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DG, I think we all know that Australia was mostly populated by criminals.

Watch your wallets around this one.

Yeah, but at least they had to force us off of Britain.

Unlike you Americans, who were all prissy and just didn't like the place.

You were all like "Cry cry, waa waa! We are so oppressed here! hey, let's build a ship and call it the Mayflower (Pfft, sounds like a load of hippy shit to me!)! We'll use our guns to kill those dangerous, unarmed Indians too! And we don't like this tea tax! Oh, boo hoo, woe is us!"

I read Australia's colonial criminal history, and one guy was sent here from Britain just cause he stole a hanky.

Hear that: He was sent to jail here for stealing A HANKY!

He risked his life just so he could blow his nose!

And the British government forced him off the country just for that!

That's what I call BALLS! BIG HAIRY ONES!

But, boo hoo, you rebel cause the British make you pay too much for your precious tea!

POOR DIDDUMS!

Har har har!

P.S. Your comments also have nothing to do with the fact I have older country-based heritage than you and Vel put together! So, deep throat that!



PirateJack: Watch it, pal! My Great-grandmother invented the serpent story!

Just to repeat for the hard of hearing:

"Now, shut up all of you cause I ARES WINNAR!!!!"

Ask these guys: http://www.agdinteractive.com/

By the surly beard of Krift, I hate when all whining pansies start talking about their history.

I beat you all.

Thanks to my great-grandmother, I have 50,000 years of aboriginal heritage.

I'm related to some of the oldest history of my country -- way longer than your puny 300 or 1500 years.

Now, shut up all of you cause I ARES WINNAR!!!!

Los jovenes de la guerra!

That was awesome.

Downloading now.

[And once again, a fart joke has helped us travel the path to true enlightenment.]

This thread is an evil thing by itsself.
On the first page, DGMacPhee said about president's
public support and work efficency is related.

But, I didn't say that.

I said the opposite, that they aren't related:

"A president (or any politician) doesn't perform any better if they gain higher public support."

In other words, a president still has the capacity to do a good job, or a crap job, despite whether the public support him or not.

A president's performance is (theoretically) based upon his resources: such things as who is he (intelligence, history, etc), what he stands for (his ideal, politics, etc), and the people he has working for him (cause even if the president has shit-for-brains, he still can perform well if he has good staff).

And granted, I could get into a whole chunk of text on whether the president is a puppet of his staff (such as Cheney and Rumsfled), but that doesn't detract from the fact that public support does not affect Bush's performance as a president.

It does however affect whether Bush BECOMES president or not, but NOT his actual performance.

And even then, public support doesn't always decide who becomes president because...

He chose the job.

No, the Supreme Court chose him over Al Gore for the job. HAR HAR HAR!

Back to DGMacphee's argument - so, if he has at least some power to save humanity, and being popular decreases even that microscoping chance, blabbering in this thread makes things worse.

Oh, I get it -- you think because I said "Being popular doesn't increase your performance" interprets as "Being popular decreses your performance".

Sorry, no, you got the wrong idea, even if you are joking.

Having public support has NO AFFECT on what a president can do -- neither positive or negative.

Public support is only a measure of political performance.

In other words, one way we can gauge a president's performance is through public support.

But public support itself has no affect.

It's like pitting a popular 9 pound weakling against a butch army jailbird rapist -- We can tell the 9 pound weakling is more popular (there's the guage), but no matter how popular the 9 pound weakling is, he's gonna get fucked by the army rapist bigtime (and there's the acutal performance).

So, whether I, or anyone, supports Bush or condemns him, he's still going to do the same shitty job he always does.

And my criticism of him isn't going to hurt the world -- cause when you look at the reality of it, all I'm doing is posting an over-simplified argument on (of all things) an adventure game forum!

Yeah, we're going to change the world!

ALL ABOARD THE REALITY TRAIN -- NEXT STOP, THE AGS FORUM! TOOT TOOT!!!

Thanks, guys. You have successfully helped to destroy planet Earth.

I re-read your post several times and I still don't know how you came to this conclusion, even it you weren't taking it seriously.

Look at it like this: don't blame us for destroying planet Earth for just writing in an anti-Bush thread on an adventure game forum -- If you what to blame us for detroying planet Earth, pick something better, like us farting too much and it's destroying the ozone layer.


And once again, a fart joke has helped us travel the path to true enlightenment.


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The AGS Awards are a strange thing.

The thing is there were a lot of people who did vote for such left-out games.

And in some cases they missed out on nominations/winning by only a few votes.

I dunno about that -- Tasmania seems like a foreign market at times.  

Also, the term "overseas" is sometimes used to describe foreign markets, not just markets "over the sea": http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=overseas

To me that is just stupid.  Mexico and Canada are connected to the US and are not overseas.  I'm not going to argue the semantics though

But it's true -- When financial analysts refer to "overseas markets" they also refer to Canada and Mexico, even though both are a drive away.

