Darkpriest

Dayim. Valve knows how to make documentaries: I'd love to see something similar from other e-sports products.

Seams that Russians outsmarted others and used Caspian sea as their cruise missile base operations... http://news.yahoo.com/fighting-erupts-central-syria-amid-russian-airstrikes-072047268.html# some geography for those who do not know where that basin is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea#/media/File:Caspianseamap.png

I will definitely concede that point to you, it is hard to imagine what type of impact this surge of immigration and refugees can have on a country. I am definitely speaking as an outsider on this, and I appreciate your perspective. My main point isn't that this isn't a dramatic issue for Europe, but that I believe it has less to do with the religion of Islam, and more to do with culture clashes and human nature. We can look at numerous situations throughout history in comparison where Islam was not in the picture, and yet the issues all look very similar. But Drowsy you also don't really have experience living with Islam, what is the total percentage of Muslims in Serbia ...4 %, 5 % ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Serbia You could only argue the whole " I have experience living with Muslims " if you grew up in a Muslim country or lived predominantly in the Muslim section of a city which I doubt you did either of those two things And I'm same as are most people on these forums Bruce, you forget that at some point there was a country called Jugoslavia and forgot the story of two Balkan domestic conflicts (first, the one which dismantled Jugoslavia and second that ripped Kosovo away from Serbia). When you look at that 5% now, it may seem insignificant, but did you tie it to geographical distribution? Perhaps he lives in a part where muslim populace is a majority? Perhaps he was living in Serbian Kosovo before the changes? Perhaps learn the region's history and ask questions first before undermining his position? Would you like if people would assume odd things about you, because they are misinformed about history of SA?

LOL volunteers... hahahaha... ok...

There are rumors, that one of German agencies estimated a probably influx of 900k refugees in Q4 2015 alone to Germany, making it around 1,5 mln total. This obviously started to raise tensions among German politicians. On another note, an incident over Turkey as Russian combat aircraft was intercepted by Turkish fighters and escorted out of their airspace. They warned Russians, that should the situation repeat they will be responsible for any undesired incident that might happen.

Anyone backed this project? https://robertsspaceindustries.com/ I was almost a backer on a few points at a time, but the scope and the budget ticked me in the wrong way. Now there is apparently some information coming that the project might have been heavily mismanaged and it may be a super failure. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/features/14715-CIG-Employees-Talk-Star-Citizen-and-the-State-of-the-Company http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2015/10/01/report-star-citizen-is-almost-out-of-cash-and-chris-roberts-insatiable-ambition-is-to-blame/ Anyone has some more project backer information? Will this be the biggest disaster of crowd funded projects?

eh, isn't relic dead? They were sold to Sega, but are still a thing. I mean they are still releasing regularly content for CoH2. So Sega basically has CA and Relic

Last thing we need is the conflict in ME to escalate to WW3.... but with the amount of natural resources and old grudges within the region alone, things might escalate... the best we can hope is that it will remain a regional Shia/Sunni conflict, but with Turkey being a part of NATO and high probability of it being dragged into a conflict... I mean, there are all the ingridients in that pot for things to blow up... I just hope it won't and that lessons in the WW2 and WW1 societies can hold leaders of main participants of those conflicts away from going full retard.

Now, how would SJW complain about it? :D

If everything around you goes full retard, stop resisting it and go full retard as well?

The Shia\Sunni conflict reminds me of European Protestants and Catholics conflict... The difference is, European culture grew up on heritage of Greeko-Roman law and state standards, which had a some degree of republic state influence. Other parts of the world have nothing like that in their history and especially ME, which was always entrenched on rules of a strong family / tribe. Europeans slowly retracted to democracy after ages of monarch family rules and a strong influence of a church. Some were immediate and brutal, like French revolution, some where less brutal and more progressive, like UK, Poland, and some even built a Federation of states, like Germany. ME does not have such historical influences to backtrack to... (The only time they had something like that was the time of post-Alexander the Great time of Seleucids, which eventually was dismantled by various ME tribes) hence throwing at them the modern democracy is simply not going to cut it.... learn their history, accept diversity, but be only tolerant to the same degree they are tolerant to your views.... if not, you will simply be abused... Eventually in like 100-200 years the influence of open world, easy travel and exchange of ideas can bring the change... after all some countries were more secular not so long ago... like Afghanistan, Iran, etc.

@Bruce ME needs their own Mandela, Havel, Walesa, Lincoln or some very influencial Immam in the line of pope Francis... until then just deal with the current regimes... they established themselves like that for a reason... alternative solution is to just bomb the whole area, invade it and occupy with the means of Bolshevik and Nazi methods from WW2...

I am not saying it is good, but bringing back the status quo from before the Western intervention can hardly make it worse. Sure, there will be an **** at the steering wheel of a country, but at least it will be a fairly secular **** who understands the language of international money... and is not complete nuts. The difference is, that Russians support governments in the region, and not the mass of various groups with different interest conviniently called opposition or rebels. Obviously their goal is to gain influence with current regimes in the region but IMO if those regimes are to change, the change has to be done in the peaceful way as the case of Communist block shown. It will take more than 1 try and more than a couple years but that is the only 100% safe way that will put non militant groups in power. At this point I'd rather have middle east from early 90s than the current one. Then at least you could travel fairly safely to all countries there...

