Drowsy Emperor

I'm not saying its not true, I'm saying online gaming is toxic in general. Btw the point of the replies (and no one said she couldn't make the group) was the question what the point of the group was going to be, considering that outside of the group nothing was going to change since the same members can be simply spammed on other forums. No one forbids her anything, they just weren't thrilled about it. This includes some female members of that forum. Btw, regarding that user: Let me stress right now: I do not believe anyone on the moderation team banned Lauresh because they are a woman. I am 100% confident that it was because of the 30+ flags complaining about other users in the thread, with profane messages attached: “****ing ban this retard,” “for the love of god would someone please stop this person from ****ting up the thread already,” “mother ****ing trolling” and so on. Lauresh seems to have flagged not only sexist posts (which should be warned/probated) but also anything complaining that the thread was a setup (‘you’re a Goon, you just want to fight, etc.’)... While Lauresh had been banned before (and warned several times before that,) their previous ban was overturned and should not have counted as a strike. .... In other words, she's the exact type of vile online personality that's she's complaining against.

That's different and like having a competitive clan and its tied to the game. What she's proposing is excluding all males because some males are **** and that's naturally not going to sit well with people who haven't done anything wrong. Saying females need a "safe environment" is bound to rub normal people the wrong way. Ultimately, the question is, what are these gender exclusive discussions that need a "safe environment" and aren't suited for general chat.

Good moderation, reporting abuse in channels/private messages. Banning and good control of user accounts (so that they actually stand to lose something with a ban) /problem solved Being abused and spammed just because you're female is just as bad as having some kid scream at you because you fragged him for the seventeenth time in TF2. The world of online gaming or any gaming involving anonymous human interaction is ugly for all involved - men don't complain because there is nothing to be done about it. But I'm pretty sure its driven many people away. I urge any of you to try commenting on any aspect of TF2 gameplay on the corresponding Steam forum and see what happens, regardless of whether you're male or female.

I only read the first page of the responses and they were quite polite (especially by internet standards). They boiled down to forum members (including one female) asking why she'd need a female only group in the first place, and what it is that she has to discuss there that she couldn't in regular channels. Those are legitimate questions since she's creating an exclusive group that isn't tied to some game faction/element/whatever.

Please don't feed the troll. The opera house was very well planned by the terrorists, there was no way to resolve it without serious casualties. That's if you're referring to the civilian casualties, they never intended to let the terrorists live. The gas was a good plan but achieving optimal concentration of it in the air far more problematic when it is pumped in through ventilation and those who were closest were more exposed. The alternative was to run in guns blazing and let the suicide bombers detonate and kill everyone. I think some of the bombs turned out to be fake, but they couldn't have known that.

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I gave up on it quickly. Its very pretty but very shallow.

We could have post apocalypse without the Fallout universe. Its not exactly obligatory

Ah the old, we should "sort out" the natives problems and by sorting out the natives themselves and everything will be fine.

Yanukovich wasn't Putin's man. His rethoric had its pro-russian moments to appease his pro-russian voting base in the east, but up until the very end the actual policy he was leading was totally pro-western, with typical extreme emphasis on the (never to come) EU membership and "quiet and slow" NATO integration. Regardless he wasn't a directly controlled yes man like Yanetsuk or Timoshenko which made him too unpredictable for the west. Putin didn't like him because he knew he couldn't depend on him either.

Thought I should give DS2 another chance. Its the same nonsense from the first game. Unresponsive controls, terrible camera, suspect enemy animations (getting hit when I shouldn't be). I died 10 times against the mole thing at the very beginning due to how unresponsive rolling and totally random whether I get hit or not when I jump backwards. With each death it seemed my health bar got shorter and shorter. Really DS2? Penalizing the player for struggling with your '98 style clunky combat to make it even more obnoxious? I get what this game is doing. Its trolling me. But I'm not that much of a masochist. The PS2 version of Devil May Cry 3 could be brutally hard at times (was toned down later for PC release). In fact, it was the hardest action game I played in a long while. I never finished it. But the game was fair, the controls lightning fast... all you had to do was learn enemy patterns and not get hit much. That was "smart difficulty" dependent entirely on player agency. DS2 is a glorified grind.

There were albanians in Srebrenica? Or are you just engaging in creative associations? What of the "dead"there that rose to vote in the subsequent election? Yes, we were so interested in killing every Albanian that we called Associated Press and OSCE observers to watch the conduct of the special forces operation in Racak, whereupon we massacred them all in front of the world's press. Lol. A special brand of naivete is needed to believe that. If the intention of the army was to actually commit genocide; 1) no one would have been able to stop them in time 2) there would be massive and obvious casualties and civillians would die in droves The Hutu's massacred the Tutsi's in Rwanda in several months armed with little more than machetes. The YNA was armed to the teeth. But you know..stick to your theory. You know, it's funny how you all accuse the West of propping up a facist regime and spend so much care making apologies for killers because they happened to be on your side, geopolitically speaking. You make me sick. Maybe it doesn't meet the criteria for genocide, so what, they were still atrocities. You avoid discussion and resort to insults and accusations because you're not familiar with the topic beyond news headlines and not willing to entertain the notion that your version of the events might be wrong. I did not make excuses for anyone but illustrate that the narrative was nowhere near as simple as you believe it to be. But then, you believe Dubrovnik was flattened, so not only is your knowledge of the topic casual at best, you're relying on memory to discuss events from 20 years ago.

