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Yeah, she's great, but she didn't seem as confident as I'd have expected in the singles final, especially on the balance beam. Such a different style compared to that of Biles' raw power (not that she's lacking skill...), and yet still perfectly competitive. You don't see that in the men's contests.

They are just teasing at this point. I mean, come on...

No, that's not how it would be summed up at all. This is what you actually said: And sorry but you're just plain wrong about Bosniaks.

Yup. You simply do not have a moral leg to stand on to condemn the west -or anyone else really- for its abuses after what you've posted, sorry. That's textbook hypocrisy right there. Context doesn't change the essence of what you've been saying, and that's basically that any ethnicities in the Balkans are fake (except Serb ofc) and that someone else's crimes justify your own. You know what's laughable? That with my posting history here, you try to paint me now as a western shill, just because I'm not into your crypto-Greater Serbia rubbish.

Been watching this exchange a bit. So let's recap, then: "Croats would have disappeared" "creation of Bosniaks was not natural" "we have a historical right to Bosnia" "can't feel sorry for Srebrenica" "might makes right" Did I forget anything? The fact that you are here crying about NATO bombings and western kangaroo courts after the stuff you've been posting makes you a world-class hypocrite. Just sayin'. Carry on...

I can understand your dislike of BD, and tip my hat at you for not to giving them your money, considering that this makes it harder for you to play a game you want. That being said, the classic version of BG/BG2/IWD is now included, as a separate product, with a purchase of the respective Enhanced Edition. I know because I had bought only the EEs, and when the classics were removed from the store, they added keys for each under the corresponding EE. Gifts notwithstanding, the removal as separate purchases was a dickish move for sure, and I doubt it has made them many friends. However unlikely, even if GOG went back to selling the classic versions separately, you would still be giving BD money, as they now hold distribution rights for these titles AFAIK. Look at the store pages, Atari has been completely removed from the picture. Not that giving money to Atari is a much more appealing option... So yeah, finding a disk copy on eBay is probably your best bet. Good luck.

Nevermind, I just watched Simone Biles destroy everyone, GG.

And shortness of breath kills the mood. Decisions, decisions... Seriously. If this and all that weird talk of "beauty" is part of a plan of yours to justify posting noods, just do it already so we can get back on track. edit: tasteful noods, ofc

I was watching gymnastics but after that I kinda no longer feel like it... There's always tennis though. And athletics

Nice. Do you even troll bro?

A "court instituted with the sole purpose of cementing the notion that you're guilty"? Says you. Let me remind you that the court was created by resolution of the UNSC, of which both Russia and China are permanent members with veto power. If the "sole purpose" of the court had been to legitimize US aggression, as you've been repeating lately, it simply wouldn't exist. Russia has already exercised its power in this regard. The issue here is that you're trying to use Milosevic's informal acquittal in Karadzic's -guilty- verdict as a basis for your denialist discourse that crimes in Yugoslavia were "for the most part, propaganda". That the killings, rapes and deportations happened isn't being disputed by anyone. It's Milosevic's participation that has been shown to be a political ploy. And by the way, if you're going to talk about how the indictment was "structured", you may want to read (and quote from) the actual document, rather than copy-paste a lazy wiki summary.

^ Been reading s13ep's posts lately, have we?

Agreed. But it's not about whether he knew, but whether it could be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that he did. Speer wasn't at Wannsee and claimed he had left Posen before Himmler began his speeches. Even though he managed to avoid being hanged unlike most of his colleagues, turns out he did know about it after all, but it couldn't be proven at the time. As for Milosevic, an acquittal for him doesn't mean that crimes committed during the war were 'for the most part propaganda'.

The best argument against the EU is 5 minutes of Europarlementarian politics being at play. The end-result usually being "let the future generation solve this (or Turkey. Hey how is that working out now? Total mess? Okay then!) That's a Churchill quote. In broad terms, direct democracy is a very bad idea because masses generally can't be expected to act rationally and make the right call. Representative democracy carries the in-built flaw of corruption and crooks (read: "career" politicians) will inevitably subvert it and eventually make it crash and burn... with the acquiescence of the masses. Pick your poison.

