Valsuelm

These tests have about as much merit as your average 'purity test'. They're limited by the box the designer(s) of the test think in, and I've yet to see one that isn't done in the context of the indoctrinated perceptions of mass media and bought propaganda. Generally it's a polarized box, and thus generally serves to polarize. For anyone with a working brain the majority of the questions are not black and white issues, nor yes/no/maybes. Nor does a 'maybe' make you a 'centrist'. The issues they touch on more often than not have a great deal more complexity than the question encompasses, and/or they simply rely on a false perception that's perpetrated in the mass media that makes the question foundationless, irrational, or unreasonable in an informed and truly thinking mind.

You really have to ask? While the above lightsaber was indeed downright cheese, the new one is far far worse. I'll wager a lot that the lightsabers are going to be good representatives of overall movie quality. Despite what some are saying here, I'll also wager a lot that the new movies are going to make the prequels look good. They'll be so bad we might even miss Jar Jar. Kinda like Bush and Obama made many of us miss Clinton.

I haven't seen that recently. But you clearly need reschooling in Martin Luther King. His final speech covered the importance of economic boycott. Plus it's possibly the most amazing speech I've ever heard. It starts slow, but is well worth sticking with. Like The Blues Brothers. Make up your own minds whether MLK would support what is happening today. CONSPIRACY NOTE: The full version of this speech, which mentions economic boycott _keeps being taken down from Youtube_ and replaced with the neutered version that is much shorter. I don't think that Bruce is denying the validity of boycotting itself as much as he is wondering why Macy's is being targeted. Macy's and the others are being targeted because those businesses have something the rioting thugs want or it just happens to have the unfortunate luck of being in the path of the wandering zombies bent on destruction.

I am so not looking forward to the day my MX518 dies...

As do I. The only thing the movie has going for it is the original cast and Kasdan. I was hopeful they could overcome the cheese that is J.J., but after seeing the trailer... it's clear that's not going to happen and bad cheese is what we're going to get. I've never before seen a trailer for Star Wars that I thought sucked until today. Even the prequels had at least decent trailers, some of them actually being good.

It's 7 Messages in total. How exactly should I make it more legible? The problem is probably with you, who are so lazy. And stroppy\sullen, now that I think of it. Make it clear who is saying what. Colorize it, paragraph it better, or figure something else out. It's not a matter of being lazy. It's a matter of the writer making it so the reader can easily read what they wrote and understand it. You're some random person on the web, who has no history so far as I know of writing anything interesting to read, who frankly looks to be emoing (first impression based on the first, last paragraphs that I did read, and your response to me), but I don't know for sure as I didn't read it all. If you want other people to read what you write, make it legible to them. And you look like your head is most likely where it shouldn't be, in addition to all what you said about me, applicable to you, with the addendum that you haven't actually written anything. Nevertheless, the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many, so I'll see to "colorize it". Thanks for colorizing it. Much easier to read. In regards to your reply to me: grow up; resist the urge to tit for tat. In regards to your pms. a) Very poor form to be discussing a private conversation with anyone in such a public manner without their permission. If you think it must be done, it's fair to leave such a person unnamed or unidentifiable in all ways. Doing otherwise is generally a serious breach of etiquette and really just isn't cool. b) You've demonstrated well how conceited and without self awareness so many masters students are these days. As the Dev says: your level of 'education' is irrelevant. In fact, you bringing it up makes you look like a serious moron to put it nicely. c) The Dev took more time with you than I'd have. Then again they were likely giving you the benefit of the doubt, which you demonstrated clearly right away on this forum that you didn't deserve. I'll give you this though, it was poor form of them to say 'buy these other games' in the manner they did. All in all, you should just chillax. If I were the Dev, I'd be more than happy to refund you your money and send you packing from the forums (if I became aware of this thread that most definitely would happen). If I were you, I'd be more than happy to take my money back. There's fail on both sides on the conversation, but moreso on yours. I took the time to write this, since you took the time to implement my suggestion to better format your OP. I appreciate people stepping up. Thanks again, but seriously, go get yourself some fresh air, and forget about that game, and that conversation. It's not worth it.

Hi Hurlshot Nice to see you posting again, I am of the opinion that when someone of your reasonable temperament and equanimity decides to leave these forums its an indictment on certain levels around the level of conversation I'm am hoping others realized it? So its good to hear from you again You come off as so amazingly prissy. Do you realize that?