There were albanians in Srebrenica? Or are you just engaging in creative associations? What of the "dead"there that rose to vote in the subsequent election? Yes, we were so interested in killing every Albanian that we called Associated Press and OSCE observers to watch the conduct of the special forces operation in Racak, whereupon we massacred them all in front of the world's press. Lol. A special brand of naivete is needed to believe that. If the intention of the army was to actually commit genocide; 1) no one would have been able to stop them in time 2) there would be massive and obvious casualties and civillians would die in droves The Hutu's massacred the Tutsi's in Rwanda in several months armed with little more than machetes. The YNA was armed to the teeth. But you know..stick to your theory.

Everything was a huge PR disaster in that war because Serbs didn't realize the role of media and lobbying in modern conflicts. The KLA, the croats and the bosnian muslims all hired the best US based PR agencies they could afford well in advance of the respective conflicts. They led their media campaigns for them whitewashing or ignoring the unsavory parts of the war and selling them to the international public as the sole victims. When the war started the Serbian leadership found out the hard way that the media already had their pre-ordained role in the conflict and that they had missed the train to get their side across. Afterwards it became an uphill battle, once negative associations are established in the minds of a chunk of the population it becomes a hole you can't dig yourself out of regardless of what you do. Everyone knows or think they know of the "shelling of Dubrovnik", "Racak massacre" "Srebrenica genocide" because these were designed to be the focal points of the conflict by the media, with clear and defined victim-aggressor roles. A handful of people know of the civillian massacres leading up to Srebrenica, of William Walker's role in staging Racak or of the way the fighting around Dubrovnik was blown out of proportion because the town is beautiful and a very good photo op. My point is not denying the possibility of criminal acts in a war as an individual act or a major military blunder but discrediting the idea that the entire policy was based around the intent to commit war crimes on a massive scale.

Wikipedia has next to no credibility for hotly debated political topics where significant interests are in play, sorry. The articles are very biased and make no effort to offer differing viewpoints.

No, that's the line for 4K 3D tv's in front of Best Buy All it needs is a shrine to "Steve Jobs the techno messiah" by the side of the road.

Devious, they are.

You're misinformed. There was no ethnic cleansing, the "civil war",(a rebellion by extremists within a minority) would have been over in a month without external meddling and the bombing went from targeting military units to deliberatelly targeting power plants, tv stations and other targets which have no military value and serve only to terrorize the population. Even the chinese embassy was hit. It was sign of impotence and the goal was to bully the population into submission. Dubrovnik is anything but flattened. Yet another one of those situations crated to sway public opinion. Its still one of the most popular tourist destinations on the Croatian coast and emerged from the war more than intact. The pictures of Dubrovnik burning are in fact mass burnings of automobile tyres because tyres give out thick black smoke that looks dramatic on photos. The JNA was more than capable of flattening the town but had no inclination or reason to do so.

Deutsche Welle writes that support for Putin's policy regarding Ukraine is 82%. So much for the "Russians don't agree with Putin theory".

Actually: Which is why he ultimately folded. It corresponds to the events. The military was intact, the KLA+NATO invasion through Albania was destroyed, his pubic support was stable - he had no reason real reason to give in, 78 days in. So the Russians back-stabbed him and the west threatened mass murder. Tis all history now and no one cares about the truth. It was a weak man's decision. NATO had to "get results" because the bombing wasn't doing anything and alliance cohesion was faltering. There was no internal support for a ground invasion because, even though NATO would ultimately win, the casualties would be unacceptably high. The threat was a borderline bluff. Even if they went through with it, it would achieve nothing except angering the population further. If he held out more the entire NATO effort would have folded. *shrug*

Malcador, he's just showing what hides beneath his very thin veneer of politeness. Claiming something as vile as that people halfway across the world he's never seen "brought it upon themselves" to be bombed and then outright dismissing any comments from the other side merely because its "the other side" is the sort of kangaroo court thinking that is suited to the inquisition and has no place in polite discussion. In other words, don't bother. In news: fights raging around Slavyansk. The units loyal to Kiev are better equipped and are gaining ground. Russians still not really responding apart from propaganda support.

Poor Bioware, always trying to sit on two chairs at once. http://www.ausgamers.com/news/read/3432885/dragon-age-inquisition-will-feature-complex-romance-and-characters-with-one-solid-sexual-orientation-bioware Hamsters and rangers everywhere rejoice, for "characters with one solid sexual orientation" have now become a game feature that has to be pointed out. Is there anything from DAII they they haven't made an effort to distance themselves from?

I think the gist of it is that they decided the player must have something happen to them within 5 minutes of walking in any direction. It certainly works, because walking through the wilderness would be deadly dull without random encounters, but it does make for a crowded game world and logic takes a back seat to user experience. If I was making a sandbox RPG I'd go for the opposite philosophy - even larger world, perhaps partially made by procedural generation with more logical distribution of the hand placed content and easy access to transportation/mounts to solve the distance problems. And find a way to make the riding/flying/driving/whatever fun.

One of the fun things in ES games is how prone to various abusive tactics they are. My level 11 orc warrior ended up in Valthume (Evil in Waiting quest) which was obviously intended for a higher level. I ended up killing some lich or other by hitting him from hiding with my two handed sword and then running away a corridor or two until he lost interest. He made me sweat though, but now I see on the wiki he's level 50. Lol Was going to post a screen of the mask he drops but the screenshot feature in Skyrim is broken for some reason. The saved image looks garbled. I don't know why Bethesda persistently includes generic loot with a slight magical enchantment. Its so boring to fight through a dungeon only to get the same thing you already have but with a +5 fire damage. Another thing they persist with is a ton of little forts and such with random antagonists. I keep on running into Forsworn everywhere and they keep trying to kill me for no good reason. I ran into a necromancer fort. Many of these locations are withing eyeshot of a civilized town which is kinda silly - giving a sort of theme park feel to everything. No one seems to have taken a cue from the Gothic series on how to design a more organic and logical sandbox world.