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English, Japanese (mostly I read I don't get a lot of oppertunity to talk), Danish. German, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese is next on the wishlist. I don't particularly think German is useful, but I'll probably find it easier, all Danes speak some version of pidgin German.

Britan would not have a greater claim to Paris than to Glasgow because of..... drumroll.... The channel. As you well know Geography is not merely distance. Military logistics play a factor in most cases. Especially in Europe where everybody has been at war with everybody else at some point. Mountain ranges are natural barriers in Spain and Italy, etc. etc.

Denmark used to own the oil and mineral rights in Greenland, expressly because Greenland was a protectorate, same as the Faroe islands. That meant we were responsible for patroling it's borders and, theoretically at least, go to war with Russia if they ever decided to build bases there. Among other things we helped cover up an American neuclear accident in Thule. We very much had a claim if forgein powers decided to elbow in. Mutual benifit, despite this kind of arrangement going out of fashion over the last decades. It's pretty ludicrous to say that a rock on the other side of the world is principally the same as Swasea, for all their desire to identify themselves as such. What they get out of the deal is the protection of being British citizens. e.i. the royal marines will come to their aid should the need arise, which it might, unlike in Swansea.

Of course they would say that, with the war and all. They can't police themselves.

Argentina doesn't have any claim, neither of course does England. The islanders have correctly surmised that they needed the protection of a flag to avoid being prayed upon, If they are about to get fabulously wealthy off oil and mineral rights however... There are only 2000 people living there. I wonder if there are any limitations on how mineral rigths are doled out in international law.

The girl with the Drago tatoo. Strange phenomenon, but the Hollowood remake is quite a bit better than the Scandinavian original with all the English speaking Sweedes.

I know, we will get two handed axe animations after all this time.

Yeah, slave labour which costs about 45000 a year to maintain (not violent offenders, who cost more). Then does an unreliable menial job which a machine could do better and cheaper. I don't think slaves have been an economic option outside mining for about 200 years! That's just because they haven't fully learned how to maximise their earning potential. The larger number are probably unskilled, but there are doctors, lawyers, etc. How long before they start making legal briefs instead of licence plates. They are paid a few cents an hour, not working means solitary confinement for being 'uncooperative'. I suspect unions and PACs are what has kept the industry largely unskilled, rather than the lack of desire to tap this resource. I mean in effect it's a bit like sending all your learned Greeks off to the salt mines.

I think you're selling some of the writing short. The plot-heavy stuff was indeed dire, but the character writing had its high points. Mordin and Legion were interestingly written. Garrus, Grunt, and Samara were largely cliches, but they were well executed cliches that fit well with the overall space-opera mileu. Even some of the more minor characters managed to be memorable, like the cops you meet on the citadel in the missions for Samara and Thane. I do kindof hope Col. Tigh makes a reappearance.

ME2's strenght was in the quality of the polish, the gunfights were fun, even if cover was grotesquely misused. Other than that a space opera, awkward romancing, some small semblance of a plot, nothing worth analysing though.

Well if the auto switching is well thought out you will always be in the POV you wanted. Not likely, but possible.

So you walk everywhere with your gun drawn, even on the ship ?

Changing the animation sets for the worse in a sequel... ugh. Also, what if this means your ME2 head won't fit on there, you will forced to use the new pummeled violently with the ugly stick femshep faces. Not buying this before I have more answers.

Isn't it just that the market for drugs and therapists is larger, and following from that more people get diagnosed. The stigma associated with mental illness might even be less pronounced, which is a good thing. In other countries recieving treatment might negatively affect career chances and so on.

If you mean Shiva worshippers they mostly just get high and go into a chanting trance.

So,, the reapers are synthetic, a race of ships ?. The boss voice is from that collector general.

Their mission is to wipe out most of the population and send technology back to the stone age. The only practical way to do that would be to take prisoners, say 10.000 and wipe out the rest with conventional means. Nuke the planet, you lose the eco system.

In the US the crooks become slave labour, freeing up resources for the cops to be able to round up more slave labour.

I'd pay to avoid having to use that just based on my experience with EA DRM.

what's origin ?

Default Femshep looks hideous. I shudder to think what my own imported Femshep will look like. Exactly the same as she did in ME2 ?

It's in poor taste surely, but I mean, they are dead. If I had to chose between worrying about being peed on or being dead I know where I would land.

Problem solved by illegal magic the workings of which we will not discuss, moving on.

So far all the DLCs have installed without the need for a crack. We'll see what happens when I start the game.

Nothing ME2 related there, despite having just registered the game with the code provided by steam and being logged in. There is some free DA2 junk on offering, and that's it. Must be keyed to my old login, which is lost to the ages.