparently causes earthquakes.

The slaves matter not because they would sometimes be deployed into battles but because they enabled Sparta to field a massive fully professional army. Every other city-state had to put their men-folk into agriculture and would suffered greatly with prolonged hostilities. That's also why Spartans feared slave-revolts so much. They were a direct challenge to the foundation of their power. That class/military service argument originally ran much further. The theory put forward was that building massive fleets must naturally lead to democracy as it's not possible to keep lower classes fighting otherwise. But then in the Polynesian war Sparta won by building multiple massive fleets and it didn't democratize a single bit.

Hoplites and phalanax in Greece was a middle-class form of warware and it would not lead to democracy. In fact Spartans were arguably the biggest slave-holder in ancient Greece (the subject Messinian hatred for them was said to be such that they would gladly eat them raw). If anything the case made was that it was the fleet that made Athens a democracy as even the poorest male could serve as a rower. And that interpretation brings uncomfortable questions as to our modern practice of democracy. In a world of nuclear warheads, billion dollar stealth fighters what possible use is a citizen to his state? Especially since most of said citizens have long shirked any traditional duties and feel entitled to political rights by the virtue of their birth certificates.

I was agreeing with everything but you lost me at the last two sentences. If R* still feels activities like tennis are what players want how is it any different from the virtual friends circle of GTA4?

I wouldn't worry about that. Even if encrypted communication was easy to crack AI piloting is only a couple of generations away.

New thorium research reactor started in Norway.

What about Starcraft 1 or stuff like League of Legends? (LOL has crits, but that's about it) Starcraft 1 was among the first RTS with a solid online matchmaking system. LoL is free and you have a whole team to blame for any failings. Gamers have really fragile egos and it's natural for most to try and shift blame from themselves. And there was a little randomness in starcraft 1 as firing uphill had a considerable miss chance. In starcraft 2 only attack delay is random.

If the operation is fast to begin with that hardly matters. And depending on the algorithm using double hashing may actually weaken your protection.

...and how! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23173794 Morsi is gone. This is more like the start of a potentially drawn-out conflict. Remember we're talking about a democratically elected leader. Should people overthrow democratically elected leaders when their approval ratings reach 30%? With the support of the army and the sheer amount of protesters I doubt the conservative part of Egypt matters at this point. People will remember it come next election. Or next revolution if a new liberal government won't deliver.

Just no. They may not have lived to the "ripe old age" by our standards but plenty of Emperors went by what in their day would be natural causes.

I don't think Relic can make a game fit for e-sports. The closest they got was WCG with the original Dawn of War and then decided to go in a completely different direction. Even if return to games with high-skill celling was on the table they certainly cannot match Blizzard in established fan-base or production budget. That's too many risks to take for the sake of dying genre.

But that's an interesting classification in and of itself. When it comes to WWII most westerners easily call Russian what should in fact be Soviet. Unless of course it comes to nazi collaboration.

Maybe because that's not the usual subject of a strategy game. At least not without making it much more "hollywood".

Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't republicans essentially in favor of PRISM? It doesn't seem to me like there is much of a split in political circles.

You don't really have to right to know every detail of software you use. It just needs to fulfill certain requirements.

I think you overestimate the ability to effect things with voting. Frankly I believe that no matter which president US elected PRISM would still happen.

I doubt you will ever get to anyone responsible for these changes or get any documentation. If you need to know what the changes do you'll just have to debug them.

Actually that's only SR3 and open world part of SR2. The series wasn't always like that and it certainly worked when it could strike a proper balance.

It's pretty cute that they still maintain that Syndicate was a strategy game. And I'm not sure why would you try to make successor to the sequel when the original was far more popular.

Because writing drivers and operating systems for the myriad of PC configuration just so your game could have a better access to hardware is realistic. It's not like they would have to write them from scratch, and key manufacturers would be supplying drivers if direct access was such a big deal. You're arguing against yourself, it's not realistic because direct access to hardware is not important. Not really. The benefit of direct access is certainly there. It's just that difficulty of achieving it on PCs is simply staggering. It's the price you have to pay for not-standardized hardware.

The income levels will vary wildly depending on location and so will purchasing power in gaming. So what? Instead of pointless whining, why don't people use Google to convert Rand or Rubles into Dollars and answer the question? Because it's not just the income level that are different but also game prices. 100 euros will on average buy you much more games in Ukraine than in UK. Hence the income question loses validity when taken outside the context of US market.

The income levels will vary wildly depending on location and so will purchasing power in gaming.

Because writing drivers and operating systems for the myriad of PC configuration just so your game could have a better access to hardware is realistic.