iNtRePiD
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The game looks and will probably be fantastic, but that demo is awful.
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AoM is a good game with some solid concepts, but AoK is probably one of the best games ever made.
One particular area where AoM is deficient is siege weapons. AoK has some of the coolest siege weapons ever introduced into a RTS game. Most of AoM's siege weapons are rather lifeless. The catapult in AoM, for instance, simply cannot compare with the Siege Onager in AoK.
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I am some what dismayed, but not entirely shocked that William Stephenson did not make it to the top 10. He only may have won World War II for the allies.
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Otherwise Bouchard would be at the top of the list
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The top ten as voted by Canadians.
1 Tommy Douglas
2 Terry Fox
3 Pierre Elliott Trudeau
4 Sir Frederick Banting
5 David Suzuki
6 Lester B. Pearson
7 Don Cherry
8 Sir John A. Macdonald
9 Alexander Graham Bell
10 Wayne Gretzky
Prior to the final vote there was a 2 hour debate where the advocates of the candidates got to try to make their final case as to why Canada should vote for their particular candidate. Personally, I think Trudeau’s popularity and final position is largely due to his advocate Rex Murphy. Murphy gave an excellent case for Trudeau in his one hour special, and he easily dominated the final debate.
The University of Toronto, where I currently attend, had two graduates in this list, Banting and Pearson. There was a rather large battle going on across campus between the science students and the arts students, in attempting to draw support for Banting and Pearson respectively.
I think I saw more Banting posters than Pearson posters, so I think he may have won the battle on campus.
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I wanted to buy the silver package online in order to get Day of Defeat source, however it would cost me a fortune to buy Half-Life 2 online. So I was forced to get the retail version.
I think I worked it out that to buy silver package online is around $120 CND, taking into account bandwidth costs and currency exchange.
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I am running the game on a 2.1 Ghz machine with a radeon 9000 and I can run most of the options at high, suprisingly. I was expecting to have to the run the game at the lowest resolution with all options set to low.
Valve did a very good job of insuring that most people can enjoy this game, even if their computer is out of date, like mine. This is something I wish that more game designers would try to do.
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Killing John F. Kennedy in a game is tasteless, but a game where you run over prostitutes in a car or blow their brains out after they suck you off isn’t?
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Ravenholm is terrifying; I am scared to continue playing.
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We must absorb our information from dramatically different sources. Every time I read my Canadian based newspapers, watch The National or Newsworld I always get the feeling that the whole country is steadily falling to pieces. Test scores seem to be getting lower and lower, turn out in elections is gradually declining, rural sections of the country are becoming depopulated as people move to the cities, our pollution controls are not strong enough, there is enormous corruption in all levels of government across the country, crops are failing in the mid west, etc.... Our news agencies seem to do nothing but critique the state of the country.
In regards to not giving enough information, most of the sources I watch or read seem to do an adequate job of presenting the issue, giving background to the issue and stating the variety of positions on the issue. The special segments on the National tend to do an excellent job of giving great background information to an issue and then displaying all of the sides to an issue.
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Lyndon Johnson is a good candidate. He was completely duped by Lester B. Pearson into passing the Auto Pact; something really wasn’t in the interest of America at all and has probably done the most to stagnate the economies of the Great Lake states.
The story is that upon their next official meeting Johnson put a chokehold on Pearson after thanking him for screwing America over when he got into his limo.
It takes about 50 years before historians can really judge a presidency; I have a feeling that Jimmy Carter will have a better reputation in future history books.
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If anything has the potential of ruining Half Life 2 it is steam. Hopefully it has improved since I last used it, but somehow I doubt that anything could improve that wretched program. My favourite thing about Steam, back during the incredibly short period I used it to play DoD, was how it would irrationally try to download other modifications while you were playing, even if you already had that particular modification!
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That a great problem indeed, when you want the money, but live on your own.
Is that not exactly what the separatists in Quebec want, independence and a steady stream of money from Ottawa?
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That plan, unfortunately, puts this giant hole in this country known as Canada.
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If you want to understand what America is I highly recommend reading 10, 45, 48 and 51 of the Federalist Papers. I would argue that this recent election has undermined Federalist 10 to some degree though.
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One of my personal favourites, The Deep Freeze Defender.
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We can at least plan out what we want we want to do in this thread.
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I did not start with the title Hobbit when I introduced the topic either (I used it in the last example for comedic value in order to show how utterly ridiculous this scientific claim can sound), but this story is rather hard for a lot of intelligent people to swallow. When you are telling people this by word of mouth it sounds an awful lot like a hoax, especially since the story has received very little media coverage and tends to hidden away in the science section of most online newspapers. It is not my fault that we live in skeptical world.
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Try telling this to people without making it sound made up.
Did you hear the latest scientific discovery, they found evidence of little people dating back 18 000 years, they are calling them hobbits, that lived on island and hunted miniature elephants and giant lizards.
I was laughed at a few times when I was trying to tell people this today.
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I cannot help but notice that you can replace girlfriend/boyfriend/significant other with dog or pet in the posts in this thread without it really making any kind of difference.
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Both candidates need to stop quoting such misleading facts.
I am getting rather tired of hearing Bush tell audiences that Kerry has voted 98 times to raise taxes, this is rather deceiving. 43 of these alleged 98 votes were on a single budget item that only set targets and did not actually raise taxes. 16 of these votes come from Clinton’s 1993 package to decrease the deficit; it had an item that raised taxes of the upper 2% earning Americans. 6 Votes come from a package to raise cigarette taxes. 7 votes come from a piece of legislation that raises taxes on corporations making more than 140 000 a years. 6 votes come from legislation to close corporate tax loop holes. The remaining 20 votes come from votes to end debate; none of these votes passed any legislation. So technically Kerry has only voted to raise taxes 3 times, and none of these were taxes on middle income families. Bush is taking advantage of the American legislation process to pad out how many times Kerry has actually voted to raise taxes.
Both Kerry and Bush need to watch their figures on jobs. Bush’s figures tend not to be true yet on current trends, and Kerry’s tend to be several months old.
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Seriously if any of you want to play say so. Setting up a good game of EU II is not playing a game of AoM or CS, it takes a lot of time, effort and scheduling to plan out a good game, even more so if we have to edit the Grand Campaign file which I assure you we will probably have to do.
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Well, Canada was not a country until John A. Macdonald helped to found the country, so I think he can be excused for not being born in Canada.
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland, did his research in the United States and he only really came to Canada to vacation and day dream. Calling Alexander Graham Bell a great Canadian would be like calling Nelson Mandela a great Canadian, they both have citizenships and they have spent slight periods of time in Canada. Mandela was awarded a Canadian citizenship in 2001 and he has been to the country a few times. I am not exactly sure where to draw the line on who is acceptable to be on a Greatest Canadian list and who is not, but Alexander Graham Bell should not be.
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The screenshot has a gritty realistic look to it, something that has really been missing in RTS games as of late. Good Job.