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Science is good. But Freudian extremes are awful. In my opinion science isn't capable of reaching conclusive answers when psychologists in more closed, private discussions openly state that homosexualism is an illness. For fear of being blamed as a homophobe. We're still with psychology and psychiatry in its infancy. We practiced lobotomy just half a century ago. At least for this reason laws should not be hurried to change. I'll tell you why. The right to not be tortured/killed/harmed is absolute just as the right to life. It does not distinguish from what you see yourself as. That's the purpose of anti-discrimination laws against LGBT. Yes, it makes perfect sense here. But not IMHO to legalize same sex marriage and domestic partnerships, adoptions of children by these couples etc. etc. ​Liberals are despised in Russia. But the honest ones like Nemtsov or Lystiev get murdered. The ones who are under control, on a leash, who are sons and daughters, done favours and stuff for rich ruling class elite have protection and so they go about compromising any idea. Including that of a working opposition in Russia and elsewhere in the post soviet space. This is mostly cheap pop stars mixed with hysterical tasteless TV bloat starting from Boris Moiseev, to Natalia Morari to Sobchak (ex-mayor of Moscow and his daughter) and so on. Obviously they have very liberal lifestyles and thus aren't even fighting for LGBT in reality. Just sort of going with the fad for fame and attention.

In religion slavery is a metaphor. A huge allegory that goes as a synonym for all followers. ​When talking about LGBT rights, let's get a few things straight: usually we start with the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights which under broad interpretation, extensively might include expansive rights for LGBT communities. There's also some non mandatory UN Resolution but the Council of Europe has recommendations of its own too. The two major points is ​one​ - equality of chances, and decriminalization and non discrimination. That I agree with completely. The state is not supposed to be an absolute guardian of morality. It's not rational and it's not realistically possible to regulate all human activity. If we have a group of hipsters, let them live as they see fit until they reach maturity. The ​second​ point is allowing LGBT communities to get civil partnerships (domestic partnerships, it's called variously in different countries) and/or full marriage equivalent to traditional families. On this is my fundamental disagreement. The state should not legalize and get involved in normalizing this situation. My argument is that as long we have torture, capital punishment, rape, religious, racial segregation - why do we talk about LGBT? Far as I'm concerned it's a whim. I collaborated with Amnesty Moldova for a while, but when they got their priorities wrong and started to work more on LGBT, it turned me off. It feels like a recipe for a storm. And when something happens in the country and things go south - these communities are just part of the snobbish, cosmopolitan, hypocrite hippies that pretend to be over it, even if they helped a protest or some important issue get ignored or misunderstood. I view the LGBT community as part of the false liberals right now collaborating with the Russian authoritarian regime, and part of the reason why Ukraine or Moldova never had proper political movements. LGBT contributes to the problem, disorients society and I'm certain their contribution to the political landscape around the world is approximately the same. They're annoying, they get in the way and they represent everything I hate. Yes, animals do that and homosexuality existed for much of Ancient times. I don't accept the evolutionary theory but I do believe that as humans, it's important to realize that homosexuality included is beneath our dignity, our rationality. We are clearly distinguished from animals (or from other animals biologically puritan speaking) by our intellect and rationality. That's why rape is not normal and why IMHO it's much more important to achiev gender equality​ than to pretend that LGBT rights should be thrown in this as well. Human rights isn't a hipster club. There's people that do the work in shadow and others that like to take the credit and get a shiny CV.

Speaking philosophically LGBT rights don't matter because it's not natural. My bias is not religious. Slavery is clearly immoral. Why is LGBT supposed to be a right? Like the right to marry a tree or a cat. "Scientists conducting research in the field and assessing that homosexuality is also love" are just delivering a political thing, waste of time. Words of gold right here:

Don't forget that in many countries Sharia law applies. I'm convinced that the likelihood of recruiting terrorists has a lot less fertile ground in a secular country. Neither does Europe live by church cannons exactly. It took centuries to overcome the Catholic/Protestant war. That's what muslims have now with the sunni/shia differend .

