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• • I Can't Wait Til the Debates!

  • Originally posted by Draenor
    

    Apparently some of you Obama koolaid drinkers have never actually listened to Obama give anything but a rehearsed speech...listening to him speak off the cuff about pretty much any issue is an absolutely painful experience...But I suppose when you want to love him badly enough, and only go out of your way to listen to the stuff that MSNBC shows on TV, then yeah, he's a wonderfully charismatic speaker.

    Once again, I'm not a huge McCain fan...but for any idiot to say that he isn't educated about the issues associated with being the president is completely asenine.  Do you really and honestly believe that he got where he is by being uneducated?  You need to take off your liberal bilnders and look at this objectively...You don't get a presidential nomination by being stupid...you DO, however, get railed on by your intellectual superiors on a forum.

    Fair enough.  I mean George Dubuya Bush was clearly the most educated man in the world, and he definitely got the presidential nomination.  I see your point sir.

    *Edit*  Wasn't Obama speaking off the cuff at the Saddleback forum?  Sounded alright to me.  He wasn't the fastest speaker but his responses definitely showed a belief in the principle of thiking before one speaks.  On the flip side when McCain spoke every thrid word out of his mouth was about his P.O.W. status.  At one point he almost got through an entire answer and then paused and asked if he might tell another War story.  Not to take anything away from the guy but at some point I just wanted to call up some buddies and start playing the drinking game with the word being "military."  We would have easily been drunk off our asses inside of 5 minutes.

  • Posted: 9/05/08 9:33 AM
    General Discussion
• • New Dragon Ball Movie pictures. Hoho.

  • I'm gonna go out on a limb here and deem this movie a complete failure.  I know I know, it's a risky prediciton but sometimes the unpopular choice is the hard one. 

  • Posted: 9/03/08 2:52 PM
    General Discussion
• • Can Order and Destruction communicate?

  • Somehow I think an orc that has a big @ss fireball searing his flesh to a nice blackened color, will comprehend the end goal of my thoughts even if conveyed in a language he can't  readily decipher.

  • Posted: 8/30/08 4:58 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • So when do factual rebuttals become personal attacks (political)

  • So after hearing the Obama speech from the DNC, I was watching the Republican review with Larry King Live.  And while it wasn't just the panel of republicans stating that Obama came off as defensive and  hostile - I'm at a lost for exactly what the hell they are talking about.  To me his speech was actually pretty light on Mccain.    I thought he stated the facts, as best he knew them, and simply made his case as it relates to his opponent.

    To the point.  Can some of the more politically inclined spell out for me, in no uncertain terms, exactly when fact based rebuttals mutate into slanderous aggressive remarks?  I mean at what point is the line crossed?  When you bring up the issue?  Does it happen when you state your opposing stance?  If Mccain votes a certain way and Obama then states that he (Mccain) did indeed vote a certain way...isn't that just the truth?  I don't see this invisible political rage that is supposedly conveyed.

    I'm not making the post in jest.  I seriously am just lost when it comes to the perceived overtones in political speeches.   If Obama says "John has voted with Bush on 90% of his legislation," and then goes on to plainly turn that into a demonstration of how John isn't about change; I fail to see how this is coined "the same ole slanderous political approach."

    Though the question points to a certain degree of naivety on my part (admittantly I'm not the most politcally savy individual), I just find myself starring cock-eyed at the TV after most of these speeches when the dems/repubs start weighing in.  I mean if I were to watch an Obama speech and flip over to FOX news, I'd swear Obama was threatening to blow up Mccain's house or something.

  • Posted: 8/29/08 12:08 AM
    General Discussion
• • The only thing I hate....

  • I choose a ranged class simply because it is really dangerous playing one in WAR.  I just get a rush when I know that if X class gets within 10 feet of me, my chance of survival drops some 90%   It puts this anxiety into playing that always has me looking behind my character and not just assuming my ranged position is safe.  I know melee is no cake walk but I just prefer the challenges ranged classes present this go round.

    My advice.  Take each class you're interested in into RvR.  Be it level 1 or lvl 30 queue up for a scenario and see how you enjoy it.  It's safe to assume, in most cases, that they character will only get better in terms of roots, damage, etc. so it's a pretty good gauge of what to expect.

    One big deciding factor for me was mouse/keyboard setup.  I've never been a master at hotkeys and have always used a mouse click / hotkey setup which has some pretty severe setbacks.  As such, my melee efficiency suffers greatly (about a 20-25% drop in PvP effectiveness due to response time) so that too was a factor.

    The last factor that always determines character selection for me is the "swagger," of each class.  Each class has a distinct coolness to it that naturally draws you in.  For me the BW's finger snap with fire cages and incinerate it just too pimp not to have.  The following is a narrative of me in RvR screaming at my computer screen which let me know I had found my class:

    This is gon burn baby!!!  Are ya ready...ya ready..huh?  Ya ready *explicative* (cast spell)  BOOM *explicative* and down goes Frazier - DOWN GOES FRAZIER!!!

    I mean sometimes ya just know. 

  • Posted: 8/26/08 11:40 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)