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tl;dr thanks for the essay

****. OH great, they HAVE added it to the filter list. Utterly moronic.

Isn't the government usually in control of public services?

While Gorgon went about it a bit rudely, I agree that threatening to censor the word '****' seems a bit overzealous as it would suggest words like 'crap' are next. Off-topic ahoy!

Are they still connectionless? It's part of my memories too, but that was 10 years ago. Broadband penetration is a bit better now, even in the U.S. EDIT: It's also worth mentioning that South Korea has incredible broadband penetration. The basement still is, yes. I have bad experiences with LAN parties with internet anyway. At some point everyone just starts playing some stupid MMO. Kind of defeats the point. You have poor LAN parties. Over here people play Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament, DOTA (lots of DOTA), Warcraft 3 normal. Call of Duty, etc. And the LAN party gets big enough that you have multiple groups playing multiple games. Admittedly when it's just my comp sci class in the ocmp labs all we do is play DotA non-stop.

It is? Let me check... yes.

**** isn't a swear word! OK, so... in Australia, Scotland and Southern England it just mainly means 'fool' while in America and Northern English it's equivalent to the c-word? I'm so confused! It's a hilarious word I often use endearingly, how can it be offensive? *goes and looks up where Northern England is*

Go away! Stop looking at me!!!

Obama will almost certainly have two terms - however, it's plausible the Republicans will win 2016 even if Dems are still doing well, as happened in 2000. a) the American public is extremely conservative about presidents, even when they suck pretty badly (though there is a breaking point), b) Obama is still polling around the same level now of favourability as he was when he was elected (i.e. really high), c) the American economy will be on the road to recovery by 2012 even under the worst case scenarios, d) whether or not Obama (or even a Democrat) is elected President again or not has little bearing on the House and Senate where these healthcare bills come from.

That certainly doesn't happen in any of the other 30 or so Western countries with universal healthcare, and I doubt America is that messed up that it would end up passing such laws. In reality, when people try to ban things they deem 'bad', whether marijuana, video games, alcohol, fast food, porn on the internet, etc, it's generally because of the wishes of a group of naive parents or religious nuts who want to "protect the children", not because of some argument about a more efficient healthcare system.

All these things are actually worse in Oblivion, which is one of the reason I'm so disenchanted with the game.

I notice the article you linked to didn't mention piracy at all. Programmers don't have a magic 'include LAN support' button. They didn't include LAN because they didn't want to spend the time and effort to develop and support it on top of the time and effort they're putting into Bnet. Well you'd be wrong, sorry, because Blizzard has actually repeatedly mentioned this is about fighting piracy. Also, adding LAN supporting is stupidly easy if you've added battle.net support, it almost is a magic button. Look up posts by Bashiok which refer to Blizzard removing LAN to 'fight piracy'.

I actually invited a few Twilight fans to my last Masquerade pen-and-paper game, I had found them in one of the common areas of my university and decided to have some fun, with fairly predictable results as the first play character undead they encountered

I'm too tried too muster up any anger over the naivety of her economics. Suffice to say, be thankful that in the modern day most people recognise life is actually a fine balance between the public and private and tipping that balance strongly either way usually ends badly.

So ****ing stupid. Blizzard doesn't NEED to worry about pirates. People love them. So many people buy their games. And so many people WANT to play on b.net and PREFER it. If there was one thing Blizzard could do to make my doubt whether I'll buy Diablo 3, this is it.

I actually invited a few Twilight fans to my last Masquerade pen-and-paper game, I had found them in one of the common areas of my university and decided to have some fun, with fairly predictable results as the first play character undead they encountered

That's what Josh said about the Aliens RPG. And then it was cancelled. Not once did Jean use the word "tyte" or "sweet" of the normal or super variety. Oh, that's just Joshage. It's a language whose roots are hard to trace but genuinely agreed to stem from Middle Ebonics.

That's what Josh said about the Aliens RPG. And then it was cancelled.

Because the "employer" is also the "government". And?

Twilight - Worst. Anne Rice - Bad, but not THAT bad. Harry Potter - Meh, nothing great but not as bad as the others. Every time I read the statistics about how many people become elective non-readers by the end of 12th grade, I throw up a little. So really, I'm happy about all three of these successful writers, because they have convinced people to sit down and read a book. Agreed!

Interestingly, it's a bit of both.

Anything that stimulates an entire generation of young people to pick up a book and read is awesome. So I'd probably say Anne Rice. For a second there I thought you said 'Ayn Rand' and I was about to either stab you or laugh.

Tpoic is press behaviour, not Israel behaviour. Well topic is boring. I don't have many gripes with the press here. Just the conspicuously populous and hype-based tabloids like the Daily Telegraph, really. And anybody silly enough to read an article in only one news source and still take it as fact is a fool and deserves to cop it. There's a good reason I read papers from the left, right and centre. This man is on to something good. I can't stay away from economic, financial and business news, though.

Which is hardly an achievement. That's what she said. She also called you H