Blarghagh

You don't really want to come up with the old but flawed argument that just because it's fantasy everyting is possible/arbitrary, do you? Because that's not how fantasy works at all. But yeah, I doubt most people believe that real life is that simple. That's not the issue I have. The issue is that I prefer believable characters that act like real human beings and interesting and meaningful relationships between complex persons instead of just stuff that is full of clichés and flawed concepts about human relationships, even in a fantasy setting. We're pretty much in agreement, honestly. What I meant with my little jab was that in BioWare's ridiculous cliché-storm settings like Mass Effect and Dragon Age those things are perfectly acceptable. Some people here seem to oppose the very concept of romance in games simply based on BioWare's track-record of it not being realistic enough for them. I'm not sure where the idea came from that in those universes, which are about as deep as a puddle, romance needs to be the thing held to a higher standard? I personally don't like them very much, but I can see why people would and am dumbfounded by the sheer hatred some people exhibit. During the original Project Eternity kickstarter we had to institute a dedicated romance thread to keep the flamewars from spilling out... In PoE, which is conceptually a much darker universe trying to paint a much more realistic picture, you'd need a much different approach. Personally I quite enjoyed some of the unrequited love elements present in Obs' KotOR II (especially after the restoration project - Atton's dying declaration of love was nothing short of fantastically written and performed) and I feel an approach like that would be interesting and fitting. None of that gift-giving nonsense. Essentially what you need is a romantic entanglement that doesn't exist simply to "win".

Yeah, it's like in real life. Just say some nice things, be a bit cheesy and make the right presents and every woman will adore you and let you **** her in instant. Life is so simple. /not But the dream lives on, thanks to Bioware... Yes, I'm sure many people think this is how it works because it's how it works in a game with elves and trolls.

Bioware's best romance was Aerie/Haer'dalis. The fact other people were having their high school drama time made your drama time feel less like gratification for teenagers.

I hope it's a priest, there always needs to be a priest for those who don't wanna play as priest themselves. Apparently the stretch goal companion "Xoti" is a Priest/Monk, so you've got one.

Excitement for Pillars 2 got me to play Pillars 1 again. I've never actually finished it due to my birth defect of serial character creation, but I'm hoping my Death Godlike Ranger will make it through. Chunked Durance for talking to me, though. **** that guy. EDIT: Damn, looks like I'm not the only one. I second WoD's question - when can I actually access White March stuff? Last time I played was pre-expansion. I'm currently lacking both DPS and Mechanics, so I'm looking to pick up that construct Rogue ASAP.

Closed for length. Make a new one if you want.

Bah. 2016 was the gift that keeps on giving it seems.

You're kidding, right? He looks like if Dr. Frankenstein reanimated Elvis' stillborn twin.

I mean yeah, if you're afraid of failure you're not going to succeed but excessive failure is also not a great precedent for your president.

I'm a happy camper about this news.

That was from a research paper, not political news, and you're highly misremembering that thread if you think people considered it and the organisation it came from unbiased and trustworthy.

That was never going to happen since there's no such things. Academic sources on current news don't exist and trustworthy is very clearly subjective.

'kay.

No. Not 'not just abortions', no abortions at all. Either way, how about those countries without functional governments? Third world countries that can't afford anything? Countries at war? How do you feel on developmental aid in general?

Uh, no it's not. There's a heavily edited video of a sting to send a fake pimp and prostitute in to score free abortions at an alleged (but unknown) clinic and a heavily edited video of a sting showing an alleged (but unknown) Planned Parenthood staff member advising abortion first, as well as an ambiguous and heavily edited video of a Planned Parenthood doctor naming figures and tissues. It's snippets of conversations that out of context could possibly, maybe, if you're being especially uncharitable on purpose, could maybe interpret as possibly being about those things, maybe. I ain't seein' no fetal bits caught on film. The first two have full-length 30 minute versions that disprove the conclusions made by Live Action (for example, the staff advised about ten different things before advising abortion that were just edited out) available at *shiver* HuffPost (yeah I know, about as reliable as Breitbart is but they had the full footage and the footage is important, not the article): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/01/live-action-planned-parenthood-videos_n_1563241.html And as for the latter, there's a very detailed Snopes post for that footage that essentially comes to the conclusion of "Mixed on account of we don't even know what they're talking about because it's edited in ways that nearly every quote lacks context and it's not logically possible to determine what is being referred to". http://www.snopes.com/pp-baby-parts-sale/ So as far as I can tell, hoaxes. This coupled with what I said about how they would somehow get away with all this and all staff at Planned Parenthood centers somehow being okay with it... this conspiracy sounds about as likely to me as faking the moonlanding. And let's not even get in to the fact that they make money of their monetized YouTube videos.

