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No. Atari isn't in a position to buy anything above the occasional latte, they're iply level of solvency themselves. Though you could probably buy interplay's name for the cost of a latte nowadays and certainly would after they've sold all their IP off. It's not difficult to keep a company going forever so long as you don't have much/ any debt or outgoings. You just have to keep up the statutorily mandated stuff. Indeed, while Interplay is/ was designed to make money plenty of companies are designed solely to lose it as a way to minimise taxes. I wouldn't be taking a Caen on as a financial advisor, personally, they may be decent at staving off the inevitable but they're also very good at making it inevitable in the first place. Interplay pretty much exists as a way to attract investors with old names like 'Black Isle'- probably well and truly tapped out now, except for actually selling the name- and for cashing cheques for back catalogue sales on gog and steam, which much also be close to tapped out. They'd love a Nordic/ Deep Silver or Night Dive/ Retroism- or CDPR/ GOG even- type to come along and buy them at this point hence the sales in the article, as it's the only way to make any further money.

It's 'born' in french. It's technically also née rather than nee but ain't nobody got time for accents nowadays. Only thing she was born as was Hillary Rodham, or perhaps [to be decided] Rodham if one believes she was really named after Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Everest, four years after she was born.

Few of them go to 'western corps'. They don't work in McD's or similar, they take jobs with illegal conditions on farms/ orchards (especially, which is where the comment comes from) and other family type businesses (ethnic restaurants being the big one). They typically end up with below minimum wage jobs with no job security under threat of deportation if they complain and with other slavery like conditions such as mandated housing that result in practical payments of a dollar an hour. Western corps on the other hand are fine with high turnover legit employees with crap but legal conditions. Coincidentally, the farmers and small business who run these slaves vote overwhelmingly for the PM's party. The other context is that if immigration is cut back then high value immigrants are cut back and they (1) vote for the PM and (2) contribute to the housing boom which gets other people to vote for the PM and (3) stop the housing bubble from bursting and splattering the PM with rancid sputum instant electoral rejection. Our PM is an utterly appalling human being, even worse than most politicians.

No mods or admins, only members! (One of the things I liked about Bioshock was that it co-opted pretty much everything including its slogans)

It was granted, then rescinded. That's a bit different than passively being ignored it's, uh, 'actively' being ignored. (Cancelling is a more accurate term than blacklisting though, without a pattern to judge by)

The stated reason they blacklisted the codex was for mentioning they'd be at a popular games convention before it was official though, not for spitting the dummy at the console release. Realistically they'd probably let it slide if there was any prospect of the codex being positive towards Torment, certainly. The publisher involvement- and that specific publisher- and associated console guff would certainly have meant no money from me at the kickstarter so I certainly don't think a refund request is unreasonable. Probably won't ask for one myself though. Kind of ironic really, Infinitron was primarily responsible for codex going mainstream(ish) and actively courting publishers and developers yet he's the stated reason for a blacklisting.

I mean, that's pretty clear isn't it? and renders impossible without access to a time machine. They can't cancel because of something that happens after the cancellation has already been made.

Bt is one of the companies that have claimed to have patented the hyperlink previously. Patent trolling for fun and profits.

Anyone even passably familiar with the codex would know that if there is a 'publisher' or 'editor' to be contacted it would be Greg Martin of Greg Martin Enterprises, renowned Mensa member and general coding god (only 2 microissues remain with the forums!). As for why they wanted to contact Infinitron, I suspect the main reason is that they wanted a refusal on record in case the codex asked for its $5k donation back so they could show 'unreasonableness'. Given Techland's record telling them to asterisk off was the only sensible option. They're basically a death spiral JoWood/ Herve Caen Interplay tier publisher. If the Codex were serious journalists Grommie could only have a beef with Sensuki because of his soggy knees and the codex because he hates freedom of speech, Techland would want Infinitron's details because of anti semitism, and the interview could only have been cancelled because Bubbles is a well known african american ex drug addict from Baltimore.

Devs said TQ would come to GOG once the round of update on steam was (close to) finished. It was semi officially announced in March, iirc. Good release though. Eh? Valve has had a wallet feature for years and they're the past masters of half arsing features and products, way more so than GOG. They've got the attention span of a kitten in a disco. For the vast majority of people using it their game collections will be worth far more than an amount in their eWallet anyway. Gamersgate has had blue coins for ages, and they worked pretty well despite GG being far smaller than either steam or current day GOG.

