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Imagine if Oby is really hot....but this is pure speculation? But now you guys mention it....Oby gets annoyed when I keep mentioning Russian strippers, ladies can get annoyed by strippers?

Oby is a girl...surly not, he posts pictures of girls ? That's such a heterosexual-cisgender-male remark of you! I expected better of you, Bruce. I really did. Oby is a girl...surly not, he posts pictures of girls ? You're so closed minded Bruce. Falling for typical bigoted stereotypes. Just because Oby posts pictures of girls doesn't mean Oby isn't a girl, or imagines himself to be one 'trapped' in a man's body. Guys I was going to respond to this but my friends girlfriend said you trolling me....she is very good at reading people on the internet and she is only 21 So you nearly caused me to write a long post

Oby is a girl...surly not, he posts pictures of girls ?

Really? You met him in person? In SA? That's pretty cool. And you have a really good memory (I just played through those parts of the game today) Man, as I kid, I remember thinking that those books were as hardcore as you got (thematically and art-wise) I mean, that was before the internet and all that. Yeah, the story with Steve Jackson has more interesting parts and I 'll go into detail later Its weird how I remember those books....but I also collected the single series books and Lone Wolf I use to live in Pinetown and he came to Edgewood teachers training college...I said this before but I wish you lived in JHB now, I know we dont know each other but you are first SA I have ever really engaged with on these forums but it feels like I know you

Guys in the EU have there been anymore acts of crime by the refugees that people are discussing? Meshiugger and Elerond how are things in Finland?

ok, let's check this. 1.Help to Ethiopians win war against European colonialists... in XIX cerntury (Evil Tsarist Russia). For comparison Europeans yet show Africans in "Human Zoo" in mid of XX century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Italo-Ethiopian_War 2. Soviets help to Afrcans conquer freedom in XX century. Too long to explain - help is really HUGE. Soviet even help to your country also:) . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/rbth/opinion/10539128/soviet-union-nelson-mandela.html 3. Russia is back in Africa as good old partner http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/publications/articles/russia-s-return-to-africa In summ, while others try enslave Africans by their "help" only Russians really helped to them. It's a main reason why everything is so bad in Africa. In XIX century independent Egypt get loans from British bankers also - it's ended by bankruptcy and occupation by British Empire. Such "help" from Reptiloids just can't ended by good things Let's ban talks about Holocaust and Nazi crimes because this is offensive and reminds people of a difficult and painful history P.S. I find portrait of Bruce! Oby that picture of the white man sitting on the black persons head is offensive and racist, of course this is not what most white people are like. I was going to write a long post but I'll just summarize it Black South Africans dont actually want or need Russia's help or assistance. Many people like myself have been forgiven for our families role in Apartheid...black South Africans are very forgiving and white people like me realize our responsibility to the new South Africa. Because of Apartheid many black South Africans suffer from what has been called Apartheid Trauma, this is real and has psychological impact that manifests itself in different ways Now this is actually my biggest issue with Russia coming to " help " South Africa. I have never mentioned this to you before because despite what some people on this forum think I dont like being nasty to people but what do you Russians understand about trauma that black South Africans sufer from? Its like you Russians have no real emotion, or sense of real empathy. I dont know what made you like this....and I'm sorry this is how you think. Is it how Russian people suffered under the TZAR, WWI or WW2 but you are a hard nation. Black South Africans don’t need your idea of help…it will just make things worse. We are tired of being used by foreign countries People like me who are truly committed to the country can and will help black South Africans make the right decisions and help guide them because we care about the country because we understand the horror of Apartheid. And of course as times goes on more and more younger black people are freed from the Apartheid legacy and make there own way, helping to build the country My advice is stick to what you good at, things that don’t require real emotional sacrifice or understanding. Rebuild the Putin empire, wipe out the Syrians and Chechens, meet with Assad or fix your economy Just stay away from South Africa because you not really welcome

Just out of curiosity, who decides what is acceptable within a community forums. Do the rules come down from the main company or is it left to the community manager, I guess i'm trying to fish as to whom made the decision to ban "girl" images from the forum. I wouldn't want to put you in a compromising position and I will fully understand if you dodge that question but it still makes me curious as to who decides what culture a forum will have. The "basic" rules comes from above if you want. I.e. no discrimination, no explicit nudity etc. The rest is left to the moderators. As for the pretty woman thread, you can thank those people who simply had this compelling urge to see how far they could go instead of trying to stay on topic and post pictures of pretty woman. It was given a lot of chances and people failed consistently to self moderate. Nothing more complicated than that really. But Gorthfuscious can I ask a question? If a lady member of the forum, not a man, felt it was inappropriate would that matter more?