I did you the courtesy of reading that article despite my well-documented distrust of anything Breitbart says, so trust me when I say I'm making the effort to fact check this story. Do you know their credited source? As you can see in the article, Breitbart got their numbers from Live Action, an anti-abortion lobby run by a James O'Keefe protegé by the name of Lila Rose who claims Planned Parenthood: - is involved in sex-trafficking - performs sex-selective abortion to kill male fetuses - literally trades in used baby parts - somehow gets away with all this and all people working at planned parenthood clinics are in on it and all the government inspections of them as health care institutions somehow missed it or were done by corrupt agencies Lila Rose claims to have proof due to Live Action amateur "sting operations" they performed but refuses to share any demonstrable evidence other than "dude, we totally saw this". It's so ridiculous that the entire organisation is fairly widely regarded as a hoax. Now obviously Planned Parenthood's numbers aren't unbiased either, but that pretty much leaves it as your statement: "Not everyone believes," and no offense, I honestly have a much easier time believing Planned Parenthood's numbers as a government funded organisation than what looks to be a fundamentalist bible-belt hoax site. EDIT: Either way, it's fairy inconsequential to my point about the FP/RH developmental aid funds since they don't allow or offer abortion services in the first place. The closest they come is offering post-abortion care, which is doubly important since if they're not allowed to offer the service then people will find themselves a clothes hanger or a stairwell and do more serious damage in the meanwhile. FP/RH services:

Okay, like Hurl pointed out: Also, family planning/reproductive health is NOT an abortion budget, in the same way planned parenthood isn't an abortion clinic. Most of it goes to STI prevention. For example, in the case of Planned Parenthood: Gfted1's link even says so about the FP/RH fund: Family Planning (FP): The ability of individuals and couples to anticipate and attain their desired number of children and the spacing and timing of births.2 Reproductive Health (RH): The state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive processes, functions, and system at all stages of life.3 And in their case it also includes education for the poor populace, which is a whole extra animal, as well as antenatal and postnatal care for children and mothers. The reason why that goes to foreign places is because the places in question are third world countries where STI's have epidemic proportions and overpopulation and ignorance about these subjects creates chaos, like the "rape a virgin to be cured of aids" myth that some people believe in some African countries. This is called BASIC developmental aid, and it's much more effective than holding a fundraiser and dumping some cash in a governments lap. Of the developmental aid funds that you should question, this probably isn't one of them.

What, just because she's a woman she can't be incompetent? Coddle women much? Better don your white knight armour. She's not going to sleep with you, you know. Such an SJW sentiment yadda yadda blah blah sorry, my heart's not into it today. Either way, if someone's not doing their job right their gender doesn't matter.

Same. Anyway: http://newsthump.com/2016/12/20/im-not-sith-im-alt-jedi-clarifies-darth-vader/

Why, if not to mislead? Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to laziness. The other picture probably looked nicer, or made it funnier, or was just the first one the grabbed because who the **** cares? What does it matter if they picked a moment where there was 45% less people or 44% less (completely hypothetical numbers, I give no ****s at all as to how many people attended) if the conclusion remains the same? Oh no, media bias, they barely misrepresented me at all!

Not very imaginative and it kinda ruins The Return Of them, but at least it's no The Phantasmal Malevolence.

When did I say that? I just said it was hilarious. (Fun fact, it was just a pic I snatched off twitter. Wouldn't have noticed it was from Reddit if you hadn't pointed it out.)

Incorporate from mobas? RTS were doing that pre-3D graphics.

I'm so happy. Between this and the press secretary saying it was the biggest crowd at an inaugaration ever... this is going to be a hilarious partial term. :D Although credit where credit is due - he didn't repeal ACA, just removed punishment for not having insurance, and he withdrew from the TTP as promised. I guess Sturgeon's Law applies to stuff Trump does too.