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@ShadySands, @ManifestedISO Our motto was "Always Faithful". But it was not to a President nor to a government that we pledged fidelity It was to the country, our countrymen, our bothers and sisters in arms, and to ourselves. Years have passed since we turned away from battles and watches. The service we gave fading from all memory but our own. But once a Marine always a Marine. Always faithful we remain. Happy Birthday my brothers!

complete unrelated, but our second favorite Congressman is a progressive, lesbian, lawyer (JD from from cornell) and ex-mma fighter who trained at pine ridge for a few years when she were active. congrats on ms. davids winning the kansas 3rd district in 2020. 2nd term. HA! Good Fun!

You know what, I'm just gonna let you two hug it out or whatever

Bioware isn't going to make that game though, and that's just reality. Same as they didn't make a Dragon Age successor that built on what was done right with Origins and fixed what was done wrong; they did DA2 and DAI instead. If they make JE2 it will be in the same vein as ME: Andromeda/ DAI; basically an Ubisoft 'open world' RPG lite with lots of SP MMO type content. Or, god forbid, they'll trying doing something 'different', like Anthem. I really did not like Jade Empire at all though, so I am certainly biased. It would be easily my worst regarded game that I actually finished, and it felt interminable at times despite it being only ~16 hours long. Probably because I'd played KOTOR recently and every NPC seemed to be a cloned KOTOR one.

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you didn't say anything new in the rest o' the post. and again, aoc came right out and admitted she prioritizes moral right over factual accuracy. even now you aren't willing to call her out over her claim o' moral right v. factual accuracy. avoiding does not strengthen your defense. aoc didn't apologize for her theft o' bread mistake or hoax mistakes or her campaign funding claims or her attempt to recharacterize the difficulty o' running as a progressive democrat in a country that looks very red when you get outside of major metropolitan areas. just like trump. yeah, trump does more often. he is constant talking and constant lying. aoc just doesn't seem to care 'bout facts 'cause again, as she said, it is better to be moral right than factual accurate. you like her policies. as for az... we explained above how trump is fighting in multiple states to delegitimize the vote counts, and all he really needs is a couple o' judges to delay long enough to give republican legislatures in states such as michigan and pennsylvania an excuse and time to overturn the results o' the election. say it can't happen? say republicans wouldn't go so far? haven't been paying attention these past 4 years. trump will do anything. he won't need work near so hard to break american democracy if a state such as az ends up going his way. also, fox and ap called az for biden. if az goes red, it proves to trumpers that the media calling elections is obviously flawed. az and georgia may not be necessary, but this is a post trump world in which we live. have you never watched a zombie film? HA! Good Fun!

@Gromniryou were right. Even I could not predict how low he’d stoop. Despite his long history in public life which made this all but assured. He even made me of all people look optimistic. On another note I saw on the news there were fireworks in London and they rang the bell‘s in Paris win Biden won. What the hell? They really need to get a life. The outcome of the US presidential election is not that consequential. Especially for the Georgia senate runoff goes the ways we hope.

Me too, but it's EA.... Still, I hope they rework ME1 mechanically at least a bit, double down on the Mako jank while they're at it, remove Kai Leng and placeholder weapons/actions in cutscenes from ME3. That's not too much to ask, right? Right?!?

Even Cephal? They need to rope in their other personalities for a battle royale.

Putin deserves a Peace Prize.

It's all OK, Giuliani's attacks will relieve the pressure. "Mein Fuhrer, Giuliani..." There's accuracy, and then there's accuracy. Polling will be accurate to within the margin of error to whatever confidence level they use (ie 95% most of the time, so 1/20 polls will be 'rogue'), and typically the margin of error is +/- 3 ish percent each, in a 2 horse race with near equally divided support, which effectively means a poll can be technically accurate yet still be +/- 6% off*. A 6% difference is, of course, a huge difference in a 2 horse race and for example in 2016 most polls could still have been technically accurate had Trump won the popular vote by as much as Hillary ended up doing. And that's starting from the assumption that the polls have the correct questions, weightings applied, proper polling methods and there aren't uncontrollable factors in play like 'shy' voters. You can however determine systemic inaccuracy but looking at the average of the polls and comparing to what reality delivered. That was out by ~2%, ideally of course it should be out by 0%. So there was certainly some sort of bias at play in the polling. *it is simplistic, eg consider that there's also a margin of error for people who stated they didn't intend to vote. But as a simple illustration, a race divided 50/50 can break 47/53 and the poll doing so would still be accurate.

Yes. Its video compression quality over all and especially if on the fly downscaling (playing in 4k, want video to be 1080 or 1440 etc) is the pits, to me. Also less "easy" to use.

