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I explained it in two posts....Again, you asked, I answered. You keep asking--I'm not sure what you want. After WW2, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were asked (Or allowed) to fill power vacuum's. During that time, the U.S. began to assert itself as a global stabilizing agent opposite of Russian...

I've explained it twice, I'm not explaining it again because you simply restate the question. (And I'm not sure why you're going on about trade negotiations--while that is a point, it wasn't even the practice I used in my example.)

By actively participating in various global entities which put pressure on the U.S. to actively participate in regional conflicts to ensure stable trade relations? One such practice is the use of U.S. currency as a reserve to provide instant and accepted global liquidity for all trade...

Every country that uses cheap petroleum (Even if they export), involves itself in international trade using the U.S. as a reserve currency (Canada) and also has no, if any, military of it's own is involved in the U.S. military industrial complex's profit and need. I'm really not sure why people...

lol, you know it's bad when Ary goes full patriot on someone. Jesus Tan, you really do come off as naive. Listen, the fact is that expecting us to fix the problem, while every other western nation floods us with money, and special interests, hoping to keep us on as the world economic anchor is...

Holy shit internet explorer! Why no netscape bro??

Put 5000 in my paypal and I will verify for everyone that you are indeed wealthy beyond imagining. (Psst, the I'm awesome troll usually includes fucking super models....Just saying, for next time bro.)

Would this be the damage countries like Canada is tacitly partaking in, and paying for, by using our currency as a global stabilizing agent built on the backs of our "world ruining" military and economic interventionist policies? I'm just curious where your bubble ends.

What people don't get when they look at our monetary system is that money doesn't get dispersed "like magic". There is a lot of work that goes into creating money and making sure it goes to people who will it to actual make things (When things work well, this is what should happen). You can't...

Really went with the arcade feel, which is neat....but I'm pretty much done with any game that goes with two factions.

Reminds me of those documentaries showing early computer enthusiasts--the biggest thing the computers could do was play a small song using beeps, it took like 15 hours to program the song in. The computer cost 5 thousand dollars, or something.

Well, I agree with this quite a bit. Honestly, when going to school, I wanted to design games--it was actually a dream of mine, hell, it still is--I'd work slave labor just to get involved in a game (heh, and I make good money right now..my wife probably wouldn't be happy.) But as I went through...

Boltons. Cliche evil, even. But yeah, in well written stories you very rarely have "evil" as we think of it, because most people associate "evil" with cliche caricatures, like Nazis. When given some perspective, almost everyone has redeeming qualities that make them not seem so bad. But there...

No, it's just that my understanding of "good" and "evil" doesn't come from the back of a cereal box. God, I LOVE it when people bring up "the form of fusion"---Genius, it does not matter. No matter what you do, you have to put more energy into a human being than you will get out--NO MATTER WHAT...

Sure didn't take long for your shallow philosophizing to strike it's max depth. (Hint: If humans are no more valuable than animals, then the entire explanation is void, I'll leave you to figure out why.) As for the rest, this was one of the reasons I was hoping there was a "deeper" Matrix...

Game's "strategic" elements are essentially Galactic Civ 2--UI, rules, production bars, are all copied almost bit for bit from that game. Ship design is a lot of fun, and while more simplistic than SoTS2, I feel like it works better because of how the game plays. That being said, this game being...

The song "I'm my own Grandpa" is just ripe with symbolism--showing how American culture is the ultimate rejection of Spirituality, or Moksha. And instead full embraces the three physical aspects of Samsara, by being his own grandson and grandfather at once, he doubles his Kama! This is clearly...

What is it with people like you and Mist? Do you think you're the only ones who caught the ham fisted, obtuse and ultimately nauseating deluge of eastern references in 2 and 3? It wasn't like it was "subtle", the constant references to how Karma is a product of choice, and how said system makes...

Marrying Figgus.

Ivory Tower troll, not used often but effective!

I wish writer's would realize flaws in characters make them better, not worse. It's like every new storyline is a dick measuring contest to make the super hero more awesome and powerful, until the eventual reset.

I'm thinking it has to do with the Starks being Wargs--which seems to be an "Ice" ability (My theory is that the Others control the undead like a Warg controls animals). That one Targ bastard who is training Bran now, could be the connection...He had intimate knowledge of the Children of the...

Krieger isn't one of the bad guys?

Two wasn't so terrible, but three ended up ruining it. Two seemed like they were on the road to an Asimov paradox--as in, what would a perfectly logical machine do, when given an order to protect humans but then seeing the greatest threat to human life, is other humans. And also maybe attempt to...

CAN NOT BE UNSEEN.

All I gathered from that article is that they not only underestimate their audiences intelligence (Which is hard to do with gamers), but they also hold it in contempt. I love how he explains glass box as an agent simulator which supplies needs--completely contradicting all the advertising that...

I really do miss Ashur. He was such a well designed "bad" character. The other Gladiators were just douchey enough to make his actions sympathetic, but he was still vile enough to force you to hate him anyway. Was really great. It's obvious the midget son is supposed to replace him, but he just...

What is up with Vikings and three ways. Was that actually a thing? Or was that just some aspect of the lore behind this particular folk hero?

I didn't really see this. If anything, the Defiance of Duskendale points to the mad king being almost exactly like Robet in terms of ruling ability. He was a figure head who had Tywin essentially rule his Kingdom for him. The few times he actually did things on his own, like at Duskendale, he...

As others have said, Robert was "the mountain" of his day--he could break a man in two with a single blow, even through full armor. Robert might have been a bad ruler, but the guy was a beast in combat, every description of him puts him as pretty peerless in his day, even amongst people like...

No, they gave it to someone else. It's right by the bridge outside of the west Britain bank. So, outside the city but still in the "no build zone" that surrounds the city.

It's intimated pretty heavily that Ned's sister actually went with Rhaegar because she didn't want to be with Robert, which was because he was such a flawed man when off the battlefield. Unlike Cersei, Ned's sister wouldn't have stood for him fucking around just to alleviate his boredom. In...

I agree, the way they write it off is bullshit--but supposedly this guy is offering VPN free of charge to people overseas, which is what lets them connect at decent ping to the shard. The developers said it was the reason for the recent population swell--because tons of people from other...

This show should be like The Wire--first season is the initial cast and crew, but each new Season develops a new cast, which then interacts and collides with the original.

I really liked the ship battles. Only part I thought was kind of cheesy is when their boat sank, and they all just hang glide from the water onto the next boat. Was kind of weak, and really marginalizes the strength of ships--the strongest ship is simply going to be the one with the largest...

Have no idea if this has been posted, but it shows the problem pretty elegantly. Not only do sims go to the nearest open "job" or "house" (Depending on time of day) but once that spot is occupied, the rest of the sims aren't alerted, they ALL must go there if the proximity is closer, until they...

I never bought it either, and my Jimmies are mad rustled at this debacle. There is a difference between not delivering and conspiring to produce fraudulent behavior. The single hour beta's, intentional population covers and other factors point toward the latter. EA is already a shitty company...

This isn't a matter of opinion on something sucking though. The game doesn't fucking work. It's not like "I didn't like this"...it's "X/Y feature does not work". Can't you see the difference there? Large portions of the simulation do not work--mechanics that wereadvertised(This is important...

If the movie had a big blue line through it that stopped me from watching it properly past the five minute mark....yes? I don't get why you believe you should pay for something fundamentally broken. I mean, a lemon car will usually get you back and forth to work a few times, that doesn't mean...

Also...The Wire is on there...So is The Sopranos and Rome....No idea if you missed these shows as well, but they are all in the same league. You won't be disappointed with any of them if you enjoy GoT.