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That should make a mockery of all those D20 patents where people claim to have invented the D20... Dice Patents

Couldn't have said this better myself: I see the green dragon beat me to it, so I'll just shut up and agree with the quoted bit and think it's a nice gesture amongst colleagues in the business of video games (and yes, some of the Bioware people are backers too, helping making this game possible).

Isn't there a certain cut over date where evidence can't be used anymore?

This probably belongs in the category "scientific re-discoveries". Thousand year old Anglo-Saxon potion kills MRSA superbug Grognard potions ftw! See link for full story

Not to be a spoil sport, but the thread creator requested the thread closed...

I wonder if I'm just weird, but Dead Money was probably my favourite DLC for FONV. Big MT wasn't bad though

Deleted a couple of posts... Lets try with less sniping at each other and more constructive help.

X-Com 3: Apocalypse and Jagged Alliance 2 are two serious contenders for that title

Thread pruned a bit. Lets try more feed back on the game, less feedback on fellow posters.

You just summed up 3000+ posts

That was my thought too... the rather non constructive opening post makes me doubt this leads to useful discussions. Lets see if we can keep it civil?

Trying to focus on work today, but somebody is playing bagpipes outside and now i feel like going out and conquering something Maybe it's just because its spring, who knows.

Indeed A shame PoE is so close to release now, I really need to finish my original game of New Vegas, got close to the end and then fell into the trap of indecisiveness about what path to pursue at the end

Hello youngster I need to play Zork Zero some day to find out how the altercation between Lord Dimwit Flathead the Excessive and Megaboz the Magnificent ends. Edit: Welcome by the way, almost forgot my manners

Since when is ignoring the cause of a problem going to help? Israel, the US, Serbia, Greece, Iran and Iraq Kuwait, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, China, Tibet and two score more countries would like to have words with you. The UN and international community understands perfectly well and enforces absolutely nothing unless its the enforcing arm of some economic and military powers extended arm, trying to give it a thin veneer of "legitimacy" (because selling it at home is easier then) Oh my... Bruce, I sometimes hope you *don't* wake up to the real world (hint Libya was a chance to pitch in and try to be on the "winning" side in a tribal conflict and Serbia was real politik in action, trying to limit Russias sphere of influence in eastern Europe) Sometimes you dont need to formally annex anything, especially not if installing local puppet governments is a lot more cost efficient and achieves the same result.

A good starting point would be to examine the "legality" of the nation state of Ukraine, the ways in which the borders between it and its neighbours were drawn etc. (hint: they were established as rather insignificant administrative lines, at a time when ethnicity was irrelevant and independent Soviet republics were unimaginable) If the lines had been drawn with the benefit of hindsight, a lot of bloodshed could probably have been avoided. As for annexing territories and spheres of influence, Israels (never recognised) annexation of the Golan heights, the rather unsubtle western interference in Libyia, the forced change (and following anarchy) of regime in Iraq, the meddling in Serbia, the meddling (in the end, without any results) in the affairs of Georgia and where the minorities there were never consulted about which country they suddenly wanted to belong to... it's a long list. Nobody is entitled to wear a halo in the world of "realpolitik"

I was sooo tempted to edit your post and add spoiler tags...

The Ig Nobel price is turning 25 this year. Happy Birthday It's part satire, parts recognition of less glorious scientific subjects getting studied in all seriousness. "Assembling a team of balding physicists, Goldstein set out to tackle the subject, publishing their research in a peer review journal. It detailed the fluid mechanics of hair, drawing on a rich seam of scientific observation stretching back to Da Vinci. They even coined a new term: hairodynamics." "The Ig Nobels skewered the U.S. Government in 2012, awarding them the Prize for Literature 'for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.'" "Past recipients include a man who dressed up as a polar bear to scare reindeer and a study of homosexual necrophilia among mallard ducks" Science doesn't always have to be boring particle particle physics

Watch those Romanian dancers at your own risk. Its work safe, but my mind took permanent damage from the sound.

I guess you could say my job is to make people unemployed. Not directly, but by streamlining and automating a lot of processes, there is less need for "menial" tasks. Not talking about blue collar menial tasks, but white collar menial tasks. The current system in the western world is self defeating, because the constant quest for cost reduction always end up with the same conclusion, humans are the greatest cost and needs to be removed from the process. Reiterate it enough time and you end up in a perfect world that runs itself and has no room for humans.

the kinda guy that uses a label maker device to make a label for his label maker... says "label maker"? HA! Good Fun! Thanks, now I have to wipe coffee stains off my keyboard.

Yeah, those nasty lizard people. A google search showed that 12 million Americans believe lizard people are secretly running their country. Maybe they are descendants of the civil servants of the old pre-war regime?

In case anyone wonders what the above is a reply to, it's Mieu's post a bit further up. They got seperated a bit by merging the threads

If you look a bit outside the box, you may noticed that white males have been victimised and marginalised just as much as any other group on earth. Possibly not for that particular reason, but then all white males aren't the same. That's stereotyping. This "white males" group have been persecuted for being Gauls, for being Romans, for being living in a province belonging to a particular liege, for being Christians, for being non-Christians, for being the wrong kind of Christians, for being the wrong sexual orientation, for having the wrong last name on their birth certificate (ethnic cleansing, hello?), killed in their millions at the frontlines of various wars and so on. Simply saying people have been better of through history for being "white males" is a gross over simplification imho. Edit: Yay me, that wasn't actually the specific line I wanted to quote, but you get the idea Edit2: Being a real cynic, you could say, just like in nature, (white) males are usually considered expendable once they've served their purpose.

Its really irrespective what words use to mean, its what they symbolize now that matters What does it symbolyze? Is it related to the Atlantic slave trade? It has a long history, but generally got regarded as an "offensive" term second half of last century. Before that, it was considered a perfectly good word, the same way as slavery and racism was considered perfectly good practises. When the latter changed, the use of the word did too.