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He doesn't look like either Marilyn or Alice, really, though more like Alice of the two. He does rather look like the party barbarian beat him up a couple of days ago and stole his lunch money. Or perhaps is a cast member of Silicon Valley off for a spot of LARPing at a convention.

GOG lists both the 2004 and 2014 versions as being supported on win7. They're not always perfect at that of course, but at least they do have a money back guarantee. Your disk is probably infested with evil, evil DRM and that is why it won't work. They also have bundles on sale at the moment, though since they're persistent until the last day of the sale people may as well just check on that last day (Saturday/ Sunday).

Both of these sell steam keys, so they're counted as part of the steam numbers they're just not bought from steam itself. GOG certainly would be separate though, and I think Origin too as it was mentioned as having a separate patch along with GOG. If there are non backer physical editions they'll be counted as steam too most likely. Even if they actually have a disk in them and aren't just codes-in-a-box it'll be a steam launcher disk with code, not a proper disk. It is Paradox after all, their days of being drm free are far behind them.

The most important thing in a review is that it is fair, not objective. There really isn't any way to judge whether PoE is better than CODITERATION objectively, all you end up with is some sort of subjective judgement with an objective veneer ('CODITERATION uses 3d graphics pushing million of polys, PoE has a few thousands only, hence BLOPS>>PoE graphically; PoE has a few 100k lines of dialogue while CODITERATION has 'press F to pay respects' a few thousand, so PoE is objectively>> CODITERATION dialogue wise) when you try. The key thing is simply to be fair about things, as much as you can finish the game in question or at least play a decent amount of it. Plenty of examples where it's obvious the reviewer barely played the game. Relatedly, don't get the intern who really wants to review CODITERATION to review obscure RPGs, that isn't fair on anyone indeed, if you're going to use interns pay them fairly and don't rely on them as a steady supply of free labour obviously, don't accept bribes including in kind bribes; ideally including luxury retreat review events but if you do go make it clear what the circumstances of the review were don't have close friends review their friends' products, don't have those with financial stakes in products review them don't bring unrelated political guff into your reviews, unless it's the point of your site. I don't need to know that D&D is satanic and will send you to hell- unless your site specifically has a religious viewpoint The friends one is probably most difficult, because that really is subjective and you'd often need to at least be friendly with developers in order to do your job well; having a picture taken of you with Ken Levine looking friendly at an Irrational promo for B: I then reviewing the game isn't really a conflict of interest because it's part of your job- but then you have Grayson/ Quinn type situations, which look... sketchy; or the guy whose girlfriend worked in Ubisoft PR yet still reviewed Ubisoft games. Nothing is inherently wrong with their choice of partner, but they shouldn't be embiggening products where they'd have an obvious influence on their views. Even with something as obvious as 'financial contributions' it isn't that clear cut; should someone who donated to PoE's kickstarter be banned from reviewing it? Probably not, most would answer, and I'd guess that most people here would say that they're capable of giving poe a fair review despite being fans*. What about if they'd contributed to a (theoretical) JESawyer patreon though? I suspect for some the answer would be different there, due to patreon's reputation. If the reviewer owned shares in the company whose product they were reviewing? I suspect pretty much everyone would have a problem then. What about TIME reviewing Shadows of Mordor when they share the same parent company? A disclaimer about that is probably enough for most, but Mileage Will Vary and some will say that they shouldn't review it at all while others will say that their journalistic integrity (heh) ought to be enough without any disclaimer, indeed disclaimers impugn integrity more than protect it by implying journalists can be easily influenced by such things; much as someone here being told their view on PoE isn't valid. And, of course, you can get those with conflict of interests who are capable of being fair. If Robert Kotick, esquire, wrote fair reviews of CODITERATION and, say, Battlefield# then good on him, despite his obvious bias. *And would dislike being told they're biased and should recuse themselves because they contributed and are fans, incapable of being 'objective'.

The people who read the books have had a very long time to get used to waiting. A very, very long time.

