Everything posted by smjjames
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
I find that quote to be pretty apt for Israel as they're in danger of becoming the kind of people that they originally fled. Not in the nazi sense, more in the non-democratic apartheid sense. I'd say they're pretty much there, I image that you're referring to their treatment of the Ethiopian and the Sudanese. Also, it seems like an unfair comparison due to Germany having a strain on resources because of war efforts, leading to extreme measures. Israel seems to be heading there despite astronomical monetary support from the US; which we should stop IMO. I meant the way they treat the Palestinians and israeli-arabs, the Jewish population is actually a minority in their country. They literally have a choice between having a democratic state while being a minority vs a nondemocratic state ruled by the minority.
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
I find that quote to be pretty apt for Israel as they're in danger of becoming the kind of people that they originally fled. Not in the nazi sense, more in the non-democratic apartheid sense.
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Polish localization with voice acting
smjjames replied to Marang's topic in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)I thought Spanish would be in as a voiced language, given it's audience in the US, also a heck of a lot easier and cheaper to find a Spanish speaker.
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
Where's your proof? volo is one of those members who has this irrational and unfathomable dislike of Obama, he cant really give you a valid reason but tends to generalize so dont take what he says personally or think he actually wants to debate the point in a normal way Fair enough then.....
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
Where's your proof?
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Player sexual companion
smjjames replied to Aleh1811's topic in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)Well, everyone who backed on a high enough level or purchased extra early access add on. Oh, didn't really know for sure how their open beta proccess worked.
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
Obama didn't do that with black ethno-nationalists, so, lets not throw such accusations around. @raithe: I find it ironic that they used tiki/hawaiian/polynesian torches instead of white-people-made torches, whatever that looks like.
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Two-handed sabers
smjjames replied to meppe's topic in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)Does Josh Sawyer know that? He does, that's why he's pushing for one Well, it is loosely based on a rough historical period.
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Player sexual companion
smjjames replied to Aleh1811's topic in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)Everybody who is a backer of Deadfire (both through the site and the fig thing) gets access to the open beta, right? So, then is the chance to air issues with the romance system if they exist. Right now, we don't know 100% how the whole mechanics work, so, we're going off of hypotheticals and examples in other games.
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Polish localization with voice acting
smjjames replied to Marang's topic in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)Exactly, and with twice the voiceover, that means twice the work. As for the Polish localization stretch goal, that was one of their early stretch goals.
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Polish localization with voice acting
smjjames replied to Marang's topic in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)Wasn't one of the stretch goals Polish localization or voiceover? *goes and looks* Edit: I think it was just the localization, not voiceover.
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What's so funny right now?
From another forum that I'm on: "The Chinese dream is a daydream and a nightmare. AI chatbots pulled from China after they went rogue and betrayed the CCP So secret option 17, while North Korea and USA argue, China is liberated by a robot uprising" Seriously, check out the article, ROFL.
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
And trying to counter the far left by swinging that far over just makes both sides EVEN MORE polarized. As for the centrists, something has to fill the vacuum left behind by both sides, and the democrats are trying to decide whether to go further left or stay where they are.
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A Reqeust for a walk toggle this Time
smjjames replied to Joral's topic in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)Aarik confirmed back in March that Josh did say that walking animations are on the list and it's confirmed to be on their list, so, just going to have to wait and see if they'll get around to it.
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
Trump finally acknowledges the death of victims of...... the helicopter crash. Wut, no acknowledgement of the woman who died in the car incident? edit: Article updated as he mentioned it a half hour later, kind of seems like an afterthought when done via tweet.
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
I edited my previous post. It doesn't seem anything directly related to the protests themselves, as far as people know anyway. edit: @lefer: Might want to spoiler that due to the image size.... Though really, no surprise there.
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
Not on CNN, and a helicopter going down would certainly get their attention. Looking at the google news aggregate. Found one: http://wset.com/news/local/report-helicopter-crashes-near-golf-course-in-charlottesville No indication of what caused it though.
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
Article linkage?
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
.....this sounds like a term created in some misplaced SJ discussion It's a play on "radical islamic terrorism".
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
Representing the many Americans who would have no clue what you mean, What do you mean? @deadly_nightshade: Haven't heard or seen reports about gunfire either though. I take it you're a Charlottsville native?
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
Trump refuses to acknowledge it though, as usual. Or maybe he'll say it's a 'fake hate crime' despite video, which he'll say is also fake
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
There seems to be a debate whether to call it terrorism, but really, since terrorism is all about intent, it should be called that, and people on the ground were calling it one.
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
I'm not sure either whether it was in the middle of a clash between the two groups or it was a group of only counter-protesters. Also, "alt-right" is a (well, has been and can be used) catchall for all of those white supremacist type groups.
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
That's entirely subjective, but it's the counter-protesters that got run over. Also, one person has died in those clashes.
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A Reqeust for a walk toggle this Time
smjjames replied to Joral's topic in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)His point is that their time would be better spent on more important things. If they have time to do it, sure, but I'd imagine that doing this is pretty low on their priority list. If one of the devs wants to work on it in their spare time, sure, that's up to them. As for usage of a walk toggle, I haven't found myself wanting to use one in PoE and I'd probably rarely use it if it did exist. Also, if you look at the dev comment, it IS on their list, so.