Superb game, Awful DRM. Its a fairly linear story action RPG, just the kind of game I love. I loved Mafia, Vampires of the masquerade, and then mass effects, then fallout 3 which was even better.
Has the time come to really push Impulse as a major competitor to Steam? Impulse has now become established as a stable platform. However, the range of games is highly limited. Coupled with this is the recent decision by Steam to introduce regional pricing. To explain the significances of this horrendous error of judgment prices of games on steam have recently rocketed for European customers. They recently introduced charging of European customers in Euros
This is all about the balance between different ownership rights. Your rights as a consumer to own the things you buy. And the publisher's rights to own the things he publishes - copyright. Copyright is a form of ownership - it is basically the right to own and distribute ideas. It's a type of what's called "intellectual property". It's the same type of property right as a patent or a trade mark. The publisher of a game or a book owns the copyright. When you buy a paperback book, y
[quote who="EviliroN" reply="13" id="1928032"] But hey, I'm just a crazy nut-job on the far right... correct? [/quote] You seem to favour a weak passive governement with very little by way of checks on the people. While I don't doubt that you might live responsibly their will be those who ruthlessly expolite any leeway the state affords them. In your ideal america how would you tackle those seek to act illegally a
Interesting is'nt it how Obama only got 4% more votes than Kerry or 2% more tha Bush and yet won a substial victory. Still dispite the differences Obama and McCain agree on far more than they disagree. Their differneces on how a country should operate are so marginal as to appear non-existant to anyone not living in the modern western world.
[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="10" id="1927946"] (I find it rather funny that a few 'key' states are mentioned, but CA is left out - even though CA has the most EV.) [/quote] For the same reason Texas is left out. I could have told you how they would vote a year ago. Florida is the arch-key state. Both large in terms of EV and very likely to swing either way.
[quote who="highlander" reply="3" id="1926533"]Maybe the Brits should try again, only this time... [/quote] I know, annoying we went through a phase of handing over colonies. Really those of us on the mainland shouldn’t have to pay any tax, it would be covered from the income from the overseas territories. America, Canada, most of Africa, bits of China, India, Australia, New Zealand and dozens
I'm loving Fallout 3. First time since Vampire the Bloodlines that I am finding myself really sucked in by a RPG, and that was 4 years ago now. Vats is cool too.
[quote who="Anubis208" reply="22" id="1926252"] 1) Rich people get taxed + become middle class. 2) Government gives all that money to poor people who then become middle class. 3) Rich people (who control most businesses) no longer are motivated to keep their businesses, start new ones, or stay/try to become rich. 4) Rich people thus become poor. 5) The goverment no longer has money to give to the poor people, who then go back to being poor. 6) The middle cl
[quote who="psychoak" reply="1" id="1926263"] Drop hints of using tax dollars to buy mortgages and give shit away to people that can't afford it? Check. Fucking tard... [/quote] The way you put it is not the way I would have said it but this is essentially the issue that put me on the fence as someone who would otherwise be a solid McCain supporter. McCain has traditionally been a good supporter of free tra
If I could ask someone on the inside. I'm thinking about placing a bet on how many of the following states McCain will win. [quote]George Bush won each of these 'Six-Pack' states in 2004. How many can McCain hold onto? (Six-Pack states = Colorado,Florida,Nevada,North Carolina,Ohio,Virginia)[/quote] I tempted to bet either 1 or 2. Leaning toward one (Virginia) but not sure about Florida?
[quote who="EviliroN" reply="8" id="1925160"]lol, the british take over again. [/quote] Would it be so bad? No just pay your taxes and don't worry about representation. It only leads to arguments anyway. Except Utah. We don't really fancy that one.
No... Don't bother voting, just give up with this silly idea of electing your own leaders and the British will take over again. Your all be much happier when you don't have to worry. We will dispatch a new viceroy as soon as you agree to capitulate.