I suspect that transgenders that are fundamentally happy wouldn't have nearly so much issue with gender/ identity politics as those that aren't happy, and if you are angry you'd be far more likely to engage with such issues and be far more vocal as well. Frankly, given the crap many transgenders have to deal with I'd be a very hard judge to fault their anger, either, especially if they've gone through all that crap and found that little has fundamentally changed. Plus, transgender commentators are far more likely to be noted to be and remembered as such than others. End of the day I don't really think it's relevant anyway. If a point is good it doesn't matter who it's made by, same if it's poor.

It was actually a cookie issue, it's now fixed since someone kindly reminded me I actually had the problem. Note for Nonek who I believe was having the same problem: I had 3rd party cookies blocked, when I excepted GOG.com from the block login worked.

Hey, I was just going by what the cited article said- that the RC135 was an 'unidentified radar contact', ie transponder off. Of course it was the Russians saying that, but I was also careful to read the article for any claims/ statements that the transponder was on, and there were none. That came later via a tweet it seems. I'll happily accept that the transponder actually was on, though there's also confirmation it was actually heading for Russian airspace and the 'harassment' stopped when it broke off from that approach. In any case, we have pretty conclusive proof that it isn't only Russia toodling around other countries' near airspace, which was the implication every time this has happened the reverse way. As for the Hainan Island incident I have no doubt the fault was primarily with the Chinese pilot, but so what, really. A situation in which the US plane had actually crashed would have been better for the US, assuming the crew survived, as it wouldn't have resulted in Chinese tech teams swarming all over a spy plane. Well now, if we're going to nitpick... This didn't happen*, at least not for the incidents that have been mentioned here, and back through 2014- though it certainly has happened fairly regularly around the Baltics. You appear to be confusing UK controlled airspace (airspace run by UK ATC AKA UK flight identification region; when flying in the North Sea any plane is 'violating' either British or Norwegian 'airspace' under this definition though...) with British sovereign airspace, and self declared ADI Zones with sovereign airspace as well given the reference to the US where only an ADIZ was 'violated'- and if we count those the word limit on a forum post would be breached by the Saikoku/ Daioshu ADIZ alone. Also it would make China's self declared Hainan Island restrictions fair and mean the US spy plane was intruding as well. It's understandable that you're confused, as the media has tended towards hysteria in their reporting and has regularly used weasel words like incorrectly describing intrusions into '[countries] airspace' when they mean ATC areas even when quoting officials saying no actual intrusion occurred. *Heh, says that the RAF planes escorted them from "around 1,000 ft away", illustrated by a picture** where the Typhoon is clearly far, far closer than 1000'. Good thing we've got video to prove how safe they are though, and don't have to rely on stills. ** albeit actually from Sept 2014, nevertheless, plenty of pictures of NATO fighters very close to Russian aircraft are available.

Funny, isn't it. British respond to Russian plane in international airspace with no transponder, grossly irresponsible from the russians, brave heroes risk their lives intercepting those marauders. US plane gets intercepted, grossly irresponsible from the Russians, er, intercepting our brave heroes and, uh, risking their lives. These things have already ended in disaster for the US as well, per the Hainan Island incident. Yet they still keep rolling the dice. It's almost like everyone does it to everyone else but we'd kind of like to still be morally superior about it anyway.

Watched the trailer, was suitably impressed. Only thing I could really complain about is the 'narrator', so as long as she isn't the game's Bitchin' Betty it should be sweet.

Blackguards, probably. It's probably best for an rpg fan, and would give best value for an 80% off voucher. (Also the later Heretic Kingdom game has a part 2 'coming' (supposedly still), but be aware that its publisher has gone belly up which may complicate things if you're looking at it)

That's kind of the point though, as it runs both ways. A self identified Libertarian is usually almost indistinguishable from a self identified anarcho capitalist in actual policy. The libertarian is just avoiding using the 'negative' anarcho label. The same thing has happened to an extent on the left as well, 'Libertarian Socialists' and the like are practically the same as anarcho marxists/ syndicalists, they're just avoiding the anarcho label as well. Practically, they're much the same, though there are more significant divergences on the left side of the anarchist spectrum.

I think they're at- or near- the end of their initial deal with Disney which was for 20 odd games. They may well have to negotiate each release individually from now on. Was Afterlife the 1000th release on GOG or was it one of the others? I'd laugh if it was actually Twitcher3's season pass.

