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Fair enough/astute observation.

Well, I'm glad the KH13 community has some common sense. Amendment One is messed up.

Most, I just get to the end. Mass Effect, I do everything possible then do it again.

I would give a lot for the chance to experience that. Space is f***ing awesome.

This was fantastic. It took a welcome unexpected turn.

It's good to think about these things, to be pragmatic. That said, it's not worth stressing about right now. You have to take it step by step - that's the only way. I'm just finishing up my first year of college and, having switched from pre-Med (which gave me a straight path ahead: Med school, residency, etc) to History and International Relations, I know all about the anxiety of "shit, what am I going to do with this degree? Will I get a good job? Will it pay well? What should I do in Grad school?" and I've already got some loans piling up. But, like I said, you can't think too far ahead. You kind of have to just go where your feet take you. Work your ass off, be the best at whatever you do. Get as many internships as you can, make your resume a beautiful thing to look at. And most importantly, follow your passion. The rest is all secondary.

Definitely more detail - more refined, more realistic. Something resembling what FFversusXIII looks like. And yes, absolutely more CGI. Kingdom Hearts has always been a highly immersive game with potential to be truly cinematic (though the weak-willed and low quality cutscenes take away from that a bit). I'd like to enjoy a more all-around cinematic experience in KH3.

Whatever the hardest mode is - whether it's Proud or Critical. Beginner and Standard are lame.

I'd much rather get an HD collection of the older games than anything else new (unless it's KH3). But with nothing confirmed, right now I'm just super stoked for the FFX HD remaster.

Hm. I see Beethoven and Tchaikovsky on this soundtrack.

SWEET JEFF BRIDGES

Playing it now... loving it. I played ME1 and ME2 a good 3 times each before this one came out. Haven't hit the ending yet, but so far the gravest disappointment is Tali's face. I've been a dedicated Tali lover for basically all my play throughs, and it was an utter let-down. You only get to see a picture of it (with a lot of glare, at that) - which, after some investigation, I discovered was merely a photoshopped stock photo off Google. Bioware: what the hell happened? Got really lazy there... But other than that, it's almost a masterpiece. Already brought me to the verge of tears twice.

Damn. Very well done. I mean if you consider how characters like Tidus, Wakka, and Seifer looked in KH and KH2 compared with their real characters... Shit, I wish this were real.

Er... I think you just read a sketchy translation. "Enemies" of pure light doesn't sound right.

...Mediafire

I'd respond to all of your responses in more detail, because I like good conversation, but I'm limited on time and feel the urgent need to respond, at least, to the bolded statement above. Dear God, mate, is this really your outlook? Do you have any idea the damage "our success" has rendered upon the unfortunate population lying outside our exclusive little circle of liberalized/industrialized Western states? The numbers, when you actually look at them, I assure you, will devastate you (and if they don't, you're a heartless being). The sheer amount of exploitation and gains at our end (and that's another issue altogether - the gains made by MNCs, the primary sources of the FDI/other foreign investments coming out of US capital, are hardly advantageous, on a direct level, to an American layman anyway) at the expense of jobs, capital, markets, skilled (and unskilled) labor in LDCs and even NICs is ludicrous. Furthermore, "law of comparative advantage" my ass - the division of labor between developing countries and developed countries hardly even exists when a mass portion of those have virtually one or two primary products to export, many of them the same products, at that, allowing for even more exploitation of the resulting monopsony and ludicrous terms of trade on our end. So, OK, if liberalization is working so well for us, let's just ship it overseas to those less fortunate countries. Let's take a look at what many of our MNCs do (many of which, mind you, including Walmart, General Motors, BP, Toyota, etc, have total sales surpassing the GDPs of many countries): Firstly, they avoid paying their fair share of taxes through transfer-pricing mechanisms designed to transfer their colossal profits to countries where taxes are lower. What that effectively does is, say an American manufacturer produces parts then ships them to Mexico for assembly, to then be shipped back. But, Mexico demands a higher tax on corporate profits than the US, where the MNC is based - the MNC can then overprice the parts shipped to Mexico and underprice the assembled parts that are "sold" back to the American firm back home. In other words, the MNC pays lower taxes at the expense of the Mexican subsidiary, who now makes very little. This happens more often than you'd think. As if that weren't enough, MNCs remove scarce capital from LDCs by charging royalties and licensing fees for manufacturing products on which they hold copyrights AND, through bribery/lobbying of corrupt government officials overseas (and trust me, there are lots of them - people are desperate), they get special tax breaks. The indirect effects are profound, as well. Sure, MNCs transport technology to their foreign subsidiaries - industrialization, good! ...you might say. Unfortunately, most of the technology transferred is capital-intensive technology requiring expensive equipment and skilled workers, which not only does little to amend high local unemployment rates in those regions, but actually stunts the development of local technology, discourages local research/development, and drives out local entrepreneurs, leaving those regions even worse off than they already were. And not only do they not, usually, bring capital into LDCs but often set up businesses that use up the limited supply of local capital available for the sake of self-interest and preservation of their oh so limited resources. Moreover, bank loans to MNCs mean less money is available for local entrepreneurs to borrow, and the resulting competition from MNCs can destroy existing domestic industries. If you have any desire to help out countries that are not the U.S., Canada, Australia/New Zealand, Western European, or Japan, I'd advise changing your outlook on what system is efficient and equitable.

