Nick_i_am

Or, at the very least 'A Sand Show' (ass).

I didn't know much about the situation in Shi Lanka in reguards to Buddhism so I did some digging and this came up: http://www.tamilcanadian.com/page.php?cat=52&id=637 If this isn't an example as Buddhism being used as a tool for power then I don't know what is.

Really? The leader and upper echilon of Santi Asoke was arrested and thrown in jail for up to 32 years in a move clearly designed to oppress the movement. Call it what you want, Buddhism runs Tibet and this is clearly an example of a majority ruling sect opressing a splinter-sect that was nibbling at its heels both religiously and politically. Sure, you can say that nobody is blowing themselves up or invading the middle-east, but can you really excuse it as not being fueled by the same mentality that causes all of the above? Becides this, lets not forget the warrior monks of Japan from the 10th to 16th centuries that, in varying degrees, would use buddhism as an excuse to throw their weight around over issues of politics or local resorces. And that's what it boils down to, an excuse to be a git. Don't get be wrong, even for a second, Buddhism is awsome and I wish all religions could be more like it, but it is NOT people-proof. People can, have and will abuse it for their own gain. EDIT: just to clarify again, the only reason Buddism should be lumped with any other religion is because that it still, fundimentally, sets up a hirarchy of power which can be used and abused by those at the top and uses the faith of the peons as its keystone. All the noble scriptures in the world can't save a religion from a rotten upper echilon, and even if such hasn't happened to buddhism to your satisfaction that doesn't in any way mean it couldn't. EDIT2: and while I think of it, what about the monks who burn themselves alive? It's not directly hurting anyone, thankfully, but it's still martyrdom, a tell-tale sign of extremism, even if it is a responce to opression (after all, all extremists belive themselves oppressed in some way).

See above post, the 'follow or suffer' mentality that is the root problem of the fundimentals of all religious orginisations is no less present in buddhism than anywhere else.

Sorry, I was way too vaige. 1960s-70s onwards saw the oppression of cirtain sects of buddhism within Tibet, notably of the Santi Asoke movement which was, frankly, persecuted for its anti-establishment mentality.

Now he'll just make a witty comment about 'pixie sticks' in lue of somthing original. This is BS by the way, Bhuddist Extremists are as bad as everyone else. Just look at Tibet mid last cenutury where gangs of police-monks roamed around happily beating up the populus. No religion is people-poof, even those that don't even really define themselves as a religion.

man, you need to MSN me when you're playing.

You mean, Tim, the lead programmer? Childish joking aside though, bugs are way more the result of poor QA than bad programmers.

Why don't you all shut up and jam. ahhhhh, so this is why it's 'gaiden'.

You might have a point there, but being that all his reviews DO have fair (if sometimes long winded_ points there's really not much basis for withholding that claim when the viewer is anybody with more than half a brain. so approximately 3% of the gaming community.

Yeah, they're quite amusing, and it saves us having to deal with the wider xbox community.

Red Dwarf did this when they fell into the pit of suck and I never forgave them for it.

Overkill is good for snipers and that's about it. Even then the sniper can just pick up a fallen weapon anyway, so it's really for when the path to the camping spot isn't clear.

I'd be tempted if it weren't for timezone crap.

No, it's normal except that you don't respawn when you die until the end of the round. If you've ever played Counter-Strike it's basically the same.

pity bump.

A reference is fine, but that isn't a cameo.

hahahahahshkldhashdaslkhksajhashahaakjsashdsadhsadhsadh If you want a serious responce to this then I have to admit that the statement is, in its essence, fair, right up until we ask what 'being an indian' actually is.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/arts/tel...a0PiQrjP7wZGSng hahaha, the drama continues.

Yes, if those reviews translated into lost sales, and that's the real question. Some of the best games ever made have recived great reviews, but have been let down by crappy marketing. Nexus is a prime example of this. Likewise, Kayne and Lynch didn't need great reviews, because most of the people who heard about it saw only what the marketing people wanted them to see, which was the promise of a dark and gritty story of two psycholic badasses fighting the law. There is, after all, a reason why games like Spiderman 3 and Transformers sell and it often seems to have very little to do with the actual gameplay and a lot to do with the surrounding media.

Yeah, deffinately, the unpatched original had some serious performance problems, I couldn't even play 4 player games on this new PC without it becoming unbarable. A patch down the line seriously improved that issue though making the game actually playable in skirmish mode, and FA seems to have kept with that. Additionally, the new UEF experimental unit, the defence satellite, is pretty amusing. You build the structure and it launches a satellite with a laser that roams around out of the range of AA guns and zaps shizzle. Destruction of the control center instantly deactivates the drone though.

That's what she said.

hahahhaahkslhdlsahdlsah, awsome.

Played this recently and was actually suprised, considering the love/hate relationship I had with the original SupCom. In short, the new units are very welcome and sort out the balance issues (such as tech 3 point defences, tech3 anti-ship battlecruisers and stationary engineering suites that automatically help with constuction and repairs), the tweeks to existing units are very welcome (cirtainly to the UEF, the Fatboy can now construct all tech3 land units and builds them faster, and the Atlantis can now build all aircraft), and the new missions, while few in number (6) can be played as any of the original factions and are high on both difficulty and intensity. If you enjoyed the original i'd recomend this, if you were beating around the bush over the original this addon is stand-alone so i'd also recomend checking it out. I havn't played with all the new toys available though, more as I do, as per interest.

that'd be pretty sad, but so is playing on your own.