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Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote who="Draginol" reply="47" id="2341564"]I trust free markets more than politicians.[/quote]Trust it to do what? Give a shit about you? You might be surprised.

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote]The incompetent prosecutor and judge... [/quote][quote]A guy that was guilty as sin got off because a prosecutor slandered her own witnesses with impecable records and was too stupid to know that leather shrinks when left soaked in blood in a plastic bag, a judge let the defense ask the same question over and over for hours[/quote]You want to jail prosecutors and judges when defendants are declared innocent? What hope would you have of a fair trial if you were falsely accused and if yo

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote]Some remedial reading. Not all-encompassing, but a start.[/quote]What am I supposed to learn from that article? All I read was a reinforcement of my belief that the insurance companies are merciless. You want to call the mercy charity, that's fine by me, it's just semantics and doesn't contradict what I said at all. You are an extremist though. The vast majority of people who are opposing health care reform right now are doing so because they believe the system DOES

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote]VI) Life wrecking penalties for suing and losing. And by life wrecking, I mean your children will never go to college, you will work until you physically can't, no bankrupcy on earth will save you, can't be paid off even if you're Bill Gates scale of wreckage. This should apply in all court cases including criminal cases . In criminal cases, there should be prison time equal to what the defendant would have gotten if convicted.[/quote]That is crazy talk. I believe OJ killed his

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote]As far as I've seen, no one is saying that reform shouldn't come from the gov't, but that the reform should not include a gov't sponsored public option. There is plenty else the gov't can do, including as you said regulation about pre-existing condition (though there has to be some limit to this, otherwise people won't pay for health care until they get sick, go buy the health care, get treatment, and cancel the next month) and tort reform[/quote]That's the rub. You can't remove restri

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else Demigod Forums

John D. Ehrlichman: “On the … on the health business …” President Nixon: “Yeah.” Ehrlichman: “… we have now narrowed down the vice president’s problems on this thing to one issue and that is whether we should include these health maintenance organizations like Edgar Kaiser’s Permanente thing. The vice president just cannot see it.</s

Reply to Just Saw District 9 in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote]lets wait for trans 3 in 2011 and then a movie after trans 3 to decide that[/quote]Ridiculous.

Reply to Never really thought any DG was too OP until now. in Demigod Demigod Forums

Acclimation does make UB overpowered in long games where the winner is decided by who gets the most autoattack crits, as he's permanently taking way less damage than everyone else. It should probably be changed, but it's so rare that games reach that point and it'd have to be an extreme nerf to make it remotely fair, which would make it fairly useless in normal games.

Reply to What was the design rational behind DG minions not awarding exp? in Demigod Demigod Forums

HP/mana drain toggle wouldn't work simply because of the control setup in this game, regardless of its balance implications.

Reply to A feminists complains about StarCraft in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

It hasn't been based on the assumption that men have more rights since women won suffrage. It's based on social roles and treatment. Women do still get paid less in many cases and face different social pressures and hostility than men. That being said I really don't like some of the negative stereotypes out there about men, but I've never personally felt disadvantaged because of them.

Reply to New Demigod #1 Concepts in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Lord_Ryptos_The_Green" reply="262" id="2281694"]I'd like to see a stealth style demigod, ala WoW rogues.[/quote]For the love of God, no. The only type of multiplayer game that's ever done stealth well is the RTS, and that only works because there are ways to protect yourself against it at all times if you build correctly. Stealth in WoW is complete garbage and to implement it well in this game would require major changes outside of adding the DG itself.

Reply to A feminists complains about StarCraft in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="Shadowhawk4735" reply="91" id="2340887"]I actually hold the door for ANYONE following closely behind me, regardless of demographics. When a feminist rudely suggests that I'm being sexist because I held the door for her I say I do it for everyone and "Would you rather that I let the door hit you in the face?" [/quote]I do the same and no one has ever been rude to me over it. Have you actually encountered someone who was?

Reply to Just Saw District 9 in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote]Although the movie is directed by peter jackson, there isn't much hype around it. He sorta hit peak in directing the lord of the rings, thrid installment. After than he just fizz out... even the first of the thee had more hype than this movie will ever get... dispite what the box office say.[/quote]So by that logic Transformers 2 is one of the best movies of all time and the director is amazing, right?

