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Watching Trump on Youtube now (live in Ohio). It seems America's military and defense system is in a worse state than Britain. Obama and Hillary Clinton did a great job there. (Sarcasm)

So the Codex is reporting that Herve Caen is finally packing it in at Interplay. Last I heard from this company I think they were running a scam to Kickstart a fallout title... so is there anything left? I think the Planescape setting has been discontinued, and Interplay lost it to whatever happened to Atari, any other IP's Obsidian or InXile might be able to get?. Also; it bloody well took long enough, what have they been doing in the past 15-20 years...

See No Evil, Hear No Evil. Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder - should really be mandatory viewing for everyone on the planet. RIP.

I'll concede (having done some research) that it was inaccurate to label Sweden as I did. If Sweden was the subject of a question and study though: are migrants assaulting/raping swedish women? It seems as though providing a definitive answer is impossible. As an observer it seems that Sweden is governed by the far left, a government that sees no wrong with immigration and will punish it's native citizens severely for raising questions on immigration. In the event that judges are presented with cases of migrants raping women, they consider the rapists to be victims of their previous culture and provide lenient sentences: "In an astounding number of cases, the Swedish courts have demonstrated sympathy for the rapists. Several times the courts have acquitted suspects who have claimed that the girl wanted sex with six, seven or eight men." "A 15-year-old girl was locked up while six men of foreign extraction had sex with her. The lower court convicted the six men but the court of appeals acquitted them because no violence had occurred, and because the court determined that the girl "had not been in a defenseless position."' In fact, it seems to be a greater crime (4 years min jail) for a citizen to raise concerns on immigration. The government has refused to allow police to record the ethnicity of criminals, classifies second generation migrants as Swedish, and actively tried to prevent (as happened in Cologne, Germany) the police from telling the public what happened in Stockholm. The consensus seems to be that the far left government doesn't want to swing public opinion to the right when it comes to the next elections. When Swedish citizens voice dissent, such as policemen telling women not to go out at night, it's done in a totally PC manner. People expressing informative views are excluded from society and citizens are afraid to read their work, experts (Michael Hess) presenting informed facts to judges are dismissed as personal racist opinions, or an artists (Dan Park) freedom of expression against PC is prosecuted as a form of insanity by the court. Michael Hess discovered (before the government stopped measuring) that: Whether or not they measured by the number of convicted rapists or men suspected of rape, men of foreign extraction were represented far more than Swedes. And this greater representation of persons with a foreign background keeps increasing: 1960-1970s – 1.2 to 2.6 times as often as Swedes 1980s – 2.1 to 4.7 times as often as Swedes 1990s – 2.1 to 8.1 times as often as Swedes 2000s – 2.1 to 19.5 times as often as Swedes The reason that this concerns me is that in Britain the police refused to investigate Pakistani Muslim men who were grooming and raping over a thousand girls over a fifteen year period. They were paralysed by political correctness and afraid of being labelled racist. Consider that a moment - parents, police, social workers, lawyers, politicians and every policeman and woman from the lowest to the top ranks who were aware of this did nothing because political correctness prevented them from doing so. Now consider -from Wikipedia- that in Sweden: According to Brå, it is likely that only around 20 per cent of all rapes are being reported, which was confirmed in a 2001 study of the extent of violence against women, funded by the Government of Sweden and the Crime Victim Compensation and Support Authority. As well as: How is it, then, that in 2008, Sweden's neighbor Denmark only had 7.3 rapes per 100,000 inhabitants compared to 53.2 in Sweden? Danish legislation is not very different from Sweden's, and there is no obvious reason why Danish women should be less inclined to report rape than their Swedish counterparts. In 2011, 6,509 rapes were reported to the Swedish police -- but only 392 in Denmark. The population of Denmark is about half the size of Sweden's, so even adjusted for size, the discrepancy is significant. In Sweden, the authorities do what they can to conceal the origin of the rapists. In Denmark, the state's official statistical office, Statistics Denmark, revealed that in 2010 more than half of convicted rapists had an immigrant background. So does that mean that 53 per 100,000 inhabitants (another site said about 1 in 4 women) are victims of sexual attacks, that this figure is only 20% of the actual figure (I expect, not including the 55 'no-go' zones/156 ghetto areas as of 2006) and that as I mentioned above, not just the people in a single town of Rotherham in the UK, but EVERYONE who has a legal and moral responsibility from the government down is -country wide- doing nothing or acting in a politically correct manner because they are afraid of the consequences of being labelled racist? Because, quite honestly, that would cause me to entirely re-evaluate my perception of the entire human race. Or maybe I'm the crazy for seeing a problem and Swedish government is the future of Europe. This is what the future holds for all barbarians like me who actually knows of a girl who was a victim of the type of rape mentioned in Rotherham. Who thinks that political correctness is a system used by the far left not to facilitate law, or justice, but (either by design or ineptitude) to re-write of a persons rationality through guilt and other projected behaviours and attitudes to achieve their own agendas. So essentially I think that if you don't see a problem here, and are not prepared to query the source of the problem - then you're just laying down, grinning and bearing it. All in the name of political correctness. That's my take on it as an observer, apologies if anyone takes it the wrong way, probably won't discuss this anymore. My father is Tunisian and I spent many a youthful holiday surrounded by Arabic and Muslim culture which still facinates me today - I have nothing but great memories of teaching adult offenders (over 5000 for 5 years) of which 70% were black or from an ethnic minority and totally smashed government targets to the extent that other colleges from Europe were visiting to discuss our recipe for success (hint: it was respect), but my experience with the left has always been bad. Sources: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5195/sweden-rape http://www.infowars.com/feminists-mute-on-muslim-rape-epidemic-sweeping-europe/ http://pamelageller.com/2014/04/sharia-sweden-new-law-criminalizes-criticism-islam.html/#sthash.6pVmJ7i5.dpu https://swedenreport.org/2014/10/29/swedish-police-55-official-no-go-zones/ http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2014/April/Soviet-Sweden-Model-Nation-Sliding-to-Third-World http://www.d-intl.com/2014/03/29/good-bye-sweden-you-wont-get-me-for-insanity/?lang=en http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/13/watch-swedish-police-blame-self-censorship-not-political-cover-up-for-migrant-for-sex-mob-silence/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/13/sex-assaults-sweden-stockholm-music-festival https://www.rt.com/news/328523-swedish-police-refugee-assaults/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden

