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Exactly. It's like when suing for liable, the first thing to consider is how deep the defendant's wallet is. That is the single biggest reason mid-tier celebrities almost never sue gossip magazines for slander.

Simply put, there is no other place in the world like America (Canada comes as close as anyone). It's almost not worth the time to explain how and why laws and systems of government that work elsewhere in the world don't and won't work here. Even the few, futile times I've tried ended with the other party giving me blank looks like I was speaking in gibberish. My time is too valuable to worry about it.

Most mobile games I've seen are indie. Although I have a lot of respect for most indie developers, the microtransactions in mobile games are a soft scam (meaning it's very legal, but unscrupulous) to get people invested and then drop the bomb on them.

Sorry to sound impatient (because I really do appreciate all your hard work), but how close are we to 2.02?

I think the disease was caused by them going sour. I laughed harder than I should've at that. Yes, I'm tragic.

Maybe the first document case, but I doubt it was the first ever. Even on a large scale (as in a whole village).

I saw quite a bit of complaining about microtransactions for ME3, but it got lost in all the hubbub about the ending. I don't play multiplayer in single player games.

It's been awhile since I tested iroll20s, but I don't remember it disabling FOW, I thought it only clears the map as though you've already gone completely over it.

Do you mean wipe part of Italy as in our current knowledge it was Genoese traders that brought plague with them from their travels to east, not central Asians that come carrying it to Europe? I remember reading that the plague came along the Silk Road, exact origins unknown.

Do not cite the Young Turks. Former Subscriber (maybe still?), Wolf-PAC supporter, but I do not and will not watch their videos anymore. It's gone from lightly opinionated but educated commentaries on politics to downright reactionary hysterics. Couple things in regards to this video: 1) No one gives a flying **** about Colombus. So Colombus was an ****. Ok, cool. Nobody cared about the guy to begin with. This is a guy that comes up briefly in 3rd grade when we're told about how America came to be, he's by no means a revered or important figure for anyone in the big picture of things. The entire video is presented with this sort of premise that Americans and others actually give a damned about the guy and revere him as an important and amazing historical figure. Hell no, he's that guy that gets me an extra day off of work, nothing more. This has the same effect to if you told me "DID U KNO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE WAS KIND OF A JERK?" Cool, I believe you immediately and have zero ****s to give. What's more important to me is what the **** the person's angle is with telling me Colombus is terrible. Is this gonna be some anti-America speech and how genocide is ok when the west does it? Is this gonna be about how our country lies to us or something? Dude, Colombus gets away with looking very neutral because his actions are taught to 7 year olds. By the time you're teaching those same people but at 14, Colombus just isn't relevant at all. There's no conspiracy here, this is just dumb luck that has allowed Colombus to go about with a relatively neutral reputation for most people. 2) TYT is reactionary hysterics. The video itself basically wants to imply Colombus is responsible for slaughtering 3 million natives like an ****. A quick google search will immediately diminish those claims in two important ways: 1) The "Experts say" line they use is an obvious weasel word, and of course the reality is that the number claims vary from as low as ~100,000 to as high as 8 million. If you use one the most cited sources on wikipedia (which refer you to books from Yale University by a guy named, Irving Rouse at the bottom here), then the numbers named are in the 500,000 to 1 million range. 2) Colombus is not directly responsible for their deaths, as 90% of the population had no immunity to smallpox and died from that. The way the information is presented, they'd have you believe the guy rode around killing them for sport (TOTAL side-note: my American family has Scottish origins and I know **** all about them because we always get mean looks and turned away at those scottish conventions as we're told our ancestors ran down some hill and killed their neighbors for sport. Good job, my ancestors. Kill grandma for bonus points) and never stopped. No, he indirectly did so just by exposing them to a disease they weren't built to resist. I'm not doubting he did terrible ****, but how about we stick to the facts and not exaggerate them, as the video would have you believe this guy is old skool Hitler. 3) There's a snippet in there about Colombus pimping 9 and 10 year old girls. I actually forgot to search this, but given my above searches, I again would have my doubts he was pimping them. Enslaving them? Absolutely, but the way they delivered the excerpt seemed designed to make you think "AND HE'S A PEDOPHILE TOO? GOD I HATE HIM" when infact the excerpt makes absolutely zero mention of anything sexual going on with the girls. Again, I don't know, it's merely a suspicion, and after all, if they wish to make this claim, the burden of proof is on them. This and many other parts of the video need a giant [citation needed], is the point. The point is that it's very easy to see something like this and get pissed off. It's very easy to look at a historical figure that did bad things and demonize them until they're going toe-to-toe with Hitler. I would be quicker to ask what's the purpose in that, as well as point out that there's nothing objective about exaggerating all the worst aspects and leaving out important snippets in his favor. Granted, not trying to defend the guy: as I and I'm sure many others have stated, who gives a damned about Colombus? Throw him under the bus 20 times for all I care. I merely question the motive in doing so. It feels like a witch hunt for the sake of a witch hunt. So how about we just go back to not giving a damned about the guy, take solace in knowing some new snippets of history, and then we enjoy Colombus day all the same cause hell yeah free day off of work? I wonder what the people who think the unintentional spread of disease is should be avenged centuries later would say when they realize that before Native Americans could get theirs people of Europeans descent would get the chance to wipe out central Asia for the bubonic plague (which killed more than half of Europe)?

