BruceVC

No Malc you are missing some facts and the reality of the situation in Syria. There was a time in the beginning of the Syrian conflict where the Syrian rebels wanted the West to destroy Assads air-forcee and military hardware like his tanks. They were prepared to do the ground fighting. There weren't the degree of Islamic extremists involved in the Syrian rebels in the beginning. This is exactly what the Libyan rebels asked for and this is exactly how the West intervened and assisted with regime change. At the moment the situation in Syria is as follows hundreds of thousands of Syrians killed millions of Syrians are refugees vast parts of the infrastructure of Syria has been destroyed and areas of major Syrian cities have been raised to the ground Islamic extremists, Al-Qaeda, are now active in Syria Certan neighbors to Syria have parts of there country destabilized due to various factions involved in Syria, like Lebanon Yes we can't predict the future but I don't see how you can possibly argue that Western intervention in the beginning of the Syrian conflict could have had any worse result than the current situation...especially when we look at Libya today

Quite interesting logic here. At some point of time some people believed cleansing certain regions from certain ethnicities are "what is best for the region". Anyway, looking at how everything turned out for Iraq, Lybia, Syria and Egypt I kinda think someone asking wrong people about "what is best for the region". Actually you have unintentionally supported my view about the right way the West can implement regime change. You mentioned some examples, Libya is the correct way to implement regime change and Syria is the result of where the West is prevented from getting involved by the vetoing power of Russia and China So lets look at the state of Syria and Libya now and ask yourself what country is better off? Yes things aren't perfect in Libya but its no where near the catastrophic level of economic and social collapse that Syria is at.... So once again I do support the principle of Western intervention to assist with regime change in some cases.

So I'm about 8 hours into F.E.A.R and its a great game, I am very impressed with the AI. I'm not use to enemies coming behind me or circling around and finding other positions to attack me from. And the narrative is captivating so good game so far

Good choice, Melk and GhostofAnakin gave me some good tips when I first played AP last year . Its a very entertaining game

Its the fact that you continue to make these biased and unsubstantiated claims about the West and NATO that forces me to get involved in most discussions, so you better just get use to it because I'm not going anywhere

Bruce why must you always spout nonsense? What do you know about Milosevic? Why was he bad? After his fall, the next regime robed my country blind, they privatized all the national equities and funneled all the money out of the country, not to mention the debt my country has now. They got rid of him because he wasn't doing what Clinton and Blair asked from him and after the war his regime was sufficiently weakened to be forcefully toppled. He was not bad for this country, though he was bad for the interests of the west. "Its a question of " what is best for the region" and " what is the current regime in a particular country doing with its power, is it benefiting its citizens"" Like in Iraq and Egypt and Syria? I won't even mention the CIA trained death squads that exist to keep countries destabilized. I swear dude, you just keep putting your foot in your mouth. Sorry Sarex but its irrelevant how many times you say things like " Serbia was the victim in the Bosnian war " and "Milosevic was a great and benevolent ruler " the facts don't change. We are not going to rehash again the rise and fall of Milosevic or NATO involvement in the Bosnian war. You have explained your view and I'm not going to try to change it, all you need to know and realize is that there are many people who support what NATO did in the Bosnian war and think there involvement was justified in bringing Milosevic to the Hague to face criminal charges So you won't get much sympathy when you try to compare what happened in Ukraine to the "unfair treatment of Milosevic"

Sure but we know regime change is sometimes necessary, like in the case of Milosevic. Its a question of " what is best for the region" and " what is the current regime in a particular country doing with its power, is it benefiting its citizens" Of course sometimes we can't always effect regime change, but thats the political reality we live in.

By an excess of cheese I mean the physical amount of cheese on the pizza, not amount of different cheeses used (I don't count cheese as toppings either). I make pizzas with multiple cheese varieties all the time, but I never go overboard with the total volume of cheese on the pizza. Yes it is possible to make pizza with 4 or more toppings that is delicious, my point is that the combinations are few and far between. There are tons of two topping combinations that work really well, a moderate amount of 3 topping combinations that work really well, and a very small amount of 4 or more topping combinations that work really well. The point is that beyond a certain amount of toppings you are a lot more likely to ruin your pizza than make it better by contintouing to add more toppings. I misunderstood your aversion to cheese and I agree that too many ingredients can sometimes neutralize other ingredients or ruin the pizza so one needs to be thoughtful around what you use as toppings

Please keep us updated around your views

When I tried to replay it I ran into a gamestopping bug with an elevator again and again. And said bug will never be fixed because of EA. Pity because I really like the game. Its funny because I played Alice on PC and had no issues. I should have used a Controller but I used M\KB and that did take a bit of time to become accustomed to but once I learnt that the controls were no problem. And it is a very entertaining game

