TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
That moment when you're certain that you failed to back up some files in December of 2011 that have suddenly become crucial but then you find them and are reminded that you've been consistently awesome since 1987, motherfuckers
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
Aren't Korean games really just war simulators to see who will finally rule over the peninsula?
Hint: It's the Chinese
have you seen that lol map of China's claims to the south China sea? It's incredible. It's just all China. All of it. Even the bits of it in other countries, that's China too.
It's hard to take any Chinese territorial claim seriously when they seem to be operating under the principle that the planet is China, the rest of us just don't know it yet.
This is actually a bit of an oversimplification of the South China Sea disputes and the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute.
The South China Sea dispute has to be broken down into the Philippines dispute and the Vietnamese dispute.
The Philippines is mostly around the continental self since the islands are so tiny they are mostly rocks. This one is seems like a land grab but is also tied to tons of Chinese energy imports flow through this part of the world.
The Vietnamese dispute is actually based on an agreement between Mao and Ho Chi Min in the 1960s where they drew arbitrary dashes giving Vietnam territory it probably wouldn't of controlled otherwise. This was discovered to contain a good amount of hydrocarbons recently. China pushed for joint exploitation but Vietnam did unilateral exploitation then fucked up its loans and now there isn't much but platforms not producing. China really just wants the rights to tap the oil but is also in the mood to push its neighbors around.
Senkaku/Diaoyu was taken by Japan in the 1895 war with China. It was considered conquered Chinese territory and the US took ownership after WWII. In the lat 1960s a UN geological survey found oil deposits. The US gave the Island back to Japan instead of China in the 1970s. Pissed off China but it was put to the side by Deng Xiaopeng. Has come up recently as the oil deposits can now be tapped and there is an estimated 95-100 billion barrels of oil there. On top of the CCP has built a lot of legitimacy in the last 20 years off anti-Japanese rhetoric and claims on protecting and retaking Chinese land.
Wow this got to huge post size fast.
There are a couple more disputed areas with each of those countries and China but most of those are about EEZs and fishing rights. Less likely to cause major incidents.
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Mojo_JojoWe are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourseRegistered Userregular
Dude. You don't even know how weird the Star Trek obsession can be in Mississippi. It's fucking bizarre. Here you have a series that's basically about the best of humanity, equality, true freedom of (or from) religion, etc. And yet, somehow rednecks fucking love it, and the point is lost on them.
I think it's because Bones is from MS.
We can test that theory. Do they show Night of the Lepus on TV a lot?
The rest was amazing. It's all building and building and you're really feeling like you are accomplishing something big and then WHAM.
But on positive, at least we got multiplayer out of it. I hope that if they do intend to do another they keep that in some way.
i've written enough about why the last 20 minutes of ME3 were terrible, and i hope the fuckface who came up with that was fired from his job due in part to the massive amount of shit that bioware caught for his "art" but mostly due to the fact that he liked to shit his pants in the office and played his awful music way too loud. i bet he also stops randomly on the street to stare up at buildings but that's neither here nor there.
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Casey Hudson and Mac Walters were not fired for that ending
Aren't Korean games really just war simulators to see who will finally rule over the peninsula?
Hint: It's the Chinese
have you seen that lol map of China's claims to the south China sea? It's incredible. It's just all China. All of it. Even the bits of it in other countries, that's China too.
It's hard to take any Chinese territorial claim seriously when they seem to be operating under the principle that the planet is China, the rest of us just don't know it yet.
This is actually a bit of an oversimplification of the South China Sea disputes and the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute.
The South China Sea dispute has to be broken down into the Philippines dispute and the Vietnamese dispute.
The Philippines is mostly around the continental self since the islands are so tiny they are mostly rocks. This one is seems like a land grab but is also tied to tons of Chinese energy imports flow through this part of the world.
The Vietnamese dispute is actually based on an agreement between Mao and Ho Chi Min in the 1960s where they drew arbitrary dashes giving Vietnam territory it probably wouldn't of controlled otherwise. This was discovered to contain a good amount of hydrocarbons recently. China pushed for joint exploitation but Vietnam did unilateral exploitation then fucked up its loans and now there isn't much but platforms not producing. China really just wants the rights to tap the oil but is also in the mood to push its neighbors around.
