"The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees' territories are defined along the same rules."
So if your account expired or was cancelled, it is not counted.
Most of the in game radio station production is done by Lazlow Jones. He hosts The Technofile on XM, as well as having various shows around the country. He did a pretty good show weekly at night in NY. He's put it out of CD on his website and has it available for downloads. lazlow.com
He's really funny and listening to his show you can see how much of an influence he is on the sound design of the GTA game series. So I'm excited to see what he ends up doing with these callers.
He's also done some stuff with 2600 and is the reason for their cameos in the game.
I never watched the show, don't watch any TV and I don't need someone showing me how to plug in an ethernet cable, but the shows were still great fun.
How would you know if the shows were great fun or not... you never saw it.
Did you just have great fun hearing other people talk about the show? Where is the lie, did you watch the show, and therefore watch tv and are a mindless brainless zombie like the rest of us, who you are trying to act superior to with your "I don't watch tv statements"?
Just wondering how the show you never saw was great fun.
Of course I think the old saying hold true about everything, 99% of [blank] is crap. That is definitely true about movie based games. However, there have been some great games based on movie properties.
Tie-fighter battles are always cool; just don't give me a light saber.
Your own statement right there provides you with a hint. X-Wing/Tie Fighter series were movie based games and they were amazing games. But even beyond the Star Wars Franchise.
EA's Lord of the Ring games (notably the Two Towers and to a lesser extent Return of the King) were good quality games. Hell the Two Towers dev team but the game to work in the Forgotten Realms game, "Demon Stone" that came out a little bit ago which was fun as well.
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was a really good game (based on a wonderfully fun bad movie).
Look at Goldeneye (the orginal N64 game). Movie property that made a great game.
People will continue to make movie games, good and bad because there is a built in audience and market to the game.
If people are doing things that are illegal, shouldn't we be punishing them rather than some abstract entity
Well, then who gets the blame for the problem. For example, let's say company X is illegally dumping waste and poisoning school children. Who gets punished? The CEO? The CEO probably said, "find somewhere to dispose of the stuff", if the CEO was even that involved. So how far down the line do you go? How about the truck driver who dumped the chemicals? What if he was told by his boss to dump them and he thought the company had permission? Then how far up the line do you go? To Judy in Accounting who was supposed to file a permit but left early that day and never got around to it?
Thats why we treat corporations as an entity, because sometimes it's hard to find a person reasonably responsible.
If it's something obvious like stealing money from the company, ok, that guy should be charged individually. However, for alot of "corporate" acts, the lines will tend to blur on who exactly is responsible.
This movie has gotten to the point of fanatism by so many, and look at what happens when fans become fanatics: Dimebag Darrell [damageplan.com] from Damageplan/Pantera died for what again? Yes, that's right -- for a FAN. An unstable, crazed-out, Pantera fanatic.
Dimebag died because of a lunatic. Dimebag did not die because of a "fan". The lunatic happened to be a fan, but that was the least of his issues. If Pantera never existed, he's insanity would have manifested elsewhere. He was hospitalized previously.
This guy believed Pantera was stealing his song lyrics and his identity. He didn't just go, "wow, my favorite band broke up, I need to shoot this guy". He was mental. It's sorta like a guy thinking the TV is talking to him. You don't go, "wow, this guy is a huge TV fan".
Dimebag was killed because people go nuts and they do crazy things. It sucks, but thats what happened. Blaming his death on fandom going to far is missing the point and a lie.
keep in mind that the people freaking out now, were the hippies of the 60s who got naked and dropped acid. Now they are freaking out because a boob is on tv.
When people age and have children they lose their minds and forget their own experience.
Because Tom Clancy didn't write the game. The closet to an actual credit is, "Based on some notes Tom decided to give us". Tom Clancy leads him name to a TON to crap that he doesn't write. "Tom Clancy's Ops Center", "Tom Clancy's Power Plays" and a host of other bad books that just tarnish his brand.
