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I fail to see how Stratfor is worth Anonymous' time. Seriously, don't they have bigger fish to fry? Stratfor is hardly a real-world Page Industries. And leaking credit card details of subscribers is just bad form.

That gives "gun porn" a whole new meaning...

You can roll your eyes until you get dizzy and fall flat on your ass, but my point was rather that the IP holder would want to shut down a project that may cut into their profits, and apparently that hasn't happened. Yet, anyway. And seriously, "hacking" your device? Jailbreaking the thing -and reversing the jailbreak- is something even grandma could do. Yeah, yeah. Apple will hate you and Jobs' ghost will haunt your dreams with endless, plumbeous tales of how he became a really cool dude. Whatever...

I actually like the idea of quests having a window of opportunity. It always bugged me that the sense of urgency of some quests was conveyed exclusively through dialogue but you could put off actually doing them forever. It's all about implementation, though... No, that's Zaeed's gig in ME3.

http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showtopic=22624&st=405 I'm kinda skeptical that an iOS port/remake is what this is about, considering you can already get that, for free. I've been known to be wrong, though.

http://www.huffingto..._n_1302821.html I thought Wals would have some interesting comments to make about that. Great job, Anonymous.

Chances are one mod or another b0rked the spell. Either the spell itself was modified and now points to a non-existent script or .cre file, or the character has the wrong version of the .spl assigned as an innate. With a bit of time you can probably fix it with Shadowkeeper and NearInfinity, but it's kinda tedious and Shapeshifter abilities were bugged in the vanilla game anyway. If a mod broke it, rule of thumb is, install another mod on top of it to fix it! http://www.spellholdstudios.net/refinements/#c30 D:

You're going to bad doggie land with a bunch of level 3 characters? With SCS on? Yeah, what could possibly go wrong? :D

So basically you're here because you have low blood pressure and need to raise it, I take it? At this point, I pretty much ignore mags. But there's a few posters here whose criteria I trust (perish the thought!) so I like reading about their experiences with games I might be interested in. I don't hate wasting money so much as wasting time. I'm crabby like that.

O_O 21st century trivialization doesn't respect even iconoclasm... Right, I had forgotten about that. They know us better than we know ourselves, huh?

Isn't DA2 proof that they, in fact, cannot? No. What a wonderfully articulate and well-thought out response. I am in awe. Whatever. I guess the negative reviews and especially the lower sales compared to its successful predecessor mean that the feedback from a Bioboards player sample that is as reduced as it is vocal actually made for a great game. And a pic of someone crapping on a ME3 box? Really? My bad. I'm going from what I've seen in preview pics. Do Liara et al actually have closed helmets? I've only seen breather masks.

Isn't DA2 proof that they, in fact, cannot? My personal pet peeve: I was hoping they would go back to full helmets/hardsuits for vacuum situations. No such luck apparently. Seemingly, explosive decompression is nothing compared to the threat of not looking gorgeous, always. My only serious turnoff so far is the bloatware. And the fact that my new rig won't arrive in time to play it on release day.

That soundtrack snip you posted does sound reminiscing of ME1. I didn't know the soundtrack in ME2 had drawn flak. I mean, not in a magnitude that could be discernible from the general background whining, anyway. Shame they are going back on that. As for minigames, meh. The hacking and stuff were ok and meshed well with mission gameplay, but the mining was a total chore. After the first playthrough, I just cheated in enough minerals to forget about the whole thing. Good thing too, I don't think I could have played through the game more than once otherwise.

Guess that means I can no longer pull the "refined tastes" card next time the dumbing down pissing contest comes around. Did they get a new composer or...?

I actually liked the soundtrack in ME2. Better than 1's, too. Is that bad?