The way I look at it is that countries need to lay out the ground rules from the start. Germany has this open door policy (and Sweden) of total PC culture and acceptance, and then start chucking people out of the country when it hits the fan, and banning traditional dress because (I assume) of security fears. This is where I agree with Donald Trump and Nigel Farage - if this was done properly they would have set camps up in the migrants native countries that checked for valid status, made a person aware of expected changes and local laws, and then deported that person if they broke those laws or denied them access if they didn't agree. As it is in France, a man was attacked with hatchets and harpoons for taking a photo of a woman in a 'burqini'. Now I half expect that she wouldn't have been on the beech without one, and he would have been attacked for sure if she was wearing a normal costume. But they're effectively shutting the door after the horse has bolted with the ban. And people that talk about the Muslim community changing the radicals to integrate better are morons - because that's a long term change. Assuming it works. In the short term you're not going to change the mind of a person armed with a machete going into a shopping centre to kill people with: "Hey, hold on a moment while I ring up someone who can talk you out of this". This is why I question the sanity of these leaders. Germany is frightening the crap out of it's citizens by telling them to stock up on supplies for 10 days, while simultaneously creating friction with migrants with a burqa ban - knowing that this was one of the reasons France has been targetted so much because of theirs.

According to Brigitte Gabriel (great deal of respect for that lady) the coup would have been a good thing...

AFAIK Sweden is now the rape capital of Europe, and second highest the world world over. It's expected that as much as 190,000 migrants will come into Sweden this year and 160,000 last year, with 80,000 being sent home. The rape epidemic started (as in Germany) with the influx of migrants, with the governments trying to cover it up. I'd say that as far as cultural integration goes, and economic concerns are predicted, putting a question mark over Sweden is the only logical way to look at it. And can only hope for the best for the future of their country. I honestly think we're at a time in Europe where the projections of conspiracy theorists are starting to sound more reasonable than the decisions of world leaders. Germany for instance, now wants to ban the burqa. It's like they're actually trying to incite social unrest. ...further.

