BruceVC

Well, it's extremely commercialized. It's all about spending money and consuming, buying stuff for people because you are supposed to, because it's a tradition. It has a "false" feel to it for me. And I don't like my family particularly much, they never stay off the booze when they are together. Listening to them rant about how the muslims are invading, getting welfare and stealing our jobs while talking about how to best cheat their way around taxes and such will get me in a furious mood that I will have to bottle up. Then come New Years Eve and if I go drinking... I'm also against religion and I don't like being reminded about it time and again. There are upsides though, Top Gear christmas specials are fun, some of the seasonal food is awesome; Glögg and vörtbröd for instance. I don't know if you meant it to be but that was one of the funniest posts I've read in ages You undoubtedly get the much coveted " BruceVC funniest post of the week " award

And my question to you is who you'd rather have at the apex of the legal pyramid. A career liar? A sociopath who wants to kill people who wear glasses for asking too many questions? I, sir, am an ardent Royalist. Not sure if you guys are really Royalists but I'm going to be honest. As an outsider who visits the UK, and can see how much the Royal family does for the UK generally on numerous levels, it always amazes me that there are people who live in the UK yet who don't appreciate the Royal family or treats them with disdain

Malc don't you think they should make it mandatory for everyone who doesn't drink that they have to work on the 1st after NY because you guys wouldn't be nursing a hangover ?

If you don't mind me asking why do you hate Xmas?

The end of the year draws near and Xmas and NY beckons Wow its been an interesting and tumultuous year, for me much more good than bad. I'm on leave from the 19/12 I love Xmas, I get to see members of my family who don't live in the same city as me and I go on extended leave which is obviously always a good thing So what are your plans for these grand events ? I will be at our family beach cottage for Xmas, its literally 10 meters to the beach and is on a private beach where there are only about 30 other cottages so its very picturesque and unspoilt. We go snorkling and hiking and of course eat loads of food on Xmas day For NY I'm going to Psy Trance festival called Revolution. Its going to be epic and hedonistic

Yes, very similar. That's what it reminds me of

Okay good to know, you can never be sure nowadays

Pure Gold. I think this review is very accurate, all copies of Grimrock2 need to be destroyed and the developers sent to prison for lengthy jail terms !!! This game will clearly corrupt the moral fibre of society This "review " is absolute trash, at first I thought it was parody but it seems the journalist is being serious. This is a good example of someone taking the whole "is this acceptable in our modern age " way too far. But this type of opinion is fortunately very rare ...thank goodness for that

Honestly, the gameplay didn't look very King's Quest-ish, what with all the jumping about, probably QTE-style. Of course, I'm one of the weirdos that thinks point & click ruined adventure games. Yeah I tend to agree around the jumping, but the cartoonish like graphics is kind of King Quest ?

Nice, very nice This is fitting in nicely with my " only play a game once the first patch is released" timetable

Kroney its about the state of the UK and how you are slaves to an ancient and insidious order of lizardmen Clearly you weren't aware of this, so I have to ask you....how do you feel about being an unknowing slave? We should also be thanking Oby for bringing this to our attention

Sorry to hear that

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." - Mao Zedong A lot of people fail to realize just what this means... Vals can you respond to my question so you don't keep making accusations against me " do you think Al-Qaeda committed 9/11" ?

No I don't think you used the word jealous in the wrong context, both envious and jealousy would be applicable http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/jealous

