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I'm hopeful that our reptilian overlords won't let it come to pass. Or alternatively Hitler's old allies from Aldebaran. Or was that Deneb?

No, they got the right guy, it's just that Merkel can't afford to have a refugee as terrorist, so she ordered the police to either botch up the investigation or find someone more fitting. Like a bit back in Munich. /tinfoil hat edit: In case I disappear from the forum in the near future keep the flame burning and know that I've been spirited away by the newly formed Merkel Stasi/Gestapo hybrid that incarcerate poor Yuropeans who dare to stand up.

That makes a disturbing amount of sense xD It would be more subtle than that. They would force the EU to become a federation, effectively eroding the borders and then Brussels will impose directives to move refugees into zones/districts areas in need of "human development". Same result, different methodology. Not necessary, we're already in the middle of the execution of the sinister Kalergi plan...

Sez the biggest edgelord on the forum, lel. Don't bother denying it by the way, you like the Neverwinter Nights original campaign. That's about as edgelord as one can get. That said I just came back from watching Rogue One. Managed to get free tickets so perhaps that unduefully increased my enjoyment of the film but I kind of liked it more than most of the others. It is, in particular, much better than The Force Awakens. It has the same problems most near-original timeline prequels have insofar as there isn't much breathing room to try new things, but in the end it is a prequel and I can forgive a lack of moving the setting forward much easier due to their nature than I could deal with the remakey build of TFA. Rogue One could not have been a mover and shaker while TFA should have been one and just wasn't. I have to agree with Drowsy Emperor on one thing - it didn't quite capture the allure of the original trilogy. For want of a better term, it doesn't feel like Star Wars in the same way the originals did. None of the new films did, but Lucas' prequel trilogy did it better than the two Disney ones so far. Sometimes I do wonder if that isn't also technical problem rather than only a storytelling one. No matter how much one might try there is a certain look and feel to 70ies and 80ies movies that somehow can't be recreated. Kung Fury came close in its own hilariously ridicoulous way but it still pales in comparison to the real stuff. It can't all be nostalgia and growing up in the 80ies. I'm not sure it was deliberate but there was one thing that I really liked about the space battles in Rogue One: The reduced pace of the fights. The original trilogy' dogfights were modeled after WW2 air battles which - while silly in space, of all things - created a certain intense aesthetic that was completely absent in all the other films (with the battle for Angkor Wat in TFA being the worst offender). Now if only they would get rid of the shakey-cam sillyness for the ground action. Bottom line: I was entertained for the full duration of the film, something that I wasn't with TFA. The third act had a very "war movie" feel to it that sometimes came off as too formulaic, and there are a few nits to pick here and there but overall I found Rogue One to be very entertaining even if the best Star Wars offering of recent times come in a reset-button prequel spinoff riding in the wake of a 40 year old film. *shrug* Jared Leto's Joker was fine. The scenes he was in just weren't.

It isn't explained all that well in-game but in the story material built around SW:TOR (like Bishop's Gnost-Dural's journals). Imperial Intelligence owned the current Mandalore at the time of the Great War: https://youtu.be/KeboxMqdXdE?t=10m30s Actually the Sith Inquisitor gets a different name for being dark, grey or light side. Sure he gets the Darth title and a seat on the Dark Council (what else would there be for such a powerful Sith) but the actual name varies. Nox for the dark side, Occlus for grey and Imperius for light side inquisitors, along with different spheres of influence. Of course, afterwards it only comes up once afterwards when Darth Marr calls you about the crisis on Makeb but the basis was there. It just remained unused.

Thought that too but after the FPÖ dismantled itself in Austria back in the early 00s they seem to be coming back hard these days. Come to think of it they should actually be a poster-case for what happens when right wing populists are given any sort of responsibility. Scandals, corruption and racking up more combined debt than all the Austrian governments with at least nominal left-wing participation before them could even dream of. In other words, they are... or end up being... politicians, in the end. Who would have thought? Heh.

Heh. "Islamization starts with a kebab and..." I just noticed how hungry I am, and kebab seems like a wonderful idea. *dials*

Aren't you barking up the wrong tree here?

That seems like a pretty good theory to me. Indeed, I'm also pretty sure that one of the two won't make it through the season and

What a dangerous throught you have there. People can be happy without worshipping at the altar of economic growth? Surely you jest. You DO jest, right, pinko? Be careful lest McCarthy grabs you.

Geez, I wonder if you right....that could be true. It would be a huge upset and very applicable Real spoiler is that

Well to be honest if there is a crime perpetrated by the mainstream media and the "left" then it is that their wolf-crying makes outlets like Breitbart look like a legit source of a counterpoint to the mainstream opinion, while in reality news there is just as opinionated and spun trash like everywhere else. Milo is like the Kim Karadashian of news - a sure sign that things are terribly wrong these days.

