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Walsingham has terrible wind?

Well, financial liability, not so much criminal. Exactly, especially in systems without bankruptcy for "natural persons" (like Finland), you'd have no entrepreneurship due to the extra risks involved.

Zomfg!

True, but it is immoral. Repulsive even. Hardly, it's a necessity. You couldn't sue a corporation that fails to deliver if it didn't have legal personality.

Well, you weren't around so we had to do with what was available.I know of Citizens United granting them the same rights as individuals, had you something else in mind. Come on now man! Do some lawyering or else us amateurs are going to keep speculating. Look up legal personality. I cba to look into the specifics of class actions, especially as this appears to be based on lex specialis. Hopefully one of my American colleagues will know more about the particulars, of there are some limitations in the act. Short version, a corporation is (and has been for a long time) a person in the eyes of the court, hence retarded decisions like giving them absurd "rights" based on it, too.

Please stop the amateur lawyering, it's painful. Corporations having legal personality is nothing "new", let's leave it at that.

I get a percentage of my billing over a certain limit... I haven't met my targets the first two times (expected, due to the lead-in time), but I'm getting these past four months calculated early next year.., if it's still no, I have no point in sticking around whatsiever. Sad part is, my bosses are really happy with me. Am handling the poorly paying stuff.

Woke up feeling a bit nauseous this morning, so visited the GP noonish. Apparently did have all the classic symptoms of cerebral hemorrhage, so got shipped to the neurosurgery departmant. A rather unpleasant experience, as they started asking for next of kin and that sort of stuff in a way that implied to me I might no be walking out. Anyway, turns out that at least accordign to the resident, it's just stress and epically tense jaw and neck muscles, so I got handed some funky pills with red triangles on them and sent home. Never have I spent so little time waiting around for doctors as I did today, it was apparently either this or having my head opened. Still feeling pretty ****ing miserable, but...

No, I think what you're thinking of is that strange magic golems in the 4th level near Lums machine, they're only vulnerable to non-magical weapons.The demons I'm fighting have - I think - immunity to anything below +2, the problem is they also cast magical weapon resistances on them (on top of spell resistances) making them only killable once the protection spells are removed, which takes rather long while those bastards hack away on my party and kill summoned monsters almost instantly with death fog and death spell. Ok, right, been too long, I guess.

You're supposed to kill them with non-magical weapons. Iirc there's a stash of them nearby. Or was it another fight?

You working as an attorney now, too? 8 months into living outside Helsinki and I'm becoming a hypochondriac. Looks like it's meningitis today.

Admittedly, the degree in economics from Columbia adds to her visible charms.

As of this monday, my Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded physical rewards are still "in the process of being shipped", as they've been since last July (confirmed by customer service). With the crisis the company's going through, it looks like I might draw a blank on those. Game was good, though, but I'm unlikely to go for a physical tier any time soon. In fact, that's the only kickstarter I've backed that has released. I also supported a friends' album's crowdfunding on indiegogo, and had some issues with that delivery as well, so I'm a bit "meh" about the whole thing. Next thing coming is the complete Elmore book, let's see how that turns out. I have basically 0 interest in Wasteland 2, but I'm really glad I backed it, because it lead on to a lot of really cool things.

In hopes that it may lift your spirits a bit, Nep: The other night, I was playing Mass Effect and sipping scotch from a cut crystal glass, and I thought of you. No, seriously, it wasn't a low spirits thing, it was me coughing really hard until I got a piercing pain in my left temple. Looks like I'm still here and both hands are working, so a ok, I guess. I approve of your passtimes, btw.

Only if you're a white man on the internet with a thing for god, guns and capitalism.* *Living in his mother's basement, unemployed: +10 to Irony rolls. I think you just made his point.

The Fade was actually my favorite part of DA:O. I stayed up way past my bedtime on the night I was playing through that section. No other part of the game had that effect on me. However, the rest of the game wasn't satisfying enough for me to ever attempt a replay beyond dipping my toe into some of the other origin stories. (Overall, it was a good-not-great game that I'm glad to have purchased and played, but it was so ridiculously long that I was tired of it roughly 10 hours before it was over.) I also played through the Fade in the small hours, but it was more due to "Dear God, I have to finish this part tonight and have something different to look forward to tomorrow or I'll never get back to this game" Seriously, my issues with DAO have been oft-repeated, but it's a combination of sluggish combat and every.damn.segment.running.on.for.too.long. I played through it a few times before they announced the Keep and it the last few times it was a race to storm of the century and then just getting it over with

Saints released Hartley and signed Shayne Graham as new kicker... who doesn't exactly look like a long term solution.

For a while, I worried I got cerebral hemorrhage. So in case I become a vegetable and can't post here, it was nice knowing some of you.

I know it's not your point, but I have to call this one out. It's an incredible game by a new team: if you can bring yourself to do it, give it another shot. I've played it through more times than any other game of the past ~5 years. And now, before someone posts a "thread direction" picture... 20s Cthulhu game in, say, San Francisco? Yes please?

Fair enough. I'm the opposite these days. I have to tackle something the size of an Infinity or Aurora Engine game in chunks. There is exactly a zero percent chance of me powering through one of those games straight through without taking a break. I just can't do it.Probably usually not for me, either, but I have a lot if trouble getting back into a game I've abandoned. Had the new hitman and dishonored going, had to take a break and now been almost a year...

I'm a lawyer, so I don't post about legal issues without doing at least a little bit of research. So while I'd be perfectly fine with Obsidian releasing a game just in Europe, I doubt that as an American company they'd do that My issue with episodic is less with pricing and more with my growing need to finish games in one go. Yes, bgee had me in a bit of a zombie mode, not looking forward to bg2ee from that point if view :D

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-12-17-what-will-obsidians-second-kickstarter-project-be Not too crazy about episodic content, tbh, but I can see the advantages (like getting paid at regular milestones). Would depend on the content. I have to say, the idea of a Cthulhu type isometric rpg really tickled me, really good idea. Apart from the whole copyright mess thing, which might be a turn off.

Next time, please put in a clear disclaimer that the dating analogy is over. I totally deserve that for posting from work.

Oh, meanwhile I've been playing Battlefield 4 every now and then. The campaign reminds me of a girl I use to date, pretty, no substance and always goes on for a bit too long. Their water tech is really impressive, but they kind of ram it down your throat on every possible level. Looking forward to seeing other games with the engine, especially if actual content in the game won't need that much paring back.

In Helsinki, I've usually been able to at least go to work in a little sunlight even in the dead of winter, but now I'm so much further north, that it's pitch black both ways. Net result = I'm sitting here, straddling the fine line between coma and hysteria.