Senkaku/Diaoyu was taken by Japan in the 1895 war with China. It was considered conquered Chinese territory and the US took ownership after WWII. In the lat 1960s a UN geological survey found oil deposits. The US gave the Island back to Japan instead of China in the 1970s. Pissed off China but it was put to the side by Deng Xiaopeng. Has come up recently as the oil deposits can now be tapped and there is an estimated 95-100 billion barrels of oil there. On top of the CCP has built a lot of legitimacy in the last 20 years off anti-Japanese rhetoric and claims on protecting and retaking Chinese land.
Wow this got to huge post size fast.
I get that the Chinese feel like they have very compelling reasons for why everyone's base are belong to them, but its still fucking bullshit. Claiming sea hundreds of miles away from your mainland, right up to the coastline of every other nation in the region is bullshit. I don't even mean the senkaku thing that could go either way, but claiming all Vietnam and the Philippines territorial waters is objectively indefenceable.
It would be the same as the UK looking at Norway and saying "well, our military is bigger than theirs and they have lots of oil, fuck it their sea belongs to us now".
Aren't Korean games really just war simulators to see who will finally rule over the peninsula?
Hint: It's the Chinese
have you seen that lol map of China's claims to the south China sea? It's incredible. It's just all China. All of it. Even the bits of it in other countries, that's China too.
It's hard to take any Chinese territorial claim seriously when they seem to be operating under the principle that the planet is China, the rest of us just don't know it yet.
This is actually a bit of an oversimplification of the South China Sea disputes and the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute.
The South China Sea dispute has to be broken down into the Philippines dispute and the Vietnamese dispute.
The Philippines is mostly around the continental self since the islands are so tiny they are mostly rocks. This one is seems like a land grab but is also tied to tons of Chinese energy imports flow through this part of the world.
The Vietnamese dispute is actually based on an agreement between Mao and Ho Chi Min in the 1960s where they drew arbitrary dashes giving Vietnam territory it probably wouldn't of controlled otherwise. This was discovered to contain a good amount of hydrocarbons recently. China pushed for joint exploitation but Vietnam did unilateral exploitation then fucked up its loans and now there isn't much but platforms not producing. China really just wants the rights to tap the oil but is also in the mood to push its neighbors around.
Senkaku/Diaoyu was taken by Japan in the 1895 war with China. It was considered conquered Chinese territory and the US took ownership after WWII. In the lat 1960s a UN geological survey found oil deposits. The US gave the Island back to Japan instead of China in the 1970s. Pissed off China but it was put to the side by Deng Xiaopeng. Has come up recently as the oil deposits can now be tapped and there is an estimated 95-100 billion barrels of oil there. On top of the CCP has built a lot of legitimacy in the last 20 years off anti-Japanese rhetoric and claims on protecting and retaking Chinese land.
Wow this got to huge post size fast.
I get that the Chinese feel like they have very compelling reasons for why everyone's base are belong to them, but its still fucking bullshit. Claiming sea hundreds of miles away from your mainland, right up to the coastline of every other nation in the region is bullshit. I don't even mean the senkaku thing that could go either way, but claiming all Vietnam and the Philippines territorial waters is objectively indefenceable.
It would be the same as the UK looking at Norway and saying "well, our military is bigger than theirs and they have lots of oil, fuck it their sea belongs to us now".
The U.K. didn't do it to Norway. They did it to Iceland.
Aren't Korean games really just war simulators to see who will finally rule over the peninsula?
Hint: It's the Chinese
have you seen that lol map of China's claims to the south China sea? It's incredible. It's just all China. All of it. Even the bits of it in other countries, that's China too.
It's hard to take any Chinese territorial claim seriously when they seem to be operating under the principle that the planet is China, the rest of us just don't know it yet.
This is actually a bit of an oversimplification of the South China Sea disputes and the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute.
The South China Sea dispute has to be broken down into the Philippines dispute and the Vietnamese dispute.
The Philippines is mostly around the continental self since the islands are so tiny they are mostly rocks. This one is seems like a land grab but is also tied to tons of Chinese energy imports flow through this part of the world.
The Vietnamese dispute is actually based on an agreement between Mao and Ho Chi Min in the 1960s where they drew arbitrary dashes giving Vietnam territory it probably wouldn't of controlled otherwise. This was discovered to contain a good amount of hydrocarbons recently. China pushed for joint exploitation but Vietnam did unilateral exploitation then fucked up its loans and now there isn't much but platforms not producing. China really just wants the rights to tap the oil but is also in the mood to push its neighbors around.
