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Gorgon

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  1. Not if you don't recognise the category as anything other than a group psychological phenomenon. Surely it is the belief in divinity that is on the face of it fantastical and requiring proof. If there is no evidence then, ipso facto, there is no observable divinity. The other side of the argument has invented a category outside what can be observed and documented, that's not a draw or a technical KO. It's cheating.
  2. I don't think it's absurd. It's perfectly logical. There is no particular need to organize though, and even less to try and shove it down people's throats. Like, you know, a religion. Imperical thinking is supposed to be the reverse of dogmatic group-think.
  3. I trained my guy up in Alchemy and now I have more money than I know what to do with. I buy up all the grand soul gems from the traders and pay them with useless potions like barter+paralyze+health. I very much have abused smithing and it has made the game much too easy.
  4. Yes, but their case is better. I would love for them to be wrong though.
  5. They bring balance to the force. The religious nuts need a visible antithesis. It's mostly about getting coverage I suppose. Here's a thought, we could have them duke it out in a mud wrestling tournament. Those tickets would sell out fast.
  6. What this crisis has demonstrated is that we are interlinked economically regardless of the common market. Now we were actually able to do something about Greece's near collapse, and it's not very likely we would have been as effective if Greece had not been a member of the EU. If we are to grasp a more firm hold of the banking system and investment groups to prevent the markets spinning out of control again we need some kind of international economic policy and and an organ to enforce the rules. The very notion is at odds with the concept of national governments and seems like a fantasy, but actually the EU has been paving the ground with the euro for some time. We are getting used to the notion of solving problems together. Corporations function across national borders, legislation has to do the same to have any hope of being effective.
  7. I just followed the . Tip? Okay, I have one tip. When you install the CPU to the motherboard, you're going to get resistance. It takes far more pressure than RAM or a video card. If you're like me, you'll worry you didn't seat the chip properly and that you're going to break something. I haven't had that experience. I suppose it depends on the locking mechanism. Getting the CPU to align with the receptors on the motherboard shouldn't take any pressure at all.
  8. I don't trust the offline mode though, it's let me down a few times on holiday with games installed on my laptop. Without a viable offline mode a crack might be your only option.
  9. We don't have a local surplus of power but buy from Sweden and Germany, and when things are really bad those crazy Russians.
  10. A word of caution regarding humongous screen TVs. Check the power consumption before purchasing. It could literally be like having the dryer going 12 hours a day.
  11. It's hard to fault their logic here. They were given loans that would otherwise not have been possible because the goverment was the guaranteur and encouraged that this was a good investment. An economic policy that failed due to the de-regulation craze which allowed the brokerage firms to run wild.
  12. Hold on now, the 'common folk' were given subsidized loans to be able to own their own homes as part of a government programme and mortgages marketed to them that left them with very small margins if the economy ever got worse. While getting yourself into a jam like that is your own fault, it's also entirely predictable that it would happen on a large scale. Surely saying that people are just stupid is missing the point entirely.
  13. There are services out there right now that let you have access to truly humongous libraries of music for a small monthly fee. The offline mode leaves a little to be desired, but honestly it's worth it for just having all that stuff at your fingertips. There are instances where you can't buy something but can find a torrent for it, but it's getting exceedingly rare.
  14. I'd expect you to be able to make the connection as an intelligent person, Walsh. "Oh, the 2nd hand sellers are the real criminals, so I'm actually doing a good thing by downloading the game myself". The art of good business is being a good middleman. Money doesn't go from consumer to game publisher before other actors get in on the action and in doing so contribute to overall economic activity. On a related matter, one would have to show that these middlemen, such as used game sellers, negatively affect the quality and budget of games before comming out against them. Assumptions aren't useful here. You're quoting me but I can't make a connection between what I wrote and what you did. My mind sortof wandered off to what other people had been arguing.
  15. I'd expect you to be able to make the connection as an intelligent person, Walsh. "Oh, the 2nd hand sellers are the real criminals, so I'm actually doing a good thing by downloading the game myself". The art of good business is being a good middleman. Money doesn't go from consumer to game publisher before other actors get in on the action and in doing so contribute to overall economic activity. On a related matter, one would have to show that these middlemen, such as used game sellers, negatively affect the quality and budget of games before comming out against them. Assumptions aren't useful here.
  16. It had its moments here and there, all the NPCs save one or two were poor caricatures though. It was pretty much what I expected from watching the development phase. Good enough for one playthrough though. That would be one of those elusive redeeming qualities.
  17. I played it and felt it had few redeeming qualities.
  18. Now you HAVE to buy deadliest catch or look foolish.
  19. I wonder... A site where you can sign up to be alerted if a particular game is on sale on STEAM. Why isn't there something like that.
  20. The director wasn't a fan of the American makeover he was hired to do. The original is in Danish, with Nicolai Coster Valdau and Kim Bodnia. It's many kilopaesecs better. Or is it farther. Unless you are talking about the Russian sci fi thing.
  21. Learning to work together is half the exercise, it's not like anyone other than the professor is going to look at the finished project.
  22. Wrong, yes.. Morally repugnant.. I dunno I would reserve that term for something worse. 'Morally having been out of the fridge for too long and not exactly safe to eat, but not entirely repugnant either' perhaps.
  23. South Park is most fun when it delves into the political or exposes/ridicules something and combines it with the super ego of Randy Marsh or Cartman. A computer game can't be about current affairs, that leaves out a lot of the formula from the get-go.
  24. He should have given the interface the spanking it deserves, I dunno maybe he tired himself out.
  25. Warhammer wouldn't suck if they did it Total War style. Huge armies, tactics and strategy. You get a really crappy mutation of FPS and RTS instead. I do think it would make a bad RPG though. Warhammer is about the armies and the units.
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