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Good advice. Except I then end up procrastinating going to the library to do the assignment. So the best thing to do is just standing up one day, walking out the door, heading to the library and then thinking about what you're going to do there. Helps if you take your flash drive.

I hear you. Unfortunately that means I'm in the same boat and thus can't help. It's currently 2:14 AM, I have a C++ assignment due tomorrow before noon, I've got about 2 hours of coding left to do (which I haven't touched in days), and I'm about to say "I'll go to bed - I can do it tomorrow." And I probably could do it tomorrow, but I probably won't. *sigh*

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I'm a strange breed of Monarchist Republican. If I were a Brit, I'd be quite proud of the monarchy, but as an Australian I feel it's improper (not that a directly elected executive would be any better - which is what we'll probably get at the next referendum... why can't we preserve the status quo and just shift the GG's powers around a bit like, say, an independent, ceremonial executive indirectly elected by parliament, but I digress). So yeah, the Queen.

I don't get it. I thought all fire warning signs read like that?

lord of flies: So we should leave North Korea alone, throwing money at it and hope they switch to a market economy that respects individual rights, all while people continue to starve there? 2 million people died in the engineered famine of the 90's. 2 million people. Yes, lots of people would die during war with Korea - possibly hundreds of thousands (most North Korean soldiers would actually run away according to defectors and spies - only something like 1 in 10 have real guns). But would it be 2 million? Or 10 million? Or whatever the death toll due to totalitarianism is in North Korea now (it's been like 60 years, and if we don't act, it will continue on indefinitely, so I imagine you could actually place it well above that). You're basically arguing for the perpetuation of a brutal totalitarian state because it's 'easier' and doesn't require you to have made any moral judgement. Just an addendum: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...-dead-land.html

Larian (Divine Divinity) does children's games in between their Divinity RPGs. They sell like crazy and are easy to churn out apparently.

Yeah, I don't see why people think they need to argue when they're obviously in agreement. Guess some people just like to be argumentative. Why do I get the feeling that it doesn't matter WHAT I say to you, because I'm a woman?

Yeah guys, suggest me some vegetarian recipes (or just ones involving no meat, like omelette). I moved into a share house and I've been living off pasta, nachos, burgers, and toast. It's starting to get boring. Some of the more fancy ideas I have are: French toast (egg, milk, bread, frying pan, topped off with tomato sauce) and potato salad (I have potato salad dressing and potatoes, is that it?) Edit: easy recipes preferred.

I disagree. I think this thread is ample evidence that providing political motivations in the game could be really personally involving and rewarding. Deus Ex understood this, even if they never got time to add the option of joining MJ12. The 'freedom' path was, however, superbly executed and I felt compelled not by saving the world or personal gain but the politics behind it all.

Is this sarcasm or something? Because war worked/would work so much better, right? What's your stance on all the millions of starving and brainwashed North Koreans? I mean you say you hate imperialism and colonialism so much - surely it's for reasons of human rights?

Is the sheep male or female?

Just because someone holds a cohesive worldview that happens to be the opposite of what someone else holds, doesn't mean they're a "contrarian." I could just as easily say that right-wingers are contrarian because they are in opposition to pretty much everything I believe, but does that mean that they define themselves by opposition? No. Poor example (or good example for me). Right-wingers often do define themselves by dogmatic opposition to anything remotely left-of-centre and rarely if ever consider policies on their merits (rather than whether they classify as 'left' or 'right'). Yes, and you'll continue to hold those viewpoints in spite of any evidence to the contrary or consideration on a situational basis. Why?

I assume that you mean "contrarian" as in I believe things contrary to regressivism, imperialism, sexism, capitalism, and neo-colonialism, right? Not really. More like you believe in taking the opposite stance of anything centrist or right-wing rather than considering things on their merits. Such knee-jerk ideology galls me, from both the left and the right.

You're not a neo-con. I, like you, believe in spreading democracy, and military intervention where necessary, but we have a very particular view of such military intervention and we don't think diplomacy is for losers. Moreover, we're not religious conservatives and we're not afraid of the second coming of communism.

I'm so hardcore I stay awake longer than my insomnia!

I want to play Mike Thornton as a contrarian socialist like lord of flies.

Liking women is patriotic! You're not a terrorist are you?

wow, what a strawman. you're at best disingenuous, at worst... well, we all know. yes, btw, pure democracies are statist. if you had bothered to read the link you would have seen them included. no, just you are. any on income, since there is no choice. only to myopics such as you that don't truly understand what the word capitalism means. it is a socio-economic system, which includes not only the functions of government, but the free-market economy, and the concept of individual rights. i should add, no statist system includes any concept for individual rights (only "privileges" granted by the state). not to anyone that rationally thinks about such things. taks Oh look, it's Objectivism!

Oh man, I hope some of these ideas make it in the game. Nothing wrong with a bit of humour! See No One Lives Forever for information on how to do it.

Real life has women. I don't think this game will be very realistic.

Typical gene therapy is retroviral, yeah.

"A woman has a close male friend. This means that he is probably interested in her, which is why he hangs around so much. She sees him strictly as a friend. This always starts out with, you're a great guy, but I don't like you in that way. This is roughly the equivalent for the guy of going to a job interview and the company saying, You have a great resume, you have all the qualifications we are looking for, but we're not going to hire you. We will, however, use your resume as the basis for comparison for all other applicants. But, we're going to hire somebody who is far less qualified and is probably an alcoholic. And if he doesn't work out, we'll hire somebody else, but still not you. In fact, we will never hire you. But we will call you from time to time to complain about the person that we hired."

I heard your like Proposition 8 so I put a Proposition 8 in your Proposition 8 so now you can Proposition 8 while you Proposition 8.