Valsuelm

Math hasn't always been my strong suit, but assuming I'm understanding numbers correctly $500 is much more than $45. Don't hate the poor, Mitt Romney. Opportunity cost, and you shouldn't be buying X that makes use of Y if your Y isn't up to snuff. It's like getting a new paint job on a car that's engine is falling apart. Your priorities are out of whack.

I'd consider peasants game content... Either way, it's a design mindset, and one I couldn't disagree more with. The other Obsidian RPGs already out do not have cities as dense as BG1 or BG2 in any way so it shouldn't be surprising what we're seeing given that and what Josh has stated. Again, hopefully Josh and co. take the feedback in this thread and others regarding this to heart before release.

Unfortunately Josh felt that the cities in BG1 and BG2 were too dense in their content.... BG1 and BG2 did cities and towns in an RPG game better than any other game I've seen before or since. It certainly would be nice however if Josh and company took feedback such as in this thread to heart before the game is released.

Really. If you can afford to spend money on video games, you should be able to afford new RAM. I'm all for making PoE run on systems that are not top notch, however asking someone to have at least 4gb of ram, at the very least Vista (if not 7), or that they run a 64 bit OS, is not asking much in 2015 (it wasn't asking all that much even 5 years ago). If you have less than that you're really really behind and should spend the couple hundred it takes to get yourself a far far better system. To give you and idea of just how far behind you are, only the cheapest of Dells (I'm just using them as an example as they are a mainstream source of computers and their products represent what average joe buys) come with 4gb of ram, and they are less than $500. Dell's mid tiers all come with 8gb, and they aren't much more than $500, and Dell's mid tiers would still be considered a lower tier system to many if not most modern gamers. To be frank, someone who hasn't upgraded their computer in the better part of ten years really has no legitimate complaint if it can't run a new product well or at all. Rather than spend money on games, go out and spend money on getting a better system first. It will be money well spent.

I don't joke about terrorism, and this is approaching genocide. So we have Bruce jumping on the ~2,000 bandwagon before it's confirmed (it very well may be confirmed at some point), and now you're talking genocide (which will not be confirmed anytime remotely soon because it isn't happening). Exaggerate much? That said, yea.. Boko is bad news. But you guys don't need to get all emotionally exaggerative to point that out. Boko isn't the end of the world, nor even the end of Nigeria. I'm sure you have local tragedies that you could possibly do something about that warrants your attention far more than tragedies half way around the world or 1000+ miles and 4+ nations to your north.

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It's not a bad song at all in my opinion. It actually reached #2 on the charts when it came out too. I just scored the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack again (have it on cassette but that's a bit worn out now sadly), so I've been rocking out to that. It's one of the best soundtracks from an 80s movie in my opinion. So many great scenes to music in that movie too.

It does seem that way when the application of respect is inconsistent. Add that to a violent act inflicted upon people that didn't, and the needle sinks in a bit deeper. So going back to the suggested faked video of the cop getting shot, what is the ultimate end then of doing that and how does the affect any other details of the attack ? Or is that all there is to it ? Cui bono for the first question, and there's a number of possibilities. For the second, it may not at all. It would depend on what other details we're talking about, and if it was a sure thing that the shooting was faked or not. Something that's inconclusive from what I've seen so far, and taken by itself it doesn't add up to much. Here's a recent presentation that includes a bit on how someones(s) might benefit from staging a 'terrorist' attack. Warning to the brainwashed: there's 'conspiracy theory' type stuff in this. But it's a mainstream source, and it's ok to talk 'conspiracy theories' when it's about someone that's either a real or perceived enemy (in other words this 'conspiracy theory' has been deemed ok to talk about and believe in by mainstream western media), so you'll probably be ok. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/putins-way/

Is this legit? Hard to say without knowing more details. Could be a massive violation of the guy's constitutional rights, but it also may be legit given the circumstances, which are not adequately explained in the article. Then again, the article may be getting this wrong all together. It's getting at least part of it wrong, as The Silk Road is not defunct. It was shut down for a second time temporarily late last year but it wasn't long before it was up and running again.

If that's what you think, the thinking you do is not your own. Worth repeating, again: If 'conspiracy theory', 'conspiracy theorist', or something similar is a pejorative in your mind, you are brainwashed. Conditioned to not think outside of a box. It's one of best litmus tests there is in modern times to determine if a person is so.

You guys are trying to defend and justify total BS by pointing fingers at other people's total BS. Irrational at best that is.

Do you really believe that or did I miss a joke?They even managed to quote Irving in that article. There's actually a lot of truth in that article. The major glaring flaw with it (it's not the only flaw) is the same major glaring mistake so many in this thread are making, and that's a whole people are being blamed for the actions of a relative few. The 'Jews or Judaism' were no more responsible for the acts of a relatively few number of Jewish people than the Muslims or Islam are responsible for the actions of a relatively few Muslims. Yet there's no shortage of people crying out against Islam. There's really no difference between them and the people who blame 'The Jews' for all that a few evil Jewish people did or are doing.