I haven't actually read Shakespeare, so I wouldn't know. I have, however, tried getting into El Quijote. Several times, in fact. Found it unnecessarily dense and generally unenjoyable to read. Maybe the theme didn't really appeal to me or the narrative rythm was too slow. Whatever. I just didn't find it to be the timeless, universal masterpiece it's purported as. Thing is, I don't like Golden Age prose very much. I prefer drama better. El Burlador de Sevilla, for instance. Generally, I just like the Generaci

The concept hardly remains the same, which is why classical warfare is just a small part of the curricula in military colleges, pretty much how "History of Physics" may get you a credit or two if that's what you are studying. The concept of enlightening a people by means of "cultural assimilation" is not quite so simple, either. The Romans believed that was the way to go, and while it ostensibly worked, they failed to realize that Roman culture would be changed, in turn. At any rate, clearly "defense" needs have seen a radical shift since the fall of the Soviet Union and, judging from the results in Afghanistan, (Western) military doctrine is lagging way behind. What with the US -and by extension, the whole of NATO- always being prepared to fight the previous war and all. Or maybe they weren't quite so ready, because the example of how to fail at war in Afghanistan should have been pretty fresh in the minds of military planners. It's funny that NATO is finding exactly the same kind of problems the Soviets did, only it was the US that actually manufactured those problems, back in the day. Good thing they finally got Goldstein, at least.

Out of the unsupported pile of hogwash that is that post, this little gem left me scratching my head in bewilderment. What does gardening have to do with anything? Or did you just Googlepaste all that?

Right. Because "civilized" means exclusively sunshine and butterflies, huh? Armed forces are so 4th century BC.

That hasn't worked since Alexander's time. Wasn't it MacArthur who warned against land wars in Asia? Oh well, maybe he just was assuming that whenever you launch a war you do it with the intention of winning. Silly WWII-era geostrategists...

Overrated. There are better things to read in Spanish than El Quijote, even from Cervantes himself (the Novelas Ejemplares comes to mind). May be apocryphal, but I remember reading that even the author himself wasn't particularly impressed with it - he dreamed of having Lope de Vega's talent for poetry or something. And building up your vocab won't help much as the lexicon of the book is the 16th century's... not exactly the kind of talk you'd hear today's casual or even business conversation. Because of job demands, I have to speak English roughly half of the time, so I guess (hope!) that makes me at least proficient in the former. Used to have a semi-decent grasp of French but you know how it goes with fitness and lack of regular exercise. Tried learning Russian some time ago. It was fun, but hard. If I had to get back to learning a language, that would be it.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/01/07/adieu-...ns-sexist-term/ ^could they be any more ham-fisted about their PC enforcement? Maybe "crazy feminists" isn't looking at the whole picture, but that may well be the underlying issue. Every single self-professed feminist (and some that wouldn't man* up and admit it too) I've met was bat**** and just not too happy with their female self. The proposed neutering of gender roles that have been established by hundreds of thousands of years of evolution with little but slogans and inflammatory rhetoric is... crazy. *Oh I crack myself up

No. Intellectual "property" is completely different from traditional, physical property. Indefinitely and effortlessly replicating physical objects is not possible without divine intervention, so that's a fundamental difference which you -and the rest of the defenders of IP- have yet to incorporate into the notion assimilating both. There may be entitlement issues related to exploitation rights common to both, but "intellectual property" is a perversion, both semantic and intellectual, as the meaning behind the expression is that ideas can be owned. It is also not a very compelling argument that not treating IP the same as regular property will result in intellectual production being harmed, as evidenced by -heh- the amount of free content being produced since the advent of the Internets... as well as the ridiculous and ever-increasing profits of the entertainment industry. Sorry old boy, but this is just plain old greed no matter what light you paint it in. As for the WP blackdown itself, well. Funny how decentralized, (mostly) leaderless associations or movements can have an effect on the rules governing everyone, working outside of the established (read: cooked) channels. Sounds almost like *gasp* people taking an active interest in their own governance, on specific matters. God forbid!

Do you always herp when you derp? Is it? Other than controlling the oil flow, the NTC doesn't really have a grip on many of the "anti-Qaddafi" militias nominally under its control. Q's execution is a good example, I think, of how tenuous is their authority over fighters on the field. "He might have been resisting", claims a senior NTC official. His execution hadn't been ordered, the NTC assures us, but Q was executed anyway. Who's running what, again?

hint: I wasn't agreeing with you (I never do, because you're like a compass always pointing WRONG) Oh boy, still butthurt? Grow up. Or get some ointment.