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>> ^Hastur:

>> ^Asmo:

Umm, isn't that the very definition of democracy? Getting the most votes, one person one vote.
So is the UK not a democracy? Canada? Australia? Germany? France? All have a head of government who is not elected by one person, one vote. In any of those cases, it's quite possible to choose a prime minister not favored by a majority. There are different flavors of democracy, some of them pre-dating the US, many of which do not directly elect their executives by one-person, one-vote.
The philosophical point of democracy is to best represent the will of the majority. In the US, we have the additional task of doing so while protecting the rights of the minority. The best way to do that is not always one-person, one-vote.
And like I said: even if you abolish the electoral college you still don't get the will of the majority, since there are many people who cannot legally vote and many others who choose not to.


Yes, they are democratic systems built on the principle of democracy. However, "equality and freedom have both been identified as important characteristics of democracy since ancient times" (from the Wiki). Most modern democratic systems are not equal.

Btw, a person who chooses not to vote does in fact cast a vote, a vote to abstain. Because they choose to exclude themselves from the process does not mean they weren't given their democratic right to have their say.

As an Australian, I'd prefer a Prime Minister voted in by popular vote. During the last term, the sitting PM Kevin Rudd was deposed and replaced by Julia Gillard in an internal coup due to his poor polling results (ie. it was looking like Rudd was riding the Labor party in to the ground). They replaced him as party leader which also meant he was no longer PM. That was not democratic in the slightest. At the following election, Julia Gillard won government by securing the votes of independents/crossbenchers, but achieved less of the popular vote than Tony Abbott from the Liberal party. Incidentally, voting in Australia is compulsory and you're fined if you don't show up (so much for that 'freedom' principle)

Our system is built on democratic principles, and is a form of democracy, but it's far removed from the method used by the Greeks who coined the term (Demos = "people", kratos "people"). The US electoral college is in the same boat. Someone said it earlier, the founding fathers didn't trust the average moron to get it right and put in a system to leave the true voting to 'wiser' minds.

When you can achieve 50+% of the EC votes for less than 20% of the popular vote, the system is broken, end of story. Keeping the EC seems more a matter of convenience (eg. "there will be too much rorting", it'll be too hard, waaah etc) than a matter of fairness.

Somehow, considering how God of War's Kratos is in Mortal Kombat, I wonder what the chances are to see Sweet Tooth being added into the next Mortal Kombat game... I mean, he pretty much fits the requirements too in some idea...

That looks like something Kratos would use to prepare his breakfast.

I upvote Little Big Planet. And the sequel when it comes out in January.

The Move controller (Wii rip-off) looks neat, but I haven't played it personally, so couldn't say if it's good or not, but should be casual-gamer friendly. (although the cost of camera and 2 controllers is more than the cost of a Wii)

There are also demos that you can download directly to PS3 from PSN network. It's free to sign up. Maybe your girlfriend will also think Kratos (God of War) is hawt

Kratos?

Kratos, why so serious?

He makes a solid case for why even the Sony people are saying this will be the last God of War game that focuses on Kratos' story.

I think Yahtzee missed something that was my main thought after I'd finished the third one -- it's awfully hard to think of any figures in Greek mythology that average people would recognize that Kratos hasn't killed at this point.

They say they're going to make more God of War, but they are going to have to come up with a creative way to reboot the series.

For some reason, all I want to do is sit one of these down next to me while I play the new God of War so that I can have a small, feathered, raging Kratos.

I really haven't been that interested into avatars before, but now I find it alot of fun to put together an avatar to properly identify you... For me, I like to use avatars that have a tie-in with my current interest... Besides one avatar, most of my avatars have always been with a VG-Swordsman theme... I don't know if anyone has said anything on it, but I know back when I had the Kratos Homer avatar, I got good feedback...

As for this avatar, I just put it on just now... I think that this is a very nicely put together edit from the actual Blazblue game...

>> ^spawnflagger:
can someone give the whole list, along with what game the character is from?


Solid Snake - Metal Gear Solid series
Mushroom - Mario series
Alucard - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Goombah - Mario series
Sonic
Yoshi - Mario series
Mega Man
Pikachu - Pokemon series
Kratos - God of War series
Link - Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker / Phantom Hourglass
Cloud - Final Fantasy VII & spinoffs
can't make this one out
Samus Aran - Metroid series
Kirby - Kirby series
Donkey Kong
Big Daddy - BioShock
Master Chief - Halo series
Triforce - mystical object from Zelda games
Dante - Devil May Cry series
Sackboy - Little Big Planet

"The word 'democracy' does not appear once in the constitution." - The US Constitution and Fascinating Facts About It.

Republic appears a lot though...

They don't pay attention to popular opinion? Maybe they should? Because the popular opinion means that the populous had numbers above those who wont listen.

A republic is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch,[1][2] but in which the people (or at least a part of its people)[3] have impact on its government.[4][5] The word originates from the Latin term res publica, which literally translates as "public thing" or "public matter".

Democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is held completely by the people under a free electoral system. It is derived from the Greek δημοκρατία ([dimokratia] (help·info)), "popular government"[1] which was coined from δήμος (dēmos), "people" and κράτος (kratos), "rule, strength" in the middle of the 5th-4th century BC to denote the political systems then existing in some Greek city-states, notably Athens following a popular uprising in 508 BC.[2] In this form, there were no defined human rights or legal restraints upon the actions of assembly, making it the first instance of "illiberal democracy."[3]

So what are the differences between Republic and Democracy? Minute at best, in a republic a minority of people can have power or all people can have power. In a True Democracy the majority has power.

However we do not have a True democracy because we have the electoral college, which means that the popular vote means a lot and means nothing in terms of the actual winner of the presidential race.

We have a bullshit system called a Democratic Republic, these too words live to destroy each other. There can be only one if use of the definitions apply.

Either the people have supreme power or they do not. The people of the united states clearly do not have supreme power, just look at the passed 8 years.

>> ^legacy0100:
Barbarian is starting to remind me of Kratos
BTW, you've included 'witch doctor' in the title. I didn't see any witch doctors.


See part two.

Barbarian is starting to remind me of Kratos

BTW, you've included 'witch doctor' in the title. I didn't see any witch doctors.