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Free markets are neither good nor bad. It's not a moral issue at all. Free markets have purely selfish motives. If anything morally relevant comes out of them, it's just a side-effect. The problem with the free market as-is is, essentially, that there's less incentive for long-term...

Viruses can trigger cancer, so yeah, if a cancer-triggering virus mutates, you have to find a new cure for that strain. However you won't suddenly end up with "super-cancer" or even a "super-virus". That's not how selection works. The only thing "super" about the new strain is that it's...

Of course it's not about religion, but it's religion that's used to recruit the soldiers =P

Half the problem was giving loans to idiots. The other half was buying those loans from other banks. None of the German banks involved ever gave any American a loan. They just bought those loans off American banks thinking they'd make a profit (as the total return would have been larger than...

Free market = sell what you like for whatever people are willing to pay. It's a fine thing if you're trying to get a system running, but eventually all the capital will merge into big lumps and those will clog the system until it breaks. Essentially, big companies break the system. That's...

So... if all the managers quit their jobs because they don't get paid enough, that means a lot of unemployed former top earners and a lot of job vacancies in the high wage positions to be filled by former mid wage employees, right? It's win-win. The truth is most managers don't appreciate...

If you forget about the world map travel, there should be no problem in teleporting to an off-shore position. The player wouldn't be able to get off the island without the vertibird then, but that is exactly what should happen anyway. Problem is, you're limited to a fixed list of places you...

As far as ratings go, I think it's something like: 9/10 - 10/10: Great 7/10 - 8/10: Good 5/10 - 6/10: Okay 1/10 - 4/10: Awful Sure, it's not exactly a linear scale and the highest point is still pretty low if you take actual GAMEPLAY into account (10/10 gameplay will usually be...

Naked? That's going a bit far for their demographic, isn't it? I remember all the flaming backlash from when they first introduced their cover girls. Disregarding that most of their initial cover girls looked like they were random interns dragged in front of the camera under false pretences.

For future reference, if you're going to post about an article, quote the part of it you are commenting on. Two-liners do not make a good first post.

I'm pretty sure they started with the cover girls AFTER I subscribed to them. I guess I cancelled my subscription before they dropped that fad, though. The semi-naked girls drenched in olive oil and the witty captions were all that distinguished the magazine, so it's pretty sad to hear that...

Yeah, I think those guys were eventually outsourced to PC Action, PC Games' sister mag which was originally supposed to be all about action games only. PC Action got the quirky humour and PC Games became somewhat more serious. Then the late 1990s came and suddenly every genre was about action...

It's not that our constitution has been overruled, it's more that our constitution wasn't very helpful to begin with. C'mon, a constitution that establishes mandatory military duty, lower taxes for religious organisations, a church tax funded and collected by the state and a half-assed right...

I'm with Kahgan on this. Evil wasn't invented by religion. The relationship more goes the other way around. We have religion because we have arbitrary concepts of "good" and "evil" and can't be arsed to justify them all the darn time. You can have morals without religion. Fuck, most people...

Mate, it's not about whether there could be an RPG in first person, it's about gameplay. Perspective affects gameplay and the choice of RT/TB does. Yes, an FP RPG can exist. That doesn't mean it's a good idea or that the end result will feel anything like a Hard RPG. FPP RPGs aren't...

If only I had a dollar for every reviewer who calls VATS "turn-based".

GAH! Enough with the marketese already!

Just because it says so on the plastic wrap doesn't mean there's much "Freedom" left in the U.S. -- they only have very convincing PR.

The hit zones seem to be: Head, Brain, Eyes, Neck, Torso, L. Arm, R. Arm, L. Hand, R. Hand, L. Leg, R. Leg, L. Foot, R. Foot and "Vitals"? I can't make out the writing on the "INSTANT/AUTO" screen before the combat though. I wonder what that was for. EDIT: Also, I think the assault rifle...

Just because I'm feeling argumentative: A benevolent dictatorship would need one person who is capable and willing to make decisions in the best interest of the people. An ideal democracy would need an entire citizenship of people who are capable and willing to make decisions in their best...