ShadowPaladin V1.0

Pirates was published by Atari. SMAC isnt 20 years old btw according to the book it was 1999 which is 6 years ago. Obsidian have only created one game so far.

Comes from the government actually. Oh I see so taxing totally innocent people is "justice" and doing the same thing to another totally innocent person is being vindictive. Can we say double standard. Actually I'm getting to the source of the tax thats all. Guilt or innocence isnt even a factor here. If you wanted to be pedantic however he would be paying for a current crime. IE robbing me ,not one that is 300 years old. Since I'd do the same regardless of the source it dosnt really help your case any See so by making it personal IE making me guilty of a crime I could have had nothing to do with you have done the exact opposite of what you intended. Now not only do I have no particular reason to help the people who indirectly robbing me, but I'd also be sure I got it all back.

I dont own a spear. I was thinking of a Claymore need something with some reach and some leverage. Wouldnt really want to kill it though although I doubt it would share the sentiment.

Is there a society that has institutionalised slavery ? I dont live in one do you ? Slavery was common place in the ancient world. You would be hard pressed to find a civilisation that didnt have slaves. No I'm innocent. No ammount of you telling me otherwise is going to change that I know for a fact that I cant be charged for a crime that occured before my birth. Well since they were eager to sell each other (different tribes) to slavers and those tribes used their connections with said slavers to enslave even more tribes I'd say africans should cough up too since they are equally guilty by your reconining. Save your tears if you want to try to absolve some imagined guilt because you happen to be an American be my guest. Heres my natural justice. If I get taxed for some slavery reperation I'll raise the rent on some black guys house till it evens out. Now you may scream unfair, but since I'm being picked on just for being a certain nationality I'm just doing the same thing. You have an odd concept of guilt. Would you be indignent if someone locked you up because your next door neighbour hit his wife ? Wouldnt you be even more indignant if they had both been dead for 50 years (actually incredulous seems more appropriate). Well you can believe what you like but if you want to foister that self loathing stuff onto me you really need something to back it up.

And it's been how long since Baldurs Gate was released ? Wouldnt really want to play it on the 360 since I've already played it. Dont you find it kind of amusing that you have to dig back that far into history to come up with an example of a good game ? I do. Lucky you. Last one I played was Bloodlines and that certainly didnt work straight out of the box. It was also a buggy mess.

Why dont you tell the people over at civfanatics why their game wont work. My getting things to run entails putting in the disk and switching the machine on. Thats applied to every console game I've bought this month (been an expensive month too). I downloaded two PC demo's earlier. Had to get new drivers, update DX etc. Compared to some of the rigmaroll thats childs play. Of course there are those times when you just have to wait for someone to actually release a patch because the game dosnt work period on your system. Well for every IWD you have Final Fantasy , not to mention the other plethora of JRPGs. Strategy games like Front Mission and so on. Theres a very simple reason why console games didnt make certain types of games. It's because until quite recently console games have been dictated by the Japanese gaming preferences. Hence lots of RPGs/Strategy games and no RTS/FPS games. It's not that you cant do them on a console, it's just that the market wasnt previously there. Actually SMAC was published by EA. " As a new company I dont see how they are selling out. They are making things for the existing market. Most of the stuff on the PC is dross anyway. The top end stuff requires a seriously expensive kit to run without compromise.

That dosnt make sense tens of thousands of people do commit the same crime and we lock up the people who did it. We dont just pick someone off the street and lock them up for it. Thats the very basis of our nature of justice. Oh I think it's very apt. If I was paying taxes to fund some slavery guilt trip I wouldnt feel particularly like helping the people who were "robbing" me. I think you mean when society feels it is being unfairly put upon. It's against every concept of justice to make an innocent person pay for the crimes of the guilty and I have the very best defence which was I wasnt born. This is where I laugh at you. Why do you think these people have jumped on the slavery bandwagon ? Do you think they want justice or do you think they want a fat settlement cheque. So they are basically laying a guiltrip on guilable Americans (you are one it seems) in order to get a payoff. Since all these guilt trips tend to revolve around money I tend to treat them with contempt. Like I said why should I feel guilty about something I'm not responsible for ? Do you feel guilty when someone commits a crime which you had nothing to do with? No these people are not normal. If that were the case then everyone put in the same situation would commit those crimes, which they dont. Rather it's the breakdown of social order that allow these people to express their sociopathic tendencies. While you might take comfort in the idea that admitting guilt somehow makes the human race better. It really dosnt work that way. The people who are likely to be the next generation of Hitlers dont see those acts as mistakes, but rather inspiration. So I guess while you are making innocent people feel guilty for no reason the sociopaths are learning the ropes at the same time.

