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I'd pick Spain personally and head down to Andalusia to see the Moorish forts and the old Islamic Europe. Some of the mosques and forts down there are very beautiful - with clear Spanish/Roman and Islamic inspiration.

Unless they want China to take over the interwebs?

Then head to the Mediterranean as your last stops - because England and northern Europe is very cold (I would imagine double so for an Australian) from november-feb. August through Oktoberfest is beautiful in Germany and England - but it usually starts raining a lot during the transition to winter.

Use the Martins Mutant Mod? - it can nuke spawning in certain zones and make merchants tough enough to look after themselves. Everything is optional as well.

It's Two Worlds 2.

The Force Unleashed II

YES! finally they are getting rid of that horrible 3D world and going back to the EU2 way.. thank you Paradox, now I can finally look forward to actually enjoying your game!

I'm gonna have to disagree with you there - I think the Mass Effect series looks a lot better than Fallout games.. Especially in concern to characters.

I want to start with an apology - this is really bad humour, I just couldn't stop laughing for some reason. Shepard interrupts a court hearing. mostly because it reminded me of this rather disturbing .

so sheeps then? Also I'm playing through Caesar 3 and Pharaoh at the moment - I don't know why, but city planning makes me less stressed.

^ hmm, that picture made me wonder if you can apply a kind of guided evolution, when looking at the development of car design. As different companies all choose the same "final" configuration - or it could mean that car companies are effectively sheep..

True, but because the game was so great you really were left with a "what? this is it!?" feeling (even though it was a long game) - which is why I think it both sucked and was amazing (more great than bad though).

But trains are in themselves a much better way to get in contact with other travellers - and the Interrail tickets simply gives a set number of days to travel, rather than fixed destinations. So it is vastly more flexible (as you can stay for as long as you like in one destination) and will be cheaper, unless the whole trip is planned with fixed travel days. If the latter is the case, then flying is a lot cheaper.

For me Freespace 2 is kind of an contestant for both titles.. It was awesome because of the stress (emotional or self preserving) at the end and it sucked because it just kinda stopped in medias res, giving you no explanation or reason.

It's as hopeless as trying to see everything Australia has to offer in a month as well, I guess but it's better than 2 weeks - a month means you get time to acclimatize and get to see the interesting parts.. But I really recommend steering away from the obvious tourist traps/famous city parts - because then you won't experience Europe at all, you'll just see the presented face of a commercial sales pitch. Paris is a lot more than "The City of Love" and Rome is infinitely more than layers of ruins and caf

I agree completely - Washington D.C felt more like a kinda cameo or "wouldn't that be cool" rather than a well thought out setting. There were no farms, no self-sustaining towns or signs of even nomadic industry and it's unbelievable that a society can exist solely on scavenging for 200+ years. While in NV you have sharecrops, farms, hunters, livestock and import - it felt like Obz thought about and at least tried to justify the existence of a growing community. This made the Mojave setting a lot more enjoyable to me - and I find Las Vegas and the Hoover Dam as recognisable as the Washington monument or Parliament.

Very. Trains are cheap and so are airplanes (if you book them ahead of time). Check out Ryan air for flights out of UK or Norwegian if you are thinking about Scandinavia.

