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But why wouldn't you take comprehension? Seeing as it saves you 10 skill points per skills in which you have even a minor investment in. That's almost a level worth of skill points, and non combat skills checks are plenty. Except with the magic clothes and comprehension-boosted magazines you can.

China does not need to start a war in defense of North Korea. It's economical influence is such that it can punish those deemed responsible for undermining it's interests without resorting to warfare.

Except the new xbox360 dashboard update has been out more than 5 days and isn't cracked yet. Not to mention the 3.5 firmware update on PS3. But the real point is consequences. Such modifications on closed platform are usually detected and lead to banning from all forms of online activity. What are the typical consequences of PC piracy? Even failed attempts will result in nothing more that an error message. Maybe because it is the difference in piracy rates between xbox360/wii and pc/psp that is significant. Also I never encountered any "whining" about 360/ps3 piracy rates. The point isn't that are not essential, it's that people are developing a sense of entitlement. And it's not a question of economical conditions. People able to afford PCs/console are not on a verge of starvation. It's a question of responsibility. If pirates feel entitled to free software (especially newest/most expensive) they will strike hard against anyone proposing changes to the current situation. The result are exacly what happend when ubisoft tried to implement server based DRM with AC2. Organized DDOS attacks were launched on the company, partly in order to stop legitimate customers from playing the game. Such actions only show that they believe their "rights" were being threatened and that was the most logical solution to influence the situation. They certainly couldn't boycott the product because they never bought it before and nobody was going to assume anything else can make them change their mind.

Can't do that, Krez. Not without a UN resolution. Because we all know that the UN is a pure and noble institution and would never haver over such an important issue. Didn't the Korean war have a signed letter to go kill things from the UN, or was it called something else back then. That worked only because USSR was boycotting UN meetings at the time.

Even hardware DRM gets cracked or bypassed. Battling PC piracy by any means is simply a lost cause. Only producer specific platforms will manage to have some success due to cost-effectiveness of solutions used.

And Western countries don't oppress their people? Can you show me a Western Country where the people are free and not oppressed by degrees of tyranny. Tyranny is a form of absolute rule of a single individual who usually wrestles power from more legitimate government. Since democratic institutions are by definition opposed to such abuses of power I'll say that various forms of representational government do not tyrannize their people. In the end the concept of rule of law and representation implies that any action strongly opposed by people will lead to a change of elective representatives and by extension their policies. No such possibilities exist in the likes of China. If you honestly believe that the difference between democratic and autocratic/authoritarian government is insignificant then I doubt it's possible to change your mind by the means of discussion.

No that's funny. Microsoft no longer forces me to pretend I live elsewhere to sign up for Live but won't take my money in their store. You'd think they care more about the latter.

In short, we believe you are oppressing your people and that's not right.

75% of South Korea population are eligible voters. 80% in case of Japan. China communist party membership consist of 5% of population. I'd call that a significant difference. Among the likes of North Korea population of which suffers chronic starvation and Somalia which is fighting it's second decade of civil war. I don't see how it is a point in their favor. Unless people are considered merely a resource to be extracted and spent as government deems fit some compromises to laws and institutions should be acceptable in order to keep your population fed. What you consider excess others percive as a consequential execution of ideological authoritarian policies. The ones that deliberatly keep population from free access to information, ability to freely debate or pacefully demonstrate their opinions. In short anything that may in any way threaten the ruling party.

I'll agree as to dictatorship as technically the power rests with the party but the state is definitely authoritarian. As to repressive - it sees fit to ban even such a trivial service as twitter. China attitude regarding various websites certainly leads to it being labeled as such. By that reasoning Russia should still be an absolute monarchy or in the very least a dictatorship. The political system found there didn't so much evolve as was a result of communist party victory in a civil war. There was no predisposition towards it. Chinese people had just as much experience in democracy as they had in communism. People Republic of China came into existence some time before communist takeover. Despite the fact that it's power is now limited to Taiwan it's laws and institutions are similar to what you would find in a western democracy. As for decentralization - federalism has been made to work for some states. It would have to be shown why would it be a certain failure in the case of China.

Except without updates new games won't run. In the end it's just not as simple as on PC.