This game has his name on it because it came out of his game studio (Red Storm entertainment which was bought by UbiSoft). It's just one more product he "branded" without having to do the work.
Plus he isn't a screen writer. Tom Clancy's books are great fun books, but I've yet to see him produce a screenplay. Writing a novel, and writing a script are two different things. Notice how none of the movie adaptations of Tom's books feature him with a screenplay credit.
What you should be looking at here is the game writer on the writing team. He's the one who should get credit for the story. He's the one who should have his name plastered on the game.
Tom also pretty much loathes the video games as well. His comments have been anything but warm on video game subjects. He'll plaster his name on them because they sell.
Executive Orders was the last good thing he's written.
By the way, read the print version of the story. The last page of the book is a very interesting parallel to the September 11 attacks of New York. You know, the attack that "nobody could have foreseen."
Or read Debt of Honor and Executive Orders by Tom Clancy. Spoilers: At the end of Debt of Honor a plane is intentionally crashed into the capitial building during a joint session of Congress. Executive Orders takes up immediately afterwards, where in the confusion aftwards, terrorists unleash the ebola virus at various places throughout the US. One character even remarks, "this is just like our training programs, except we used anthrax".
Both published well before 9-11. Yeah, no one saw it coming.
It's not really a case of games == toys, in the sense that you are thinking. The sad facts are that consumers spend more money that time of year. They aren't just buying toys either. If you watch TV, you'll see more comericals by Best buy and circuit city for big TVs, DVD players, and the like. These big ticket items aren't going to kiddies.
You'll also see this in other industries as well. When do block buster movies come out? There is the summer time where they throw out popcorn flicks, and the winter holiday time when they throw out other movies hoping for big scores.
The facts are people throw around alot of money that time of year. People receive holiday bonuses and are generally out shopping. Companies want their products out there as fresh, hot, new games to intice people to buy them.
Joe average is walking around best buy looking for gifts. He'll snag some cds, maybe a few dvds and he'll wander by the video game section. If he knows someone likes games, he might look at whatever is on the new big flashy display, rather than dig through the shelves to browse.
Game companies don't put out games during the holidays for the hardcore gamer's dollar. They know they can get that year round, they do it for all the holiday impulse shopping.
"I before E, except after C or when sounding like A as in neighbor or weigh."
The full version of the saying is:
"I before E, except after C or when sounding like A as in neighbor and wiegh, or on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, you'll always be wrong no matter what you say!"
From the mighty Brian Reagan, who is probably being chased by a flock of moosen through woodenses.
3) It doesn't take many chem/bio/nuke rounds to kill a shitload of people in a city like Seoul. one or two per piece still means ~20,000 rounds.
Nukes are a first strike weapon. Nukes are only effective if you launch them by surprise, and shower your enemy in such a way to completely cripple them causing them to have no chance to respond. North Korea can not do this, the US simply has too many nukes in too many places. If their nuke program has actually evolved into weapon form, they could take out South Korea, which would prompt such international outrage, that they'd have death descend on them.
Right now North Korea's nuke program is one of protection. They say, "we have nukes, don't fuck with us" so we take a second look at them before deciding to strike at them.
Biological and chemical agents are tricky, but the international reprocussions of using them is too great for them to be anythign but a last line of defence idea.
Also, I believe the Ghost Recon game isn't like America's Army or something. You are a small "ghost" squad, that is supposed to secertly move through enemy terrority conducting covert black ops missions (like splinter cell except with a squad).
If North Korea really wants to be mad, they should read Debt of Honor and especially Executive Orders by Tom Clancy and see what a true evil douche North Korea's fictional leader is protrayed as.
Is this a joke/troll? Or maybe something to do with your PS2.
I got a PS2 around 6 months of so after it came out. Mine plays PS1 games completely fine. It plays Castlevania Symphony of the Night. In fact I finally beat the reverse castle on the PS2.
