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Can't forget what you don't know about. This looks really neat, thanks for the tip. It's on sale at GOG 60% off for the next day and a bit if you do want to pick it up. I'd heartily recommend it as well, though 'hard and unforgiving' is certainly an accurate description.

I would have thought that the changes for touchscreens in the phone/ tablet versions would be harder to pull off than adapting for controllers, and from what I've been told the mobile versions are decently enough adapted. Guess things like selecting the characters might be a bit cumbersome/ annoying if they can't work out a decent quick system since you have to do it so often. But while I doubt they're a particularly good fit for consoles or will sell well they should be a quick and reasonably easy port with the major consoles being AMD PCs under the hood.

I guess my view is predicated on the EU being an 'infinite expansion' project for its architects- they don't want to do anything that would limit it, so they don't want the UK gone permanently even if it would give short term satisfaction (and discourage other potential leavers). I'm certainly no fan of the EU but within the stipulations mandated by their worldview I think they've handled the UK leaving quite well. If it were a less important nation they'd probably do more to try and end run the referendum or outright blackmail/ threaten to stick the knife in, but from their pov they really do need the UK back and preferably in such a way that they won't be continually on the verge of leaving every few years. If so, they'll take up the mantle of William Wallace (movie version) and ensure Scottish freedom. Hmm. Scotland has oil, and they won't let Trump build any more golf courses, and the locals don't like his hotels being there which are there. Might need some long term occupation and stabilisation.

That was a theory, but Dinah still being around in the flash forwards seems to make it pretty unlikely.

Her actor is very good and is very natural with every other actor in the series, but the character herself just has too much baggage for me stemming from her introduction and consistent poor writing/ plotting, which all the new recruits suffered from. Even really simple stuff like her having literally the same name as Laurel's mother/ Quentin's wife is never addressed as if the writers were hoping no one would notice. Haha no. They clearly have an endpoint in mind for Barbara but their journey to get her there has been contrived, even for a Gotham plot line, and she's been used as a sidekick for more interesting villains most of the time as they have no idea what to do with her by herself. Diggle's wife Lyla (Audrey Marie Anderson, iirc) is also in the same episode and a few previous, playing The Governor's girlfriend. Agent Liberty on Supergirl (Sam Witwer) was in the series 1 Walking Dead Finale in the tank Rick gets stuck in too and has been in heaps of sci fi stuff like BSG, Force Unleashed, Smallville. All the CWDC shows are pretty big on the stunt casting, especially Supergirl. I like Kacey Rohl, but there are far too many hackers in Arrow. Just doesn't have a purpose, especially with Mr Terrible being around, unless Felicity leaves. Wild Dog though is fine, now that they're not doing the idiotic Civil Bore storyline where he was insufferable. (To be honest, I'd move Felicity and Diggle into a 'not the suicide squad' show and out of Arrow if I were in charge, even with Thea and Quentin gone Arrow still has core cast bloat)

I'd be a lot more charitable than that, not something I usually am when it comes to the EU. Being obnoxious and obstructionist would only ensure that Britain would be gone, permanently, instead of probably coming back at some point. It would also provide more ammunition, not less, for EU skeptics due to the appearance of trying to force the referendum to be set aside* and would be justifiably labeled as part of 'Project Fear 2' in the UK. "You don't want to play with us? Well, we're taking out ball and going home!" doesn't even work well in the schoolyard. *which, lest we forget, has been the usual approach when 'anti EU' referenda have passed in member countries. Well yeah, they've been relatively open about not expecting leave to win and by inference never really did any preparation for a non remain result- Cameron would never have called the referendum if he thought he would lose. About the only prep they did was the Project Fear 1 research about how much the economy would contract if leave won; and that's been counterproductive since the estimates were absolutely miles more negative than reality has been. And to be fair, the Northern Ireland situation is not really something that has a precedent and can be planned for in a way that would satisfy anybody.

