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If they were subjected to some contemporary pop music, it's understandable. You funny

To be honest from an outsiders perspective it sounds like your mom doesn't really respect your ability to make the right decision, there is no doubt that she loves you and cares but maybe you what you need to do is calmly tell that her general lack of confidence in you is both demeaning and inhibiting you from making the right decisions in life. You need to make your own choices and if they are mistakes then they are your mistakes and you will deal with the consequences. But right now comments ikes "I've heard that before" are the last thing that you need to hear as you are clearly sensitive to this type of feedback

Please quote the guy instead of the article title. He's referencing budget and manpower, not the graphical output itself. Are you always such a nagging pest? Whoa, watch the attitude Morgie. Don't you know your performance reviews are coming up? If you don't follow proper linking procedure, don't expect that bonus check! Clever and apt comment

I'm going to donate to this project, it will only be $25 but I'm sure every cent counts

Holy Smoke, yet another RPG that seems to have huge potential. We are really spoilt lately, its great. That lady developer gets the message across nicely. I couldn't place her accent, East European?

Venting always helps

That doesn't sound a bit heavy handed to you? Perhaps a bit pandering. I like a game to have a message as much as the next guy, but targeting Fox News as evil seems like low hanging fruit. Akin to jokes about airline peanuts at this point. I hear what you saying but I find it interesting, the developers are obviously targeting everything that many people consider are decadent and false in our society anyway. If demonic forces were real you can understand those places would be there natural targets. So banks and night clubs and then institutions that influence peoples opinions would be in there cross-hairs, like news channels. These would then allow them to subvert people to there iniquitous way of thinking. So the idea makes sense to me.

Small enough to fairly reliably ID myself, if I post it here. :D Probably natural to have second thoughts at this point, but it's a job, not a prison sentence, so I can always just leave, if it goes completely to hell. I'll see what happens. As long as you'll still have access to the Obsidian forums the whole experience should be manageable

Unhappy, bitterly unhappy. Its a game based on the Torment concepts and narrative idea's so they need to keep the name Torment

100 % correct, the French have already mentioned on numerous occasions that they don't want to be in Mali indefinitely . And frankly you can't blame them

Which city are you now moving to Nep? I know changing a job can be stressful, even if you aren't happy in your current job, but I also believe a change like this will be therapeutic. New people, new faces and new life opportunities

I came to the conclusion years ago that I never make statements about what people would or should be interested in when it comes to gaming or anything in life really. Our constant desire to see how things work or to understand the process behind something is one of things that makes us human. So I don't think your request is weird at all

Ah, that makes sense, I guess. So the screen displays your overall "reputation" in white, and the higher of your two alignment scores in the appropriate color. Yeah, reputation is basically the sum of your renegade and paragon if I understand it correctly. Part of the reason for doing so, I believe, was to prevent situations where, because you didn't forcibly choose renegade ALL the time, you weren't restricted from renegade options towards the end of the game (which had higher requirements). The alternative, IMO, would have been to not necessarily have a linear progression for Paragon/Renegade requirements, but in this way it still let you make the decisions that your character feels is best for that situation, without preventing the options down the line because you were more balanced in your approach. Hi Alan Good to have you back and making some posts, where have you been?

Whats really gratifying for me is to see how happy the Malian citizens are to have the French getting involved in this conflict. Despite the fact that the French were the previous Colonial power the people of Mali recognize and appreciate there assistance. I have always maintained that one of the biggest issues in Africa is when certain African leaders blame Colonialism for there own lack of good governance and corruption. There is this "anti-western" sentiment in some places due to Colonialism and you see concerns raised where some African leaders would rather have African countries suffer from wars and poverty than to allow Western countries to intervene. Thats why this French intervention in Mali is also significant.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/15/wot-i-think-dmc-devil-may-cry/#more-138252 Here is a review of DmC. The more I read about the game the more I want to try it, I particularly like the way the game portrays the corruption of Western society by demonic forces.

