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I never did get around to reading the whole story on this one, but I did see the video where he was almost lynched and wondered how the hell they all got to that point. Reading at least the wikipedia series of events, I probably wouldn't convict him, either. Horrible spat of violence made possible by a whole bunch of people (including him) making unwise decisions, certainly, but by all accounts, the entire thing started with somebody else firing a gun randomly and him getting bum-rushed by a load of people who assumed it was him, and him acting in self-defense in a kill-or-be-killed situation. Regardless of the legality of his age or why or how he got there, you don't deserve to be murdered for not threatening anyone. Unless there's something we don't yet know, doing otherwise would just be victim-blaming.

We had an amazing day at that restaurant, the weather was perfect and it was great seeing my Dad again The entire 10 courses were definitely worth it and they even did have one Crayfish course,,,,you couldn't eat as much Crayfish as you wanted but it was a nice surprise The 10 courses were not really 10 courses but rather 7-8 seafood choices in a buffet served at different times but as I mentioned excellent value for money Here are the photos

I haven't seen anyone upgrade Squid's Grasp into Certain Mutiny over the mutually exclusive Attempted Parley. Here's a fun way to trigger it consistently: Make a Berserker Witch. Equip any party member with Squid's Grasp (upgraded with Certain Mutiny). Confuse the Witch with Frenzy. Have the Witch cast Puppet Master on themself (possible thanks to Confusion). The wielder of Squid's Grasp will get two Tier 3 Inspirations, and the Witch will no longer cause friendly fire since Dominate overrides the Confusion from Frenzy! It's also doable just with Charm, but that would disable the target's Abilities. If that's acceptable, the best option would be a Debonaire's charm which also generates up to three Body Inspiration on the target.

Alpha Protocol is the reason why I stopped reading any game reviews. Funny how the game was completely trashed by the american media, while the european media praised it. Sure it had its flaws and lots of issues, but it was still a fun game. Played through it 7+ times back in the release days, because you could do so many things differently and the ending completely changes. /Edit: And it made me furious when one year later, the same people who excessively trashed the game, suddenly came around and posted articles like "hey.. actually this game isn't so bad after all" ... F* these people, really.

Merged a large number of very similar topics on the recent issue with not loading saved games without crashing. Hoping the devs will chime in at some point.

ROFL - nice one. I never tried to dominate myself. I never eve suspected that one might be able to cast a mind control on oneself at all (even when confused). Berseker/Debonaire charming themselves sounds like a hilarious dissociative-identity-disorder-character-concept. So if the wielder of Squid's Grasp and the Berserker/Debonaire would be the same person - would you get up to three Body Inspirations from Roguish Charm AND Swift + Intuitive from the rapier (Swift will override one of the charm bonuses at some point but stil...)?

Another case here. Tried multiple saves, all CTD after showing the loading wheel for a few seconds. (PC - Gamepass)

While we know it's early access, it's rather disturbing that the developers have not even seen fit to acknowledge this game breaking patch, to say at least they're aware of it and are trying to fix it. At least send out an update to negate the last patch that pretty much ended the game please.

I'm a simple person, often enjoying the simple things in life. Especially now that winter is over and it's spring, so I can sit outside in a t-shirt and have dinner. Just a bit of steak and onions from the BBQ and some microwaved potato mash from the grocery store (yeah, boo!). The onions could have used a bit more, but I'll keep that in mind next time and start them 10-15 minutes before the steak

In deck combat on ships, prior to engaging, there is a "ship defenders" stat which I was recently trying to optimize, but I'm confused as to how it works (does't work...?). What I'm trying to do is increase my number of attacks/defenders to better my odds in ship to ship combat and be able to take on ships higher level than myself, primarily for looting purposes. However, even though my ship defenders currently says "17", when I engage in combat, I think I only have 11/12 people on deck. Because of this, I have a bunch of questions: 1. Do different ships allow different numbers of attacks/defenders? Like, will a junk let me have 20 guys, buy a sloop only handful? If so, does anybody know the stats per ship? 2. Are attackers/defenders the same, or different? In other words, the stat does specifically say "defenders". Should I not expect to have that many guys if I'm actually the one starting the battle? 3. Say I have 17 people who can fight in the ship battle according to the stat, but only 12 actually appear on the deck. How do I control which 12 show up? Of course my active party will be on deck, but what about the rest of the fighters? 4. Any other tips here? Note: while the cannon minigame thing can be amusing sometimes, I'm not really interested in optimizing for this minigame and would rather have a boarding event, so not really looking for tips for the minigame.

Not sure what the message is, but it's an amusing parallel.

You can get some serious hit to crit conversion with Intuitive on a Berserker. Maybe Seekers Fang could be interesting, it can be pretty pretty devastating with an Ascendant. I wonder if Spiders Flurry triggers Carnage and if Carnage triggers any of the Dots.

This started happening this morning for me too. (also on Game Pass, single player)

You still have full control of the character, though you might have to re-select it right after getting Dominated. Yep! Yeah, doesn't work with summons. Also doesn't seem to work with Animal Companions.

Sounds like a fun setup for potentially powerful effects! Does self-charm/dominate turn you against your own team or do you simply lose control of the character? I'm sadly not able to check it myself right now.

"I have been following the pernicious and insidious influence some of these far left groups have on many Democracies since 2010 and I have really interesting links and its a good debate to have and your opinion will be very good to know " you mean the KGB?

Thanks for the quick reply! The witch or berserker/debonaire builds sound doable. I like the idea of a witch dominating itself to remove confusion, while gaining two tier 3 inspirations. Very nice idea!

