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The answer to all 3 is the Illuminati, obviously. Just kidding. I use wikipedia of course.

Unless there was a celebrity involved, no. He's not talking about the US. Oh, he's talking about Europe? Yeah, the grass was much greener back in the 40's, and the decades that followed with the iron curtain up.

I don't get it, these games are always huge without the DLC additions. edit: They are also typically super buggy, which is why I won't get it day 1.

Unless there was a celebrity involved, no.

I went over that with my students yesterday. CNN did a pretty good coverage of the economics of these attacks as well.

I think it's also important to point out that none of this stuff is new. I keep hearing the term identity politics as if it is some new plague. It is not.

Playing more of a devil's advocate here, but why is it so hard to understand that when a minority voices ideas like 'kill whitey' it is less eyebrow raising because there isn't a lengthy history where minorities persecuted and killed white people? I mean, white people had a few centuries of being on top, when I hear white power I just think "you had your time, get over it."

No sense of decorum.

I ate ice cream in Phoenix once. I was driving through, and it was 108 degrees outside. The guy at the counter miserably told me I was lucky I did not live there.

You need to rectify that young grasshopper Why? Haven't you realized that the Hoonding trademark is to be unimpressed by everything? Oh, and to only write one line zingers.

Actually, sounds like the concensus is that Affleck's Batman is the best thing about this movie. Kind of sad for the guy if this just tanks. He always got too much credit for Daredevil being terrible, and now he could be front and center as the DC movies go into a tailspin.

It's like they keep trying to push the emo goth dark envelope with these films. Makes me miss Val Kilmer as Batman. I think Deadpool has ruined all superhero flicks from here on out.

You are dead to me.

If we learn anything from Cuba, it should be that cutting off contact and imposing economic sanctions does very little to sway an opposing government. The isolation and lack of progress for the last 25 years (fall of USSR) really only hurts the common people. If we learn anything from China, it's that the power of Capitalism and the almighty dollar is a great way to convince a government to allow a private sector to develop. China's middle class is growing, and with it is the pressure on the government to step back further.

I agree with you on that completely, but that is hardly how most people are approaching this.

I spend a lot of time modeling clothes in The Division and letting my 8-year old daughter choose the best look. She has a good eye for post-apocalyptic fashion.

It may appear like that but this is a very complicated situation and we need to consider the views of countries directly impacted by the arrival of thousands of refugees the thing is though that, like in the Paris attacks, the perpetrators may prove to be locals and not jihadists that came in among the refugees. Uh, one of the shooters at the Bataclan theatre was registered as a refugee in august 2015. Yeah, one. The vast majority of these attackers do not need to wait in line with the refugees. They have the resources to get around that.

Yeah I mean it should be easy for an incredibly large, ethnically and culturally diverse population, to unite against extremism.

This is a pretty clear objective. Terrorists aren't on the side of Muslim immigrants.

I could handle Spanish pretty easily, and I can count to 9 in Japanese thanks to a weird childhood mnemonic device. But my exposure to French is pretty much limited to croissants.

Yeah, I'm not going to learn french just so I can get the joke.

Huh, I gotta say the story and atmosphere is the reason I'm playing Division, not the loot. Investigating echoes, moving through contamination zones, helping out people in need, saving the green guys from the hoodie guys, listening to cell phones...etc. I feel like I'm playing a different game, I guess. I actually feel bad gunning down the thugs though. The flamethrower guys, now those I feel good about. Particularly when I hit their tanks and they explode. Of course, I watched the little Amazon Prime movie ahead of time, and those guys are pretty big jerks.

There is more than enough content to justify the price at this point. It is fine to wait and buy it, but it's a bit of a catch-22 because if everyone did that then the game would be DOA and there wouldn't be any new content worth picking it up later for. Also it is pretty fun to be at the ground floor with everyone else. Everyone is kind of figuring out the game together, it's easy to find groups for low level stuff, etc.

My motto when it comes to grinding out levels is Don't Do It! This is an MMO at its core. You can grind and be done with it in a month, reach an end game that really isn't fully complete, and be done with it. Or you can take your time and enjoy the ride to the top. It always takes about a year for these games to really develop a solid end game.

I'd guess Obsidian has three projects in various stages of development. That seems to be what they are comfortable with based on their history.