Child of Flame

It's amazing how facts vary depending on which country you're from. Since I'm from Sweden and Sweden is neutral, I always assume that the news that reach us are somewhat unbiased. And let me tell you, they're entirely different from the way you seem to view the world. The actual second world war was fought on the east front, but numerous movies, documentaries, pure propaganda films have depicted the entire war as being dependant on the US. This was not the case. As you stated yourself, a lot of russian soldiers perished in the war, but a lot of germans were also killed. The elite troops and the newest equipment were spent on the russian front. The soldiers who were entrenched on the western front were often young end unexperienced, mostly because the germans weren't expecting any big offensives from that direction, at least not until late into the war. You claim the US hands out a lot of money to countries around the world. I don't know much about that, but I do know that the US trained the talibans in Afghanistan (with American funds and weapons) to stop the russian invasion. The Iran/Iraq conflict was made possible with American weapons. The Israel/Palestine conflict was started by American interests. How about Latin America? (I hope you can "read between the lines" in this document.) Did you know Fidel Castro has survived 25-30 assassination attempts, all by the US? Have you heard of President Allende? Do you think the US protects democracy? Read this or this and see if it might change your mind a little. (I know it won't, but still.. It's difficult to change something you've been indoctrined with your entire life). Do the US, being a huge country with a war machine that cost billions of dollars, have the right to invade any country they want for whichever reason they want? Do you believe in weapons of mass destruction? I bet you do, but the swedish UN Secretary (and weapons inspector) spent several months in cooperation with the Iraqi government and he filed a report (prior to the war) that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. President Bush called Hans Blix a liar (not in those words) and decided to attack Iraq anyhow. Did you know that Iraq has been under a trade blockade since 1991? I saw Fox News declaring american soldiers as heroes and supermen as they used their high tech weapons to murder Iraqi soldiers. The truth is the Iraqi people don't have medicine, new technology or any sort of military power. Cuba has been under a similar blockade since forever (1950?). If you still believe Bush's words (which I am sure you do) about America being "the lighthouse of democracy in the world", I suggest you take the time to read this site. It's a great source of facts about democratic incidents around the world. If you think envy is the cause of the widespread US resentment around the world, then this is a good page to read. It is quite fascinating for me to read the choice of words you use when describing the US involvement in several conflicts. "bailed them out".. I hope you someday will realize how much unnecessary violence the US uses for "bailing" us smaller nations out. Most of these conflicts could probably have been solved diplomatically, although that is only speculation since it's already history. You know he does have a point. Not ALL Americans believe all the stuff we're spoonfed by the gov'ment. For instance, I'm constantly demeaning the gov'ment pointing out most of the things you've depicted in your short little article there....to the detriment of my dad, who is extremely pro Bush, and would never believe that the gov'ment would do anything to harm anyone. ON WITH THE REVALUCION!!! ;) Though even my dad does admit that Bush has been planning his invasion of Iraq since before he was elected so he'd be able to show up his daddy. Has anyone else heard of the recent captured civvies in Arabia by the 'terrorists' saying they're going to treat them the same as we recently treated our civilian 'prisoners of war'. I could've predicted that. I'm becoming more and more of the opinion that these 'terrorists' are much like we were when we rebelled against the British Empire.

That's 'manner' Chemix. And YOU'RE doing the storyline?!! Sheesh.

How'd you know about my book? "Crackpots and Their Mashed Potato Sculptures" Seriously though, I eat up conspiracy theories, but even this one's a little far fetched for me to swallow.

Man, that's just wrong. I think we need to make the distinction here between a 'lightsaber' whip, and an energy whip. I could se a metallic whip encased in an energy field like the bowcaster bolts, that could be cool, though I wouldn't like it to cut though stuff...that would eliminate any cracking if it just perforated most materials....and what fun is a whip when you can't crack it? But yeah, I could fancy disarming a mighty Jedi simply by yanking thier saber right of their hands why my fancy modern day bullwhip. B)

d00d! You live in Northern Cali?!! So do I!!! That is lik s0 kewl!11!!!!1! As for this topic....I didn't know any PnP gamers still existed. I've always wanted to give it a try...but even what little group of friends I have are not that 'geeky'.

Blame Mr. Freedom Fries up in the presidential suite. He don't like them frogs and nazis. <_< Funny how he forgets that this pathetic country wouldn't even exist if the French hadn't bailed our asses out of the fire during the Revolutionary war.

You do a good job of coming off that way though.