Baro' believes that anarchism is an inherently 'left' philosophy, that's all, instead of being inherently left/right agnostic. It isn't helped by most anarcho-capitalists relabelling themselves as 'Libertarians' and being decidedly non anarcho anything when it comes to protection and improvement of corporate, as opposed to governmental, privileges- but then again you do also get leftist anarchist groups that believe that various types of wrong think should be punishable by death or whatever. Neither is particularly true to the tenets of what I'd refer to as mothership anarchism because one results in everyone being slaves to the powerful, just powerful executives rather than powerful politicians (also being run by powerful executives, so plus ça change.., là), while the other doesn't really believe in the freedom to think, just the freedom to agree. A political philosophy with admirable philosophic goals, but crap practical implementation of those goals. Not exactly a surprise.

Yes. This thread has been uncommonly entertaining. I never would have thought I'd end up with an odd but rather compelling feeling that I should be apologising to oby for accusing him of being someone's alt, but... oby, I unreservedly apologise for impugning your honour. You're a scholar, a gentleman, perspicacious, honest, a font of wisdom and integrity, an asset to the forum and a valued contributor*, I unreservedly withdraw the accusation and disavow any further thoughts of it, you did not deserve that vilest of calumnies and unfairest of comparisons. Please forgive me.

I'd be extremely surprised if Rex was an actual neo nazi at any stage, as opposed to an attention seeker wanting attention on the 'codex. That would also explain his switch to SJW, that too is a good way of getting attention.

The really interesting documents from the french military who were in Rwanda got shredded by their military attaché prior to leaving, iirc, so it will be interesting to see if they have duplicates of those and whether they're released, or not. They have released documents before, but they just weren't the interesting documents. You picked the example, Bruceykins. Not my fault you picked one where the french were aiding a genocidal regime, since there are so many successful interventions to pick from (there are so many successful ones, aren't there?) you could always concede you stuffed up and pick another example. Just like Gromnir you should feel free to Post Proof of where I said that Or Retract. You even used quotes, so it should be easy to find where I said it, too. Or perhaps it's just another case of someone saying something you (and they, oh so very very desperately) want to be true and just repeating that, again and again: tilting at windmills made of strawmen.

As it is yours to be butthurt when reality doesn't conform to your particular view of the world, and accuse reality of 'anti west bias' or whatever the appropriate bail out to avoid admitting you were wrong is. Of course, you'll come back x months later with exactly the same 'arguments'... In any case, I would point out that the first person guilty of exploiting the Rwandan genocide was actually a certain BruceVC, who you may be passingly familiar with. I just pointed out that there already was western support in Rwanda, just that it was support for the side who ultimately perpetrated the genocide, not against them and that your point was therefore rubbish.

GOG doesn't usually release actual figures (exc Twitcher 2 and some companies have for specific titles, eg Legends of Grimrock), and since it's drm free with private profiles there is no way to get them via 3rd parties like steamspy- but they do order titles by historic sales rank, so you can tell how well they are doing relative to one another. At present PoE (Hero Ed) is just behind Div:OS and ahead of Wasteland 2 which suggest pretty good sales, at least relative to the other two high profile RPG kickstarters despite their head start in sales. All three are on page 2 of the list though, so well behind the Planescape Torments and the like.

Feeble, but true Wals? Then it isn't really feeble is it? More like it's inconvenient or unpleasant but true. Plus if I'm exploiting the Rwandan genocide to make a cheap point about the french I can equally argue you're exploiting the Rwandan genocide to try and shut down criticism of the french involvement in it. If we want to go down that route. If that's true, the individual behind the accounts is a very mentally disturbed person. Also likely a paid troll. The mods likely can confirm or deny with an IP comparison check. It's doubtful the individual is smart enough to use a proxy. Good website metrics software also could confirm/deny, though I wouldn't necessarily expect mods to have access to that info, if Obsidian is even keeping track. I'm certainly not entirely serious, there's a potential explanation for people disappearing over Easter (hmm, though oby is meant to be Russian! His Easter should be later! Whoaah.gif) that is wholly unsuspicious, though I am amused that they both returned so close to each other within hours of me writing the previous post. Besides, it's not really my business even if it were true, backseat moderators suck. (And even if it were true I can't say that I'd care either, I'd probably even be mildly impressed that s/he could carry it off for so long. In any case, there's no chance they're being paid, they'd be doing it for the lolz. Plus oby has already been busted once iirc, when he was claiming to be a 17yr old girl. But mainly the thought of them being the same person amuses me immensely since it means that whoever it is would have been antagonising much of the forum with one or the other alt for years, successfully and without detection. I rather like the idea of my and our collective noses being tweaked that way, it's an excellent ego reducer even if it isn't true)

