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The Peace Prize has been a poorly done political farce for years. This is just another example. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/07/colombia-s-nobel-peace-prize-from-bad-to-farce.html There has always been an inherently political element to the Peace Prize and this latest case is not d...

I am not a fan of what Erdogan is doing in Turkey, but I am even less of a fan of military rule. This kind of thing always strikes me as a double-edged sword, regardless of who ends up winning. If the coup succeeds, repression will follow. If it doesn't, then the same will happen except in the oppos...

On Japanese culture, I did see the remark on how people think Japan is advanced because they produce shiny gadgets, anime, and wear western clothes. If one wants to see just how repressive and sexist Japan really is, one can see it all over the place in their anime. Almost universally, if there's a...

If true, then congratulations to those responsible and good riddance to OBL's murderous madness. Perhaps we can say that this is more of a symbolic victory than anything else, but that doesn't make it any less powerful in both political and, I dare say, moral terms. It certainly came at a heavy pric...

If you live in the wrong country, then someone can't give it to you. Out of region games simply won't work if you're in the wrong region. Last time I checked, this was (quite fortunately) not true in general. It's still possible that specific games might have additional region restrictions and/or a...

Latin America is pretty strongly Catholic, and generally (at least, this is my impression) of that branch of the Catholic church that supported Franco and situates itself firmly alongside Benedict. It's a bit more complicated than that, so I wouldn't want to generalize in either direction. Latin Am...

Rather touchy, aren't we? Never said that you couldn't argue about it. Feel free to do so. My so-called "false concerns" are merely a position that deals with the initial question that brought about this topic and the gist of the subsequent discussion it sparked. I don't see how being skep...

The thing is, Gundam isn't comparable to an American Saturday Morning cartoon. Because Gundam isn't Japan's equivalent of a Saturday morning cartoon. It's their equivalent of Star Trek . It's their flagship science fiction show. Heck, if this site was founded by a Japanse sci-fi fan (who had little...

I really, really wanted to be a beta tester for the original Victoria, given the wonderful setting and all, but wasn't picked either. I did get a couple of interesting opportunities after that, but in any event...I never ended up liking the game that much despite participating in the resulting commu...

To be perfectly honest...as long as it's all about silly fiction created for a purely commercial purpose, I don't really care about how many intended or unintended politically and factually incorrect parallels are implied or directly expressed in any of the Gundam series or any of the franchises Jap...

phongn wrote:Do not use RAID-0 or JBOD ('RAID Big') mode if you value your data.

Got it. However, would that be worse than picking a non-RAID drive from Samsung then? Or perhaps I'll get two of the RAID drives and use another mode (RAID-1) but that's going to be a longer term prospect.

Since the subject has, more or less, already come up and I don't think it's worth making another thread as long as this one remains available...I'd like to request a bit of advice here if you don't mind. Which of these two hard drives would be the better purchase: Verbatim 2TB USB/eSATA 2-Disk RAID ...

My laptop has a pretty mediocre dedicated graphics card that seems to fall a bit short of the formal requirements in theory, so I'm hoping the game is substantially more CPU than GPU intensive or, failing that, perhaps just requires a bit of tweaking the graphics downward. As long as I can run the g...

Colombia is indeed a fucking mess, make no mistake, but I suppose it's worth commenting and going into a bit of a rant here. My apologies in advance if this ends up being more annoying or pretentious than intended. The way I see it...Colombia isn't quite as god-forsaken as Afghanistan, mostly by vir...

There's a lot of very interesting and even some relatively new (for me) information here, but in the end I just come back to the fact that Code Geass takes place in an entirely fictional and extremely unrealistic world where there are only superficial links to any real historical events. There are s...

@Grandmaster Jogurt: Oh, I would certainly agree. Incidentally...have you seen the second movie? It was made later, obviously, but also plays a similar role in terms of providing a better introduction to the show and actually re-animates the first couple of episodes while adding a fair amount of ver...

That's pretty much the gist of the plot twist in question, yes, as far as I can remember. Some people love that, others hate it...but I'm definitely among the first group. It was a nice change of pace from the standard super robot premise and therefore I'd say Yasuhiro Imagawa did a good job (even c...

^^^ I don't know if it's wise to read too much into that, because it's probably just a stylistic choice. Zero, in any event, doesn't actively portray himself as a specifically Japanese rebel (as opposed to all the nationalistic resistance groups running around). Not even to his closest subordinates....

Though, I definitely agree with you on Suzaku; he annoyed me very much with that endless absolute idealism he just loved to preach on about (you think it is bad now? ohh, just WAIT until you see R2...along with complete hypocrisy to finish it all off). ...when you think about it, this show is chock...

I suppose it's worth typing up my two cents here. Leaving aside that it's pretty much impossible to enjoy most modern anime -Code Geass included- without a high suspension of disbelief for stupid things that would never work in reality or let alone follow the laws of history, warfare and physics as ...

Ah, damnit. I'd hoped there was some kind of original plan for the series that would have made some sense. They did change more than just cut out explanations (though with anime being what it is, I seriously doubt there was ever any intention to explain everything even under the best of circumstanc...

As far as I'm concerned, LOGH is one of the very few anime titles that successfully tells an ambitious story on a grand scale and manages to do so with a surprising degree of maturity. You can definitely see that this was originally based on a sci-fi novel series, first and foremost, and luckily eno...

Yeah, as far as anime is concerned most series are indeed pretty sloppy in terms of execution. Questions are left unanswered, details are forgotten or otherwise end up buried beneath a layer of filler and all other kinds of imaginable distractions. Not exactly a pretty sight and few stand up to stri...

I imagine that (or something like that) is what the framers of the Honduran constitution were worried about. IIRC, the 'framers' were the Reagan administration, much like how the post-war Japanese constitution was written by the US as well. This essentially makes it a document imposed on them by an...