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Thats actually quite a scary story, its enough to almost put me off living outside a big city

Holy Smoke, thats definitely an esoteric kitchen appliance. I imagine only your hardcore duck lovers would invest it and be prepared to pay that price

I have never had that mignonette sauce before. I looked it up, it sounds perfect for oysters. I learnt something new

Oysters, another one of my favorite indulgences. I eat them simply, lemon juice and a drop of Tabasco

we chose to do tacos thursday instead o' tuesday... and we made carnitas de pato 'cause o' the following reasons: 1) Gromnir likes duck 2) Gromnir were running outta duck fat and we needed a duck recipe/excuse to replenish our supply. braise the duck (3-4 lbs o' legs... or when lazy, just quarter a whole duck) in a dutch oven for a few hours with a fine chopped white onion, juice and remains o' an orange or two, garlic head halved and whatever mexican spices appeal to you. is best to do this as a 2 day thing as half o' our motivation is collection o' duck fat and that is best done with an overnight cooling. eventual we collect our duck fat, strain out solids from liquid, and discard skin and bones. shred meat. add a little o' our precious duck fat to a cast iron skillet, set over medium-high heat and then cook duck til is nice and crispy. HA! Good Fun! Sounds very tasty Gromnir, when are you going to invite me to dinner? I can make myself available at very short notice to eat good food

Great question, I always play a male character as I can relate to them and I tend to immerse myself in the RP aspect of the game. In other words I always consider my choices the game offers me and what the consequences are.

Excellent idea, hopefully Matt gets time to respond @ Matt In your personal view don't you think an optional Romance arc enhances party interaction and makes that interaction more memorable? I tend to remember party members throughout the various RPG I have played through the years much more easily if I have Romanced them

Keyrock are you not finding the game a little biased towards Zombies ? It seems in these types of games all we ever do is kill zombies and portray them in a certain way , there is never any dialogue or consideration around the aspirations of what zombies want, the idea is everyone wants their place in the world and even a brain-munching zombie should be given some rights and recognition in civil society. By playing a game like this what you are inadvertently doing is reinforcing the " zombie cultural stereotype " Granted it is a new SJ movement but I believe it will gain momentum, the goal is really to stop seeing zombies as the " bad guys" all the time?

" eating it all yourself " , thats exactly the type of thing Nigel Slater would say. He is my favorite UK celebrity chef I like the way you think in South Africa most of the chickens you buy have these insides removed which just seems like such a waste. So we have to buy organs like heart and liver separately Gizzards I eat the way the Portuguese eat them or at least how I have been served them, you fry them in butter ( use some olive oil so the butter doesn't burn ) and garlic and serve them with a peri-peri dipping sauce and some crusty bread

Last night I made myself delicious peri-peri Chicken Livers...really tasty and I had that with a salad Tonight I made myself a spicy Tomato and Jalapeno pasta with Mushrooms, also delicious...so I'm eating well at the moment but its healthy

Same as me, thats going to be one hell of a dark journey down the depths of human depravity

My concern with certain movies is more the message they may send and how they do tend to influence certain social behavior. So even though yes its just a movie there is still some possible impact to society

This is a very profound post my friend Thats why I interact with all types of people in RL on a regular basis. I talk to strangers all the time, within reason of course. I'll chat to people in lines at supermarkets, at coffee machines and of course in bars. I am student of human beings and how we interact with each other and I find you can always learn something new and positive from a stranger if you open yourself up to the possibility...and thats means also chatting to the local beggar outside your favorite McDonalds Sometimes my friends and family roll there eyes when they see me talking to some people but they understand my motives

Mmmmm...its an interesting question. So your character is already in a relationship at the start of the RPG journey so they wouldn't Romance anyone during the game ? No this wouldn't be considered a Romance arc or acceptable for most promancers. Because the Romance options needs be an active part of the game and something that allows you to interact with, like all RPG components It would be like an RPG option where the main character talks about exploring exciting dungeons in his past but in the actual game there are no exciting dungeons to visit...something would be off about that type of implementation?