Yeah, I wonder how they're going to handle that. Seems to me that no one would play the horny teenagers unless they added eroge content, because everyone already knows that they're going to die.

I'm using the same build and it has a lot more survivability than you might think without sacrificing anything in offense.

More Witcher 3 expansion. I think I ran into a bug. Apparently I killed some guys when I need to talk with them first to continue the quest. I'm going to revert to a prior save and try again later.

Combat for the whole series has always been a little funky, though I did think W3 is better in that category than its predecessors. (Alchemy plus Quen plus fast attack is seriously OP.)

Yeah... I get the feeling Gfted1 was being a wee bit facetious here... Poe's law at work. Goddammit, you're probably right. Yeah, I fell for it too. <_<

Have you finished the whole add-on? I managed to clear all the new points of interest in about three and a half hours, but didn't have time to start the main quests. I felt the combat really kicked it up a notch. Was it the same for you, or was that just me?

The witcher 3 expansion is out! I woke up early to get in a few hours of play time in before work. Haven't done any of the main quest bits of the expansion, most clearing the new question marks on the map. So far it feels like the devs really bummed up the difficulty. **MINOR SPOILER** The giant spiders are now my least favorite mobs in the game.

If you want to complain about the amount of replicate items, you should begin with loot drops. I'm playing my second run through on Hard and the loot is ridiculous. There's no point in nerfing merchant restocking with all the loot available already.

The stronghold and upgrading it should be more relevant somehow, but permanent resting bonuses aren't the way to go.

The forced slow-mo crawling is the worst, imo. I don't know, the repeating fainting fits had me grinding my teeth.

Started MGSV last night, and I think the prologue had to be the single longest tutorial I've ever played. My mission stats said it took me an hour, but it felt at least two hours long. Man, all those cut scenes and zero context. @_@

I'm a rogue fanboy, but chanters are really powerful and low maintenance. Script the chants you want him to use, put him in some plate armor, give him a hatchet and shield, and go to town. He can tank, support, DPS, or crowd control and switch seamlessly between each. As with all the classes, for maximum effectiveness its best to micromanage but you can put him on auto pilot and he'll still be very effective.

What race are you using for this build?

I don't have a problem with the voice acting, per se, but as textual learner I would rather there be no voice acting with the dialog box open but the VA left on during combat and while issuing commands for immersion.

Any party RPG that's beatable with a whole party set at 13 13 13 12 12 12, is too easy. A good game frame make the decision to mini/max a question of risk versus reward. Do you want that glass cannon that can DPS like no one else, but definitely will die in the more difficult fights, or do you want to play it safe and go with a balanced character? Can you build a team that can run with only five party members (as back up for when the glass cannon enviably goes down) and is it worth it?