I don't distrust them per say - but they are a huge county which is facing some rather serious internal problems - the Naxalbari "civil war" is especially worrisome. But my concerns come from travelling in India and speaking to people in the country, from Goa, to Kanakumari, Delphi and Calcutta. They view the world in such a distinct and different manner - it's not worse or better than the west, it's just different.. What I meant with "not India over China" is that I don't think India is stable enough to have true global power yet. When they are however, they are more than worthy to take on the mantle of "world police". True.. I just look at China and see an extremely ambitious, powerful and growing nation - much like Europe in the 15th century and America in the 19th. As a nation transcends from regional power to world superpower some strange things happen in the mentality of the population, I worry what will happen in China. History shows that it isn't enlightenment and nobility that gets front seats. The short version - too little.. Italy for instance is giving tax cuts (or money incentives, I can't remember) to parents - but at the same time a lot of people fresh out of their education, have to work a year for free. That coupled with an apparent cultural focus on youth and beauty means that a great many of Italy's young men and women are focusing on their careers instead of making families. In Germany there seems to be a trend of women becoming either housewives or full time workers. This is perhaps because child care is too expensive or unavailable. Effectively though it means that a lot of money is wasted on education (as highly educated women stay home) and a lot of babies aren't born when some women understandably chose to wait too long. Also, from what I'm told, German men aren't that supportive either, in the sense that they let the women handle the babysitting - but I don't know if that's true. In Scandinavia we have childcare and some very thorough Maternity leave laws - ensuring the mother and father can have a maximum of 114 weeks (+4 in case of illness) off with pay - although that's extremely rare, it's usually 3 months for the dad and 6 months for the mom. Then the government also pays up to 30.000 kr (6.000$) in what we call a "child cheque", on average it's about 1200$ per child, per month. You get extra pay, extra vacation, extra extra when you get kids here - and we still experience a decline in birthrates.. so the problem is complex and apparently throwing money at it doesn't help. I wish, the problem was there even at height of the economic boom. Now it's just worse. The problems has partially arisen from the fact that a lot of immigrants in the early 70-80's actually did come here for the free cheque, which they could send home. This kindled a growing distrust towards immigrants who "only came here for the money", which further escalated the problem as serious immigrants began drawing to Canada, Australia and America instead .. probably because they actually appreciated them.

top 10 Favorite games (seems some of the games are recurring - it would be interesting to see which one "wins") 1. Freespace 2 2. Shogun Total War 3. Longest Journey 4. Baldur's Gate Series 5. Medieval Total War 6. Left 4 Dead 7. Mask of The Betrayer 8. Knight of The Old Republic 2 9, Alpha Centauri 10. Civ 2 Also, just remembered this old jewel. Anyone ever played that? from 1989 on the Amiga

True, but China, India and Brazil are the only ones I think are going to make a big difference (as it seems right now). But I would not prefer India as a superpower over China - Brazil would be interesting though. Russia also seems to be heading into some kind of authoritarian dictatorship.. that might be good for business though? I do, but we are facing some rather serious problems it seems.. The European economy is very interlocked and as Germany and France experiences problems then it hurts all the surrounding countries and economies - which then affects Germany and France again.. that, coupled with the ageing problem, could pose a serious threat to the general flexibility of our economic systems. It's true that the birth rates might re bounce and that the Eastern countries have a lot of growth potential - but my worry is not that we will cease to exist, but rather that our way of life is simply unsustainable in the long run. It seems that the major focus on freedom and liberty is causing people to be increasingly selfish and short-sighted. For us? I don't it ever will and we can't imagine a life without freedom - but the average Chinese and Indian doesn't think like us.

Are you some kind of Australian recruiting bot? Congrats though, good to see that some countries are faring well in this financial weather.

As Europe is experiencing all time low birth rates[1], a financial crisis resulting in major government spending cuts[2], an increasingly older population approaching pension age [3] and growing xenophobia [4], which is scaring away qualified immigrants. One has to wonder what will happen to Europe in the next decades and centuries? (In essence this is a western problems as the US is also experiencing some of these problems.) At the same time China is growing, educating and out developing us all, year by year.. An article here in Denmark followed high school teachers and leaders as they travelled to China to experience the difference - they were shocked, to say the least. The Chinese students were not robots, but intelligent, extremely devoted and ambitious beyond what most of us could ever dream of. 1 teacher were instruction 1200 students, no-one had cell-phones or other distraction. They are churning out nearly 500.000 engineers every year. While we can't even seem to agree on how to adress the climate, the Chinese are building entire green cities. Of course this is not out of a sense of altruism, Chinas project is China.. but it still raises questions on adaptability and how societies address and confront problems. Are we, our sense of liberty and democracy, becoming obsolete? 1. birth rates world wide 2. Widespread spending cuts 3. European age crisis 4. France deports Roma gypsies, Danish immigrant laws criticised as inhumane.

Stop! - hammertime! Are they doing some kind of Tai Chi breakdancing?

Yeah I kinda thought so too..

I was laughing a little to myself at this point because I had actually almost done everything she asked me to do beforehand (I had gone to the Khans and dealt with that, I had done the Boomer quests etc).