Nice, I think I'll be trying this game next. Generally I have heard only comments about it.

Pretty much, i hope that France gets the balls for a total annihalation of those barbarians. Or rather capture each one of them and force them to slave labour and restore every single artifact while being forced to listen to Slayer - "Reign in Blood" in every waking hour. **** them and **** every piece of **** that support them. Luckily enough, i am not the one calling the shots here. Destroying cultural heritage really rubs me the wrong way. You know - us westerners are not really it position to call others Barbarians over such practices. There has been plenty of destroying cultural heritage throughout our history. I disagree that we can't get upset by there vandalism and call them barbarians, how do you think the Muslim community would have felt if the Americans had desecrated and destroyed Islamic mosques or religious sites in Iraq or Afghanistan? Except it wouldn't be done by believers of the same religion. In the end those sites are muslim and if muslims feel that they are blasphemous it's their call to make. Your point doesn't really make sense to me as there are different interpretations of Islam amongst Muslims and they have different places they consider holy in many cases. I would also say this has got nothing to do with religion but rather a lack of respect for objects or places that are considered sacred to some within Islam, so in other words barbaric behavior = barbarians

Pretty much, i hope that France gets the balls for a total annihalation of those barbarians. Or rather capture each one of them and force them to slave labour and restore every single artifact while being forced to listen to Slayer - "Reign in Blood" in every waking hour. **** them and **** every piece of **** that support them. Luckily enough, i am not the one calling the shots here. Destroying cultural heritage really rubs me the wrong way. You know - us westerners are not really it position to call others Barbarians over such practices. There has been plenty of destroying cultural heritage throughout our history. I disagree that we can't get upset by there vandalism and call them barbarians, how do you think the Muslim community would have felt if the Americans had desecrated and destroyed Islamic mosques or religious sites in Iraq or Afghanistan?

I think it has but damn thats an evocative video, can't wait

http://dgaider.tumblr.com/post/40361886357/on-romances-in-games I am vociferously supportive of Romance\Sex in my games but David Gaider, a senior writer at Bioware, makes some good points about the negative of Romance\Sex in games

I think he legitimately tries to point out that Al-Qaeda is a broad term used for many organisations which are autonomous from Al-Queda leadership."Al-Qaeda linked" doesn't say much. It's just a convenient term for us to put it into context Edit: it's like saying "Anonymous hacked the playstation network" Who is in Anonymous? any-one who claims to be. And what some do for anonymous might not involve much more than a fraction of its "members" All you need is a Guy Fawkes mask and an internet connection. Maybe but I don't think he is saying that, I believe he is saying that Al-Qaeda never really existed and is a product of the West in order to achieve certain political and military aims. Its what certain conspiracy theorists believe

Nah, a sense a humor is relative. You can't please everyone.

] But thats the thing Al-Qaeda has evolved years ago from the original "cave dwellers" association . There structure is scattered and nebulous but it operates in several countries throughout the world. They seem to have there biggest support base in countries that have a high level of poverty and lack established governments . They consider anyone who doesn't follow there archaic interpretation of Islam as the enemy, and this means many Muslim countries are targeted. I am not suggesting they are a threat like the Nazi's were or any established country but they are real and definitely pose a threat to almost all Western countries, there eternal enemies. Lol! Cncept of Al-Qaeda copypasted from Brotherhood of Nod (C&C). Skyscrapers attack, secret network of bad guys, megalomaniacal plans and periodically ressurecting evil leader - all this from western fantasies about ideal enemy. It's obviously media product of western mind - for western mind. Even because this we can say - Al-Qaeda ... never... exists. Never. If you want see how looks like Eastern resistance - watch at FATAH, PKK, Hesbollah, Hamas, Afghan Northern Alliance, Taliban - they are completely different from this. You can't seriously be suggesting that you don't think that Al-Qaeda is real as a known and established terrorist organization ?