Backward compatiablity is a big deal for me. I bought my girlfriend those Final Fanatasy compilation discs that have the old FF NES and SNES games on them. She also plays old PS1 rpgs.
Hell, I just bought the Sonic the Hedgehod Master Collection for my Gamecube so I can play the old Genesis Sonic games. Reliving my youth I guess. I can't wait for the Megaman compilation to come out tomorrow.
You can get Splinter Cell for your phone. In fact, I have it for mine. It is actually really different from the ps2/xbox/pc version, but it's still a fun game. It's pretty much akin to the old school Prince of Persia. very fun.
It's actually programed by a third party, not the phone company.
I'm having the same DNS issues. Also in the US and on the east coast.
I haven't been able to find out whats going on with DNS either. I can't get yahoo, google, and others to resolve. I've tested multiple locations as well.
I guess this doesn't make a lot of sense to me until such time as these games start to be shown on TV, where rounds can be surrounded by ads and what have you.
I guess you don't have G4 in your area (now G4TechTV). They have a show called Arena. Two teams of four players compete against each other in three rounds of video games. The first round is usally a consol game. Tekken or even Mario Double Dash. Round two is the computer orund, usually it's Call of Duty. The third round is the head to head consol round, usually Socom 2.
The show is kinda sorta interesting, but not really. they could also do a much better job covering the action.
I work for an independent office products dealer (sysadmin). We sell that hammermill paper HPG-103036. Hell, I found it in our inventory right away. We don't stock it, but we can get from one of our wholesalers for next day delivery. So, if you called us up and ordered it today, you'd have it tomorrow. Hell, looking for that paper I also turned up that we sell A4 sized binders (ACC-40813) and dividers (AVE80020). We don't stock any of that, but we can get it all for next day delivery. (We don't have a retail space, we only sell to offices and we deliver everything free next day)
Instead of going to the big guys, you should have tried an independent dealer, most of us are actually willing to do customer service and find what you want.
Here we had two of the largest video game manufacturers on the planet, who were literally spanked by Sony who spent gobs of cash to make their Playstations a success. PS2 hardware is inferior to that of the Gamecube and Xbox, although it has consistently outsold their competition quarter after quarter
The PS2 hardware is also alot older than both the gamecube and the xbox. It came out first. The reason why it continues to sell so much isn't marketing. When was the last time you saw a comerical for a PS2? The reason why the console sells is because of games. It has a HUGE library of games. People still buy the inferior product because it has the games people want.
The only marketing the PS2 gets is from all the games that continue to come out for it. That is the lesson to be learned here. Marketing will not make the system. Games will. If the system comes out with a mess of games, games that people want to play, then it will be a success.
i just hope this isn't just the year of Sequels and remakes, i'd like to see some good Honest Original Material, Jade Empire and Fable sound like a good start but i really hope some more devs start jumping into the unknown more this year.
oh, and there better be a Gran Turismo for the PSP, that would make me a Garanteed PSP Customer
Ok, fine, you can blame Americans all you want. So now what? It's our fault. Let's go home and let the place collapse into chaos. Great! That'll work. Or we can finish the job. We can stay, stablize the country and rebuilt it.
That is what needs to be done. We can crumble and buckle to terrorism like Spain, but that would be a bigger sin. Whatever your thoughts on invading are, leaving now is worse. We have to stay and help rebuild. We need to stablize the government. You do realize a free, stable, and prospurose Iraq would radically alter the reigon.
If we stay and demostrate that we are willing to sacrifice ourselves and rebuild the country and help them achieve peace and stablitiy, then it will be awfully hard for extremists to recruit new people.
But, I guess, since it's all our fault, we should just leave now, say we are sorry and go home. I mean, Spain was attack, that is what they did. Would that make it better?
No. The best thing possible for the country is to have American troops stay there and work together to rebuild.
Blaming America doesn't help at all. What does that accomplish? All is does is stir up anger and drive more people to extremist groups.
