How do you know this? Where do you get this information?
The news.
Have you ever questioned the source? Is the source influenced by the people making the policies? Or vice versa?
I'm sure it's convinient to believe in a global conspiracy controlled by the US government, that way you can instantly discredit all information that contradicts your view of the world. It's actually a lot like the Muslim belief in the Zionist conspiracy.
Do these people have any motives to tell you that there is a "constant threat"? "Make no mistake, there is a constant threat, they are out to get freedom"?
I think it's plainly obvious that there is a threat. All the failed and succeful terrorist strikes around the world, and the words of the terrorists and their supporters clearly prove it.
Look at what is happening, and look at the big picture. Look at what is happening to your civil rights. Sure, terror is bad and should be prosecuted, but it's not worth the price you are paying.
During times of war, civil liberties are often curbed. The present situation is nothing like WW2 when the Japanese citizens of the US were detained and placed into prison camps. I think it's necessary to take certain steps to fight againts terrorism, but of course going overboard with civil rights restrictions and counter-terrorism laws is another matter entirely. Unfortunately, civil rights restrictions and Patriot Acts will only address the effects, while the causes are actively and willfully ignored because they are too politically incorrect.
By the way, I'm not American or British, I'm Finnish.
Ah... Forget what I asked, I have my answers.
Yeah, I certainly haven't heard this one before. Fox News is like the anti-Christ of leftists everywhere. Supposedly they fabricate news stories from thin air. Or maybe this is just another aspect of the global conspiracy of the US government that can be always used to discredit something. Fox News is clearly a tool of the US government, so obviously we can't trust anything they say, regardless of what it is that they're actually saying. Surely it's impossible that a potential Muslim terrorist was caught (what an absurd notion!), so Fox News must have staged the whole thing. Stories like this are actually very common, and I've encountered them all over the place.
During the recent Lebanon conflict, the mainstream media was repeatedly caught spreading bogus propaganda and disinformation, and reporting staged events as hard facts (in addition to the general anti-Israel sentiments). Similiar things have been done in favor of Palestine, and still are. But, I guess it doesn't matter since these activities favor the leftists (a world view that apparently needs to be propped up with lies and fantasies, or it falls apart).
Almost all news are biased one way or another, but "biased" does not equal "incorrect." But it's repeatedly the leftists who are always accusing this or that source of being horribly biased, while seemingly suggesting that their own sources are not biased. I've often asked them if they're tapping into some pure source of unbiased, absolutely correct information somewhere, but they never answer me.
Oh, very funny. You just can't stand the idea that someone might have the moral highground. You want everyone and everything to be equal, which is one of the hallmarks of leftist thinking. If it's necessary to come up with fantasies and fabrications to do so, then by God, you'll do it.
Why do people deny reality to prop up their own fantasies? Terrorist strikes are an undeniable fact of life. They occur all the time, and plots and potential plots are discovered constantly.
Our guys have advanced training and can take advantage of advanced tech. Their guys can't, and have to make do.
IEDs and AK-47s are more useful in Iraq than the advanced technology of the US military, and it's not like the terrorists don't practise, or receive training and equipment from foreign intelligence agencies, such as Iran's.
At any rate, their suicide bombers and death squads like to target civilians, and I don't see what that has to do with fighting the US military. The Shia-Sunni war is also in progress in Iraq.
And why don't you ask an Iraqi who has lost family to a U.S. military strike...
Certainly there are people like that, but most of the enemies are Jihadists (many of them foreigners).
... what the functional difference is between a suicide bomber attacking a market full of civilians and a cruise missing hitting a "valid economic target" that also happens to be full of civilians.
The difference is intent, and collateral damage is more or less inevitable in any conflict. Strangely, collateral damage was never an issue during WW2, but now it's a big deal to everyone. Probably because the collateral damage consists of Victims (certain people in the leftist mindset are assigned Victim status, whereas white Christians are assigned Oppressor status).
Their cause is to establish global dominance, and if doing so means that they must indiscriminately slaughter civilians at random, then that's what they'll do. I'm sure as fuck not going to celeberate their cause as heroic.
Well, blowing yourself up in a cafe, bus, school or marketplace in order to kill innocent civilians seems pretty crazy and irrational to me, but I guess I'm just an extremist right wing fanatic.
Bin Laden is just one guy. Muslims commit terrorist attacks all the time. Not an hour goes by that something isn't blown up or some person executed in Iraq, Afghanistan or Thailand (I think these are the biggest hotspots at the moment, but of course less frequent attacks occur all over the planet). They manage to do all this without any CIA training.