Senkaku/Diaoyu was taken by Japan in the 1895 war with China. It was considered conquered Chinese territory and the US took ownership after WWII. In the lat 1960s a UN geological survey found oil deposits. The US gave the Island back to Japan instead of China in the 1970s. Pissed off China but it was put to the side by Deng Xiaopeng. Has come up recently as the oil deposits can now be tapped and there is an estimated 95-100 billion barrels of oil there. On top of the CCP has built a lot of legitimacy in the last 20 years off anti-Japanese rhetoric and claims on protecting and retaking Chinese land.
Wow this got to huge post size fast.
While Casual did oversimplify, he wasn't really wrong.
Yes and no.
China doesn't see itself as the planet. It still has a very sino-centric view. But so have a very American-centric view.
And though it is partially a land grab. It is a land grab following legal precedents they have signed. And very much tied to China's need for domestic energy production since they import so much from the gulf the US could cut it off with a few ships in the Malacca Strait.
The map is funny but again China is using what it considers traditional claims. This will probably end up in bilateral negotiations and if the Philippines and Vietnam were smart they would force to the Court from the Convention on the Law of the Sea. Of course that would piss China off but they signed the treaty too.
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I am Bizarro Geth.
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
mordin and geth were my 2 favorite characters next to my bro garrus.
latino roid bro was a good addition though.
i just didn't want geth or mordin to die
:'[
I had ME1 and 3 on 360 and 2 on my PC.
It was really disappointing and I really wish I had got 2 on the 360. Geth is not in ME3 at all for me, I just got some dumb new guy. Wrex and a few other characters are gone, too. Fortunately Mordin remained.
The rest was amazing. It's all building and building and you're really feeling like you are accomplishing something big and then WHAM.
But on positive, at least we got multiplayer out of it. I hope that if they do intend to do another they keep that in some way.
i've written enough about why the last 20 minutes of ME3 were terrible, and i hope the fuckface who came up with that was fired from his job due in part to the massive amount of shit that bioware caught for his "art" but mostly due to the fact that he liked to shit his pants in the office and played his awful music way too loud. i bet he also stops randomly on the street to stare up at buildings but that's neither here nor there.
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Casey Hudson and Mac Walters were not fired for that ending
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
Dude. You don't even know how weird the Star Trek obsession can be in Mississippi. It's fucking bizarre. Here you have a series that's basically about the best of humanity, equality, true freedom of (or from) religion, etc. And yet, somehow rednecks fucking love it, and the point is lost on them.
I think it's because Bones is from MS.
We can test that theory. Do they show Night of the Lepus on TV a lot?
when the local stations still controlled a lot of the programing
Looks like there's a Firefall open beta this weekend. I think I'm gonna try it out. Anyone else?
For that matter, anyone tried the game already?
I played it a bit. Its not a bad concept and can be fun. But I found there really is only a few things to do PvE. And those things get boring very quickly. But if you are into PvP I think it probably has a bit more depth. The company has this maniacal focus on trying to make the next big E-Sport.
with mordin at least there is a specific combination of choices from me2 that will allow you to save him in me3.
You can keep him alive at the cost of Eve and Wrex (who may already be dead anyway), and basically making him betray his own ideals by letting the Krogan genophage continue. Mordin's death feels right for the character, and while it's sad it's also fitting and a brilliant scene.
So if I wanted to be a writer, hypothetically (because other than a strong interest during my childhood and adolescence, I haven't shown any evidence that I would be succesful), what would I do? Just go to school for an Bachelors in Engish and write?
Aren't Korean games really just war simulators to see who will finally rule over the peninsula?
Hint: It's the Chinese
have you seen that lol map of China's claims to the south China sea? It's incredible. It's just all China. All of it. Even the bits of it in other countries, that's China too.
It's hard to take any Chinese territorial claim seriously when they seem to be operating under the principle that the planet is China, the rest of us just don't know it yet.
This is actually a bit of an oversimplification of the South China Sea disputes and the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute.
The South China Sea dispute has to be broken down into the Philippines dispute and the Vietnamese dispute.
The Philippines is mostly around the continental self since the islands are so tiny they are mostly rocks. This one is seems like a land grab but is also tied to tons of Chinese energy imports flow through this part of the world.
The Vietnamese dispute is actually based on an agreement between Mao and Ho Chi Min in the 1960s where they drew arbitrary dashes giving Vietnam territory it probably wouldn't of controlled otherwise. This was discovered to contain a good amount of hydrocarbons recently. China pushed for joint exploitation but Vietnam did unilateral exploitation then fucked up its loans and now there isn't much but platforms not producing. China really just wants the rights to tap the oil but is also in the mood to push its neighbors around.
