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1.4 billion euros on a bank building. Then over in the US you have Obama's estimated 5 billion $'s on websites for 'Obamacare'. Money wastage happening in many countries everyday on epic scales. Greece and many other countries 'skint' as we would say in the old days, people just struggling to live from day to day. The euro project being propped up by a crumbling tower of corruption & deceit. Not surprising then that a new threat of a major 'world' war looms in the background, just to add to the problems. Tactical nuclear strikes being a possible tactic that some nutcases in the military would happily use. Bunker down in the country and buy a little gold, rather than save in cash or invest. Its the 21st century so lets do what many of our ancestors aspired to do hundreds of years back, a small pouch of gold coins or whatever. At least that is real value, rather than paper backed by fresh air. Its bleak in the world, many more people are now beginning to see how things really work. Some would say 'its the young people that are our hope for the future' at the moment. But how often has that been said in the past. Those young people that go into governing, grow old and still seem to acquire the same views and values as their older generation that governed before them. Those that see a different way and seem to have some balls to give it a try, all live in Iceland of all places. Good on them, they set an example, out of a disaster. A quick summary that a Martian would get on arrival and after a week of reading and observing our news, plus a little rummage through our history.

Not sure if its an advert or a news item..:rolleyes:

Did you run that by a lie detector test..;)

Looks very good, thanks. I am DL'ing buildings, but the islands at the moment are not working on AH. Still, I'll try again later. Thanks for sharing these.:)

Anybody going to bother with this ? What do you think it will turn out like ?

Impulse: Its a fragrance for women isn't it..:confused: :p There again, men are supposed to act on it. Good luck with it anyway.

Take two brand new systems, exactly the same. Bench them, they will bench similar. Then give the two systems to two players, let them have these systems for their own personal use for 6-9mths, using them as they would their own system. Bench again after that 6-9mth and the two will likely bench very differently. Players say its placebo (not having a go at anyone) that they can't get the same performance. But it isn't placebo just because your system is the same or better than someone else's, but they're getting better performance. Its because their system is probably tweaked slightly differently or more to the point, your system is full of crap that you think, isn't crap. That's the way it goes with pc gaming, keep things as lean and clean as you can, if you don't, someone will always have the same system as yours or indeed a lower spec system, but theirs will be doing much better than yours performance wise. Look at your system and what's on there and think, do I really need all that crap, but by then of course, the damage is usually done..;) sorry.:(

I don't have VBS3, don't plan on getting it either. I have & played VBS2 (Brit version) quite a lot, well I can't really say played, messed around in the editor would be more honest I think. It looked like a great training tool, which of course is what it was/is. Players think the AI in Arma3 are dumb ! well if comparing to something like VBS2, the AI in Arma 3 here would seem Oxford educated.. Not sure about VBS3 AI. But VBS is not intended as a game, although I would like to see some of the terrain details added to the series here, maybe even opening doors to vehicles and more vehicle interaction. Some other bits too, wounding springs to mind. But not the AI..:rolleyes:

This looks very exciting. Good luck with it all.:)

That video was very, very, impressive. Its great work your doing there.:)

Fan-dabi-dozi.. Thanks, look forward to having a good look at it.:)

@Orcinus: Yes, I know lots of details about this, have been following it for quite some time, but didn't want to put too many details. The details are out there for people to find, not the usual press for the most in-depth details. The details have been available for quite some time, but basically ignored by the officials that should not be ignoring them. However, now things are coming more to the surface so its getting harder for them to bury the info that's out there. I mention this really to highlight the case when posters directly accuse (East) governments of being evil, in the misled thought that Western governments are not as bad. Well some are as bad if not worse, this type of thing reaches out to many organisations, governments and countries. Reading the normal news outlets gets you very little info, you have to dig if you see something to get the truer nature of what is happening. I agree with you @Orcinus, what you say is true in your post. However, the inquiry/investigation will be strung out for years in the hope that some of the perpetrators die (naturally), those from years ago. Many are dead and some very old, but it still goes on (allegedly), so there will have to be some kind of results. But I doubt it will be one that punishes either politicians, police, security services, social services the establishment figures etc. It reaches far and wide unfortunately, so it will be a case of trying to cover it up, which this time I think they will find hard. Anyway, this is off topic to some extent, but not when it concerns talk of how governments act and behave. Some talk as if the Western governments are all pretty much fine, they're not, especially the two that tend to be happy to go to war.. They simply hide it better, well really, they just want people to read and watch the outlets that are willing to down play such news. We know who most of those outlets are, well some of us. Pie & Mash Films.. Start there.. Its unusual, you have to be open minded, but dig from that and away you go. I'll not link. As Orcinus said, no names, you'll find out most, by simply looking around.

