Soccorro: I have volunteered in a soup kitchen for a couple of months. I can guarantee, that none of those who needed our help chose to be poor. I gladly pay taxes meant for welfare. The work there has, in a political manner, pushed me into the left corner, and honestly, i'm proud to be a leftist idiot :D I however do respect your point of view and support your right to have an own opinion on that.

toxicTom: No offence meant.

toxicTom: From my (limited) experience stigmata dreams could mean you've made a big sacrifice and your soul needs time to heal itself.

viperfdl: If dreams have a meaning then what the fuck is that supposed to mean?

grimwerk: Have you had a splinter or some discomfort in your hands recently? Or even a concern about potential discomfort in your hands? I have a tricky jaw, and I occasionally dream that I can painlessly flip my entire mandible forward out of my face. They're not frightening dreams, just curious ones. Perhaps you slept on your arm, briefly cut off circulation to one hand, and the nail thoughts were just your mind accommodating that feeling of pins-and-needles and making it part of your dream.

Seeing that you're from Germany, I'm now wondering how pins-and-needles translates into other languages.

viperfdl: Had a strange dream last night. I dreamed that nails were in my hand and that I pulled them out. Oh, I'm not talking about fingernails; I mean those made of metal that can be used to nail boards together. First they were rather small but later they were even bigger. They weren't nailed through my hand, they were just... buried in my hand, but the bigger ones would never have fit in a hand. I felt no pain and after the last nail the hole where only bleeding a little.
If dreams have a meaning then what the fuck is that supposed to mean?

GhostwriterDoF: Well, big Corporate spends a lot of money on propaganda through the Corporate State Television media that trains people to turn against their own governments and interests, and gets them to hate the poor, infirmed and elderly and blame them for all the financial problems caused by Wall Street Bankers, whilst the owners and operators of corporations steal the wealth of our nations, commit massive financial fraud and poison our food and water with pollutants.

All those regulations and laws designed to protect people from greed cut into the profit taking. So, lawyers and executives go through revolving doors from the corporations into “public service” government positions to sabotage all the working programs and policies and declare that government is broken.

Then we hear privatization is the only answer to fix things, though it ends up costing more, whilst getting less and the revenue no longer circulates through the economy, it goes into private pockets and their offshore “tax havens”.

And in general, the wealthy who own those corporations don’t pay taxes, though they do demand that every-day people must pay more in taxes so our nations can give them more subsidies and benefits, but they believe every-day people should not have social programs and labor laws, or individual human rights, or even representation through our governments, since they see us as mere livestock to be harvested or used as pawns in times of war.

It is not just happening here in the U.S., though here in the States the majority of people haven’t been informed about the revolving doors, or these new “free Trade” agreements being negotiated in secret, (Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic and TTIP). They are too busy being worried about “big Government”.

“Corporations are People, my friend...”

sheath01: Is there anybody else out there who gets annoyed with other people's ability to assess quality and assign a corresponding rating to products, or with respect to GOG, games? I get so pissed off at all of the 5 star ratings that completely average games get. The rating systems lose all of their effectiveness when people fail to account for truly excellent games when deciding how to rate the quality of a game they had fun playing. As a result, I look at games like Soul Reaver (4.5 stars) and think it's actually a good game because it's almost as highly rated as System Shock (a solid 5 star game). I fucking hated Soul Reaver! Terrible controls, constantly retracing your steps and tedious enemies. If the story isn't original (and no vampire story is original, whereas the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series does have an original story with poor execution until Call of Pripyat), the controls not logical or stable, the game isn't polished/was rushed, or forces you to retrace your steps (I'm talking to you Anachronox - another game more deserving of 3 stars than it's consensus 4.5), it's NOT 5 stars! In fact, it should lose one star for every one of these issues. A great story and poor execution doesn't make for a good game, it makes for an average game. I wish people would stop assigning 5 stars to games which were "fun" or "good". 5 stars are by definition exceptional, and therefore rare. We're not in the 2nd grade people! There are no fucking "participant trophies"! We're talking about my decision to spend my limited money and time, and I want to know if I'm throwing it away or getting a real quality product.

If anybody disagrees with me, show me three games (of the hundreds) here which have a 1-star rating. I'd be interested if anybody can even show me one single game with a consensus 1-star rating, despite the fact that there are many here deserving of that rating, such as the slapped-together indie games which sell for the same price as the well-polished classics like Baldur's Gate.

