your first mistake was having faith in the gaming community

tradition! 5000 years of history! etc., etc.

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"the medium is the message"!

You know what's better than video games? Video game announcements. There's always something thrilling about a big surprise reveal and a well-done teaser trailer, even if we might not see the game in question for years to come. That's why we're stoked for this weekend.

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i thought it was an interesting article but I wish you provided more info on the incident Tencent employees are being chastised over.

fun fact: it is!

If a car, or DVD, or rice-cooker, or phone, or basically anything else launched with significant parts not working, or not working as well as advertised, it'd be slammed. People would demand their money back, and they would get it, because there is an expectation that when you pay money for something, it works.

i respectfully disagree

i do

I'm having a blast playing the game too. I understand some of the criticism but I think Bungie's in it for the long haul. I enjoy it and I think it's only going to get better.

add me too PSN: azerbo00 (the last two are zeroes). you should note that I live in China so i'll be on at odd hours. definitely need people to do strikes and raids with

That's not what I said. Stop twisting my words.

Those deaths were minimal compared the numbers that died from famine and related conditions.

typically the word Holocaust refers to Nazi's attempts to eliminate Jews and other undesirables (notably Slavs) during WW2. Other, intentional attempts to eliminate race of people are more often referred to as a genocide. While the term holocaust is used in other contexts (notably nuclear holocaust), it is in…

Yes, the intention of the act does play a role in determining the "badness" of it. That's why, in the US, there are different degrees of homicide. Culpability and punishment are directly connected to the intention of the accused.

I never said Chiang's incompetence was the cause. But I think foreign intervention would not have made things better. Mao won the civil war because Chiang was not a good and respected leader. It's important to distinguish Mao's leadership abilities before and after 1949.

Mainly because one was a concerted effort to eliminate a race a people and the other was the result of poor planning and the weather.

Except that reports from Americans on the ground during WW2 categorically support the idea that Chiang was not a good leader and that the average Chinese person preferred communists over the nationalists. This was the assessment of the AMERICANS there.