The threat of terrorism is omnipresent. Potential terrorist plots are reported constantly, in the US and elsewhere. Some of them may be false alarms, while other are slightly more suspicious.
I thought it was now common knowledge that the whole thing was a sham. It was to get another embarrassing item off the news at the time; our ongoing support for the bombardment of Lebanon when every other country in the world was crying out for a ceasefire. It was getting pretty embarrassing for them just as this story "broke".
Don't blindly assume that popular opinion is the correct opinion. Personally, I can't figure out why Israel is always singled out (well, aside from the fact that they're Jews, which means that everyone wants them to die). I don't see anyone crying that the US shouldn't have retaliated againts Japan when they bombed Pearl Harbor.
Eh, sounds pretty lame. Fine for World of Warcraft, but imagine playing it with nothing but ranged weapons. You'd just stand there and exchange projectiles until somebody dies. Fallout is all about firearms, so it would be boring.
I imagine that, in order for the game to be succesful, it needs to have those traditional MMORPG elements that attract people. Namely, the acquisition of increasingly powerful items and stats. Fallout already has the skill and perks system which would probably cover the latter.
Some day, I should try running an emulator program of some sort inside an Amiga emulator. I wonder if it would be possible to run an emulator inside an emulator that's running inside an emulator. That would be really weird, to say the least.
Basically a Fallout MMORPG would be unquestionably cool, but how would they implement combat with firearms? I'm not familiar with any of the MMORPGs that have firearms, so I don't know how it's been implemented in the past. I don't really see how it would work. Fallout's combat is tactical, so that's what they should aim for (no pun intended).
They'd also have to balance the character building system (if they scrap it and make an entirely new one, it isn't going to resemble Fallout too much), and they'd have to find a way to keep players hooked. I'm having a hard time imagining WoW-style items and stat increases in Fallout. Now that I think about it, I'm having a hard time imagining Fallout as a MMORPG. Maybe I'm just trying too hard to imagine it like Fallout, but with 3D graphics and other players.
Not long ago, I bought one. I don't care what the benchmarks say, I thought it was an utterly terrible mouse. It had a really bad feel to it (probably because it's ambidextrous), the mousewheel was hard to use when your hands were sweaty, and for some mysterious reason the mouse started to malfunction when I used it on the right side of my mousepad, but worked properly on the left. Pretty interesting considering that the entire surface is perfectly uniform! I also recall that the mouse had about three separate sensitivity settings for it, not to mention whatever sensitivity settings you have in your game. I eventually uninstalled the mouse software because it was just making things more difficult.
A total waste of money. I resumed using my old Logitech MX510.
Well, anything can happen. 20 years ago the Internet was almost non-existent. 20 years before that, personal computers didn't exist (I think). I imagine that augmented reality will be completely mundane in 2026 (and the Internet will be wirelessly omnipresent).
You could do a lot of neat stuff with those glasses if they had Internet connectivity and the right software. An overlayed GPS map should be easy enough. It could even three-dimensionally show your destination as an icon, and your distance to it.
Artificial eyes and a computerized brain would be more handy, though.
Seems like a good point. Why release someone if you're almost sure that he'll repeat his crime (then again, I'd hate to be locked up for the rest of my life because some woman claims that I raped her)?
So you don't like WoW's gameplay, but what exactly does that have to do with the camera? I don't have to like Oblivion but I can still say that it has quality graphics.
Well, since you missed the entirety of what my post was about, the reason NWN's tools are different is because they not only let you create your own "maps" just like every other toolset, you are then able to direct those maps in real-time for the people playing them. That's a huge difference that very few games -- certainly none of the ones mentioned in this review or your post -- allow.
You could do that in the Source engine if you wanted to, but I don't consider the DM client to be a part of the toolset. I'm referring to the editor.
Other toolsets let you make a map that others can play in the same way they play the built-in maps, as set-in-stone creations that can only do what the map-maker originally allowed.
Uh, that's exactly what the NWN editor does (not all games are controlled by a DM).
Does Half-Life's tools let you do that? I thought not.
Nobody has a made a mod like that, but it could be done. If you want to directly compare NWN with Half-Life, could you make a flight simulator with NWN? An RTS? An FPS? Racing game? NWN's editing capabilities are very restricted compared to what you can do with most FPS games.
Uh, because the grandparent post actually MENTIONS WoW in it?? Are you just too stupid to read, or do you just like pulling your little strawman argument out of your ass?
Mentions. Not really enough to warrant yet another fanboy rant againts WoW.
WoW is an example of catering to the lowest common denominator in order to achieve sales. The fact that many people use bots to grind their way through it says something about the gameplay.
WoW is a good game, so people play it. That's why I play it. I think NWN2 is shit game, so I don't play it. That's how it tends to work.