But do you blame him? Trump has unashamedly played the " Muslims are going to kll us all " card....and the mayor of London is a progressive Muslim who is also a committed UK citizen IMO we need more Muslims in the public limelight who are supportive to the Western country they live in and are vocal about it, part of the perceived criticism towards some members of the Muslim community is they lack loyalty and don't want to integrate And remember there is lots of misinformation about Muslims from some of Trumps supporters. I watched this week a women walk out of one of Trumps conventions and they interviewed her about what she thought of Trump She honestly said " Trump is right, Obama is a Muslim and he wants to destroy the USA " How can people still be thinking Obama is a Muslim ? I don't follow Obama, but it seems he is pretty far-left and my experience with leaders of that type is that they put their ideals before the law and justice. As far as the mayor of London goes: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/05/is-it-islamophobic-to-draw-attention-to-sadiq-khans-links-with-extremists/ An excerpt: "Khan himself gave evidence to the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee in which he said ‘there is a consensus among Islamic scholars that Mr Al-Qaradawi is not the extremist that he is painted as being’. "So who is this Muslim scholar, who was warmly welcomed to London in 2004 by Ken Livingstone? Among other things, he’s the author of a book called The Lawful and Prohibited in Islam in which he justifies wife beating and discusses whether homosexuals should be killed. Most notoriously, he condones ‘martyrdom operations’, i.e. suicide bombings, against Israeli civilians, which he describes as ‘God’s justice’: ‘Allah Almighty is just; through his infinite wisdom he has given the weak a weapon the strong do not have and that is their ability to turn their bodies into bombs as Palestinians do.’ In spite of holding these views, Qaradawi is not an ‘extremist’ in Khan’s eyes". Also, his family have ties to extremist groups. Pretty concerning to me. I once lived at the same address as a person who had committed minor fraud and while banking online, the internet timed out - for which my bank suspended my account for 3 months while they went through my entire finances with a fine tooth comb - all because the fraud was tied to the address, so find it kinda funny that the mayor of London gets a pass on the above and other questionable links to extremist groups. As far as Trump scaremongering goes - I just see it as how leaders measure risk. They know more than we do concerning threats, and public opinion is turning in Europe. In London, extremists can stage a march, walk through the streets with signs saying: "The police are the terrorists", "Overthrow the government", "Kill the Prime minister", "Sharia Law for all" and nobody bats an eyelid. When a bunch of white guys stage a peaceful protest at being below 10% of the population in an area their families lived in for four generations and stating that multiculturalism has failed because they're physically at risk walking through these areas - they get counter-protested and their lives are threatened by the Muslim citizens to the point of being escorted to safety by the police. I always look for what leaders prioritize - Louisiana floods, Obama sends memo stating people shouldn't discriminate during the crisis and continues playing golf. Trump wants to instigate a security based migrant system, fix the economy of the USA and Hilary Clinton calls for 550% increase in migration and talks about minor stuff like shutting down Brietbart. And the Mayor of London is the same as Obama and Hilary Clinton - concerned with Trump, online policing of hate speech and bikini body posters, when there are Muslim patrols threatening anyone who walks through areas they're families have lived in for generations because now it's 'a Muslim area'. I hope the mayor of London brings people together, but leaders need to get their priorities right.

Watched "The Walk" recently about the french artist Philippe Petit doing a wire walk across the Twin Towers in the 70's. Amazing story of human achievement, including the construction of the towers.

Our mayor in London is criticizing Trump for his views. He's only been serving for about 5 mins, I think he's on the way to America to meet with other mayor's to discuss what they'll do (when I hope) Trump becomes president. Interesting times.

All this stuff about Hillary Clinton's corruption and the way they make their money... amazing the way people just gloss over it, and that just seems like the tip of the iceberg. If I was an American, I'd vote for Trump.

I think some games are ok with it (DA:O), comes to mind, generally I've found heat movement is better so the single card isn't running hot/loud. But yeah, it looks like they fudged it and I'll probably go for the single card.

