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http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Harry-Dresden.jpg Leather dusters had better be in is all I'm saying.

It's an isometric RPG. The closest you'll get to the sex simulator dept. is the 4th wall breaking of Mrs. Bishop or the occasional ball gag in your inventory. Or they could take a page out of the silliness of The Witcher and have you start a card collection.

Soul Life 3. Just to piss off all the people breathlessly waiting for HL3

Oh how cute, a chart that takes Chinese economic claims at face value. Given their vastly undervalued currency along with the fact that you can't believe anything that comes out of their mouths regarding internal spending figures, you have to figure an actual value of at least 3-4 times that. Combined with the differences in standard of living, cost of equipment, and the fact that most of their R&D comes from stealing it from everyone else, and they're not exactly spending all that much less than the US. Also, the height of Swedish power was when GARS was stomping around in the Germanies. Where he got himself killed by being a bit too reckless leading a cavalry charge. Everything was downhill from there.

This is the worst bull I've ever heard. I'm referring to the part about spending comparatively little on defence. Sweden used to have an entire internal arms industry, with among other things a nuclear programme which was terminated in 1968. I'm sure Scandinavia was protected from the USSR by the threat of American nuclear arms, however, that does not equal having a low defence budget. Sweden was always defended by Finland in the modern area anyway. Let's face it, the Finns are ****ing badass. The last time the Swedes were badass, Gustav Adolf Rex Sueciae was on the throne.

Yes, to me it's looks like you need to raise taxes. Ah projection charts. Always fun. What did Obama's projection chart of the economy with or without his intervention look like again? Not to mention that I have yet to see a single chart claiming tax cuts as lost revenue show any possible effect that lower taxes have on the economy, especially in the middle of an economic downturn. Oh wait, your little color chart comes from the CBPP, an organization that both the NYT and Time magazine have characterized as left wing. Neo-Keynesian idiocy combined with social justice theories.

Indoctrination theory was what the available evidence was pointing to. And that was because before the Casey Hudson/Mac Walters abomination that became the actual ending of the game, the little kid and all the evidence pointed to in the indoc videos was created and used in the game for an indoctrination twist, as it were. Which was then scrubbed either because Hudson was unhappy with it, or because somebody in the main EA foodchain was unhappy with and told Hudson to come up with a standard ending. No way to know. However, they then didn't REMOVE any of the indoc stuff from the game. Thus, when people came upon the utter ****e that was the ending they got and noticed all the weird clues, they cobbled together what was there to produce indoc theory.

Modern treatment of PTSD has come to the assumption that allowing a person to internalize the event until they are ready to talk about it is better than trying to make them talk about it.

Wouldn't "woman" imply somebody older than 16??? Clearly you've never been to a movie theater on a night where twilight was opening. Figure at least half the crowd in the waiting line I passed on the way to my movie was over 30 and female.

Except it's not just the Greek issue. It's the Greek, Spanish, Irish, Portuguese, and Italian issue. Greece is merely the first domino to fall and there is a damned good chance that if it takes anyone with it the Euro collapses entirely. Even without that eventuality, the interlocking debt means that a run on one or two key banks will act as removing the keystone on an arch.

This is the point at which I quite literally fell out of my chair laughing. The fact that you think the Eurozone is doing fairly well is evidence that any conversation between us will go nowhere. As such, continuing to argue with you over anything related to economics is futile.