I think Obama's a great president, and he's done almost all that he's possibly able to, given the inane constraints Congress' utter inefficiency to make any good legislative decisions puts on him. Even so, we're in a shit storm. It's only a matter of time before China liquidates their holdings, and even if we miraculously pull ourselves out of debt before that happens, there's no preventing the inevitable - that is, China's rapid emergence as a hegemonic superpower (http://www.thepicky....ies_in_2050.jpg) and perhaps the total end of a unilateral international political economic system... which lays out two options: the dissemination of wealth in equal shares globally, i.e. including Third World countries, or multilateral competition between a series of insanely wealthy (and incredibly unstable) entities, i.e. China, the U.S., the EU, maybe Brazil, India, and Russia, and Walmart - you can see where that one might head. Plus, the effects of the eurocrisis will undoubtedly trickle down, and it doesn't help that member-states of the EU, in addition to Japan, are so obsessively focused on their own internal issues that they probably won't be thinking too much about international cooperation in preventing a massive global economic collapse anytime soon. I don't have much hopes for the economy of the next few decades - we've (the Western world) put ourself in an irreversible situation and locked ourselves into a materialistic and predatory system that cannot sustain itself for much longer. Even if we make out by the skin of our teeth, it's only a matter of time before we experience absolute economic collapse. That said, I'm not a pessimist - on the contrary, I think such a disaster is a necessary step in revising not only our systems of government, politics, and economics, but also our entire outlooks... building a fair and equal system founded upon the bases of love and mutual humanity. Need something to wake us up first, though. Guess I digressed a little bit.

Cecilllllllllllllllll

Haha, there's a reason he's referred to as "Unknown."

Eh. I was planning to be a doctor/go into the medical field for a number of years, even worked as an EMT for a while. Did a complete 180 - now I'm studying History and International Relations and still thinking about what I want to do next. I definitely plan to get a Ph.D in Middle Eastern Studies, the question is whether I should get a quicker degree in something like International Political Economy first, and whether that'd even be worthwhile... eh, I'll figure it out. In a dream world, I'd work for the UN/be a diplomat of some sort, and then retire and go into academia/be a professor. Alas, I'm crossing my fingers that I'll find any worthwhile job after college.

Whaaaaaaat no way... I remember when it just came out. It still feels fresh - never get tired of my PS2.

I'm... really confused

Oh. My. God. I don't remember the last time I was this stoked for something.

Not a bad game, story is just severely lacking and seems unnecessary. Still fun, though.

Huh. For some reason I'd had it in my head that AC:3 would take place during the French Revolution. This could be just as, if not more, cool (I'm a history student/junkie - hence the major reason I'm an Assassin's Creed fan). Can't wait to hang out and interact with Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr, Madison, Washington, and all those guys. Good stuff. Also, REALLY glad the main character is Native American (or at least affiliated with them - judging from his getup/weaponry). Might add a much more intriguing dimension to the plot, as opposed to if he were a colonialist.. then it'd just be the standard Americans v. the Brits.