Apparently that incident pissed off Putin. They (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia) have suddenly become the best friends ever and Armenia and Azerbaijan signed not only a new truce, but a peace deal with terms and conditions decided by (a fed up) Putin. "The peace deal, which was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia's prime minister, took effect on Tuesday from 01:00 local time (21:00 GMT Monday). Under the deal, Azerbaijan will hold on to areas of Nagorno-Karabakh that it has taken during the conflict. Armenia has also agreed to withdraw from several other adjacent areas over the next few weeks." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54882564

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/ 2020 presidential has been far more accurate than most suggest. is all the other stuff which failed. polarization made the closeness o' the Presidential race less surprising than may claim, but am thinking the degree o' polarization somehow caught many off guard. down ballot didn't work as expected. polls were too blunt, which is why Presidential ended up reasonable accurate, but as you narrowed focus, the polls got worse and worse. HA! Good Fun!

assuming trump leaves the wh voluntarily, he will be facing almost a dozen criminal and civil charges/cases. am suspecting trumpTV becomes a thing almost asap if for no other reason than that trump is gonna need a whole lotta money yesterday to pay off a massive amount o' debt. as such we will be hearing from trump constant until he ends up doing time, which is increasing likely... but a convicted felon may nevertheless run for President. ... based on typical time frames for such stuff, trump's tax fraud cases will probable only start in 2023, which is when he would need be campaigning. HA! Good Fun! ps am gonna need check, but more than a few states preclude felons from appearing on their ballots.

What if he comes back like a teflon zombie in 2024? :shudder:

as an aside, even our generalization 'bout biden underperforming in urban areas is kinda wrong. for example, in atlanta, biden did fantastic and way better than clinton. am thinking automatic registration and young people voting made the biggest difference in georgia, and we would like to see auto-registration become ubiquitous, but regardless, current polling is based on overbroad generalizations and those generalizations need be tailored a fair amount if they is gonna prove useful in the future. HA! Good Fun!

Is the only way to have intelligent conversation.

In turn based, it's not an issue at all. You can manually track the berserker's HPs by noting, on paper, what he has when he frenzies and then use the combat log to see how much damage he took if he is attacked. and update your paper note. In RTwP, that might still be possible, but would be much harder I would think.

they are waiting for trump support among his base to diminish, and that ain't happening. HA! Good Fun!

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Well, that's obvious why else would you put up with an annoying immature immortal for?

makes sense, 'cause have not seen any estimate of remaining georgia votes which exceeds 5,000 much less 12,000. saw one estimate which suggested GA total votes remaining could be less than 500. DOJ official steps down over Barr's voter fraud investigation memo am knowing some folks may believe Gromnir is exaggerating the possible threat trump and barr pose in this post election situation, but pilger quit in an effort to make a statement 'bout just how wrong this all is. this ain't normal. this isn't right. trump and barr are not constrained by rules and norms. if the senate won't stop trump and barr, they can do just about anything. mitch mcconnell, lindsey graham and the other senate republicans is the people who will ultimate be responsible for making sure trump doesn't go too far, whatever that means, in this brave new world we have created.

My bad. Anyway it looks like Giuliani's press conference in front of a landscaping company may have used that location to be at least 500 feet away from a school. https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2020/11/09/man-featured-at-giuliani-press-conference-is-a-sex-offender-1335241

I will say this, I played Phoenix point when it came out and it was rough. Then I played it a few months ago and it was great. That extra time really brought it a long way. It is a solid addition to the Xcom style genre.

Well I have to say I am quite pleased to see the back of side of Trump on his way out the door. Whenever he gets around to walking (or is dragged) through it. That does not make me love Joe Biden in any way. He is simply a slightly less defective replacement of a faulty cog. But I will say if both of the Senate seats going to a runoff in Georgia are retained by the Republicans I will sleep a lot better at night. Unified government is not a thing a wise person should wish for. At least not in this country.

"data scientist who wishes to remain anonymous" lmao, think I'll rather listen to the various data scientists and analysts who do put their names behind their work, who called everything that would happen (Georgia and Wisconsin going down to the wire but with a slight Biden advantage, Pennsylvania and especially Michigan ultimately not being particularly close, Arizona being called too early, etc.) on the night of the election, aka before any of the things they expected had even the appearance of happening. There's a reason I was reasonably confident Biden would win (and where he would win) while everyone else was assuming and bemoaning Trump's victory.

Never be said I missed a chance to post this gem

Unfortunately, we're never gonna catch the J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets. As good as we are at losing, they're just that much better.

So how many of you folks noticed Trumps campaign manager use this: Only for Biden's Digital Director to respond with:

I got some great news. It turns out the Tampa Bay rays really won the World Series after all. All I had to do is refuse to accept that the Dodgers actually won. Clearly there were some irregularities in game six. So anyway now the Rays are the champs. I can’t wait to order my T-shirt on Amazon. Any day now right?