I wouldn't defend the FIFA/ Madden/ CoD annual releases as being consumer friendly- though ultimately, it is the consumers' choice to buy annual releases which encourages them- but they do at least consistently work. The issue with Paradox is usually that they add stuff and accumulate bugs andor imbalanced gameplay as a result of adding stuff, then don't get around to fixing all the stuff they broke before releasing the next dlc, that breaks more stuff. So the net effect is that the games accumulate bugs and broken systems. Don't worry; Mods Will Fix It! seems to be their ultimate attitude. That's apart from the usual accusations more common to dlc in general that they parcel up systems that should have been in the base game to sell later. As for Imperator being on GOG, it's good news but I'd be very reticent about Paradox's approach since they seem to be intent on gating at least extras through their own portal- and they retroactively trojaned steam into the 'drm free' version of CK2 as well.

Apex is same universe as Titanfall as well, isn't it? Definitely looks like at most it was genre shift of a genuine TF3 project, most likely though it was people presuming it was Titanfall 3 being worked on when it was Apex all the time. Despite having pretty good reputations neither of the Titanfall games sold all that well so some sort of shift was always on the cards. Seems to have been fairly well received too. I have no interest in BR games at all but a million players inside a day seems decent for a title that dropped completely randomly on a moderate sized platform- and it seems to have a decent rep for its monetisation model as well.

At this point I'm actively hoping they go the whole hog and actually make her a retroactive villain. She's definitely got the background set up for it, and it would give the flash forwards an actual point too. Apart from the nuking there's also the soliciting torture from an identity thief impersonating an important judicial official and breaking a terrorist out of federal custody in S5 either of which would usually make you an outright bad guy. Kind of funny how she's been treated on the other shows. She was always better written on Flash since she wasn't the showrunners' pet, but we got a passive aggressive comment about her wedding gift after the hijacking which was almost certainly designed as a WTF? to the Arrow writers; and she was summarily and fairly graphically killed off in Legends' Doomworld.

IIRC straight sequel to K1 (and largely ignoring K2), primarily if not entirely SP. It got retasked to an MMO very early on though; and LucasArts were developing a K3 internally which was cancelled a year before TOR released.

What We Do In the Shadows TV trailer (mirror, since the official FX one is region locked) Looks more a straight TV adaptation of the movie than Wellington Paranormal was.

As knobish as hijacking a friend's wedding was to make it all about her she did also literally nuke a city which is probably a bit above omelettes and monomaniacal narcissism. Havenrock, never forget; unlike Felicity who forgot about it the same episode. While Arrow isn't exactly Shakespeare at the best of times she really has been a dreadfully written pet character. Objectively she's written as (at very best) deeply deeply selfish, if not an outright sociopath yet you're meant to like her...

Not so sure about that in this case. Derp Silver are now themselves owned by THQ Nordic, if they don't like what DS does with their managerial independence then said independence could be pulled. And since Nordic has deliberately cultivated a relatively distributor agnostic and 'neutral' approach over the past few years I cannot see them being overly happy with a controversial exclusivity deal.

10 minutes plus -> higher monetisation tier.

That was because I watched Daredevil S1 before it and both shows made a big deal of their villains randomly eating omelettes in their beautifully appointed penthouse suites. Didn't help that Titans was clearly very much a post Daredevil show when it came to its general approach to things like violence and production values as well- as compared to Gotham/ CW shows/ Krypton etc.

Finished Titans. It was OK, not as good as it was made out to be and at times oddly derivative (bad guy makes omelettes) and a bit... tepid as if they were worried about going all out with stuff. Also did not like where it ended, don't think they should have cut the last episode. OTOH had to laugh at STD's latest episode's

