Gorgon
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
It's not a country as much as a housing coop for the fabulously wealthy.
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Capitalism & Socialism
Umm I've been to Poland too and I think you are being a bit grim for effect there mate.
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Drama in indy gaming and games journalism part 2
The moral of the story, don't listen to the idiot talking heads. Pundits, bloggers, others who profit from being in the spotlight some way or another. Look at the big picture.
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Capitalism & Socialism
I doubt those 1 im 25 have a million bucks in their account they can take out and spend anytime.
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Capitalism & Socialism
It still isn't that odd id the real estate is super expensive, and it is.
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Capitalism & Socialism
Probably because it isn't true. Unless it's defined as all the most exepensive real estate down town or some such technicality, and greater New York is what we think of as New York.
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Capitalism & Socialism
Who decides what socialism in its purest form is, you ?. Why not deal with the examples that are actually out there in the world instead.
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Capitalism & Socialism
Depends who you ask. The Scandinavian model originated in the end of WW2 where people had gotten used to the notion of pulling together and of efficient management brought on by military necessity. The Blitz and all that. There was a desire and a will to lift up the standard of living for everyone. People came to expect the government to handle more aspects of society In countries that are less politically stable and with greater wealth disparity, like much of South America, the ideology is usually more pronounced and retains much of the notions competing classes from Marx. A more pronounced underclass becomes a political base that can't be ignored.
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Capitalism & Socialism
So you don't have to spend all your hard earned money buying a gun to protect you from the lowlife. Like I said it only really makes sense if you can afford it. Socialism and by inference government spending expands and contracts with the economy. I'd call it a quality of life luxury.
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Capitalism & Socialism
Adressing the extreme wealth disparity makes sense to me, less the masses forget that money is just an imaginary thing we made up to tell poor people from rich. Socialism is just making a safer society with redistribution. Makes sense if you can afford it. Even Cesar knew the importance of keeping the plebs happy.
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Capitalism & Socialism
Communism was supposed to propose an alternative to Capitalism, meaning the workings of the market economy as opposed to a political ideology also commonly dubbed Capitalism. This didn't really work out. Capitalism appears more or less to be the default human organisation. Communism is as dead as insofar as it is marginalized and irrelevant as an international political movement, which was one of its key aims after all.
- The general firearms thread!
- The general firearms thread!
- The general firearms thread!
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Star Wars Episode 7 Thread
Pirates got really boring, but that's to be expected after 4 of them. I guess you can count on Star Wars not being the least bit controversial and trying hard to please everyone. It's not like they could do worse than Lucas if they tried though.
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Risen 3 is coming
My mage had that firestorm spell as well as one that knocks a bunch of enemies over when they're surrounding you. He also had equipped the equivalent of fireball and ice shooting from his fists as "right hand weapon slot" items. They tended to cover all the bases I need covered. I only have 60 something magic and still kicking ass. The only attribute I have maxed out is melee. The rest are all between 40 and 70 and that's after finding most of the stat plants. I guess if you crafted all the potions and didn't level all your stats you could max out more, but there's no point. I'd rather have the musket as a viable option than max out magic. It's the only ranged attack that doesn't suck balls. The aiming is horrible. Either you crank the mouse speed all the way down and you can't turn, or aiming is all over the place. Musket is the only tolerable option because it has range.
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Risen 3 is coming
I think I'm near the end. About to do the ritual. A bit problematic that I've been too powerful for a while now for anything to be challenging despite spreading out my skills about as wide as possible. Didn't bother making the stat boosting potions, just ate the plants. I also can't help skipping the dialogue because everyone seems to take forever to get to the point and they all seem to talk very slowly.
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Star Wars Episode 7 Thread
I am worried that Han and Luke will just be there for 5 minuites to say hi and get their checks and the rest of the movie will be about teen troubles with characters from the ****ty Clonewars spinoff. I'd say I'm guardedly optimistic based on the director's track record.
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Main SSD getting full even though no games are on it?
I think I'm about to cave in and get the 500gb samsung. I need an additional storage drive. I still have an IDE interface disk but it's not going to last forever and I think IDE legacy connectors.won't either. 500 is not really enough, but I've got 8 ATA slots to fill up. Only using 4.
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The Patriarchy (no girls allowed!)
How do you accidentally shoot someone through a door anyway. I know things are bad in SA, especially if you have a nice big house but shooting without knowing what you are shooting at.
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The Patriarchy (no girls allowed!)
I vote for 'the helicopter'.
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Drama in indy gaming and games journalism part 2
When people stop commenting on it, like you and I are doing now for instance.
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Drama in indy gaming and games journalism part 2
My theory is that there are fewer people here who pretend to be women than on 4chan. In the end it's a zero sum game. There are no women on the internets.
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The Patriarchy (no girls allowed!)
I think you are pretty safe here without a 'no girls allowed rule'. Just sayin'