Darkpriest

I'd love to hear that voice again... that is one of the best gaming series... also the soundtracks... "look at you hacker" still getting shivers down my spine...

another fallout of the attacks: http://news.yahoo.com/france-considers-extending-state-emergency-193056654.html

yeah it does, because it is culturally closer to all the major global players.

I've heard some rumors that a Night Dive studio is planning to release remakes of SS and SS2 and are trying to find a partner for SS3... Does anyone have some more knowledge on this? Those would be my insta buys if it's true and the studio is credible enough to not **** up with million bugs.

I admire and respect people like this man. Hats off, I salute you and can only hope that your daughter will remember you as a hero in her heart and that it will give her strength to grow up without the presence of such a father.

Some footage from the time of attack in the article: http://news.yahoo.com/paris-attacks-video-gunman-outside-bataclan-165558053.html looks like first response team, and they probably were in a bit of a shock on the arrival

a fairly fast response from France airforce. In co-ordination with USAF 10 planes attacked Rakka, training centers, possibly command posts and munitions stocks and other positions - dropping in total 20 bombs.

well... i found this just recently... yes it is about Russian women, but damn, the pictures are sexy... http://fedorshmidt.tumblr.com/ I'd ask a mod though to note if they are still within artistic limit or already "too sexy" (some probably are, so you might want to remove the link)

it is not anti western, it is more like keeping Russia as an elite player in the geopolitics. I mean, why USA will not withdraw from all around the world and adopt to Russian geopolitics? It's a game for global influence, as influence equals power and money. would you rather shape the world around you as you want or just stand and look if you had options to do both?

Not really gaming related, but still journalism http://nypost.com/2015/11/15/family-of-911-hero-refuses-award-over-caitlyn-jenner/ I have to admit, while he might have overreacted, he has a point. That award feels awkward and was probably awarded ONLY because of recipients transgenderism.

@Qistina, I am sorry, but you are starting to tread into a territory where I would have to start using demeaning adjectives or the level of sarcasm could be offending to you as a person, so I'll better back off, but just as a last word. this theory is as credible as the end of the world tied to Mayan calendar...

Obviously this has to be it http://40.media.tumblr.com/c7180c2fdd0cda2a714b87714b631e74/tumblr_nxd59lv4x31sr8zk0o1_1280.jpg I mean, I cant take any conspiracy theory seriously... I've been dining with some FM, mayors and COEs of local bank branches I've been a senior manager in a multinational global corporation, now I am working for a certain investment bank, and I can assure you there are no supernational secret groups. It's just simple money and politics behind the scenes, yes, but no Illuminati or w/e you call things that are good for James Bond movies. I am sure that those guys got money from the trade of oil on black market, they get weapons from various criminal organizations from former USSR republics AND their sympathizers in the Middle East (looking at you Saudi Arabia) They eat things they take from the localt population. do you think those areas are desolate and without any local populations? They have slave work force, they take around 9/10 of what people under their rule produce (those peopel who only live in their lands and did not join the ranks of ISIS) as for oil, they take it from the instalations that they captured... a lot of vehicles were captured form ineffective Iraqi forces and Syrian bases. Darkpriest I'm sorry to ask you this again but where are you from again and where do you live now? I'll take my liberty of not telling that much, probably said too much already about myself, btw. i edited a part of sentence because technically i should not have added one international economic conference as a regular thing. I have no Facebook and social media accounts, i guess i got a bit carried away here, but what's done is done. I am from CEE and after last 8 years of working in various countries including West EU, Scandinavia, USA and Canada I am back to CEE, I've been traveling personally to various parts of the world on my own as well as I like to explore other cultures and their history.

Obviously this has to be it http://40.media.tumblr.com/c7180c2fdd0cda2a714b87714b631e74/tumblr_nxd59lv4x31sr8zk0o1_1280.jpg I mean, I cant take any conspiracy theory seriously... I've been dining with some FM, mayors and COEs of local bank branches, I've been a senior manager in a multinational global corporation, now I am working for a certain investment bank, and I can assure you there are no supernational secret groups. It's just simple money and politics behind the scenes, yes, but no Illuminati or w/e you call things that are good for James Bond movies. I am sure that those guys got money from the trade of oil on black market, they get weapons from various criminal organizations from former USSR republics AND their sympathizers in the Middle East (looking at you Saudi Arabia) They eat things they take from the localt population. do you think those areas are desolate and without any local populations? They have slave work force, they take around 9/10 of what people under their rule produce (those peopel who only live in their lands and did not join the ranks of ISIS) as for oil, they take it from the instalations that they captured... a lot of vehicles were captured form ineffective Iraqi forces and Syrian bases.

Various ME rich sympathizers (probably even among Sauds), Turks having a blind eye on black market oil trade from ISIS, because they are in conflict with Kurds etc. These are all simple politics, there is no supernational organization with evil people etc. leave that to James Bond movies. It's all a simple combination of various personal and national interests. Personal interests are driven usually by large corporations, where banking, oil&gas, pharmaceuticals are the three leading cores as they drive the global cash and wealth movements, and national interest are self explanatory. It's simple business and politics. It's been like this for at least 4000 years.

Yeah, I'm not sure when Oracle will make an appearance in Captain's Mode, but there are some disgusting combos with him. Yeah i Oracle slark, Oracle Sven, Oracle +anything that you want to kite but now you cant the only disable working vs that will be nigma BlackHole...

Interesting. And how exactly the west is planning to remove him? Assassination? Nah, making life so hard for regular russians, due to various embargos, that they would remove him from power themselves.

if you think huskalr dazzle is bad, wait when Oracle will appear. this combo is just dirty....

