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Of course there's not. With Libertarianism there never is. It's always black and white.

Yes, but not unlimited installs, AFAIK. You have to de-authorise previous installs.

Wait, what? What is Vanquish? Is it a separate Sega project? Is it related to Aliens? Is Aliens dead? August 2009 is 6 months after it was cancelled! Edit: Nevermind, that's the Gearbox game. Aliens is dead.

Sometimes it's also fun to take a step back and realize that you are paying real money for a silly computer game.

Well said.

I enjoyed Shadows of Undrentide. Certainly better than the ****ty OC.

Hmm. It looks like a cheap version of Steam, one more likely to go bankrupt. So I'll pass on their online activation bullcrap. But this thread has made me want to play MotB. I go bored 2/3 of the way through NWN2 and gave up.

By advocating a UHC, thats exactly what youre saying. No. That's not elementary at all. Americans pay more in taxes on healthcare AND pay more for their private health insurance than the vast majority of Western countries with universal healthcare. The only viable argument for you to run with to claim universal healthcare is more expensive is a short-term, high start-up cost argument, since a UHC is cheaper from a long-term perspective. In fact, that appears to be the main barrier in the House and Senate at the moment, and it has some validity since America is a massive conglomerate of disparate states, all with their own quirky healthcare regulations (not to mention the odd mashup of non-universal Federal healthcare safety nets).

Thank god.

****ing Aliens... god damn, now I remembered why I hate SEGA.

Totally! This is like Duke Nukem Forever 2, amirite?

Absolutely ridiculous! To think a game company would delay the release date of a game. This has never happened before, and I won't stand for it!

Aw man, I'm struggling to enjoy this game now I'm doing missions. It's all exploration/shooting and no plot. Edit: and the exploration is boring. I mean the game's certainly better than Oblivion, but it's quickly lost its charm I think. I'll push on.

Agreed, except for the shoes. I mean the guy saying "You lie!" seemed like a rude jerk, but I was very surprised by how blown up the issue was. He didn't even call Obama a wanker or anything.

I dunno. That's a pretty ****ing specific scam. Putting up an obscure Magic box set and hoping some poor lad who badly wants it stumbles across your ad. I can think of easier ways to scam money. Especially since it;s a measly 50 quid. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a scam, just a lazy seller. Couldn't you do that escrow thing?

This wasn't in Parliament. It was the PM laying into the sense of entitlement of members of his own party. Australian Parliament is (a bit) more civilised. It's an amusing thought experiment to wonder how people from other countries would react were it their own leader, which is one reason I posted it here. I think to most Australians, getting the job done is the main priority, rather than an MP's respect or honour.

But I did skim it and it looks interesting enough to read properly later when my migraine goes.

tl;dr

Every now and then our Prime Minister gets in trouble for making flight attendants cry or telling politicians they are ****ers and to get out. It's amusing. http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-natio...90920-fwe3.html

I dunno if vitamin D is the cause, but yeah, seasonal variation does show some correlation with mental stability (aka mood, I guess). Interesting stuff. To be honest, it's not the laws. It's the people. We really need to deal with this cultural self-loathing bull**** that's so trendy nowadays in the West. When even the French are measured in their chauvinism, you know there's definitely something wrong. Yes. Everyone equates tolerance with shoveling sh!t on ones own head these days. Political correctness is a sort of censorship that outdoes the Nazis at their best. So irritating. Maybe you should've been there when the Nazis were exterminating and justifying the extermination of people they thought were impure - so that you could understand the naive stupidity of your statement. The stupidity of your argument is the failure to realise that the topic is censorship, not concentration camps. Since the Croatian nazis killed almost a million of my people, and set up a novelty even by German standards - concentration camps exclusively for children, here's the wiki for those with the stomach for it > ( Stara gradiska) I could hardy justify them. Switch your brain on before writing ignorant posts. You're saying that political correctness and the damage it causes is worse than Nazi propaganda and the damage it caused. Jesus ****ing Christ listen to yourself before posting.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the Moscow missions the most. I've always had a thing for Russia. Pity they're now a capitalist dictatorship, but I guess that gives Obsidian plenty of material to work with.

A game set in Australia would be better, what with the huge urban sprawl, super rainforests and cave systems, and deadly animals. But like Canada, America, and Britain, it's probably too familiar to Western audiences who want something exotic. Also, Americans are absolutely terrible at doing Australian accents, so they'd have to hire a lot of Aussie voice actors which could be budget-intensive. I guess Canada is a better choice because you guys sound American anyway. And for something exotic you could visit Montreal. Oh my word.

You know very good i was talking about computer/console games... and they are definately not older than human species doesn't matter what you were talking 'bout. games has been 'round probable back before cro magnon, and games ain't gotten the benefit of doubt as an art form in all that time. makes harder for computer/console games to somehow change. HA! Good Fun! You're simply playing semantics, Gromnir. Games these days bear little resemblances to primitive childhood games like hide and go seek other than that they share a mechanic of entertainment. To pretend that today's computer games are no different to the childhood games of cro magnons because we call them both 'games' is disingenuous. Certainly, computer games these days often involve elements of abstraction and storytelling - classic traits of art. I'd be hard-pressed to define hide and go seek as art. Now, don't get me wrong, some computer games are barely worthy of the title 'art', like cheap $1 comics written by somebody studying ESL are themselves stretching the definition of art.

It would eliminate the stupid disparity with regard to people considering some creative mediums art, but not another, very similar one which merges two existing ones (literature and film). That's good enough for me. I don't like disparities.