Yeah, no. Not anywhere near the scale that it exists on the PC at least. It is just too easy to pirate on the PC, whereas console piracy has more hoops to jump through. Not if you can buy chipped console right out of the box, even with 2 years guarantee... Which is easily possible in more countries, than you can imagine And what do you do when anti piracy updates are rolled out? Send it back for a update assuming one becomes available?

Just finished Divinity 2 expansion - Flames of Vengeance. No sure what made me go through it as that part of the new game edition is a mess. I'll never understand what drove the developers to remove everything that showed promise in the original campaign.

Eventually it will - it always does, when millions of voices demand to be heard. That's a very optimistic outlook. Countries like Saudi Arabia show that wealth and modernization of society does not necessarily lead to a rise in democratic tendencies.

Of course you can melee Deathclaws. It just takes few perks and a sensible weapon. In fallout 1&2 it required a power armor but now that it is meaningless it easier than ever. I watched a friend of mine melee a deathclaw to death in FO1 with a knife and the leather jacket. Which one? The respawning ones near gun runners would kill player in 2 criticals and attacked up to 3 times per turn so that would take plenty reloads for sever criticals to occur. If you mean the quest releated one in hub then he was wounded at start IIRC.

Do you have any idea what "pax romana" involved? Today societies are a lot lighter on institutional enslavement, crucifixion and massacres. If it's safe anywhere to voice negative opinions of Japan then it's in China. Given their history there seems little love lost between those countries. Said protesters are much less likely to suffer legal repercussions for attacking Japanese than the woman in question for making fun of them.

Of course you can melee Deathclaws. It just takes few perks and a sensible weapon. In fallout 1&2 it required a power armor but now that it is meaningless it easier than ever.

As for the DLC. I was hoping for something more interesting. You'll notice that funcroc post was edited. But I agree that the DLC doesn't sound all that intresting. Survival rarely provides tension in a free-travel add on and the capture part practically screams equipment loss at start.

Still no word as to who develops?

Best: Betrayal at Krondor Worst: Divinity 2

Diablo 3 to grace consoles? IMO sounds more like a sipn off than a straight port.

Simple - he wants New Vegas. He admits it himself that for all the territory he captured the legion still lacks a capital. Apparently building one (like a proper tyrant) is out of a question. In the end even tho he belives NCR is doomed he will fight it for New Vegas for the same reason NCR entred the area - greed. Except Caesar says nearly none of that. All he believes is that it is inevitable for NCR to fall and legion to triumph due to superior morality. There never seems to be any further planning on his part. For legion to be ideologically opposed to NCR it would need to have an ideology. All that legion is presented in game is a martial society with absolute rule. And if the in-game situation is a form of analogy to ancient battles between Greece and Rome then it's a very poor one. To buy it you would need to believe that Greek influence irrevocably poisoned roman civilization but need to wait 1500 years for it to fall. The biggest problem with the legion is that it builds no civilization at all. In essence they are a nomadic army carving an empire that will have absolutely no basis for existence save for the savagery of it's warriors. Civilization is far more than armies, but we see no laws or institutions in the legion. Nor is there any evident building of infrastructure. Ancient roman legions spent good deal of time building roads - do you honestly see Legate Lanius inspecting someone

Good question. Supposedly he want to create a moral civilization. The irony that he conquers out of greed - the one thing he despises in NCR ,seem completely lost on him.

lol I wonder what's the funny part? Did I miss some obvious solution (very hard / hardcore) ? I didn't put any points on speech or barter. Ceasar was dead (I chose "do Ceasar still give you orders from beyond the grave") and battle couldn't be avoided. I'm buffeded with med-x, slasher, psycho and wear light armor (whole game in light armor to make sneaking optimal). Boss does power attack and I fall down (getting up takes long time and this was the only encounter where I'd hit the dirt). At this point there's at least 3-5 adds (tough legionares). Boss moves much faster then my Agi 5 character. And has huge amount of health. What level were you and did you make a stealth oriented character? Final bosses are immune to sneak and without higher level weapons they can hardly be hurt at all.

Sadly developing the technology to exploit such result is not nearly so straightforward. It is doubtful we will see practical application of this research in our lifetimes. I think I know this answer. It didnt melt everything because it is contained within a magnetic field, much like the prototype fusion reactor do. I doubt that's necessary. Such results are extremely short lived.