16 hours did seem like a bit much but Romance is an important part of the dark and mature world of the Witcher so we should be expecting some decent Romance arcs and opportunities you mean detailed pixelled sex scenes? No, more the ability to have some sort of relationship with various female characters, like Triss, who then could influence certain decisions. For example " do you save Triss from the dragon or just get the gold and leave her to her fate" type of emotional and logical conundrum

I suppose this could reduce the brutal practice of beheading captives, but even in the past they have set terms to avoid killing the various American and British hostages. And the reality is you can't expect countries like the USA and the UK to negotiate so I don't think the beheadings will stop

16 hours did seem like a bit much but Romance is an important part of the dark and mature world of the Witcher so we should be expecting some decent Romance arcs and opportunities

You really need to ask, after people have already called you out for it? Try calling spades spades Bruce. 'Enhanced/Advanced Interrogation Techniques' - ambiguous terminology to disguise the fact that torture is used. vs. Torture - descriptive term telling us what was done. Doublespeak if there ever was any. Nah, we will have to agree to disagree

Hurlshot is 100% correct guys, the cast looks amazing and I'm confident they will deliver an entertaining experience

Yeah its a brilliant game. Did you play the first one ? I thought it was harder than Last Light but both games were very entertaining

So you're saying they should be let off the hook for this most grievous, wasteful and incompetently done human rights violation, because they say it helped prevent attacks on US soil? Let me remind you, this is an agency so bad at doing spy stuff, they're waterboarding their own allies because they can't tell them from terrorists and are getting caught red-handed when trying to tamper with evidence of their wrongdoings. If they were any good at spycraft, we wouldn't be having this discussion, because there would be no evidence of it. (Okay, actually, if they were any real good, we wouldn't be having this discussion because they hadn't been as incompetent as to try solving problems by mass torture, but that's beside the point.) I already did so. Is the government's very own report on the issue credible enough for ya? Repeatedly. (Note: it's page 16 in the actual report, which means page 42 of the pdf, if I remember correctly.) Okay , I am going to concede you are right about the handicap man and bad treatment of informants by the CIA because I took a look at that 520 page document but I didn't read it, I'll be perfectly honest. Large parts of it are also blacked out which also makes its difficult to understand , did you read that whole document...seriously the whole document? I hope you didn't read it just on my behalf? I prefer referencing links or websites when it comes to these types of debates. The reality is I have limited time so when I ask for credible links I'm not being lazy but to be honest very few people will read through a pdf of that length just to understand a different perspective But I do appreciate the effort you have put into this discussion and look forward to the next one

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/28/jordan-agrees-freee-islamic-state-militant-release-hostage This is interesting, Jordan has agreed to a prisoner swop to get one of their pilots released from ISIS captivity and possibly the Japanese journalist as well I wonder if this is a good idea, negotiating with a group like ISIS? What precedent do you set?

By calling torture "enhanced interrogation", perhaps? Anyways, could we please get back to the subject of hand, which is that people are trusting an organization to make the right call regarding torture and its justifications which is so gravely incompetent that they tortured their own informants (plural!) for information, and so puppy-kickingly evil that they detained a mentally handicapped person to use footage of him crying to blackmail his relatives? Okay well a debate around semantics is not doublespeak, but I'll let that go so we don't go around in a pointless discussion As for your main point. AIT EIT are not used anymore by the CIA so the reality is no one is trusting the CIA based on its past usage of this practice. People trust the CIA because it has done and does do very good work at protecting the USA both historically and nowadays, like finally killing Bin Laden and preventing attacks on US soil by extremists So in other words the mistake of using EIT should not enough to say the CIA is a redundant and ineffective US agency I'm not familiar with your comments about the handicap man and the informants being tortured, can you provide some links if possible ?

Mmm...you say I'm guilty of doublespeak The definition of doublespeak is " the practice of using ambiguous language regarding political, military, or corporate matters in a deliberate attempt to disguise the truth" How exactly do you think I'm trying to disguise the truth?

This is really good news as it means that EA and therefore Bioware will continue to be committed to the DA franchise Any development of the fantasy RPG genre I fervently support The all inclusive pansexual fantasy world? Seriously though, good for them. I have to be honest I have no idea what you mean by pansexual? I looked the word up but I don't get the connection to DA:I ? So at least I learnt a new word today