You blame America, you don't get people cooperating with American forces. Then, you get groups bickering over provisionary constitutions, nothing gets set up, and everythign goes to hell.
Maybe it's time to stop being childish and blaming america for everything, and to start blaming the whackos blowing themselves up, trying to win over a piece of the city for the local warlord.
I wish I had those mod points I didn't use the other day.
The point really is, a suicide bombing in Iraq, it's acceptible nowadays. The world views it as, "oh, the US deserves it". Sure, our involvement in the middle east is making the arab world hate us more. Suicide bombings every day, isn't making us go, "oh yeah, we'll just go home, everythign will be fine and dandy".
If we left now, what would happen? You'd have absolute chaos. The country would go to hell. Sure, you can bitch all you want about wether we should be there or not, the point is, we are there. It's spilled milk. We can't un-go there now.
Everyone is busy hating the US to actually work on improving the situation. It's easy to strap a bomb on a disenfranchised teenager filled with hormonal angst than to work with people to actually set up a system of government. It's easier to be an insurgent than to step up and be a policeman.
So retard blows up a school bus, and suddenly its the US's fault. Logic like that hurts just as much as the logic that brought us to war in the first place.
My group does the same thing. The biggest problem is that miniatures don't really look like our characters, so we had to haggle and choose a "good enough" figure. Until we decided to import HeroClix in as well. While the bases are bigger, they are a good fit into the mix.
You should also give the real game a shot, it's not that bad. I played a few games when we first got the figures, and it was fun. If you already know d&d rules, you can pretty much play after skimming the booklet of the rules.
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Did you stop reading after the first sentence?
Did you not see this at the end?
"The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees' territories are defined along the same rules."
So if your account expired or was cancelled, it is not counted.
Most of the in game radio station production is done by Lazlow Jones. He hosts The Technofile on XM, as well as having various shows around the country. He did a pretty good show weekly at night in NY. He's put it out of CD on his website and has it available for downloads. lazlow.com
He's really funny and listening to his show you can see how much of an influence he is on the sound design of the GTA game series. So I'm excited to see what he ends up doing with these callers.
He's also done some stuff with 2600 and is the reason for their cameos in the game.
I never watched the show, don't watch any TV and I don't need someone showing me how to plug in an ethernet cable, but the shows were still great fun.
How would you know if the shows were great fun or not... you never saw it.
Did you just have great fun hearing other people talk about the show? Where is the lie, did you watch the show, and therefore watch tv and are a mindless brainless zombie like the rest of us, who you are trying to act superior to with your "I don't watch tv statements"?
Just wondering how the show you never saw was great fun.
Of course I think the old saying hold true about everything, 99% of [blank] is crap. That is definitely true about movie based games. However, there have been some great games based on movie properties.
Tie-fighter battles are always cool; just don't give me a light saber.
Your own statement right there provides you with a hint. X-Wing/Tie Fighter series were movie based games and they were amazing games. But even beyond the Star Wars Franchise.
EA's Lord of the Ring games (notably the Two Towers and to a lesser extent Return of the King) were good quality games. Hell the Two Towers dev team but the game to work in the Forgotten Realms game, "Demon Stone" that came out a little bit ago which was fun as well.
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was a really good game (based on a wonderfully fun bad movie).
Look at Goldeneye (the orginal N64 game). Movie property that made a great game.
People will continue to make movie games, good and bad because there is a built in audience and market to the game.
Write I before E
Except after C
Or when it sounds like an A
As in "neighbor" and "weigh"
You forgot to add:
on weekends and holidays
and all throughout May.
You'll always be wrong
No matter what you say!
If people are doing things that are illegal, shouldn't we be punishing them rather than some abstract entity
Well, then who gets the blame for the problem. For example, let's say company X is illegally dumping waste and poisoning school children. Who gets punished? The CEO? The CEO probably said, "find somewhere to dispose of the stuff", if the CEO was even that involved. So how far down the line do you go? How about the truck driver who dumped the chemicals? What if he was told by his boss to dump them and he thought the company had permission? Then how far up the line do you go? To Judy in Accounting who was supposed to file a permit but left early that day and never got around to it?
