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Nice. I really need to learn to get rid of the jaggies.

Yes, of course, anything that doesn't portray this contemporary Hero of The People under favourable light is nothing but propaganda manufactured by the oil industry-controlled media. Sloppy dodge, even for you. "Quite aware", huh? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acerbo_Law They say ignorance is bliss. In your case, it's ****ing ecstasy. Explain further.Wait. Don't tell me you're one of those cranks that actually believe that The Party invented democracy (along with the wheel and penicillin)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_dem...n_and_exclusion That's a pretty flimsy connection you're making there between "capitalism" and racism, considering that the practice of conquering territories and enslaving the locals was thousands of years old in the 1500's already. They didn't really need to convince the populace of anything, since the power of the Holy ****ing Roman Emperor was pretty much absolute. But nice try.

Actually, that's not necessarily a bad thing. With several small parties what you get is an unfair distribution of power if there isn't a clear majority and the two "big" parties can't seem to reach an agreement - one party will enlist the support of the small ones to do something, but the small parties are sure going to want something in return. If you are willing to accept the notion that "the majority is right", it makes no sense to have small parties that can decide whether something goes or not.

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TL;DR Just kidding. I agree with you about building a character independently of gear. But I do it out of RP reasons. I don't like metagaming and stuff like building a character based on foreknowledge of rewards and items just isn't fun for me. The only exception I remember I have made in recent times to this is choosing falchion for my weapon master because of a certain particular weapon in MotB. But then again, a lot of the design decisions in that campaign were, to me, pretty stupid anyway... (Devastating Critical?!) and falchion is a good choice for a crit-focused build at any rate.

What's with the gap between the hairline and stubble, though.

Of course he is. And eventually, the alternative may well be illegal, too. There's a name for that, btw. Plenty of examples throughout History. It would do you some good to put Engels' manifesto down for a moment and read that instead. How about you explain why the people have to be trusted to select their own leaders just because they "are the People!"? Democracy and universal suffrage aren't necessarily one and the same.

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world...90731-e3i5.html For the People!

They won't - they have no feelings to impair their reason and no egos to protect.

It does sound interesting. I'll probably get it, if only to kill some time until HOI3 comes out. Thanks guys.

I have a bad feeling about this. JA pretty much perfected the lightsaber combat with the dual sabers and saber staff. If they built upon that and made an AAA game today, it would be awesome. The JKII/JA style of saber combat would work pretty well with a controller too, it's sad that they went with crappy quicktime events for TFU. Myth. JO/JA fencing was CRAP. Fun for a while perhaps, but crap. It boiled down to circling your opponent from a safe distance, bunny hopping and rolling while waving your saber stupidly, hoping he'd miscalculate and step inside your striking distance and get killed. Oh, yeah. Don't forget kick spam. Full Force servers were even worse, with combat being decided by who could better execute the dreaded pull-throw-kick combo. It was the very first online dancing game. And that's with the single saber styles. Dual/lighstaff style was even more limited in moves and options and more unbalanced. The best/most fun SW lightsaber combat game I've played was the EP 3 game. The game itself was rather unremarkable, but the VS mode and its Tekken-like approach to duels was much, much better than JK's - with the addition of Force powers being balanced well enough to work without completely disrupting regular swordplay. I haven't played TFU, so I can't compare.

http://gizmodo.com/367698/technosexual-one...e-of-robot-love *vomits* This should have been the central story of the thread. Who cares about running robots. A guy humping his USB hub is win.

The "good" ending is clumsy, unfulfilling and pointless. Just watched the evil ending (thanks YouTube), and it's much, much better. Why is this kind of moody stuff so popular? Why is it so prevalent in Obsidian's writing? Oh, and the handling of epic level stuff isn't very good either. What's the point of being "epic" if every janitor in the Academy is at least your level? Why is a Bear-"God" a pushover and some telthor midget is "Impossible"? I mean, how many Kings of Shadow have those losers killed? But worry not, because they kindly provided a win-button in the shape of a little epic spell called Vampiric Feast. Bah. Yeah, I can live without a strong story, if the gameplay makes up for it. How's the exploration? Is there a reason to explore, anyway?

Finally forced myself to finish MotB (the thing had been sitting on a shelf for a year). I feel... stupid. I want my 20 hours back, Obsidian. I don't have SoZ. Is it worth getting?

New X-W/TF game. Or JK. Or grand strategy a la Rebellion. But those can hardly go on consoles, so fat chance.

Ah, of course, equivocation. "The vast majority of poor people don't sit around on their asses all day and chew on the public cud" is equivalent to "there is no such thing as sloth." Nope. The equivocation was yours to begin with. "Efforts are made so lazy hobos get no state subsidies" is equivalent to "everyone in a hard financial spot is assumed to be lazy and therefore, should get no money".

I guffawed. Yes, because democracy (or lack thereof) justifies anything... Count again.

"Unworkable" comes to mind. But then again, I have no idea how far automated video surveillance can go, so what do I know. Stuff like ECHELON is pretty scary and it's been operating for decades. Nobody seems to care... which is by far the most horrific theme underlying in the novel. BTW, what do you think of Clean Feed? Are you suggesting that sloth doesn't exist?

Actually, owing to the way NWN2 deals with cross-class skills, you can keep dialogue skills maxed out no matter what, provided you take at least one level in a class that has it as a class skill. Able Learner is really, really useful if you have a decent INT and plan on mixing classes.

Yes and no. If you take the content of my post at face value, then it's probably wrong. But read carefully the sentence I quoted - you need to resort to real numbers and/or specify that you are operating with base 10 to have 2+2=4. Unless we define the starting conditions, symbols and operations can work however we wish. Pop did not explicitly say that that was an unconditional truth, but said it's a different sort of truth (heh) as Rand's moral cornerstone which, according to him, and rightly so, is subject to human will. I was just showing how it isn't. The trivial aspect of the response has nothing to do with me being facetious (which I was), but rather, that I hit his argument only tangentially by attacking his example instead of his reasoning. It makes perfect sense in the scope of the discussion: it illustrates how under different starting conditions, the same thing can be both right and wrong, or not make sense at all. I find it odd that Pop doesn't want to tackle the epistemological aspect of Rand's work, as it's epistemology that deals with truth itself. Kierkegaard had some interesting things to say about "objective" truth for instance, and, as with many other fundamentals, the debate is far from closed. Off to the court I am.

This amounts to suggesting that Blizzard suck up the costs of maintaining WoW and rely on Diablo 3 to make money. Why would they want to do this, again, other than to please you? I'm sure you have made millions off the stock market, but that doesn't really apply here. A speculator (shareholder) could perhaps take your advice, but not a company board. Why? Because going public means an initial injection of cash in exchange for obligations towards those who bought parts of your business. And those guys demand dividends like crazy. Umm... increasing dividends by decreasing your overall income? DOES NOT COMPUTE

This is interesting. What happens if you try a lethal takedown on a target that needs to be alive? Does MT automatically perform the non-lethal one, you get a "FISSION MAILED" screen, or (hopefully) you get to deal with the consequences of being a compulsive neck-breaker? More generally, how does AP deal with killing sprees?

Multiplayer?

It's worth pointing out that 2+2=10 or 11, with a simple change of bases. I also hear that some non-euclidean geometries can make a mess of even the simplest of arithmetic operations, too, but I never completed my math degree. There goes your unconditional truth, though. I'll be back with a non-trivial riposte to the points you made... tomorrow, perhaps. It's late over here. And why the hell would you think I'm an Objectivist? Just having fun here...