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Well I should be in the clear then.

I agree, there is often a misconception between being politically (in)correct and just being an ass. I prefer having the asses spurt their idiocy to artificial language though, makes it easier to see what people are really about.

The wildlife AI definitely needs to be something other than a wild charge the second they spot you, that's a given.

I just wanted to point out one thing quick. Not "his worshipers" - just worshipers. There have been too many influential religions to say "his" as that would imply a single male monotheistic deity. In that same post you quoted i wrote 'his(her)' explicitly to point out the lack of a common gender pronoun. Pay attention !

Hugh Laurie is good, the formula of the show though is getting really old.

Soooo... It was pretty much exactly like I expected. The environment of the jungle made it worthwhile to watch, the story was straightforward and lacking much subtlety. Cat Pocahontas had a nice ass. Was that a creepy thing to say ?. Well it's still true.

Witcher would have been a lot better with some arcade challenge to winning the fights 'point, click' gets tedious for me really fast. No blocking, dodging, counter etc. Unfortunately they seem to have stuck with that concept for the sequel, maybe because they can make the fights look cool, as opposed to interesting, that way.

I liked the witcher better as well. The postcards were silly, but he was supposed to be a Don Juan, getting farmer's daughters into trouble, so it kinda made sense. DA failed to move me, probably because the entire premise and setting was so generic and uninteresting. Parts of Orzamar were good, other than that not many highlights. Some of the voice acting was so bad I found myself hitting the escape button to skip on my first play-through. Withcer was intermittently good. I liked the two village areas for instance.

easy as goblin pie

Kargain on the other hand is awesome.

I just cheated my way into the Alister romance. . . CRPG romance equivalent of fingernails grating on a blackboard. I wish there was some way to go completely dark side on his ass, turn him into an abomination or something.

It's difficult to convey irony in text, I thought I did reasonably well though. I don't know how you live to be an adult and not know what a foxhole is.

In any case in the face of your own imminent demise there are few people who would not start praying just on instinct, hypocrisy be damned. Incidentally, who thinks god is not real just because we created him(her). Whether he is just an elaborate joint psychological construct or not, he still real to a whole lot of people, and and everyone deals with the reality created by his worshipers. It ought to make one consider the nature of knowledge, especially if you are one of those people who insist on discussing religion entirely in empirical terms.

Vehicles are the next obvious step. I don't think it's unrealistic at all. Whether there is going to be much interaction with other vehicles, that I'm not so sure of.

What, like actual holes dug by foxes.

I thought they gave it to Obsidian, is he there to ensure the presence of mudcrabs ?

'People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China' (PLA). Apparently. Nothing shorter would do of course.

What do they call the Chinese commie army anyway.

hari kari with cyanide capsules Awfully difficult to stab yourself with a pill. Anyway aren't these Chinese soldiers. Don't think the Red Army was ever into the whole death cult thing. Soo.... is it done yet ?

Is that a joke ?.

I got that free twice, once bundled with a GFX once with a mobo, neither versions worked propperly. Also STALKER 1 has been released for free.

If you have such little faith in humanity that you think the only way of inspiring people to do good things is faith, then I suppose you could view it that way. Personally, I'd rather not. I suppose I view faith as the notion of insisting on the archetypal concepts of good and evil, and that the way we conduct our lives is subject to some manner of definitive judgment, that it all somehow matters. Despite all evidence to the contrary. That kind of naivety is useful. When faith is used as an instrument of discrimination, that is obviously a negative, but I am perfectly capable of separating the desirable effects from those that are not. We are not discussing particular denominations after all.

Self hypnosis can be a very powerful tool. Look at Travolta and Cruise all wound up on crackpot energy, out there getting it done. If faith can do that for you, and even make you happier in the process, why knock it.

I never said I had real evidence of God's existence. I said I know that God exists due to a personal experience. Two completely different animals, Lare. Oh man, it's the "personal revelation" again. Tell me, what differentiates your revelation from a hallucination? If I had a hallucination in which a giant bunny rabbit told me that he controlled the weather, should I believe it? It's a personal revelation that is shared by millions, so that is the difference between God and your giant bunny. Supposing for a minute that an enormous supporting apparatus had been constructed around the notion that giant bunnies had the answers to the really big questions and that by believing in them your immortal soul would be assured good digs in paradise... Now that would allow such a comparison.

Chinese citizens have to go through the bother of filling out a form if they want to leave the country, if that's what you mean. North Korea really is a nightmare, which doesn't make it a very good yardstick for comparison or generalization.