Thats why we treat corporations as an entity, because sometimes it's hard to find a person reasonably responsible.
If it's something obvious like stealing money from the company, ok, that guy should be charged individually. However, for alot of "corporate" acts, the lines will tend to blur on who exactly is responsible.
This movie has gotten to the point of fanatism by so many, and look at what happens when fans become fanatics: Dimebag Darrell [damageplan.com] from Damageplan/Pantera died for what again? Yes, that's right -- for a FAN. An unstable, crazed-out, Pantera fanatic.
Dimebag died because of a lunatic. Dimebag did not die because of a "fan". The lunatic happened to be a fan, but that was the least of his issues. If Pantera never existed, he's insanity would have manifested elsewhere. He was hospitalized previously.
This guy believed Pantera was stealing his song lyrics and his identity. He didn't just go, "wow, my favorite band broke up, I need to shoot this guy". He was mental. It's sorta like a guy thinking the TV is talking to him. You don't go, "wow, this guy is a huge TV fan".
Dimebag was killed because people go nuts and they do crazy things. It sucks, but thats what happened. Blaming his death on fandom going to far is missing the point and a lie.
keep in mind that the people freaking out now, were the hippies of the 60s who got naked and dropped acid. Now they are freaking out because a boob is on tv.
When people age and have children they lose their minds and forget their own experience.
Because Tom Clancy didn't write the game. The closet to an actual credit is, "Based on some notes Tom decided to give us". Tom Clancy leads him name to a TON to crap that he doesn't write. "Tom Clancy's Ops Center", "Tom Clancy's Power Plays" and a host of other bad books that just tarnish his brand.
This game has his name on it because it came out of his game studio (Red Storm entertainment which was bought by UbiSoft). It's just one more product he "branded" without having to do the work.
Plus he isn't a screen writer. Tom Clancy's books are great fun books, but I've yet to see him produce a screenplay. Writing a novel, and writing a script are two different things. Notice how none of the movie adaptations of Tom's books feature him with a screenplay credit.
What you should be looking at here is the game writer on the writing team. He's the one who should get credit for the story. He's the one who should have his name plastered on the game.
Tom also pretty much loathes the video games as well. His comments have been anything but warm on video game subjects. He'll plaster his name on them because they sell.
Executive Orders was the last good thing he's written.
And we all know that rockets never blow up or otherwise fail on launch.
That is why we have Superman to fly the waste up and out of our atomosphere and fling them at the sun.
By the way, read the print version of the story. The last page of the book is a very interesting parallel to the September 11 attacks of New York. You know, the attack that "nobody could have foreseen."
Or read Debt of Honor and Executive Orders by Tom Clancy. Spoilers: At the end of Debt of Honor a plane is intentionally crashed into the capitial building during a joint session of Congress. Executive Orders takes up immediately afterwards, where in the confusion aftwards, terrorists unleash the ebola virus at various places throughout the US. One character even remarks, "this is just like our training programs, except we used anthrax".
Both published well before 9-11. Yeah, no one saw it coming.
Money grabbing is the word. I suppose this little nonstory coming out just before the DVDs of the orginal series come out.
This is a slick move to get people excited for the DVDs.
This is not the rumor you are looking for, you can go about your business, move along, move along.
It's not really a case of games == toys, in the sense that you are thinking. The sad facts are that consumers spend more money that time of year. They aren't just buying toys either. If you watch TV, you'll see more comericals by Best buy and circuit city for big TVs, DVD players, and the like. These big ticket items aren't going to kiddies.
You'll also see this in other industries as well. When do block buster movies come out? There is the summer time where they throw out popcorn flicks, and the winter holiday time when they throw out other movies hoping for big scores.