Awesome!

Does this mean Butcher and 2ma2 are also having babies?

Oh yes, I am totally going to win the competition!

Yes, I got the gist of DM's post.

My post means to say "So what?" regarding those two "great" things Bush has done.

All your websites suck!

Mine kicks all yours in the balls: http://www.sylpher.com/DGMacphee/MyAGSSite/

Phantasmagoria sucks donkey balls.

"More and more of our imports are coming from overseas." (Yeah, no shit, genius!)

This isn't really 'spouting shit' ... Imports from Canada and South America aren't considered 'over-seas'.  We import a lot from the Americas.

Actually, I think you meant to say Canada and Mexico.

Bush's quote goes as follows: "It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."

The US imports nearly 49,000,000 barrels of oil from Canada and Mexico each.

The US imports hardly any oil from South America.

See it right here: http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/petroleum_supply_monthly/current/txt/table_35.txt

Also, the term "overseas" is sometimes used to describe foreign markets, not just markets "over the sea": http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=overseas

And since Mexico and Canda are still foreign markets to the US, the phrase "More and more of our imports are coming from overseas" is still stupid shit from a very powerful retard.

There's 2 things that GeeDub has done that I've wanted to see a President do for a long time:
1) Send a big "Fuck You" to global terrorists
2) Remove Saddam

Meanwhile, he's fucked the ecomony, withdrew from countless peace and environmental treaties, alienated minorities, and tried to place laws that invade privacy more so than they do now.

But yay! He got Saddam! He said "Fuck you" to terrorists! Everyone rejoice!

I'll just repost what Timosity posted, put my feet up and let the good times roll: http://transload.net/~zaphod/text/pointcpoint.html

I do agree that it's a limitation, but I also believe that it's so minor that it doesn't hinder the gameplay one iota.

And as far as all the bush-bashing goes, i think a most of it is so completely juvenile and nonsensical that it doesn't even merit responding to.

Then why are you responding?

Most of the anti-bush rhetoric tries to simplify extremely complex issues into 5 word sound bites.

bush kills thousands of afghanis
bush creates trillion dollar defecit
bush lets companies destroy environment

So what? Pro-Bush propaganda does the same thing!

In fact, you can even do it in under 5 words with pro-Bush propaganda!

See:

Bush reduced unemployment (wow, that was three words!)
Bush opened free trade (wow, four words!)
Bush captured Saddam (3 words again!)

when you just call him stupid you trivialize your argument.  I mean he graduated from harvard AND yale.  he's obviously not a mildly mentally retarded person

And Hitler was a vegetarian, hardly drank, didn't smoke and was an artist, so obviously he must have been as peaceful as a Hindu cow!

Just because someone graduates from Harvard AND Yale, doesn't mean they're intelligent.

Besides, why's a Harvard and Yale graduate spouting stupid shit like this:

"More and more of our imports are coming from overseas." (Yeah, no shit, genius!)

"If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!" (Holy crap, he's right!)

"I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace." (Brilliant! He wants to raise the level of nuclear defense as well as lower it! He is such a magician!)

On Gore's tax plan: "It's going to require numerous IRA agents." (I love trade agreements with the Irish!)

"I know that human being and fish can coexist peacefully." (I am not fucking you: He actually said this! PEACE TO FISHES!!)

You see, when someone becomes famous for spouting such stupid shit (i.e. "Bushism"), then you have to wonder if they actually are retarded or not.

In comparison, Bush makes Yogi Berra seem gifted and Sam Goldwyn eloquent.

there are plenty of issues that you critcize bush on without broad generalizing and infantile insults.

Great, that saves me having to type them!

like his AWOL period http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/02/10/bush_credited_for_guard_drills/

It's not that I'm against what Bush has done in the past...

or about the 28 blanked out pages of the 9/11 report
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/30/world/main565782.shtml

Nor am I against Bush's shifty politics...

It's just I think he's an evil robot sent back from the future come to kill us all.

anyway hate bush or love bush, what he's done is not deserving of a place in the seventh santum of hell.

Yeah, Bush wouldn't want to move back home with the folks.

if you want to criticize somone you have to offer alternatives to their actions of ideas.  that's what's known as "constructive criticism"

So, you're saying we should offer "constructive criticism" on how Bush can be a better president?

Okay, step 1: resign

Done!

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein

"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush

I think the combining objects issue wasn't a problem because the designers made GF so that you didn't need to, while keeping all puzzles logical within the gaming world.

Why bother implementing a combine function when there are no puzzles that need a combination of objects merged together?

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When Sylph comes back, we'll say it's my fault.