TrashMan

Offensive to some? Yes. Sign of bigotry? No. You'd change your picture? How unexpectedly .... spinless.

What I am saying that it might have been better ot not bann it, so at least than all those neo-natzi's would be very visible and easier to keep an eye on. Positive net effect? I don't see it really. Same goes for word censorship. Especially on 18+ forums. I see no need for censorship at all. I'm all for freedom of speech - and freedom of speech includes the possiblity of me being offended. I recognize that, but I can deal with it. In other words...you have the right to be offended. You don't have the right to outright forbid people from offending you.

Which is still more than today.

Your'e eqating a symbol with a deadly weapon? B.t.w. - banning a swastika does hack s**** to crack down on such organizations. They will just use a different or similar one. If anything, you made them HARDER to detect.

By the same account, you don't get to tell people what associations they make when they see symbols. Feel free to plaster up a whole bunch of Swastikas on your home exterior, however. State to all that walk by that you're "taking it back" from the Nazis. You can "**** the modern world" all you want, but symbols are very important to humanity (we're using them right now). I'm not in the buisses of telling people they aren't allowed to do or think X. Unfortunately, that is all people really do in reality. Force their oppinions on eachother if they can. I don't get to tell them what associations they make, but I don't want their association (singular) to be forced on me.

That's not true at all.You may at best find fewer written laws but in antiquity tolerance was always in short supply. Really? Homosexuality and pedophilia were fully allowed... sounds very liberal to me. And tolerance? Tolerance was always in short suply. Today too. We just mask it better.

Fun fact: greece of old was far more liberal than any country today.

And those poeple should do like the rest of us and bear with it. I find tons of things offensive and oyu dont' see me trying oconser the living s*** out of everyone. I support anynyones freedom to speak their oppinion and love whatever they want - even if it bothers me to no end. I simply do not have the right to forbid them or consor them. No one should have that right over anyone. For example: your avatar. It offends me. Did you stop for a second to think about that? No. If I tried to force you to remove it would you like it? No.

The absurdity is the focus on the symbol, rather than action. It's even more absurd to think that it will hapen again if you don't condemn the symbol.

F*** the modern world. That's my reply. You say it's irrelevant what I personally believe? But it's relevant what Europse believes and frak everoyne else, right? Symbols are MULTI-FACETED. They mean different things to differnet poeple. Sometimes at the same time. Trying to enforce only one meaning over all other is in itself fascism. It's basicly saying "look, I think this symbol is bad. I don't care what it's history is, what it used to mean, nor what cultural signifiance it has anywhere else in the world. I hate it and you shoudl hate it too."

Bah..everything is racist these days. A different flag or simble divisive? Everything is devisive more or less. Any sub-grou your'e part of is devisive, as it puts you into a specific camp. Everything in life is. Life is rife with preconceptions and prejudices and sub-groups. It is a fact of human existence that we cannot escape from, and no matter how much chest thumping we do or throw words around like "liberal" and "political correctness", humanity hasn't changed nor wil lti change. Our reasonign changed. Our actions remained the same. And like those before us who claimed that their reasonns and their goals were noble and just, and those before them were wrong, so do we do the same. Just as those before us pressured everyone else to conformity or censored, so do we do today. Actors change, the words used change...but it's the same old play.

I'd say "pack" is more of a technical term rather than LITERALY meaning in the backpack. You can carry the swords sticking out of the pack, or attached to your back

Yes. Just yes. You don't get to disallow and villify a symbol jsut because you don't like it. Hitler was a bad man. Yes. The swastika is just a symbol and as such has no morality. The only baggage it has is hte one you bring with you. And personally I'm kinda tired of WW2 and all of it's luggage. In Europe (or should I say West?). And only becuase such associations are contiunously re-inforced by some. It's not the world and it has no right ot try to push it's view on the rest of the world. And europe is NOT the world.

Volume. VOLUME. No grids necessary. Just two numbers - weight and volume. Weight: 30/50 kg Volume: 73,5/100 No messing around with grids, just two numbers to balance. And best part - every item has volume and weight. Volume IS basicly grid space mechanicly. Think of it as 1 grid space = 1 unit of volume. A character that in a IE game would have 20 grid slots and a carry capacity of 150, has a carry capacity of 150 and 20 volume. The armor that would take 4 grid slots take 4 volume units. It's simple, logical, efficient. Or you cna have grids. Either works for me, as long as there are individual inventories.

I wouldn't say Croatia got off easily. It has been at the butt end of everyone and taking it in the ass for centuries. Thankfully the WWII NDH thing was very short-lived (about a year I belive), and no one here is disputing what happened.

I kinda dislike unit stacking in CIV type games. Leads to death blobs.

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.

And you sometimes learn ****. If you truly dig deep, then even a cursory glance will tell you just how redicolously overblown the whole "evil of dark ages is". Tons and tons and tons of lies, half-truths and myths. Christianity wasn't the bane of science. It didn't stiffle growth. It perserved knowledge and many scientists were in fact monks. The net effect of Christianity on science is pretty much neautral. Likewise, life wasn't terribly short (people could live as old as they do today), people weren't filth-ridden, dirty beggars in rags (every larger city had baths - a legacy from the roman imperium), plate armor wasn't so heavy you had to be lifted onto a horse by a crane, there were towns with working sewer systems back then, people didn't have sex trough sheets with holes, the Crusades weren't a testament to hate and intolerance, etc, etc... I can go on an on listing examples

To be more precise, the premises and values of differnet individuals are different and the logical though processes - even if they were completely the same - will yield differnet results. And they aren't completely the same. Two people read the exact same book, reading the exact same series of facts and events. They have completely different oppinions on the character or situation in a book. Good example - Dragon Age mages and templars issue. People citing the same paragraph, each convinced it proves their point (or pre-concieved position).

To be honest, the PC doesn't know Irenicus runs the Assylum. As far as he knows, she is just being held prisoner, but alive and well. Not tortured. The PC can talk to a Coweled Wizzard or two, but nothing comes out of it. Honestly I think more interaction with them and more attempts to get Imoen free trough proper channels should have been there. The cutscenes showing Imoen kinda gave the player info the PC shouldn't know.

How would the people know how much coin you have anyway? If you're not flaunting your money around, no one should know.

You DO realise the "problem" you are bringing is a matter of price balancing, NOT currency? Also, you seem to fail to grasp the value of specific currency in the setting by equating it to cents.

Logic is heavily math-based. Even morality attempts to quantify, to a degree. "If I kill this one guy with a deadly and contagious disease that we don't know how to cure, this entire village of people will live. Even though it's killing, it's still doing good. 500 vs. 1." Only up to a point. Logic and math are not the answer to everything.

Pansies got punished for their stupidity. The dice have spoken.