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Meh. So far, this thread is only mildly pungent. I've seen you do far better, "lord". By the way, don't you think that your handle is a bit incoherent with your persona? After all, "lord" implies either religious overtones or reminiscences of the class struggle and inequalities born from blood-right. How about Asmodai? Or Beelzebub? Anyhow, if you can do this, you can redeem yourself as the forum superstar we all love to hate. Get crackin'! That's easy. How many decades have you spent in solitude cultivating your spirit and fighting the worldly temptations to be worthy of HIS grace? HE may be omnipresent, but that doesn't mean he would want to waste his time.

A monetary obligation, you say? Well, if you say so. Or you could, you know, cancel your subscription when you're fed up, and re-activate your account when/if you feel like it. What's the problem, again? Concerning the immersion, well, that depends the crowd you fall in with. Idiots are bound to be aplenty in this game, but not everyone will be one. Some people do get on MMOs to *gasp* roleplay. Just find a RP guild and stick with it. Until the game's out we won't really know if and to which extent the game will force idiots down your throat. If you can't stomach it, well, cancel your subscription. Boy, if every problem could be solved that easily...

He IS a BIO character, after all. I also disagree with the one-dimensional comment (he's not your paladin-like Jedi after all), but hey, opinions for everyone. Do explain to me however, how is he less interesting or more typical than Edwin or Aerie from BG2 or Marcus from FO2. Since those are games whose writing you praise so much.

Hahaha. It's both funny and sad seeing people wanting TOR to fail so desperately. Funny, because if it actually ends up failing, it'll probably be the end of the KotOR franchise... the exact opposite of what they want. Sad because they don't realize this. LA won't give the thumbsup for a K3 until TOR is already working well, if ever. The reason, other than the insane coordination work it would require is, obviously, that they actually expect fans from the SP games to get into the MMO boat. Ironically enough, that includes those who froth at the mouth when they hear about TOR... they may always shell out an extra few if a SP game comes along, but they won't be interested in trying the MMO if they have K3. And who knows, you may actually like the MMO! (thanks Purkake)

To be fair, I'm not sure about his stance towards law/order. He's clearly Good, but he doesn't appreciate your lying to get his friend's wrinkled ass off the hook - Sunry is a murderer, but he murdered a clearly evil person that was using him for her own ends. He's actually happy when he gets taken away to the electric chair. Yay for alignments, anyway. edit: maybe he IS senile, after all?

Nothing morally relative about this Jindo guy. He's a Lawful Good disgruntled Jedi, and that's about it. His "grey" light/dark force meter made no sense. He's well fleshed out because you get a good overview of what makes him tickle. What he likes, what he doesn't, why he follows you, what's his story. And you also get a few hints that his "senile old man" persona is just a fa

Well, there really isn't much to discuss until they release it. It looks like it could be fun, but balancing a game for MP is always hard. I wonder how they will manage to make it fun to play with several people without making solo play completely impossible. Among other things.

Schacht's defence on Nuremberg depended on the assumption that he didn't know Germany was going to war. So, arguably, Hitler didn't tell him to get Germany "ready for war". He was acquitted. He was also against an increase in military spending. Whose money was borrowed, that later got invaded, btw?

It'll take time for folks to come up with well-written tutorials complete with pictures and all. Mostly because people don't know the game yet all that well and Paradox games are very deep. I'd suggest you try HOI2 first, which is still awesome, with plenty of documentation to help you get a hang of the game, and you won't have to deal with the ****load of bugs that is like a staple of Paradox games at release. I'm going to hold off purchase of HOI3 for that very reason. I had hoped it'd be different this time around, but no such luck. On the other hand, learning everything on your own may be your cup of tea. It's not mine, tbh.

Yeah, I aim to please. I do it on my own penny, too!

That was meant to illustrate how Nazi repression worked. 50k+ dead or deported, most of them civilians. Military force brought to bear on the population of an already occupied city. These guys didn't operate like US troops on Iraq. If they had to burn down an entire neighborhood and kill everyone living there, they did. French resistance (not counting Free French troops) was pretty ineffectual, as well. In Vichy France, insurgency against the Germans was punished by internment in the Vichy equivalent of a concentration camp. There's always a local willing to become a tyrant-lackey and do the dirty work for you (see Tiso). A scenario in which civil disobedience and pockets of insurgency would have been able to topple a possible Nazi European hegemony is wishful thinking, methinks.

Finished Fallout (w/ hi-res mod). It had been a few years since I played it, so I had forgotten a lot of things. I remembered why I liked this game so much. The game world is still a bit small, especially when compared to FO2. I just finished installing FO2 and Killap's Restoration Patch, which I had been wanting to try for a while. It's time for a change, so I'm going to see how far can I get with a melee-oriented character. I didn't want to gimp my character quite completely, so no, I didn't get "Heavy Handed", no matter how tempting it may be.