Please explain then, since nothing I've said has a grain of truth to it, exactly how I'm wrong. I'll start with an easy one. How is Obama's claim of EP legitimate if the White House was not involved in F&F. Which Obama EXPLICITLY stated to be the case and Holder backed him under oath IN CONGRESS. And actually, the legislative repeal happened well after the initial trial while it was in the middle of the APPELLATE courts. As for the LCR backing McCain, that's because they think other issues like not adding 6 trillion to the debt in 4 years are more important than DADT. F&F was operated by the ATF, not by the Attorny General, or with the direct authorization of Obama. It was just one of five seperate operations carried out by the ATF in conjunction with the US attorneys in AZ. And Obama was just following precedent set, for good or bad, by his predecessor in terms of Executive Privaledge... namely If Obama's use of executive privileged is invalid, so is the Uses by George Bush. As to the 6 Trillion in debt, how can you necessairly blame that on Obama himself? He's trying to generate revenue for the federal government via taxes, which are the primary form of governmental revenue generation, but is consistantly blocked by republicans because they signed a piece of paper made up by a 6th grader. Everything that has been put foreward by his political opponents has been to CUT taxes, and cut back social spending, which means that people start loosing things that they need to survive because "CAPITALISM!" Also he inherited two VERY expensive wars, that hadn't even been thought of to be paid for by the previous administration, a fundamentally broken economy, and a political landscape so split that he can't even try to compromise because to his opponents "Compromise" is another word for "Give us what we want no matter what". It should also be pointed out that when GW hisself became President, he had the strongest Economy in recent history, and a massive surplus that would have paid the national debt in 20 years. Jesus Titty****ing Christ. EVERY SINGLE ONE of Bush's EP claims involved white house communications in email, phone calls, and discussions. Possibly immoral of him to use EP for such, well, touching that argument is almost certainly a losing proposition. However none of his EP claims could be argued as INVALID as a matter of law. Care to guess what office isn't part of the White House? That would be the Justice Department. Of which Eric Holder is the head. So you now have a binary solution set. Either Obama was lying through his ****ing teeth when he said that he and the White House cabinet knew NOTHING about Fast and Furious in which case his claim of EP is valid and Eric Holder is guilty of perjury for claiming under oath before Congress that neither he or the White House had any knowledge of F&F operations; or his claim of EP is INVALID because there was no White House involvement and Obama as well as all the white house lawyers are completely ****ing incompetent. Well, there's also the Holder blackmailing Obama explanation. As for your tax argument, anyone who has actually studied US tax patterns would know that the most you can consistently wring out of the economy no matter the purported tax rate is around 20% of GDP. And that's when you aren't artificially increasing GDP through massive government make work. Guess what the difference between current tax revenue as percent of GDP and that 20% number wouldn't cover? The 1.4 trillion deficits Obama has been pushing year in and year out while in office. As for your expensive wars, while it's true that they were never in the Defense budget, they were accounted for in every year's total after the fact. It's not like the debt just appeared in Obama's 2009 budget numbers adding to his deficit totals. But just for ****s and giggles, let's remove the cost of the wars to date entirely from Obama's plate at around 1.3 trillion. You're still looking almost 5 trillion in debt added on Obama's watch so far. As for the mythical Clinton surplus, well, that was always as real as a rainbow ****ting unicorn. First of all, there was never any actual surplus. It was projected surplus. And secondly, it was projected using numbers compiled prior to the dotcom crash. Pets.com anyone?

You do realize that now there will be a turquoise-headed female rogue right?

So, moving away from the crazy stalker elf bitch, who shall henceforth be known unto me as CSEB, what types of romances are people looking for? Personally I want one reminiscent of this http://youtu.be/FmkHqUwa4zg P.S. The above question may or may not have just been an excuse to post that video. I admit to NOTHING. Although the lyric about souls could be tied in quite nicely with PE. P.P.S. However, for those Europeans who watch the video and get an urge to see them in concert, they are currently on tour in Europe.

Health regen is fine if it's slow. Like 15 minutes to recover half your health bar slow. So the only time you would ever use it to heal yourself would be if you were tapped out on other healing options or it would occur between world map changes.

No, you kept your own currency. A wise choice as the Eurozone is about to crash harder than the space shuttle Columbia. Of course, when it does it will probably set off Great Depression 2.0 around the world so you're still boned, but hopefully this one won't be followed by World War 3.0 I'm from the part of America where every time I cross the Atlantic one of the waitstaff at a restaurant I go to will ask where I'm from and when I answer they invariably respond with a godawful tommy-gun impression.

Please explain then, since nothing I've said has a grain of truth to it, exactly how I'm wrong. I'll start with an easy one. How is Obama's claim of EP legitimate if the White House was not involved in F&F. Which Obama EXPLICITLY stated to be the case and Holder backed him under oath IN CONGRESS. And actually, the legislative repeal happened well after the initial trial while it was in the middle of the APPELLATE courts. As for the LCR backing McCain, that's because they think other issues like not adding 6 trillion to the debt in 4 years are more important than DADT. Do you know the reason his brain came up with that one? Because he couldn't believe that the people at Foggy Bottom could be so ****ing stupid and irresponsible as to allow what happened in Benghazi to happen. Unfortunately for Mr. Beck, he is very, very wrong.