It's 7 Messages in total. How exactly should I make it more legible? The problem is probably with you, who are so lazy. And stroppy\sullen, now that I think of it. Make it clear who is saying what. Colorize it, paragraph it better, or figure something else out. It's not a matter of being lazy. It's a matter of the writer making it so the reader can easily read what they wrote and understand it. You're some random person on the web, who has no history so far as I know of writing anything interesting to read, who frankly looks to be emoing (first impression based on the first, last paragraphs that I did read, and your response to me), but I don't know for sure as I didn't read it all. If you want other people to read what you write, make it legible to them. Otherwise, a lot of people are just going to skip your post, as some of us have better things to do than spend time deciphering some random person's post.

As we learned in Ep.3, he spends the rest of his days as some kind robed emissary of Naboo. One can hope and easily imagine that he one day falls into a garbage disposal, never to be seen or heard from again. Did he really fall? Or was he helped into the disposal. That's a mystery we'll have to live with, and one I can live contented never knowing which it was. It just matters that he's gone. And that is good.

Formatting of your pm back and forth is too much work to bother to read. Make it easily legible, and perhaps I'll read it.

They asked him to come back, but he gave some sort of snooty ac-tor refusal about the character being finished and he couldn't add any more. 'Snooty ac-tor refusal?' Perhaps he just realizes, like so many of the rest of us do, that some things should not be remade, retouched, or sequelled. If I were him I wouldn't rejoin either (unless you paid me way way way too much money, then I'd consider it). Wedge's story is done. As is Luke's, Leia's, Han's, and the rest of them. That is, if you want to have a story with integrity. The Star Wars movies should have ended with Episode VI. The prequels are a nasty stain on the franchise, and the cheesy trailer released today pretty much confirms what a lot of us were worried about: that it's gonna be more of the bad same as the prequels for the upcoming films. Very possibly worse, as at least the first trailers for episode one weren't cheesy, and actually made the movie look good.

Fixed it for you. Take all your fascist and socialist ideals that will fail to do any good to some other nation please.

Not to say that the 'drug war' isn't a serious problem, and not to say that it's one that definitely has negatively affected black people to a greater deal than most other groups, but it is not a racially motivated 'war'. And I'd still file the justifications of that war under propaganda. The propaganda has been so prolific and effective over the years that I'd not label the 'drug war' a progressive cause as almost all segments society have thought it was a good thing at one point in time or another (a great many still do to various degrees). At the top the 'drug war' is about money, and trillions of dollars of it, and the 'progressives' et al are generally just useful idiots puppeteered by the technocrats (note that some 'progressives' could accurately be called technocrats too, but most aren't smart enough to be) and/or those at the top, in this issue and many others. [Note: the 'progressives' tend to be the most useful of idiots in this issue and many others] There are people who have gotten disgustingly rich on this 'war'. It's definitely the most lucrative 'war' in recorded history. This is kind of an advanced history and world affairs subject and is not easily discussed on a forum such as this as the truth of the matter is complex and never directly discussed in the media (sometimes it is peripherally though, ie: the recent film 'Kill the Messenger' touches on a segment of the truth). Some here I imagine already know that it's no coincidence that Rockefeller was behind some of the most draconian drug laws out there, others will say 'huh?' or not even know of the Rockefeller of which I speak. The more ignorant and brainwashed will knee jerk and call me a 'conspiracy theorist'. Anyways... the drug war is an issue, in fact I'd say it's one of the biggest issues out there and it's directly linked to the other super big issues out there (ie: banking, wars, imperialism), but it is not a race issue. Blacks are collateral damage in this issue, as they are in the immigration issue, but they are not primary or even secondary targets. In general they almost never are, other than as a tool to propagate further division and racial tensions amongst the ignorant. The evil folks running this show don't give a crap whether you're white, black, or any other color. It's just useful for them in the sense it's one more way they can divide and conquer.

Now there's an ignorant statement. First, your statement is irrelevant to what's going on in Ferguson. Something that has absolutely nothing to do with bettering things for the black person, nor is the situation in Ferguson truly a racial issue of any kind. Second, there were no great riots in the 70s that lead to anything. Third, neither the BS perpetrated by FEMA and other government agencies in New Orleans (I assume you refer to after Katrina) nor the absolute BS surrounding Dormer had anything to do with race. A crapton of white people got sh*t on as well by FEMA et al, and Dormer could have been white, purple, or any other color and the same thing would have gone down. Both are problems for sure, but neither had anything to do with race. Fourth, looting, pillaging, senseless violence, etc by some of those in Ferguson right now is never going to accomplish anything good. Not once in US history has it. And Finally, having lived in the US for some decades now, including during the 70s, I can say that without a doubt the perception of racism and division all around in this nation and by many of those from abroad is far worse now than it's ever been in my lifetime. There is one reason for that, and that's the propaganda you hear on the 'news', in media all over, and from some politicians, such as our current President. It's the result of ignorance of facts and an appetite for propaganda that would obfuscate reality such as you display amongst much of the population.