The right for getting a foreign citizenship or to get the status of refugee/asylum is not absolute. It is supported by both the European Convention and the 1951 Refugee Convention from Geneva. The general idea goes down to the fact that unless your country isn't going to mistreat/torture/kill you - there's no objective reason why you should be a refugee. That is why Afghani nationals often get deported. Right now the EU at least needs a functioning, well balanced mechanism to distinguish people with a shady background/economic migrants from real people who are harmless, innocent, and who are seriously, realistically going to integrate in the European civilization by getting a refugee status and eventually, maybe a citizenship. NOT​ people from regions in Syria, Afghanistan, Lybia that were never touched by war or who are not under direct danger. They do get their money somehow to travel right? It's discussable. It is imperiously counterproductive to talk about LGBT rights when priorities of the world are set to fight terrorism, dodge the migrant crisis, build sustainable peace and maintain sustainable economic activity against Chinese dominance and et cetera, et cetera. In Europe it is quite obvious how shifting the public dialogue from important points - ghettoes with migrants in the middle of France and Germany to secondary issues as LGBT is not clever. Personally I don't see why Homosexua/LGBT/Transgender is even worth discussing when even developed hi-tech Japan doesn't care to legalize it. We're wasting our time.​ They aren't worth our attention. It's just a whim and an extreme liberal left intellectual delusion. I did not mean profit. I mean that the world is changing and that the EU institutions and Western democracies in Europe fail to realize that the migrant and terrorist crisis need a different approach. Hence many countries refusing to take refugees with the quota system.

According to some Romanian media that shouldn't be much of a problem when Poland successfully lustrated old elites that collaborated with communists, leaving only some people in the justice system such as castes of judges having any influence that damages the credibility of the system. ​The nationalist resurgence is all over the place today. But that doesn't mean the Russian sympathizers won't stop being marginal groups in Poland, Romania and elsewhere - which is a good thing. Today Hungary suffers from that. Today the Visegrad Group is more relevant than ever for changing the EU and these countries obviously have differences with Germany in how it should be done. That's the explanation I see with the new party in Poland coming to power. Good thing neither Poland nor Romania are in the Eurozone for that regard. Today we are the fastest growing economies in the EU. The catch is that by looking at the Visegrad group you can see much more American influence that benefits us all as a whole. IMHO the American model is the best to follow. It doesn't mean copy/paste by no stretch of the imagination. My country is still in the 1930's with mafia wars. Balance comes with time and pressure at opportune times to consolidate the institutions based on rule of law​ when 2 or more clans are fighting. That's how Romania sentenced their Prime Minister and how the current party at government can't do what it wishes when the people and the civil society knows where their country belongs and what the future of the nation is. Rendering by the way the whole political class outdated. Including the opposition and the Angela Merkel-eschy president Klaus Iohannis.

Foreign fighters are a glorified minority in these groups. From Caucasus to Syria to Afghanistan's Taliban. 90% are locals in these conflicts. Quite on the contrary. Western liberalism is a lazy slacking off to bear no responsibility for what goes on in external policy in the Middle East and elsewhere. ​That's why a healthy, pragmatic centrist balance between right wing and left wing ideas is a sine qua non point where we'll find ground to stand up to the terrorist and migrant crisis. Equilibrium and common sense. Priorities. ​In that regard new Central and Eastern European democracies have a very profound feel of the dangers and steps to take for the purpose of avoiding old mistakes. A thing that your country understands and reacts to adequately. In the same way that Romania or the Baltics understood it. The issue is more with Germany and Merkel pedantically insisting on an absolute and extensive human rights concept towards migrants. If in the past it was National-Socialism, now it's the same machine going for the other extreme. That's what's scary. We'll see what the elections bring. And totally agreed, democracy is a highly individual thing for each country.