Just out of curiosity, who decides what is acceptable within a community forums. Do the rules come down from the main company or is it left to the community manager, I guess i'm trying to fish as to whom made the decision to ban "girl" images from the forum. I wouldn't want to put you in a compromising position and I will fully understand if you dodge that question but it still makes me curious as to who decides what culture a forum will have. Well, I reported the image, so if you need someone to blame. Do we really need 'girl' images in every thread? It is pretty clear that this particular thread is not about such things. The poster actually asked if he could post images of girls, a moderator then answered and said quite clearly no, and he then proceeded to post the image anyways. That's pretty obnoxious. I'd probably go further than removing the image, hence it being a good thing I am not a mod. I'd imagine Obsidian has the ultimate say in what the forum culture will be. It is a company website. Yes but as I'm now part of a company I realize that no one in a company has any ****ing idea of what it is happening. Most of the meetings are to try and figure out what is happening and the rest is to figure out what are we going to do now that the deadline is soon and nothing is done because no one knew what was happening. Companies are a mess, so i'm just wondering whether this was an actual executive decision that came from the company or of it was a community manager or some other in betweener . I'm not expecting an answer anyways but it would be nice to know why a thread that had successfully kept itself tasteful and had several iterations was suddenly prohibited because some rainbow colored sourpuss on the other side of the internet had a hissy fit. Either way, enough time has passed and I think they forgot about the whole thing, so can we please have our ladies back? Orog I also agree with Hurlshot on this one and I'm not trying to annoy you or seem obstructive or like I'm a hypocrite but I was asked by a women forum member once if I thought it was appropriate So I would like to make any lady members feel comfortable if they come to Off Topic....we should consider the big picture ?

Don't be lazy, and don't waste our time. Read a thread before you comment or get out of it please. Vals why you being so nasty....I have a headache, if you had a headache I would explain the general points? Bruce, nasty is not having respect for and wasting other people's time. If you have a headache, drink some water and go lie down. Come to the forum when you're capable of dealing with it, to the best of your abilities. Vals trust me I wish I could go to sleep but I am debating on those radio stations ....we have serious issues we are discussing about the legitimacy and or if our current president is corrupt

Don't be lazy, and don't waste our time. Read a thread before you comment or get out of it please. Vals why you being so nasty....I have a headache, if you had a headache I would explain the general points?

Yeah ,,,,I did notice that on another article but to be fair we shouldn't just assume he is wrong or biased but you raise a very good point....its actually seems like a real and valid criticism unless he means illegal citizens who wouldn't have ID ? The entire piece is a bunch of propagandic bunk predicated on a many assumptions and a few big lies. The first paragraph holds dishonesty and it goes on from there. Also, Brookings, and most other 'think tanks', are rarely if ever a good source for much of anything, especially on economics. Such 'non *cough* *choke* -profit' institutions have agendas which tend to line up nicely with their source(s) of income, errr patrons. Vals I'm glad you came back, I would like to ask you a few questions about Longknifes review of me Please understand I am honestly not offended or pretending to be fine and I dont want to put you on the spot. I just want to get your view on a few things but as usual I have no issue if you would rather not discuss it

Guys I havent read this whole thread but please dont tell me someone is seriously suggesting Communism can work in the year 2016?

Dark I tried to get into HOMM 5 but the AI kept cheating and I kept losing battles ...I think my game had a virus?

Just out of curiosity, who decides what is acceptable within a community forums. Do the rules come down from the main company or is it left to the community manager, I guess i'm trying to fish as to whom made the decision to ban "girl" images from the forum. I wouldn't want to put you in a compromising position and I will fully understand if you dodge that question but it still makes me curious as to who decides what culture a forum will have. To be honest I can understand why the women thread had criticism? It did seem to objectify women....but why do you want to look at hot women when you can chat to me ?

Volo I cant have this debate now ....I have a headache Can we finish this later?

Yeah ,,,,I did notice that on another article but to be fair we shouldn't just assume he is wrong or biased but you raise a very good point....its actually seems like a real and valid criticism unless he means illegal citizens who wouldn't have ID ?

http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2016/04/07-trump-plan-to-build-wall-is-really-dangerous-klein?utm_campaign=Brookings+Brief&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=28244458&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_NQ5uJD5awaywG8GU6DkekE-zHVLqkPFBvfWJPHKkFnvgzGearHMfBqovkDzIr8aPncqGyTiUUxn7XLUd0pZHp2E3wdg&_hsmi=28244458 Guys another major issue with the Trump Wall

I can't be expected to remember a source for everything I ever heard. Google is your friend. That is a pretty narrow way to view Temujin though. Although I may be missing your point. That's right, he killed so many people he actually reduced the level of CO2 in the atmosphere. He's the greenest conqueror in history! In other news, we can't afford to secure our borders, but we sure can afford to secure someone else's : http://intelligencebriefs.com/us-to-fund-24-9-million-electronic-security-surveillance-on-the-tunisia-libya-security-wall/ Come on Vals, WOD is right....you are very adept at finding links, we all are WOD how come very few people on this forum who live in the USA will say how they proud to be US citizen or that the USA is the greatest country in the world? Its not like people would or should say it all the time...is it considered boasting? I respect that you are prepared to say it, I say it and its true but of course other places are also great ....but I am not sure why people dont say it?

