Zoraptor

Dude, obvious troll is obvious.

Have you clicked on the dlc tag? It should then show which dlc you own vs installed via checkboxes. I have found that importing standalone installations into Galaxy tends to have minor issues like achievements not working until you verify the install so I wouldn't be surprised if it was having problems with detecting dlc. There's also global and single game "don't update" settings that I imagine would stop any dlc automatically installing.

Christopher Blair? I may have used that name on occasion, I must admit. Though the last time was 22 (that long, really?) years ago.

I found a decent number of side quests further on in the game. It's definitely possible to get most of the hub quests in chapter 1, though you'd have troubles doing some at low level which offer follow up quests. Having said that I'm not sure there are any gated by chapter which aren't plot related, the gating is mostly being capable of fighting up to Chimera level monsters or high level humans.

Supposedly that's the reason the Saudi Aramco IPO was cancelled as they'd have to disclose oil reserves and be liable for lying. A few places have pretty massive oil reserves- Venezuela and Canada for example- but they're not really economic due to the type of oil they have being too heavy or contaminated. Saudi's is almost entirely sweet light and easy to pump. There's certainly no realistic chance of Trump's US significantly sanctioning Saudi at the moment. Trump thinks Kushner is some sort of Middle East expert and Kushner is basically owned by Muhammed ibn Sawman plus Kushner's a pathetic suck up to Bibi Netanyahu whose biggest goal is getting the US or anyone else (ie Saudi Arabia and friends) to attack Iran for him. Most I can see Trump doing is sanctioning whoever gets executed and declaring how tough he's been. I guess some in Congress may have a try at getting some proper sanctions through but I'm not holding my breath. Some sort of forced settlement in Yemen (and maybe with Qatar) is possible as a sort of punishment though. There comes a point where qat chewing barefoot tribals with AKs and 1960s ATGMs blowing up billions in US weaponry becomes counter productive to sales, and trying to starve 17 million people to death might be a little bit of a PR problem. OTOH a lot of Trump's base both voter and politician wise does reflexively hate Mr Bone Saw and any other Saudi royal over 9/11 and their consistent support of terrorism people who spontaneously and independently become terrorists after receiving moderate Wahhabi teachings. I could see Trump throwing the Saudis under the bus if things really got hot- the tapes get released with a lot of traction, or Kushner falls from favour. Trump isn't the sort to stay loyal when it's costing him.

I've played Thronebreaker and it's OK. Never actually played a card game before but Gwent was pretty good for a minigame so I gave it a go. It's too expensive for what it is, has too many tie ins to the Gwent standalone for a paid product, is too easy and looks kind of cheap too as well as feeling unfinished so I'm not surprised it didn't make expectations. It's also not the best fit for GOG either market wise, even for those playing standalone Gwent it's a departure and for the traditional GOG crowd it has some polarising aspects. Despite that I enjoyed it most of the time and don't regret playing it. OTOH there's no way they wouldn't have made money on it- I'd be surprised if the core team was more than a dozen or so, and it uses Unity too. Indeed, it's just failed to meet expectations rather than failed outright.

I am being triggered by that black text not matching either background. That's better Oh, some actual news? How about some real world performance for nVidia's RTX cards (actually doing raytracing) then?

ST:DS9: to boldly stay where nobody has stayed before. Sorry, old joke. Gul Dukat has unfriended you.

They definitely make attempts at systematic data collection if there's a mandatory reporting regime, eg Notifiable diseases Section A of New Zealand: Acute gastroenteritis Campylobacteriosis Cholera Cryptosporidiosis Giardiasis Hepatitis A Legionellosis Listeriosis Meningoencephalitis primary amoebic Salmonellosis Shigellosis Typhoid and paratyphoid fever Yersiniosis Of those I'm fairly sure that only Legionella, Meningitis and Plague are (more or less) unrelated to food/ water hygiene. But yeah, it would be very difficult to trace such things without mandatory reporting and for cases where the odd person just has The Runs for a day and don't go to a doctor or where you have very odd symptoms like the family that seemingly got hit by some random nerve toxin after eating wild pork, or where those eating the stuff andor the vendor are transient/ itinerant. I would have thought that a soup kitchen type setup would be relatively safe though, assuming they were serving the soup hot enough.