There seems to be some information that Syrian armed forces are getting reinforced by a significant Iranian armed troops group and Lebanese Hezbollah militians and they will run a land offensive vs "ISIS" (meaning all enemies of Assad, including ISIS) with a heavy support of Russian airforce. If this will be a successful operation, hats off and respect on political prowess of Putin, even though in the last couple of years he got burnt and overestimated his influence a couple of times. It seems it already resonates in the region as the Iraq's government is asking Russia also for their air support over their country...

Leave 40k to relic guys please.... and pure RTS theme...

So now, that Russians started their airstrikes in Syria, what will be the outcome? Personally I hope that moderates will just cease fighting and then the armed Syrian forces backed by Russians will clear the ISIS scum out of there, so there will be no more "war" in Syria. In this one case I fully support Russians, and I hope they won't give a F... about any militants they will get into their hands. I can already imagine those ISIS fighters being tied up and locked up with pigs. I remember one scenario when a Russian war ship capture some pirates. Guess what other pirates got from this message, when compared to treatment they received from Western navys, who at worst arrested them for a time and released later, but usually just sent them freely, disarmed. Perhaps with savages you need to speak to them in the language they will understand.

I believe it replaces the nova rather than adds to it. About that: Emphasis mine. What you're saying would be more reasonable, yes, but it's not what Josh said. Wait, am I understanding you right? I think you were saying that they would continue to be able to blast out spells per encounter in addition to this change, but from my reading the quote says " the current switchover of low level spells to per encounter is going to be changed. Instead, the "Vancian" casters will pick a spell of that level or lower as a mastered spell." with the bold bit indicating this is a replacement not an addition. this will only encourage more rest spamming like in BG series... *shrug*

I was cheap. I have backed at 27 usd tier...

and there it is... 2mln stretch goal

I don't really get that. Character writing has always been what Avellone does best. Well, that and just generally tearing existing properties into little pieces. personally i am waiting for the 2mln stretch goal...

You need to know engwithian language to complete this level. So you need to do part of a main story that teaches you the language. I found it by doing wm content and then going through od nua that i got stuck at lvl 13 and only then did the quest related to the main plot with a machine in the haunted district in defiance bay

^ one of few things i could blindly agree on with that guy...

Comparable how? Or are you counting your native population birth rate as a collective or your genuine native population. Because last time I looked, the only reason most European countries have a positive birth:death ratio, is because the immigrants have several children and make the overall stats look better. And where did you get 850 million, EU has about 500. I get my numbers from the World Bank and UN websites, as opposed to the time honored tradition of pulling the numbers out of your ass. The UN sets a cautious estimate of the population of EU at 738 million. Source. While other projections are almost a billion when Russia, Turkey and other countries some times affiliated with Europe are counted in, so I went with a nice middle ground. Do you also need help with finding sources on population growth? The problem is, that this report does not divide between native European population and immigrant population from Africa, Middle East, Asia.... There was a survey or I believe it was even more detailed in the latest full census data in France's national census, where while you would see on average around 2,1 child per family, there was a division where the native EU would have less than 2 (so declining population) while immigrants would have between 4-6 (I am not proficient in french so I had trouble navigating the huge website with various statistics), meaning that the native population was in decline as anything below 2 means the population is declining. It has a lot to do with life style, culture and goals of the women. Native women have higher independence and emancipation, with goals being doing career and having fun. At the same time the women from migrant families often do not seek a job and live off social benefits, which give funding for each kid, and the same time they do not have the same drive for independence as it is culturally quenched, as most of migrants live in migrant ghettos or districts, where they do not really assimilate. How can I trust politicians, who so far failed in assimilation programs and assimilating migrant population from the past into the EU societies and its core values? First make sure to work with the migrants that you already have, and do not transfer the same dysfunction onto new countries, which never had significant minorities that would be other than from neighboring countries, so technically fairly close culturally. Countries like Bulgaria and Greece still have a fairly fresh memory how it was under the rule of Ottoman Empire, so they also have historical reasons no to really want muslim migrants from the middle east

Meanwhile Bulgaria sends 1000 soldiers on its border with Turkey to increase border security

It technically could, but then you can just carpet bomb the whole region and re-colonize it.... (I mean, the only worse scenarios than what we have right now, would be that Radical Islamic groups would form a form of new eastern empire covering the ME region from Iran to Syria, to Egypt's border and covering the whole Arabic peninsula and excluding the current Israel, plus there would be another one covering the whole Northern African coast except Egypt and reaching down to Niger and Sudan's southern borders... and this could cripple heavily the worlds economy, but to be honest I think that new dictators would like the money offered by oil and gas companies from China, Russia and all around the world, but they need to build the new state on some idea) Lets be honest, they need to go through something similar in scope of World War 2 in their region to get to the mass populace that constant warring is not really a good idea, especially on the basis of religion and ideology.