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I hope we learn the other two subclasses for Monk with the update on multiclasses and subclasses. The only one we know about atm is the Nalpazca subclass.

It'd probably be more accurate to say that liberals/progressives/the left wing are generally supportive of diplomacy and non-military solutions. Less militaristic than the Republicans, but at the same time, they can be just as militaristic. See Bill Clinton, Obama (tempered somewhat by war fatigue, but ramped up the drone warfare), Hillary Clinton. the bowling green coup were no doubt the work o' the deep state, which is controlled by a shadowy cabal o' business leaders and government power brokers who is beyond party affiliation. The Establishment is not defined by democrats and republicans. try and keep up. gotta get into the spirit o' this kinda thing for it to make sense. HA! Good Fun! Come off of it will you? Yes we have disagreements among each other, but we don't really need to go there with the sniping.

The label of pirate also depends on which end of the cannon you're on anyway.

Streetfighter sounds like a good subclass for that rogue/monk concept, not to mention a good fit themeaitically.

I'm sure you'll be able to romance only him if you wanted to....

I'd prefer a straight out transcript, but a summary is still nice. No surprise Eder is 'your racist uncle', given his ignorantly racist ways. I wonder if having the orlan baby around or the watcher being orlan would change him.

Loading times are supposed to be vastly improved.

You won't be forced to play as a pirate if that's what you're thinking. Pirates are definetly present and there is a maritine theme with the trading company and pirates, but the game isn't going to be wholly focused on the pirates or anything like that.

Mh, the article title is dumb then. The whole method of how they did it does sound ethically dubious, basically it's like copying someone elses work without doing the hard work or understanding the methods/ingredients.

*stares at the headline* *facedesks* Seriously??? That's like taking microaggression and cultural appropriation to a whole new level.

I'm by no means an expert on American society, but I don't think it's wise to marginalise practically the entire rural population, not only since that will make them quite prone to radicalisation, but also considering that these are, at least as far as my admittedly limited understand goes, the guys who win your wars. It just seems a bit ungrateful to have them shoot and die for the US and not even give them a significant say in politics. The thing is, that's exactly what happened. You might have seen talk about the urban/rural divide and I bet it was discussed at some point here, that's the same thing you're talking about. It's not a one-election phenomenon, it's been happening over decades and has gotten to a point where people are really noticing. And it's not just the US either, it's a global phenomenon, you can see it in Brexit.

Should they have less say? It's obviously a very tricky situation. Right now there is a decent argument for everyone being unhappy, which probably means something is being done right. You said California isn't marginalized and then justified why it should be marginalized. That's all I'm saying, let's be realistic about what the electoral college does to populated states. I don't think it is that big of a deal, I could always move to Wyoming if it really bothered me. Also I'd argue with California being some liberal wonderland. The reality is it can be quite conservative. CA booted Gray Davis out of office and put in a Republican and it voted to pass Prop 8. I'd argue the problem lies in a weak Republican leadership structure. This the state that produced Reagan, afterall, and he is probably the most popular Republican in recent history. @bolded We did? Yeesh. It did get challenged right up to the Supreme Court though. Though yeah, we have a reputation of being a testing ground for ideas, "As California goes, so goes the Nation". I agree with the problem mainly being weak Republican leadership and stuff, after all, it used to be heavily Republican for decades.

There is a thing going around (I forget the name, but it was mentioned a lot during the election) which uses an arcane loophole (which is likely how Maine and Nebraska did what they did) that allows the states to come up with and agree on an amendment to how they portion out the electoral votes, it's an agreement to poportion out the electoral votes by the popular vote or something like that. A whole bunch of states have already signed on to it, but they're mostly Democrat leaning states and the threshold hasn't been reached yet. There may be one or two Republican leaning states that have signed on or close to doing so.

Probably not the best example to use redneckdevil, given the whole deal with politics, but you make a point regarding majority and minority. Cute, and yes, California....

Gerrymandering doesn't affect the electoral college vote as it goes by the number of congressional districts (which is a function of total population) and the votes in the whole state. Gerrymandered or not, the number of congressional districts still has to reflect the total population.

@Guard Dog: I haven't heard of Austin Petersen before, but I've definetly heard of Justin Amash before, but I forget from where. As for people voting for the Libertarians, might be easier if the candidate didn't turn people off with general 'head in the sand'ness and being ignorant about stuff he should know. Plus I was voting not-Trump.

It's likely that WoD is talking about the long term demographic shift and it's electoral consequences. Though I could be wrong. Yeah, if the Republican party doesn't adapt, that's what will do them in. Which is what WoD was talking about. @Gromnir: Yep, turned out that despite the divisions and turmoil on the Republican side, it was the Democrats who were deep in the hole and were the ones who needed soul searching. As me and Gromnir were saying, parties change over time and if one is unable to adapt, then we'll most likely see that one split apart, which is actually how the Republicans got their start.

I like to thoroughly explore, so, it could be harder for me to miss some stuff, but even then, if there's a lot of stuff, I could still miss something.

It'll be a long time before the Republicans become non-viable since the Democrats have to work through their own problems since they're at their lowest ebb politically since what, the 1920's. It's always possible that the Republicans will reform themselves and adapt, parties change over time. The Democrats and Republicans today aren't quite the same as they were 50 years ago, much less 100 years ago. It'd also be possible that the Republicans fade out and some other party rises in it's place. Seems like we're going through one of those periods in which we're shifting from one party system to another, in any case, we're definetly going through a politically turbulent period.

Not sure what that has to do with politics....

Gold would be terrible for an armor, but the effect does look cool.

Makes sense I guess. I thought it was planned down to the minute or something. Still, pretty good so far.

I thought the updates weren't really on a set schedule? Anyways, yeah, the multiclass and subclass stuff should be awesome. Also, something I realized subconsciously but doublechecked a moment ago, Tekehu's arm fins aren't poking through the sleeves of his robe. Then again, the flare in the sleeves are about where the fins would be. Since he can still wear gloves, I guess he can either make a slit in them (not really possible if it's armor) or he can fold the arm fins.

It's not really a hard game to finish. Maybe complete every quest of and exhaust every detail and event is harder, but the essential content to the main storyline is pretty simple and straight-forward. Not really. There is stuff you can miss, but most of the questgivers run up to you. Difficulty wise it is not a tough game and you and cheese harder fights. There is just a lot of content to go through. Or they do onscreen dialogue when you pass by, and they aren't merchants hawking wares or nameless NPCs, which is a common cue used in PoE.

In retrospect, all of the candidates sucked. I was prepared to vote third party, then it turned out both Stein and Johnson sucked. Muahahaha, we pass gas in the general direction of NK's puny missiles: US Missiles Destroy Airborne Target in Successful Defense Test. Don't they ever plan a 'random surprise attack within a certain period'? Because that's a heck of a lot closer to what a real situation would be rather than knowing down to the exact second something is going to be launched. Not to mention more impressive. Though I guess it'd be problematic to do so given that it takes a long time to plan and prepare for a test like that.