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Yep. We need a game full of flying robotic lobsters, laserwhips, golden flying pirate ships manned by crews of furries, and the rest of that great stuff from the TotJ series. Aww yeah.

Maybe it's because he's nowhere as histrionic as... Kane doesn't have the uber cool fake Russian accent, either. That obviously deducts from his villain rating.

I haven't started with the expansion yet, even though I got it in a bundle for 40

Yet it's the PT that gets all the criticism. A very unspecific, vague and generic criticism, that could fit the OT just fine for all intents and purposes, too. If you say that SW is [insert epithet] when compared to some renowned piece of literature or cinema, you'll probably be right (though you'll have to support your claims much better than what I've read here), and I'll most likely agree. If you say that the PT is [insert epithet] when compared to the OT, then chances are you are unaware of the effects that nostalgia has in your judgement.

Rome: Total War. Boy, where has this game been my whole life? Also, I would be replaying some of the good ol' C&C games from the recent "The First Decade" compilation, if it wasn't so badly ridden with bugs. Not only did they not fix the old, known issues, but they also managed to create brand new ones! GO EA!

OMG teh prequels suxx0rz!!1%&! FFS teh OT r0xx0rz j00r b0xx0rz!!!1 There. Do I have to throw in a generic joke regarding Lucas' neck perimeter to mesh with the crowd too, or was that enough?

That is so very wrong.

Not only that. Apparently mets is able to live with the duality of pi being both an irrational and an integer simultaneously, as shown below: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah, the wonders of the sick-minded. "

It doesn't matter if the mods have slapped you in the past, be it publicly or via PM. Chances are, at least 2 of your "4 warnings" are unofficial, since as our friendly, next-door moderator explained, you'll be placed under moderation indefinitely or worse when you reach 3. If you have any official warnings, you must have received some explicit notification. edited for coherence.

...win.

And this, boys and girls, is what we call blatant shilling. )

Yeh. Big words make head hurt.

Uh... Star Trek:BotF? :ph34r:

I will. I mean, why not? If it's a good game, i'll buy it, it's pretty simple... This was like, the best reply ever.

The entire music industry would agree to anything that would increase their benefits. I'm guessing they know a thing or two about business.

It's a common mistake to apply today's moral standards to someone that lived so long ago. Even if some of those things may seem horrible to us today, they were not back then. People are defined by the time they are born into, and those times were way more brutal and harsh than today. Maybe killing a few thousand would have helped with that... "

HA! Once again, you fail to produce any kind of support for your claims. Weak as it may be, even Jack's evidence is more solid than yours. Is it so difficult to follow the flow of conversation? You said you know lots of women in the UK that are free to choose whether or not to wear a headscarf. That doesn't mean their religion doesn't require them to do so, just like my religion (or the religion I was baptised into) requires me to go to church on sundays. The difference is that over here, our culture evolved to leave behind the trappings of religion, while theirs didn't. Our rulers no longer rule By The Grace Of God, and all that stuff. From Dictionary.com; "argue": To put forth reasons for or against; debate. It's not a black or white issue. It's not either religion or culture. In this instance, religion is effectively embedded into their culture, to the extent that women actually accept the inequalities, as they are pressured and indoctrinated to do so as soon as they are able to understand. "Islamic state" is not a random expression. Of course, you may claim that things are actually not as they seem, that broadly accepted perspectives are fabrications, and that your personal contact with and impressions gained from muslims here and in the ME actually prove it. But for all we know, you could have had contact only with atypical individuals. "I saw a pig fly" is just not good enough to revise current laws of physics to accomodate the possibility that pigs may actually fly. And yes, I'd actually like to broaden my views on this matter, but unfortunately I don't have the time to go on an investigative journey of Islam right now. I have a muslim friend that pretty much confirms what you say. But he was born here, not in the ME, and therefore he's not part of that culture, so he's not representative or relevant to the discussion. I suspect the examples you are using are very similar. Who said you aren't allowed to express your opinion? Don't assume that just because I'm attacking your views I'd like you to shut up. You addressed me to begin with, and made a blind assumption that does not mach reality, thus starting a debate with me. Also, that's how debates work, you see. It's not like you can state your opinion and then be on your merry way. Well, you can do that, but if you can't or don't care to defend your claims (especially ones so controversial such as these) don't expect anyone to take you seriously. And if you don't care whether or not you are taken seriously, why express your opinion to begin with?

