Zoraptor

Yeah, nah. All your examples are the height of speciousness- the equivalent of responding to a statement that a game isn't that complicated and just has set rules you have to live by by saying "well then, why don't people play it standing on their head while playing a trombone and juggling nitroglycerine if it's so simple?" You've added processes utterly unrelated to voting, presumably because you don't actually have any other argument. Come back with something relevant, please, not something I'd expect from RostereVC. The process was known to everyone, some people chose to commit to it and then didn't fulfil their obligations. It's their fault for being lazy and making commitments they cannot follow. The actual delegate count is decided at the end of the process, thems the rules and always have been. It's fair, everyone has the same rules and process to follow and they don't involve unrelated guff like having to skydive off a Las Vegas skyscraper naked while yodelling or anything similar. No, MPs are elected as political representatives of the people and letting democracy be subverted by arbitrary minutiae like whether or not MPs can move their lard asses to a particular building should not be allowed. An MP can suffer from a debilitating disease of be hindered by accidents or traffic jams. Letting this have any bearing on important decisions is a farce, not democracy. 200 years ago, democracy would have required people to meet in person for votes. Technology allows for remote voting today. The only reason we still insist on the old ways is inertia. Yes, it would be such an improvement to route voting through... Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, whoever; and that after the Arizona clusterasterisk happened. That's... yeah. Most parliamentary systems have an alternate system for sickness, official duties such as overseas meetings and other legitimate reasons. In our case they need to be and are routinely cleared through the speaker and either a proxy is cast or one of the opposition pairs with them and don't vote. However, simply don't turn up and... diddums, no vote. You may be amazed, but there was an alternate system for Nevada caucuses as well. Most of those that turned up as alternates were Berniebods as well, while there were not enough Hillaryites. There's also the question of the logical conclusion of your ideas which you really haven't thought through at all, compulsory voting for citizens, and compulsory voting for MPs. The first is utterly undemocratic as democracy should be a free vote, a compelled vote is not democracy in any real sense- and that counts for representatives too. If someone is absent from a vote, who votes for them? The Party/ Whips? Congrats, you've just handed even more power to the entrenched political parties. The old joke about ministers 'wanting to spend more time with their families' becomes rather more sinister when their absence means that the party leader or his direct appointment gets to cast their vote for them. If there's a dichotomy between party and electorate is the MP compelled to vote for the party position, or his electorates, or does the leader/ whip just arrange for them to be absent and vote for them? If they do vote against the party does that mean they've impugned the democratic process- after all, people voted for their party- or does voting with the party impugn democracy- after all, the electorate voted for the member. And who decides which is the case, because if it's the party leader then you know which one they'll pick, every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

I think an honourable mention has to go to Greg Norman losing to Nick Faldo in 1996 when talking about choking. That was an eleven stroke turnaround and while Norman did end up 2nd he wasn't even close to first by the end.

Is this some new bad meme? Attributing quotes to Abe that he obviously never said? It's certainly not a new meme. (Original was something like "You should not believe every quote found on the internet - Abraham Lincoln" and it's from years ago.)

I'm being triggered by your cultural appropriation, guys. Chinggis Han is the one true transliteration, G*****s K**n is deeply offensive. (Subotai4eva) In off topic news Bernie won Wyoming but got the same number of delegates as Hillary.

He's thinking of George Ziets' BG3 'pitch' from a while back. That had you at big e Epic levels and potentially fighting Cyric. (BG3 as in actual sequel to BG2/ToB, not Baldur's Gate: The Black Hound unconnected to and non sequel to BG2, because we can use the name in other words.)

They get to choose who the delegates* are in caucuses though**. eg, for Nevada direct from their faq: "Any caucus participant may stand for election as a delegate to the county convention. Anyone who wants to be elected a national delegate must participate in the precinct caucuses (1), and each subsequent event –county convention on April 2, 2016 (2), and the state convention on May 14 and 15, 2016 (3). " What has happened is that a bunch of Hillary delegates from step 1 didn't bother turning up for step 2 so the ongoing delegates for step 3 reflect that they didn't. *somewhat confusing in context, as there are delegates for the national convention and county/ state conventions, but ultimately it's no different from voting on something like, I dunno, ambassadorial appointments? You don't directly elect the ambassadors but the people you voted for do, and if a bunch of them don't turn up for a vote you might end up with Sean Penn being ambassador to South Korea instead of Paul Wolfowicz, or whatever. **buggered if I'm going to check all the caucuses' rules to see if they're the same. I'm not insane and don't want to be.