Trump's point breaks down a bit when you realize the State only owns about 2% of the forested areas, while the Federal Government owns 30+ percent. Plus grasslands are a big part of the problem, which is a different issue altogether.The idea that is just mismanagement is a gross simplification, but hey, Trump gets a lot of political points by blaming California for stuff. Did Bush Jr. blame Louisiana when they flooded during Katrina? I mean, I remember Kanye getting upset about something. Yeah, I don't think Trump's 'point' is very strong and isn't mostly taking shots at a state that didn't vote for him, just that it isn't as wholly unreasonable as most have made out. I'd also imagine that the fire management at state level wasn't any better when, say, Arnie was Governor. I presume California is responsible for allowing building in particularly fire prone areas, though, albeit that sort of thing seems to happen everywhere. IIRC while Louisiana didn't get criticism over Katrina they did criticise the Democrat run New Orleans city administration quite a lot.

Happens all the time in Australia, which has a similar climate to Ca. Personally I'd stake money that it happens elsewhere in the US as well, and probably about as frequently on a like to like basis, but there are a lot less people living in those places. Trump may have a bit of a point about fire management- fires in Australia and California are 100% natural and 100% inevitable even if some are started deliberately; the problem is people having houses in the fire prone areas and, historically at least, governments trying to stop all fires. The biggest fire preventer in a an area is to have had a recent fire as that clears underbrush and the like, but controlled burns tend to be unpopular due to smoke and you get in trouble if the wind changes direction and strength and the fire jumps a break.

All right, that's crappy and worthy of attention, I do apologize. I'm not entirely sure how is it in any way relevant to GG, then again, GG was apparently about absolutely everything, yet 99% of it was completely irrelevant and ignorable BS, thus the reaction. To reiterate: GamerSgate (GG)= storefront established in 2007(?) mostly for selling Paradox games and originally owned by Johan A, Fred Wester etc Gamergate (also GG)= term coined by Adam Baldwin referring to the clash between people wanting ethics in games journalism/ return all culture to the stone age vs brave progressive free thinkers/ hypocritical corporate culture warriors I'm pretty sure GG the store tried to get people to use a different term at various times as they- unsurprisingly- ended up being targeted by people who couldn't tell the difference. Potentially the worst ethical part of the Paradox CK2 GG fiasco apart from Paradox persistently lying to customers was that they sold Gamersgate before going steam exclusive, potentially shafting whoever bought it. It's also the primary reason I still loathe Steam and don't trust them so far as I could throw GabeN; as Paradox was going to do their own client- parts of which ended up in the GG CK2 version- but were told if they did they'd be kicked from steam as EA was.

Steamworks integration is actually free when sold on other stores. That's one of the big features of Steam. Valve only takes a cut from sales through Steam. The limitation is you can't give Steam customers a worse deal. That's not the only limitation. You also have to sell via Steam, use their client, not offer exclusive dlc on your own store etc. Allowing people to sell steam keys via their own store is classic loss leader behaviour- it costs a minimal amount but ties that company's customers and thus that company to Steam which is worth a lot more. Look at the reaction over this sale for evidence, a lot of people seem to be far more Steam's customers than they are OEI's. Steamworks is classic Facebook Piggies eating food in their trough thinking how wonderful it is that it's all free; it's not free it's just monetised in a non direct way. And, since we've talked consoles as well, steam's 30% cut on sales at their store is far larger than console licensing fee for selling on console. Pretty inarguable that Steam does more to deserve that extra, indeed Steam Machines shows how much effort they put into the thing that costs a console money- designing said own console- but selling overpriced peripherals is fine. I'd also point out that Steam is not an 'open' platform in contrast to Google Play or Apple Store- Steam is about exactly as open/ closed as those stores are. Windows is the open platform as compared to iOS (pretty much entirely) and Android (mostly, I do have an Android phone but no Google Account). And I'd also feel compelled to point out again that 'xbox exclusive' frequently means 'xbox exclusive on consoles but coming to PC as well' to MS I'd be extremely reticent about using Windows Store though. I have no problem using uPlay or Origin, but Ubi and EA are not also running the operating system.

