Drowsy Emperor

Could be, but the latter part is definitely true.

Because hey, how can it not be good to have an army of convicts and killers?

The same happened to me... although I can't bring myself to go through both ME games again. Judging by ME2 it won't make much of a difference either. Besides, my Shepard was convict level hideous. I did it for the lulz but somehow it got annoying seeing the combination of his ugly mug and impotent voice for 25 hours.

It can still be bought on Amazon. It may be another special edition but it definitely includes the map and soundtrack. I don't think there's a card game in it though.

You're just jealous because they have something sacred left in their society In Europe, pissing on christian tradition = the jolly good practice of free speech.

How come you didn't tell us you were visiting the states, Boo? I hope you're not expecting a prize for that astounding deduction

So late to the party? What gives? I played it when it came out. I mean I started a new game. Oh. Why would you do such a thing?

191cm, ha! Your puny inches would deprive me of that important cm.

Being an officer is a physically demanding job. If you can't restrain a non violent middle class kid you should be behind a desk or not in the police force. In other words, stupid lazy bitch. And in the background: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2xV8cBnGu4

Your office job isn't enough capitalism for you?

So late to the party? What gives?

I'd like to see a game in the same vein as PS:T. What I mean by that is a game that tackles serious, philosophical issues (insofar as a game can do such a thing). The actual form is not important, although I would like it to be an RPG. Seeing as how Torment barely fitted in RPG conventions, it could just as easily be an adventure. The details of the story are not important but it has to carry real weight and be closer to actual life than to arbitrary mechanics. Just like in Torment, which could be superficially labeled as bizzare or outlandish - but is really a very human story of duty and redemption. Hopefully it would be aesthetically appealing. Things that popped into my mind while writing this suggestion: Tarkovsky's Stalker, Blade Runner, Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, Shadow of the Colossus (for aesthetic reasons). Keep it human and people will be talking about it for years, like they do with PST. Good luck. PS: It should not be PST2. That book is closed in the best way it could be, and there's nothing more worth saying about the Nameless One.

It's the "winner takes all" system, not the campaign costs which result in that. The actual election takes place after a campaign, which cannot, in general, get off the ground for third party candidates in a huge country like the US. Especially since those who could potentially fund such an expensive independent campaign are by default not interested in any real change. I'm not disagreeing, but the order of things is important. The fact that the actual power resides in an institution where only one person is elected with the winner takes all system is the final nail in the coffin.

Failure to meet (unrealistic) expectations suggests that Obama will not get another term in office. On the other hand, the Republicans seem to be able to put forth only morons and seemingly unbalanced people so they might help keep Obama alive. Not that it matters anyway, the flavor might be different but whether you pick chocolate or vanilla you're still eating the same ****. The american election system is rigged by impossibly high campaign costs, so that a candidate that is not created by the two parties has 0 chance to win. Maybe play kingmaker, but certainly not win. That's what keeps the policies consistent

That's why they created collectors editions so they could charge thrice the price for a few trinkets that used to be included for free.

Is that irony I smell. You have a sharp nose, my otherwise misguided friend. We can't all be lawyers.

Is that irony I smell.

Puppet mode (I think that's what its called) is mandatory. The AI is too stupid to rely on.

The UN had no mandate to use force in Rwanda IIRC. Some of them weren't even armed. That whole crisis was a disaster, but it Belgian involvement that led to it in the first place, with the classic colonial policy of supporting an ethnic minority rule over an ethnic majority. That led to a lot of bad blood and the outcome was predictable. Strictly speaking they aren't even separate ethincities - from what I was taught in my peace studies course they were basically one ethnicity but two separate lifestyles (cattle grazing and agriculture.) . I don't know how correct that is however. Regardless, Morgoth is right. Barbaric acts in war shouldn't be tolerated with a systematic slap on the wrist policy the US has. Those people will one day come back home and they might be pissing on corpses after a killing spree in an american city next. Even if they don't its simply unethical.

The problem is that today's armies are effectively no more than mercenaries, a profession done more for the money than anything else. As such, they by default attract the stupid, poor, psychotic and criminals. And ignorance makes for a poor excuse. @Wals: justifying pissing on corpses puts you just below Papua New Guinea's cannibals on the civilization scale. Any soldier of a twentieth century european nation state, back when people had an idea just what they were fighting for, even if they were going the wrong way about it would consider these men no better than dogs. If they can't stomach the fight, they shouldn't be in it.

I hope Avellone does a kickstarter. However, given how much creative control cutting out the publisher would give him - it would have to have the same level of inspiration as PST. So if he's going to go ahead with such a project, it better be very well thought out idea.

DnD as a system is too easy to abuse, and too tempting to avoid abusing. That's why I stick to rules lighter systems now.

And in other recent news, pissing on corpses is also in vogue with the marines: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085378/US-troops-urinating-dead-Afghan-bodies-video-used-Taliban-recruitment-tool.html