The new gearing process is Biowares way of telling people to "GTFO" and "Transfer to another game" I suppose. Nothing about it looks fun or interesting, rather more like 180 degree the opposite. As for story, lost interest in the Zakuul stuff a long time ago. Only chapter that was any fun so far was the Shroud bonus chapter. Only thing that would vaguely rekindle my interest is if I get to kill Quinn. Then I would finish the expansion on all the alts that started on it just so I could kill him a dozen times. Who cares about romancing Arcann??? People are weird. Give me a romance option for Scorpio instead. Hottest bot in the galaxy Edit to add: Was it my imagination or are they revisiting the idea of M4-78? Random equipment from boxes reminds me of something... can't quite put... ah. Got it. That was what PVP-gearing was like for a month before Bioware changed it to commendations with the very first content patch because players really, really enjoyed not being able to complete their set.

It's not only the US banking sector - they're like that all over the world. So what would you call the ongoing food gambling by banks if not parasitical? Food prices are going up to profit a few rich arseholes while those who already are beyond poor suffer hunger and the average laborer is facing a net-loss in purchasing parity (due to the same rising prices, obviously). All the while at the same time those producing the food are happily paid barely enough to survive or are heavily subsidised. And that's not even touching corporations laying off workers with no real reason beyond improving their stock values or doing the tax dodging game so states have less tax income and, well, of course, won't fix the loopholes but rather cut social support, in turn - yeah, negatively affecting the poor again. Oh, and nothing is being done about that becaue there are entire nations whose only raison d’être is to support tax dodging. Dividend et impera, as the saying goes. No, wait... The worst part about it all is that the left wing politicians - or those that should be the left at least, are doing nothing because they too profit. So right-wing populists are garnering votes by pretending to support the little man, while unabashed right wing politics have actually gotten us there in the first place. That, and the worker-betrayal of all labour parties among the Western nations.

Obviously, there's no accounting for taste. I thought Season 1 and the first half of Season 2 up until the Trance change were superior to the later seasons in everything but production values, which remained low throughout the show's run anyway and which I personally never take up as a way to judge episode or show quality (polish a turd and all that). The original creative team even managed to make Kevin Sorbo look like an actor for a while, and I'm sure that took some doing. It also helped that I generally enjoy the works of Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz and Robert Hewitt Wolfe. Not saying later Andromeda wasn't fun for a while or that campy shows are bad. I liked Xena and Hercules - there's a reason I watched the first four seasons and while a large portion of that was late puberty-me ogling Lexa Doig clad in leather it wasn't the only reason. I'd just never say the later seasons were any better than the first and a half. It's like watching two different shows with the same cast and the same sets, set in the same universe. I just appreciated the go game scences between Tyr and Dlyan more than I appreciated Dlyan showing the ladies his force lance. I'd be game for Hercules in Space, assuming they can get Sorbo to play Space Herc.

I can't help it, I have a thing for campy stuff... and shows with Kevin Sorbo. Also, as Lexx wrote, Andromeda got significantly better after the first season. So you're saying Andromeda got better after Tribune made Kevin Sorbo executive producer who immediately turned it into Hercules in Space with no creative direction to speak of and a no internal consistency? The end of Season 2 and all of Season 3 were completely episodic and disregarded its own continuity (e.g. Andromeda would go from having a Commonwealth crew to complaining about not having a crew from one episode to the next, serveral times within the season)? With freaking Bob Engels as lead writer? After Keith Hamilton Cobb and Brent Stait left the show? Because Tribune wanted a dumbed down show with more Sorbo and less ensemble? Maybe Season 5 was decent, I don't know, I stopped watching after Season 4 where they turned Hercules Dylan Hunt into a Vedran demi-god or some such just to hammer home the Hercules in Space theme.

I like that you call the special lady you share a home with "your lactose intolerant". I bet they get frisky with a bag of peanuts as well:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGHT-PpRFE0

You coffeeists just need to learn to accept coffee the way it is.

If I remember correctly Interplay threatened to delete the entire Fallout section of their boards because it got way out of control after the announcement. For a while it made YOP look like hippie paradise.

I donate to the Red Cross and the local voluntary fire fighters as I really might need an ambulance or a fire put out some day and they're doing a fine job for the community. I also often buy a local newspaper sold (mostly) by the homeless who would otherwise not be able to get a job. Half of the money they earn they can keep, the other half goes into the next issue - it earns them some money and makes them feel useful (not to mention that people who are willing to do that sort of crap job out in all weather just so they can work *something* deserve it).

Hey old man, were you still part of the guard when we got to pick a free game as thank you for our service, way, way back?

I'd say part of the issue was that the Democrats supplied the Republican candidate this time around. Look at what Trump promised and might try to do: More protection for blue-collar workers, curbing globalism by protectionism, ending free trade where possible, promising to reign in big corporations (sort of, he also promised them tax discounts in exchange for taking away their off-shoring capabilities). You know, the kind of thing one would expect from the Democrats - things that are about as left as they can get in the US. While I do doubt that Trump will actually accomplish much of what he promised because political realities are going to crush him it is telling that the he clearly seemed more believable in championing the plight of the "little" guy than the candidate of the party actually supposed to do that - and why Sanders would have been the better for the Democrats.