teknoman2

from an interview in Italy So you are for the death penalty and against abortion? Yes! Why? Because you can't be allowed to choose who lives and who dies!

they didn't advertise anything, they were asked "is there romance?" and they responded "no". they never put a huge banner saying "look at out game, it has no romance, how cool is that?"

i'd rather have no romance at all than romance made to just check a box in the list of features. the only game that i actually liked how romance was done was Alpha Protocol. Dragon Age, Mass Effect and many others, all had canned romance dialogue options; you just had to choose who you wanted to go for and just pick the obvious lines to get to the result.

what i want to know is: why isn't this video in the pinned announcement thread?

yeah, i worded my initial post poorly.

i didn't say anything about harmony, i said their concept of war was different not that they didn't have wars. and pretty much all tribes in north america were nomadic so they didn't have any established borders marking a land that was under their exclusive ownership. as it is common, i talk about the culture/religion as a concept and those who are at the top calling the shots and i get a response about the plebs at the bottom who wouldn't give half a dime about any of it if those high up didn't coerce them to.

while technically correct, it disregards a simple but important fact: cultural compatibility. why the one time it didn't work... it didn't work? because you had a local population that was living a completely different life with a completely different set of rules and values and a complete lack of the concept of land ownership, borders and war compared to those who came. and those who came brought along a culture that could not coexist with the local culture so one of them eventually had to go... and as is the human way of making the choice, one of them was wiped out violently for the other to become dominant (and having an expansonistic policy about that culture and religion was also a major motive). many of the so called refugees of the past were people of european descent so they had much in common with the locals of USA who are also mainly of european descent so there were few excuses for clashes. east asians on the other hand, while proud of their culture, were secretive with it and tried to keep it out of sight of gwailos. that secrecy was also the reason for them not having expansionistic tendencies that would cause a clash. and coming to today, we have a large mass of people who follow an incompatible and highly expansionistic culture coming to the west. i wonder what part of history this makes people remember.

look at the bright side: that guy is no longer homeless