Bob Page: Your appointment to 2k should be finalized within the week. I've already discussed the matter with the COO. Walton Simons: I take it he was agreeable? Bob Page: He didn't really have a choice. Walton Simons: Has he bought DXMD? Bob Page: Oh yes, most certainly. When I mentioned we could put him on the pre order list he was so willing it was almost pathetic. Walton Simons: This dlc -- the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it. Bob Page: Why contain it? Let it spill over into reddit and forums, let the flames pile up on Facebook. In the end, they'll beg us to buy them. Walton Simons: I've received reports of ddos attacks on LIVE and the PSN. There's not enough dlc to go around, and the underclasses are starting to get desperate. Bob Page: Of course they're desperate. They can smell their deprivation, and the sound they'll make rattling their cages will serve as a warning to the rest. Walton Simons: Hmm. I hope you're not underestimating the problem. The others may not go as quietly as you think -- intelligence indicates they're behind the problems on Steam. Bob Page: A bunch of entitled millenials playing at running the internet. But the world left them behind long ago. We are the future. Walton Simons: We have other problems. Bob Page: Thiaf? Walton Simons: Formed by executive order after Romero's strike on Ion Storm. I have someone in place though. I'm more concerned about Spector -- he's relocated to Austen. Bob Page: Our cyberpunk project is far in advance of theirs, as is our dlc distribution, and their... ethical inflexibility has allowed us to make progress in areas they refuse to consider. Walton Simons: The microtransaction project? Bob Page: Among other things -- but I must admit that I've been somewhat disappointed with the performance of the primary unit. Walton Simons: The secondary unit should be online soon. He's currently undergoing preparations and should be operational within six months. My people will continue to report on his progress. If necessary, the primary will be terminated. Bob Page: We've had to endure much, you and I, but soon there will be order again, a new age. Andrew Ryan spoke of the mythical City beneath the sea. Soon that city will be a reality, and we will be crowned its kings. Or better than kings. Gods.

They also take no cut at all from KS titles for a period of time, which is better than either GOG or Steam.

I predicted we'd get NWN2 forums when the Bioforums went kaput. I'm a veritable Nostradamus. To welcome them home I feel mildly compelled to work on a magnum opus about the chemical composition of Neeska's sweat. In slightly old random news all the Paradox games' sales figures are back on steamspy, including PoE.

They will cut the ISIS supply lines eventually as they want that whole border area held by their proxy forces and they know that ISIS is done, all they can do is lose to the government or the kurds. But they are actually being pretty overt about their primary goal being the kurds and to prevent them linking up with their western enclave in Afrin*, it's just that for some reason they don't show those clips on the news. The main 'FSA' (lol) groups involved are probably the worst of that entire lot- child beheaders (Nur-ed-din al-Zenki; named after a Turkish Sultan), Sultan Murad (murdered a doctor for being too sympathetic to Kurds, also name after a Turkish sultan) hard jihadis (Faylaq al-Sham; 'Sham Legion'. Direct translation, not commentary) and Ahrar ash-Sham ('Al Qaeda are our brothers'). Not exactly the shining lights of moderation, just the most direct Turkish proxies. Unsurprisingly the YPG has not being overly positive to the US request to go attack Raqqa now. *Or their complete destruction (and creation of a Quisling run area like Barzani's fiefdom in northern Iraq), Turks tend to refer to YPG as PKK which makes determining their actual intentions more difficult since PKK is actually the 'native' Turkish Kurd sibling organisation of the YPG.

Well, she definitely laughed at a guy getting raped to death with a bayonet in perhaps Boo's favourite youtube clip of all time. (Said it before last time it came up, but she's clearly a reflexive laugher who does it at inappropriate times as it isn't actual 'real' laughter)

2 Turkish tanks destroyed near Jarablus (w/ video proof) and perhaps two more as well. One tank pretty much definitively took the crew with it as well since it cooked off spectacularly. Theoretically the YPG has withdrawn and it's the other members of the SDF fighting, but I don't think anyone really believes it. Lots of rumours of Russians giving them ATGMs and the US withdrawing all support swirling round.

It's definitely the real reason for the 'attacks' on ISIS. Jarablus was actually empty when they invaded, ISIS had already left. Seriously, the invasion had two casualties- both from an RTA. Gotta love the US response though, hundreds of YPG dead taking Manbij and they're supposed to just give it to the people who have spent the last year+ attacking Kurds in Afrin and Sheikh Maksood, then they're supposed to go off and spend hundreds more lives attacking Raqqa for the US. Raqqa being near completely unimportant to the Kurds.

