TheMightyEthan

I agree that ideally people should give more individually, I just don't think it's realistic to expect individuals to voluntarily give on the same kind of scale that government can. But yeah, economic policy is an area where I can agree to disagree with people because I don't find opposing viewpoints morally lacking, I just disagree about the best way to accomplish the same goal. Okay, new post while I was writing: The grants didn't have anything to do with abortion, the grants were just to fund breast exams. Regardless of your stance on abortion, I think it's shitty to cut funding to exams that help women detect and treat cancer just because the organization also performs abortions.

Easy: Liara. I picked Liara in my main ME1 playthrough cause she was the best of limited options, but man they made her so much more awesome in ME2. Now I have no qualms about her. Also, Ashley becomes less racist throughout ME1, at least if you romance her.

That's where I think it's wrong to call it "your fair share". If you're stuck paying 40% and someone else only has to pay 10% it's not fair anymore. I'm going to both agree and disagree with this. If (super)* rich people were paying the same percentage as everyone else, then I would agree you can't say they're not doing their fair share, but I do think that when they're paying less than other people you can say that. But I also don't think it's necessarily unfair to take a higher percentage from people who make more money. I wouldn't say fairness requires it, but I would say fairness allows it (within reason, and yes, I am the arbiter of what is "within reason" ). *I say "super" because I'm aware that the stuff that ends up with people like Romney only paying 14% only applies to people with tons and tons of money, and not everyone who could conceivably be classified as rich.

I've heard "beat the tar out of you" but never "whale the tar".

I'm pretty sure every romance option is returning, and positive the 3 romance options from the first game are.

Well the idea with different percentages is that the more money you make the more you can afford to part with. Taking 25% of the income from someone making $50k/year is going to hurt them a lot more than taking 25% from someone making $500k. You could take 90% from someone making $50M/year (I know there aren't many of those people) and they'd still be making a ludicrous amount of money. *Edit* - To be clear, I'm not advocating a 90% tax on anyone, just illustrating the point.

I know this is old, but still:

Problem not solved, I pay 20%. He'd still be paying less than me. Unless you mean that you cap the highest rate at 15% and have the lower income rates even lower than that. *Edit* - though that 20% is including state income tax, which obviously is going to vary from state to state. Not sure what my federal rate is.

I've heard "whale on" but I've also always assumed it was "wail".

That depends on how you define fair share. I would assume that at least everyone can agree that the rich should not pay less than everyone else, but Mitt Romney makes $20M per year and has an effective tax rate of 14%, which is less than what I pay and I only make $40k.

Yeah, I won't knowingly buy any game with StarForce. Same goes for Ubi's always-on DRM. And here's the thing for me: if I refuse to buy the PC version of a game because of DRM, I will also not buy the console version even though I have the console.

I can't shake the feeling that James is going to be as boring as Jacob was, but if so it won't be due to lack of effort on FPJr's part, cause he is definitely very enthusiastic about it.

Yeah, I know there are other benefits, but the lending library is the only one I really care about. I don't mind waiting 3 days for packages instead of 2, and the VOD stuff doesn't really interest me either.

From the Mass Effect thread. Not to pick on WaS, cause I know I'm taking this comment completely out of context, but it just made me think of the attitude that I think is a huge problem in American politics; people act like the majority should be catered to at the expense of all others. Tyranny by majority is still tyranny, and the whole reason we have things like the first amendment is to protect the minority from the majority. Just because most people like one thing doesn't mean we should force it down the throats of everyone else. Again, specific comment taken entirely out of context, so don't take this as me attacking you WaS.

Oh, the lending library doesn't work on the apps? Guess I won't get prime then. Shame, I was really considering it.

You mean like PS+?

I think it's interesting how they have Femshep's voice actor but not Maleshep's. It's like they don't want to acknowledge Maleshep isn't a real person.

Amazon is the internet's Walmart, without the white trash connotations.

lol, it's not like they can put it on Origin without EA's permission.

I'm also really glad they improved the hologram visuals, the ones in ME2 looked like shit, especially when you were allowed to move around because they didn't shift right with the environment. They were obviously just sprites pasted over the screen, and I thought we'd moved past that.

I agree TNext, and I thought the same thing about the Kinect features in Halo: Anniversary. *Edit* - Just watched the trailer. Why is Liara pointing a gun at a hologram of the Illusive Man?

How is that different from Cerberus Network/other project $10 stuff? *Edit* - @Thursday: I don't think you should try to make a better product by providing more content than you will get with piracy, because it's simply impossible, anything you release will be pirated. The closest you can get is online multiplayer. But you should try to focus on more positive "reward" type stuff, because that generates good will and makes people want to buy the game, even though they could pirate it. Even though I could pirate the added content I'm going to go "it's cool that they're doing that" and be more likely to buy the game, even if the added stuff is something I have no interest in.

No, if the Catwoman parts didn't exist I wouldn't suspect wrongdoing, it just would bug me. Though they could have fixed that with like a 10 second cutscene establishing why she's there and her realizing Batman's in trouble, so really I'm just nitpicking.

I am so fucking stoked for this game.

Nope, never heard that before outside the context of the super hero.