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Anderson

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  1. I think he wan unaware if such a feature exists or not. No pressure. Likewise as people find ad-hoc, that bodies can be picked up and not just dragged. Because picking up bodies was so quintessential for the Thief games, in the mechanics of how things worked anyway.
  2. Putin and his circles are happy of Trump as patients from a psychiatric hospital for a new supervisor. They have no idea about western politics. They attempt to confuse things to reap maximum profits, to extend to the maximum the borders and then ditch in apparently until a dead end. Or a revolution when those circles that brought Putin to power, understand that there is no good solution. Up to now, the fear of Trump's pro-russiannes acutally made Congress and the current administration more engaged than ever in setting the screws for more anti-russian policies. So, in a way a Clinton win would never bring this result. Like a patient that resists medication, but in the end he'll end up getting his whole leg amputated. It is very possible that The Art of The Deal actually may become the best offer for the world, seeing the increasing threat of China and Russia. It would also be somewhat unfair at this point to accuse Trump openly of any unconfirmed rumours never set in stone on foreign policy once he didn't even step into office. And we have a little more than a month until then. Unifying people is hard when the world is still so fragmented and roughly 50% of it lives either in dictatorships, authoritarian regimes or transitional, fragile democracies (with reminscence of dictatorships, nostalgia for it, with a persistent danger of going back to the first two). It takes time. Rome wasn't built in one day. http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-s-r-felland-the-world-fell-asleep-1481930888
  3. There is no parallel to Central, Eastern Europe in the Interwar period and modern days. Today due to most of these countries membership of NATO and EU guarantees an impossibility to drift away from democracy. Things fix themselves automatically when the state hits a certain phase of autonomous and independent work. The danger is for Russia, Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus to get back to old ways. Irreversibly. I think Trump and his presidency as a major stabilizing/destabilizing factor for the world proved for the better when 90% of his team are firm, classical republicans with traditional visions shared by the party. The conspiracy theory of Trump being Moscow's man got a little too far. Ab initio a millionair can't be controllable when he's totally detached from the Russian circles. The situation is more complicated elsewhere - in Germany. The world needs a firm resistance against delusions on a renewed Russia that miserably failed to become a democracy. Including leaders of an accordingly strong position on that. Something that cannot be said about Merkel, Hollande and other Russian apologists with hints to forgive Russia et cetera, et cetera. First things first, NATO enlargement must continue to secure that long desired peace and as a means of deterrence. No illusions should be made on the future. The bicycle will not be reinvented as fanatic Dughins yell a pseudo-Dostoievskian distorted, perverse panslavinism attempted to be imposed. BS like that. That's the problem. Mixing populism with this hysteria.
  4. Apparently it's possible to vote multiple times on different browsers from the same PC. Anybody confirms this?
  5. With all mentioned you're definitely right in that the cliche "I steal to pay my rent" eventually must be surpassed. The problem is as usual the implementation. Everyone has ideas, but it's really, really hard, and better to have a small FM with a conclusive or at least some kind of message, a good ending. A satisfying debrief as much as a good briefing intro does the trick for me. It means the author paid a minimal attention to narrative/story. That's why a campaign of 3 missions will take years. A good example in recent times is Dragofer I suppose or Sotha. There's a lot of other talents that come and go. Quality takes time. Competition breeds excelence, but it's complicated when we're in communism where everything is free. Nonetheless it's a training ground and we'll see where this goes. To me as long as a story takes the E.A. Poe approach or the C. Dickens approach, for instance as Thief 2 was compared to "A Tale of Two Cities". I think that works a lot for TDM. Today what we lack direly, in spite of having some tools - The Moors in a properly dignified story.
  6. You ought to keep the notes for the purpose of possibly doing an FM yourself in this setting! Who knows how things change, and where we end up at.
  7. Only through some kind of lights coming off the top of the walls. Suchs as torches and such. But not too many, else the atmosphere goes away.
  8. I don't think it matters that much. It's not a conclusive idea in my thoughts. People were lucky in the middle ages to have lived on to their 30's.
  9. I don't really agree, but... actually we had a succesful movie with a great scene on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw But in the truth is that the United States is the only country that in over 200 years of history never had an anti-democratic drift unlike other places in the world. In spite of all the criticism (the existence and wide publication, promotion of which is proof of that transparency and democracy, a confirmation of its life). I believe in that.
