Gorgon

Nothing quite says 1950 and style like a big band . It's a shame the 50s is just before jazz got progressive and truly interesting Ben Webster was so smooth his sound made him cry on stage.

It could be anything, it doesn't need to be from Japan, it just needs to be in Japanese. I'm still pretty inept at forming sentences on the fly as opposed to reading though so something relatively simpler might be better.

Yes but Kant was defining ethics, not arguing that telling the murderer where the victim is was the better option.

It doesn't have to be a uniquely japanese topic.

I would have liked to see longer scripted 'adventures' in the wasteland. A computer terminal is not sufficient for me to provide a back story for an area. I really liked 'Rogers Rangers' for instance, there weren't many missions of that caliber though. Bethesda are still pretty bad at character interaction, that is the dialouge screen, but the extra time they spent on some NPCs does show. and ohh yeah,The pipboy map needs to be improved, having to backtrack because you couldn't find the correct exit was a frequent source of annoyance. Obsidian is probably not going to spend time they could have spent on their content correcting interface problems in the engine, I'm just saying it needs doing, by someone.

I'm doing a show and tell for my Japanese class where i'm supposed to present a topic and take questions on it. Basically I can't think of anything. Suggestions NB : no it may not involve bukkake.

I remember when I got Genghis Khan with my assassins the very first turn the golden horde appeared, the next turn I bought up 3/4 of the now mercenary horde with my diplomats. I captured all of Russia just as I ran out of florins from supporting them. Total war 2 also made bribing so expensive it would never ever be worth the cost, and made the AI so good at it you could never trust a stack without a general to be there the next turn. You couldn't get the enemy units either. They would just disband and disappear. I kinda missed having a zoo of exotic turncoat units.

In Medieval 2 they made assassins so bad they were a complete waste of the 500 florins per man in upkeep, pretty soon you would have 10 or 15 inept assassins who only got worse with every missed attempt, and generated nothing but bad PR for your factions, possibly lowering it so much you would lose alliances. In medial 1 you could just generate 30 or 40 assassins and have them kill each other and you would automatically end up with a handful of 5 star assassins, who you would of course send to a friendly region near rome. heh. Another tactic was just to move 2 stacks into rome and kill the pope every time he made a comeback. You would still have 1 turn to start your crusades and get the special units.

Heh. Well I enjoy listening to other languages, getting a glimpse into another culture. Hollywood remakes are the smaller sin on the scale though. Dubbing is unforgivable. Unless it's a kung fu movie, then it's somehow agreeable.

Hmm, looks like [REC] isn't available in the states. I don't mind a remake if the original is in a different language. As long as it is done decently. Subtitles are a wonderful thing. Besides it's Spanish, don't you all get that in school.

I remember an 80s looking b movie called Six Sting Samurai, where the hero had to travel across the wasteland to Vegas to guitar battle for the title of King of Vegas. Unfortunately it ended just as he reached Vegas, that would have required a bit more from the prop department than ramshackle huts. Did they ever make a sequel. Anyway he had a cool retro looking motorcycle and sidecar.

The CIA did have sources and they did state that Sadam had an active nuclear programme, however, these sources were fed to them by resident dissident Iraqis with an obvious bias for military intervention. The Blair cabinet cooked up a document hinting that Sadam would likely have nuclear capabilities quoting, among other things a BA, that's under graduate, thesis. So it's not the information itself, but the uncritical and biased way it was presented that is mainly to blame. I do wonder about the Chavez business though.

we supposedly don't do assassinations anymore. taks Well that's because you have declared war on the targets making them ipso facto enemy combatants.

Remember when we (the USA) were all like "Iraq has first-strike nuclear capabilities!!!"? Who do you think produced the documents which "proved" this? That's right. The CIA. The Bush and Blair administrations were responsible for much of the 'intelligence' released about Iraq leading up to the invasion. The simply picked what supported the result they wanted and ignored everything else. It's more academic forgery than making up stuff spontaneously.

The CIA is not up to the same level of shenanigans they were in the 70s. What exactly they are up to isn't known by that many people. Assassinations and coup d'etats. I dunno, I suspect the main focus these days is on identifying terrorists.

would killing 20 million of them as the Japanese did qualify as racism? The official propaganda didn't leave much regard for the other side, This is true of American propaganda in the Pacific war as well. In the case of the Japanese army fanaticism was an integral part of their strategy for success, they expected their soldiers to do what the other side wouldn't. The 20 million figure includes starvation and general mismanagement, it's not like x number of Japanese soldiers killed 20 million Chinese.

they were singled out simply because of who they were. they weren't even part of the fight. taks What better way to cement the total power of the regime than by picking on outsiders. Jews, homosexuals, perceived dissidents. They served as a sinister reminder of what would happen if you didn't march in step with the official agenda, and at the same time the brutality wasn't felt by the general population, thus minimizing the chances of insurrection. In case of the Nazis this merged with their racist ideology. In fascist Italy the racist element was nowhere near as strong.

It's a scene for scene remake of REC. I question the need to make exactly the same movie with American actors. It looks like they even shot it in the same apartment building. I'm really tired of the hand held gimmick, although I admit it works better for this kind of movie than in most other cases.

Aha, so this was why Sawyer as posting so frequently in the Fallout 3 thread and playing the game through on both PC and Xbox. Basically, I agree but the setting is in Nevada. How do you manage to express a vast and waste desert in a game without boring the players, then? You know what would be cool, replacing the mounts, which are still in the engine, with a beat up motorcycle or something like that. You could have a travel map in between larger areas a la Fallout 2 and 3.

The bugs that caused certain computers to lock or crash have been fixed, although the slowdowns associated with calculating a trade route remain. It can get quite extreme if you are one of the major trade factions and have a lot of routes and a lot of trade partners. You get as much as a 4-5 second delay every time you click on one of your ports or on your capital. As stated above the enemy can't land troops with ships, so any area isolated by water doesn't need to be guarded. Playing as a mostly land based faction eliminates the trade route problem though, no slowdowns with Russia, the us, the ottomans, or the Maratha for instance.

My favorite is Empire total war 2 with the crusades or teutonic adons. The theaters are much smaller which means the campaign map contains lots more bottlenecks and strategic areas. Also you can play a game and finish it in one sitting without getting bored managing 50 provinces.

I'm pretty sure it don't count if you enjoy it.

It's what he does.

Well yes, we, the 'civilized' ,whatever that means, don't use torture as a means of repression. I was just making an interjection that we should not tolerate it's use in the name of national security either.

You can also go further up, say /. If you have patience and no one else answers, I can offer you a screenshot tomorrow. I press the '/' button, or type it into a command line..There are up and down arrows but they don't lead anywhere that shows the drives like the system dropdown menu. Maybe it's just that one application.