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By the way I thought the only redeeming quality of AC 1 was the combat and movement.

I guess the first question is can you skip the cut-scenes.

Isn't Fallout Las Vegas a stand alone game? Is there something about the "layer cake" you don't like, or is it just it's method of delivery that rubs you the wrong way? Concerned about slippery slope? I think the time spent on such extras could be better spent building something proper. Take the Fallout DLCs as a forinstance. Instead of 3 not particularly good mini adons they could have spent their time making something worthwhile. Bethesda started this whole micro transaction trend back when they started charging pennies for a single suit of armor - and nothing else - adon. I think that was Morrowind.

If the expansion/adon is officially dead then what is Fallout Las Vegas. I'm not sure I like this tendency, which has been growing for some while now, of charging money for negliable extra content. Well that's not true; I know I don't like it. I don't care if it's cheap and 'extras', I just don't want the game to be a layer cake were you pay as you eat, and the platinum Amex gamers get a significantly different experience. Yes that's a strange metaphor as you don't typically eat a cake from the bottom up, but you get the idea.

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Still, one can never have enough toilets.

More toilets needed ?

Why don't we just let people buy votes. 10.000 $ would get you one, 30.000, 3, and so on up to a maximum of 5. We could use the money for universal health care.

Walsh, your venom is supremely delicious.

Now now be fair. You get to chose between voting for the glorious leader, and voting for the glorious leader.

It wouldn't surprise me if he rigged it so that everyone turns out that way.

So hey, I've got some free time coming soon, is the game any good ?. Give it an overall '?/10' pls.

~sigh~ Wow that is really bad in-game porn. The Witcher is Oscar material by comparison

We have to legislate against the bad, knowing where to stop that's the question.

Well we don't need to legislate against the desirable effects now do we.

*shrug*

First of all; A sustained and constant increase in profits is impossible, so any system that has that as a prerequisite to function is inherently broken It's not a function of the system, the system goes through boom and bust cycles, what is unsustainable is the expectation to continually post bigger earnings. In the long term when the economy has undergone a long and sustained boom every so often theorists wonder if we have turned a new leaf, but another depression inevitably comes along anyway. What I was saying here in the first post was that large companies should be held accountable for the economic damages they cause society, and that we should make it alot harder for them to wreak havoc by behaving irresponsably by, for instance, laying off workers when the company isnt losing money. It seems like common sense to me If one did that the companies, all those that could, would simply move production to somewhere where they could have a higher degree of control. Enough of them have already. The basic operation of competition is dog eat dog, we try through legislation to get everyone to behave nice and follow a set of rules to the game, but one can only do so much, after which new investors would simply stay away.

What are they spending all that money on. If it's schools and law enforcement those are traditionally things people are willing to pay for. As for why no one takes the long view, a politician needs to bring it home on a yearly basis or lose his job so naturally band aid type solutions abound.

True enough, the publisher promotes, decides which deserving game site gets the ad dollars, etc.

Professional reviewers and game review sites are nearly all whores who share a symbiotic relationship with the game developers with obvious incentive to avoid a clear thumbs down rating. Average Joe gamers have preconceptions about games but they aren't nearly as predictable, it also helps if you know a little about their persons and what type of games they like. Take for instance Mkreu describing the Gothic series in terms comparable to the second coming of Christ. You learn to take these things with a grain of salt. Both vararities of reviewer are subjective but the gamer is better at stating up front in no uncertain terms what his preferences are.

Interesting concentration of Atheists in the world's oceans.

Also, what's with the rage about conservative parties with racist undertones in Europe? Have you ever been to Europe for a longer period of time? Do you understand that there always be fringe parties in every open society? It is generally acknowledged that there has been a marked diffusion and increase in such parties over the last decade, what most of them have in common is that they feed on a general resentment of immgrants and immigration related problems. The concern about such parties is genuine, they have gained political influence and cooperate with traditionally 'respectable' parties who would usually refrain being associated with them.

Bongs are uncivilised, the dose you tupically get puts you to sleep unless you are smoke too much already. The gentleman rolls his own joints, which is something of an art as well, in order to savor both the flavor and the effect.

What a complete ****. I hope he goes away for long enough for everyone to forget about him.

Well not everybody can just zone out from their nagging worries.