I'm never going to get a Jade Empire sequel.

The domino effect of Cyberpunk 2077 getting pushed back to avoid 2020 GotY Yakuza: Like a Dragon continues.

I'll just borrow one of the most famous quotes by even more famous sage Volo here. "No."

The Amnesia: Rebirth 1.2 patch is out and it seems to have fixed most of the issues. There are still annoyances, namely I have to finagle settings every time to get fullscreen working properly each time I start the game, but the game is playable now. As per usual for a Frictional game, I can only play in short spurts, on account of being chicken ****.

I guess I'm in the same boat as Lexx. I'll be keeping an eye on it, and probably get it when it's discounted. Even if it's just a bunch of upscaled textures and post processing filters à la ReShade, it may be worth it to play through once more. The bundled DLCs are a plus as well. And just to cover the cynicism quota: I fully expect it to be full of old bugs and introduce new ones, as per the time-honored Bioware custom. As always, I'll wait 6-12 months before considering a purchase.

I have a problem building. I´m playing on PC Testbranch. "Cntr" for stacking didn´t work right. Althoug currently some things are shown in the right place to build, but when you click to place them they change their position. For example, I tried to build an diagonal Palisade and an Elevator. Before clicking, both glowing pieced had a different position.

If you look at the road map aphids as pets are on the list so I think to some extent animal taming is coming. The idea of animal farming I don't personally see the appeal in the game taming is another story I see those as two different mechanics. I think taming follows suite more with the atmosphere of the game it is survival not farming simulator lol

there is! but... it's vailian and requires giant adra pillars unlike a boat, which can be lost at sea, it is much harder for a fort/settlement to just randomly go missing. depending on your actions in-game, the RDC might notice that the watcher went to sayuka, and then later left sayuka and mysteriously all comms and such ended with sayuka. it's kind of hard to avoid the conclusion there. similarly, it's established that Maia is an RDC spy/agent who writes notes about you and your adventures (though obviously this explanation doesn't work if maia is not recruited). the RDC is chomping at the bit to dominate the other factions, all they need is a plausible pretext, right? don't get me wrong, i think "entire faction goes hostile" is poor design for an incidental quest that seems to clearly give you one of two relatively balanced choices. typically for OBS consequences are relatively symmetric. this is a quest where there clearly is a "good" resolution and a "bad" resolution, and the "bad" resolution is very very bad. it's like if in Trade Secrets the choices were "discretely supply the gullet with food, petition the royalty for more prize-share, OR thanos finger-snap the entire archipelago."

Implementing the romance can hurt the end user, if much of the character content of the NPC is locked behind the romance (note this doesn't hurt just the romance hater, but it effects all users presuming multiple romances Some can - and have - made the argument that a proper romance is beyond the scope of current games. However your argument here is a strawman, because you're abstracting a specific point of gameplay to the larger idea of the game itself. One only need to look at any game with a maligned minigame (which right now, Romances are treated as) and you can understand the idea. If you can't implement your lockpicking idea without it being frustrating to the end user, why implement it? They keep repeating it because Developers have made this point. people who aren't developers keep saying this point is invalid. I also find it charming that you think "writing a romance" as not being difficult, when its as difficult (or not) as any other thing you write. But as for resources, lets look at a theoretical implementation of a romance choice. Romance Option (RO) needs to be a fully fledged character whether you romance them or not This means RO needs to have two dialogue trees, one for the romance, one for not having the romance For RO to be a character (and not a puppet of the player), there needs to be conditions for a started romance to fail other than the player failing it. This means that some way of tracking this must be created and implemented Any reaction that RO has to story elements needs to have two reactions, one considering a non-romance option and one considering a reaction consistant with the progress of the romance The world itself needs to recognize the romance; what does the rest of the party think of the romance, if you stay at an inn, do you need a different rate because of a private 2 person room, do people recognize you as a couple. Should there be romance specific quests, what happens with these quests if the character doesn't romance RO? Does the scope of the game make a romance make sense? If you meet RO today, and the game only covers a week of life at best, is there enough time to develop a full romance? Should RO get mad if they are left out of the party? If you don't talk to them? Are they jealous of other ROs? Does the PC get affected by what happens to RO in combat and vice versa? Are there any systems that need to accommodate the romance? Probably much more to think through, but I hope this points out a romance is not a trivial thing tossed into a game at a whim with no cost to other parts of development. I don't believe anyone has been advocating that Romance = Sex. I have seen many people dismayed, in fact, with the lack of romance options that don't give a gratuitous sex scene before the climactic last fight, bioware style.