At various points bits of lore or individual characters talk about the Germans invading Canada and then the US, a nuke being dropped on DC and President Truman surrendering. Additionally, several songs by American artists are scattered throughout the game that have been redone to fit the Nazis propaganda, most notably…

Well, the last game pretty well established that the Nazis owned the world, so it was a little late to change things.

Essentially, because #1 they have to fly somebody around just weighing people and #2 for a long time now “cutting weight” is just part of the game. Cutting weight is viewed no differently than taking creatine or working on your cardio. It’s present in pretty much every fight sport and has been since at least the…

It varies. In some jurisdictions a pound or two is okay, in some its not. In some its allowed in title fights, in some its not. Depends on what country, state and sometimes even city they are fighting in.

You’re right. Ban the AR-15 and all similar rifles then.

How did that work out for the US the last time those words were spoken?

A short list of keepers playing better than Brad Guzan, Tim Howard and Nick Rimando in MLS right now that are eligible for the US national team in no particular order: Jesse Gonzalez, Bill Hamid, Stefan Frei, Tim Melia and Tyler Deric. And that’s just one position full of glaring omissions because Bruce Arena doesn’t…

Dwyer I agree with. Morris is out with a hamstring injury, won’t be back until November. Very nice troll response on that last one.

Hahahaha. No. Just in his own league, Kljestan is better and smarter, albeit less likely to play thugball.

I guess he misunderstood the meaning of “Suns out buns out”.

As a former tester let me say: QA probably saw that bug. What has changed is that fixing bugs post launch is easier, while previously it was pretty much impossible, so developers and publishers are less than keen on fixing errors and more interested in getting the product out the door. I can’t count how many bugs I…

Apparently you haven’t heard of the “Thirty Years’ War” or “German Unification Wars” or any of the various german wars in between. It took well over 200 years of near constant German warfare for Germany to finally unify. Arguably the only bloodier unification/expansion in history was the United States’ push for…

The comment I replied to originally that you then counter-replied to said exactly that “Spain shouldn’t exist.” in its first sentence. If you’re looking for a different thread, this ain’t it. As far as history, it’s pretty clear that Spain owns Catalonia...so that doesn’t really help their case.

Okay, either way, Catalonia has still been a part of Spain since before the existence of the United States of America, Germany, Turkey and a whole host of other nations. A certain level of autonomy doesn’t change my larger point; if we’re going to go back and redraw maps based on who was under whom in 1714 we’re in…

“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” is, admittedly, one of his better written stories, but not all of them are quite so well-written. Even then, in that first passage there are some serious flaws. In one sentence, Isidore is drowning a spider at the sink, then in the next other characters are concerned about how…

I thought this was a sarcastic comment at first, but then you seem to be actually serious. Dick was an excellent idea man, his concepts at the time were incredibly inventive and hit the correct emotional nerve...but his prose and his plots...not so much. Generally speaking his prose gives you no or little idea of what…

You can split hairs that way, but what it boils down is that it was ruled by the house of Aragon which was ruled by Spain since the 1400's, was briefly independent of Spain and was then recaptured during a bloody civil war. That’s not really much different from saying that Georgia has only been part of the US since…

Fair point.

Catalonia was actually part of Spain in the late 1400's when the Pope declared it the “Kingdom of Spain”. Catalonia’s integration into Spain was no less forceful than the integration of any other region into Spain (most of Spain was conquered after decades of domination by the Moors). Catalonia’s culture is no less or…

Well I mean, nation states came into existence precisely to counter-act violence from raiding nomads so...yes, actually that is true. The modern nation state is a lot more than just military and violence. A separate Catalonia region only works because in the modern day launching an attack on western Europe is a recipe…