Rosbjerg

Well I mean it's not different from the current development model:

Yeah I got Borderlands 2, Mass Effect 1+2 (so I don't have to install from discs heh), Rome II and 3 indie games that came with Prison Architect. And now I'm broke..

There was this rather lengthy discussion somewhere on how even the most unskilled Jedi could block most telekinetic attacks, unless severly distracted and that - on average - a jedi is mostly fighting people with blasters, which takes a lot of skill and power to block without a light saber. + tradition and symbolic/recognition value I guess. They are sorta like the Janissary of that setting.

The worst part is that during the time it was effective it led to no significant change in profit on the games that used it. It'd say that's the best part - perhaps it'll show investors that it's a waste of money to insist on using DRMs and hopefully GOG and CDProject can show that pouring the money into quality will increase sales instead.

Watching a documentary to wind down ... Noticed that Bill Nye is kinda my stereotypical idea of what an historical American looks like. Oblong face, with sharp features and a stroke of grey... 'Lincony' ..

The Carrot Clarinet! (go to around 2:10 to skip the introduction and 4:12 for the music)

Started Mass Effect, think I'm gonna go through the series, whenever I have a little spare time.

I think Communal would be a better word to use than Communist, since non of the question were really commie in nature.

Yet that is exactly what is happening, the end users so to speak are being blamed for the failings of the system. A good analogy.

I've often found that people who accuse those not like them of being "lazy" are exactly that themselves and would prefer to do nothing, if they had the opportunity. I'm lazy too, I'm happy to admit - but that's not to say that everyone who fails is. Spend time with the people you criticize and you'll see they work hard for the things that matter to them. It's just that it might not be the things that matter to you... And you general critique is still a monetary and industrial perspective - where an items 'value' is a function of the time and resources invested in it. With widespread renewable energy, it would be effectively free - with widespread and advanced 3D printing and robotics, the production costs would be effectively free.. with advanced computers, you don't even need human designers.. So what value would materiel things have then? What job could you hold that wouldn't be done better by machines in the next 100 years? This model is making itself obsolete, capitalism is simply too effective at minimizing costs (that's a good thing). In a future capitalist society, no one can have a job, because humans are terribly inefficient and expensive. At the same time we are creating (or rather maintaining) an ideology of mindless consumption and waste, Black Friday being a scary manifestation of this - where people buy and consume products that are completely useless to them, simply because the dominant ideology compels them to (thank you Edward Bernays). For a good critical critique of what I believe this ideology to be, see Sophie Fiennes 2012, "A Perverts Guide to Ideology". Wherein Slavoj Zizek goes through the tropes, memes and symbolism of popular American cinema, to expose the underlying ideology of western consumerist society. A very interesting point, which I agree with - and I would argue that money and bureaucracy will always go hand in hand - for someone must control and maintain the wealth distribution. And all monetary system are in essence, system of wealth distribution. So I ask; perhaps it's time we did something else?

The problem you are pointing to aren't a result of socialism, it's monetary and cultural. We have more than enough resources, it's simply distribution that have needed, until now, to be tightly controlled... and it worked really well, we brought an entire group of people from abject poverty to excess. Capitalism truly revolutionized distribution of wealth and socialism with capitalism has worked really well up here in the north - some would say better than most other system (if Fukuyama is to be believed). But the system is starting to show it's weaknesses in a modern economy evolving away from production and industry. Extreme waste, the fact that irresponsibility is more often more profitable, growing disparity due to ingrown corruption etc. We need to come up with a new system - not socialist - which essentially still operates under industrial assumptions and not capitalistic. Not your kind of freedom at least, but then I don't really believe one would be truly free under your kind of system.

Thor Vs Zeus in Epic Rap Battles of History Favorite burn to horn-dog Zeus.. "I'd spit in your face.. but you'd probably like it"

You are a: Left-Leaning Pro-Government Multilateralist Cosmopolitan Libertine Collectivism score: 33% Authoritarianism score: 33% Internationalism score: 67% Tribalism score: -33% Liberalism score: 100% No suprise there... Except anti capitalist

Walsh, it is possible to do other things than sitting in your underwear playing Empire TW and drinking fine scotch..

Judging by your tone there and here, I'd advice you to generally take a day or so to respond to what you percieve as threats and aggression. Then imagine the most positive way the person could've possible meant what he/she wrote and respond, assuming that was the intention.

An antagonistic approach to discussions will generally generate an antagonistic response... to get your point across - maybe drop the stereotyping? I see the exact same stereotyping towards Poles, I'm sure you would disagree. If you feel this is "turning things upside down" then you're not really getting this discussion, sorry to say. Everyone agrees that the criminal got caught and that the rioters are criminals. We're discussing why it's happening and what the implications of that is.. You might remember Bloom's Taxonomy from school - we've gone from comprehension and recollection of events, to analysis and evaluation.

It's never justified unless against an actual unjust society. Riots are mostly about pent up emotion and never really about the spark itself. The group behavior during the riots then tells us what emotions are being expressed. And in this case, it really should be a wake up call to the western world, that our minorities and poor are feeling disenfranchised and frustrated... and unless we address it, however true or untrue, and help alleviate it - then these outbursts are only gonna escalate, providing foundations for further "us vs them" thinking on both sides of the fence, until you actually have injustice. I've worked with kids like this and they don't feel like a part of society at all and can't really envision themselves in it, causing a great deal of emotional stress and anger for being 'excluded'.. Does that justify this? of course not, but if we blame them and them solely, then we are completely missing the causality that lead us here.

Explore the universe .. Everything we don't currently know (so basically 99,9999999%) is procedurally generated. oh and it's free.

Yeah although it's the majority of missions you can play in coop, all the story missions are sp.

Far Cry 4.. Ubisoft really got this series right from 2 and on (sorry to the fans of the first, but I always hated the weird mutant thing) - they've kept the concept simple, while at the same time poking fun of themselves and the game in good measure. Mixed with just enough serious to make you slightly uncomfortable if you actually start thinking about it, as you explore and essentially enjoy yourself on the misery of 3rd world countries - killing endangered animals for fun. Now that's how you do implicit social commentary... Take a lesson Spec Ops and Hollywood.

I felt most of them were somewhat of a miss, but a selected few were spot on.. "I wasn't askin' I was tellin... you f****g c***" .. imo it would've been better, if a bit shorter.

Maybe you two should get a room?

I'm making very unmanly sounds here LC.. Those are a little too cute.. Might need to scale it back a bit

Go on...

A friend described it as Dragon Age + Witcher 2 + Assassins Creed 2 + an MMO = DA:I.. in essence trying to appeal to too many. Independently they've done all the elements well, but the mix is not as great as they hope. (Something I feel is true for all too many AAA titles these days.) Is that the consensus?