The facts are people throw around alot of money that time of year. People receive holiday bonuses and are generally out shopping. Companies want their products out there as fresh, hot, new games to intice people to buy them.
Joe average is walking around best buy looking for gifts. He'll snag some cds, maybe a few dvds and he'll wander by the video game section. If he knows someone likes games, he might look at whatever is on the new big flashy display, rather than dig through the shelves to browse.
Game companies don't put out games during the holidays for the hardcore gamer's dollar. They know they can get that year round, they do it for all the holiday impulse shopping.
"I before E, except after C or when sounding like A as in neighbor or weigh."
The full version of the saying is:
"I before E, except after C or when sounding like A as in neighbor and wiegh, or on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, you'll always be wrong no matter what you say!"
From the mighty Brian Reagan, who is probably being chased by a flock of moosen through woodenses.
3) It doesn't take many chem/bio/nuke rounds to kill a shitload of people in a city like Seoul. one or two per piece still means ~20,000 rounds.
Nukes are a first strike weapon. Nukes are only effective if you launch them by surprise, and shower your enemy in such a way to completely cripple them causing them to have no chance to respond. North Korea can not do this, the US simply has too many nukes in too many places. If their nuke program has actually evolved into weapon form, they could take out South Korea, which would prompt such international outrage, that they'd have death descend on them.
Right now North Korea's nuke program is one of protection. They say, "we have nukes, don't fuck with us" so we take a second look at them before deciding to strike at them.
Biological and chemical agents are tricky, but the international reprocussions of using them is too great for them to be anythign but a last line of defence idea.
Also, I believe the Ghost Recon game isn't like America's Army or something. You are a small "ghost" squad, that is supposed to secertly move through enemy terrority conducting covert black ops missions (like splinter cell except with a squad).
If North Korea really wants to be mad, they should read Debt of Honor and especially Executive Orders by Tom Clancy and see what a true evil douche North Korea's fictional leader is protrayed as.
Is this a joke/troll? Or maybe something to do with your PS2.
I got a PS2 around 6 months of so after it came out. Mine plays PS1 games completely fine. It plays Castlevania Symphony of the Night. In fact I finally beat the reverse castle on the PS2.
Backward compatiablity is a big deal for me. I bought my girlfriend those Final Fanatasy compilation discs that have the old FF NES and SNES games on them. She also plays old PS1 rpgs.
Hell, I just bought the Sonic the Hedgehod Master Collection for my Gamecube so I can play the old Genesis Sonic games. Reliving my youth I guess. I can't wait for the Megaman compilation to come out tomorrow.
You can get Splinter Cell for your phone. In fact, I have it for mine. It is actually really different from the ps2/xbox/pc version, but it's still a fun game. It's pretty much akin to the old school Prince of Persia. very fun.
It's actually programed by a third party, not the phone company.
I'm having the same DNS issues. Also in the US and on the east coast.
I haven't been able to find out whats going on with DNS either. I can't get yahoo, google, and others to resolve. I've tested multiple locations as well.
I guess this doesn't make a lot of sense to me until such time as these games start to be shown on TV, where rounds can be surrounded by ads and what have you.
I guess you don't have G4 in your area (now G4TechTV). They have a show called Arena. Two teams of four players compete against each other in three rounds of video games. The first round is usally a consol game. Tekken or even Mario Double Dash. Round two is the computer orund, usually it's Call of Duty. The third round is the head to head consol round, usually Socom 2.
The show is kinda sorta interesting, but not really. they could also do a much better job covering the action.
Thats odd
I work for an independent office products dealer (sysadmin). We sell that hammermill paper HPG-103036. Hell, I found it in our inventory right away. We don't stock it, but we can get from one of our wholesalers for next day delivery. So, if you called us up and ordered it today, you'd have it tomorrow. Hell, looking for that paper I also turned up that we sell A4 sized binders (ACC-40813) and dividers (AVE80020). We don't stock any of that, but we can get it all for next day delivery. (We don't have a retail space, we only sell to offices and we deliver everything free next day)
Instead of going to the big guys, you should have tried an independent dealer, most of us are actually willing to do customer service and find what you want.