What !!! Thats scientifically impossible, Hurlshot its been proven on this thread that you cannot like all the Fallout games. I think you are just being agreeable. And thats completely unnecessary. Please reword your post with how you really feel Now you're just making up things. No its called a Joke, hence the smiley face

But in traditional fantasy, like Conan, the men generally wore full armor. Yes, they wore so much full armor that Conan spent large portions of the Black Stranger naked or in a ragged peice of cloth he'd tied around his nethers, while fighting picts in little more than that, and usually that little more being incredibly strange. The truth is, while there are plenty of actual uses of armor in his books, they're far - far - from the rule. Generally considers the idea that it happened more often than not, and, it's true, there's plenty of armor abound in the Conan books, on men or otherwise, but there are plenty of completely unarmored, naked or 'strangely' armored men in those books. The amount of nudity and 'revealing' armor and 'revealing' garb on the men in those books is part of the reason the revealing stuff on the women isn't noticeable. Because it's all around, and everywhere. Heck, going back to the Black Stranger the opening of that book has him in just a tattered, dirty rag tied around him dangly bits. Seriously, that book is full of naked or barely dressed men and women of all ages you name it it's there, and it's not an exception amongst the Conan books. Howard liked his nude and skimpy men in those books every bit as much as the nude and skimpy women. I'm not really for skimpy armor, but I am not for 'armored' either. I don't even like calling it skimpy because it's not skimpy as much as, well, let's go back to the Picts and some of the other oddly armored, or unarmored, peoples in the Canon books who existed along side armored peoples and cultures in that setting. Skimpy is relative, but some just didn't wear armor or only wore 'some', and I'm not talking about women here. That's not fiction. That's reality, people of differing levels of technology exist at once even not, and in our past, some never embracing armor of any sort, and still to this day being unarmored. There are parts of this world, even today, still so primitive some people seem to not even realize they exist, and they exist right along side cultures with nuclear arms and shotguns and assault rifles. They existed right along side cultures with swords and plate armor and chain and so on. Part of the weird thing with fantasy RPG fanatics is they look for this 'proper' armored model in games where 'people are wearing practical armor all the time', so often, where it didn't even exist in our history, and certainly shouldn't in a fantasy. Armor sounds great until you realize how many cultures got by just fine without it. We have kevlar now, but for a long time when firearms were first developed people stopped bothering with armor entirely. Why? Because it no longer mattered, and it's important, in my mind, to think about the power of a firearm . . . now think about the power a Wizard in most settings weilds. In many ways it's the same issue. That armor that didn't work against a musket or cannon ball isn't very likely to work against a fireball or lightning called down from the sky either. Of course we have gameplay balance to consider, and that's why they do work in fantasy RPGs, but if we're talking practical on levels beyond a game . . . I'm sorry, I'm putting my money on the guy with the gun or the guy who can create fire from thin air over the moron with the plate armor and a sword anyday. Still, getting back to the armor, here's the thing. I like armor. It looks neat. I like clothes. They look neat. I like robes, they're neat too. I like the conservative - full covering - stuff more for myself and my characters, true, but I also have no problem with the other end of the spectrum, the supposed skimpy stuff, and the middleground in between the two exteemes. I firmly believe in 'something for everyone' and I do think you can create clothing/robes/armor and arms in every tier for both extremes, as well as the middleground, in any type of gear you might need to present a person with. Let them make the decision for themselves, pick what they like for themselves and create different factions in the world that speak to these different tastes, so everyone has a bit of something close to their heart, to their taste, and the only people left out are the extremist that loudly insist: "No only this is right nothing else is allowed but skimpy!" Or "No only this is right nothing else is allowed but Practical!" Or "No only this is right nothing else is allowed but Conservative!" Or ""No only this is right nothing else is allowed but the middleground!" Or whatever else didn't manage to make up on the spot. Anyways, I know only some of that had anything to do with your post . . . the reply is mostly because your post inspired the line of thoughts, rather than an actual direct response - but you inspired me, be happy or whatever. Nice post Umberlin, you know your stuff How come you are so knowledgeable on this topic?