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This trailer made me realize that there just aren't enough good First World War games, in fact can people name a few?

Do you know in the USA you can get deep fried pizza, can you think of anything more unhealthy

that kid need a serious double cheek pull

Within the SA constitution its not illegal at all, we have free speech enshrined in our constitution. And no offensive words were used. This would be a debate around the morals and principles of acceptable journalism. Because this issue has become an argument where people say " its racist and unacceptable that a media house allows such a cartoon to get on there website" Look at it this way, if you censor hateful and offensive speech you might go on thinking that some people you meet are decent when in reality they are a bubbling pot of anger, misogyny and racism. Let them reveal their character so that you can freely oppose them. That's a very good point, it makes sense to understand who is opposite you on certain issues. Nice one

How many grams are the T-bones and if you make a sauce what sauce would you make that compliments the streak, I'm thinking something hearty like a Mushroom sauce

This is why I love many of your comments, most of us tend to get bogged down in complicated and convoluted arguments and you come with a much more simpler and relevant comment that basically gets the same message across with much less fuss. Well played sir

Welcome to the club Monte, I'll show you the secret handshake latter. Sarex stop being a naughty boy or I'm going to tell your parents and suggest they revoke your Internet pprivileges for at least 1 week, I don't want to do this but you need to learn to curtail that cheekiness !!!

Within the SA constitution its not illegal at all, we have free speech enshrined in our constitution. And no offensive words were used. This would be a debate around the morals and principles of acceptable journalism. Because this issue has become an argument where people say " its racist and unacceptable that a media house allows such a cartoon to get on there website"

Well if you don't you'll get some nagging people on your case. As for pirating before buying, I've seen that done and with sequels (so say one pirated ME1 but then went on to buy everything else in the series...sad, really). Usually with the game that was pirated it has been when it's cheap, so maybe that does undercut it some. What people nagging because they think its correct that publishers and developers receive the remuneration for the work they do when they produce a game and people want to play it? Those naggers are unreasonable people hey Malc

Hiro whats your opinion on Pirating? Do you care, are you opposed to it or something else?

Bester I want to clear, I DON'T PIRATE GAMES I know you look to me for your moral compass on many issues so I hope now that I have been completely honest you will join me in condemning the deplorable deed of pirating Helz comments below I agree with 100 %. I have never believed the story that people pirate a game to "test" it and then purchase it afterwards

That's a very insightful post jadedmeister and I agree with most of it. IMO the outrage from ANC supporters is more around the criticism on how they have been governing the country than the fact it is racist. But they are embellishing the racist element. To be clear the cartoon is not saying black South Africans are clowns, they are saying the people who voted in the ANC are clowns. Yes its not a nice thing to say but its a political cartoon and as you mentioned cartoons do present a caricature of people they represent. What the cartoonist should have done is include some white faces in the picture of the voters then there would have been less of a furore And I also think the global outrage due to the Danish cartoons was overdone and uncalled for

You make some reasonable points and yes the issue is more about how the voters are portrayed. People don't like being called ignorant for voting for the ANC and the cartoon shows them in a demeaning light. But good perspective

Good consideration, the one difference I can think of is with a library you don't own the book. The library does and they paid for it but they let you borrow it but when you torrent a book you own the book without paying for it.

http://www.women24.com/News/EWN-cartoon-deemed-racist-ANC-says-it-is-an-insult-to-voters-20140530 So some of you guys think that at times I over-analyse issues of social justice and sometimes highlight problems where problems don't exist. I understand that even if I don't agree all the time. I have explained that due to the history of the country I live in and my personal experiences I do take issues of social justice seriously Anyway I want to share with you and get your opinions on some of the issues around social justice that we deal with in South Africa on a weekly basis. Yesterday a prominent media outlet posted a cartoon basically suggesting that the ANC, our current ruling political party, are clowns. You can see the cartoon in the link I posted and you can read about the incident You don't need to know the exact history of the politicians in the cartoon but needless to say they haven't done very good jobs in there portfolios. There has been a huge outcry from people and mostly black South Africans suggesting that the cartoon is profoundly racist and wanting the cartoonist to be fired. The media outlet has apologized for any hurt caused and the whole incident has been referred to a Media Ombudsman for review and possible further action. So what do you guys think, is the is type of cartoon acceptable?

Fair enough. That's a logical question being interested in the legal aspect of pirating

PE's asset list and feature set is essentially locked at this point. There are still a large amount of bugs to fix and things to polish, but we aren't really generating additional content (besides audio, VFX, and a few B priority weapon and armor sets). Any money raised would likely into future projects (PE XP1). I've said this before but if PoE is released anytime before 2017 I'll be disappointed. I want to give Obsidian ample time to resolve any bugs and to add as much content as is reasonably possibly

I was about to say that in spite of my globe-trotting past with several local honies hasn't helped my allergies one bit, but then I realized you were talking about the stuff bees make. You make me laugh Do your work colleagues appreciate your sense of humour as much as we do?

I'm a strange person Monte, I don't just believe everything people tell me on the Internet. But if this means you won't engage with me anymore I'm sorry because I do enjoy our little debates

Barti I always get nervous when people start raising points around pirating like " in a moral or legal sense" Normally what follows is a vindication of pirating based on some pseudo-intellectual justification of why they pirate and the reasons why its "not pirating" On my old forum there were loads of people who use to unashamedly admit to pirating and frankly not caring. One guy even use to justify it by saying " he pirates games because the developers don't make games that are at the same standard as games in the past. So by not paying for games you are helping the developers to make better games as they won't generate as much revenue and they will realize they need to make better games" I kid you not, this was his explanation for pirating

In Australia, absolutely yes !!!! The rest of the world, no.

Blasphemer!!! SIEZE HIM! we can possibly type here is absolutely useful, QFT !!! For example think of all the interesting and pertinent discussions we have had raising the irrefutable facts around the importance of Romance, just because of our erudite views we now have Romance in PoE....oh wait

Good question around lending someone an ebook. I don't know But my advice is don't do it if there is any risk of it being pirating

I got upset for a moment due to nostalgic reasons but then I read the article and its only one branch of Mythic that is closing down. You naughty boy to make people nervous !!!

You always have the most hilarious posts. Hey a internet forum with no hyperbole is like a peanut butter sandwich with no jelly. You can still eat it but it gets awful dry! Well said my friend