No one is forcing you to use a red sauce. I've eaten many a pizza with either a white sauce or a pesto sauce. With that said, I'm assuming Bruce's pizza had red sauce. I would use red sauce with banana and bacon and ham myself, I would just go very light on the sauce as the acidity of the red sauce might clash with the sweetness of the banana a bit. Yes I used the standard red Pizza base. You guys have raised some good points around what ingredients work but the issue is much more complex and varied than just your personal taste, we should realize we can always challenge our palates by experimenting with different types of ingredients on Pizza. You will be surprised what new taste sensations you'll experience @ Keyrock Just one example why your views on Pizza need to be reexamined, there is a standard Pizza in Italy called Quattro Formaggi, this has 4 different types of cheese and it really is delicious. The question with Pizza should always be "do the ingredients work together " and not " you can't have x number of ingredients " http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/italian/pizza/quattro-formaggi-four-cheese-pizza.html

One of my girlfriends came to stay with me last night while on route to a wedding, we ended up going out and I bought the following designer pizza while drunk...I think I over did it a little Double Mozzarella Extra Cheddar and Picorino cheese Bacon Parma Ham Anchoives Bannana Mushrooms Garlic

By the way, lol @Israel for not bothering to give their "ally" the US their support on this matter. I don't buy this theory that Jews control America and everything that Israel does American supports, the situation is much more nuanced. The Jewish lobbyists have influence in America as do all lobby groups but I would argue the influence that Israel has is exaggerated.

There is something fundamentally wrong with society when Keyrock doesn't have an interest in playing games .....I am worried...is this the end of days

China doesn't care Bruce. Neither does Russia. And this vote does not indicate much of anything of the Chinese - Russian relationship, which has been lukewarm standoffish for the better part of a hundred years now. Just like Israel not voting at all to support it's #1 ally's wishes doesn't mean all that much. Really, about the only people who do care are the people buying into all the propaganda, or who live in Ukraine and are somehow butthurt Crimea left, or who live in Crimea and would prefer to live in Ukraine vs. Russia. Of course, the former far out numbers the latter, and the latter actually has a legitimate reason to care, unlike the former. Russia has Crimea no matter what anyone votes, end of story. If you were at all even partially well versed in history you'd realize they probably never should have lost Crimea to Ukraine to begin with. Okay my friend, lets see the economic reality for Russia in 12 months. Then we can comment on how prudent the decision to illegally annex Crimea was

No it doesn't. A 'no' vote means the nations don't support the resolution on the table. A fluff resolution at that. This issue, like so many other things, is not near as black and white as you think. Nations vote the way they do for a variety of reasons, especially on fluff like this.. Believe it or not, some nations really don't care if Crimea is annexed by Russia or not, in fact, if most nations were smart, they wouldn't. And no doubt a lot of the votes, both yes, no, and neither, were done to stay in the good graces of the main players in all of this. The U.S., U.K., NATO, IMF, Russia, et al. ie: If I'm nation X, and I've got good relations with both Russia and the U.S., or I want to make sure the IMF keeps sending me $$$, I'm likely to abstain or not vote, even if I'm truly for or against what Russia did. Alternatively, if I've got good relations with the U.S. or want them to keep sending me money, and I don't have much relations with Russia at all, I'm likely to vote 'yes' just to keep my lender happy. Money talks quite a lot in votes like these, in fact it probably has the loudest voice. Few if any nations are going to stick their necks out for Ukraine/Crimea and upset their buddies, wannabe buddies, or purse string holders. But once again you are missing the obvious symbolic significance to what the vote means. Are you suggesting China abstained to stay in the good books of the West? This vote is actually an important litmus test of what Russia did and is it acceptable to the main and influential global players . Russia has been desperate to get China to support it based on there justification for annexing Crimea, despite how you try to spin it the fact that China abstained shows Russia doesn't have the real support they wanted from one of there traditional allies in UN votes

