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I think its only fair to point out that what's being called Islamic culture declined when Genghis Khan and friends rode through. Lots of places where the Khaganate took hold, places like Baghdad, never fully recovered. Maybe a comparison could be made between the Macedonian system that came to domin...

Yes, it is still well done comparatively to other games. It is just less interesting than the prequel, so far. John now, as then is a good or conventional man forced into bad situations or forced into doing bad things. While he seems mildly ashamed of his past wrongdoings, none of them stick to him ...

Posts from over a decade ago about the same conflict shows that the problem just festers and becomes more bitter and worse in general the longer both hold the sides back. . Yes and true Question is WHY ? Why things festers and become more bitter ? ? Who WERE the "Arbiter(s)" of world prob...

I think this line of thinking unproductive. With my own two eyes, and with out of date info now, what I saw in bits of Europe was not what I grew up in my part of America. Lots of people who looked like they fell right off the turnip truck- to put it crudely. These guys were even tinier than our lit...

. In Australia, 26 million people , one women killed every 4 days If : "Share of . . ." means "Percentage of . . ." which is independent of the size of the population. art above says Iran has least 2 times Australian violence against women, and, 100 million population (4 times A...

Posts from over a decade ago about the same conflict shows that the problem just festers and becomes more bitter and worse in general the longer both hold the sides back.

What distinguishes criminal law from civil law is punishment. Society determines some actions are so abhorrent that the remedy of $$ to the victim is insufficient. The criminal himself must suffer some kind of violence inflicted by society, because society as a whole has been victimized by the act....

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John Marston is a detached, fool. All the guilt of the past they try to hit him over the head with doesn't really stick. Even if it did hit, the game is anxious about making him an actual bad guy.

They got their verdict.

Sick of arguing details. The message is clear, Republicans are outside the law. The lesson is learned and its only going to get uglier from here.

And all for Trump? Very unfortunate.

I see in the Netherlands' thread that Parodite is a supporter of the Berlusconi plan :

Immigration is a motte-and-bailey argument. ----------- As fertility rates have dropped or are dropping globally, there is no future to catering to imagined, new communities either. As noddy has pointed out, so much of this is fueled by large business looking for a short-term windfall to their inter...

Oh I'm not second guessing our great Chinese future relation with the "Global South"



Such progress. I can't comprehend such relations!

That new world order I keep hearing about is looking an awful lot like the current one.

Just that this time, we have Chinamen caning Africans to work the mines harder and a group of people on a suicidal mission to start WWIII to prove their importance.

We are a quarter of the way through Red Dead Redemption 1. Okay, it's pretty great despite its age and mechanical issues. There is very little difference between this and 2. It's all one piece. Coming at it from playing 2 first, we are still leaning slightly into the 2 camp as being the better one. ...

I still like the idea of Void Bastards if not the execution. Just read that it was an Australian/Canadian company, but its not immediately popping up how big Blue Manchu (the developer) is. Reading an interview with a designer gives me the impression that a lot of time was spent working on or imagin...