Oerwinde
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Apparently todays weekly is a paradox bundle. Hopefully I wont have already owned it all
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Sorry friend Bruce, but for all the repetition of the message, from Obama "being sure" and the Israeli intelligence services claiming as "fact" it happened, hard evidence is in very short supply. Currently about as convincing a case as Saddams stock piles of WMD ready to deploy. I sat down yesterday, read a number of web site news articles (everything from bbc over al jazeera to fox news, trying not to laugh too hard at the latter) and put a critical view on the sources and question the motivation of each article. Couldn't find a single "agenda-less" claim that it happened. Entirely anecdotal, I know. Still makes me question whether or not somebody is fanning the flames for less obvious reasons. Many Bothans died to get them that information.
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New avatar is the redesign of Captain Canuck, as seen in his new webseries here
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Broadchurch finished. I figured out the killer around episode 5 but wasn't certain, and I figured it out due to the way the show was done rather than any hints and such. Totally took the wife by surprise. I liked how it didn't end after they nabbed the killer, and went on to show a bit of the aftermath, the emotional toll on the family, and those who knew the killer. The American version is going to screw it up.
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We looked at Rwanda during a political science class in high school, but it was a few years after the fact. Ethnic cleansing and civil war are a mite different though.
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I usually have subtitles on on movies/netflix as well, because the sound fx and music is generally like 10000x louder than the voices and I don't want to have to keep turning it up and down so I just set the volume so that the fx/music isn't jarring and that usually leaves dialogue inaudible. When I go into sound options in a game and it has the option of jacking up the voice and turning down effects and music, I want to send extra money to the developers. Transformers War For Cybertron was the only game I could play at night while the wife was sleeping because the xbox is in my bedroom, and it had options to turn the sound fx down.
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Nah, first conversation with the guy in the camp who gives you your first mission didn't have subtitles, first person after getting my mission didn't have subtitles, went in to turn them on and no option. Looked online and there was a mod to add subtitles into the game but it doesn't work with the steam version because the dev's locked out the tool they used to add them in in a patch. It wasn't so noticeable the first time I played a couple years back because I had headphones so outside noise was blocked, but now I need to crank it up to hear it over PC/Desk Fan/Kids/Wife/etc.
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I hate that subtitles in games are turned off by default and its usually the first thing I do. With Bioware's quest for the ultimate cinematic experience its gotta bug some people that people like me tend to turn on subtitles, read the dialogue, then skip the voice over to move on with the story. Games that don't let me skip the dialogue when I'm done reading tend to get pushed to the side pretty quickly, as do games with no or not very legible subtitles. There have been a few games on Xbox360 that I've put down very shortly because the subtitles weren't readable on a 27 inch TV. Dungeon Siege 3 was one of them. I was super psyched to pick up the STALKER games recently, and stopped playing like 10 minutes in because there were no subtitles.
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What we should be doing is aiding refugees and that's about it. Help the people who want no part of it, let the rest kill themselves. As I get older I find I have less tolerance for other cultures, and at this point I would be ok with muslim/arab culture disappearing.
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But why would they need to bomb areas that had already been decimated by the Chemical attack? Its not like there are rebels there anymore fighting back. Trust me on this one the Assad regime is behind the usage of Chemical weapons . The question I want to know is " what is Canada planning to do or say about it" ? I hope Harper makes one good decision in his mandate and stays the hell out of it. The choice is between islamic extremists or secular dictatorship, I hope they kill each other off.
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The Shadow Cabal, an indie fantasy epic I pledged on Kickstarter. Actually wasn't bad. Some of the effects were cheesy, but it was otherwise visually very good, plot wasn't terrible, and the elf girl did a really good job I thought. Was sometimes jarring to see lord of the rings props though. I think most of Arrowstorm's movies are on Netflix so I imagine this one will hit soon too.
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+10 for reading Wild Cards. Really enjoying it so far. Dr Tachyon is a great character. My only issue is how little history deviates with superpowered beings in the world.
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He's too old. Miles Morales is like 13.
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Yes, I'm sorry that was false. You're given 3 options, not 4.
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Affleck has put in more bad performances than good, but he is capable of delivering solid work, so hopefully this will be one of them. My initial reaction was negative, but there have been tons of actors who have turned in solid performances in roles everyone thought they were wrong for. Heck, I think people were mostly disappointed in Heath Ledger's casting as Joker, and look how that turned out. On another note, was anyone able to catch the leaked Guardians of the Galaxy clip from ComicCon before it got taken down? All I was able to see was this: I'm sold.
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Agreed, ME2 had a cool ending and the last mission of the game was just one of the best things ever. I see where most of the hate comes from about ME3's ending, but I find it to be really exaggerated. Most people don't like how the choices provided to you at the end are unaffected by all of the choices you've made throughout all three games (which isn't 100% true but close enough). I for one saw this coming. I'm confused? Are you saying that the choices in the previous ME didn't make a difference in the final outcome of the last game? From what I've seen, the complaints stem from the fact that you're always presented with the same four decisions in ME3's ending, regardless of your choices in all of the previous games. And also, there isn't much closure at all after you've made that choice. My problem with the ending is that you're given 4 options, but no matter what you pick you get the same ending with negligible variations
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Well one thing with the Steam version is that as far as I know, you buy any version of a game on steam, and it will let you play both mac and linux versions as well if available so no need to get multiplr copies. That might be what they mean when saying multi platform should opt for steam. -
I really liked Anders in Awakening, and kept hoping his quest line in DA2 would be to help him be free of Justice so he could go back to being likable again. Unfortunately he went beyond salvation and there was no way to keep him alive without me feeling dirty.
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I saw my stacks of dragonlance books on my shelf the other day and wanted to pick them up, but I have like 60 books on my kindle waitig for me that I haven't read yet. Gonna give the Maztica series a go after I'm done with Wild Cards.
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Don't forget to tell us how the date went. Well, obviously this is for a woman. But i think you chaps overestimate how hard a souffle is. Modern ovens, and thick glassware make them a doddle. And they are a very good way to deliver a taste kick. You know, in my opinion. What I really need is a system for also dusting some salt-caramel across the top. But i don't thnk that'sppossible without some sort of industrial process and liquid nitrogen. I don't know about dusting, but you could make some salted caramel, then drizzle it on some wax paper and put it in the freezer. When servig pull it out and either break or chop the drizzle and sprinkle it on top
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In the Deep Silver one I paid the dollar since I already had the SR3 whole package and didn't care about Dead Island, and I'm dead broke so I'm not passing up games for a buck. Then they added Risen, Metro, and Sacred Citadel and I got all those too, despite them being added to the "pay more than the average" tier. That was pretty sweet.
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What gets me in the comments is everyone saying it looks like a combo of DA:O and DA2. Did we play different versions of DA:O? Because I was never zoomed in so my character took up 75% of the screen hitting a roll button so I can come up behind. Hell, I didn't do that in DA2 either.
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I liked Witcher 2, but its gameplay fit a single character. That gameplay doesn't fit party-based at all. Hopefully the PC experience is closer to DA:O.
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I like this commercial... the feels. http://youtu.be/ceTBF1Hik5I
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We've been really enjoying Broadchurch, and heard they were doing an American version and all I could think was "Broadchurch is in english, with an amazing cast of people that are recognizable stateside, so why would they need to do an American version? Just air the original"