Since the toolset is barely touched upon and the DM client mentioned not at all, this review doesn't cover the things I actually care about in determining whether or not this is a good game.
I've never understood this line of thinking. Nobody reviewed Half-Life 2 by saying "the singleplayer campaign sucks, but Valve Hammer Editor is awesome, so I'm giving this 10/10." NWN's editing tools are absolutely no different from the editing tools of other games, yet they're always granted a special status for some reason. Putting the toolset on a pedestal makes even less sense for NWN2 because it was strongly hyped for its supposedly awesome singleplayer campaign.
WoW is not a story-oriented RPG and doesn't even attempt to be.
I really love how NWN fanboys always bring up WoW, even when nobody gave them reason to. They pull this same shit on the forums all the time. WoW, it seems, is their own personal anti-Christ.
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The news.
I'm sure it's convinient to believe in a global conspiracy controlled by the US government, that way you can instantly discredit all information that contradicts your view of the world. It's actually a lot like the Muslim belief in the Zionist conspiracy.
I think it's plainly obvious that there is a threat. All the failed and succeful terrorist strikes around the world, and the words of the terrorists and their supporters clearly prove it.
During times of war, civil liberties are often curbed. The present situation is nothing like WW2 when the Japanese citizens of the US were detained and placed into prison camps. I think it's necessary to take certain steps to fight againts terrorism, but of course going overboard with civil rights restrictions and counter-terrorism laws is another matter entirely. Unfortunately, civil rights restrictions and Patriot Acts will only address the effects, while the causes are actively and willfully ignored because they are too politically incorrect.
By the way, I'm not American or British, I'm Finnish.
Yeah, I certainly haven't heard this one before. Fox News is like the anti-Christ of leftists everywhere. Supposedly they fabricate news stories from thin air. Or maybe this is just another aspect of the global conspiracy of the US government that can be always used to discredit something. Fox News is clearly a tool of the US government, so obviously we can't trust anything they say, regardless of what it is that they're actually saying. Surely it's impossible that a potential Muslim terrorist was caught (what an absurd notion!), so Fox News must have staged the whole thing. Stories like this are actually very common, and I've encountered them all over the place.
During the recent Lebanon conflict, the mainstream media was repeatedly caught spreading bogus propaganda and disinformation, and reporting staged events as hard facts (in addition to the general anti-Israel sentiments). Similiar things have been done in favor of Palestine, and still are. But, I guess it doesn't matter since these activities favor the leftists (a world view that apparently needs to be propped up with lies and fantasies, or it falls apart).
Almost all news are biased one way or another, but "biased" does not equal "incorrect." But it's repeatedly the leftists who are always accusing this or that source of being horribly biased, while seemingly suggesting that their own sources are not biased. I've often asked them if they're tapping into some pure source of unbiased, absolutely correct information somewhere, but they never answer me.
Oh, very funny. You just can't stand the idea that someone might have the moral highground. You want everyone and everything to be equal, which is one of the hallmarks of leftist thinking. If it's necessary to come up with fantasies and fabrications to do so, then by God, you'll do it.
Why do people deny reality to prop up their own fantasies? Terrorist strikes are an undeniable fact of life. They occur all the time, and plots and potential plots are discovered constantly.
IEDs and AK-47s are more useful in Iraq than the advanced technology of the US military, and it's not like the terrorists don't practise, or receive training and equipment from foreign intelligence agencies, such as Iran's.
At any rate, their suicide bombers and death squads like to target civilians, and I don't see what that has to do with fighting the US military. The Shia-Sunni war is also in progress in Iraq.
Certainly there are people like that, but most of the enemies are Jihadists (many of them foreigners).
The difference is intent, and collateral damage is more or less inevitable in any conflict. Strangely, collateral damage was never an issue during WW2, but now it's a big deal to everyone. Probably because the collateral damage consists of Victims (certain people in the leftist mindset are assigned Victim status, whereas white Christians are assigned Oppressor status).
I hate moral relativism.
Their cause is to establish global dominance, and if doing so means that they must indiscriminately slaughter civilians at random, then that's what they'll do. I'm sure as fuck not going to celeberate their cause as heroic.
Well, blowing yourself up in a cafe, bus, school or marketplace in order to kill innocent civilians seems pretty crazy and irrational to me, but I guess I'm just an extremist right wing fanatic.
Bin Laden is just one guy. Muslims commit terrorist attacks all the time. Not an hour goes by that something isn't blown up or some person executed in Iraq, Afghanistan or Thailand (I think these are the biggest hotspots at the moment, but of course less frequent attacks occur all over the planet). They manage to do all this without any CIA training.
