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Historic Khazaria placed between Don, Volga and North Caucasus. It's Russian territory. And about Sweden... I cant find Sweden on maps even in XII century. How they can invited Swede in 862 AD if in this time nor Sweden, nor Sweden people yet not exist? Nope http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_5 Anyone can build Polonium in present time. Oby you have confirmed what I have always suspected, Sweden was created by powerful Western corporations in the last 100 years in order to breed hot blond women that will conquer the known world and force us to follow one government . Its not a real country !!!!

This is an interesting topic but its been discussed extensively in the Kickstarter thread in Computer and Console section. Personally I'm not supporting this project until Keyrock gives his famous "thumbs-up" The game looks too generic for me and there isn't anything really about it that distinguishes it from other RPG?

Arrogance, it has to be. People think him doing crack or being a drunk doesn't matter because hey, everyone has been drunk and no one should judge (ironically these are the same people that have orgasms over 'tough' laws on drugs or gangs). Which is depressing - large segments of my city think that their mayor hanging out with drug users, gang members or being blind drunk frequently is not a concern. So he will be re-elected, people buy into this image of him being an average joe (why you want one of those as mayor, I do not know) I read in the paper that it's just frustration with slick controlled politicians. I have to say that I find the idea of anyone getting to 40+ or however old politicians are these days, without cutting loose once in a while betokens a sick mind. I'm not endorsing crack smoking, but being wild doesn't scare me at all. I hear you but my issue with the mayor and him smoking crack cocaine is more about how he responded. Instead of a proper apology he initially denied it and has been very truculent and intransigent about his actions. In the beginning he said " he demands the Police show the video" ...later when he realized that the Police really had the video he then admitted he had indeed smoked crack If he can lie so brazenly about that what else is he lying about in his duties of public office, for that reason alone I can't believe people still want him as mayor? This is about his credibility for me and not about his drug usage

I'm not convinced but I am interested. I'll keep an eye on this. Hopefully Guido and Co. divulge a lot more particulars before the campaign is over. It worries me if you aren't convinced When you become confidant that this project is viable then I'll consider supporting it. You are my litmus test for any game that I don't know about

I never liked the cops in Rambo, they has serious redneck attitudes. If the game allows me I'll kill them all and wipe out the whole the town for electing them in the first place

Malc I am following this story its amazing that he hasn't resigned. I saw him also getting very aggressive with journalists that were camped on his property. Why do your Canadian politicians feel that smoking crack cocaine and getting filmed doesn't mean you should resign? You obviously don't have enough serious social problems

How do you make this sandwich? Are the onions raw and what cheese do you normally use?

This year I started actively going back to gym. I go 4-6 times a week and do 1 hour of cardio a day. This is broken into 20 minutes of cycling, rowing and running. I have lost 5 kg's since the beginning of the year and I'm feeling very fit. I don't plan on ever stopping going back to gym for the rest of my life

You are referring to post #48 that you "liked"? I do not have the power to remove a "like". Maybe one of the Global Mods can do it but your best bet would be to PM Fionavar. Thanks I will, can you delete my post after that says " I think the bear looks cute"

I can't seem to edit my previous posts, there is no edit button. I did try so if a Mod could do it for me that would be great. I really don't want to be associated even unintentionally with something positive about what that bear represents.

That is disturbing on so many levels. I'm probably missing something but I have no idea what game that bear is from, care to enlighten me? You honestly don't know about Pedobear? Read this. Okay I didn't realize that, I thought it looked familiar but now I know why. I'll be changing my previous post Thanks for pointing it out

I worked last night, what should have been a routine change ended up with us staying at the customer till 02:30 am. There was some anomaly in the OS and that effected the application I support. Anyway I got home and couldn't sleep till about 4:30 am and woke at 8:00 am so I'm feeling very tired I'll work from home today but on the plus side tomorrow night I'm going partying with an attractive young lady I met recently. She likes dressing up for Halloween so it should be loads of fun

"Monte is Hurlshot"...good one

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1559170459/the-7th-guest-3-the-collector?ref=live Guys here is a worthwhile KS to support if you like your scary games that require thinking....dig deep gents and be generous !!!