Have you ever seen a nation comit a crime ? Was every single German a supporter of Hitler ? Nope (fact) so much for the theory of the nation of Germany commiting a crime then. That isnt really the issue. The issue is why someone should be blamed for the crime of another. That violates every principle of justice. Learning from history dont have a problem with that. Someone expecting that I should be responsible and sorry for those events. Big problem with that.

Two main ones. 1. The number of games does not justify the cost of a top end machine. 2. They rarely play straight of the box, crash, have bugs which a blind monkey could spot etc.

So basically because you think that society is some sort of entity and we are it's appendages we are all guilty of its crimes ? Of course they do , they are no more responsible for something that happened when they were not born than they are because someone else goes and nicks a car. If your idea were actually anything more than a fantasy, you could just go lock up anyone who commited a crime because heck they are all part of society so they are all guilty. We could even go one further and lock someone up each "lifetime" for some particularly henieous crime. Slavery is long gone as are the people involved (well at least in the context your using). It's certainly not something that anyone alive today needs to appoligise for or feel bad about. Actually making people pay taxes to pay off this imagined debt and laying a guilt trip on them is a much better way to make people resent blacks since you are punishing them wrongly and unjustly. So your not elimiting racism , your just giving a more rational reason to exist. Like I said it's lucky that your view is nothing more than fantasy because the implications are much scarier than most of the events you demand be rembered.

No , but I cant say I remember them fondly. Of course in the DOS days there were no platforms that ran comparable games.

Well first off there is no standard PC. Beat um Ups ? Actually the only one I would say the PC is superior at is RTS. Otherwise it's mostly a case of simply being so used to a mouse a keyboard combo. Took me a while to break that particular piece of conditioning. I'm buying a game. If I wanted to make games I'd go get paid for doing it. PC games are low quality pieces of junk which hardly ever work out of the box. Developers might want to address that. Obsidian is new to the market and it's a console market how are they selling out ?

How could they be wrong ? They were not even born. Your making a critical error. They are not learning from their mistakes. They cant learn from them since they didnt make them to start with. They can learn from the mistakes of others. Great you critisise people for something they were never part of. You dont find find that kind of irrational ?

But we are not talking about a current "crime" anyway. We are talking about something that most of the people involved are either dead or extremely old.

I saw him coming so I ran away

So I was standing on the reinforcement point you think ?

It's not like the Americans havnt tried several times I think. You should look on the deaths of those concerned as a fresh start. See no reason to lumber the new administration with Fidels baggage (that of course assumes that non of those who came up with the policy are still in power too). Well I dont know the details of the case so I couldnt really say one way or the other. I don't like the bloke , but I still wouldnt put him on trial at least on what evidence has come to light thus far.

I was in the jail at the time. I didnt hang around when entering the screen. What it did was teleport all the police into what was at the time an empty jail so instead of "resisting" 2 police I ended up next to 5 or 6 of them.

I did your again saying that just because person A did this then person B 50 years on just because they happen to be nationality X will do the same.

Well thats nice and all but your 50 years too late. Carrying around all that hate will give you an ulcer.

When those who instituted the policy die. How many generations are we talking ? I tend to put the whole thing down to political bull**** since it's not likely that your going to Tony arrested for the Dresdan bombings.

Are you asking for an opinion or a definitive answer ? Zimbabwe has been doing a similiar thing btw.

So what do you hate then ? Why should modern Germany and Japan appologise or feel guilty for what even you consider to be a non modern Germany or Japan might have done ?

I would call it ridiculous. You hate X because X did something 50 years ago. No one who was responsible is still around but you hate them anyway. Yep that sounds pretty ridiculous to me.

I hate stuff like that especially in a game that is supposed to be so heavily tactical. What happened to me was the police came out and I walked past them. Somehow I ended up in the police station with only one or two of them there. When they saw me it triggered the dialogue and they all teleported back. Happened twice so I quit. Think I'll stick with Fire Emblem