Why is liberalism the default approach to fighting terrorism? As long as there is a handful of theocratic dictatorships like Iran that promote anti-american sentiments, continue to flirt with Russia - the civilized world has all the justification not to go hugging Muslims without reasonable suspicion. Think about it. In Europe a lot of them, 70% maybe aren't born in Europe. It's their burden to make the effort to integrate and the duty of the government to check them. Human rights has priorities. You can't talk about LGBT when people might die like that. In that sense, of course Trump's wall is silly. But his current of thought is a much needed cold shower for Europe. Just like Brexit in a way. Fortunately for us, situations of crisis make true democracies only stronger. That is when totalitary, authoritary regimes stagnate and wither. UAE and Saudi Arabia as nbmohr1more said, exist. But only for the same reasons as Egypt with Al-Sisi. Yet It's an internal thing for those countries to change like Tunisia or Algeirs into democracy. It takes time, struggle and more stability. TL:DR when the muslim civilization won't be forced anymore to choose between Shia, Sunni or one dictator clan versus another - that is when the civil war between sunni and Shia stops and more Arab countries rally for something that makes sense for the civilised world, that is human rights and secularism. It takes time.

No it's commonplace. I use Win 10 too. http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18645-tdm-updater-stuck-in-loop/ Just download the new updater from www.thedarkmod.com and replace it with your old one. Then try again.

Pathologic demo is out. Called the Marble Nest. To try it click Download Demo: http://store.steampowered.com/app/505230 Sys. requirements are approximately 8 GB of Ram, 1 GB Video card and something similar to an Intel i3 Core.

Not 100% conventional but the Pathologic: Marble Nest is released. It's a demo of the future game and it has great art for inspiration. Just click Download Demo. http://store.steampowered.com/app/505230

That was from a really good movie that goes by the name: "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events".

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/witcher-creator-laments-stupid-decision-to-shun-game-revenue-share/0180541

The problem is when it comes to low end users. These things should be optional in any scenario so that there is choice for those who want to use more eye candy. No pressure. Besides 64 bit will take ages.

Not exactly a bragging right worth aiming for. Let's see if the correspondence with Steam leads somewhere and how making a limited liability organization will turn out.

And you have to be registered in the US as a mandatory condition?

I do think the background image on the sides could vary more than just a slideshow of concept art. We can see concept art in credits anyway. Thief 3's main menu was the best IMHO. Was never a fan of the gear factory in Thief 1 and 2 menu.

What do you mean by that?

This song is worth of a grandiose meme!

How is that even possible with the other free games? A different Creative Commons license standardized for the whim of Steam?

Ah yeah, they say New Vegas is supposed to bring what was lost with Fallout 1. One thing I won't deny is the good music choice for every Fallout game!

Fallout 4 really better than Fallout 3? Fallout 3 had decent DLC content if memory serves right. Alien Mothership, harbor in a swamp, Pittsburg factories, Alaska WW3 scenario with China.

They lost their bearings after Mass Effect 2's cheap cliffhanger and the inability to compete with Witcher probably. Without saying that Mass Effect 1 is a pretty self sufficient story without the need for sequels. It's like The Godfather 1 and 2 that didn't really need that 3'rd one to end the trilogy. Some franchises just need to end. Out of respect for the consumer first of all.

With some modifications into 2.06 or it's going to be a long term goal?

Enemies exist regardless, it's about the answer to a threat that is proportional to such a threat. Everybody likes to forget how successful the Gulf War was, to remember the mistakes of the Iraq War, Afghanistan. But the truth was always the same whether a dictatorship is there to cover the ugly side of its activity with a curtain or let free market, free press and some democratic tendencies to slowly slide in. The status quo constantly changes against the favour of dictatorships like Russia, Iran which are unable to adapt or influence the situation. So why not spew a seed of existential doubt and some nihilism? The truth is that developing countries, developing democracies in transitional periods are as fragile as South Vietnam without any programme to consolidate the existing institutions. Democracy is not just the will of the people. That was when 60% voted to eat the other 40% for breakfast. Democracy means building independent instituions based on rule of law, regardless of the government voted.