As the title suggests. I've got an older rig: i7, x2 amd5870's, 6GBDDR3 ram, but outside of Kickstarter haven't really bought that many mainstream games. My system runs hot with some Unity titles (Satellite Reign more than others), and am assuming the bottleneck is the video cards first, and system ram second. My next AAA purchase is likely to be Dawn of War: Warhammer, and don't think my system can make it. So really thinking of upgrading cards, but might go for the sli option and crossfire to save a bit of money, or I might shell out on a single powerful card (but mostly interested in how quiet it is). But it seems to me that developers haven't really been taking much notice of multiple GPU's and glitches often occur in games that support them... Anyone had different experience?.

I've got a 24" display, but felt that I really needed several of them around me (like the master in Fallout 1), with a chaos granted huge contracting eyeball grafted to the back of my head and a series of tentacles moving the monitors around - as my face twitched and spasmed between them like the super fast shifting of head and face that occurs in horror films... ...if I had any chance of following the camera in that game. I thought it was poorly done.

I know it's all about the blood ravens and chaos, but there should be some continuity with the other races as well - with regard to hero units.

I believe a person should be allowed to leave a legacy of wealth for their family after they're gone. To be specific - I'm only now starting to get to the point my great grandfather was at over a hundred years ago (before my family lost everything they had twice over two generations), and I'll be lucky to know half as much as him, and to achieve half as much as he did if I live to 80.

The camera in WL2 should never have made it past the community testing. I'm selfish in that I don't want to be exposed to spoilers, but what the hell was the community smoking when they didn't complain about that camera? I blame the codexers - I thought they had this stuff under their critical eye.

I remember being able to almost solo the game (expansions) as a necron lord, in comparison taking the demonic upgrade as chaos, and effectively being turned into a giant Bart Simpson (those scenes where he was wacked/peppered by snowballs to comical death). Hopefully they'll expand on the 'rpg system' in DOW 3 and you can excel in playstyle areas. But I'd prefer the gameplay of the first DOW over a type of D6 system where everyone does equally, or progressively more damage.

Yeah, I've been trying to work out if Obsidian have an agenda to curtail my freedom of speech over the past few days - and I'm starting to see it happen now. I wanna express myself as a mechwarrior in my home made ****pit, sitting in a pea**** chair with a ****tail at the ready while wearing a ****-comb hat, and you guys are preventing it.

All of it dude. But my sentence structure, grammar, and spelling sucks as well (public school education from 80's to 90's in England), but your humor makes up for it - apply for Boris Johnson's job...good things will happen I'm sure.

Even in professional mode that developer couldn't hide that slapped bum face all mechcommander player's make when their pilots take a PPC through the ****pit. Edit: Hey, this site wont let me type ****pit. You know, that thing pilots ride in battlemechs and planes.

I knew that dude, I can pick up on most different types of humor - it's just your English that sucks

It would be an interesting mechanic to introduce if the eldar were more individually powerful than other races, and pulled out of a battle due to losses. I remember in the first DOW, screwing up, allowing the eldar to build themselves up and setting up this perimeter of gatling guns around my base with over a hundred space marines mowing down about 10 eldar per second, while my hero units assaulted their base. I made it, but it was a bit frustrating. And I kinda felt bad, because I probably killed so many eldar it permanently changed the colour of the planets topsoil.

British people generally don't get upset unless you seriously mess with them. If there's an extremist march on with banners saying "kill all police", "overthrow the government", "implement stoning as punishment for adultery", etc, the average response is: "Crap, there's a traffic jam and delays around westminster". But in trying to avoid the jams and people start jumping the traffic queues, or driving over 3" potholes through side streets - then the average British driver/citizen is fired up and ready to commit murder. Suppose it's what happens when you live in a country where either everything is relatively ok, or the media doesn't really tell you everything from a fact based point of view. It's great material for some black comedy though.

Have put my playthough of this on hold until I can forget all the criticism of it at launch. Considering how long it takes Beamdog to patch their games and get mandatory stuff working (I've given up on working soundsets after almost 6 years) it'll probably be next year or so.