Senkaku/Diaoyu was taken by Japan in the 1895 war with China. It was considered conquered Chinese territory and the US took ownership after WWII. In the lat 1960s a UN geological survey found oil deposits. The US gave the Island back to Japan instead of China in the 1970s. Pissed off China but it was put to the side by Deng Xiaopeng. Has come up recently as the oil deposits can now be tapped and there is an estimated 95-100 billion barrels of oil there. On top of the CCP has built a lot of legitimacy in the last 20 years off anti-Japanese rhetoric and claims on protecting and retaking Chinese land.
Wow this got to huge post size fast.
There are a couple more disputed areas with each of those countries and China but most of those are about EEZs and fishing rights. Less likely to cause major incidents.
Outside China has been playing it more as territorial than EEZ negotiations. Also energy rights tend to make them prickly. I doubt they will really go after the Philippines. This has already moved Vietnam more towards the US with us having high level talks. And well, China and Japan are the area it could blow up. The recent Japanese election and the new folks in power in China do not signal an end to it.
Really the smart move was to bring it to the UNCLOS court but China rather deal with it bilaterally so they can throw their economic weight around.
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So if I wanted to be a writer, hypothetically (because other than a strong interest during my childhood and adolescence, I haven't shown any evidence that I would be succesful), what would I do? Just go to school for an Bachelors in Engish and write?
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Dude. No worries. We acknowleged each other and moved the fuck on. Im not a big locker room conversationalist.
There are a couple more disputed areas with each of those countries and China but most of those are about EEZs and fishing rights. Less likely to cause major incidents.
I tried it last year sometime. It seemed to have potential but there was not enough content at the time to make any real judgement.
pinkitar me!
This is my hackjob taken directly from SC's av:
Or am I just conflating things.
We can test that theory. Do they show Night of the Lepus on TV a lot?
did you see each others ds
who is the dominant male
I am now deeply scared.
Saved it on my phone
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Casey Hudson and Mac Walters were not fired for that ending
I get that the Chinese feel like they have very compelling reasons for why everyone's base are belong to them, but its still fucking bullshit. Claiming sea hundreds of miles away from your mainland, right up to the coastline of every other nation in the region is bullshit. I don't even mean the senkaku thing that could go either way, but claiming all Vietnam and the Philippines territorial waters is objectively indefenceable.
It would be the same as the UK looking at Norway and saying "well, our military is bigger than theirs and they have lots of oil, fuck it their sea belongs to us now".
i already explained why the ending of me3 didn't bother me so i wont go over that again except to note my disagreement with the chat consensus
abortion debates on Facebook
or possibly the opposite
The U.K. didn't do it to Norway. They did it to Iceland.
Yes and no.
China doesn't see itself as the planet. It still has a very sino-centric view. But so have a very American-centric view.
And though it is partially a land grab. It is a land grab following legal precedents they have signed. And very much tied to China's need for domestic energy production since they import so much from the gulf the US could cut it off with a few ships in the Malacca Strait.
The map is funny but again China is using what it considers traditional claims. This will probably end up in bilateral negotiations and if the Philippines and Vietnam were smart they would force to the Court from the Convention on the Law of the Sea. Of course that would piss China off but they signed the treaty too.
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
I had ME1 and 3 on 360 and 2 on my PC.
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when the local stations still controlled a lot of the programing
yes, actually.
I played it a bit. Its not a bad concept and can be fun. But I found there really is only a few things to do PvE. And those things get boring very quickly. But if you are into PvP I think it probably has a bit more depth. The company has this maniacal focus on trying to make the next big E-Sport.
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you make a franchise that has probably 120 hours of content and you wrap it up with 5 minutes of deus ex machina
how can they not be fired
how is that possible in a just world
Outside China has been playing it more as territorial than EEZ negotiations. Also energy rights tend to make them prickly. I doubt they will really go after the Philippines. This has already moved Vietnam more towards the US with us having high level talks. And well, China and Japan are the area it could blow up. The recent Japanese election and the new folks in power in China do not signal an end to it.
Really the smart move was to bring it to the UNCLOS court but China rather deal with it bilaterally so they can throw their economic weight around.
forced impregnation debates?
how could they do that
deus ex machina is soooooooooo lazy
i have never played ME but it's always just a disappointment
Just write.