Gorth

For me, it might originate from a severe dislike of spam and pushy marketing. As I saw it, the camp might as well have had a huge Coca-Cola ® statue with the title "Coca-Cola revives and sustains" (slogan from 1905). People aren't always rational in what triggers their likes and dislikes

I felt like that guy with the glowing neon sign above his head that said "Buy Me!" in Dragon Age was such an insult, that I promised myself not to spend money on any EA/Bioware DLC's. I know you should never say never, but so far I haven't seen any glowing reviews of "Kazumi" that would change my mind.

Good luck, Kill. I tried recently but I just don't have it in me to replay ME1 any more. I wish they'd release an import editor so you could tamper with your Shepard to your hearts content and avoid having to play the damn game again. http://www.masseffectsaves.com/ Look for Gibbed save editor. An invaluable tool for those of us who weren't really into ME1

One of the more bizarre moments in an old EUIII game (also from Paradox), the battle for the north American continent was finally decided when imperial Tahitian forces crushed the last pockets of resistance of the kingdom of Quebec... (Tahiti became so mighty because a truckload of Spanish colonies defected due to constant Spanish warfare and the ensuing war exhaustion)

Thread getting a bit long. More deeds done Here

Start of old thread End of old thread I created a new "What you did today" thread today.

Too few zombies, too much special fx DHL just delivered a package from Amazon... Zombie Pack 2: Zombie Holocaust, Flesh Eater and Burial Ground

I could almost imagine that Borg Deer talking to me: "Resistance is futile..."

I get to watch Hills Angels

Started watching the Benny Hill Megaset (all episodes from 1969-1989). Still a fair few episodes to go.

Depends on what came first, doesn't it? Satans fall or free will of humans. Humans didn't really get to exercise their socalled free will until put in Eden... with that tree with forbidden fruits no less. God can not claim good faith on that one, as it was bound to happen eventually. Otherwise, why would the tree have been there in the first place. Makes about as much sense as trying to talk a kitten out of chasing a ball of yarn. Just imagine if Adam and Eve had lived happily ever after and died from old age without any offspring. So much for the masterplan. Edit: Regarding the Platypus, what else to do with all the spare bits from creation?

You lost me there... is the problem with the different long sizes in x86 and x64 platforms? I thought it was language platform specific. Does your language default that to long int or long float

Justifiable or not, it wouldn't surprise me if a number of russians, young and old, sees Europe, USA and China the way it's illustrated.

Your link is a bit broken? Bad Cut and Paste-Fu? The Several Journeys of Reemus

Gorth - Proudly boycotting DLC's since 2009 Ok, so I've downloaded the free ones, but do they count?

*Cough* I knew that (now how to blame that one on the media) Edited to add: Assigning Crimea and Sevastopol to the Ukraine administratively wasn't exactly a stroke of genius either. I foresee a lot of trouble yet to come out of that.

So, if they blow people up we like, they are terrorists, if they blow people up we don't like, they are freedom fighters? (thats a generic "we" not necessarily expressing my own likes and dislikes. Substitute "like" with "allied with" whatever) No, blowing up subways is pretty much an act of terror, period. I'm just trying to figure out if she really has been indoctrinated to believe that Russia's treatment of Chechens really has no bearing on the fact that Chechens have repeatedly attacked Russian targets, and if she really believes that other countries are the reasons the Chechens are attacking them. At least American kids learn that the reason our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are being attacked is because we invaded their countries and basically attacked them first. Russian kids don't seem to have that cause/effect connection, if our poster is an average Russian kid. Not sure why you felt your comment was an appropriate response to mine... but I'm pretty sure it wasn't meant to be complimentary. Your post did sound rather "judgemental". You imply that a territory in another sovereign country is entitled to autonomy, that the same country has invaded one of its parts as if it was an act of war between two countries and pretty much implies that the Russian government is to blame for it. Accusing other forum members of being "indoctrinated", implying you know better than somebody living there doesn't really help. North Ossetia and Abkhasia didn't exactly get a lot of sympathy from western Europe and the US when they decided that they would rather be a part of the Russian Federation than being part of Georgia, which tought me one thing, that western media have very little credibility as sources for the conflicts in the Caucasus (which often has its root causes found in history books rather than newspapers).

So, if they blow people up we like, they are terrorists, if they blow people up we don't like, they are freedom fighters? (thats a generic "we" not necessarily expressing my own likes and dislikes. Substitute "like" with "allied with" whatever)

That is because I speak broken English when distracted by work Silly Life intrudes upon my escapist escapades.

That end game part was actually fairly well done. Talk about consequences of your choices

Well, we all do our own reading and draw our own conclusions: The effects of psychological inhibitors or lack of (i.e. a few cards short of a full deck) The kind of research that the Aussie tax payers (hey look, thats me) money goes to The press (for whatever its worth) About justification through cognitive distortion Check the section about "Social, interpersonal, and intimacy deficits" Lots of books available on the subject of what makes tick too

I'm not really a beer drinker (except on warm summer days), but I do like the odd Stella Artois. I'm mostly a Cognac person though, so my knowledge of the other "stronger" stuff is limited to brand recognition and primitive consumption in moderate quantities on special occasions.

There is something Kevin Rudd hasn't told us...

How many games are there really out there, where you are a heroic mass murderer, killing because you like to inflict suffering (the "Postal" games are the only ones I know from top of my head). Most other seems to offer some justification, a 'cause' if you want, that to some degree rationalises your violence. I.e. fight this or fight that, liberate something or somebody. "Murder" games, "Rape" games, whatever plays on different emotions and less easy to accept motivations. Edit: I do not count Carmageddon among them, because I enjoy running over pedestrians

King Smurf was democratically elected too... (read the plot summary if you haven't read the comic)