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Well, atleast we're not Finnish. Those guys have a weird friggin' language, its not even indo-european in origin like proper languages. Just alot of hakka-pakka-ykki-kykki It's Finno-Ugric like Estonian, we kind of have a secret club. Swedish sounds pretty weird to me as well, so take that!

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Oh I forgot to mention, I moved the girl even farther away, and she still got hit. I hate that kind of stuff. It's much more fun to have random crazy stuff happen, Fallout style.

If you play from DVD, it sounds like there's a F16 in the same room. If you play from hard drive, it's better but still louder than I like. The controller is of course matter of opinion, but I like the 360 controller a lot more. Feels better on hands, I get better grip from the sticks and then theres the triggers. There is a way to create an eldritch abomination, combining the best of both: Such a thing is not meant to be and each second of it's unnatural existence is like an eternity of torture for the unlucky PS3 that it is connected to. The very earth under the PS3 will weep and possibly split open to swallow both the player and the controller whole.

What? You mean you drag a peon (Peon: very lov level mercs that cost no money or up to 150 a day that you use as mules for your logistic train, random militia trainers, territary repairers and such) just to leave him/her at the edge of the map with the sole purpose of "save, shoot, reload if miss, make the peon spend some ap to change the randomised outcome and shoot again"??? You cheater! I mean have someone change pose/move/reload weapon after reloading the save and then take the shot with the newly randomized chance. I think it used to work at least some time ago...

I have both, and given the choice between buying a game for the disc-scratching banshee-screaming 360 and the reliable quietly humming PS3, I'll take Sony's offering any day of the week. Hell, my X360 is labeled "mass effect" in my source list Never heard the beast myself, but from what I've read it's pretty bad. Doesn't the 360 have a better controller? If you have the choice, the PC version will be the best bet anyway.

It's easy enough to beat the system by doing something else before shooting. If people want to cheat, they will. Not that I ever have

Haha then you should try the time limited missions in GTA3. Brainspasm guaranteed San Andreas was horrible enough. Ugh that toy airplane mission and the "don't scratch the car" type stuff drove me crazy.

I'm all for gun control. I don't think that forcing people who don't care/want to vote is a good idea. Is voting randomly/ruining the ballot any better than not voting at all? It's more about the culture, if people see voting as their civil duty they'll do it regardless of whether it is compulsory or not, if they don't want to, they will just ruin the ballot. I don't see the advantage here.

BG&E & Giants have some fun racing mini-games. Pity there wasn't any beach volleyball, though. I hated the race part in BG&E. I'm just not good with limited time situations and I get easily frustrated after a couple of tries.

Did they actually burn the Danish flag? From the clips I've seen they usually have a bunch of American ones ready to go, but have to improvise when some other country pisses them off.

Agreed. I can't help but wonder, though: is that a sad fact of life or merely a consequence of thought railroading and opinion manipulation? Stuff like censorship is actually conducive to widespread stupidification. It is through analysis that truth is uncovered. I think it comes down to most people not caring and/or blindly following someone more charismatic with whatever agenda, because it is easier. I think that's entirely cultural, if it's true at all. Charismatic isn't a word I'd use to describe Howard, Keating, Rudd, or Hawke, for example. In fact Rudd is probably one of the most boring and nerdy leaders Australia's had, and he also has the highest consistent approval rating of them all at about 65% favourable. I also think it's presumptive of you to assume that you are one of a privileged few who votes on issues rather than personality - I think you'll find in you're not so special. The don't vote? I am forever thankful for compulsory voting here. I never said I was somehow superior. The problem is usually there not being any really good choices so you have to choose the best of the bad ones. I don't think compulsory voting would go too well over here. Apparently it's a valid form of protest to not vote.

Doesn't it have an awesome TUTU style installer that lets you install/uninstall all the different components separately?

Makes you wonder if they even had any focus groups or QA people. Everyone hated the mechs, same with the Farcry's Trigen.

Cheap Estonian/Russian alcohol?

Agreed. I can't help but wonder, though: is that a sad fact of life or merely a consequence of thought railroading and opinion manipulation? Stuff like censorship is actually conducive to widespread stupidification. It is through analysis that truth is uncovered. I think it comes down to most people not caring and/or blindly following someone more charismatic with whatever agenda, because it is easier. Everything must always be us against them. The majority that should balance out the extremes is so tired with the crazy antics that they don't vote or want to argue with the more extreme people.

I'm surprised anybody even knows about Lexx. It was pretty damn obscure. I only know of it because there was that awesome chart comparing fictional spaceship sizes and everyone wanted to know what a giant **** was doing there. It's probably a combination of the genre falling into obscurity as "hardcore" and gaming becoming more mainstream and console-oriented. Also, most of the attempts at 3d tactical strategy games have been failures for one reason or another. There is still Silent Storm, mechs be damned.

I posted it in another thread, for whatever reason: A series of Shadowrun-based RPG/Tactical Strategy games ala Baldur's Gate with a sweet tactical combat engine(pause feature is a must, as is breakable cover) using the leftover Aliens RPG stuff would be super special awesome. That or a combat-light Call of Cthulhu RPG. It would need some really great writing to bring all the horrors to life and of course the sanity system. Weapons should probably be ineffective and magic a last resort with a huge sanity loss. I still can't imagine how it would all really come together, though.

Maybe they are using a lame randomizer? I can totally see your point, though. I don't really like racing/sports games with a few exceptions(Carmageddon, Flatout)

That requires the people to actually posses some rudimentary critical thinking skills and the ability to take a step back and look at things objectively, which a lot of people seem to lack. If someone has a valid point, then it might be worth listening to them or answering with another valid point, possibly creating a civilized discussion. While the general Estonian apathy is not really a positive quality, it does help with keeping things in perspective and not blowing little things out of proportion.

You just don't expect everything to work perfectly as written and compensate for that. That's why you don't have a completely free market even in America or other places that prefer as little government interference as possible.

No, there should not. Why should some opinions be censored? If I hate Jews, why do I have to hide myself? Aren't there safeguards in place to prevent hate speech from becoming hate crimes? Or does censoring hateful opinions somehow solve the problem (of hate)? What good is censorship, anyway? Oh I'm not propagating censorship. When someone says something stupid, they should be rightfully ridiculed for their stupid(baseless) arguments. This goes for both the religious people and anyone else. So if you say you hate Jews, I'd say you're ignorant.

I'm sure a pimped out FN P90 would do the job just fine Why do you hate it, though? It's certainly not for everyone, but hate is a strong word.

I think we went over that a couple of pages back. Ideas are just that, ideas. No ideology is perfect and they don't really work in practice exactly as written.

I get the point, I was arguing with 213374U. It's not somehow OK for the French to be chauvinist, because it's part of the culture. There should be a nice balance between total tolerance and openly hating someone.