Wow. I know a few people at the studio, well, knew I guess. Bummer. And so the Game industry in Vancouver takes another (big) hit.

It would take political will to build a working public transit system. Instead there is a very loud car faction that opposes anything that doesn't directly serve the car. Public transit, cycling infrastructure, heck, pedestrian infrastructure are all "waste" in those people's mind.

Okay sorry, but you did hear all the promises that were made prior to the release by Casey Hudson, right? The best way you can interpret the final result is that the entire writing staff had a seizure and the intern had to finish it in two days.

"The only way BioWare could have possibly pleased everyone was by polling each individual player and crafting a version of the ending specifically for them."

Is "artistic integrity" now the PC way to say: "We didn't know what we were doing"? Because, really, that is what it means in the context of ME:3.

They are a little bit better but now have the feeling of "designed by committee". If you see the endings in the context of three massive, epic games they're just disappointing and I doubt that will ever be fixed.

Yeah, I thought that was probably the biggest insult of them all: "Here, have a crappy ending, oh, and buy the DLC."

When playing it I had a different idea: A Crossover MMO game.

• Pedestrians bear a higher fatality rate than cyclists, by a factor of almost 1.5;

What I was driving at, and probably phrased it too generally / badly, was how for example the American media portraits other nations. As completely at odds of "The American Way" which is all about Apple Pie, Freedom and of course heroes.

Yes, but as I wrote in another reply: Clearly, there is always the hero who "rises to the American spirit", while other countries / groups tend to always be portrayed as absolutely corrupt with values completely opposite to "The American Way".

I admit. Syriana I hadn't thought off. Point.

"Jericho"

I think in the mainstream it isn't as false as you may like.

But always stopped heroically by a self-sacrificing American.

Yes, though it is made utterly clear that this is a "rogue operative", not: The entire military is like that.

Show me one game, movie or other mainstream entertainment where America (and especially it's military) was ever the bad guy.

H2.

Let's also not forget that the "nuclear renaissance" in Germany lasted all but six months. The SPD-Green coalition in the 1990s already set an end date for 2014. It was only Merkel who in late 2010 reversed course and wanted to keep the plants running into the 2030s before doing a 180 after Fukushima and gifting the…

Germany tried it twice in the 1970s and 1980s, it didn't work. The Japanese are trying it at least since the mid-1990s and they are also striking out.