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I imagine the separatists still enjoy plenty of support, and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. There is no state that doesn't use torture and assassination when the situation calls for it (which is rare, since there are plenty of other, more reliable ways to solve problems) . To believe that is to be exceedingly naive. Its a halfway racist prejudice against Russia that everything there is as brutal as possible, the state, the people, the culture...etc. Russia is not CNN and gangster flicks, just like Africa isn't a bunch of black people jumping around a fire. Russian human rigths violations in Chechnya are well documented, so in this case the media bias against Russia, which is a real thing by the way, is not wrong.

I remember that game, you shot magic out of large caliber wands. It was unreal engine but not particularly flashy for its time. The forum ranks have been what they are for ages though, that's not any indication.

The westling culture is in no danger whatever of being destroyed. Funny how you use the same venacular to describe Chechnya as the Chinese do Taiwan. How are the demographics, how much support do the seperatists still enjoy. Given that the Russian authorities don't shy away from torture or disappearing people in the middle of the night it's not an easy thing to answer. You don't want to be on the record if you live there.

Is it counting down. I was sure it said '3' earlier.

No, he died because a bunch of lunatics broke into his office and lynched him.

You can't really go by who owns the IP. Obsidian could have come on as hired muscle, like FONW.

Neverwinter nights or Baldur's Gate. Holding out for BG3, but thinking it's NW3.

By the way, freedom of speech IS freedom to offend. Those who think otherwise haven't really. We distinguish between freedom of speech and legaly libel. Not the same.

Tearing down the Dutch flag hasn't got any oomph. No need to complicate things, one great satan is as good as the next.

Too good to be true. No recoil either.

a gimped sergio moricone theme played poorly and an old fool, there really is no other word for it. damn tragic. i like most of his movies.

Maybe so, churchgoing is not very common here. Probably a side effect of priests being on a state salary, they don't need to bother brining them in, so they don't. Of all the people I know that say they believe only one ever goes to mass and such. No escape since he's friends with a priest. Also were protestants and not too keen on the idea of a church bureaucracy standing between individual and god. There is little social pressure to attend.

Sure, but can you belong in the believer group without actually believing as much as simply going with the flow.

I know there is one, but Atheism isn't really a movement. It's just the inability to believe in what is after all a rather outlandish premise for which there is no tangible evidence.

I maintain that there is a significant margin for error when asking people if they believe or not. Most people will say yes if they were raised that way, but spend no time thinking about the implications. It's more belonging in a club than believing in God, the devil and paradise. They need the pagentry of the church for weddings and funerals, they may even have turned to prayer in some moment of personal crists only to forget all about it when it passed. Does that really count.

Islam is charged by a violent political climate though. It's nationalist tension much like that witnessed between India and Pakistan for a century already. It's much more about Israli settlers claiming more land every day than about literal interpretations of the Koran.

I saw they were doing Jack and the beanstalk and it wasn't even a Pixar type thing. Real actors. They are fast running out of Brothers Grim-ish stories to do in 3D. It's getting ridiculous.

Wait, you know Linus Torvalds ? or is it some kind of gimped twitter thing on google+

Like Scientology really but with a few hundred more years to lend patina and credence to it.

Started a new Skyrim game with Dawnguard despite the mixed reviews. Does anyone want to recommend any mods that don't conflict.

Judges are elected right, not promoted by merit and professional reputation. It's just showbizz, he's grandstanding Texas style.

They originally had the melee maneuvers for free with no energy use required. But during game testing they found it basically made every tester slide into stealth route and auto-melee kill/ko the enemy. So to encourage the development of discovering creative routes they jury-rigged the energy use for melee. Or something along those lines... I though it was just that making every mele a cutscene required no extra coding, and having them available for no energy cost would would have left the whole thing too easy.

The point is not to enjoy the story or the gameplay but to assemble a complete 100.000 platinum armor you can only buy after completing a two hour coop mission.

Well that, and you will have to have asked them all the same questions, and they would have to be a representative sample of Americans below the povery line.

You are going to have to have talked to at least a thousand for it to be statistically relevant.