Reply to A feminists complains about StarCraft in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

You're delusional if you think that an appreciable minority of feminists finds Starcraft even remotely relevant to feminism or if you think that being a white male justifies any hint of a victim complex.

Reply to Just Saw District 9 in Everything Else Demigod Forums

I doubt they would bother rebelling, it seems like all hell would break loose when help comes from the prawn homeworld.

Reply to What was the design rational behind DG minions not awarding exp? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="TheScottishAlien" reply="25" id="2339202"]cause shield and heals can't be walked across the map without their creater to do massive amount of damamge. if minions were actualy cannon fodder and did no damamge what so ever then sure i'd accept them not giving reward... but since they can 3X or ever 4X ur dps i feel there is a small problem [/quote]Then just do what i suggested a page ago, have minion improving skills and items only work within x number of yards of the gen

Reply to A feminists complains about StarCraft in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

This whole thread seems like a thinly veiled attack on the validity of feminism. It would be extremely easy to find dumb that a republican or democrat wrote and if I posted it with a title like "such and such as viewed by a democrat (or republican)" it would be identified as anti-dem/repub on the spot. So it is with this thread. The article is stupid and you found it on the internet. Shocking.

Reply to What was the design rational behind DG minions not awarding exp? in Demigod Demigod Forums

I just don't get why they need to give exp. If you do 2k damage to Sedna and she heals it and then gets healed by a priest you don't get exp. You don't get exp for destroying shields, surviving fireballs, etc., so why for minions?

Reply to one thing to remember in 1.2 in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]Actually, it's going to make them a lot more likely, initially : it won't be 10 demigods, it will be 8 old and 2 new. For a coupla weeks after 1.2 is released, everybody's gonna want to fiddle with the two new demigods...[/quote]This is actually a really good point. If they release these a new DG, pull a lot of people back, and then only one player per team can pick that guy, people are going to be annoyed because you'll practically have to host your own game to try something new.

Reply to How to *objectively* balance the game in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="woppin" reply="60" id="2338637"]Most of the data is noise generated by bad players, and without actually watching a game to see what happens statistics can only tell you so much. Tournaments demonstrate what happens when good players compete against each other, which is the level the game needs to be balanced at. There is so little micro involved in playing Demigod there's really no need to cater to poor play when balancing, the effort required to get good is minimal.[/quote]Good

Reply to A [relative] Newb's Thoughts on Sedna in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="gkrit" reply="8" id="2338328"]its actually not that bad ... it also depends on circumstances also. but do u mean if i go tb and u sedna? [/quote]Oh, we're on different wavelengths, I thought we were talking rook vs. tb or sedna.

Reply to A [relative] Newb's Thoughts on Sedna in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="gkrit" reply="6" id="2338320"]lol early levels yes[/quote]How does it change later? I find it gets easier and easier as the game goes on unless you go RoI/FB, which is still quite beatable since it's a mana hog.

Reply to A [relative] Newb's Thoughts on Sedna in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="gkrit" reply="4" id="2338295"]yeh ... rook can easily push his lane in any circumstance (other than a tb lol).[/quote]I would say TB is much easier to push out than Sedna, I can't imagine how you can keep a good rook in check for long.

Reply to Premade = Pubstomp? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Primal Zed" reply="6" id="2338278"]Even if there is a system to promote teams of players, there will likely still be people who go into random games as a team just so they can win against their uncoordinated opponents. Hence the DotA term, "Pubstomping."[/quote]They're adding aliases with seperate records eventually too so there's no way to stop it completely. DotA had no records or ladder system so there's more incentive to do that sort of thing there. On DG most people who

Reply to Premade = Pubstomp? in Demigod Demigod Forums

WoW is an interesting reference here because it has two PvP systems in it, one which suffers from premades and one which does not. The one that does is the one with a very, very simple matchmaking system (roughly tries to match up by ilevel if that means anything to you) while arenas have a ranking system and consist solely of premades. Even though people hate premades in WoW's BG system you can still multi-queue or just quit and not have to deal with it without any marks on your reco