LOL Only in your dreams numbnuts. The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution describing the Moscow-backed referendum that led to Russia's annexation of Crimea as illegal. One hundred countries voted in favour of approving a UN General Assembly resolution declaring the Crimean referendum on 16 March illegal and affirming Ukraine's territorial integrity. Eleven nations voted against, with 58 abstentions. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26776416 Here is the list of countries that voted "no", this list is relevant because it shows the type of governments that think that the Crimea annexation was acceptable. You'll notice most of them are dictatorships and some of the most corrupt and inefficient governments in the world. Shame poor Russia and the company it keeps . Russia must be frustrated that China didn't vote "no" but instead chose to abstain "The 11 that opposed the resolution were Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe" Resolutions like this mean little to nothing and I'm sure Russia doesn't care that China or the other 57 that abstained, did so, as they were effectively 'no' votes. There were also 24 nations that didn't bother to vote at all. https://twitter.com/UN_PGA/status/449216773460463617/photo/1/large Thats incorrect, the abstain vote is very important because a "no" vote is direct support for what Russia did. If you accept that we live in global world where countries want there allies to support them in political decisions then just the fact that China abstained shows that they don't support what Russia did. If China wanted to vote "no" they would have, they are not influenced by the West and have demonstrated in the past there usage of the "no" vote despite what the West wants, like with military action against Syria. This also tells me that the Russia\China relationship isn't strong as we are led to believe and that is a good thing

Gromnir. I'll see if I can make this as simple as possible for even a 5 year old can understand. Overhaul has some of the original Bio developers of the original game. You also claimed Bio "knew how and why things worked". Overhaul had access to the original code, despite not having access to the original art assets. Overhaul having the original game, the original code, and some of the original developers are now 'enhancing the original game'. What we have with the EE's is something different to the original game and in a lot of ways not for the better. Overhaul introduced new bugs to the original game when they tried to enhance it. This has nothing to do with BIS. Never has, never will. But keep trying to introduce those red herrings if it makes you feel better. If for some reason Obsidian decides to do an enhanced edition of PST and the IWD games, having some of the original developers from those games already working at Obsidian, then your analogy may apply. That would be the level playing field. Since Obsidian are not enhancing these games (PST/IWD), then for you to talk about BIS is just a fail attempt at trolling. Thanks for highlighting to the forum your selective and ridiculous trolling analogies. You make some good points and I agree with most of what you say

An important thing to remember is that no matter what a person says, someone somewhere is going to get bent out of shape over it. Yeah, if it weren't the 10th ot 11th time he's written that. Wouldn't be bad if it made sense to begin with. Malc I'm a little hurt that you don't see I'm trying to forge some kind of "forum connection" with you. It makes perfect sense as I am showing you I understand how important you Canadians take your wildlife and more importantly how relevant your pets are, especially Moose, to your lifestyles. Don't be a hater Malc, remember we are a global community that should try to understand each others cultures

You've never done any programming I see. Coding disasters don't just miraculously work. That's an insult to the programmers and other people who worked on the games. To be honest is there anyone on these forums who is a developer at the moment who has looked at the underlying code of games like BG and PS:T and can say from an accurate and informed perspective that " the code was a disaster" If so I would like to know what languages that person develops in at the moment and from a technical perspective why the code in the older IE game was problematic. For me most of the views around how bad the earlier IE games were written is subjective and not based on fact but what people read or others told them. So I want some evidence if thats alright

LOL Only in your dreams numbnuts. The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution describing the Moscow-backed referendum that led to Russia's annexation of Crimea as illegal. One hundred countries voted in favour of approving a UN General Assembly resolution declaring the Crimean referendum on 16 March illegal and affirming Ukraine's territorial integrity. Eleven nations voted against, with 58 abstentions. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26776416 Here is the list of countries that voted "no", this list is relevant because it shows the type of governments that think that the Crimea annexation was acceptable. You'll notice most of them are dictatorships and some of the most corrupt and inefficient governments in the world. Shame poor Russia and the company it keeps . Russia must be frustrated that China didn't vote "no" but instead chose to abstain "The 11 that opposed the resolution were Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe"

You're really buying that crap? Every new government in history always said "the previous administration was a disaster and worked miraculously" to justify its present shortcomings. And you really bought into this centuries old excuse? Please... You've never seen the code, so why are you repeating someone else's bullcrap like it's an established fact? I have to 100% agree with Nep on this one Bester, sorry but I have to be honest

But Malc some jokes are eternal

Sounds like pretty much every work day for me. Listen to more Joy Division. But Malc the difference is you know you have your friendly pet moose waiting at home who is always going to cheer you up. I doubt Raven lives in Canada so he isn't as fortunate

A game where you never have to retry (or aren't allowed to) sounds like a game where you don't have to try at all to begin with, (whether it's a result of the game naturally being easy or because you've gotten good at it), and seems rather boring. Not to mention I like playing with Sword Coast Stratagems, (AI/difficulty enhancing mod), combined with a rewarded XP reducer. There's too much XP rewarded in the game, IMO. Mmmmm....I hate it when people use logic and truth to dispute my words I try! Although...I have to point what I said wasn't strictly true, just generally so...but I'm sure you were aware of that. Yeah I was