"Nope Zor. It is about spitting on the face of people who voted. Should go by votes period or why bother with the pretense. Oh yeah, for pretend." Don't vote for someone who can't be bothered turning up, easy solution/ prevention. No one should expect Bernie supporters who actually turned up to recuse themselves in order to preserve a margin because some Hillary types had better things to do than what they were selected for.

Don't really see what's wrong with it. Yeah it's a confusing, clunky and odd system for anyone used to a Westminster type system, but that's not really the problem here since the rules are known and equal for both sides. 'Solution' to the problem is for Hillary's delegates to actually turn up, if they do then you get the original result, if you don't then it's their fault for not turning up or organising alternates. If half the government MPs didn't turn up in a Westminster system and they lost some votes it wouldn't be the fault of the system, it would be their fault because they didn't turn up.

Meh, boring. It would help if the story hadn't been told half a dozen or so times already, and one version may still be canon thanks to George's direct involvement in the writing. Probably more sensible than the rumoured Obi Wan movie though even though Ewan McGregor's performance in the prequels was as good as could realistically be expected. We won't even get to see many Bothans dying to get the plans since that was DS2.

"Is he though? if you don't go rescue his Beloved right away he doens't just leave the party and find a group who will help he instead proceeeds to try to commit mass murder. But, yeah, he is 'essentially good and decent'. LMAO" I wouldn't know about Minsc attacking everyone, I don't string the mentally disabled along with promises, then renege because I can't be bothered, then complain when he tries to split my head in twain when it becomes obvious I've just been using him while the woman he's sworn to protect gets eaten by Gnolls. Thus he's never attacked me. Did you string the poor brian damaged fool along, Volo? That's not very nice, now is it. Indeed, lying to the brian damaged to gain an advantage sounds like something an evil nazi would do, and purging the Sword Coast of those who would take advantage of the intellectually handicapped sounds like something that should be applauded as an appropriately anti NSDAP measure. Or in other words: Irony, thy name is :dishonourblade:

Meh, people insulted by Minsc's line are certainly overly sensitive snowflakes and massive hypocrites if they have ever accused SJWs of being over sensitive. I could understand it if that line had been given to someone like Montaron (or more pertinently, Eldoth) but while Minsc is deeply annoying and brian damaged he's also, essentially, good and decent.

"Oh. She's one of THOSE idiots." Volo, I think we need to dispel the notion that Hillary doesn't know what she's doing. She knows exactly what she's doing. What she's doing is what might loosely be termed intellectually dishonest political posturing, she has not the slightest intention of allowing gun manufacturers to be sued, knows it would never fly even if she had and Bernie's reasons for publicly opposing it are spot on; they're just not politically expedient in (urban, they may well play well in upstate) New York. It's not idiotic. Evil, nazi and pathetic, on the other hand...

Not sure what you're saying here. I just thought it was obvious the project was in a state of complete disaster before Avellone, with help from Stout and MacLean, swooped in to save it. And that pretty much encapsulates your problem. Your statements make logical sense as disconnected statements, but little to no sense as a cohesive whole. The writers who were replaced on AP weren't Chris Parker who you seem to blame, but Brian Mitsoda and Annie Carlson (later Mitsoda). So you've got one of your great lost writing assets (MCA) replacing a different lost great writing asset (Mitsoda) to- as you say- save a project. The original AP script was also, apparently, deadly serious as there ain't much room for humour if you're doing Syriana instead of Kill Bill. It's not a consistent position because you're starting from the conclusion and then picking evidence to support that conclusion rather than looking at evidence then working forward to the conclusion and that results in you using mutually contradictory evidence. There's plenty to criticise about Obsidian and you won't get much stick if you do it fairly and logically. They clearly did have a problem with the production process on AP (and NWN2 too) for example, which resulted in both projects having a lot of wasted effort. But you're basically doing the equivalent of claiming that Ferret Baudoin was a major loss for Obsidian then saying thank goodness JES swooped in to save NWN2 next breath. It's logically inconsistent.