No. That would imply that muslims have completely made up all of that, instead of it being a tenet of their religion. Is that what you are trying to say? And I don't go to Church in Sundays. So what? Whatever. I don't even know why I bother to argue with alts. Must be some pathological thing. A culture strongly influenced by and whose roots stem from Islamic tradition. A shame when people can't see the relation. You tell that to blind Afghan women. I'm still waiting for you to provide evidence to support your stance. Your claims are the most unconventional, and seem to contradict social reality in more than a few places. Your ludicrous claims require much more proof than my "mainstream" views to be accepted. Surely you don't expect me to change my views just because you say Islam is actually a wonderful thing and muslims are just misunderstood, right? Also, I already said I was arguing from prejudice. This is one of my many shortcomings in this matter. I'll gladly trade my current ideas for more enlightened ones, but I expect them to adhere to the conventional mechanisms of critical thought. No, it doesn't mean you are wrong, and I didn't say you are. However, history is full of people that were right, and yet, failed to present compelling evidence supporting their theories. I hope you don't expect me to believe you as an act of faith, because I'm fresh out.

Yep. Only now they can openly air their anti-semitism under the pretense of freedom of press. That must be the only freedom they are interested in expanding. Hooray for hipocrisy!

No need for that. I say we make a Muhammad cartoon contest ourselves!

As a matter of fact, I have. She was repressed, and always concerned of her family rejecting her if she stepped out of tradition by, for example, taking the veil off. Make no blind assumptions about me, and I won't assume you're trolling, m'kay? Aside from game design you are versed in ancient middle eastern languages? I'm impressed. How does that make any sense? Being repressed socially does not equal being repressed mentally. But, at any rate, you are right. In some places of the ME, or Afghanistan, lots of women are perfectly happy with their degradation. They are convinced it's the role assigned to them by God. That's called brainwashing. That's pretty rich. Lots of imams and people who have dedicated their lives to the study of that religion disagree with you. Also, you've got to be the first person I meet that claims men are more opressed by Islam than women. There's always got to be a first time for everything, I suppose.

Hmm. I really don't like to express opinions based on prejudice alone, but I find it difficult to find beauty in a religion that degrades women to the functional level of furniture or animals.

Yep, Speaker and Xenocide both have the piggies and Jane. It's quite a change of pace and focus in those two, from Ender's game. While that one seems to focus a great deal in the psychologic part of the plot, Speaker and Xenocide lean heavily toward metaphysics, philosophy, religion (especially Xenocide), and the author's particular cosmogony. I liked them, but I understand why Gromnir said they're only for real HC fans of Card. I'm looking for the last book, Children of the Mind, but there's not a great deal of bookshops that have it, for some reason. In the interim, David Anthony Durham's Pride of Carthage.

Given that I'm at 2/3 warnings already, I'll try to be soft. No, I'm not trying to encourage you. I just thought I'd remind you that some people are still trying to keep the thread on track, and would appreciate it if you didn't give the mods an excuse to lock it. If you can't take part in a serious debate, you can go sit in a corner, and watch your betters do it until you get the basics. Alternatively, you could go find a thread more suited to your tastes and capacities. Mind you, I do my fair share of spam and random imagery posting, but never before derailment is already underway. There is a thin line between humor and nonsense as well. Also, I try to keep a healthy balance between trolling and constructive posting. Well, I don't know about you, but I don't step into other people's conversations with random nonsensical comments. That's not so much a matter of inadequacy of content as much as it is a disruption of debate. Moose's cartoon isn't especially offensive to me, it's just out of place. Add to that that it was exactly him who gave the coup de grace to the thread this one originated from, and you'll understand what I'm talking about. Funny that you would bring this up. Self-censorship is one of the points we discussed in the debate about free speech in tarna's boards. Or was it elsewhere? Can't remember...

But not impossible. Killing an innocent is the kind of mistake you can't fix. The risk of killing a single innocent is enough to render the whole death penalty system contrary to the idea of "justice" it's supposed to be based on. Not only that, but an executed convict will never be able to experience the kind of pain that those close to a murder victim have to endure. Executing them is letting them off too easy. Random posting at its finest.