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I hope you're not playing the "Ban Me" game, young sir. You could get banned for that, you know! Yeah. I'd like to know if they brought her here when they figured SS was leaving, or they just chose her because she's one of the few level-headed newbies we've seen. I don't think I have seen any threads about K3 being started by her, which undoubtedly is a plus.

Heh. Guess I'll have to find out if I'm "hardcore" enough. Even more so considering I got both Speaker and Xenocide for 10

Speaker for the Dead. I'm hoping it'll be as good as the first book. And for the guy who reads an average of 15 books a month... WTF?

But... but... :'(

Bah. "Facts" are so last week!

Congratulations on making the most irrelevant comment in the thread, so far.

Uh... the attacks on the trains in Madrid are also a part of that very list. You kinda provided evidence that proves the exact opposite of what you're saying. Nice job at making a fool of yourself, once again.

That's not the problem. The problem is that he's absolutely impervious to reason, facts, and pretty much anything else that conflicts with the unrealistic propaganda that appears to be hard-wired in his views. It's okay to have a different opinion, as long as one is able to properly defend and back them up. Just repeating the same crap over and over again while making clumsy and badly executed attempts at deflecting the points made by other people, on the other hand, is not.

Hey BW, how does it feel to know you're absoultely powerless to change that what causes you so much frustration and anger? Stick that in your pipe and smoke it. )

Heh. Looks like Commie hit home. ^_^

That might have something to do with the fact that they took the NWN2 boards to Bioware. I hear it's a new line of inflatable dolls resembling famous people such as Al Gore.

Huh? It was a good action game. A bit short maybe, but good still. Much better than Gun to be sure.

Haha, I actually pity the rabid, foam-mouthed hardcore FO fan crowd. Because regardless of the actual quality of the game released by Bethesda, they will hate it for not being a carbon copy of a game that is almost ten years old. Who the hell would want them as a fanbase? I, on the other hand, will try it and enjoy it if it's an enjoyable game. And if Bethesda has learned anything since Morrowind, chances are it will. Carry on with the hatefest.

Matrix: Path of Neo.

You people are imagining things.

OMG AWESOME! This reminds me of that Family Guy episode where Peter gets his own soundtrack... :cool:

What can I say man, I actually collect requests for cyber...

Depends on the game, I think. For the Larry series dialogues and character design were really important. For a horror adventure, I guess it would be atmosphere, which is accomplished by art, level design and sound (including music). A good story and writing to go with it are paramount, though. After all, the first adventure games were just text, and ultimately it's that what keeps you hooked or not.

If it's not, it should be.

Yep, and that's why Everyone Must Die. )

The thing is, the tortures in Abu Ghraib didn't end in death for the most part. If you'd rather die than endure 3 months of torture, then I guess you need some professional help. Nice try at twisting my words. You know that somebody preparing an ambush might shoot at you, even though they aren't doing so in that exact moment. Are you trying to say that you should wait until they actually start firing? Have you been slamming your head against the wall a bit more than usual lately? That's warfare. Your inability to see the difference between the two words is appalling. According to the Wikipedia (couldn't find a more detailed source, feel free to correct or add anything), these are the tortures suffered by inmates in Abu Ghraib: Punching, slapping, and kicking detainees; jumping on their naked feet. Videotaping and photographing naked male and female detainees. Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually explicit positions for photographing. Forcing detainees to remove their clothing and keeping them naked for several days at a time. Forcing naked male detainees to wear women's underwear. Forcing groups of male detainees to **** while being photographed and videotaped. Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on them. Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box, with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and **** to simulate electric torture. Writing "I am a Rapeist" [sic] on the leg of a detainee alleged to have raped a 15-year old fellow detainee, and then photographing him naked. Placing a dog chain or strap around a naked detainee's neck and having a female soldier pose for a picture. A male MP guard raping a female detainee. Taking photographs of dead Iraqi detainees and MPs posing with cheerful looks. Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees. Threatening detainees with a loaded 9mm pistol. Pouring cold water on naked detainees. Beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair. Threatening male detainees with rape. Allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell. Sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick. Using military working dogs (without muzzles) to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting and severely injuring a detainee. Now, how does the worst of that compare to having your head cut off with a knife? Tell you what, let's go to Iraq. I'll pretend to be a member of some militia, and turn myself in to the US troops, and you walk around some suburb until you get kidnapped. How 'bout it? The key is that several hundred years later, nobody needs to prove the Earth is round. It's an accepted, widely known fact. The same thing with the arguments facts I presented. You are welcome to keep the blindfold on for as long as you like, though. You make for some great target practice. Huh? It's the second time I personally put you to shame regarding facts. I'm sure I haven't been the only one. And still you keep going, your whole discourse entirely unaltered. Yes, you are indeed a reasonable person. You have proven as much. As for the rest of that paragraph, try making sense next time.

