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Yep. A no-brainer that, especially at this point in their travels. The writers just aren't that smart, I think they'd all die in their own world within a few weeks except by accident. Judging by the show runners I've seen on Talking Dead, half of them would probably be like that guy in the field in the last episode.

Preservation of ammo (though that often doesn't seem to be a concern). The random guy in the field was dead whether they had an uzi or not.

Lobal Gwarming says no spring for you!

To add to what Volourn says... While D&D did take some inspiration from Tolkien, by no means was Tolkien it's only influence. There are numerous modules from the early days of D&D that are much darker than the Witcher, and in fact the driving force behind 2nd Edition AD&D ever even existing was the great deal of negative stigma about AD&D in the 80s due to fact that there was so much dark material, in particular things dealing with demons and dark magic. That negative stigma coupled with public pressure by some groups to remove such things and boobies (there was a good deal of nude art in the original books) from the game lead TSR to create 2nd Edition, which for the most part really is 1st edition repackaged without demons and boobies (well, the demons were renamed and toned down anyways). Anyone having played AD&D back in it's glory days could tell you that 2nd edition and 1st edition were near 100% compatible out of the box and with a couple house rules they were 100%, unlike the later editions, which frankly were primarily money grabs by WOTC designed mostly by folks with less imagination than their predecessors.

Truly are? Perhaps you identify with a sexually repressed 13 year old perverted virgin, but I don't. The Witcher was was a good game overall, but the 'boobie cards' and the 'sex' was horribly done and out of place.

Seriously, Can we please rename this thread? To put it mildly it evokes an unpleasant image every time I see it in the forum. The thread title belongs in some pron forum discussing perverse fetishes, not in a forum for a reputable game company and it's hopefully mostly upstanding forum frequenters.

Pleasantly surprised? What horrible predisposition did you hold to be pleasantly surprised by this movie? I'm glad you got over it? Movies from that era in general tell stories much better than movies from today do, as they're more about the characters than what we commonly find today. You usually cannot go wrong with any movie Stewart was in. Aside from The Philadelphia Story (which is a great movie), here are some recommendations with Jimmy Stewart: Rear Window The Man Who Knew Too Much Vertigo Rope You Can't Take it With You And some with Cary Grant: North By Northwest To Catch a Thief An Affair to Remember Arsenic and Old Lace His Girl Friday Notorious Bringing Up Baby All of the above are good to great movies in my opinion, many of which are considered classics and highly regarded by many. At least a couple of the above would be in my all time top ten list.

Where has Obsidian ever said they underestimated the cost of physical goods? Giving your core supporters less than what they expect is definitely not smart business sense. There is much more to a successful business than numbers, especially when that business deals directly with the public. If my physical goods are not of good quality I will definitely be less likely to buy from Obsidian again, and most certainly likely would not back any future kickstarter they launched, and I'm sure I would not be close to alone in this. That said, I do have some faith that Obsidian will make sure Paradox delivers quality as was promised in the kickstarter.

I can certainly see Joey doing that. And yea, I have a bad feeling about Rick myself. Frankly, I find Carl to be the most annoying character currently on the show (a show full of annoying characters), and wouldn't mind anything bad happening to him save for the fact that it would hurt Rick, and Rick has gone through all sorts of extra special hell already. Spoiler about who is on the Talking Dead after this week's episode below. And history has shown that very well may not bode well for the character to have their actor on an episode at or near the end of a season.

To add to what Rostere said, Jews /= Israel. The number of Jewish people in the U.S. who are against U.S. support of Israel and it's policies is not small. The pro-Israeli lobby of course would have you believe otherwise, some such as the ADL, even going as far as occasionally calling Jews who speak out against Israel anti-Semitic. The insanity of some propaganda knows no bounds. If the Russian economy is in trouble a year from now, something bad will have happened that has nothing to do with whats so far gone on in Ukraine/Crimea and the U.S. and EU's economy will be worse off. Of all the major nations in the world Russia's economy currently is probably the most insulated from global catastrophe, and the most self-sufficient. Barring some global catastrophe that hits pretty much everyone I except Russia's economy to do just fine. Too bad a friendly wager cannot be made, I do enjoy collecting on things such as this, and have a history of doing so from people I can look in the eye.

No need to apologize as it's not really an old thread but this one before it was interrupted. That threads are closed on this forum just for reaching an arbitrary # of posts is pretty retarded in my opinion.

I haven't played Witcher 2, but I enjoyed Witcher 1. I thought the worst thing about it was the boobie cards.

Norton is horrible. Norton used to be awesome, way back in the late 80s and 90s, but it's been bloatware and crap for more than a decade now. For AV I recommend NOD32. I've used almost all AVs at this point, and NOD32 is worth the $$. There are other AVs that are as good at detecting, but NOD32 is the least intrusive (uses least resources and updates seamlessly) and has the least false alarms in my experience (so many other AVs regularly have false alarms). If you shop for deals you can catch it for only $5/year for a single computer (that's what I've paid the last couple years on newegg), but even at the regular price I'd say it's worth it. Couple that with Malwarebytes, put yourself behind a router, use UAC (if you have vista, 7, or 8 ) and you'll be protected from most things with very few false alarms. That said, even the best internet condoms only go so far. Nothing beats being savvy enough to not open that file full of poo, or venture down that dark interwebs alley full of bad things. As far as mods, it really would depend on the game. Get them from a reputable site, and you'll likely have no problem. If you're concerned, scan it with you AV and search the net for the files to see if they are listed as known malware. If you're still uneasy, delete it and don't use it. In my expeirence with most mods though, regardless of viruses or not, just read the comments on the mod from other users to get their feedback on it. Chances are if there's actually malware in the mod, someone will have posted about it.