Allegedly Hillary's campaign manager is indirectly in there. I'm guessing that's not exactly the most impartial source though.

Looks like it's Cruz winning by about 20% and Bernie by about 8% in Wisconsin. Probably not quite enough of a win for Sanders, but enough of a loss for Trump that it's unlikely he'll get a majority of delegates prior to the convention.

The classic versions are already gone from Gamersgate, which I thought may have escaped notice. They were GOG versions there. There is some precedent for this, there have been three Space Rangers 2 versions with the two earlier ones disappearing when (well, prior to actually) enhanced versions were released.

That was time saving for DA2's abbreviated development cycle, iirc. Unrealistic, but understandable given time restraints and that romances of all types are kind of expected from Bioware. As for blaming of GG for negative reviews they do seem to be following Bioware's play book there where they'd blame 4chan or whoever for review bombing at metacritic. To be fair, there's at least some truth in it too, it's just far too simplistic and absolute. And Bioware would defend their decisions collectively too, whether or not they personally agreed with them. I can distinctly remember Bioware peeps saying that they had enough time to do DA2 properly when it was patently obvious it was rushed, and I've seen David Gaidar defend decisions which were later found to have been opposed by him. A house divided against itself and all that. At the end of the day though, and with all other cliches being equal it is pretty much a direct equivalent of how many posters wished Obsidian had dealt with the 'transphobic' backer content; ie close ranks and say that they support [backer/ staffmember], nothing is wrong and nothing will be changed since it's just a vocal minority complaining.

Yeah, there's obviously some obligation not to change the existing dialogue in BG1/2 and only make new or additional content. (That may be because despite WotC owning the setting etc Bioware and hence EA actually owns the existing dialogue. They even updated the copyright record to add EA in as an interested party.)

Easy, Wikileaks has a copy so the bed is going to get some suspicious brown stains and an agricultural odour even if they tried to put down PVC sheeting and compulsory Depends Brand adult nappies on everyone who used it. They cannot protect anyone, at best they can manage the release- which they would do anyway, months of salacious headlines is better than a day or a weeks worth. They've already implicated Dave Cameron's dad and Cameron himself by extension since he gave a no comment/ private to whether it was still operating. Plus the President of Argentina, the first US friendly one in ages.

While Frictional make good games they are neither ambitious nor innovative. For ten years they have focused on and do one single genre well, from Penumbra to Amnesia to SOMA. That's a conservative strategy with the main change being that of setting. It's a successful approach and they make good games, but that doesn't make it ambitious, if anything it makes it conservative. Plus, you can't really go on about the need to own your own IP and then cite CDPRed. Twitcher is owned by Andrej Sapkowski and only licensed by CDPR, and even the unreleased Cyberpunk is based on someone else's system. Wanting Obsidian to do different 'better' games is fine, but you seem to be basically citing a bunch of aspirational ideas- it should be ambitious, successful, innovative, their own IP etc- rather than something more grounded and your choices of example don't match the aspirations.

I'm pretty impressed at how quiet the press managed to keep it considering how many people knew about the leak. At the moment it seems to be a whole lot of smoke and very little fire and some nationalities are conspicuously absent from the documents released. Definitely more to come.

I'd put pretty much any money on the transsexual being their attempt to 'fix' the problematic Edwina storyline, which literally everyone except Edwin treats as a joke and has being turned into a woman as a punishment. That, Beamdog could not change but they could add someone who makes very little sense in the context of a magical world where there's a sex swapping object and magic. In all seriousness, I always wished I could romance Edwina. And if she eventually got swapped back to Edwin, oh well;

Why would he bother when low effort rubbish still gets a response? Not even the alternative angle shakey cam can make that stunner look good, though it looks far better than the 'official' angle did.

As Oerwinde mentioned, they're going mobile which theoretically broadens their market but would require additional costs. It's one of the reasons why I'm so sceptical about the float, plenty of companies have floundered going for money in mobile gaming and it's a crapshoot as to what succeeds; and Paradox's existing fan base is largely hostile to the mere idea of mobile gaming. That and more console gaming too and they seem to be moving away from what an MBA would no doubt call their core competencies. Which is fine, but gaming history is littered with the corpses of those who tried that and failed.