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Seeing how a significative amount of people in Iraq has devoted their lives to put bombs in markets, I would say that, indeed, there is a high percentage of iraquians with a (cruel) childish attitude.

As far as I can tell, there have been about 500 suicide bombers in Iraq since the invasion. Iraq's population is about 28 million. That is 0.002%, not "a high percentage", nor a "significant amout". The highest percentage I have seen is: "According to a recent poll, 47% of the Iraqi population approve of the attacks on Coalition forces, but not of attacks on Iraqi security forces, or civilians"

We're like an uninformed adult stepping into a dispute among neighborhood kids without knowing their individual personalities and history.  Even if we keep the peace by promoting one group over another or getting them to shake hands, the rest of the kids aren't likely to turn away satisfied.

So Muslims are like kids and the USA like adults... and then Americans wonder why they are percieved as arrogant!

Plenty here

*cough* Helm:

explain to me how the US military has after its participation in world war II, ensured the freedom and wellbeing of americans with their military action outside of america (which is where it occurs)

honest question, I'd really like to get an answer

Well, I'd suggest that the naval blockade of Cuba probably was one example. Also: Berlin airlift, evacuation of US citizens from Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Egypt (during Suez crisis), Cyprus, etc.

ANd I thought you were looking for some investment advice from Warren...

I'm annoyed I missed the awards, but I don't think I ever found out what date they were on. Hehe, d'oh!

It only said on the voting page, the 3 or 4 threads about the awards and at the top of the forum...  : 

Congrats for coming 3rd in the X-Factor, Ben

You can uncheck "Enforce new strings" and the old code should work...

Spooks music was by scorposer, not scorporius, you silly AJA!

Can you post the code where you play it? Sounds like you keep playing it over itself by mistake...

Rise of the Hidden Sun, Blackthorne. He did a column about it at AG, so I HOPE Snarky's already got that on his list. Funnily enough, someone nominated its characters for best player and best NPC in the awards this year...

Yes, get your Gucci handbags and Prada ballgowns ready, its time for the annual AGS Awards ceremony. Please show up on IRC and listen type in!

And  here's a teaser for you: one of the games that got multiple nominations HAS WON ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Never mind, I'll make them March's game of the month instead...

As well as the winners of the final vote, you can find out the Best New Resource, Best Innovation and Lifetime achievement winners!

Yay, someone came out and admitted they didn't get the joke!

The people on #ags must feel devastated

Hey, remember all those cool communist regimes of the early 90s, why don;t they bring them back, eh?

Apparently Microsoft are going to fix this soon...

[The "Bobbit" option: Get rid of the P3N1S]

I'd like to move on from the Al Emmo issue on to a more general debate as to the future of the award. I don't think we're going to get any further defending or bashing Al/Himalaya/DaveG/URMOM any more, so lets consider the future:

The "Bobbit" option: Get rid of the P3N1S

1. People are offended by their games being nominated sometimes
2. It means rubbish games get listed on the games page as having awards
3. It might encourage people to make deliberately bad games, and that needs no encouragement
4. It perhaps lowers the prestige of the other AGS Awards

The Chastity Belt option: Leave the P3N1S alone

1. There's no such thing as bad publicity, so this debate simply serves to raise the profile of the awards (although I know that AdventureGamers deliberately refrained from commenting on this issue in a news item or such, being above such tabloid sensationalism)
2. It's just a laugh and demonstrates the fun nature of the whole awards

The cold shower option: Make it smaller
1. Only allow joke games
2. Or have a committee decide it

The Viagra option: make it bigger
1. Have a joke games awards AND a worst proper game award

The Sapphic option: have a strap-on one
1. Split the booby prize off as a separate award, like the razzies...

It just gets a little old when every single thread on the AGS forums seems to re-hash the same old points.

Every thread? You see, its those delusions of grandeur than just rile people...

You won't find 2 people that say Herculean Effort is crap, or the Shivah team. Cause they aren't.

Actually, Dave also suffered a going-commercial backlash from The Shivah, and 2 people did nominate it for the PeeThreeEnOneEss

A pause is when something stops for a period of time. If time itself stops, how can that be a pause, since what "time" are you measuring it against? It's just a meaningless scifi plot device.