Blarghagh

Saw The Greatest Showman. Shallow but watchable because it has a feeling of positivity. I liked it mostly, but all the songs sound like they were written and mixed by Owl City (google told me they weren't) so your enjoyment will vary based on that most likely.

Brooklyn Nine Nine got picked up by another channel.

Well, I hadn't checked this story other than the video you posted but it clearly stated all male members of parliament were given a gift, and none of the female members. If that was true, it would have clearly been an insult. Looking into the story, though (I can't say this apparent "international insult and incident" made any news network I watch) it turns out that the MP in question had been misinformed about this (likely by the journalist who broke the story, considering they failed to check the facts) as only faction leaders and speakers of foreign affairs department were given the gift, including one woman. He has since admitted his error. So... problem solved? Either way, even if he had done so maliciously without provocation specifically with the intent of insulting Iran, the heinous inhuman act of dumping some pistachios in the trash would STILL not be remotely close to burning flags, political agreements and chanting "death to America"? One's a bit rude, the other's one step away from declaring war. Reading up on it, I did find that Iranian government, had a full hearing about this pistachio incident and labeled it "inhuman"?

Now we just need to find an equivelant of healing magic.

Add in some fireworks, flamethrowers, projections.

In what ridiculous imaginary universe is that even close to remotely comparable? Honestly, the most insulting thing in that video is what Iran did. EDIT: For those interested in the context of this video, Iran gifted members of dutch Parliament a bag of pistachios. Except, ONLY the male ones. This is incredibly insulting to the female members, but also 50% of the human population. In response, the MP in the video said "I do not accept this gift" and threw the bag of pistachio's in the trash. It is not, in any way shape or form, "stuff like that" to be compared to burning flags and agreements and chanting "death to [insert country here]" and Iran should be ashamed for having done both of these things whereas our MP did absolutely the right thing.

Aw man, now literally everyone I know that plays WoW has access to beta except me.

Hey, brain? I'd really, really love to get some proper sleep again some day. I realize it's 2 AM and at this point I know today is not going to be that day, but just... keep it in mind, okay? Kthxbye

Yeah, the Russos know how to make a good action movie. Their close-combat sequences are particularly satisfying. Looking forward to what they can do when Marvel releases them, if ever.

This world is ruled by entertainment and aesthetics. There's no other reason than 'it looks cool'.

And with that, I think we've strayed pretty much off-topic and this thread is over the post limit anyway. If anyone wishes to make a new thread on the subject of Chris Avellone's interview and posts on the Codex they are free to do so. This closure is not a ban on the topic.

Eh, judging by my game industry work experience, even if MCA is 100% truthful and correct they'd still be on the better side. That being said, I worked on mobile games.

Had reruns of Brooklyn 99 on in the background and two characters whose main character traits are being sad, fat, useless, no-life, creepy perverts had a fight and they started yelling insults at each other: "You cuck!" "You're the cuck, snowflake!" Made my day. Truth in television right there.

They were announced a while ago, prompting some accusations of this being 'base game stuff removed to be sold as DLC' as if they weren't planned and promised in the FIG campaign.

I'm with Sharmat on this one. I've heard Torment has great replayability, but I'll never know because no amount of good story would motivate me to play it again. Getting past Crust(?) was such a chore the first time I'll never touch it again, and it only got worse from there on out.

But more importantly, will it have ballroom dancing like Shape of Water?

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Chris Avellone, the Obsidian owner? He could even stop his own projects from getting finished.

"Proof you shouldn’t ask an owner to do content work, it slows everything down – that’s not even a criticism, just the truth." Ironic.

Yeah, clocking in at about 300, most of which came from bundles and giveaways. If it was physical editions, I'd organize them but digital stuff has a search function.

Yes, but that would have taken much longer to type and gotten the same point across.

After so long hoping for a BG&E2, I now regret it immensely.

I missed a few pages and I'm caught up now, which led me to remind you all that the forum guidelines do prohibit namecalling and such against devs, Obsidian OR otherwise. Some posts were a bit over the line. If you hate Chris or Feargus or Josh or the entire of Obsidian that's fine. But let's be civil about it, okay? Thankfully most of you are good folks.

Hah, see those mismanagement stories I can accept easily. Last company I worked for before quitting the game industry, the CFO was the CEO's best friend from college and he was only still there because they started the company together, his daily job as "CFO" was to get coffee essentially. The CEO himself took on most financial duties but often failed in both capacities because he was too busy 3D modeling art assets, because he'd hired two dozen interns to do that but as expected, that doesn't really work. My job was animation and motion capture technician, but I ended up doing stuff like writing risk analysis documents for projects, a job that I'm wholly unqualified for. I googled how to do it. And here's the part that really blew my mind, a really high level publisher in the mobile market once said no one else had as thorough documentation as we did. The game industry is insane.

So no stake or shares and getting 'de-ownered' at the snap of a finger? Who the hell negotiated his contract?

The Codex may have no rules but we do, so stow it with the personal attacks before we have to get out the pruning shears. This thread's remained relatively civil and I'd like to keep it that way.