Amen.

Ayup. I've been in a beta test group for a well known game from a well known company for about a year now. The game has been released but they kept the beta folks on for future patching. It's not my first beta (been in a few in the last 10+ years) but this one astounded me at how much work that the beta folks are doing beyond even testing bugs. Little do many of the folks who play this game know how much of the game design (both good and bad) is actually suggested and fleshed out by beta testers, all unpaid.

Joey (I guess that's the gang leader's name?) said he saw archerdude plant the rabbit in Daryl's bag and was just waiting for it all to play out.

China doesn't care Bruce. Neither does Russia. And this vote does not indicate much of anything of the Chinese - Russian relationship, which has been lukewarm standoffish for the better part of a hundred years now. Just like Israel not voting at all to support it's #1 ally's wishes doesn't mean all that much. Really, about the only people who do care are the people buying into all the propaganda, or who live in Ukraine and are somehow butthurt Crimea left, or who live in Crimea and would prefer to live in Ukraine vs. Russia. Of course, the former far out numbers the latter, and the latter actually has a legitimate reason to care, unlike the former. Russia has Crimea no matter what anyone votes, end of story. If you were at all even partially well versed in history you'd realize they probably never should have lost Crimea to Ukraine to begin with.

No it doesn't. A 'no' vote means the nations don't support the resolution on the table. A fluff resolution at that. This issue, like so many other things, is not near as black and white as you think. Nations vote the way they do for a variety of reasons, especially on fluff like this.. Believe it or not, some nations really don't care if Crimea is annexed by Russia or not, in fact, if most nations were smart, they wouldn't. And no doubt a lot of the votes, both yes, no, and neither, were done to stay in the good graces of the main players in all of this. The U.S., U.K., NATO, IMF, Russia, et al. ie: If I'm nation X, and I've got good relations with both Russia and the U.S., or I want to make sure the IMF keeps sending me $$$, I'm likely to abstain or not vote, even if I'm truly for or against what Russia did. Alternatively, if I've got good relations with the U.S. or want them to keep sending me money, and I don't have much relations with Russia at all, I'm likely to vote 'yes' just to keep my lender happy. Money talks quite a lot in votes like these, in fact it probably has the loudest voice. Few if any nations are going to stick their necks out for Ukraine/Crimea and upset their buddies, wannabe buddies, or purse string holders.

LOL Only in your dreams numbnuts. The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution describing the Moscow-backed referendum that led to Russia's annexation of Crimea as illegal. One hundred countries voted in favour of approving a UN General Assembly resolution declaring the Crimean referendum on 16 March illegal and affirming Ukraine's territorial integrity. Eleven nations voted against, with 58 abstentions. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26776416 Here is the list of countries that voted "no", this list is relevant because it shows the type of governments that think that the Crimea annexation was acceptable. You'll notice most of them are dictatorships and some of the most corrupt and inefficient governments in the world. Shame poor Russia and the company it keeps . Russia must be frustrated that China didn't vote "no" but instead chose to abstain "The 11 that opposed the resolution were Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe" Resolutions like this mean little to nothing and I'm sure Russia doesn't care that China or the other 57 that abstained, did so, as they were effectively 'no' votes. There were also 24 nations that didn't bother to vote at all. https://twitter.com/UN_PGA/status/449216773460463617/photo/1/large

I think it's safe to say that Russia isn't going to be invading Finland in the remotely foreseeable future.

Saying yet to be released sequel A is better than yet to be released sequel B is not saying anything is blasphemous. Not only is it not yet known if these sequels will be good, bad, or meh, it's not yet known what the general consensus will be about them.

We've got the shock factor of two episodes ago behind us, and a finale this week. Generally writers save the bigger shocks for finales, so I expect some major cowpie to go down, with probable main character(s) death(s) or cliff hanger(s) where it looks like they will die. Right now watching them all go to Terminus is like watching jock and jane go investigate the dark creepy place they know folks have been killed at in Friday 13th or Nightmare on Elm street. We know bad stuff is going to happen to them and are asking ourselves 'WTH are you doing!?!?! How stupid can you be!?!?', but will nevertheless cringe when their fate befalls them. Preachers car though? I missed that. How do we know it's a preachers car? I just noticed an older sedan. As TrueNeutral mentioned above, I half expect Beth to be a burger at this point. Terminus is like a spider's lair at the center of a web of railroad tracks.

[denial]There were never any Never Ending Story sequels.[/denial] Yea.... I'm with you there. Same for the Secret of NIMH sequels. I probably shouldn't have listed Never Ending Story as beginning a successful franchise. Amazing movie though in it's own right.

Don't do it Finland! NATO is a Tarp!