I want, no, I DEMAND a webcomic by MCA.

Pure genius. Seriously man, I laughed. If I didn't already have a quote of yours, this would totally go in my sig.

I'm not so sure about that. Yeah, good points. I suppose that, as with everything once you take a closer look, this isn't a black and white issue. Hitler was very, very good at manipulating the fears and frustrations of post-Versailles Germany, and he also had a knack for accumulating and keeping power by any means necessary. He was also probably quite intelligent. However, I think other than that, he was terrible. You sustain that he achieved some great victories in foreign policy, and that's undeniable. But that makes him "brilliant" as much as it makes him a pushy brute. With the world immersed in the 30's crisis, the last thing anyone in his right mind wanted was another Great War. Hitler, on the other hand, made war a central part of his agenda - not surprising given his messiah complex and his possession of a great vision whose realization was inevitable. His brilliance resided in his will to keep pressing for more and more until somebody finally drew a line - which Hitler promptly crossed. He wasn't a good administrator. He wasn't a good general. He wasn't a good negotiator, always wielding the threat of war to get what he wanted. He was a pretty terrible philosopher. He was historically ignorant. But all of this is, to me, secondary to the trait that in my eyes shows his true stature as a man: he was utterly incapable of dealing with criticism and was almost as quick to dismiss those with dissenting opinions (and the braveness to voice them) as he was to fly into storming rages. I don't know man, even a broken clock is right twice a day. That's why my opinion is that, once war broke out, he was more a liability than an asset, what with his insistence to manage the war and his faith that England would eventually agree to a peace treaty. That's why he didn't want the British Expeditionary Force annihilated at Dunkirk, btw. He deeply admired the British Empire and its institutions. Of course, without him, it's anyone's guess how things may have played out.

I have no interest whatsoever in reading through the comments made by anon in a different website. I saw the comic. What is it you want to discuss? You should do that, more awareness of this is needed. Women are insane, and they can make perfectly healthy heterosexual men to doubt themselves to the point they're willing to become useless wimps if that offers them the chance to "get some". Ever wonder why gay men are so happy?

Actually that's not true. Germany lost a good chunk of territory to Poland (and K

Define "nice".

Again with the strawman. It's not even funny anymore. You don't need to write any essays. Simply make your arguments... well, arguments instead of hammering us over the head over and over with the same blatantly unsupported or outright false claims in the vein of "Unlike Torment, FO3 smells very bad indeed!". You know, the way I've been doing? The way Gizmo does? Otherwise, you're not here to debate or exchange opinions with others, no sirree. Your intent is to pontificate. You are on an ideological crusade to convert us poor misguided fools to your very own blend of truth. And trust me bub, I've seen far better than you try. Really now? And I'm the "argumentative, offensive elitist", you say? Grow up, sonny. edit: I'm thinking... what's wrong with being a total beginner? I mean, sure, not all of us can be RPGmasters, but really, everyone needs to start somewhere, aye?

Yeah. You tell that to Alexander or Scipio Africanus, though.

KGB!

Well, some honesty at last. You simply dislike FO3 for whatever reasons, but can't be arsed to make actual arguments with concrete comparisons and examples outside of "FO3 fails unlike game x" and "Game z is actually much better than FO3 at doing y". Further, you are apparently utterly lost in the fundamental difference between opinion and fact. And here I am wasting my time with you. Wake me up when you are willing to do your own thinking instead of being a broken record for others.

No, it wasn't sarcasm. It was a fallacy around which your arguments are built. The only game in your little list whose plot was clearly much better is Torment... so much better in fact that the game is a cult title. The rest are simply adequate McGuffins that set the stage for the player do his thing ("oh yeah sure my village is about to die, but it's ok if I waste a bit of time pursuing a career as a pron star" or "yeah okay my soul was just ripped from me, but it's fine if I just go kill me some random dragons for loot"). Finally, one bit of criticism that has merit. That took a while. Yes, you don't see people farming. Or farms, for that matter. But just like you imagined that people went to work, took lunch breaks, and went take a dump in all those games you mentioned, why don't you imagine that as well for FO3 and suspend your disbelief just as easily? I haven't been arguing that FO3 is the ultimate anything, or even the best of the series. I don't particularly like it myself. But look at your trolling just a few posts ago (NO story! NO characters!), and look at you now, struggling to find an actual, concrete flaw in the game that is so much worse in FO3 than in, well, just about any other game. Rhetorics are nice, but you need a li'l bit of substance, too.