Sarex

This one is more to the point about what we where talking about. The second half touches on media and tv.

Depends, if you have a quarry then you need another, if not then one should be good to about 100 population.

That is where she keeps the hobos...ahem... I mean nomads.

Yeah when I said "newspaper" I meant the media in general. You see I know first hand how the Western media out right lies about things, that I can only imagine it's government tells it to do. The whole Bosnian war was a very one sided affair as far as the the whole West was conserned. What you need to understand is that America has perfected the art of propaganda and thus it now wields the most potent weapon in the world, the media. Let me further explain that. Hollywood is a big propaganda machine and here is why, 90% of the tv shows I watched (exluding comedies (though it even happens in them if you can believe it)) have an episode in them where the big bad guys come from Serbia, the most resent example was the latest series of Sherlock, the one, for an example, that baffled me the most is Psych, a comedy about a detective who pretends to be a psychic in a small town, in the episode I am referencing Serbian mobsters come and try to kill everybody, Hawaii 5-0 as the most blatant where they also mention Serbian mobsters who kill women and children for fun, and so so so many more. Movies aren't an exception, when Arabs and Russians get old they bring in the good old Serbs. But in all of these shows Americans are the heroes, which stands to reason as they produce it. Now why is all of this important, because it paints a picture to the western world about how bad the East is and how good the West is. So when the media tells them something horrible about anyone from the east it's not that far of a jump for them to make. An example is how people think Russia has horrible living conditions and how it's a terrible place to visit, when nothing can be further from the truth. But why can't the Eastern media do the same? Well it can and it does, but to a much lesser degree and effect. Why? Because the same movies and tv shows from Hollywood are being watched all over the world and that is the brilliance of it. Now for the west not being homogeneous, well from everything I have seen so far it seems to me that it's what America says the rest of the west does. Even when they don't agree they end up doing it. Let me guess without looking at the map, the west is free press, the east is not. Ok let me ask you a question. When wiki leaks released the apache helicopter mowing down civilians how many news outlets covered it, how many of them condemned the US army and most importantly, how long did the media coverage last? The American press is not free at all, nor is the western as the Snowden incident proved. Every news outlet is beholden to it's government and it's foolish to think otherwise. edit: as for the whole west vs. east thing, well I have a 5 part documentary that touches on that and the things we mentioned here and much more. But be warned, it's very hard to watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CFLpZcY3ss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pAmhsqqQqE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeTe2GbjiTc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Z-AK_FTEY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDUOHlVYTXo

Sacred 3 or 2?

Well this is a blast from the past, haven't even heard it was being developed. http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/02/24/sacred-3-announced-for-summer-2014/ I played 1&2 as a kid but didn't finish either as it soon bored me.

But not on PC, gasp/shock. I think Ubisoft is going to faint.

2gb doesn't mean anything, there are a lot more specifications on a graphics card then the size of it's memory.

Well it is healthier.

Or the Queen of England.

I see we have a lot of armchair writers here. A character doesn't have to have a growth arc or evolve at all. In fact that is what people today are complaining the most about in modern fantasy and sci fi. A character only has to do interesting stuff, as an example, he can have something tragic happen to him and we can see how he deals with it and how he reacts to it. That is why I said that a character only has to react to the plot and choices the PC makes. The growth arc and evolving of a character are for the farm boys who discover they have powers and are on their way to become the hero/king of their world. Why not have a bad ass middle age man who came to kick ass and chew bubble gum and he's all out of bubble gum.

As opposed to American/NATO soldiers?

Ah, well, I would need to convince you that the picture the western newspaper paint of the east is not all that true and some other things, for which I am not currently in the mood to try. Sufficeive to say, I don't see the EU as our savior and we should not forget what they have done to us repeatedly in the past.

Reviews for Thief are out, some sites are gutting it, some are not, but one thing in common is that no one thinks it's a great game.

That is what is going to most likely happen. Half of the citizens in Ukraine are Russians from the old Soviet Union, the other half wants to get away from the east. I don't think that there is any future for the country like this, all it means is that the other side will start protesting when Ukraine starts moving towards the west and you are back to square one. I don't know about the rest of the countries from Yugoslavia (sans B&H) but in Serbia the muck is being moved. We are on the brink maybe, but we are not over it. As for the political elite being rotten, tell me what country is better. You can't turn around a country in one year, I am not very optimistic about the current state of Serbia and I don't like the pro west attitude, but it's too early to call it bust.

Never stop producing food, I learned that the hard way.

Anything does combat better then Dark Souls, I swear the game was only "hard" because of the clunky combat you had to get used to.

@Tagaziel and 213374U 1)Yugoslavia was of strategic important to the west as can be seen from the end result from the conflict, but that was not the only reason. Yugoslavia at the height of it's power was emerging to be a power of it's own in Europe. It didn't answer to the west or the east and that didn't sit well with either. So after Titos death the west took advantage of the destabilization of the country and intervened. The rest is history. An addendum to add is that after all was said and done, America ploped the lagrest foreign military base in Kosovo which is now conveniently in disspute. 2)Yugoslavia was a Socialist state, not Communist. 3)Parallels can be drawn between Ukraine and Serbia, I will not be surprised if it is latter discovered that the protests were bankrolled by the west, as was the case with the Milosevic protests in the year 2000.

You should go through BG1&2/IWD1&2/NWN2 and after you had your fill of those type of games go and try Torment, as it will be something new and maybe that will help you get through the abysmal gameplay. But if you are looking for a benchmark that is representative of the "classic" games go for BG2 first.

The best way to make a good character (for me) is to make him react to the plot and the choices you make.

You have a kidney stone fetish?!? O.o

Not the wheel per say, but the whole game. Also it's counter intuitive for PC players who use the keyboard to select which dialogue they want. It's not a big secret that the dialogue wheel was created to make it easier for console players to select the dialogue.

Oh it's a great thing, but for console players. Would be intersting to find out how many of the people who liked DA2 played it on a console.

Well you are not going to do something if it doesn't make you money. What I meant is, that the online game design is possible for large developers who have the funds to bankroll "stable" servers and continued support for the game (online games tend to require a lot of patching). Now the continued support for a game is possible for small studios provided that the game is successful enough that they see a return on their investment soon, where as large studios can afford to support a game in hopes that it will make a profit down the line (like Bioware with The Old Republic). But that still leaves the servers and until the internet starts to be more common and servers start being more affordable, I don't think that everyone is going to go for these games.

Provided the internet becomes a basic necessity, which is still far off.