The past eight years have done quite a lot to exhibit how utterly feeble the Executive branch is in effecting domestic policy, but the one area in which it holds terrifyingly unilateral power is employment of the strategic arsenal. If the Minuteman III and Ohio missile crews are turning keys, they do so under the assumption that PAVE PAWS, Cobra Dane, and Fylingdales is tracking ballistic missile contacts that just cleared the horizon, and not that Rosie O'Donnell is on a goodwill trip in Beijing. Trump certainly makes for the best argument for nuclear disarmament I've seen in recent years. Since you bring up the assumptions missile crews operate under, and beyond analysis of the Trump phenomenon itself, I can hardly think of a better time to review the system that would allow someone like him to call a nuclear strike, and that call to go unchallenged by anyone other than the Secretary of Defense (c.f. Harold Hering). Questioning the process under a visibly non-insane president(ial candidate) is going to be much harder.

It is hard to argue, no doubt about it. More to the point, I try not to forget that colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”

Er... not sure if you can continue as a praetor in Antidas' service after that. I think it's a possibility, but don't quote me on that. I've actually been meaning to play a Daratan praetor and wipe out the remaining houses just to see what happens. And regarding Antidas, I think VD said they designed him as a man who just doesn't have what it takes to be an actual 'strongman' emperor, regardless of player efforts. The Guards have nothing to gain by siding with him against Gaelius unless they can use him as a figurehead ruler. You can't really make him the true power in the empire because by the time of the game he has squandered whatever influence Daratan may have had in the past. Yeah, after Teron it's downhill. But it took like 10 years to make AoD. Teron itself was the focus of an extra year of development, VD dixit, and it shows. A bigger budget would have meant either nosy backers or nosy publishers demanding design changes -- a bit of a catch-22. It's an auteur game, with everything that entails.

UnDungeon (pixel art stuff oby posted) actually looks pretty cool. They don't have a KS yet, however, and beyond some neat art, they don't really have anything to show. It's hard to tell even what kind of game it will be. I'd say I'll be keeping an eye on this one... if I had the patience to follow game development.

What was your point again? That only "Islamatic" people commit murder-suicide? Sorry, not true. That only "Islamatic" people kill themselves despite being in treatment? Also not true. A combination of both? Nope, no dice. Perhaps that only "Islamatic" people carry out mass murders? Yeah, no. Perhaps you should just clarify what your point is?

It does, actually. About 4,800 men took their own life in the UK in 2013 alone. But it seems we only care if they yell "Allahu Akbar" before doing themselves in (and whoever's around). Mass murder isn't an Islamist exclusive by any means, either. Suicide rates are more or less a constant throughout developed countries. This means you are far more likely to willingly kill yourself than be killed by a jihadi. Statistics are fun like that. Of course, the cop-out that chalks these cases up to insanity is just as bad as the "because Islam" explanation you get from the other camp.

Maybe you played an older version? Because I'm pretty sure that I convinced Carrinas to support Antidas in two of my playthroughs (Praetor and Mercenary-IG). There's also a similar branch where Carrinas can be convinced to go full retard and proclaim Antidas the emperor. Both paths require fairly high (for that stage of the game) social skills, and you may need to pass a (hidden) [iNT] check, too. Regardless, it can be done. However, this here does highlight a design problem, in my opinion. There are just too many social skills that are not sufficiently distinct. And requirements in each conversation are often seemingly random. Why Etiquette and not Streetwise? Why Streetwise and not Persuade? Impersonate, really? They could have merged most of those into maybe two and the game would have been better for it, I think. Unlike combat skills which force different combat styles, different conversational skills bring nothing new to the table. Regarding the difficulty curve, I agree. They decided that a penniless nullity should have it harder than a seasoned mercenary, renowned loremaster, or reputed merchant. Kinda like IRL, so again, the rationale is not necessarily wrong. Whether this is "fun" is obviously subjective. I admit I was seriously frustrated in the beginning, too.

You think you have a say in the matter? That's rich.

Thanks for the heads-up. I didn't know about this. Regarding AoD, I went through the same. The game doesn't allow you to play it the way you want, but instead of doing it the way other games do, where alternate paths simply don't exist, AoD simply discourages fooling around through [failed] skillchecks and NPCs that are all too happy to murder you. Ironically, once you get the hang of it, you'll realize that the game isn't actually that "difficult". It's just that it's a KKKodex game through and through: it doesn't scale to your level. This isn't everyone's cup of tea, especially in this day and age.