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It would be better if they finished working on this one first

Lol the Josh cameo. I think that's a running gag you guys do, right? The ogres one isn't a Josh Sawyer preview that we saw, unless it's an older one that got missed. Cool that ogres will be in Deadfire.

It's a picture of Thaos by our very own Barbedbeat Oh, whoops.

Hm, I've never tried to go into the cave before speaking to the pig farmer. No idea how to fix that and he's probably bugged for that particular game, unfortunately.

Is that a rendering of Jar Jar behind Josh? Hard to tell, heh.

True on the map. And that map is actually pretty good, though the shapes are a little funny in places and Iceland is a hell of a lot closer than it actually is.

I wonder if diplomacy will be an actual metric or he's just using that as an example? I'm sure they'll find the 'sweet spot' where you could hit it most of the time and leave the higher ones for more challenging situations.

I think it was said somewhere (or someone told me) that the very southern islands, which contain the nation of Naasitaq, won't be available to visit in PoE2. But I don't know if there is official confirmation, although there is that teaser three weeks ago of clothing that wouldn't look out of place in a cold environment. So, while Mazisky's question kind of covers this, will we be able to visit the far southern islands and the nation of Naasitaq? If so, will it be possible to meet Sagani there as two of her endings allow for her presence?

What do you mean you're unable to talk to Korgrak and what bug are you talking about here?

Fulvano seems way more Marco Polo than Magellan, to be honest. More tourist than explorer.

Well, to be fair, Russian communism, which is the example you have been using, is itself a bit of a take on Marxism with Leninism added. Every other 'communist' has been some variant off of Marxism/Socialism.

@Ben no.3: Misquote? You seem to have quoted without replying. China? Their economy was definetly fully communist at first, but it's now a mix of communist government and capitalist economy,

Pfft, saying that the earliest lacked significant cultures or history is wrong. In fact, pinpointing the time where culture and oral traditioins (history of society before writing) truly became something identifiable as culture is impossible. Heck, even our closest relatives show signs that one could call proto-cultural and are very much like a culture as it's learned.But if we are looking for the test of pure human nature, thus with the least cultural influence, I'd say this is the best we got? I'd probably go back another million years, close to the origin of modern homo if you want to get to that.

Pfft, saying that the earliest lacked significant cultures or history is wrong. In fact, pinpointing the time where culture and oral traditioins (history of society before writing) truly became something identifiable as culture is very difficult. Heck, even our closest relatives show signs that one could call proto-cultural and are very much like a culture as it's learned. The earliest known examples of cultural artifacts for modern homo have been dated to 82,000 years ago. Simpler forms are certainly far older. That aside, while capitalism in it's modern form hasn't been around for all that long, you can still find elements of capitalism for a long time, all the way back into the medieval period.

It took a second reading of that to get what you were getting at, heh.

Only the first one seems to be a 'main island', and hopefully there are a lot of good items. The fact that the first one doubles as the hone base for the Principi faction will certainly increase the content for that one.

Really should cull the quote pyramid... Anyways, communism in the sense of pooled and shared resources really only works in small groups where everybody knows each other and tends to be more accountable to and for each other.

I think going with the Fulvano's Voyage idea was and is better because then they can devote an entire island as one 'level' and not a small dungeon for each level, and they seem to have devoted one large island to at least four parts of it.

In the 20's, yeah, before Stalin clamped down with Communism, also before the Great Depression, which certainly didn't help things. Also, are the politics thread meant to be just American politics or just politics anywhere in general? Just wondering here.

Hiravias does kind of go there a little with his curiosity of Pallegina, just Hiravias personality really since he has a pretty intense curiosity. And yeah, you're probably right about Ydwin since it just felt like a departure from what they did with PoE1. @MaxQuest: Lol, good one.

How about Science Fiction! Hey, you asked. Edit: Ninja'd by two other people, cool

It makes sense in the guy who made the construct, Galvino. Though there's no lore reason why he chose to make that one look female and the rest being generally masculine looking but otherwise not obviously gendered. I didn't get the sense that character was sexualized in any way and she'd probably stab whoever tried to.

Oh, I didn't know volo is British.

So you're saying the Left going on a rant is the problem? The left attacking itself is the problem? Hillary Clinton is the problem? It's a lot easier to just say what the left is doing wrong rather than just point to a british guy ranting off.

The problem with being hands off these days is because sometimes a situation calls for being hands on. Yes we screwed up by being involved in Iraq and Libya, but arguably, the West didn't get involved enough in Libya as far as establishing a stable government and possibly also screwed up in Syria by not being forceful enough. I'm not saying that we absolutely should have been involved more I agree that we should be more hands off and butt out, but the problem is that there isn't a consistent point where being hands on *this* much always works out well and the entire thing is far more complex than just being somewhere on a spectrum of 'hands on'. As for the UN, they definetly have lots of issues....