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Catilina, you mean. "Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?"

Link?

YUM!

Endgame boss will be replaced with this guy.

If only they said something like that. Imagine going to a car retailer. - Hi, I may be interested in buying this car. - Oh, that's great, it's a good car. - Yeah, they don't make 'em like this anymore. Say, if I were to buy it today, when do you figure I could get it? - Oh, soon enough. - What? - *stares blankly* How long do these people think they can operate like this without going out of business? Are they taking business advice from Herve now?

Stop defending child rape!

I wouldn't recommend that. We tried a few years back, and it had the effect of massively encouraging further immigration. And now that the construction sector has collapsed, we have a huge surplus of unqualified workers draining on the unemployment compensation system. I know the situation isn't the same, but still. According to BLS, unemployment rate calculations work from unemployment insurance statistics, so I'd say they don't. Makes sense, too.

Yes. Almost as masterfully planned as it was badly handled by the then-incumbent govt. Cali may be the first failed state? Heh, I wonder what that means for us, if we look at the numbers. And we don't have a federal govt to go to.

Approx. since Bin Laden ousted our govt back in 2004. We'll be hitting 20% unemployment by the end of the year. Fun, fun.

There's been a ton of combat footage. In fact, we've been getting combat footage since the beginning of the year. I reviewed the whole 20 pages... no gameplay footage. I guess I should go elsewhere for my gaming news. Oh well, can't win 'em all.

"Taking an active part in the conservation and breeding"? More like, passive part, amirite?

I got a serious "Chronicles of Riddick" vibe from that trailer, which I liked. But for a game called "Dragon Age", I'm hoping we'll see dragons doing something other than just stand around while Riddick skewers them. Trailers are nice, but actual combat footage when?

Why would you want to play as a child?

Awesome. AARs are like "what are you playing now?" on steroids. Are you going to allow comments directly or will you create a thread here?

Yeah. This thread doesn't have nearly enough boobs. FAIL

Vanilla F3 repair = suckage. However, there are mods that deal with that quite well: they reduce the rate at which items degrade, which is pretty ridiculous in vanilla, and expand repair lists, so you can, for example, repair a Chinese AR with a regular AR. That takes care of the idiocy that is carrying around a hundred guns just for spares. FOOK2 takes it even further, they intended to implement a system that works with generic parts to fix or sell, which you get by stripping down not just typical items, but "wasteland garbage", as well. So, for example, out of a stripped camera you may salvage a lens for use in a laser rifle. That sort of items are also included in vendor lists, so you are much more likely to find a spare servo to fix your power armor, than a whole suit for sale. Don't know how far they got it, but it sounds pretty sweet.

If it's just a skin she wants, she can mod it in herself, I'm sure. :D

That's kind of the point. One of the most common complaints toward CRPGs is that, other than romance options, gender makes no difference, gameplay or storywise - it's just a skin. Forcing gender neutrality waters down the end product. By removing the gender variable, they are, hopefully, able to create a more involved and coherent world around the character. Great post, Grunker.

Rome Total War, atm. I didn't have much experience with non-Roman factions outside quick battles, so I gave Macedon a go. Wow, those phalanxes really are meat grinders. Macedonian light cavalry is pretty crazy too. Doing fine, even though pretty much every neighboring nation DOWed on me - I now understand why AI Macedon is usually the first to bite the dust. Not really a problem since the mainland Greek cities (and Rhodes!) are literally a money factory and this allows me to fund a huge navy to choke their economies. I wish the diplomatic aspect of the game had a bit more weight, however. In short, I'm having a blast. I'll probably try the Seleucids or Parthia for my next game. How is Medieval/Empire compared to Rome? And I still haven't touched BI. Hey man, how playable is HOI3 yet?

I'm not speaking for anyone here, but there's no difference between "indefinitely" and this silence. It's the same lack of seriousness on the publisher's part - even if the blame lays with the developer. What, after a multi-year long development cycle, could justify an "indefinite" delay? First Crucible, and now this. WTF?

♩"And another one bites the dust" ♫ Just keep posting man, people are reading.

My bad. If the plea bargain had been rejected by the judge, Polanski would just have withdrawn his guilty plea, though. Just whom is this comment aimed at?

Rape doesn't always leave that sort of evidence. I remember reading a study by a psychiatrist that spoke about the disconnection between the physiological sexual arousal "symptoms" and the psychological state of mind. It was suggested that a terrified woman may actually have her body react receptively towards a sexual aggressor, even if the victim is completely paralyzed by terror and not sexually enticed at all. That doesn't mean the woman isn't being raped. It was explained as a mechanism that developed to protect the woman's life in a time when rape was common, as active resistance could lead to more serious injuries or death.

Yes, he did admit to "IT". "IT", in this case, means sex with a minor, as per the terms of his guilty plea agreement with the prosecution. He did admit to "IT" because it meant he wouldn't be tried for RAPE. Or so goes the LAT article Gromnir linked to. Can you be sentenced for something you aren't charged with? Which one do you like better, pick one: a) the supremacy of the rule of law being upheld, or b) Polanski doing hard time no matter what. They needn't be one and the same.