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Do tell, who is the real power-structure in the US? Special interest groups. Lobbies. The military-industrial complex. Banks. Peopel with lots of $$$ run the US in all but name. Presidents change, but they are all their b***es. What a revelation! People with lots of money run lots of things! You just listed a ton of different groups that all have different priorities, which basically supports an idea of a balanced power structure in the US.

The thing is you cannot selectively justify the encroachment on civil liberties. For all I know, Uganda is a tyranny in the same sense Germany is one, even if functionally they are not the same. You do need to pick your battles though, you can find civil rights issues everywhere. Nobody is saying that it is fine in one country but not another, it's simply a matter of time, resources, and prioritizing.

I know perfectly well why Uganda and Russia are being targeted now, I was pointing out that other places with worse, long standing laws, aren't. They're Low Hanging Fruit in terms of being something that is easy to get outraged about because it has zero practical impact on their life beyond the visceral thrill of moral outrage. The people calling for sanctions and boycotts over those two countries- and I can pull up recent threads on Russia very easily to prove the point- are going for an easy target because going after the hard and worse targets is, well, hard. Doing without vodka is a far, far different beast from doing without the oil you'd be missing if you went after the hard, worse, targets. I completely disagree. Arizona has been all over the news because they had passed discriminatory legislation. California was all over the news with Prop 8. It isn't about low hanging fruit, it's about responding to legislation. Russia got pressure because of laws passed recently, Uganda is getting the same.

what? Seconded. what?

Cook meth? ...Wait, are you a chemistry teacher, or...? I wish. I've been wracking my brain about how I can take my knowledge of history and use it to be the best at an illegal trade, but I've come up with nothing so far. The closest would be running for office, but I'm not sure I could stomach that. I do have a nice RV though.

Using a word like purge is typically the clue that a post is in jest. You don't always need to rely on smilies.

You know you miss the garlic.

I'm bummed that they didn't manage to do what they did with Deus Ex. But I wasn't that attached to the Thief series either.

Oh that is just the 10% deposit that will get me a cheap single family home. I might be able to qualify at 5%, or I might be able to find a decent foreclosure in the $300,000 range. But $40,000 is probably a pretty good guess at what I need.

I was very unimpressed by the videos I watched of ESO, but I actually thought it played better than it looked. That being said, it is still very much an Elder Scrolls game. I've never been that impressed by the combat animations.

I need to come up with a plan to raise $40,000 so I can buy a house, I'm tired of renting.

Bleh, it's still in SoCal.

Yeah, they are having an 'invite a friend' weekend, so I have an extra key as well. Anybody who wants to test it out, now is the time.

He said $6. I assume he was referring to the first game.

I don't speak much on how things work in Russia because I would be speaking from a place of ignorance. But I suppose everyone needs a hobby.

Are you being serious? There is an entire news channel devoted to criticizing the President. You can definitely question the quality of the reporting in the US, but it is pretty clear they are free to report on everything. Go read some articles about the NSA if you don't believe that. They've gotten a ton of negative press in the last year. This is a top secret government agency and it has been crucified by reporters.

It's really ridiculous how uneven to two conferences are right now.

I have a GTX460M on my laptop and I've been very happy with the performance. It also has drivers available, in fact Battlefield 4 made me update recently and the game ran perfect with them.

The game isn't out yet, and you are just forming your opinion off videos? Hah! I could see you getting upset about deleting your criticism if you were a paying customer, but seriously they have no reason to leave your rubbish on their forums. edit: That reddit thread did not go well for you.

Seriously, Risen was stronger because it was a smaller gameworld.

I think Dru is saying that it's a small group that believes Morrowind was the last good game by Bethesda. Morrowind was very popular, but so was Oblivion and Skyrim.

At first I thought KP had some serious issues with fishermen, but then I read more closely.

Trashman is super late to this party.

I'd say Oblivion is the worst Bethesda game, although Arena was a buggy mess and barely a full game. I'm less worried about them after Fallout 3 and Skyrim, because it is clear that they attempted to address many of their shortcomings.

The best RPG I ever played was MLB The Show.