The threat of terrorism is omnipresent. Potential terrorist plots are reported constantly, in the US and elsewhere. Some of them may be false alarms, while other are slightly more suspicious.
Don't blindly assume that popular opinion is the correct opinion. Personally, I can't figure out why Israel is always singled out (well, aside from the fact that they're Jews, which means that everyone wants them to die). I don't see anyone crying that the US shouldn't have retaliated againts Japan when they bombed Pearl Harbor.
Yeah, there are melee weapons, but I'd argue that firearms are the main focus.
Eh, sounds pretty lame. Fine for World of Warcraft, but imagine playing it with nothing but ranged weapons. You'd just stand there and exchange projectiles until somebody dies. Fallout is all about firearms, so it would be boring.
I imagine that, in order for the game to be succesful, it needs to have those traditional MMORPG elements that attract people. Namely, the acquisition of increasingly powerful items and stats. Fallout already has the skill and perks system which would probably cover the latter.
Some day, I should try running an emulator program of some sort inside an Amiga emulator. I wonder if it would be possible to run an emulator inside an emulator that's running inside an emulator. That would be really weird, to say the least.
Basically a Fallout MMORPG would be unquestionably cool, but how would they implement combat with firearms? I'm not familiar with any of the MMORPGs that have firearms, so I don't know how it's been implemented in the past. I don't really see how it would work. Fallout's combat is tactical, so that's what they should aim for (no pun intended).
They'd also have to balance the character building system (if they scrap it and make an entirely new one, it isn't going to resemble Fallout too much), and they'd have to find a way to keep players hooked. I'm having a hard time imagining WoW-style items and stat increases in Fallout. Now that I think about it, I'm having a hard time imagining Fallout as a MMORPG. Maybe I'm just trying too hard to imagine it like Fallout, but with 3D graphics and other players.
Not long ago, I bought one. I don't care what the benchmarks say, I thought it was an utterly terrible mouse. It had a really bad feel to it (probably because it's ambidextrous), the mousewheel was hard to use when your hands were sweaty, and for some mysterious reason the mouse started to malfunction when I used it on the right side of my mousepad, but worked properly on the left. Pretty interesting considering that the entire surface is perfectly uniform! I also recall that the mouse had about three separate sensitivity settings for it, not to mention whatever sensitivity settings you have in your game. I eventually uninstalled the mouse software because it was just making things more difficult.
A total waste of money. I resumed using my old Logitech MX510.
Well, anything can happen. 20 years ago the Internet was almost non-existent. 20 years before that, personal computers didn't exist (I think). I imagine that augmented reality will be completely mundane in 2026 (and the Internet will be wirelessly omnipresent).
You could do a lot of neat stuff with those glasses if they had Internet connectivity and the right software. An overlayed GPS map should be easy enough. It could even three-dimensionally show your destination as an icon, and your distance to it.
Artificial eyes and a computerized brain would be more handy, though.
The DM client may be unique, but the editor is just an editor, nothing more.
Seems like a good point. Why release someone if you're almost sure that he'll repeat his crime (then again, I'd hate to be locked up for the rest of my life because some woman claims that I raped her)?
The editor is also used for scripting, not just mapping.
So you don't like WoW's gameplay, but what exactly does that have to do with the camera? I don't have to like Oblivion but I can still say that it has quality graphics.
You could do that in the Source engine if you wanted to, but I don't consider the DM client to be a part of the toolset. I'm referring to the editor.
Uh, that's exactly what the NWN editor does (not all games are controlled by a DM).
Nobody has a made a mod like that, but it could be done. If you want to directly compare NWN with Half-Life, could you make a flight simulator with NWN? An RTS? An FPS? Racing game? NWN's editing capabilities are very restricted compared to what you can do with most FPS games.
Mentions. Not really enough to warrant yet another fanboy rant againts WoW.
WoW is a good game, so people play it. That's why I play it. I think NWN2 is shit game, so I don't play it. That's how it tends to work.
I've never understood this line of thinking. Nobody reviewed Half-Life 2 by saying "the singleplayer campaign sucks, but Valve Hammer Editor is awesome, so I'm giving this 10/10." NWN's editing tools are absolutely no different from the editing tools of other games, yet they're always granted a special status for some reason. Putting the toolset on a pedestal makes even less sense for NWN2 because it was strongly hyped for its supposedly awesome singleplayer campaign.
WoW is not a story-oriented RPG and doesn't even attempt to be.
I really love how NWN fanboys always bring up WoW, even when nobody gave them reason to. They pull this same shit on the forums all the time. WoW, it seems, is their own personal anti-Christ.