Gorgon

Specifics are nice. Lets have some.

I assume by hogwash you mean some sort of fantastic aromatherapeutic, citrus and cinnamon concoction for bathing magic pigs. Even with the USA fighting for Vietnam the communists went on to topple Laos and Cambodia. If Vietnam had been uncontested give me a couple of reasons why Thailand, Burma, and Malaysia would have survived? When you can think of reasons why the rest of Southeast Asia would have survived, can you then explain why Northeast india - a place still suffering a communist insurgency - would have been OK. I sure as hell can't, so I'll be very impressed if you can. Firstly, Vietnam is a tremendous success story for the communist takeover, Ho Chi Minh is second in fame only to Che Guevara, who also happens to be the most well known individual in the world according to several surveys. The greatest military in the world sent home beaten, people demonstrating in the street all over the west for the rigth of the Vietnamese to take his fate into his own hands. Were a second communist insurgency to follow the withdrawal from Vietnam, the US would have been completely powerless to stop it. Where exactly is the deterrant here ? Secondly, the way to lessen the chance of two superpowers figthing a war too terrible to imagine is to fight less satelite wars, not more.

I thought it was alright. The flashbacks ruined the continuety a bit for me and I found it more annoying than intriguing, and of course there is the feature of any TV show to go on so long; the more you watch the less sense the plot makes.

I thought Deus Ex 2 was awful, mostly engine and gameplay trouble though. Hopefully an experienced studio can do a lot better.

We are to assume that without Vietnam a giant domino effect would have ensued and half the countries in Asia would have spawned communist style rebellions, untill the west would be forced to act. You know 'World Communism' Utter hogwash

Prior to the end of WW2 the US was phobic about not involving ourselves in European affairs (I am sure I am not the only one who wishes that were still true).\ Seems to me history is doomed to repeat itself. Or rather, people forget the levels of sacrifice demanded by war. The Vietnam syndrome ran out, now theres a brand new Iraq syndrome, that should at the very least make decisionmakers think a little harder. I hope it lasts.

I think you were on to something earlier Walsh, England has somehow managed to retain the expectations of a word cup winner for decades on end, despite very meagre international championship results, every single time everyone was convinced that now surely is the time. National teams are not the big clubs, they can afford the long perspective. No need to sack a coach for missing a qualifier if doing so negates any chance of his long term plans paying off. The England team demands success and keeps starting over from scratch.

I never understood the fuss about Halo, I thought the basic design was pretty well, underwhelming.

I bought the new installment of Ghost Recon on the strength of their past games, god that was awful. I have no cause to think anything other than that they will slaughter Rainbow six as well. The ONLY strength of those games was the close adherence to realism and tactical combat, one hit and you're dead. Now it's your basic run of the mill console stupid pretty blonde of a game.

I would get a bloody mac, except they cost too much, and I don't give a damn in my computer looks pretty or not.

Meh, why is it always a choice between two versions of windows. Unreal tournament came out for Linux as well, if more big publishers did that we could spend our time trying to get drivers to work and the thing to install propperly rather than complain about windows, best of all it wouldn't cost anything.

Google knows the innermost workings of your mind. There is no escape.

The point is that depressives are self destructive, not hyper violent.

Thats not much better in MoTB, there are so many spells at those levels that the bottom bar is useless, it's annoying to hav e to flip through 4 or 5 bars as well, so you are pretty much stuck with the quickcast, which is fine once you get used to having yet another bar cluttering up the HUD.

David Berkowitz killed people because his dog told him to do it. Depression doesen't usually equate with violence, now I don't have any qualifications to use these terms correctly, but why do you think people would plan a mass murder - sucicide, unless it's because their perception of whats going on around them is entirely out of whack.

Psychosis is treatable, we don\t know that these boys were inherrently evil. Or maybe that wasen\t what you meant.

Exactly, they could only get their hands on crossbows and air guns. This is a GOOD THING.

I'm so depressed, we usually always qualify. Now were just as bushleague as our country's size would suggest.

NWN oc is pretty terrible imho, still I played all the addons so it must have done something right.

NWN1 Has a zoom lock, you can only go so far in, and many of the areas are simply much larger meaning less of the scitzoid cam when it gets cramped, e.i. focusing on a left middle toe in combat.

Well they're all actually playing football, if Americans want to call it soccer because they are already using the word for something else, thats their buisiness.

So this guy pretended to be a boy just to see if this disturbed kid would say bad things about his daugther. There is such a thing as getting too involved.

Is Atari the ones making unreal 3, or whatever theyre calling it. If not, I don\t particularly care.

Doesen\t matter what caliber the gun is, unless it shoots bee bees, dead is dead.

The UFO phenomina is a misnomer. Of course there are things you see in the sky that you can't immediately explain, why would'nt there be. As for whether aliens have been scouting human society since the 50s, or a pervailing urban myth has simply taken on a life of it's own, I lean toward the latter.