I'd be skeptical of this book then, if those are the claims it's making. US consumption of oil is almost entirely from its own domestic production or imports from other countries in the Americas. Why… (View Post)

I'm not at all trying to generalize about Islam, FWIW. Its adherents are the majority religion in countries stretching from Morocco to Indonesia. Obviously there's lots of variety in there. What is t… (View Post)

Having lived out of the US now, one thing I'd like to push back on is the tendency to make the US the only protagonists of every story. I don't think the US is completely off the hook here. I definit… (View Post)

Strongly agreed here. Glint would add serious replay value to BG2, allowing much different kinds of party loadouts. Much like Hexxat did, although Hexxat is pretty limited in what kinds of parties ta… (View Post)

Yeah this is a very well said response. I'd also throw-in that I can't even count some of the TotSC content against BG1, as that was all designed to be extra-hard. The contrast with BG2 is good too. … (View Post)