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I really doubt dictating what ammunition weapons should use is the intent of the treaty. Napalm, chemical weapons, etc aren't outlawed because they're "too effective" or whatever, but because they're very likely to cause civilian casualties. In any case, whether or not countries follow the Conventions or not, or the consequences of their choices, is a tangent. I posted it in response to the statement that you can't define what a war crime is, which is quite obviously incorrect since t

I believe the auto-reply when sending in a support ticket tells you not to reply to it because it will push it to the end of the queue.

Actually, war crimes are quite clearly defined in the Geneva Conventions. As a snippit: [quote] Not all violations of the treaty are treated equally. The most serious crimes are termed grave breaches, and provide a legal definition of a war crime . Grave breaches of the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions include the following acts if committed against a person protected by th

If you enjoy watching games played, you can also watch the streams on TeamLiquid (there's a listing of all live streams on the right hand side). Tournaments/casts appear under an event header, these are games that are played with an observer commentating, and the streams below are just people playing on their own. There are several good streams for each race, though obviously they're not all on all the time. You can learn a lot about each race by watching the games too.

Exploration has gotten revamped and is a lot less, well, bothersome. It's pretty fun to do now. Scan times are very short (~10 seconds, some variance for skills), you only need to use one probe type (its scan strength increases when you set it for shorter range scans), and cov ops get nice scanning bonuses. It really only takes a couple minutes to lock down a site, and it usually tells you the type of the site before you get your 100% match so if it's yet another wormhole or gas cloud you can

What's your definition of significant? :P PvP is what's most apparent, but depending on your tastes there's lots to PvE. Not to mention, PvP is generally supported by PvE, you need to make money to get ships to fight with ;)

Yep, like ZehDon said, if you want to learn SC2 strategy, TeamLiquid.net is where to go. The other suggestions are spot on also, especially Day9's streams.

What does Wikileaks have to do with freedom of speech? It's not even based in the US. Sweden, I think?

[quote]During my time with Wildly Inappropriate, fighting the Russian alliance Solar Fleet (among others), I personally lost a few hundred dollars "worth" of assets. Not that I actually paid for any of it, but Eve has a pretty stable dollar to ISK ratio, so it's interesting to step back sometimes and consider just what any given loss or kill was worth.[/quote] Are you still in WI? I was in Goonswarm (yea, yea.. at least it wasn't Goonfleet) for a while, and after it broke up my corp (

Pacov, when you start the trial you can add Se'len to your friends list and I'll be happy to answer any questions you have while doing the tutorial/finding your way around. The game has a bit of a learning curve, but it's really not bad. CCP is actually removing the #1 thing that makes starting in EVE terribly boring - learning skills. The way EVE works is everything trains in real-time without you having to do anything. There's a skill literally for everything (every module, ship, im

X3 is like a spare empire sim, more or less. You start as a new pilot in a dinky ship, and then you can do pretty much whatever you want. You can start a galaxy-wide trading empire, you can do missions, you can manufacture your own goods (and later, ships), you can even pirate. There are bigger and better ship types to fly, and several alien races to pick from, each with their own ship lineup with different stats. In X3: Terran Conflict, there are also special non-purchaseable ships a

[quote who="Zavrtak" reply="72" id="2834291"] While in Starcraft the winner of a match is dertimend often very, very early with very few chances to get back into the game. [/quote] This is also mostly false. There are cases where a winner is determined early - but then the game also ends early. There are not many cases where a winner is determined early, but the game drags on. Most often if it seems that way, it's a situation where one player gradually eeks out ahead throug

I think they're doing daily "25 days of Christmas" sales now, one new thing on sale every day that I seem to get a popup for. So far though, the sales seem pretty minor :(

Actually, the matchmaking in SC2 is very, very good. First it will place you with people right around your point level. As you keep winning, it gives you tougher and tougher opponents. If you lose, it gives you a bit easier ones.

That's actually only half-true. You need to have a long term plan for your game when you go into a match, if you're playing seriously. There is no "guaranteed win" strategy in SC2. If you want to try cheese, you have to have a plan for what to do if it fails - the very definition of strategy. There is plenty of room for micromanagement (tactics), but if your early pressure fails to win a game outright (which is usually what happens at the top of the ladder), all the tactics aren't going to sa

You could always try your luck with sales, maybe they'll refund it since it was an accidental buy. Can't hurt in any case, at worst they'll say no. ;)

Dark grey on black background is incredibly hard to read :(

Malwarebytes is good stuff. Thanks!

Unfortunately not, they were rotating deals every day since the 24th, today being the last day. The sale on King's Bounty ended :( It was on Saturday, I think.

Steam had all the King's Bounty games (Legend, Armored Princess, and Crossworlds) for $7.50 total over the weekend. Hard to beat :P

[quote who="lbgsloan" reply="47" id="2832889"] I don't really understand any of it. If there's a cash prize for being in the top 3, then sure. Do what it takes to win if you're aiming for that. But in most games I've played, people don't respect the #1 player. The #1 player is usually just infamous for abusing a cheese tactic when something was badly imbalanced. That guy with the 400-10 record? Yeah, nobody is buying that skill got them there.[/quote]<

@OP: Scouting is important, but what's more important is just knowing what your opponent's race can throw at you and coming up with a build that can deal with all/most of it. Starcraft 2 is not a "counter" game. It's not about playing passive and reacting to your opponent's build to "counter" it. If you want to play a long game, learn what each race's early rushes are, and come up with a build that can beat them back. If you know at ~6-7 minutes you can have a pair of cl

It doesn't matter how long they have supported it for if they're actively dropping support now. Only SP3 is getting updates now, and eventually that will stop. In the corporate world, companies will stop being able to downgrade to WinXP in a few years (2014 or 2015), meaning that every new computer they buy will have to have a new OS, and since mixing and matching OS across the company generally doesn't work, they have to upgrade everything. This was actually supposed to go into effect sooner

[quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="20" id="2830240"] Quoting Annatar11, reply 19AI War has a fun multiplayer co-op mode, and is a pretty awesome game to boot I'm really considering picking this one up as well. Didn't know it had co-op. Good stuff![/quote]the Check out this youtube vid of the lead dev describing his co-op game :) http://www.youtube.com/watch

AI War has a fun multiplayer co-op mode, and is a pretty awesome game to boot :)