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Personally I haven't visited most of those websites ever, I've been to a couple of them one or twice though. But reviews still have power, think of that stuff with New Vegas and metacritic, granted I doubt New Vegas got bad reviews for not being progressive, but it still goes to show that reviewers hold some slight power. Besides, if you don't know other gamers and don't like to hang around forums, without reviews you'll have no way of finding out what the chances are that you'll like a game before buying it. If a metacritic score determines whether a contract pays out a bonus then I'd say reviews matter.

Countries that have 10 or more parties divide the same way. There is nearly always two competing wings taking turns at being in opposition. The advantage of having 10 or more is that there will be more flavors available and that you will be more likely to be able to vote for a party representing more or less your demographic interests. When it comes to governing, a coalition vs a majority of the same party, it really doesn't matter as much as one would think. I would even suggest that having to bargain for most major pieces of legislation is an advantage.

And in 8 years or so we will have more or less the same discussion about the republicans. It's obvious isn't it, they are all scum. In ancient Rome it was impossible to run for office without having done something the people would remember you for, usually it was military service but it could be building temples and infrastructure. Corruption was very much out in the open, making it that much easier to guess who really owned who, no need for PACs and lobby firms.

DDR forces fought in Vietnam ? I'm sure you have something ready for when people say 'No, they literally didn't', so lets hear it.

To be fair, Blizzard often branches out and tries different genres. They just tend to cancel them instead of releasing a product they don't feel will be exceptional. Warcraft Adventures and Starcraft Ghost were both out of their wheelhouse. They released Hearthstone and that seems super popular, and of course WoW was a surprising new direction for Blizzard way back when it came out. A Team Fortress style game is out of their normal wheelhouse too, but it looks like they have a pretty solid entry into the genre. It's a silly card game. Any card game efficionado could have done that in his basement

Multiplayer coop is a horrible horrible phenomenon while team deathmatch is of course still the awesome it has always been. The distinction is immensely important. I assume this is deathmatch and CTF and the like oriented with team oriented obejctives. That's fine I suppose but for my money splitting everyone into different classes is sometimes more trouble than it's worth.

It's TF2 just different enough to avoid a lawsuit. Don't like that art style either, it's like a pest invading everything these days.

Well, he could just be 14 years old and Russian, did you ever consider that.

I Played UT(2004) yesterday against an old friend. It didn't take that long for the rust to wear off and your arena blood to start rising again. We were even able to hold our own against drop in players. Amazing that there is still a thriving comunity and tons of public servers 10 years on. It's true through, you have to move where you think your opponent is going to be, both defensively and offensively, you come to rely on that feeling like it's a radar or a sixth sense.

We contain multitudes. The temptation to laugh at Mojo Jojo is too much for my weak will to endure. I think having bad hair is a requirement for the pro-corruption crowd. It doesn't matter to the issues. However, I was suggesting a personal attachment, perhaps as part of an identity with one particular side of the divide. I realise it might be considered crude to bring it up. What I am really talking about is subjectivity, as in the different POV every human views the world with, which is of course completely inescapable.

Seemed plausible though.

Really... U sure ?

I was wondering about Briana Wu. Didn't she use to be a man. Just sayin', maybe that explains all the hyperbole. It's like she wants desperately to belong among this new wave of feminist developers. Not saying she can't belong, but maybe it's important to her personally to be constantly 'figthing the good fight', as it were. Even if that means picking a fight herself when there's nothing going on.

That was bizarre. I kinda wished the reporter had persisted. I mean he didn't walk away but tried to bully his way out of a question.

Reading the main stream media's (it's such a tired term) coverage of gamergate has done nothing to instil in me a sense that surely there are 'journalists' and there are, you know, old fashioned actual journalists - that those still exist. They barely even mention what was my main grievance the whole time that games journalists are in a symbiotic relationship to games publishers and PR departments and that it is therefore practically impossible for them not to be aware of one another's needs. Imagine a food critic who relied on revenue from the resturant he was reviewing to have a pay check every month. What would such a review be worth to anyone ?. At the end of the day the customers still need to know if the food is any good. There is going to be some kind of evaluation of that... The metaphor is getting long winded but you get my point. That's the stake I have in Gamergate. I had vain hopes that there would be some kind of groundswell of shame swept on game sites that would force them to change. Anita Sarkeesian, I wish her well in her career as a media critic, or whatever she is. May she sell milions of books, as long as I don't have to read them.

I'd just like to state that I in no way condone or associate myself with this statement. /rapidly backs away from Malcador Dont write stuff like that (Malacador). It's more potential work for the mod squad. Find some other way to

The traditional job og the hussars was to harry the enemy behind the lines. Surely they needed the extra edge provided by a ridiculous costume-uniform. Probably wouldn't wear that into battle though, what if it got damaged.

Crowd funding to write a book. mmm. I dunno, I kinda land on the side that if the book was going to be any good it would find a way to get written.

Hello Oby.

Apple stopped naming theirs after german tanks and went back to numbers didn't they ?

So it was one of them rhetorical questions then.

They got spooked when he moved and they should have been able to realise that they held every advantage and that there was time for another play. He wasn't going to run at them faster than a bullet. Missing leadership, experience ?. How do you make that decision in real time? It's not a turn based strategy game. They aren't trained to take shots like that. I'm not defending them either. It looks like a poorly handled situation. To me it doesn't matter whether 1 shot or 48 were fired, they should have tried to de-escalate the situation and they failed. Is this situation better if he's killed by 2 cops instead of 6? How do you make that decision in real time ?. By not getting spooked. Experience, leadership by someone in the group. He's not going to run at them faster than a bullet. There was time for another play besides yelling at him which with the dog and everything obviously had no effect.

Dude there are six cops there. Surely one or two could have attempted a non lethal shot. What's the downside.

Lots of young guys push eachother into talking to women, doesn't appear to matter what it's about or whether it ammounts to anything as long as you did it. I see a lot of men with bad one liners and no plan whatsoever beyond 'I'm the man because I can totally talk to random women on the street'. They need to learn better strategies and acknolwledge that it's not always better that you did it. I think we can assume that the majority don't want to fail or to be received as harassers.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few..