Gorgon

Nahh, pure entertainment.

We do not want your Butthurt. I'm going to leave that one well alone.

Butthurt much? Begpardon ?

From the article on US weapons sales. a $2.1 billion jet fighter for Morocco and a $2 billion attack helicopter for Taiwan. That must be some attack helicopter.

Everybody that makes weapons sell them and no one can afford to let principle guide them too strongly in their choice of customers, that has always been the nature of the business.

Really?! That's your most coherent response? I liked it.

We should have Druids on the payroll here in Denmark. No, not really.

There are murder simulators. I never heard of any. Must be a relatively minimal target demographic.

What is that, the winter palace where her beloved Communists shot the emperor, his whole family, and their servants.

Obviously there is also some sentimentality going on for back when Russia was more powerful, I bet that kind of thing goes over well with the new generations.

Isn't it the other way around, the govt, Putin, cracking down on any business tychoon it doesn't like. I'd wager the same would happen to his 'friends' if they forgot their place.

This is the kind of thing you would do in a mmorpheger as a freebee to keep the interest going. Trying to squeeze money out of it is just not very appealing, like the DLC salesman in camp, it lessens the whole experience.

Despite things having moved in the wrong direction as regards freedom of the press and of organisation things are better in Russia than they were. There is a definite tendency for exaggeration from the western media. The foundation of political power is now fully democratic. I'm not so sure I believe the claims of that controversial article. It was something about the Russians having advance knowledge of, or even complicity in, previous attacks, was it that one ?. It all sounds pretty fantastical.

Unfortunately being a greedy petty bastard is not illegal, last I checked. anyway do like the Russian soldiers of ww1 and vote with your feet.

Yeah the chiselling phenomenon is getting worse and worse as DLCs become an integrated part of the development cycle. Some times the Vanilla game hardly looks like a finished product. In Napoleon total war you pay 20% more for 10 extra units. I hope negative word of mouth can work against the strong tendency to be too greedy.

It's a little worrying if this is the extent of the knowledge among young Russians about how their own country used to be run.

This is what they call the 'otherness' of Japan, that everything is so different that we couldn't possibly understand with our inadequate western POV. It's a load of nonsense. One of my old teachers told me that the groping problem with the rowdy weekend crowd was so bad that they had to institute women only train cars. It excites the pervs because it's out in the public. The notion of Japanese women just standing there being paralysed by shame is part of the perv fantasy, it does not correspond in any way with reality.

I'll venture a guess : it's because psychologically you still believed that another 'strong man' could save you all. You were so used to having a Pater Familias at the head of the country you couldn't do without one, you needed to be reassured.

Why are you people still caught up on the fact that this is about something Japanese. Yes they have nasty wrong hentai, and they have lots of nice things as well, can we get past it, I mean who cares.

Surely it's a lot worse. Pornography, whatever you think about how women are portrayed in 99% of it, does not show 'real' rape or come across with the message that it is acceptable, or indeed make the rapist into the hero of the story. Well maybe it does but then it probably is illegal most places. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rapeman I dunno, I just think the thought process behind something like the above disgusts me more than the circus act that is pornography ever could. And as always reality triumphs fiction : http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_...icle1019963.ece Does one cause the other, well that's really hard to say but there seems to have developed a very unhealthy culture which has not been sufficiency challenged, whether legally or otherwise. These jokers got away with it for a long time.

My tolerance for never ending impossible plots has been reached and surpassed anyway I think.

Maybe it's about the censorship. The idea is that they never really got to grips with porn because they aren't allowed to show any 'bits', and they compensate with over the top weirdness.

Commentators some times stress the emasculation of the Japanese man following the humiliation of WW2, or more to the point the empowerment of the Japanese woman to explain away the extreme end of the manga offerings. Rape is about power they say, and these cases constitute a rather pathetic attempt to reclaim it.

Why exactly do people expect the government to have been able to prevent the attack. A few well trained terrorist can cause a lot of trouble and the chance of stopping them beforehand is relatively minimal.

If there is no history of Democracy, no view that it represents an evolution in human society, but instead a series of 'strong men' who make dissenters disappear the people aren't going to be removing any yokes.