Recent content by Taipan

First of all, hooray, moar Moviebob! Now all they need to do is port over 'The Game Overthinker' Now to the actual rev...discussion: (I'll make my disclaimer here that I'm a fan of Halo. Caveat: I detest multiplayer against anyone except my friends. So yes, I'm one of the mythical few who...

What about something akin to DOTA? In that game, you play as a single powerful hero with specific abilities and wargear, but you are surrounded by NPC-generated cannon fodder. Shift the perspective from top-down to first-person, and thats pretty much an FPS/RTS hybrid. The question is; do...

No, you're not going to see full-sized mechs, for the reasons others have listed (damn you all for stealing my thunder ;) ). I'd also add the following breakdown to modern warfare; - Holding ground: Infantry beat everything at this. Infantry can hide where a tank or aircraft can't, they can...

Well, thats simply the social order we all have instinctively rising up. But there is a lot more to the human psyche than simply domination or submission. I don't think we'll ever live in peace, it's just not in our natures. It would actually be too simple for us to simply be at peace. We...

Chaser sketch on the 'Secret' was legendary. Youtube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usbNJMUZSwo

East Timor was lead by the Australians, who are an ally of the US. So, maybe I should just say 'if America or a close ally thereof isn't interested, shit doesn't happen'. Also, East Timor was and remains a real strategic head-ache for Aussies, as does Papua New Guinea. We can't afford to let...

Cheers. Effort. Couple of tactical nuke strikes cost a few million dollars, problem goes away after a century or so of letting the radiation die down. Simple, cheap and effective. As a matter of fact, China and Russia already have an ingenious foreign policy with regards to the Third...

You won't save shit. The population will hate you and you'll constantly have to fight a brutal and bloody insurgency war, like what's going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. The only advancement that will come is that you'll unite the country for a short while against a common enemy. Once you give up...