  10. That's why direct democracy is awful. People have no idea what they want and it leads to trouble. Politicians speculate on people's feelings and end up in a stupid situation with meaningless referendums on questions that have no binding power, but have political conjecture that gives ground for amateurs with no fantasy to get popular without any intellectual or logistical effort. Representative democracy is the future.
  11. I agree, but only to the degree relating to muslims who lived in conservative families, people who live by Sharia law. Those who are well off in secular countries don't need to migrate usually and that shows. We won't complain about turks when seeing the fellow syrian, afghani refugee.
  12. Do you mean muslims? Eastern Europeans have been migrating to Europe for ages ever since the fall of the curtain. The problem isn't as much about the people, as it is about the malfunctioning system that receives them. It's not even as much about the muslim v. western culture confrontation but a sort of an alienation of many people from how badly actually other countries live. We shouldn't ever go neither to the extreme of xenophobia, neither blind acceptance of every stranger. Nobody cancelled self defense, and it doesn't matter that immigrants get on the criminal side. Anyone can get there if a war happens. I have a feeling western countries, including the US are trying to find a way to reorient their official stance and the media to answer to these challenges in a new way, cutting itself off from the Clinton, Bush, Obama heritage. Changes happens much more frequently than before in the same amount of time.
  13. I'm sure it would've been higher with EAX. What's the status if it would be appropriate to ask? http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=3954
  14. If anything the developed world did a lot for ecology. The problem is about developing countries as Russia, China, India who've got great pollution. It's not even about carbon emissions, it's about the general pollution of the cities and the health effects upon their citizens. The metallurgic industry is horrible and... that's why you've got such a large percentage of people still sticking to the rural areas. There's just a couple of really bad cases like the Caspian Sea dying due to of the ignorance of the government. But it is solely the fault of those governments. The US can't be held responsible for the rest of the world having people that aren't held accountable for their faults. Ecology regulations and standards are almost impossible to enforce internationally. Even in light of the recent conference.
  15. Okay, good luck getting Putin out of there because he has a great KGB system of blackmail deceit and manipulation to stay there. They have nuclear weapons, interests in Syria and a good agenda of combining things, using weaknesses of developing democracies and of developed democracies and so on. Yes, it is not Putin's style to go head on like with Crimea and Donbass but a person that has the personality inferiority complex as him, is a dangerous factor. In general, Russia was and always will be one of the strongest stabilising or destabilising factors for the world - depending on the leader. And it's horribly affecting the neighbours. Your comment on China is well founded because in spite of all this Russia has been making serious concessions in front of China. Therefore there is hope the Trump administration will bring balance here. I adore how this scene from Tarkovsky's Mirror is still close to the modern Ruso-Chinese relationships:
  16. But, the world needs a Reagan in Europe against Russia. The costs are minimal. In fact one of the most righteous things Trump said is the need to increase defense spendings among NATO members and for potential NATO membership candidates in the future. Not enforcing that was a mistake of Obama. Russia is irreconcilable. A KGB agent in power won't be step back. He will only be brought down by force by the oligarchs who put him there in the first place when they understand the dead end to which he's brought them to. Peace is an illusion that sells well by Megadeath concerning Russia. They have to expand territorially or be put back to their misery the hard way. There are no good solutions any more. It went too far.
  17. Grabbed the chinese by the pussy. Payback we suppose.
  18. These things can be conventionally named after stuff the Spanish Inquisition had for originality. Not a problem.
  19. But I guess full EAX support comes only with the GitHub branch of this https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3 released and implemented respectively into TDM? That's been the #1 desirable feature from Thief games to be seen in TDM for me. http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=3954 As I understand this is the direct bug tracker link for the problem. Any news on this? Any ETA on when/if the GitHub project ever gets done?
  20. I think the most comprehensive and in depth answer is from Ross Scott on the subject: Thus... either do it properly, or not do it at all.
  21. In that case it's where it should be! The golden rule is not to do anything with your hands if you don't know how to gesticulate.
  22. Could you please, kindly rephrase this sentence? Read it 10 times and can't quite get the message. I defragment often.
  23. It's rather good, for as much as supernaturals can look in-game. Maybe it only lacks a little more hand movement during momentum but otherwise it's good enough.
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