Y'know, the older I get the more I suspect that R&J was merely Shakespeare COMPLETELY taking the piss out of the Tristan and Isolde story. Couple of tweenies think they're in everlasting love and then kill themselves out of complete moronic stupidity. Given Macbeth and Othello I just can't take him treating R&J with any actual seriousness.

... no. Magic and magical items were not rare in BG1, there were loads of crazy wizards (looooads) and other magical items. After you completed about 20-25% of the game you didn't even have anything non magical in your inventory anymore. I know this for sure, I just completed my last playthrough a few months ago. The best items in the game (magical of course) were indeed rare - or even unique. That's an exaggeration. Heck, mundane non-magical full plate was useful till the end of the game. That's because you were what, level 8-9 by the time you finished BG1? In 2nd ed Standard full plate was useful for quite a while. Hell, even in 3rd ed you'd probably be running around in +1 full plate at best because there were much more useful items to blow your cash on.

His administration committed an act of war against Mexico and he's covering for them using Executive Privilege, either legally if the white house was involved(In which case he's a lying sack of **** and Eric Holder committed perjury every time he opened his mouth in congress on the matter or illegally if they weren't(regarding the use of EP) in which case either Holder(Unlikely given his history in federal government as a fixer) is an utter incompetent and Obama is covering for him out of pity or friendship; or more likely Holder has dirt on Obama and has him over a barrel. He's letting Bernanke pump billions of dollars into the economy (which is why the price of gold massively spiked a few days ago) which Bernanke is doing because Romney explicitly told him his neo-Keynesian loving ass is out. He's utterly ignoring the conflict between China and Japan even though our forcible limiting of japan's military morally obligates the US to defend it and the islands in question were explicitly given to Japan through the same agreements that limited their military. @ calax - Actually, that was the Log Cabin republicans who did that. In fact, Obama had his Justice department argue against it at the initial trial. The ONLY reason that Obama pushed for the repeal legislation was so that he didn't look like a ****ing tool to his own base if the judiciary ruled against him in appellate court. Which they in fact did but by then the legislative repeal had been passed.

**** that noise Link is nsfw http://www.theonion....is-image,29553/ And an apropos youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tn2EhGK5ok

Depends. Perhaps not modern Bioware style, but from what I remember most of the people writing BGII romance mods were women. Well, they seemed like women. This is the internet after all. Of course, that probably can be ascribed to the general difference in preference for porn between men and women. Considering they only had ANOMEN as an option, I'm not really surprised. I mean ANOMEN. Dude was a douche. Most of the female companion romance mods were written by women as well, not just the male ones.

We are on the same page there, my friend. Both those titles were awful. BioWare has fallen so damn hard and fast recently. The weird thing about both those games was the schizophrenia inherent in the writing of both of them. Some of the writing was very well done. The initial Merril bit with Flemeth, the mother storyline, the quest to hook up Aveline with her boy toy, and the Deep Roads from DA2 were all well written. But then there was everything that was just utter awfulness. Same thing with ME3. Mordin storyline, epic. Tali, Liara, and Garrus, very well done(apart from the whole tali pic brouhaha). The scene with Grunt, perfection. But then there was everything that was horribad, and it wasn't limited to the ending although that was the most obvious point of failure. Better example: DA:O. For a game that prizes itself in its C&C (best quest design its one truly great feature), it botches replayability with third options or stupid dilemmas. For one, due to circumstace in a major quest you're prompted to choose between killing a child or allowing his mother to sacrifice herself to save him. Alas, there's a third option without any bad consequence at all. Yes, and it was get the people who actually knew what the **** they were doing option. It was the functional difference of getting a specialist in neurosurgery vs the ER doc to pull a bullet out of someone's head.

The only thing I want for them to do towards localization upon release is to make sure the text files are structured so that replacing english with translated text is straightforward with minimal breakage and maybe have a fan translation started for Russian and Polish.Then Spanish, German, Portuguese, Japanese, French, and Italian in terms of priority for maximum sales.

Depends. Perhaps not modern Bioware style, but from what I remember most of the people writing BGII romance mods were women. Well, they seemed like women. This is the internet after all. Of course, that probably can be ascribed to the general difference in preference for porn between men and women.