Hey I respect all companies for their choice of making money instead of making relevant and smart video games. Ugh, who am I lying to... Yeah, no. Obsidian and inXile I respect. I've yet to see a good game from them. What games they made so far - I dropped them after 1 hour or so. But I have a very good feeling about Torment and PoE. I love Troika I guess. You can love dead things, right? Okay good to know you do see some light at the end of tunnel

We don't celebrate Halloween in South Africa at all so its fun to hear about all your stories

Ehh. Definitely feel 98-01 was the best of it for me, but I guess that is just due to age and my favourite genres. Malc cynicism probably plays a huge part in your negative view of the current genre of games?

Would it be a fair comment to say that the consensus on this thread is that we don't agree with the Op?

That's how I see Blizzard and Bioware and all the others. Blizz corrupted and killed WoW, then did the same with Diablo for the sake of pleasing a younger and stupider, but broader audience. Bioware - same thing. Money is the source of all evil I tell you! If the state commissioned video games with "some" producer's control (a producer would be an artist too, not a businessman), then we'd be living in a golden era of video games. It'd be called socialism though, which people have been trained to hate, so that wouldn't fly. Are there any development companies that you do respect and like?

But I'm sure pre-EA BioWare was a beacon of proper working hours and non-"sweatshop" conditions, right? Fans don't care about employee working conditions in the slightest, all they care about is whether or not they like the game. Plenty of people here that enjoy games that are oblivious to the fact that they were made on an 80 hour work week for over a year with epic employee attrition after the fact when they realize it's not sustainable long term. Holy Smoke Alan, are you being serious about the 80 hour work week. That's 16 hours a day if you only work Monday- Friday? Imagine being born in modern Japan and being subjected to crunchtime your entire life. That's a good photo but as far as I remember those aren't the work conditions of people in Japan, this photo is a picture of cheap hotel accommodation that people use as normal hotel rooms are very expensive.

This is fairly common throughout the games industry that hours can be pretty extreme. I know a lot of places are trying to get better at it, but like there was the #RyzeFacts thing that happened earlier where people were getting on the dev for coming across as being proud of supplying over 10,000 crunch meals (and I agree that that isn't something to be proud of). All of the crunch (maybe 10-20 days in the last 2 years) I have worked on DAI so far, though, has been voluntary (i.e. I really wanted to get some stuff done because my plan for how long it'd take for me to get some tasking done wasn't accurate). I don't mind doing it because I don't do it much, and it's because I want to help make the game be really good. I could make more money elsewhere (especially in Oil rich Alberta), but I am still very comfortably compensated and frankly the work culture (I got randomly high fived by people in the hallway because they actually know who Ryu is) and so forth is just more enjoyable for me. My point was just that if anyone wants to hold EA to the fire for its sweatshop, I think people are being a bit discriminating in how they apply their concern for the poor workers. Thanks for sharing, I have to say that's an impressive work ethos. Things can't be that bad at Bioware if people are prepared to work those hours. Nice one

I'm thinking Dragon Age 2 is probably what you are looking for Monte ?

Wow those screenshots look epic ...seriously impressive

But I'm sure pre-EA BioWare was a beacon of proper working hours and non-"sweatshop" conditions, right? Fans don't care about employee working conditions in the slightest, all they care about is whether or not they like the game. Plenty of people here that enjoy games that are oblivious to the fact that they were made on an 80 hour work week for over a year with epic employee attrition after the fact when they realize it's not sustainable long term. Holy Smoke Alan, are you being serious about the 80 hour work week. That's 16 hours a day if you only work Monday- Friday?

Well, it was a facetious comment on the idea that someone will always get offended it seems. But how nice to know you have a good social conscience. Thanks Malc, and its nice to know that you know I have a social conscience...that's really nice to know