The Aegis Ashore system is in Romania, which isn't close to Kaliningrad. The Polish system isn't operational yet. ...or SS-N-30 launch from a Kilo-submarine of the Black Sea Fleet. Either which way both Aegis Ashore facilities are fixed sites, which make them poor platforms for offensive weapons. They're fine for a first strike weapon though, which is exactly what the Russians say about them. Yeah, there are other options for first strike weapons as well but everyone always wants more options and, to be frank, those bases make basically no sense for their stated purpose either- missile defence against Iran and DPRK, set up in Poland? That the Russians should just take the US's word for it that they won't be used as such would be moronic and naive, pinky swearing that they won't be used as such is trumped utterly by the signed treaty stating outright that the launchers should not exist in the first place. As for nuclear tomahawks, the 109G existed so the warhead and system is already designed. Indeed, the W84 nuclear warhead from the 109G definitively existed as late as 2011. I guess they could have been scrapped in the intervening 7 years; but that seems fundamentally unlikely if they hadn't in the previous 24, and since the US has been gearing up to drop INF since at least 2014. Depends if they're actually violating airspace or not. The vast majority of airspace 'violations' on both sides aren't actually violations but intruder runs or intelligence gathering and just getting close to the airspace (except around northern Estonia, where both sides violate airspace more commonly due to the complex situation). If you're actually violating airspace you tend to get a more overtly aggressive response than responding to someone coming close which is typically just an escort and photo op. Collisions do happen though, there was that Chinese jet that crashed into the US spy plane off Hainan for example though whose fault that was has not been independently verified. If I were to be facetious, NATO responds by shooting down intruders well after they've left their airspace and blatantly lying about the circumstances while their buddies run post facto interference for them (Turkish radar data showing a Su24 cruising at ~250kph, pull the other one it's got bells on)- but really, that was just Erdogan thinking he'd get in with the cool kids.

Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty. It isn't as recent a withdrawal (Bush jr era)

The Aegis Ashore system is in Romania, which isn't close to Kaliningrad. The Polish system isn't operational yet. It doesn't matter if it makes zero sense to put tomahawks in the Aegis Ashore launchers, if you can, and if they are land based then they're simply non compliant with INF and the US is in breach. It's trivial to put nukes back on tomahawks and I'd bet pretty much everything that that is exactly what will happen- not that it matters with respect to the INF, since as previous land based launchers are exactly as illegal as missiles of any type. After all, the US had BM109Gs and Pershing IIs for a reason up to 1987, same as the USSR had their versions. Mostly though, this is about blaming the Russians so it doesn't look like it's the US unilaterally bailing on yet another agreement after ABM, Paris and Iran. And what is good for the goose is also good for the gander. If it makes little sense for the US it also makes little sense for the Russians. Their country and nuclear arsenal is large enough that they can just fire ICBMs at everyone and anyone without abrogating the treaty, quite apart from their own air/ naval cruise and ballistic missiles. And despite the US being clearly in breach at very very least exactly as much as the Russians- and in terms of the provable, a whole lot more- it isn't the Russians threatening to withdraw, it's the US.

US to withdraw from INF Treaty in 180 days if Russia doesn't do, well, it's irrelevant since no one actually knows if Russia has the system it's accused of while the US has definitely been violating it for at least two years (and by the text itself, for literally literally decades). And since no one in the media has bothered to read the treaty, craftily hidden away as it is on the State.gov website, some selected highlights for those who get their geopolitical analysis solely from the stupid, lazy, paid off, or all three simultaneously journalist polity. Article III This text obviously includes drones. Doubt it was intended to, but a drone is 100% an unmanned self propelled vehicle that sustains flight through the use of aerodynamic lift and is in the case of Reaper/ Predator etc a weapon delivery vehicle. No way to weasel it. Article IV This is blatantly violated by Aegis Ashore and it's tomahawk capable VLS. Note again, being merely nuclear capable and not using that capability/ not having warheads is not enough for compliance, otherwise every single launcher would be compliant including the one the Russians are accused of having- just by saying that you don't have nuclear warheads for it. Conventional ground based launchers and missiles are banned; and that 100% includes Tomahawk launchers based on land. Yet all you'll get from the media is some mumbling about Russian claims, when their accusations are extremely easy to verify as being true, if you can be bothered to. Note again again, since no one in the media seems to want to mention it, 'nuclear' missiles only being covered is not specified at any point in the treaty text. Conventional missiles and launchers are banned same as nuclear, anyone with even vestigial knowledge of military matters knows anything else would be pointless. And of course China, while not bound by it, couldn't get close to hitting either western Europe or mainland US with ground based IRMs. The threat there is entirely from China, uh, treacherously putting their country near US bases in a dangerous escalation?