Well, there was nothing relevant to the topic at hand in this post: Yeah, well, that pretty much sums up your discussion technique, because to most people with a proper netiquette that's pretty important. You keep concentrating on the trolling and don't give a rat's butt if you construct the posts you oppose yourself. Kind of defeats the purpose of arguing, but hey, if it makes you happy. There's a reason why the words legitimate and target shouldn't be used together concerning human beings. A good read to get a grasp of the way language can be used to market a political agenda: Manufacturing Consent. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Save for some link to a book I'm not going to buy. There was nothing I could say of relevance to the topic in reply to your post, because you have gone off a tangent quite some time ago. What a sad attempt at bailing out.

Hahaha. So, now torture is worse than execution? Are you sure the Earth isn't flat? Nope. Shooting back at people that is shooting at or might shoot at you is not execution. Execution has very distinct implications, which have nothing to do with warfare. None of the tortures carried out in Abu Ghraib are worse than being beheaded, period. I wouldn't really know, as I have never been beheaded, but from what I have seen, feeling how some guy holds your head while he cuts it off with a knife is not exactly "painless". Not really. After all, it's you who's trying to make a point from an exception. Would you really require me to post evidence to prove the Earth isn't flat? But hey, it's not really that difficult. I found these just from Googling "hostage executed Iraq". There are a few videos too, but I can't post them as it would be a violation of the guidelines. Italy confirms hostage executed. 2 Turkish hostages found dead, reports Al Jazeera. British woman executed. Bulgarian hostage executed in Iraq. South Korean hostage executed. There were quite a few more, feel free to look them up yourself. Nah, you don't discuss. You just spread your hateful anti-US propaganda, and keep going even when people toss facts in your face. Don't cry if you get flamed for living in a parallel reality. Yes buddy, you are a joke. The sad thing is you are not funny at all. Hilarious, even more when considering that removing the inexact quote doesn't substract a gram of validity from my post. When your feeble arguments get destroyed, you fall back to "netiquette". Whatever man. You're just so full of it. There's a reason? Really? And what is it? Go right ahead and enlighten me. Or is this another of your games to "sort out people" that aren't psychic? This just keeps getting better.

You underestimate the power of jurisprudence!

And curiously, I have yet to see a video that shows a prisoner being beheaded by US soldiers, or even evidence of illegal executions (I'm not sure, but have there been any executions at all?). On the other hand, there are quite a few of those nice homemade snuff videos by islamic groups going around. So, lay off the crack. LOL Honestly, you do realize that the "us" in "Us vs Them" is a pronoun, and not the acronym for "United States", don't you? "R00fles!" And on the other hand you have a multitude of cases that show that they really don't care where you are from, as long as you are western. You are making an argument based on a (possible?) exception that you can't even document properly. You are a joke, man. What means are necessary for what? War is not about killing. War is about winning. Often to win you need to kill, but it's only a means to an end. Slaughtering the enemy is not the goal in itself. Killing civilians usually does not place you any closer to winning by itself. In this particular case, it does quite the opposite, in fact. And well, I don't think it's a very common phenomena that civilian unrest during wartime has been severe enough to force a change in power. It most certainly didn't happen in Germany during WWII, and they suffered the worst bombings in a war, ever. The idea that killing civilians en masse is a good way to rally them for your cause is just ludicrous. But yeah, Hades. Everyone must die.