What you would do in an entirely hypothetical situation doesn't amount to much. It's not unheared of, or even rare, for people engaged in artistic endeavors to want their creations to have a meaning. The ones that do are often valued more for the attempt. For me, the way i see it, Bioware have a very bad business strategist n these past years, they should fired that guy. Bioware being meddling with the things they shouldn't in their current state for the sake of business, but they did and they insist on it, by means they do hear to "someone"... I start to realize the "hidden agenda" since DA2, and i sense the "change" in Bioware policy. DA2 is a representation of the current western political affairs at that time, like i said before, imigration problem, religious fanatic problem, war on terror, economy falling....Kirkwal is the representation of USA in the game. Funny how i can see it but many deny for the sake of denyng fans deny because they want to escape reality, it's a game, it's a game world...that what they say during DA2 hyped up. Ok, that's fine. But now about these LGBT things, is that a game or what? We can say all other things in the game are not real, it's fantasy, there is no The Maker, The Chantry, Mythal, Elves, Qunari, Dwarves, whatever...so everything we can debate about those things are just for fun, it's fantasy, fatasy religion, fantasy culture, fantasy race, fantasy kingdoms, fantasy country....but what about LGBT? That's not fantasy They made Dorian a gay, and his quest is LGBT issue. That is real issue, not fantasy. They make Krem a tomboy, they want to justify it with Qunari philosophy, they create it up to justify the thing in the game. Krem problem is real problem. That's not fantasy When they shove it on us, that make it a propaganda, and that is not good for business, they clearly have an agenda How do you feel about non-gay Romance options in Bioware games? Do you take part in them?

That's another point I've raised several times, the whole gay Romance implementation or LBGT interaction in Bioware games is so innocuous and nonintrusive you won't notice it unless you follow those options. So whats the big deal ?

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/12/08/kings-quest-trailer/#more-255823 Guys check out the new Kings Quest trailer...I think its very nostalgic and I'm very excited

http://thewitcher.com/news/view/906 I really respect CDPR for pushing the game out, this is an important lesson for other companies that release unfinished games

Thank you for answering A question, Bioware like all companies is expected to make profit. And obviously there gaming formulae of inclusivity is working because they continuing with it so that must mean sales of there games are good. So don't you think in fact its not a vocal minority that want inclusivity, like the LGBT crowd, but the majority of fans who are happy with the direction that Bioware is going? Because surly if the majority of fans were unhappy with Bioware games they wouldn't be supporting them financially? Here are my suspicions, and this is purely going on my own gut feeling, I have no empirical evidence to back this up, so grain of salt and all that. I imagine there are 5 general groups of people as it concerns LGBT romance options in Dragon Age: a) Are happy with LGBT romance options being added, does sway their purchasing decision b) Are happy with LGBT romance options being added, not enough to sway their purchasing decision c) Don't give care either way about LGBT romance options being added, obviously doesn't sway their purchasing decision (I fall into this group) d) Are unhappy with LGBT romance options being added, not enough to sway their purchasing decision e) Are unhappy with LGBT romance options being added, does sway their purchasing decision My guess is that overwhelmingly most people fall into groups b,c,d and that group e is no larger than group a, or that the difference in the size of group e and group a is so insignificant that it's worth it for BioWare to include LGBT romance options because of the press it will get them. That's a very logical and persuasive theory, it makes sense to me in many areas I fall into Group b

They were profitable back when their top priority was making quality games instead of releasing a cash grab "blockbuster" every year. And I'm not sure they're quite as profitable these days especially if we adjust for inflation. Caring about money and only about money is always bad for business in the long run. Sure I agree money isn't everything but to a large corporation it is and that's understandable as that is how large corporation, and most businesses, are measured. And that profit is used to reinvest, pay dividends, pay salaries and bonuses, hire new staff, encourage investment and many other logical and practicable reasons for a company needing to be profitable And EA is no weak taskmaster, they would have no compunction in closing down or restructuring Bioware if it wasn't making money. So Bioware must be profitable which is what I would expect

Thank you for answering A question, Bioware like all companies is expected to make profit. And obviously there gaming formulae of inclusivity is working because they continuing with it so that must mean sales of there games are good. So don't you think in fact its not a vocal minority that want inclusivity, like the LGBT crowd, but the majority of fans who are happy with the direction that Bioware is going? Because surly if the majority of fans were unhappy with Bioware games they wouldn't be supporting them financially?

Bruce... I think the issue was with your interpretation. I've bold faced the most common (in my little world) use of the word propaganda. I.e. usually to promote an idea (or "agenda"), not to destroy governments. But this is really a discussion for another thread Edit to add: From the same link, the origin of the word (supporting the idea that its about spreading a message): C18: from Italian, use of propāgandā in the New Latin title Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide Sacred Congregation for Propagating the Faith Yes the word can mean you want to to spread a message, like Goebbels and his propaganda ministry, or propaganda can mean you want to damage something through your words Either definition can be applicable but that's not really what I want to focus on. I still want someone to explain to me how Bioware is spreading propaganda ?