Cash for questions.. & access.. & peerage.. & knighthoods.. Illegal wars (tens to hundreds of thousands of innocent people slaughtered) thinking Iraq of course. Let alone Afghanistan. Looks as though its now Paedophile rings at the top. Children’s homes and possibly local government and a rather nasty DJ :rolleyes: (whole other story), used to supply these children to the said rings. Some children's homes conveniently left out of the main investigation into this, those that could really open a can of worms. The odd, yet convenient occasional suicide. Reports withheld or held up for years, costing millions. MoD financial black hole or establishment cash grab.;) UK gov/establishment/royals… Can’t make some of this stuff up, those are just a few examples and are all pretty recent, within the last decade or so, its all out there to read about. Some of those are probably still going on today. There are many other things too. We have a general election coming up this year, pretty soon in-fact. We can vote for the party that is backed (paid for) by the bankers & hedge funds. Or alternatively we can vote for the party that is backed (paid for) by the unions. Or, we could vote for one of the others, those with no hope of getting in power at all, unless we have a coalition again. Not a coalition of the main two parties (god forbid), but one main party coupled with a very weak party.. All the above things, go across the two main parties. Just as guilty as each other. The West, freedom and fairness. :rolleyes: Yes, but who are usually on the receiving end of our 'un-fairness'..:( I love this country, just unfortunately we have to put up with what most countries have to, corruption, and embezzlement, along of course, with the occasional illegal war. Because of the people who always end up in charge. It never changes.

Looks interesting this, albeit we haven't seen much yet. I would like to see sight adjust, be able to go to mouse wheel. Other than that its going to be interesting watching progress.

:rolleyes: So what's your view of the UK here ?

This thread is full of people that have a very tunnelled view of the world. Maybe more should stand to one side and look at things in a different way. More or less every major government is corrupt or corruptible. There is no secret to this, its there if you open your eyes, look, think, read. The same goes for many media outlets, they have agendas, twisting views, cover up or plain panic when things get out of hand. Its just how things are in this world and unfortunately its really always been like that. We have to just bump along in it, obviously many with their eyes firmly fixed on what's in front and not to each side. Its a shame really, people no longer think much and are ready to accept what's given to them. That applies to any side, East/West, there is very little difference when it boils down to it. Where there is great power, there is huge corruption..

:rolleyes: of course that's your view. Everyone has a view and will look at things that happen, all around the world, in different ways, sometimes very different ways, doesn't make them wrong or right, its just their view. Make your view, but don't attack someone else for theirs. That's what many, around the world, are doing right now.

Liked the video, however if you put 'slx_pistolcivil' in there, you could safety that pistol (holster it, although obviously not shown in the holster). :D

:D can't wait.

Western security agencies..! just a thought. The worlds a mad place, it could frankly be anybody..:j:

Looks great.

I enjoyed the original series soo much. It was apart of my early teen years when first shown in the UK here, I think 1970-71 it started getting aired, can't remember now, too long ago. They had already finished it in the US by a few years. I think it was on a Monday at 8.00pm BBC 1. Same night as 'Appointment with Fear' film slot on ITV at 10.30pm, it was a good evening on tv for me. ST had an impact that still stays with me, have all the episodes and still watch them from time to time. Sad day, he'll be remembered fondly by all the fans of ST. :(

Medieval Enginners Game from KSH, the makers of Space Engineers. Basically the same sort of building type game, only obviously this time we're going medieval. I like the look of it and knowing Keen the devs, the price for early access will be reasonable, so I'll probably buy it. They have stated that both games, Space Engineers and Medieval Engineers, will benefit each other in terms of content, which is great. I'm getting quite into these building games, it can be interesting stuff. Not for everyone of course, but a change is good. Interview with dev. Should mention, its not on early access yet, it will be soon hopefully, on Steam of course..

So ME has already had a number of fixes plus also some other bits and pieces added to it. One being a very rudimentary AI (Barbarians). This is very basic but is a work in progress. The game has great physics, knocking down castles etc, is quite fun (obviously better to build them), but if they're on a hill and provided your pc is upto the job, its interesting watching results of demolitions. Some great stuff is already appearing on the Steam workshop and modding will come soon I expect. Space Engineers is already benefiting from ME with 'Voxel hand' added, to enable asteroid sculpting etc. The two titles will help each other in different ways throughout the process of development. Once into the swing of things Keen (devs) will do as they have with SE and give regular Thursday updates (maybe another day as that was/is SE update day). They have been very consistent Keen with updates being as regular as clockwork, so I for one am very pleased with the way SE progressed and think ME should be much the same. A review below by someone that can handle the English language :rolleyes:, plus there are plenty of others on YT and elsewhere. Edit: Must add, that much has been added since this review/preview..

Some more regards this topic: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/26/police-black-site-chicago-washington-politicians-human-rights