Everything posted by Gorgon
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Show and tell
I am just a regular mortal student in this scenario.
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Obsidian making Fallout: New Vegas
Aren't the testers given very specific jobs. I bet no one thought making judgments on the overall feel of character progression was worth their time.
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Can torrent sites be prosecuted.
The 'professional juror' system has some advantages. It really cuts down on Johnny Cochran type shenanigans that aren't based in law. There is no use for Jury profilers or other pseudo science wizards who can supposedly tell you who is going to vote for what and whether wearing a red tie to court is a good idea or not.
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Total war series
They might well have shot themselves in the foot with the time it has taken to implement this. It's not out yet and already old news. A belated addon to a yesteryear game.
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Akinator
Although I may have gotten a question wrong as I had to use the french mirror site.
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Obsidian making Fallout: New Vegas
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.
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Show and tell
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.
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CIA torture directives
Yes but Kant was defining ethics, not arguing that telling the murderer where the victim is was the better option.
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Show and tell
It doesn't have to be a uniquely japanese topic.
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Obsidian making Fallout: New Vegas
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.
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Show and tell
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.
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Total war series
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.
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Total war series
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.
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Movies you have seen recently
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.
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Movies you have seen recently
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.
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Obsidian making Fallout: New Vegas
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.
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CIA torture directives
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.
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CIA torture directives
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.
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CIA torture directives
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.
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CIA torture directives
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.
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CIA torture directives
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.
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CIA torture directives
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.
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Movies you have seen recently
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.