Drowsy Emperor

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Greylord you've upgraded this thread to epic level trolololo.

Immigrants from the ghetto? I read that they're getting 2000+ euros (welfare benefits) per month for a family of four, free education + healthcare. What are they rioting about? Families in Serbia live subsist on 400 euros per month earned money - (no benefits or meagre ones). Granted everything is more expensive in Sweden, but I don't think its that much.

Who's actually rioting?

I wonder how the reporters get so good at finding the greatest of idiots in any group of people.

I've read both, I've taken theology classes on both, and I've engaged in discourse with both imams and priests about both religions. So I'm pretty comfortable saying you are showing a clear bias towards one group over another. That is bad history. The only history I mention is events from Mohammad's life and they're generally considered to be a documented historical fact. Everything else is quoted directly from the book itself, which is sitting on a shelf near me. You could argue that I'm drawing bad conclusions from the facts, but not the fact themselves.

^Sure. Except instead of holding to those standards you describe the public opinion has been engineered into a machinery for browbeating and marginalizing anyone who disagrees with it regarding this question. An example of this is the recent Switzerland minaret scandal, when they wanted to ban further building of minarets on mosques (but not mosques themselves) the outrage was such you could be forgiven for thinking they had actually instated concentration camps. Why did EU countries attempt to browbeat Switzerland and meddle into its internal issues? @Walsingham: the allusion to apartheid is pure nonsense. This is not the question of a minority establishing control over a majority in their own country. No one is being discriminated as those that still haven't been granted EU citizenship and potential immigrants (legal or illegal) are not entitled to any rights in the EU countries until such rights are granted to them (apart from the usual rights granted to persons from a third country). Deportations are regulated by law as well, under conditions that have been approved by governmental bodies. Other measures such as physical separation and police oppression have neither been suggested nor are necessary/make sense in the context. No one is trying to rule over anyone, on the contrary. Bleating fascist!, fascist! will get you nowhere, but it is a perfect picture of how the political correctness machinery operates.

Its the way they're programmed, the AI always plays them aggressively.But that's the only way to play them because their weak research is an ever widening gap in a game that's so focused on research. As Miriam you have 3 things going for you: +2 SUPPORT giving you 4 units per base. Elite probe teams - a weak, reactive way to obtain research, but it also gives you immunity from subversion. Good offense for units. If you don't act on your advantages immediately from the beginning they'll melt away and you're sure to lose. First you'll lose the arms race, then you'll lose the probes when a rival builds Hunter-Seeker Algorithm and as mineral restrictions are lifted you'll no longer be the only one with the ability to build infrastructure and maintain a large army at the same time. Conquer or lose are the only choices you get. Recommendation for keeping mindworms at bay: Empath rover, preferably with veteran or higher upgrades. They beat an entire demon boil stack without problems and cost nothing, can move between bases to defend quickly.

UFED Physical Analyzer allows "authorities" to know your movements around the globe for the past month, as all phones with gps store your gps coordinates in their memory for quite a long time. They'll simply take your phone and know exactly where and what you've been doing. I'm just saying it's nothing new. You already have a surveillance in a toy. Very true. And obviously everything on any PC is completely open to experts. Still, a functional camera and mic that automatically send information you have no control over from your living room to god knows where is as Orwellian as it gets.

You try fighting a war with the ipod generation, they can't fight their way out of the living room let alone across half the world

Alpha Centauri Faction: Sister Miriam Difficulty: Thinker Options: Blind Research Off, Ironman, Do or Die, Standard Planet, Abundant Native lifeforms A very interesting game so far. I started on a continent with Zakharov who immediately pronounced Vendetta and siezed 2 of my 4 cities. And then the good Lord gave me the boon of LASERS which I used to take back my towns and to mass produce 15 infantry units (bless the +2 SUPPORT rating) and beat him into submission. He gave me 8 technologies! And now I have possibly the most dangerous combination known to man, a submissive, research heavy faction that does all my research for me while I turn the labs slider down and dump all my resources into war production. Social engineering: Fundamentalist, Planned Economy (bonuses to industry, morale, probe) The results were as follows. Step 1: Provoke the Gaians into Vendetta by probing their cities with my elite probe teams Step 2: Make transport ships and fill them with elite impact rovers, courtesy of a Command Nexus each base (secret project) coupled with roads passing through monoliths Step 3: Establish beachhead in two separate, weakly defended locations Step 4: Overrun Gaians and beat them into submission Yang and Morgan were already destroyed. Lal is weak. Now my main enemy are the Spartans. I'll crush them with my advanced Gatling Rovers and take force them all into diplomatic victory. I just have to get the invasion fleet built.

Very much so. Its become forbidden to discuss the matter in a reasonable manner without raising a ****storm of accusations. The climate is so unhealthy it actually helped create a monster like Breivik and in Hungary, it even had a hand (along with the economic crisis) in bringing a more or less openly fascist party to power. The people to blame are really the economic interest groups that have such a huge impact on the workings of the EU institutions. I suspect they're the ones pushing for immigration because their companies need ever cheaper labor, overall societal stability be damned.

