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A month and a week

I'll just throw a wiki-link at you since it can explain better than I: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemalism

Care to elaborate?

Yeah. I had found that link. But I expect anyone who is seriously taking part in this discussion to have read that

I loved the keep. Or better put, I loved the idea of the keep. The XP and money though were crazy. Luckily I had completed the main quest before palying the DLC, so I already was overpowered and it didn't cheapen my gaming experience

Root cause seems pretty straight forward, even though Erdogan plays the "foreign agitators" card very happily (funny how he is at the same time accused of only daring the excessive violence because of his close ties to the US and EU governments foreign support can go either way after all...). The modern turkish state had a clear distinction between state and church, based on Kemal Ataturk's principles. Under Erdogan, a lot of that separation has been rubbed away. Enough for many to start percieving Turkey as a muslim state. Kemal had banned women from covering up with headscarfs, veils or whatever religion asks them to. That was perhaps too extreme. Erdogan is pushing the country in the opposite direction. The proposed projects for Gezi Park / Taksim Square are symbols of the intended islamisation. For me the question is less how the protesters are supported by foreign interests. I am more appaled at the fact that our western governments aren't supporting them

Same reason everyone wears those ridiculous masks from that silly movie.

Can't provide you a link. Saw it on the news. Apparently it was part of the longer statement by Sezer that also included the six suicides and the terrible conditions the police are kept under? RT showed an interview with an anonymous policeman. Can't dig that up though. Indeed, apparently Erdogan's voters are mostly from rural areas, farmers and lower class. What I think will threaten him more than he expected are things like having police stop funeal processions. I doubt Turkey is that different from the rest of the countries around here: beat them, kill them, do whatever you want, but you don't mess with dead people and funerals. Erdogan has not yet shown any indication that "restraint" is part of his vocabulary. Apparently there is now discent within the party as well. It will also be intersting to see how the courts handle this. The AKP under Erdogan has done everything in their power to replace kemalist judges with ones of a more muslim orientation. Same goes for the army. Yet at least in the army, even the new officers will have gone through kemalists schools and training, so that can come 'round and bite him.

He has stated that he is considering to call in the army if things don't quiet down. With the unions joining the protest this week, things don't look to be doing that though. And the police union is unhappy as well, with six suicides and apparently a thousand resignations.

You are a brave man, expressing your condolences on this forum. Some of the regulars find such actions highly distasteful or even offensive

I think you are in the parts that get better again. I found the game fun in the first part, getting stale when you got to the generic fantasy elf and human stuff and with the siege it becomes fun again as you mess with the winter court and how the court jester became king. Did you enjoy the DLC?

I don't think I ever read an interview that turned me so off a game and a developer in such a short time.

Yup. I only read it in chunks as well. If you haven't finished it, it gets worse... Quoted from the interview: When you die on the battlefield, you don’t really die immediately. You’re hurt on the ground and cannot move until one of your friends comes and heals you. Though, like in a real battlefield, you have a chance to be executed by the enemy as well. We have that feature and we’re going to provide players with a lot of lore-friendly race-specific executions for free, but we’ll also have hundreds of different microtransaction-based executions. Just imagine: you spent two hundred dollars on the game. You won four campaigns, and you’re one of the top Space Marine players in your chapter in a huge battle, and suddenly you fail to pay attention and you end up wounded on the ground, and then you see a puny free to play Ork that just started playing the game running towards you and he executes you in a very humiliating way (because Orks are like that), for instance by choking you by sitting with his butt in your face with the teabagging execution he purchased for $1. He also records it, because we have an API to post things like these on Facebook and Youtube, humiliating you in front of everyone. So all the free players that see that video will want to buy all kinds of humiliating executions to troll the space marines as much as they can. With this we’ll even be able to monetize trolling.

Agreed on the GW2 World vs World. Just seems that he hasn't much of an idea of what online gaming is like. Though I'll not be trying the game. Encouraging trolling/griefing by making teabagging etc microtransactions? I am not the target audience.

I find it a bit ridiculous to equate the behaviour of free players with that of Ork Boyz. Its kinda insulting actually. And the assumption that paying MMO gamers are well behaved, disciplined, mature people... yeah right...

I haz wun word to sayz about dat: 'ERE WE GO! 'ERE WE GO! 'ERE WE GO!

On anecdotes: An iranian friend at university, when we were asked to write papers on the human-rights-based approach to management, asked the professor who the paper would be read by, if there was the danger that it would be published and readable back home. He only wrote the paper after it was guaranteed that it would be handled confidentialy...

Tried to play some more Remember Me. Emphasise on tried. The game is annoying me too much. If there is a way to gift Steam games one has already installed and played, I'd do it... The things I hate: Walk speed dictated by the game according to where you are: you slowly wander into the area because the game wants you to... walk really slow? Then you are running for the rest of the street, then turning the corner you have to walk slow again. As you reach the two opponents, combat starts. Just as you try to punch the first of the two, the game freezes and tells you that "Hey why not enter your combo lab to set up your new combo?" Now they could just flash an alert on screen and let you enter the menu at your own leasure, but no, combat can't proceed until you do this the moment they want you to. You set up the combo and think that now you can fight. Noooooo. After a few punches the game freezses again. Now it wants you to do something else. You'd think after the first couple of fights this ham-fisted hand-holding would be over. Nope. Nearly every combat the game decides to freeze and have you do whatever. Dear devs. I wanted to actually play your game. I understand now that the idea is anathema to you and you have to stop me once every 5 minutes from doing so. I apologize. So I watch the cutscene and quit. Mistake. Loading the game the cutscene has to be watched again. After all, skipping would be wrong. You can't skip cutscenes. And you made the mistake of missing one of the few hidden things? Even though the game is so restrictive in its movement you cant really miss anything? Play the episode again... but rewatch all those cutscenes. This forces you to watch a cutscene for a third or fourth time? Tough. They put work into it. So be gratefull and rewatch that monologue until you know it by heart. Well. After less than 4 hours I am no longer interested in the story forced down my throat or the gameplay that in so fractured that I can't enjoy it.

I'll check it out after I return from *ominous drumroll* the gym.

Nope. It just shows that Project Prism is efficient and provides information not just to the government, while also proving that Microsoft puts great stock in your opinion

Bruce, have you read about the crimes the rebels in Syria are committing? Pushing prisoners of war off of rooftops? That was a nasty enough start. But eating their enemies' hearts? Anyone who supports that kind of creatures with arms should not be the one pointing fingers.

Original, deeper dungeons or 2 ?

Played thre generations of monsters so far. It's a cute game with a nice sense of humour.

I think there is a reason why The Wire is considered by many the best tv show. Everything in that show had a place in it. slightly off topic and not wanting to start a huge a debate, but: I feel TV has regressed (if that is the rigth word to use). I was watching first season MacGuyver last month *waits for people to roll eyes* and was thinking that while Obama talks about gun-control, those of us in favour of such a move lost the fight a long time ago, when from a pacifist secret agent, who'd use his brain to solve problems and who commented how he never thought he'd ever find use for a gun, when he used one as a wrench, our favourid shows, that we cheer for their progressiveness, became the current HBO culture.

Its the better part of the game.