col ralph peters,
i am liking this man less and less every time he pops on the tube.
he states that he does not know the particulars,but it "seems" to him bla bla bla.
the man is king of rhetoric,basing his theories on????
what? feelings? tarot cards? runes?
what a douchebag.

*promote need more votes for awesome skate video + 1 balance rune

no they didn't do that did they? i'd already wondered some time ago but: what's fox news all about? i mean, is that really a news channel? unfortunately (is it?) i can't see it for myself but isn't the whole programme just a never ending always on runing gag show or something? do they really consider that 'real' television? or even 'news'?

pathetic

Kind of related - I was playing Rune Quake 3 against a friend a few months ago and he had thrown down some ice traps. Now, whenever you hit an ice trap, you get stuck in place for 20 seconds or so, and it alerts the other player by saying "You froze player!" It won't say where you are, just that you got froze. So you kind of have to remember where you put them down, so you can run back and get the frag.

So I hid in a good spot with the traps in view and actually typed in chat "You froze VSBM". And didn't you know it, here he comes running around the corner looking for my frozen body and I blasted him. It was only afterwards he said the thought something was funny about the message, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

And if you've never played Rune Quake 3...HIGHLY recommended. Once you get the gameplay down, you can't go back to vanilla Q3.

Very nice vid!
but i agree with NordlichReiter, the text runes it a bit.

Me and my buddies have actually played this quite a few times on Rune Quake (which btw, once you get down, you'll never play vanilla Quake again...).

The detail is absolutely crazy inside the Simpson home, as you can see. But for a DM map, it's just a big square with some stuff in the middle. Oh yeah...and it takes forever to load because of all the custom assets. 6/10

As interesting as this is, I don't see a real practical application. As demonstrated, they are playing with a remote (a la the Wii) which doesn't allow for very "twitchy" movement (req'd by Quake imho). Also, I can see if you were playing with mouse/keyboard as a regular player and having your entire FOV taken up. That would be cool; however, it wouldn't need to go a full 360. In other words, if I'm getting shot with a rocket from behind, I'm sure not going to swivel around in my chair to see who's shooting me. I'd pivot with the mouse. Therefore, no need for the screen to go completely around me. Also, where the heck to I bind my "rune drop" and +hook on the Wiimote?

Regardless, I'm not trying to knock down the clip; very cool find. I just don't see the practical use for it.

Raven, i'll try to explain from what i got from the current discussion in germany. Please keep in mind i'm not a native speaker and that i have to look up most of the words...

So our secretary of inner affairs wants to ban scientology because he sees them violating our constitution. Some constitutional laws involved are:

* "Neutralitätsgebot". the state is not allowed to identify with any religion because it is home of everyone and indentifiying could hurt someone's feelings. I don't know much about scientology but it seems a neutral state is not on their agenda. by the way this constitutional law is the reason why no one employed by the state is allowed to wear headscarfs etc (in Germany teachers are state employed).
* both fundamental and human rights. the secretary claims that scientology wants to limit and/or abandon some of them
* Our constitution declares a democratic society, that seems to be incompatible with scientology
* their pursuit of political power and influence, both subject to various laws.

That's just the most basic stuff, sorry but that is all i can give you i guess. It's hard to really follow the discussion even in German, so translating is not easy.

Regarding your other question about parts of the constitution outlawing certain organizations: yes, that's true. Though that's very hard to explain to someone from the States (i already tried before). Germany is a free country and you are free to say whatever you want. EXCEPT most Nazi related stuff for example. So if you wear symbols (swastika, runes, skull & bones, etc) of old nazi organizations on your clothes for example you can get arrested. It's only legal to use those symbols in an educational or historic manner, anything else is against the law. btw that's the reason why games like Wolfenstein etc. are banned in Germany. From what i've heard that's a big difference to the US.

No person, party, organization etc. is allowed to do "incitement of the people" (sorry that's a one-to-one translation), a term that is true for most Nazi related stuff. That's why if you deny the holocaust to have happened or similar stupid stuff you're not only violating "some" laws in Germany, you're messing with the constitution and you're in deep trouble.

So in short: Anything that is not compatible with the values of the constitution (neutral state regarding religion, no incitement of the people, no nazi shit, human & basic rights, democratic society etc.) can be banned. It doesn't matter if it's a party, a book, movie, organization etc.

Especially around religion there's a constant fuzz (teachers and headscarfs is a hot topic lately). And Nazism of course is also always on the supreme courts radar. There's a very right-winged party in Germany, they've chosen the colors of the third reich (black, white, red) for their logos and they are infiltrating schools since a few months. Most of the people and politicians want to outlaw them because of offending the constitution and their closeness to nazism but it's hard to proof and there's also the right of free speech and the right to form political parties...

But that's all more or less details. I hope i could help somewhat. If there's anything else you like to know feel free to ask :-)

That's great, corvid. Because you and I both know that you were way over-anxious to make me seem like som superstitious 'magical-thinking' hippie with a hand full of rune stones. So I'm glad you're going out of your way now to back-pedal so much. Glob knows you've got a lot invested in this ghetto. And if I let you really have it you'd probably melt like a compass-witch.