In what way? Is Dystopia the right word to describe my views I looked the word up as I wasnt sure of its exact meaning an imaginary place where everything is as bad as it can beI dont think things are bad in the EU at all...I believe this is just a level of social transformation but the EU will persevere Sorry Volo but there is no middle ground here, if you dont support the sustainability of the EU in some form then you dont support the West Nothing wrong with that...but then maybe you should find common ground with Zora or Oby? I know the ME is always looking for good friends To answer your question above would take many pages, and honestly, I do not think you'd understand it. You might think you did, but you would choose to ignore a great deal of what I said as it is my experience that you do such when faced with things that fly in the face of what you believe. You are too deep and comfortably uncomfortable in the box. However, to put a complex subject with a great many facets extremely simply, I will comment on what you said to Volo and say that not only is there no middle ground, supporting 'the sustainability of the EU', is in actuality ultimately supporting the destruction of much of 'the west' (Europe) insofar as it's culture, the higher standards of living, and the relative freedom it enjoys compared to the rest of the world. The exact opposite of what you think, and the exact opposite of how it is advertised to average Joe/Jane human. Very evil people are behind the E.U., and their goals are not as advertised, nor are do they have Joe/Jane European's best interests in mind. My apologies for not giving greater explanation as to why I say the above. I will leave you the directions to a water hole though, where one can find something there to chew as well: A fundamental piece of the puzzle is in what Mr. Magniloquent is saying in this thread. When what he says there is elementary to you (it's really not rocket science, as I stated in that thread), and you grasp the consequences of it, then you will be a number of crucial steps down the path to understanding why I say what I say above. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and sometimes that road looks quite pretty. Especially when the well dressed puppet pied pipers leading the day, sing a song about heaven along the way. Vals I am interested in this box theory of yours....I have absolutely no idea what you mean, cant you just summarize what that means? Also I have a headache ...cant you just summarize the EU view, I'll read that whole thread later I hope I'm not interfering in your business but I feel I need to mention something. You are normally not a rude person but you were rude to Calax earlier....he isn't rude to anyone as far as I know ...so naturally he responded but it seemed unreasonable You are interesting person to debate with and so is he? It seems unnecessary to get annoyed with each other

i didnt get that memo....if you 40 you cant go to strip clubs

I'm really excited about this game In 1986 or so Steve Jackson came to South Africa for a book launch tour....it was badly advertised and my mom and I were the only people who met him at a university ....so we had a one on one meeting with him. He was a very nice guy and told me that Sorcery was suppose to be 6 books Its weird, I must have last played that series about 20 years ago but I remember so much about the entire adventure...I think I even remember the 4 lines of poem you need to leave Khare and the code was 241 ? At the final book in the Mampang Fortress you had to find all 7 serpents in the previous book or I'm sure you couldnt finish the game ?

Sorry Volo but there is no middle ground here, if you dont support the sustainability of the EU in some form then you dont support the West Nothing wrong with that...but then maybe you should find common ground with Zora or Oby? I know the ME is always looking for good friends

Another one of my very good friend is immigrating to Oz so we had one of his farewells tonight ...it was a boy night We hired a taxi and went to various bars and ended up at Hooters, most people were wasted and went to a strip club but I decided to head home It was a great day, loads of alcohol and reminiscing about the times we have shared

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Jaded can I ask you a question and please be serious when you respond Do you not think the EU is significant and what do you think about the sustainability of the EU? Okay, serious face on. I am actually very much in favour of European countries uniting in terms of working together economically and working together on defense issues (much more so than we are doing currently). I am in favour of open internal borders, and I wish people here could move from country to country as easily as United Statians can move from state to state, with the caveat that they have to work for local wages - not for way under minimum wage like Polish truck drivers do. In practice it is much more limited here though because this is only easy to do for jobs that do not require native language skills. When it comes to the EU, I'd like to quote myself (yay, narcissism) from something I wrote somewhere else (no really, I'm actually just being lazy): "I would first like to state that I voted in favour of the trade agreement, and that I am far from the sort of Eurosceptic that froths at the mouth at the mere mention of Brussels. The truth is that this referendum was never about Ukraine to start with, and as such it is completely inappropriate that the people in the Ukraine should have to suffer because of it. However, I feel quite strongly that the blame for this sort of thing happening is that there is no other outlet for people to engage in dialogue with the people who make the decisions within the EU. Many people feel that the EU is like an unstoppable train that they have no influence over. And as much as the media would like to focus on the Dutch at this moment, this a feeling that is shared throughout much of Europe. Frankly, it isn’t helped by the national governments who vote in agreement with every EU decision every single time, yet when they stand for national elections pretend that all the EU decisions were forced upon them, thus cleverly avoiding having to answer to the public. As such, there is a definite democratic deficit in the EU that has to be addressed somehow, or else things like this will keep happening and eventually enough people may be disgruntled enough to press their governments to leave the EU, as may happen soon in the U.K." Thanks for responding, so its fair to say you are more happy with the EU than unhappy?