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Gorgon

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  1. Yes they are both corrupt in their own way, but Hillary can speak in complete sentences and has considerable previous experience,
  2. They are running out of nouns that aren't trademarked as games already. Soon it will be like email dresses. you know Hell_raid72@gmail.com
  3. I have a 1070 and I find myself playing one or two notches below 4k in new games because it lets me max out everything else. 4k even on medium is kinda choppy. I can't really tell the difference most of the time. Resolution isn't everything. I'd rather have a stable framerate. Older less demanding games you can play though. Borderlands 2 looks gorgeous in 4k.
  4. Looks interesting. I just saw Walking Tall a couple days ago for the first time. I would compare it to a remake of Roadhouse but with a twist. I mean it's different but you can tell the inspiration from it right away. I feel like I've seen it already. I fell asleep. Lots of better stories for a WW2 extravaganza. We're going to show the extraordinary courage of the common man, yada yada yada, there is going to be an American tourist on a yacht thrown in there so the yanks have something to connect with. The French who stayed behind fighting a rear guard action against impossible odds , those are the real heroes.
  5. Interesting strategy for games workshop, they basically give a license to whomever wants to make a game. So there is a lot of crap out there. They think that once a decent game comes along people won't care.
  6. haah the eyes gave it away. That's Gary Oldman surely.
  7. Yeah it was kinda **** compared to the first one. Great unsung silent movie hero my ass. There was even a product placement scene for a Beretta and a Benelli shotgun and some swanky pistol. Do your murdering like the cool kids.
  8. Screwing over Bernie at the DNC did not go over well with his supporters. Now the knowledge of that was a definite case of Russian intervention if you remember.
  9. Because the Russia collusion is a better story obviously. What I'm worried about is not the Trump campaign meeting with Russians, that's normal, it's their inexperience and mistrust of the State Department and intelligence services. It leaves them vulnerable.
  10. So... there is an infinite number of US dollars in existence? As long as they can keep borrowing there is.
  11. @Guard Dog. So what happens to your debt if you try that and the effect doesn't show ? Besides, how does Reaganomics handle globalization. You are assuming that American companies will generate tax revenues and jobs in the US but you have little in the way of production base anymore. One cant really assume that consumers will chose domestic products, I mean you cant make a car that anyone wants. Jobs are wherever, for the most part anyway. Do you plan to artificially boost the defense sector to the same levels as during Reagan as well.
  12. Are you asking me? If so go back and read my last 5 or so posts. I'm not here defending capitalism as the end all be all way of doing business. At best it's just better than the alternatives. No I thought I could get in before the next post and then I had to get bread out of the oven.
  13. We have enough wealth to provide these things just to make society less turbulent. I guess it depends what you want to spend your money on. If a majority decides that government has those duties, health care, education and so on, well then it does.
  14. mmm I 'm curious as to why you think colonies were established in the first place. Give me an example of colonization where the object was not to enrich the home culture or deny resources to competitors. Capitalism isn't really an ideology despite efforts to the contrary. It is simply how the world works. Usually Capitalism is associated with mass production, the market economy, but these are just gradual, in the case of the industrial revolution monumental, changes to something that has always existed. Getting Capitalism mixed up with values, because of the relative success and affluence of western Capitalist societies, is a mistake. At its core it is Gordon Gekko, the law of the jungle pure and simple. Those factors that reign in Capitalism and make societies stable aren't Capitalist. Taxation, redistribution, those are ingredients that go together with Capitalism to create modern societies.
  15. Even if, it's not like that would make it better. It's easy enough to improve the lives of your citizens simply by exploiting someone else. That doesn't make it a preferable system. Rome was a success for the most part for the Romans, until the Gauls had had enough. It's a delicate thing a society, lots of factors go into making it durable and constant war and exploitation of your neighbors isn't one of them. Anyway that was Rome, not analogous to a modern Capitalist society except for those few points.
  16. Name those capitalistic countries that allow their citizens to die of starvation and disease by the millions. And to stop you from going that way. No! Not helping some other country halfway around the globe that have suffered by failed socialistic/communistic "utopia" isn't capitalism "failure". We judge the system by how it cater to it's own citizens. Everything they do for other countries is just icing on the cake. It boggles me that there are people who can see murdering their own citizens as a "minor bug" in communism, but if capitalism cannot save the entire world from hunger and disease by this afternoon it's somehow a critical failure of the system. WUT?! How imperialism can be a manifestation of capitalism when it predates capitalism by a longshot? Imperialism is extending nations power by the acquisition of territories and capitalism is an economic system. They have nothing to do with each other. Imperialism can be present in capitalistic countries like US and also in communistic countries like Soviet Union. Blaming capitalism for things that happen or would happen regardless of the presence of capitalism is weird. If there is "oh so much" wrong with capitalism why the examples are always superfluous and nonsensical? Colonialism and Capitalism go hand in hand. There are too many examples to list. just to chose one ; the East India company ?
  17. Speaking of head shots I liked how it works in Hitman where taking out with headshots drops people in body armor, but when they start to converge on you and supress you the window for hitting those headshots gets really really tiny.
  18. It only works if the core mechanics are rock solid though. I kinda suspect that that isn't the case for the Division. I don't see it working well with a controller simply because of the wonkiness of the thumb stick for aiming. Really you should play to the strengths of either input devices. Even though some people may enjoy that, it's not something many would design a game around because it's so much harder to get right. So you add more time to the average encounter with the bullet sponge thing and small mistakes are more or less ignored. Ubisoft doesn't want players to rage quit because they aren't good enough. When I say that I haven't played a shooter with a controller of course that doesn't mean that I haven't tried and concluded that wow this is not the right tool for the job several times. As anyone with a choice would.
  19. So you are saying shooters on a controller with one shot kills is rewarding ? I wouldn't know, I have never played a shooter with a controller. So maybe I amend one shot kills to more or less instant kills, in other words not bullet sponge, which is what most good shooters do. I don't see a connection with RPGs, the term doesn't mean anything anymore. Of course a lot of them do that thing where they give you tiny stat increases after you have scored your 1000th kill. just to keep you playing. You know, grind unlocks that they call 'RPG elements'
  20. Plugging a little known (by the views at least) youtube channel for the WW2 nerds. This guy does heavy duty research before doing one of these videos, the theme being 'filthy detailed'. He is currently working on Stalingrad. He will likely be done with his reading in a couple of weeks. Can't wait.
  21. Every respectable competitive shooter has a one shot one kill headshot. The bulletsponge thing is related to the lack of a mouse for consoles I think. You gotta do something different because the quick target acquisition and execution is not rewarding on a controller, so, bulletsponge and coverbased/cover shifting it is.
  22. Yes, but what the hell is she doing at g20. I mean substitute her for one of Trump's idiot sons and it should become apparent.
  23. Girl power or wtf is she doing here. You decide. The look on Merkel's face is priceless.
  24. Yeah the old bait and switch. GOTY addition and yet somehow lots of DLC that aren't on sale.
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