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Because, Anya, you recharge your life in the time it takes someone to respawn. So you can keep full life without moving. So you never have to go to GET the med packs, and thus can camp the super weapon. Duh. Very duh. This isn't hard...

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Yeah, make camping the killer weapon even easier...

She left her toe on the livingroom floor. Ew.

I'm saying, I'm assuming I'm allowed to shoot someone brandishing a weapon, but what about the other guys with him? The other problem is that 90% of all the crimes have been perpetrated by technically minors. They're 14-17 by all reports. That never looks good. And what about knifework?

Burmese food is fucking fantastic, by the way. If you can find it in your area, I would recommend it. Anyone in my area should check out Mandalay in downtown Silver Spring. Baller Just don't try to pronounce the names. You'll see how familiar and usual Chinese is in comparison.

Speaking of that... There've been quite a few armed robberies in my area recently, at least one per week. Assuming I'm allowed to carry a piece, what are the laws on firing on someone who was brandishing a weapon at me? What about their accomplices?

This was in the UK, right? No way you can carry there...

Yeah, we're such dickholes for trying to help out in Darfur..?

since they're not in the oil rich part of the world middle east...

I played it. Can I just say that this game really really doesn't work well with two players, at all? 1) The levels are too big 2) The stupid shield recharging thing. That needs to be turned off for one on one, but every single person used to Halo just bitches about it. Yeah, so you can camp the rocket launcher?

Did you even play Deus Ex?

A somewhat legendary "fight" between two chicks in my highschool started with one of the girls walking up to the other chick and stompign on her ankle hard enough to break it. That started it. Suffice to say it was a beatdown of the nastiest variety. Girls will go way way beyond guys when it comes to "fighting", but I'm not sure why. I don't think I would have it in me to start punching someone in the face after I already broke his ankle. Let alone kicking in head, etc...

@ balking at door load times.

I'll probably pick this up sooner than later. The Orange Box, such a value!

Well, I never really played 1 or 2, so 3 should be all fresh and new. Huzzah! And if having a videogame reviewer as a friend has taught me anything, it's that you shouldn't trust videogame reviews.

I haven't seen the video, as I am mostly online at work with no speakers. Did the cops (do they have to?) tell the person they're cuffing what they are under arrest for?

It really really is cut and dry. You can't just say, "oh, these were not angels, they deserve to be punished here!" and leave it at that. I mean, I also agree that anyone saying, "Oh these kids were good kids blah blah blah" are being even more untruthful, but at the end of the day there is one big thing happening here, and it is clearly and lucidly unjust. Thats it, thats it, that is. No one should give a shit, Jingus, whether or not four black kids beating up a white kid in this town was a "good" idea or not. The kid obviously wasn't that damaged or else he wouldn't have been going out that night. This is a clear case of white racists trying to teach uppity negros a hard lesson about their proper station, and other southern country fried bullshit that we don't fucking need to deal with these days.

I'm not entirely against the guy getting tased. But not entirely for the abject docileness you have to show to cops.

It sounds to me like those kids may have though (realized?) that they had little other recourse than to physically defend themselves against all kinds of agression. I mean, if hanging nooses isn't met with more than suspension, then for christ sake...

We're spending waaaaaaaaay more on Iraq than Vietnam.

The lessson here is, if you're under arrest, go and get arreested. Don't try to beg off, don't go prone. Help the cops arrest you. Is that it? That implies a huge amount of trust in the po-po.

Look, the truth is, brain damage is not something you should "work through" because it only gets worse. And of course you don't feel it, you don't have any nerves for feeling pain in the brain.

Don't a certain number of people die each year from Taser related cardiac problems, or is that just stun guns? I'm pretty sure I've heard something like that.

Live your life guys. Enjoy it...