I laughed loudly when they beat the UAE in the UAE to get to the final. Doubt think it's their academy system though, if it's anything like their successful athletics program it mostly consists of poaching people from other countries rather than home grown talent. Suppose it's good news for the World Cup, since Qatar was at risk of being the weakest team ever to be in a WC via their automatic qualification.

To be frank, what a load of old bollocks. PR and politics 101 is to repeat what you want to be true ad nauseum because some people will believe anything if told it authoritatively enough times- and those who won't, won't believe it anyway. Every single politician in existence does that and a quick viewing of any interview will show politicians saying what they want to be true and repeatedly answering the questions they wanted asked rather than the ones that were actually asked. Trump wants 3 million illegal voters all voting D because it would mean he won the popular vote, not because he's going to send them to the ovens or deport them in cattle carts, indeed his compromise proposals involved most illegals having a path to citizenship. Goebbels, Hitler and pals said Jews caused Germany's WW1 defeat because that's what they wanted to be true as it meant Germany was still Undefeated Champion stabbed in the back treacherously by [convenient enemy] rather than getting curb stomped fair and square; and it's little different from the far more mainstream theory that civilians in general caused Germany's defeat by not being hard enough and just quietly starving to death; but that discourages many people from voting for you as you're saying it's their fault. US claimed Iraq had WMD because they wanted that to be true and knew that enough people would believe it if they repeated it enough times from enough sources, May claims her Brexit plan is the only one possible because she wants that to be true (in that case, it probably is, but that's coincidental not fundamental), Democrats claim repeatedly that Hillary lost because of Russians not because she was dreadful, Bolsonaro repeatedly claims that all of Brazil's problems are due to Lula and friends, Israel claims all Palestinians they kill are terrorists, Soviets claimed only to kill enemies of the state involved in grand conspiracies against the revolution etc etc. You can literally project whatever you want onto each of those. Clearly the US producing a load of cow pats to justify the war on Iraq was a smokescreen for their clandestine creation of ISIS and the death of 100,000s of people, and thus anyone else who talks about chemical weapons to justify attacks in the future wants to recreate ISIS and wants to kill millions. Yeah, nah, they fudged or outright fabricated the evidence for the invasion using tactics Goebbels would have been proud of, but that doesn't make them literally nazis; it just means that everyone uses the same PR tactics including literally literally nazis.

That is basically what Windows already is on a gaming PC. As far as I know that was a byproduct of Aspyr's Android port. It's a bit weird though. Compare to, say, NWN1/2 and Beamdog. It would be the equivalent of Beamdog doing an android NWN1 port but leaving NWN1 PC alone; yet releasing a patch for NWN2 PC and doing nothing with it on android. I presume there are Legal Reasons for how it's turned out but it's an odd situation. Especially since GOG has 'patched' K1 to get it running.

I just tried the GOG version on Windows 10 with a GTX 970. Worked without a hitch. Saw Taris and quit though, so that's one issue that's not ever going away... Yeah GOG version is fine- that is after all their niche- and has the 'full' suite of OS supported; it's the steam version which can be tricky to get running and is XP/ Vista only. Funny thing is that the less popular K2 actually did get patched on steam for modern OS and officially cannot be run on older than 7. Then again K2 was always easier to get running than K1.

The name is fundamentally broken when it comes to shortening. (Star Trek) Dis is not much better than STD, as it makes me think the franchise is about to get served in a rap battle due to its shortcomings instead of have their winkle drop off. I was not a fan of the S1 Klingon aesthetic so that's one change I can get behind.