Thanks for reading. Writing this helped me remember how ridiculous my complaints are (this does nothing to reduce the relevancy of my points) when I could be complaining about not having clean water to drink.

sheath01: Is there anybody else out there who gets annoyed with other people's ability to assess quality and assign a corresponding rating to products, or with respect to GOG, games? I get so pissed off at all of the 5 star ratings that completely average games get. The rating systems lose all of their effectiveness when people fail to account for truly excellent games when deciding how to rate the quality of a game they had fun playing. As a result, I look at games like Soul Reaver (4.5 stars) and think it's actually a good game because it's almost as highly rated as System Shock (a solid 5 star game). I fucking hated Soul Reaver! Terrible controls, constantly retracing your steps and tedious enemies. If the story isn't original (and no vampire story is original, whereas the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series does have an original story with poor execution until Call of Pripyat), the controls not logical or stable, the game isn't polished/was rushed, or forces you to retrace your steps (I'm talking to you Anachronox - another game more deserving of 3 stars than it's consensus 4.5), it's NOT 5 stars! In fact, it should lose one star for every one of these issues. A great story and poor execution doesn't make for a good game, it makes for an average game. I wish people would stop assigning 5 stars to games which were "fun" or "good". 5 stars are by definition exceptional, and therefore rare. We're not in the 2nd grade people! There are no fucking "participant trophies"! We're talking about my decision to spend my limited money and time, and I want to know if I'm throwing it away or getting a real quality product.

If anybody disagrees with me, show me three games (of the hundreds) here which have a 1-star rating. I'd be interested if anybody can even show me one single game with a consensus 1-star rating, despite the fact that there are many here deserving of that rating, such as the slapped-together indie games which sell for the same price as the well-polished classics like Baldur's Gate.

Thanks for reading. Writing this helped me remember how ridiculous my complaints are (this does nothing to reduce the relevancy of my points) when I could be complaining about not having clean water to drink.

Emob78: Or in other words, define 'bad art.' Matter of opinion, buddy. Personally, I thought your post was repetitive and a bit wordy. I give it 2 stars. But what do I know? I'm just a retarded American. What value does my opinion of your opinion have? As much or as little as you think.

Hell, most of the people here at GOG love the Witcher series. I think it's an overrated, novice game series that rips off everything else off in its genre. But that's my review, my opinion. You have to consider an opinion for what it is, the beliefs of a human being poured out into words and emotions. That's all it is. Dust. And wind. All we are is dust in the wind, dude.

Emob78: Hell, most of the people here at GOG love the Witcher series. I think it's an overrated, novice game series that rips off everything else off in its genre. But that's my review, my opinion. You have to consider an opinion for what it is, the beliefs of a human being poured out into words and emotions. That's all it is. Dust. And wind. All we are is dust in the wind, dude.

monkeydelarge: The problem is, some people judge games with logic but most people judge with only emotions... A lot of bad games make some people feel good so they think the game is good and share their worthless opinions with other people. Yep, we live in a world where most people's opinions are worthless. Not just when it comes to games but when it comes to everything. It's exhausting... It would be nice if they make two separate sections(one section for reviews and another section for emotional worthless reviews) when it comes to reviews because too many people give games high ratings because that is how they feel about the game. And that makes things difficult for people who are trying to figure out if a game is good or not. But you should still give bad games a try, because there is a chance some bad games can make you feel good therefore you can still get your money's worth with some of them.

I don't find your complaint ridiculous because not getting your money's worth from games is a big deal...

monkeydelarge: I would agree with you if his post was about paintings, sculptures, poetry or music. Games are more than just art because there is a technical side to games. If a game is poorly optimized, full of bugs, has poor controls, has a poor user interface, is protected by securom, crashes every 5 minutes and doesn't allow you to change video and audio settings to how you like it then the game is bad from a non purely emotional point of view.

AlKim: Saw a truly appalling stand-up show at a friend's place. An offensive, hypocritical bastard spewing out dragging nonsequiteurs that were so terrible that if I had been there in the audience, I would have demanded my money back.

Soccorro: awwww, poor thing!
WE HAVE MARIO BARTH! the dumbest stand up idiot ever. abusing women with his sexist jokes...