[quote who="EviliroN" reply="11" id="1924001"]by the sound of it, Brits would probably love California. they're nuts over on the "Left-Coast"[/quote] I'm right wing, I'm just not foaming at the mouth "zomg the government is trying to get me", "I need an armoury" type right wing. Reminds me of talking to one American, he argued that the 2nd admendment says the peoples right is to bear 'arms' not 'guns', so he was entitled to own mo
Quite a contrast to the UK then. Here politicians keep quiet about their faith in case it makes them look like a bit woolly headed. I wouldn’t say any hide it, but they certainly don’t talk about it either. The only time I hear about religion in politics here is when it is applied to Muslims. That’s only because of the extremist minority that feel blowing up bits of public transport might be a good idea.
[quote who="psychoak" reply="5" id="1922373"] If someone had assassinated Hitler early on instead of "talking" to him, one hell of a mess would have been avoided. [/quote] A very dangerous simplification to make. Its always easy to vilify an individual. But one man alone could not have held the sway he did. At the time Germany was suffering economically and was humiliated by the terms of the peace after WWI. The country could have easily have
[quote who="Fuzzawakka" reply="22" id="1914618"]I didnt read all the posts but I did read the first. You would be under the catagory of a moderate Republican. You would be a Rudi Guilani Republican he fits your views almost exactly. [/quote] Interesting. Of course I know who he is but never really got into his politics in any detail because just as he was becoming interesting he dissappeared from the race. I have been watching
[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="11" id="1898700"] I think what you might be missing is that compared to the UK, we have a dysfunctional party system. [/quote] My loose understanding of US politics is that moderates are often squesed out, and that the extremist tend to be better surviviors. [quote who="GW Swicord" reply="11" id="1898700"] As I understand the UK system, there is significant pressure to toe the party line because y
Kyro, I could point out that their are 176 death from firearms every day, so absoultly yes, more than a daily occurance. I'm using the New York times here as my source. However, we could go round in circles on this one which would'nt be particularly productive. Instead I would be interest on your take, specifically: Do you feel the 2nd admendment is correctly applied? Do you feel gun legislation is too soft or too hard?
[quote who="Silverbeacher" reply="6" id="1898657"] Both major parties are very liberal when it comes to government control- the main point being which aspect of life do you want controlled? The Democrats govermentize (control) the economic and international aspects of a nation; while Republicans seek to control the moral/social code. [/quote] Quite, and well put. I suppose I agree. As an economist I find the economic control (or mismanagmen
Kyro: I admit I am not familiar with your gun laws. Yet self evidently with the frequent office and school massacres stories we receive your legislation is deeply flawed. I know that an outright ban is impossible, as you point out in your nation criminals would still get their hands on weapons, your southern boarder allows in plenty of drugs, its not hard to imagine weapons as well in the effect of prohibition. Perhaps in lieu of knowing more I would be for 'effective' regulat
[quote who="kryo" reply="1" id="1898595"] Not a surprising view from a Tory (historically having been the party of monarchists), but it's kinda important to us given that having weapons is what allowed us to throw off the monarchy in the first place. [/quote] I understand at the time it was a good idea, you chaps can't have the British keep turning up and burning the Whitehouse down after all. But that was a long time ago. Th
I've been wondering what I would be if I was an American. In Blighty I'm a pretty straight down the line Tory. And what with the US being the superpower it is I'm exposed to quiet a lot of US political stuff. I know that my views translate pretty neatly into the republican party, since I agree with them about 100% on foreign policy, economic policy and largely on domestic policy. There are however a few differences. I while I agree on Nuclear, I don't agree just pumping
[quote who="DethAdder" reply="14" id="1871569"] EA will keep on not getting it and blaming low sales on Piracy instead of their own DRM which forces people to piracy. At this point it is obvious they will continue this route and as long as that's the way they do business then I wouldn't feel a slight bit of remorse in cracking/pirating their software. [/quote] Quite, God knows how many thousands upon thousands of people that would otherwise not pi
[quote who="hiddenranbir" reply="22" id="1868794"]"bore no real link to my sea creature at all." Since when should it? Where is our 'real' link to the cells we grew from? Sheesh![/quote] In our evolution there was very much a link from stage to stage. Compare modern humans to what we evoluved from 1m years ago and you would see a great deal of commonality. Then compare that to 1m years before and so on back, your see a graduale progress. <