Column: Here’s why Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen shooting suspect in Kenosha killings, is likely to get off I wouldn't convict him. Not of homicide at least. The weapons charge there is no getting out of.

Nope. Hostiles can't be party members. Not even allies. Ally and party member are not the same by the way. The first can include summons (I think all friendly summons are considered allies), the second one only actual party members (those five guys you steer around). So it shouldn't even work if a summon gets charmed. But it may be that the description isn't accurate. Worth testing I think...

That's interesting, Noqn. Do you think a fire blight summoned by the Belt of Magran's Chosen would be considered a "party member"? Since they are hostile when summoned, it would be pretty cool if charming or dominating them would trigger Certain Mutiny.

"But volo look at what happens to our societies when we have a breakdown of law and order ....look at the anarchy and violence we see when groups like Antifa are allowed to run rampant ? So I am very surprised you are okay with less laws and the enforcement of these laws that politicians are involved in considering how you understandably feel about violent protests?" We have too many laws, and some absolutely ridiculous laws. Plus, the law, lawyers, police, and judges, all abuse them. Even the most accomplished, intelligent lawyers can't hope to know and understand all laws. It was big law firms tend to hire a bunch of new grad for crap jobs so they can pour over legal ttexts 20 hours a day to find that one legal loophole that the ace lawyer can use as a 'gotcha' moment in court. LMAO We should be trimming legal fat not adding more to it.

I'm more than happy to post links to support my argument or the framing of the word " rampant " if you are genuinely interested? I dont mean to sound rude but it will take me some time to post the appropriate links and I dont want to spend time if this is just about the word rampant, if that is your concern I will drop the word ? I have been following the pernicious and insidious influence some of these far left groups have on many Democracies since 2010 and I have really interesting links and its a good debate to have and your opinion will be very good to know

We know its early access and expect it to be buggy but there is a line, considering you still have to pay money to play this. Yes server resets are to be expected but not being able to play more than one session in a row due to save file corrupts is completely unplayable. The disapponting thing is seeing the developers respond to other bug reports like the ant hill or items disappearing etc. but nothing on this.

Good questions, sorry I can't answer most of them. From observation, the pool of fighters who appear on deck is drawn from the active party, the non-party companions, and the active ship's crew. Early on, I'd see 2 or 3 ship's crew fight alongside my party, but after every companion was recruited, I rarely see any ship's crew anymore. I've only used the sloop, so I'd guess that more crew will fight on the bigger ships. I can confirm that the more enemy crew you injure before you board, the fewer you'll have to fight. If you get their active crew to zero, they'll be left with their captain and reserve fighters only, and a lot of corpses.

Eh, I think it's fair. Alpha Protocol is much easier to like if you are not actively playing it. I have fond memories of this game, but when I played it for the first time before PoE1 release I quit-raged quite a lot.

Yes.

That's kinda stupid. There should be a minimum number of eggs present at all times. They just should not hatch if the maximum number of ants was reached.

They are actually looking in to dedicated servers. It will be awesome if they get those!

Ah hello fellow gamer who is also in pain due to this bug lol. Man it suuuuuucks I hope they fix it soon! Please nuke the Soldier ant population Obsidian!!! Lol

Who knew bats were this adorable?

how have you not gotten bored of this mediocre game smh, move on to DS3 or DeS or something already!

Hi, last night I saved my game on PC (Xbox Game Pass) but now it doesn't load the save, the game crashes on the loading screen. It does the same on Xbox.

In my circles, very. But I'm a horror/sci-fi/internet geek so I'm not sure if that means much. Evil Dead 2 is one of the (several) films my old friend made me watch, bringing over her VHS copy of it. I laughed like a loon. Then we saw Evil Dead1. Then Maniac Cop and Mindwarp even Moontrap. Pretty much everything else from the 80's/90's we could see/rent (she also became a huge Raimi fan). I watched some episodes of Burn Notice because Bruce was in it. Like Hurlshot, I also have the Chins book and I even watched "My Name Is Bruce."

HA! Good Fun!

My kids can pick him out in any role, but that just might be because I raised them on Army of Darkness. Bruce Campbell is just a very memorable guy. I also have his autobiography, If Chins Could Kill, sitting in a place of prominence on our main bookshelf.

Bacon and avocado mac and cheese and a jug of hot sauce

I'm coming up on my year anniversary of being in the backyard and now I can't even go anywhere near the ant hill with out the game locking up due to the massive overpopulation of the ant colony. Pretty much anywhere I go that has more then 4 ants in a small area and my game starts to really lag till I kill them. Im able to deal with it everywhere else in the backyard but the ant hill. As soon as i get close it tottaly locks up and I can't move. Took me 15 minutes just to turn around and get out of the infected area. Please please please rework the ant code or prefered limit the amount of ants at a time in game. It seems like they have continued to populata this entire year. I just want the valuable quarts in them hills.

Depois desse último update que teve e, ao entrar no jogo e carregar o save, o jogo demora em cerca de 10 minutos e as vezes chegando até a 15 minutos para carregar o save do jogo, na tela preta de loading! E o jogo está com problema de “crash” (jogo fechando sozinho) no meio do jogo, acontece toda hora, está impossível jogar! O jogo demora 15 minutos pra carregar o save, e ai o jogo vai e fecha sozinho no meio do jogo, e ai, tem que abrir o jogo novamente e esperar mais 10 minutos pra carregar o save, pra depois de alguns minutos, o jogo pegar e fechar sozinho novamente! Impossível jogar, necessitamos de um update o mais rápido possível!