Here we had two of the largest video game manufacturers on the planet, who were literally spanked by Sony who spent gobs of cash to make their Playstations a success. PS2 hardware is inferior to that of the Gamecube and Xbox, although it has consistently outsold their competition quarter after quarter
The PS2 hardware is also alot older than both the gamecube and the xbox. It came out first. The reason why it continues to sell so much isn't marketing. When was the last time you saw a comerical for a PS2? The reason why the console sells is because of games. It has a HUGE library of games. People still buy the inferior product because it has the games people want.
The only marketing the PS2 gets is from all the games that continue to come out for it. That is the lesson to be learned here. Marketing will not make the system. Games will. If the system comes out with a mess of games, games that people want to play, then it will be a success.
i just hope this isn't just the year of Sequels and remakes, i'd like to see some good Honest Original Material, Jade Empire and Fable sound like a good start but i really hope some more devs start jumping into the unknown more this year.
oh, and there better be a Gran Turismo for the PSP, that would make me a Garanteed PSP Customer
Tired of sequels... yet demanding a sequel...
Now thats comedy!
Ok, fine, you can blame Americans all you want. So now what? It's our fault. Let's go home and let the place collapse into chaos. Great! That'll work. Or we can finish the job. We can stay, stablize the country and rebuilt it.
That is what needs to be done. We can crumble and buckle to terrorism like Spain, but that would be a bigger sin. Whatever your thoughts on invading are, leaving now is worse. We have to stay and help rebuild. We need to stablize the government. You do realize a free, stable, and prospurose Iraq would radically alter the reigon.
If we stay and demostrate that we are willing to sacrifice ourselves and rebuild the country and help them achieve peace and stablitiy, then it will be awfully hard for extremists to recruit new people.
But, I guess, since it's all our fault, we should just leave now, say we are sorry and go home. I mean, Spain was attack, that is what they did. Would that make it better?
No. The best thing possible for the country is to have American troops stay there and work together to rebuild.
Blaming America doesn't help at all. What does that accomplish? All is does is stir up anger and drive more people to extremist groups.
You blame America, you don't get people cooperating with American forces. Then, you get groups bickering over provisionary constitutions, nothing gets set up, and everythign goes to hell.
Maybe it's time to stop being childish and blaming america for everything, and to start blaming the whackos blowing themselves up, trying to win over a piece of the city for the local warlord.
I wish I had those mod points I didn't use the other day.
The point really is, a suicide bombing in Iraq, it's acceptible nowadays. The world views it as, "oh, the US deserves it". Sure, our involvement in the middle east is making the arab world hate us more. Suicide bombings every day, isn't making us go, "oh yeah, we'll just go home, everythign will be fine and dandy".
If we left now, what would happen? You'd have absolute chaos. The country would go to hell. Sure, you can bitch all you want about wether we should be there or not, the point is, we are there. It's spilled milk. We can't un-go there now.
Everyone is busy hating the US to actually work on improving the situation. It's easy to strap a bomb on a disenfranchised teenager filled with hormonal angst than to work with people to actually set up a system of government. It's easier to be an insurgent than to step up and be a policeman.
So retard blows up a school bus, and suddenly its the US's fault. Logic like that hurts just as much as the logic that brought us to war in the first place.
My group does the same thing. The biggest problem is that miniatures don't really look like our characters, so we had to haggle and choose a "good enough" figure. Until we decided to import HeroClix in as well. While the bases are bigger, they are a good fit into the mix.
You should also give the real game a shot, it's not that bad. I played a few games when we first got the figures, and it was fun. If you already know d&d rules, you can pretty much play after skimming the booklet of the rules.