What's annoying about them Black Widders though, is that they're almost impossible to kill on your own, other than smashing them with your shoe. Spray them with Raid, or set off a bug bomb, and they just close off their ventricles, go into a catatonic state, curled up playing dead....then crawl off once the poison's dississipated. :ph34r:

Damn Billy Gates paying off Devs. :angry: Anywho, needless to say, I'd rather see them take the route Ubisoft has taken on their last holiday round up of games (XIII, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time), and release it a couple months later than the originally projected release date, playable out of the box, no patching required, so those of us who are still slaves to dialup don't have to get our game, then wait a few hours of a gigantic patch to download...as the seem to get bigger and bigger every time.

It's already been confirmed by one of the devs or other that you're going to be able to add as many items as you want in one go this time around....to lazy to dig up the exact quote though.

WAT R U TALKING ABOUT?!! THE LAKERS PWNZ J00!!!11!!1! JT=Kings Fan

Chiggers=fleas? Damn southerners. Unfortunately, we have all kinds of poisonous spideys 'round here. Yellow Recluses, Black Widders, Wolf Spiders (Big ass tarantula looking things). Gotta love the Sierra Nevada mountains. Still, wouldn't trade them for the city by a longshot. <EDIT> We also got's ticks of every variety, especially the little red deer ticks that carry lyme disease. <_<

Well tie me down and call me kinky. All the games I'd been interested made by Euro teams have been released at the same time. *cough*Ubisoft*cough*

No Jedi Pimp?

I don't understand how "whining" by posters on an Obsidian message board is delaying the release of something you guys are working on. You don't HAVE to be on here while working on this mod. The problem is you guys are promising SO much, and have shown so little. And another problem is you are each saying different things about how far along you are. You want to be appreciated for, what all we know, amounts to nothing? That's not how it works. What kind of backlash do you think Obsidian would get if they came on here every day saying "damn you people, respect our work. praise us. stop telling us that such and such feature will suck", even though the game isn't ready yet? Here here! <applauds> Tell it to him brotha! Preach the good word! <remembers he's on the team in question.....crawls back into his hole>

I was just sitting here thinking about what a bummer it would be if the majority of PC RPGs over the next couple of years DID in fact come from Europe, and us Yankees would have to wait longer for our games because of it....but then I realized that the games that already come out of Europe (Ubisoft's lineup comes to mind.) are released at the same time here and in Europe....so us having to wait longer for our gaming titles is only wishful thinking on the part of our European friends. The only reason the launch dates are delayed for so long in Europe is because of the several different languages all the games have to support....which is really no problem since English is one of those languages.

Is it possible we can see a pimpin Energy Flechette weapon like the one used by the Preds in the AvP 2 Expansion pack? That weapon was fcuking awesome!!!

I still don't understand why Darth Vader having spent all those credits on that uber badass armor didn't have it laced with Cortosis. Oh, wait...that was because Cortosis didn't exist until AFTER the OT. Damned discontinuity. <_<

I have a colony of some type of spider or other living in my room...they're constantly running across my desk late at night.....I'm too lazy to clean my room and find the source of them though... ^_^

It's all about neutral (true) good.

Fo' real. In the movies a thermal detonator was treated like a pocket nuke...in KotOR it's just a sparkler. I mean, the fire grenades Bendak Starkiller uses hurt you more.

<SIGH> Bioweenies. <_<

No, it was becuase the first game was made by the Bioweenies, for the **** fans. I pray to all the powers that may be that the former Black Islanders can get it right this time around. <_<

Ooh, yes, it can be like the overlooked Monster Garage game. Tighten some bolts here, cut some siding there, add a new power source there. Wait, now I remember why the only people who bought that name were named 'Zeke', 'Jedediah', or 'Billy-Bob' and lived in or near the Mississippi Basin...IT SUCKED!

Ugh, those are so bad. I heard they've finally been deleted, though. Thank god. Anyway, a very unpleasant surprise was noticing that my bones were sticking out of my arm when I stood up, after I'd fallen of my bike in a tunnel. And an unpleasant surprise was the rusty nail that I stood on that went right through my foot. And EnderWiggen, Rotten.com is not worse than Goatse.cx or Tubgirl. I don't know about the other one's, because I haven't seen them, but Rotten isn't one of them. Not in my opinion, anyway. Maybe I just prefer roadkill humans that were struck by lightning over a girl in a bathtub with a tube sticking out of her arse while whatever's coming out of it is landing in her open-mouthed face. Nah, they're still there, and the Goatse guy got a new site. www.goatse.de IIRC. Ogrish is another fun one. Anyone else here an Albino Black Sheep forum member? The people over there seem to have a sort of morbid fascination with all the sites listed. I've always said that the banner at the top should say "ABS forums, bringing degenerates together since '98." Oh, and Ender, I've seen consumptionjunction.com, that's where alot of the tubgirl pictures are hosted huh? <_< If only my parents knew the sh!t I see online, my computer would be in coldstorage indefinitely.