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You're really rocking the boat. Please don't try to challenge the SDN status quo too much, or I might have an epileptic seizure. Anyway, I don't really see the American Left in general rallying behind Islam. Not when the majority of Democrats approve the drone war, and a sizeable number of Democrat...

What you say is true... I just don't understand why you're so concerned. Yes, there are clueless student activists and liberal groups who want us to believe that Islam is AMAZING and needs to be coddled and insulated from criticism, but ... really, I mean, in a political environment where the Repub...

I found it interesting that he actually wrote a book with Sam Harris, who has been incredibly critical of Islam. Yes, exactly. Although Nawaz and Harris don't always see eye-to-eye on every bit of theological navel-gazing (Harris being an atheist and Nawaz being a Muslim), they do generally agree t...

So what? A comparatively large percentage of black males have hateful views toward homosexuality. Does that make it OK to discriminate against them? Of course not, and that's not what I or anyone else here is advocating for. There's a difference between discriminating against people and criticizing...

Isn't that what I just said?

I don´t know anybody who is baffled by the idea that religion can produce terrorists. Who are these baffled people and how does this bafflement show? There is a significant portion of the left, in the US and Britain (maybe elsewhere too), that insists upon bending over backward to coddle Islam, shi...

The only solution right now, as I see it, is to listen to people like Maajid Nawaz. He's been in the trenches and knows exactly what goes on in these people's heads. We Westerners are so entrenched in 2,000 years of the European-Christian geopolitical worldview, and further lulled into complacency b...

Ali A. Rizvi I think sums up this particular aspect of the debate pretty well: Which of the following statements would you say you agree with? Pick as many as you like. My answer is at the bottom. 1. Better gun control is essential to curb gun violence. 2. Islamic jihadism is a dangerous ideology th...

That sounds like lazy level design to me. Only four planets, even if they have a few different zones each, isn't what we should expect from a triple-A game. Think back to Battlefront 2 and it had more vehicles, factions, and maps at launch not to mention space combat. It sounds like DICE is hiding ...

I like TB, and he's usually pretty on point with his reviews, but in this case he's full of shit. Now, it's true that the game has some issues, and I'll be the first to talk about them. Walker Assault has map balance problems, the grenade spam is getting out of control, a few of the blasters need tw...

Another thing- Just going off the trailer, Jessica really gives me a Faith (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) vibe. Right down to aspects of her appearance. Is that just the trailer, or just in my head, or an accurate comparison? Nah. With hair, makeup, and clothes, there's maybe a passing resemblance...

I'm an addict. So much of the sound and visuals are just spot on. The blasters and laser cannons are goddamn perfect. There's even the occasional Wilhelm scream - I even got a multi-Wilhelm once. I'm so sick of games that pay varying levels of lip-service to their source material, that a game that i...

As others have said, it's better to take a wider and softer approach rather than focusing on a literalist interpretation of an arbitrary edition (1st? 2nd? 3rd? 4th? 5th? Inquisitor? Necromunda? Dark Heresy? Deathwatch? Epic?) of 40K's tabletop rules. It's a fool's errand to try to take a game's mec...

For the most part I haven't had an issue with it... but there's been a few odd notes here and there. Paladin Danse didn't like me rescuing a hostage, even though he normally likes helping innocents... but I guess the hostage was a ghoul, so maybe that's it. He also didn't like me delivering an exper...

That obsolete junk-heap T-45 set breaks a lot, yeah. On the plus side, maintenance is easy for it, requiring little more than a bit of steel. I got my hands on a T-60 set, and while the maintenance is a lot more complicated, I've yet to have a single piece fail on me, and I even took it into a strai...

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I didn't call you a "tech hating retard," I suggested you were being silly. But this argument gets dumber with each response, so hey, whatever, you win. Good job.

Again, I sincerely apologize for calling you a Luddite. My bad.

See, this is why I amended my argument to "chill the fuck out." You are blowing this far, far out of proportion. If you take my suggestion that your refusal to believe that Fallout 4 just might be 64-bit (which is what you were doing at the time, even if you've since amended that stance) i...

And as for the list of 64-bit games not being "representative" enough, you can also find entire piles of games which do not require a proper GPU and/or which run on DirectX 9 (or which even run on OpenGL!). That doesn't mean that proper graphics cards or DirectX10-12 aren't standard. That'...

Dude, dial it down a couple thousand notches. I get slinging an invective or two, I do (I'm on SDN), but you're having a nuclear meltdown over the minutiae of tech specs for a video game. Go take a walk. Executor32 beat me to the punch on the list of 64-bitters, but I'm not even sure that's the sali...

Fenix, dude, bro, guy, man. I ask this with all respect, but are you permanently living in 2008? 64-bit apps have been (very slowly, I'll grant you) taking over. The first game I played which, while technically allowing for a 32-bit OS, essentially required a 64-bit OS was APB in 2010. That was the ...

Colorado voted on whether the state could keep and spend $66 million it collected in marijuana taxes, which looks like it's passed.

NWN(2) multi is largely dependent on the toolset. i.e., what module are you playing? Someone can create entire hand-crafted modules with gazillions of hours of content, but the nature of that content varies wildly. There's plenty of such modules uploaded to various hub sites, but I haven't kept up w...

Space Marines don't actually sleep. They can shut down a part of their brain which puts them into a half-sleep kind of state during which they can still fully function whilst resting. SCIENCE! No. Space Marines absolutely do sleep, they can just temporarily suspend the immediate need to do so under...

A Space Marine is trained to recognize signs of psychic influence, and to resist it, as psykers (the 'Warhammer 40,000' term for "psychics") themselves are vulnerable to DAEMONIC influence. Someone is infiltrating his dreams? Alert the Librarian (a Space Marine with psychic powers)! Alert...

Here's the thing Payday 1 has it's charms and it's missions have for the most part better internal stories, but at the end of day Payday 2 is a superior game as it has more varied and interesting missions... minus the fact that Payday 1 still has better combat chatter. In Payday 1 your heisters are...