Actually I have. Was working at a bookstore and had tons of book to read. You are right that the tone is different. The Koran is much more direct, commanding and strict in tone. But the general underlaying basics are the same. It's not a stretch to think the muslims and christians basicly worhip the same God, but under a different name and in different ways. Its not a stretch because its the same God, the Koran is just built on the foundation laid out by the Old Testament and to a much lesser extent, the New Testament. But, I found it much more like the old testament in tone, very harsh and strict and unforgiving. Which is why I think it leads to a very different philosophy - for those that care to think into those matters. The perpetual war of conversion against the animist (and other "primitive" religions) blacks of central Africa by the muslim north even today in the 21st century means that old practices have neither been abandoned nor forgotten. Really what people in the west ignore is that Christianity has been systematically driven out of society by various factors and is no longer the force it once was. Islam wasn't. When I was in Abu Dhabi there were 100+ channels of people reading the Koran 24/7, people prayed regularly 5 times per day, and people of other faiths had to adhere to things like the Ramadan, by going to segregated places in restaurants to eat. In other countries european women have to go out covered in public. That's all fine - its their god given right. But if someone tried to enforce similar Christian practices in Europe, theoretically, the outcry would literally blow the heavens. Okay so we're more "progressive" - we don't need that anymore. But where's the parity and mutual respect? Why can't others in muslim countries enjoy the exact same freedoms as everyone else does in europe? I had some coptic (egyptian christian) friends here in Belgrade and they often told me how difficult life was for them in Egypt on account of religious persecution. I see it as very one sided.

Lol, religious war of extermination? Seriously? The kind of war that didn't happen even when Christianity and Islam were the defining ideas behind their respective societies? Don't be silly and stop living in WH40K. The only outcome of what I'm proposing is a relationship based on the principles of parity, and parity in this case being a check on immigration and a stop on the political correctness that is "empowering" people in the wrongest way possible by putting them beyond criticism. On the other hand parity would also mean the cessation of meddling in the affairs of Islamic countries, a point on which you're very keen on avoiding. That position is far more open and honest than talking democracy and making war.

Are you basing this on the American/European markets or on the Japanese one? Because there are a lot of PS3 exclusive JRPG that don't make it overseas. I'm basing it on what we get to play, the US/EU market. Yes a lot of the exclusives are never translated (I said as much in a post above), but based on what is translated the genre isn't doing too well.

Obviously no one here has read both the Koran and the New Testament because the tone, the message and the content is so completely different that no one in their right mind would lump the two religions together. Anyone who thinks that there is no difference between the mindset of a believer who venerates a prophet/son of God that said "turn the other cheek", and "thou shalt not kill" and the believer of a prophet who was also at the same time a warlord, who personally participated in the execution of Jews and other tribes and explicitly permits the killing of "unbelievers" - "slay them where you find them" is both deluded and ignorant of history. And before someone drags out the Old Testament, Christianity is not the old testament and everything that contradicts the new in it is superseded by the message of the new.

Also, JRPG's are in a worse downward spiral than western ones. At this point all they have is endlessly repeated outdated, heavily combat based gameplay married to AAA production values. Compared to the PS2 and PSX, the selection of JRPG's on the PS3 is relatively poor.

Japanese games were never a PC thing. Most of them are never even translated or released in the west. That's a poor assumption to base the health of the PC on. That way you could argue that PC gaming was dying all the time, even when it was raking in millions.

The third person action adventure genre was always poised to work best on the consoles due to their control scheme. Obviously, this was going to lead to some exclusives down the line. In fact it probably has the most exclusives of all genres present on the consoles. The only real shift was FPS games being made primarily for the console, but they're all multiplatform titles anyway. Its never going to make sense not to release an FPS for the PC, as there's always a market for them. And its never going to make sense to focus RTS games, point and click adventures, flight sims, management games and turn based strategy for the consoles only. Also, it would help to not be unrealistic in this matter. 1. The PC never dominated gaming, it merely had a larger footprint than it has now 2. When it was at its peak (if there was such a thing in the late 90's and early '00), it was basically the story of three genres: FPS, RTS and RPG - everything else was marginal and fading already (turn based, adventures, fight sims...) 3. The big games in those genres were made by relatively few companies - that in fact still exist and make PC games: Valve, ID Software, Bioware, Blizzard, Relic - even studios like Westwood live on (after a fashion) in EA as do other numerous developers. Another thing to keep in mind is emulation. As older, irreplaceable consoles fail, the only place where they'll be playable is the PC. No console based emulation service is ever going to outdo the PC because of the massive funds it would take to do so, and the pointlessness of the task considering the transience of every console generation. PC gaming can only grow. The question is, can new genres and companies draw some of the creativity back in it. I say its entirely possible.

The only thing that's true is that there are few AAA games made explicitly for the PC and only in those genres which are still PC only. But, since everything else gets ported - who cares.

The truth is that he'd probably have anything else.

Seriously, this is unacceptable. I wouldn't take that thing into my home if I found it by the roadside. Will the PS4 do the same? Is their camera a part of the package? How perverse, putting total surveillance into a toy. All the secret services of the world couldn't dream of this. Until now that is. A campaign of awareness is needed, few parents will be aware of this when the kids are pulling on their sleeves and asking for it.

Its time for the man to say: "Told you so"

I just hope they put as much effort into the setting and atmosphere as they do in everything else. AC's mechanical elements were nice, but it was the setting, atmosphere and well thought out technologies that made the game so appealing. From the gameplay video, they seem to be stumbling into the same error most sci-fi strategy makers do, and that is to make the games too depersonalized and bland. Then it won't matter how good the gameplay is, it just won't be so appealing.