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Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness. Ask me again in a week and it'll probably be Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility.

author=Magi link=topic=2041.msg33884#msg33884 date=1222317522
Cool story bro, too bad this isn't ever going to happen.

We don't have the resources right now to declare a state of martial law. It requires a lot of military power, especially for a nation this big. With our military scattered all over the globe, we'd have to abandon a lot of bases which is something that would never happen because there are assets that the US cares too much about.

There's some serious shit deals going down right now, but this isn't one of them

The problem isn't "ooh, martial law," because obviously that's an exageration. The problem is that this is yet one more example of the eroding freedom of the nation. Today it's deploying military units to places within the nation, tomorrow it's using them to break up assemblies that go too long, and the day after that it's hunting down political dissidents because they voted the wrong way in the last election.

Every time we let the government get away with this stuff just because "Oh well, it's not THAT big a deal," we get closer and closer to a dystopia. The right loves to throw around their "Freedom isn't free" buzzwords, and they're right: the cost of freedom is constant vigilance and sometimes, sacrificing your security in favor of liberty. I will gladly suffer the danger of terrorist attacks if it means I don't have to deal with our own soldiers being taught to eye us as potential threats.

Guh'ment is stationing active military forces inside the country, to protect against terrorists.

Besides all the obvious liberal fears of people who are told to shoot people the government doesn't like being inside a supposedly free country, the timing is just so damn close to an election that it's hard to shake the feeling that they're trying to make people scared enough not to vote for Obama.

author=Holbert link=topic=2007.msg33622#msg33622 date=1222224080
Man, you guys are drinking the kool-aid. Most of the premiere was a certifiable train wreck. The only part I really got exited about was at the end where I realized there may be some actual villains this year besides the company that has employee retention problems (they probably need to invest more time into H.R.) and the nerdy computer guy from 24 season 3.

I will call Claire out, in particular, for being quite lame nowadays.

Claire was always lame. What do you expect from teenagers?

The writer's strike wasn't what ruined Season 2, though it helped. Season 2 was just a victim of the Sophomore Slump. Season 3 is the make-it-or-break-it season. This is when we see if the thing actually has legs.