Apparently this whole mess empowered Putin. Already during the Obama Putin meeting Americans moved forward towards joint operation in Syria, which means including Asad in the process, it also forced EU to co-operative stance with Russians (Sarkozy in France voicing this, but most importantly chief of EU Foreign relations Ms. Federica Mogherini), so we might soon see embargo being removed and Ukraine Eastern part being traded in the process for joint security operations around middle east.

I was surprised. did not watch the series, but still impressed. I am fairly sure though that now teams will be prepared for their huskarling and might even bait them into it.

Not really related, but this is an interesting thing about possible changes coming to the Saudi Arabia. http://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-advisers-leak-document-outlining-changes-to-society-2015-11

The same here. it seemed like the main challenge in that missions was to set up joined defenses and really fast. I was expecting more of a pace from the final Protoss mission and this surprised me a bit, but then again, not being able to warp in pylons and insta warp a decent number of units along with it was also a part of forcing you to change your approach.

Okay so here is the interesting thing about your prediction, its actually much harder to predict than you may think Why do I say that? The Arab Spring would have still happened but Saddam would have still been President in Iraq...he would have used force on any opposing political movements but the political uprisings in Syria and Libya would still have happened and yes I agree that ISIS wouldnt be as effective or in its current form as we can't say with certainty that the Iraq Sunnis would have joined ISIS But important lessons have been learnt from both Iraq and Libya. The West can assist militarily to overthrow a dictator but preferably not with ground troops and there must be a clear understanding or agreement that the West cannot be blamed for governments that fail, yes the West can assist with guidance around political decisions but this must be seen as something that is asked for and not just imposed. So in Libya the West provided air support but it was the Libyan rebels who did the hard fighting and were the ones that executed Gadafi. The new Libyan government didnt want the West interfering in there new government and the West really didn't want to get involved on that level So they left the country in the hands of new Libyan government ...yes sadly this failed for a number of reasons but I would assume mostly due to inexperience in understanding how to run a country but also due to the expectations of certain Libyan tribes who now had free reign. I don't blame the West for this? Why would you Airstrikes and arming rebels is a BIG deal, especially when airstrikes destroy your infrastructure. Without that they would never succeed. They also KNEW before hand that they will receive the support because of the events in Egypt. But in Egypt, West did not intervene, and after a failed experiment with elected representatives, the military there simple seized the power. In Libya there was no chance for this, because our airstrikes destroyed the whole military infrastructure making it non-existent and non factor. Again and again, you do not recognize what drove people in particular regions. The "rebels" never were a single united entity with one goal and one set of values, and that alone should light the bulb in the head that you DO NOT go there... but the temptation of controlling oil fields there was too strong. In Iraq if you would not remove Saddam, there would be no issues with various groups fighting for power. Saddam was a Sunni leader but not zealous, in a country where majority is a Shia muslim. But again, the oil fields of Iraq were too big of a possible asset to pass up, so we go there in name of democracy, a concept which is alien in that part of the world or even despised since ancient greece times, and then we are amazed that variosu groups there fight for power, when we demolish the whole structures of the state. You presented before an example of Slovakia and Poland, etc. it was not the West that won anything over there. In fact it was a few decades of internal protests, bloody quellings, loss of life due to secret police and eventually inefficiency and corruption of that state structures that allowed large masses of people to unite around core values that were cultivated there long before USA even existed. (elected monarchy, strong provincial rights and representation in an early form of parliment or even first written constitution in Europe - all these things were in Poland not sure about Slovakia because Slovakia If I recall correctly was never a really separate state before 1990s and I am not that big of a history nerd to dig in Hungary/Austrian/Czech history to dig for references regarding Slovakia) Additionally it happened that USSR had own internal re-organization at that time and a leader who was less militant than his predecesors. If he was like the guys before him we would porbably had USSR army roling into Poland in 1980s and we would most likely still see USSR and Warsaw Pact on a map in 1990s. Western counties did absolute ZERO to help in those countries. Aside of some words of comfort and disapproval of various practices.

@Bruce Not directly, but we certainly screwed up middle east and north Africa to give a nice feeding and growing ground for such organizations... Imagine if we did not touch Saddam's iraq, Gaddafi's Libya, Assad's Syria, etc. there would be no ISIS, EVER. We would have no refugee problems. On another note, if EU was smart 30-50y ago about immigrants from North Africa and ME we would not have ghettos, assimilation problems, etc. Economic need for cheap work force drove those decisions and now you have problems with communities alienating themselves from the State/Nation they live in.

yeah, i re-installed Diablo 3 last night and noticed a ton of changes even to vanilla RoS, which still was not so great. I still feel they put the focus on gear dependency too far, but maybe it will be an enjoyable experience with various ladder seasons etc. I do not like that weapons are just for aesthetics, that skills power is derived 100% from gear, that your levels mean basically nothing (until paragons), and a few more things. I'd still rather play Diablo 2 than Diablo 3. Speaking of which, I wonder if they will just facelift it to play well on high res or will they actually release modernized in a new engine. Probably the former but one can always hope.

I have to admit that I am pleased by their design approach. I love the fact that each campaign is detailed, has various unique units and buildings. I mean. I was really scratching my head, when I was leading protoss, do i want my army to be pure Auir toss or do i want to mix in various other unit types... i mean a choice between carrier fleet with arbiters, or corsairs with void rays or red void rays with mirages and mothership i mean.... sooo many options... it is definitely a high quality product with tons of replay value and one can only be amazed by what people can do with this game and the editor attached to it... I had my doubts after Diablo 3 that Blizzard can deliver a solid and fun prodcut, but seeing all parts of SC2, decentish Heroes of the Storm, and what seem to be an interesting game - Overwatch, they regained my trust. I just would love to see a new warcraft RTS instead of that MMO ... i just do not like MMOs... and Warcraft was also a cool setting up to the Frozen Throne