Yeah, the tool tips say that str scales melee damage and dex scales ranged damage. I only tested strength and melee weapons rather than ranged and dex but if damage does scale with strength it was very, very slight and far less than the improvement from combos or an improved weapon's raw damage increase. I'm about 99% sure someone else tested the same thing at the Codex and came up with it not having any effect either. I preordered so it may have been a bug that has since been fixed, but if so it doesn't seem to be in the fix log.

Speaking of Trudeau, he's more or less directly confirmed that the tape of Khashoggi's murder is real. I'm also having a laugh at the BBC's current series on 'fake news' where they seem to have changed the definition to exclude western disinformation by claiming it has to be about sowing confusion via hoaxes and conspiracies; not just outright lying about things so you get to bomb or invade Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yugoslavia etc etc with minimum complaints. Then they go and talk about Indian Child Abduction videos which are 100% fake news, but not according to their own definition- they're classic mass hysteria rather than designed to sow confusion. /ignore 'ignore' is for snowflake millennials 'plonk' remains the true classic used by the discerning internet connoisseur.

IIRC weapon damage doesn't scale with stats in Elex, so there is that. It's one of the reasons I tend to advocate a jack-of-trades approach in it that I'd never do for say Gothic 2. I'm not 100% sure of that, but if it does scale it's minor.

They were a success story at the point they went independent again and they did go from a studio with promise but limited sales to being synonymous with Halo. As such they were also a very successful acquisition for MS as well. Guess the lesson really is that we should be glad that OEI hasn't been sold to the black hole of creativity that is Activision instead.

The deals take place at night, and there's only one person who isn't accounted for at night?

It looks good, but running around collecting dozens of enemies then wiping them out with Black Hole is just so much more effective- and funny. I didn't really like any of the ranged weapons in Elex except the flame thrower and grenades if they count. That's another difference with other PB games where by and large ranged weapons were great even if you didn't specialise in them as few enemies had a ranged attack and you could almost always get in a sniping position which they couldn't retaliate at. Must admit, all the Elex talk is giving me an urge to replay it.

? Bungie was bought by MS as a fairly minor entity, but bought themselves out (ie went independent again) later after the success of the Halos.

Yeah, I'd expect everything to be on xbox and PC (Windows Store time limited exclusivity, then at least steam) with no massive alterations to the games and style. I'd suspect that MS wants things more in the FONV vein from Obsidian than in the PoE vein, and maybe DivOS type games from InXile, which aren't massive departures.

I can understand timed fuses being default- they are in real life after all where you have more... permanent consequences for dropping or otherwise prematurely contacting an armed contact grenade- but yeah, contact grenades are just so much more useful in almost all games.

**** off. It's like 2000 all over again. For MS 'xbox exclusive' just refers to consoles, they've had xbox exclusives on PC before. May mean Windows Store exclusivity or timed exclusivity but I doubt that to be honest. For OEI and InXile there's not much point making either console exclusive just for the sake of it. May well mean no more Obsidian games for me given the attitude MS has to GOG and DRM free in general, but then I wasn't really expecting Outer Worlds at least to be anywhere other than Steam anyway and that's the only 'known' project.

Not enthusiastic. Yeoh's fine, but the writing for both versions of Georgiou was pretty average while the emperor version had hugely contrived plotting. I'd way prefer a Captain Malfoy series. Or just go full meta and get Tom Felton. Isn't that like 4 different Trek series either in production or under consideration now? Guess STD must have driven a lot of CBS subscriptions.

Deadfire and Tyranny I think both have an audience which is a... difficult one, in a world where blockbuster first weeks sales mean a lot. PoE/ Tyranny and games of their type require a decent amount of patience and attention to play, and the audience for that sort of game tends to themselves be more patient. PoE1 had a lot of hype around it as a kickstarter and a new beginning etc, the latter two nowhere near as much. And since the audience is more patient I'd readily believe that much of that audience is willing to either wait for a sale and especially wait until they will actually have the time to play the game before buying it. But also, to be honest, I found PoE1 to be turgid. Not that bad, also not that good, but just unnecessarily bloated in just about every respect and in the end a bit of a chore (albeit WM was consistently better). PoE2 on the other hand I genuinely liked, but if I went solely by the PoE experience I would not have bought the second game.