According to the rumors (based on wikileaks) she is taking the same medicine as people with narcolepsy, parkinson's and alzheimer's. But it can also be abused by people who wish to stay awake for longer periods of time. Of course there people trying to meme her of being really sick, unfit for standing during the upcoming debates. If modafinil is the worst thing she's on she's doing pretty well for a 70 year old. I'd be far more concerned about her blood clot and any prolonged effects it has had. It [modafinil, not the blood clot] probably has less side effects and is less addictive than caffeine. "Treats things like naroclepsy, Parkinson's an Alzheimer's" is pretty histrionic (for those wondering, it is a quote from elsewhere) since you immediately think of serious medications when they are mentioned.

500th anniversary of Ottoman Turkey invading/ annexing Syria from the Mamelukes (well, Battle of Dabiq at least) is today. Erdogan has a sense of dramatic irony, I'll give him that.

Management team, 100%. Designers won't sit down at a design meeting and think "we want to make a great game with the best graphics, best systems and for it to be one of the best of all time. Of all time! But most of all, we want to fulfil our lifelong ambition of having microtransactions in a SP game. Let's make it happen, people!". However, management definitely will sit down at a management meeting and try to finagle microtransactions in to make extra money. And microtransactions with an expiry date, even for season pass/ preorder bonuses? Give the man who thought of that a bonus instead! They can use either steam or 3rd party drm to ban you from a single player game without any real difficulty. It'd be terrible PR, but then this isn't exactly great PR itself. I personally doubt it would happen, but it could. That would be extremely easy to do from something like the 'episodic' new Hitman, from the same company, or from any game that requires always online or has 'curated' saves.

Hillary should probably avoid laughing, somehow it makes her seem more mechanical rather than less. Though that's possibly because on the few occasions she is asked a hard question her immediate response seems to be to 'bark' laugh to get time to think of a response. Can I get some sources on this? I only ask cause I recall people saying she was against vaccinations but I briefly saw her in an interview where her answer was "of course not" when asked if that were true. I know very little about her but the little I've seen definitely seems to be loaded with conflicting reports. It's Correct The Record FUD, so far as I could tell.

Impatient people who cannot wait for the GOTY edition. That would be a Seasons Pass. Really Nonek, bastardising the classics for a cheap laugh? You're a man of refinement and taste, not some horrible colonial oik like me. I expected better. Or at least to have thought of it myself.

Given examples like NWN2's hideously suicidal/ homicidal default AI I'd agree with that, at least for a pre-existing/ converted system like D&D. Then again, default no ff NWN2 was also poorly balanced since you'd just load Qara (or Sand/ PC, but mostly Qara) up with Fireball/ similar and could nuke everything, while other characters were plink-plinking with their melee or ranged weapons.

Does it actually matter what the Greek and Italian price are though? Since it's EU/ single market they're not allowed legally to prevent Greeks from ordering from Italy or vice versa? (We don't even have Powercolour 480s listed here, so far as I can see. Cheapest non ref 480 is cost equivalent to 303 Euros tax inc. Ref 480 is only 10 euro cheaper)

You don't seem to be comprehending the concept of opportunity costs. Sure, the developers could spend X amount of resources on balancing the game around the concept of friendly fire, or they could spend the same amount of resources on stuff that actually matters. Pillars had friendly fire; I never once found myself in a position where that feature meaningfully affected my tactical decision-making. Balancing is balancing. There's no more opportunity cost to balancing for friendly fire than there is for balancing without friendly fire. The opportunity cost only comes if they change their mind half way through or have it toggleable and want to balance for both. (Friendly fire systems tend do to be intrinsically more complicated because they have that added 'strategic' layer- do I use 2nd level ff area spell web, or 3rd level single target spell hold person; in a non ff system the dev probably cuts one or the other, deciding web with no ff is too powerful or you'd just use it and not ever use hold person- but it's only a tendency and that is part of the overall design decision as to whether to go for the obscure depth and opaque complexity or facileness accessibility and stupidity proof simplicity. For a simple example, if you turned friendly fire on/off in a non RPG like STALKER there would be gameplay differences- you'd be 'locked' to a faction- but the actual combat mechanics and balancing would be identical. You just wouldn't be able to damage your occasional companions or fellow faction members.)