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Part of it seems to me the fact that California does not have sovereignty, because if you take a look at places like Australia or Canada, which are of semi-comparable economic size, population, and culture, you see a vastly different picture. Interestingly, both Canada and Australia also have higher taxes in every regard, as well as bigger social welfare systems, AFAIK. Canada and Australia also have some of the biggest migrant intakes in the world. TBH, I think America could do with splitting into 2 or 3 separate countries - a federal, central government just seems too big and inefficient to optimally organise & support so many states/people. Wow, I almost sound like a small government advocate.

Yes, you don't need every character to be romancable. Some characters and storylines work better without romance possibilities lurking. Although it might be interesting to see relationships formed other then "party follower" or "potential romance" in rpg's these days... (Although probably not any bromances needed...) but some of those pseudo-family roles that can spring up between characters in stories could be a change of pace in rpgs... Well said.

Having seen the first 2 episodes, and reading the wikipedia page for this show, I don't think it's going to appeal to me all that much. And the intended focus on drama makes me highly doubt they'll have an intelligent ship. Edit: but I would watch it if they did!

I had a thought... the ship found a planet for them and opened a wormhole because it knew they needed help. It could be a non-sentient autopilot... but what if the ship is run by an AI? The Ancients were certainly smart enough to build one. I imagine that's just me being hopeful, though. The series is probably far too boring for that.

The age of consent is 16 in over half of America's states, too. Ironically however, it is 18 in California. Age of consent world-wide. Anywhere green or blue is 16 years or younger: Frankly, though, I think they'd just make her 18 if they wanted her to be romanceable. The point though, is that they don't.

I'd probably see if the Valve or Blizzard boards are to my liking.

Sis is 16 isn't she? That's legal in most countries. I was more concerned about all the Mission Vao fan-fiction KOTOR 1 generated, frankly, since she was 14. Edit: But I guess she was a blue alien chick with tentacles on her head so maybe people took that a little less seriously.

OK, this silence is unnerving. Seriously, it reminds me strongly of how Sega used and abused Obsidian's Aliens RPG.

Unfortunately I wasn't joking. I just couldn't get past that eye scene and didn't bother skipping the file ahead. I'm neutral about the show, but all the claims about how damn slow it is and how the story is made up as they go don't make me terribly excited to bite the bullet. I think I'll give Flash Forward ago instead. ... you realize Lost has one of the most intense openings of any show on television... right after the eye scene... OK, but an intense pilot doesn't make up for the rest of the series being slow. Are the individual episodes worth watching? Is it sci-fi, btw?

Unfortunately I wasn't joking. I just couldn't get past that eye scene and didn't bother skipping the file ahead. I'm neutral about the show, but all the claims about how damn slow it is and how the story is made up as they go don't make me terribly excited to bite the bullet. I think I'll give Flash Forward ago instead.

He made Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me and Pushing Daisies. He's THE Boss. He was pretty much the only ray of light that Heroes had, but at some point you'll just have to cut your losses. I loved Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls. Pushing Daisies is a bit weird though... a bit clinical? Also, did I mention Heroes sucks?

For those skeptical that Valve is working on a DotA game, here's what IceFrog had to say on a DotA forum:

Sounds like Sega want to cancel every damn project Obsidian starts. I'm fine with Obsidian delaying their game because they think they need to. I am NOT cool with a **** publisher interfering like they did with Aliens and now AP. Edit: I concede that given the lack of information it might have been Obsidian that forced the delay, but I think the likelihood of that is small and thus I have no qualms about ragging on Sega.

And H-L 2 Ep 3 is delayed because they felt the urge to implement hand signals for the deaf (they can't read color coded subtitles it seems) with some lame in story explanation that Alyx had a deaf boyfriend bla bla and she taught Dog how to etc etc and now they start using it for some reason. Valve puts love, passion, and detail into their games. It's one of the reasons they're so successful. Let them do their thing.

Immigrants are always the first ones to be blamed during recessions. It's a sad fact of life.

Oh, poor diddums?

Yeah, the state government is almost bankrupt because taxes are too low! Do you even understand economics at all? Holy **** that's hilarious. Enoch is probably one of the most well-read and knowledgeable people on these forums when it comes to economics, while you are... yeah.

Actually, you can buy cheap 1 terabyte 2.5 inchers these days, so make that 1500 movies.

And HoN, which I've already pre-ordered and am currently playing - it's great. But I don't think it matters. Valve will do what they always do, and I don't think being late to the party is going to stop them.

Yeah.. in 2015. Sure, maybe it'll be like when Valve hired the Team Fortress devs... or maybe it'll be like when Valve hired the Narbacular Drop devs and produced Portal 2 years later.

Australia has 5.8% unemployment. Our interest rate also just went up to 3.25%... 10% unemployment is a pretty disturbing number. It's surprising so many countries have levels around that. Spain has had it for years I think.

http://www.destructoid.com/valve-hires-dot...er-151016.phtml It reminds me of the story with Valve hiring the Portal devs. I think we can expect a Valve DotA clone soon, with a unique Valve spin. In the mean-time, IceFrog will continue to update DotA.

I started watching lost but couldn't get past the eye scene in the first episode.

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