@bigcrusha: The issue with what you propose is its not realistic in any reasonable fashion, and some of the things you suggest have little to no bearing on gun violence such as your proposed concealed handguns regulations, along with the fact that you want control of initial first party sales of fireams, which shows that somewhere between 3-10% of those are involved in violent crime. Your statements are typical of someone who wants to control guns, but fail to understand how to do it in a reasonable fashion, and do it in a way that will actually have an impact on the problem of violent crime in america, which gun control will not do in any meaningful fashion. The fact that you talk about border control and prohibition is laughable, as anyone who knows anything about the history of the US can tell you it is not possible to control, all you have to do is look at the 40+ year war on drugs, which has been a failure, along with immigration, as well as the history of prohibition of alcohol to see what would happen.
Attempting to control "GUNS" while ignoring the violence is only a recipe for failure, and nothing will ever come of it.
@bloodybonesbr The game is good enough to buy,if you want to focus on the story aspects of it. Personally, after 15-20 hours i find the negative aspects of the game to be a horribly bad combat system, & poor design of looting/searching , you run around spamming your search key to highlight things 100% of the time.
Overall, its basically a cut down MMO class/skill system mated to an action RPG system, and it fails as bad as DA2 did. Playing on nightmare the combat is not a challenge, its just tedious. The lack of strategy and tactics is pretty obvious. Class skill selections is just as generic, which does not help the combat any.
The game is solid, well done, bug free, and has improved vastly over the mess that was DA2. If you want a good RPG though, your better off looking elsewhere, as this is really just an interactive movie game, with some serious flaws. i would still rate it at 7.5-8.0 out of 10 because there is enough entertainment in the stories and character interactions to make it worthwhile.
All marketing does is raise consumer expectations to a level that most publishers and developers can not meet in order to create buzz and hype, so that they can sell product. Marketing does not destroy the wonder of games, or kill it at all beyond what i stated.
The wonder of games is being killed or basically comes out DOA in games like Watch Dog's, bioshock infinite, dead island and many others is the fact that in the world of Multi-million dollar productions, no risk can be taken and creativity and innovation are basically told to take a hike and have no input into the overall product beyond the basics. Wonder can be put into games, but it requires more then just taking the standard pre-packaged concepts that were used in the previous similar titles and shoving them into the latest and greatest newest game which is coming soon to a store near you.
There are enough games out there, that have wonder, and innovation, and are worth playing, its just a matter of finding them. The only real difference is, that very few of those games, are coming from the established publishers and developers that normally control the AAA sector of the gaming industry.
Sigh yet another MMO clone, TOR, fails to keep up with costs and dumps its staff in an effort to recoup its 100 million dollar plus investment, of a game that is essentially an average MMO within the Star wars universe.
the simple truth is, that MMO genre is flooded with clones, and elder scrolls is not going to do anything new or different or intriguing when it comes out. it will see the same initial sales, then crash as the consumers leave due to lack of content, gameplay, and other features that are just copy and pasted from previous games.
The other simple truth, is that the monthly sub fee for MMOs is dead. Outside of a couple of games which have a fanbase, the sub fee does not allow investors to recoup profits fast enough to offset the risk. The next great thing will most likely come from a smaller studio, and be something different enough to keep peoples attention. the only thing to rival that will be blizzards new game, since they have a very loyal fanbase.
Changing the ending at this point is rather silly, it accomplishes nothing beyond appeasing people who cant be appeased anyway. I disliked the ending myself, because i felt it did not do justice to the series. There is no reason to change the ending, now instead of a poor ending to a good series, we will end up with a mass of varying endings, that only confuse the issue.
I detested the last 8 minutes of ME3, frankly it turned a pretty decent story into trash. that said, the ending is the ending. trying to create some alternate ending as a fan,because i do not like what bioware did, is absurd.
Is anyone really surprised at the fall off bioware has had over the last few years. Its just classic EA basically gutting the studio of any creative talent as they have done with most every other company they absorb. Its not even a PC vs Console issue, just what happens when a creative talented company is taken over by EA, who's only interest is churning out product to make money,regardless of its quality.
this is a horrible guide for a new PC build. It overspends on water cooling, CPU & ram, while wasting money on a SSD drive that is to small to be useful. On top of that it buys a mid-high range GPU from a crappy manufacturer PNY, which is clearly the bottleneck on the system. While the ram is understandable given the price of ram these days, wasting an extra 170$ on a I7 is a joke, and an OC of 4.5 with water is a waste of water cooling. An i5 will reach nearly the same OC on air, with a 50$ aftermarket heatsink & fan combo.To top it all off the 60GB SSD is useless, since it will hold a grand total of one to two games(hello rage), along with the OS.
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