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It was granted, then rescinded.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.)

I will never stop being confused why people perceive the most outlandish and emotionally-charged intentions behind my posts, and surely you must understand that from my perspective, when I ask a question and the response may as well be "lol u mad? calm down bro," then I can't help but wonder if it's an attempt to dodge out of the question. It's because you do seem overwrought- it's not like the forums have been overrun with Correct the Record folks, they're far too busy shilling on reddit/ facebook for that. Your post would make far more sense elsewhere than here where you are largely preaching to the choir since neither candidate is popular. (Trump also is doing at least a good impression of an idiot, Hillary is basically sitting tight waiting for him to self destruct. There's currently a lot less to actually discuss about her, either positive or negative)

To be fair, he'd be more or less right. It isn't the Kurds attacking themselves, but most attacks in Turkey are PKK (or their splinter group/ 'splinter group' TAK) rather than ISIS. TAK even uses suicide bombers, though both Kurdish groups attack the military or state apparatus primarily and don't go for solely civilian targets like a wedding.

Editorial boards are at very bias agnostic. They just set the tone for what they think their readers/ watchers want- and it's pretty clear CNN think their viewers want Hillary and don't want Trump. That is bias. It's business sense as well, or kind of, given CNN's viewer numbers have been in decline for decades. It's got nothing whatsoever to do with 'public good', that's endearingly naive. Clinton isn't being called out, really. There was barely any coverage of her most recent 'misspeaking' about the emails controversy, and CNN deflected everything on the emails/ DNC to it being the Russians' fault and how that meant that Trump was obviously a Russian stooge. Whereas, of course, the ledger implicating Manafort turning up was unimpeachable evidence and the direct donations of Pinchuk et alia to the CF- more than Manafort was supposed to have distributed, alone- were unmentioned and irrelevant. So, ledger turns up implicating Trump aide at a very convenient time from a government/ oligarchy that has been the heaviest donator to the CF; coincidence, absolute coincidence so much so that we'll not even mention it as it's absolutely not interference in the election cycle; however unsupported (and they are unsupported, in regards to Russian government involvement specifically since the two hackings groups didn't even know the other was there) accusations that Russia was leaking DNC/ Hillary emails shows obvious collusion and is worthy of ad nauseum repetition. Obvious deflection to try and get people to talk about another story rather than the inconvenient one. They aren't talking even a quarter as much about the actual big Russian hacking story, them hacking the NSA and stealing their tools. Something which is basically confirmed at this point and is actually and confirmedly a national security issue.

Like Ukraine. Clinton Foundation, ~10 million dollars from Pinchuk, nary a peep. Indeed, despite there being some comments about countries like Saudi contributing Ukraine has been the CF's biggest donor over the last few years, that same Ukraine which is ~bankrupt and whose oligarchs are meant to be being cleaned up. And the 'link' with Trump isn't even Trump, it's Manafort who so far as anyone knows just did lobbying. Plus of course there was barely any mention of Clinton staying in the 2008 primaries because 'Bobbie Kennedy got assassinated' when there was the coverage of Trump's ' assassination' speech. Oh please. CNN is abjectly pro Clinton, and to pretty much the same extent as Breitbart is abjectly pro Trump. I don't even see how it could be argued otherwise, except in degree. And I say that as someone who would never vote for either, even if I could. Certainly Trump does dominate the airwaves and Clinton has an absolute strategy to avoid anything that could blow up in her face but when was the last time CNN seriously challenged her- 2nd most disliked candidate of all time, of all time!- on anything? No press conferences for 8 months, flip flopping issues, CF donors, emails etc etc. Almost complete silence on all of them from CNN, certainly no negative coverage. As for Politifact, they're kings of the technically accurate summary so far as Clinton is concerned. I may have joked about it before but I do seriously suspect that they'd rate her saying she was a banana as mostly true because humans and bananas share a majority of their DNA.