Agiel

The thing I'm most curious about in Dragon's Keep is how in-depth the customisation features are for the dispositions for your previous characters in the series. For instance, if there was an option to set your Warden from DA:O as a scrappy city elf or a stoic mage, and whether or not that will be reflected if and when you meet him or her in DA:I proper. If it turns out that the Warden/Warden Commander has no insignificant amount of screentime in Inquisition, the amount of lines Bioware would have to record to account for all the different combinations would be quite impressive.

The US would also most certainly feel it if Iran decided to close the Strait of Hormuz and if pirates and rogue state navies ran rampant, causing insurance rates on merchant shipping to skyrocket and drive up the costs of goods, to name just two good examples of how the US suddenly seceding from the rest of the world would be counter-productive to American interests.

Winston Churchill had at one point said: I am however kind of concerned that IS will wind up chaining women and children to artillery pieces in an effort to put a stop to the "death from above."

Couldn't have put it better myself. I love Roman Polanski's movies*. I also believe that the fact that he was a damn fine filmmaker doesn't absolve him of his "indiscretions" and his efforts to flee from justice. *Do not mistake this comparison for admiration for Assange, just know that I have complex views on the matter.

Admittng to flaws and sins of one's country (of which every American poster on this topic has) and loving it all the same is what seperates the nationalists from the true patriots.

If those people bothered to look hard enough, they would find that the very first demo had a human male and that there was another demo in E3 with a Dwarf male.

A playable Ork Boy for F2P is the word on the street. If the 'Nids were a playable faction, I should think a 'gaunt works just as well (that and some poor Imperial Guardsman with his flashlight).

I.. am... PSYCHED!!!

Another recruiter for the EU camp I see. Thank you Zhirinovsky, you do more than the EU or the US could ever do to push countries like Ukraine into the arms of EU and NATO, regardless of whether these want it or not. I'd like to do a Russian reversal paraphrase of a famous quote: "With enemies like these, who needs friends?" Russia is looking increasingly similar to North Korea with these ridiculous and self-harming outbursts. I fear what we are seeing is the ultimate resort to demagoguery for internal politics purposes, regardless of the damage it might cause to Russia's position in the real world. I used to think there was a very bright future ahead of Russia insomuch that South Korea used to have a dictatorship that was almost as loopy as the one to the north and even less well-off before it turned into one of the world's most dynamic economies and a model for a post-modern East Asian society. Now, I think if the FSB thought it was possible they would have loved to have put the genie back into the bottle and unplug Russia's ethernet cable from the rest of the world. I can't help but think that North Korea looks at how China and the former Soviet republics adopted the internet and said "Well there's your problem."

Picked up Max Payne 1 and 2 on sale on Steam after remembering the unadulterated joy the mods for those games gave me, in particular the Cinema mod for 2: http://youtu.be/HwYVWTnp18w I suppose enjoyed Max Payne 3 well enough, even if Dan Houser's less than subtle writing had kind of corrupted the noir, hard-boiled atmosphere of the first two (I could go at length at the problems I had with its narrative, but I won't here).

Made my absolute, most perfect save for Dragon Age: Origins. Maybe Dragon's Keep means I won't have to worry about working up the stomach to try and finally finish Dragon Age 2 in time for Inquisition, though maybe my curiosity over the DLC for it which purportedly has actually very enjoyable combat encounters may make me cave.

That's silly. As if an actual equal fight would happen in a modern war. American infantrymen would call air strikes and artillery strikes and use all the equipment their enemy doesn't have the first chance they get. Same as any infantry. Lets face it. Give any infantry same equipment, same numbers, same meagre provisions and same living conditions as say the Taliban and send them into Afghanistan. I think the bravado about how great and tough they are will end very very quickly. That's kind of the point. I find it hilarious that IS choose to use human shields, then once confronted with a weapon that leaves very little in the way of footprints and offers unheard of levels of precision they yell out like schoolyard children "Hey! No fair!"

Vice News footage had an interview with an IS fighter saying something to the effect of "Stop being cowards by sending your drones at us." My eternal answer to that proposition is "If you stop hiding behind the skirts of women and children then you will find that the American infantrymen will more than gladly oblige your request, and you shall find that they're more than able to mow you down all the same."

If they stripped out all of the armaments, non-essential avionics, external stores and pylons to reduce drag co-efficients, gave it a half fuel load, and even took off all the paint like they did with the P-42 to beat the F-15's climb record, then *maybe* the Su-25 which had been specifically designed for the close air support role with its guns, rockets, anti-tank missiles, and LDGP bombs (insomuch that the A-10, its rough western counterpart, had been) could reach 33k feet. Then again, at this state with no weapons the only way it could down a civilian airliner would be by Kamikaze.

"I must return to my people."

Remembering this day in history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WenOh8NsDOs

It's what this thread is here for There's a bunch of great photos from the First Gulf War:

"But who's buying?!" *edit* I swear up and down, posting this was the first thing on my mind upon seeing your post and only saw your lament after I posted this.

Photo of a story I found somewhat fascinating. Woman in China attempts suicide in her wedding gown after her fiance broke off the engagement. Luckily due to the efforts of neighbours she was unhurt. "Cool off."

...which is about the most sensible attitude to take on the whole consoles vs. PC thing.

On another forum I frequent, we went on an owls tangent.

I don't know about you, but I'd be a at least *little* bit more concerned about a deputy PM showing up to one of those rallies than, say, Billy-Bob and his "beloved" cousin. And given that Svobada has less than 1% of the vote and that Right Sector virtually ceased to be a viable political entity in the wake of the new election, the claim that Nazis were the driving force suddenly holds less water than a shrapnel-riddled colander.

If you're seriously going to bring Nazis back into this: Deputy PM of Russia at Russian National Unity Rally: Demonstrators at a "Take Back Russia" rally. What did you think? That the "Nazis" in Metro 2033 came out of nowhere? "Out of context?" "Fringe groups blown out of proportion?" Well, now you just got a taste of your own medicine.