You do realize that this Harvard member is not just attacking Anita but also the supporters of GG ? He states " Yet this is the modus operandi of GamerGate’s detractors, and its supporters. They are the nearest thing today to engineered narcissists. For they are so slavishly conditioned and socialized to one-sided rhetoric, to invoke Meg Wolitzer, they have butter, but no bread" So we are all idiots to him

I'm genuinely intrigued. Do you get drunk before these posts, or do they get you high in their own right? Eric Garner was killed for not paying his protection money. He simply wasn't paying his dues. NYC government considers itself head of the cigarette cartel in the city, and killed this man while enforcing that cartel's position. One has to be intoxicated on koolaide to not see that for what it is. I'm sorry but that's nonsense, Garner wasn't assassinated by the police for not paying protection money. You are starting to sound like Vals, next thing you will be expecting us to believe that 9/11 wasn't committed by Al-Qaeda He died while resisting arrest, you do know that arresting arrest is illegal right? Grossly misinterpreting someone else and in putting words they never wrote or uttered in your post as if they stated them. as usual. He didn't say anyone was assassinated. He said: "NYC government considers itself head of the cigarette cartel in the city, and killed this man while enforcing that cartel's position." [bolding mine for emphasis on what he stated in contrast to what you stated he said.] You're essentially a socialist. If there's anyone that I've seen post on this board that is a card carrying Marxist, knowing or unknowing, it's you. Coincidentally (or not), if there's one person I've see on this forum spout mainstream marxist narrative BS as if it's the truth again and again, it's you. You slurp up mainstream western propaganda like a starving pig slurps at his trough and then gleefully plops into your pile of poo slinging it everywhere, as to you the world looks better covered that way, and nevermind if the other creatures in it don't want it that way. You think you know better for people on the other side of the world what is good for them than they do. You support all sorts of evil BS that oppresses, ruins, and quite literally destroys lives. In your mind you probably actually think you're doing good, but the reality is you've been seduced by evil that appeals to your base emotions and superficial thinking at the expense of reason, logic, immediate and long term realities. I certainly do not expect you to see the forest through the trees you've surrounded yourself with and correctly see the situation for what it is. You support all sorts of laws, and fail to realize (or just don't really care) that every law that's ever passed is ultimately enforced at the end of a barrel of a gun if it's enforced. Even the ridiculous ones than many ignoramuses think are nothing but helpful such as an excessive tax on cigarettes, or a must wear seat belt law. Sometimes, that gun is fired, literally or figuratively, but it is always aimed during enforcement, if not literally then figuratively as threat is there. Unfortunately for Eric Garner, he was killed during the enforcement a law that people such as yourself wanted enacted and enforced. People who think they know better for others what's good for them than they do and would deprive such people of the basic freedoms to decide for themselves, as well as wants the state to enforce your ideas upon others. And with force, as that's the only way it's done. The State is force. "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - Washington You would burn the world with the oppressive fire of your ideal government if you could, knowingly or unknowningly. As for 9/11. You're the one who keeps bringing that up, not I. I'm pretty positive I've never actually directly discussed 9/11 on these forums. Some time back I did make a couple of posts about cognitive dissonance and linked a video discussing it, in part in the context of 9/11. You suffer so much from cognitive dissonance that you failed to see the entire point of the video. Instead suffering a knee-jerk reaction because something in it went against a fragile world view that you need to preserve for yourself so much you close your eyes to various truths all around you, and would marginalize or 'kill the messenger' rather than receive the message. I doubt I'm a true Marxist as you claim, I believe in strong and effective government institutions like education and healthcare but the private industry must be responsible for growing the economy. Taxes would be relatively high but people can still be very independently wealthy, I like the Scandinavian systems of government. They seem to give most of there citizens a fair deal ? And yes sometimes the state has to force in order to ensure we don't have chaos. And that would include a person not resisting arrest Also for the record since you seem defensive about it I have a very important question to ask you " do you think Al-Qaeda committed 9/11 " ?