The mixture of valid points, exaggerations, ignorance of context and completely false information makes it a bit... difficult to digest.

Generally speaking, a lot of errors were made regarding Cologne.

The police fucked up entirely and basically was unable to maintain control of the square in front of the central train station where shitloads of theft, sexual harassment and even a few rapes were committed.

The public media did not report on it properly. They did, in fact, refuse to report it at all at first. But that doesn't stem from an obession with PC nor is it special treatment for refugees/immigrants -- it's good old-fashioned pro-government bias. A few days later, they were all playing the same tune again: bad immigrants, bad muslims, need more law-and-order, close the borders, need new laws, etc. Same shit as always.

And yes, you cannot expect all these refugees to be model citizens from the get-go. Different culture, different language, segregation, no work permit, no familiy, maybe first-hand experience with war -- they are bound to commit crimes, assuming otherwise would be naive.

And accepting a million refugees might have been a bad idea after cutting down public personnel and services for two decades straight. But what's done is done. The question now is what can be done to improve the situation for everyone involved. What doesn't help is further segregation (refugee camps), private security (aka mobs hunting brown people, happened in Cologne already) or downplaying the massive problems.

As for that wierd tirade from 1:07 onwards about true Germans: except for all the people from Bohemia, Prussia and Silesia, aka Poland; or the millions of immigrants from Italy and Turkey; or the folks from former Yugoslavia; etc. Two thirds of the bloody country has family names that mark them as n-th generation immigrant. Half of my extended family is from what is now Russia (Kaliningrad) while my family name is distinctively Dutch. "Paid German taxes" gives a hint to his motivations. Folks in East Germany didn't pay German taxes: do they count? Refugees from former German enclaves ("Russlanddeutsche") didn't pay German taxes, nor did they speak proper German: do they count?

All in all a very misguided rant, too eager to abuse real fuck-ups for his own ideology. Rape culture, SJW, PC -- doesn't apply in this case. It's small government, media with establishment bias, a general inability for open discussion of problems, and a shitload of incompetent arseholes in positions of power (e.g.: chief of police in Cologne, gone now).

By the way, he forgot to mention the hundreds(!) of refugee shelters that were set on fire during the last few months. Bands of immigrants committing crimes are a problem, bands of Germans committing crimes are a problem.

We had a six digit number of prime suspects for trouble already: young, male, unemployed, un(der)educated, no fucking hope. It's the main cause for the persisting problems with Nazis in East Germany: no hope. Adding a million additional people, lots of them with equally bad prospects, without any serious effort to integrate them is bound to blow up in our faces eventually.

The best thing that can happen for the entire Eurozone would be a massive integration program in Germany. And by massive I don't mean a meagre billion Euros. We're talking 15-20 billion a year, for at least five years. The more the better. Even in the current economic regime, it would be much cheaper than the repercussions from staying the current course: doing fuck all.

Around 5:45 Julian says that free-form strategy games cannot guarantee that the player will always have something interesting to do, and that, in his view at least, you couldn't get away with that sort of game anymore today.

Paradox Interactive with their Hearts of Iron, Europa Universalis and Victoria franchises are still up and running. Hearts of Iron 3, in particular, seems more popular than ever, after the release of the third add-on, "Their Finest Hour". And if anything, HOI3 is even more of a sandbox than the original XCOM.

Similarly, Bohemia Interactive's Arma series as a comparable counterpart in the field of first person shooters is gaining massive popularity as well, even though it incorporates extensive "downtimes" for players.

You can't churn out annual iterations and expect AAA-rate numbers of sold copies, but the community is still large enough to warrent a couple of these franchises.

Oh boy.

It's astonishing how EA/Maxis not only try to control every single aspect of your gaming experience, but also fuck it up in the process.

Meanwhile, Bohemia Interactive actively encourage their customers to mess around with the Arma 3 engine at their hearts' content and empower them to create several lifetimes worth of content for free. Hell, it's just an alpha version and already people are creating entirely new features -- and BI happily integrate them into the main build.

Watch and learn, EA. Watch and learn.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years'_War

"The conflict lasted, unceasing, for 30 years, making it one of the longest continuous wars in modern history...

"A major impact of the Thirty Years' War was the extensive destruction of entire regions, denuded by the foraging armies. Episodes of famine and disease significantly decreased the populace of the German states and Bohemia, the Low Countries and Italy, while bankrupting most of the combatant powers..."

>> ^LarsaruS:

I so need to upgrade my computer...
Have they released system specs yet?

The game is still at least 18 months off, the demonstration therefore included a lot placeholders from Arma 2. But judging by Bohemia's previous spec requirements, I'd venture a guess and say that high end equipment available at the time of release will be required for decent performance.

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This was a solid album. '13 tales from urban bohemia', 2000.

I'd disagree with you on that Westy, a few years ago we played Doom type shooters until Rainbow Six came and basically created the tactical gaming genre. It culminated with the release of Ghost Recon, Operation Flashpoint and others.

Each time a developer has actually taken the steps necessary in presenting a new way of playing the response from the public was positive, it's funny how post Operation Flashpoint, not a single developer was ballsy enough to try it, or rather no publishing firm was ballsy enough to throw money at it. Far Cry is a good example, Crysis will follow. Bohemia with Operation Flashpoint are following up with Armed Assault. These games don't dilute the formula that made them successful like Rainbow Six but go into it deeper.

As for getting FPS games right, it's not hard, people just don't fucking listen to the gaming community. Everything I can say about getting tacical gaming right has been said better by this man here http://dslyecxi.com/bestoftactical.html

Developers just don't spend the necessary time to make a FUN game, but focus primarily on the razz and stuff, thats because gaming has become a corporate activity now. Risks are rarely taken. Games like Duke Nukem, Quake and even Doom probably would never make it out now. The edge has been lost. But this is going to change as the medium matures over time.

This game just looks like teh sex0r.

Armed Assault (ArmA) is a computer game by Bohemia Interactive (BI). It is currently available in the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany. A multiplayer demo version of the game was scheduled for a 21 December release on Fileplanet, and is currently available for download. It is a tactical military first and third person shooter which is considered to be a successor to Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis. The game is anticipated to be fully updated with modern graphics, physics and a complete game engine overhaul, including a new streamlined campaign and game editing tool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Assault http://www.gamingtarget.com/article.php?artid=6363