Welcome to 2015. Where there's people aplenty that confuse the refusal to print filth with cowardice. As well as confuse journalism with filth.

Are they BW target audience? There is a lot of BW fan fiction. But what you guys are looking at is the birth place of slash fiction. WTF is BW? Please, speak english and not this weird ass tumblr moonspeak. Some of us don't speak that language and are very confused by a multitude of things read thusfar. You're in a thread that has "weird ass tumblr moonspeak" in it's title. You might as well complain about pictures of women being posted in the '... creepy pretty women' thread.

To best answer that question, I strongly suggest going and finding out for yourself. You very often have opinions on U.S. policy (both internal and external) that don't jive with what's legal here or just doesn't take into consideration how things are done here (you are certainly not alone in this). While the links I provide below aren't going to give you the whole story, especially in regards to the latter, they contain information that is of paramount import to actually understanding the U.S. and even by extension some aspects of the rest of the world (as the U.S. Constitution has had a good deal of influence world wide). And, of course, they should answer your question. Read these. Do some thinking and considering for yourself, and you'll be ahead of a real lot of other people out there (including, sadly, most modern Americans). Reading it doesn't take long, thinking about it takes a bit longer, but do us both as favor and do so. Here is the full text of the U.S. Constitution: http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/constitution/text.html Here are the amendments to it: http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/constitution/amendmentstext.html [Note that the pages linked do not note when the amendments were proposed and ratified, which is of no small import in many cases. If you actually read the texts I have linked, then I suggest looking those dates up for better understanding. It certainly helps to have good background knowledge of U.S. history so those dates mean something.) Also, if after you read the above, and do some pondering on your own, you want some answers to some of those ponders, I recommend finding what are known as 'The Federalist Papers' and 'The Anti-Federalist Papers', and reading those. There's more I could recommend in regards to various specifics questions that might arise (ie: various case law), but it's far better to discuss that as it arises and after one has the knowledge I recommend above.

Passports these days. When concrete is pulverized, these papers come out unscathed. Amazing quality. There's no blood or recoil when the police office is shot either; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P853PYcw90Q I'm no forensics expert, but I'd like to believe there would be some blood when a man gets his head blown off at point blank range. Anyway, I suppose we should stop asking questions. It's so passe. .. I'm glad at least one person on this forum understood the reference. If only a majority did; the world might be on it's way to being a better place. You not seriously suggesting that the 3 attackers weren't Islamic extremists who received training and funding, we now know, in Yemen? Nope. And I'm not sure how you extrapolated that out of what I said.

Passports these days. When concrete is pulverized, these papers come out unscathed. Amazing quality. There's no blood or recoil when the police office is shot either; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P853PYcw90Q I'm no forensics expert, but I'd like to believe there would be some blood when a man gets his head blown off at point blank range. Anyway, I suppose we should stop asking questions. It's so passe. .. I'm glad at least one person on this forum understood the reference. If only a majority did; the world might be on it's way to being a better place.

I got my hands on a copy of 'Back to Front' yesterday. Best concert film I've seen made in many years. Amazing show. Gabriel still has it. I only wish I knew he was doing this tour before his North American leg was over. Would have loved to have seen it in person.

Perhaps because it's not clear that ~2000 civilians were even massacred yet. Reports range from 'at least one hundred' to 'over 2000', with no one as yet confirming what exactly even happened.

The simple answer is the Fed shouldn't get involved because it's 100% unconstitutional for the Fed to do so. When you consider the negatives of the Fed getting involved beyond the fact that it has no legitimate legal authority to do so, the why gets a bit more complex, but the negatives are quite big. Legality aside, which is no trivial issue (though I know you think it is), there's absolutely no need for Community colleges to be free. They are already affordable to everyone (and grants are even available to many). You'd have to look really really really hard to find someone that couldn't afford it due to their financial situation, and if such a person exists their predicament is very unusual. Loans that fully cover the cost are readily available for everyone, unless they already took similar loans and defaulted on them. And if Community college is of any real benefit they will make the money to pay back those loans. The reality is that community college is not of any real benefit to a lot of people who go there. The reality is that even four year schools are increasingly of little to no benefit to a lot of people who go there. The more people who get a degree the lower the value of that degree in regards to getting a job. The reality also is that the Federal governments involvement in higher education is the primary driver of cost increases. If the government starts shouldering 100% of the costs of community colleges you can rest assured that the expenses associated with running them will become even more skewed and subject to corruption and waste than they already are.

Why 8-12? Why not 6-8? or 12-14? What makes you think that 8-12 is the magic number?

Attila (2001) Decent. A bit ahistorical in some places, but near as much as some of the Hollywood flicks these days that pretend to be based on history. Lots of hot females and a couple great lines. 6.5/10