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    President Obama

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    This is why you should have at least 7 or 8 parties. The Republicans have to cater to wingnuts and it's dragging them down long term as people are starting to get fed up with them.

     

    You mean have a bunch of single issue focused parties all clamoring for a seat in senate/house? Nah.

     

    A viable third party option would go a long way though.

    President Obama

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    My prediction is Romney doesn't get to run in 2016. He had enough trouble with the nomination this time around.

     

    In fact I kind of think Chris Christie is planning on running, which makes his vocal support of Obama's Sandy response seem a bit suspicious. But that is just silly conspiracy talk.

     

    Seriously though, the doom and gloom from the right is way overdone. These guys are not all that different to begin with, and the republicans still control the house. What really needs to happen is both parties put away the rhetoric and start working together. Congress seems to be the most dysfunctional workplace ever.

     

    I'd take Christie for president, I admire a blunt politician.

    President Obama

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    Obama has been a mixed bag for me, as much as I want to vote for an alternative candidate... Romney just isn't the answer. Honestly what ARE his views? He has a history of being a moderate governor, last election and this one he's far right, with the exception of the first presidential debate where he comes off as moderate only to lean back to the right.

    Hurricane Sandy

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    I was lucky to get my electricity back this morning but a portion of the town I live in still doesn't have it. I hope they get it back soon, sleeping in a freezing house is a pretty miserable experience.

    What you did today

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    Tonight's lottery is $50 million, so the office is playing a pool. Exciting. In more exciting news, I've switched from NP++ to Sublime Text 2 as my editor, seems ok as far as text editors go, I do like the auto-completion of quotes and braces.

     

    I wish all text editors did that. :getlost:

    Re: RPGs, audiences, publishers, mass markets and everything between earth and sky.

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    I don't want the 90s back. I want to take a different path off the 90s than was taken.

     

    The popular form of RPGs after the 90s followed a path through Neverwinter Nights to KOTOR and I think much of what we look at today can be traced to KOTOR. Cinematics, smaller parties, voice acting. That is no more the natural endpoint of all change than the idea that all hominid forms eventually become human.

     

    If we look at the legacy of advanture games, we see the birth of survival horror and the path to Resident Evil 6. But we also the birth of action adventure games in the vein of Devil May Cry. (I've never been clear on the earlier Soul Reaver/Tomb Raider branch and where that split off) But we also see cinematic narrative games like Walking Dead and Quantic Dream's works. We see alternate paths such as Telltale's 3D adventures, retro titles like the Wadjet series, and even alternate branchings of survival horror in the Penumbra and Amnesia series. The fact that Amnesia isn't a retread of Alone in the Dark 1 doesn't mean it's at risk of being Resident Evil 6. You even see the warning signs back in Penumbra where you can kill the dogs, but they steppedback in sequels because they weren't aiming for the same path Resident Evil took.

     

    Games can still change without assuming the worst.

     

    Couldn't have said it better myself. Bravo sir.

    The Project Eternity success impact

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted · Edited by Syraxis

    Will this big success of over 3.6 million $ turn some heads over at the big publishers?

     

    It might be a talking point in some board meeting but I'd doubt more unless the sales are good.

     

    Will they try to take a slice from the pie?

     

    Taking would imply they had a stake in the so-called pie to begin with.

     

    Will Obsidian be at a better negotiating position?

    Since they have their own IP that they can invest directly into and take a larger share of the profits from, and take some of said profits to invest into other new IPs. Yes. They will be in an astronomically better negotiating position. That is, if PE is successful sales wise.

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