Ive never played the franchise. Im just trying to prevent senseless accidents while also totally grooving on drone technology. If I could figure out a way for the drone to also take DNA samples I think we would have a real winner on our hands. Gosh I hope you're joking... Im not going to lie. When I become president the skies will be darkened with drones. Or did you mean ME 3? Evil. I'll be shooting them down, and working towards your overthrow.

Ive never played the franchise. Im just trying to prevent senseless accidents while also totally grooving on drone technology. If I could figure out a way for the drone to also take DNA samples I think we would have a real winner on our hands. Gosh I hope you're joking...

Another example of insanity: Juxtapose the situation we're discussing that occurred in Cleveland with the situation that happened in Ferguson, MO. In this Cleveland case you clearly have a situation where the cop should be charged at the very least with manslaughter, and there's no rioting or copious amounts of national news attention. In the Ferguson case, you actually have a case where the cop justifiably shot the kid (assuming the information about the kid assaulting him is correct, and from all I've seen it looks to be legit), and there's copious amounts of national news attention, riots, death threads, assaults on innocents, extreme racism, insanity, etc. Why does one think this is so? From my perspective Ferguson looks to be a manufactured story, like so many others that get so much attention. The next chapter of the Ferguson saga will likely start later today with the announcement of the grand jury decision to indict or not.

There's nothing common about 'common sense'. That said, I generally agree with your sentiment. However, I'd say that the insane society is already here, and a great many people already do live in fear of everyone else. For a little evidence to this in just this matter reference all the people who would justify shooting the kid, the guy who called 911 in the first place, or the cop who immediately escalated the situation by telling the kid to put his hands in the air (the police department themselves said the kid was not confrontational, but they themselves were), the fact that one of the cops shot and killed the kid, and last but not least the yet to be determined for certain but very likely lack of charges against the cop who killed the kid as that's par for the course in situations such as these (and Cleveland has a history of police corruption and a lack of prosecuting murder and other crimes committed by the police).

For well over the first 100 years of the history of the U.S., they did not receive special treatment. By and large though they are above the law now, as the result of near 100 years of propaganda in the media (especially the last 50 years), and corruption.

That is an interesting story and relatively pertinent but Europe also hasn't the degree of mass shootings, or easy access to firearms, that the USA has had. So the USA police are understandably under different pressures and will react differently No. You're an unwitting victim of a great deal of propaganda. So is the idiot who called 911 in the first place, and likely the police officer as well. There are many police officers that would have handled the situation correctly. A manner that would never have made the news, and would have seen the kid home for dinner rather than in a morgue. There are many people who wouldn't have called the police at all and taken care of the situation themselves. Such are the people who should be police officers, if we are to have them. People who would shoot the kid (or adult if he was an adult) in a situation like this, or someone who would justify it are exactly the kind of people a rational intelligent free person does not want on the police.

Amazing soundtrack. Blizzard really did well with the quests, atmosphere, and music in Warlords of Draenor. My favorite is probably the song played during the climax of one of the first quests you do with Yrel and part of the Auchindoun instance. I've been trying to find the song but to no avail. Considering WoD has a mixture of over 9 hours of BC music and an as yet to be determined amount (but at least a few hours) of new WoD music, it's not going to be an easy task. But I got sucked in with that song and those game moments like I haven't in a very long time. If I find it, I'll be posting it here. Until then, some oldies but goodies:

There is a gargantuan world of difference. While one's imagination should serve, yours is failing you. If you've ever had a loaded gun pointed at you, you'd appreciate that super big difference between that, and someone displaying or reaching for a gun. I've been around the latter more times than I can count, the former just once, and the difference between the two cannot be overstated. Nevertheless, the policeman interviewed stated that there were no threats nor any confrontational manner about the boy (an unusual thing for a police department to say, as usually they cover things up as best they can).

A taser would have been overkill too... And yes, in general the police are here to oppress and steal... errrr raise revenue.

He didn't point it at the cops....