New York Post? El Oh El. That paper is utter unmitigated Murdoch garbage- and Murdoch is as bad as any SJW just coming from the complete opposite direction and with a whole lot more immediate power. He's also himself the main evidence that any sort of "only the 'left' uses 'narrative' based arguments" implication is a load of old bollocks. His media outlets are the past master of narrative based fact light 'news'- just look at Fox News and The Scum as examples of his levels of 'journalistic integrity', and the NYPost is basically the US version of the non Murdoch newspaper that shall not be named (albeit both are slightly better than The Scum, which I wouldn't use to wipe my bum if caught short since it's supplied covered with asterisks already). If it really is about journalistic integrity/ ethics or anything at all to do with that citing near anything from a Murdoch source should be out, certainly from his tabloid arms. Even with the respectable outlets he's taken them into his loving embrace like the quality and objectivity sucking vampire he resembles so closely.

Guys, guys. Bruce = Oby, for sure. Search your heart: you know it's true! They even came back to the forums yesterday within an hour of each other! Non intervention would have been great, wouldn't it? Imagine if the dear old Hutus hadn't have had french help and aid in escaping post genocide.... ah yes, such a nice daydream, at least some of those million murdered people would likely still be alive if the french hadn't 'intervened'. Funny isn't it, how people forget about who was propping up, arming and supporting the government and its militias at the time- and established 'safe zones', post genocide, to allow those militia to escape when it became clear they'd lose- in their rush to use the 'never again' (unless it's inconvenient, they're our enemies, their friends are too powerful, we're bored, there's no advantage in it, there's no money in it, the french are helping the perpetrators, the US is helping the perpetrators, the brits are starving them and helping the perpetrators etc) justification for everything, ain't it. Praise god though, lessons were learned! the french intervened in the CAR! and... well, they 'solved' muslim militias killing christians by getting christian militia killing muslims instead. Y'know, I'm not sure they actually did learn, did they? Except maybe that most people will ignore their complicity if it's convenient, of course. ..and more generally NATO turned Libya into a asteriskhole, stuffed up Iraq, broke up a sovereign state arbitrarily (funny how when Russia does it it's terrible though) stabbing the idea of international law (stupid idea as it is, but anyway) straight through the eye socket while creating an organ stealing klepto/ narco/ criminocratic statelet wholly dependent on NATO etc etc.

Neither can I, I might have forgotten my password but you're supposed to use your GOG account now and I can remember its password. I was getting the Polish version of the website as well for some reason. Still, always fun to speculate how you pronounce words with no vowels and half a dozen different bits dangling off various letters.

Much as everyone uses 'troll armies' (or alternatively, motivated truth tellers countering the opposition's troll army's propaganda and lies with enlightenment and truthiness) everyone uses the external threat card, not just the west. That's why the whole thing is oddly amusing. West argues Russia is the external threat, Russia argues the west is the external threat, west argues they aren't a threat but are just prepared to counter any of Russia's aggression, Russia argues they aren't a threat and are just prepared to counter any of the west's aggression. West says anyone pro Russian is a paid shill but everyone anti Russian is just expressing their honest opinion and is definitely not paid; Russia, vice versa. Both sides are simultaneously right and wrong because they are both threats to and competitors with each other, both are trolling each other with paid commentators and it is completely insoluble because both are simultaneously right about the other but unable to admit that the other is right about them. Perfect, circular argumentativeness.

This isn't a situation where you can have experimental proof though*, it's not a Paradox game where you change some sliders and rerun the simulation a few times to see whether authoritarian China or democratic China performs better. You're limited to history, what has happened, and drawing conclusions from that. There's no intrinsic reason for China to perform better than India, they both started from more or less the same level at the 1950s, India had had the convulsions surrounding independence/ Pakistan; China was finishing a civil war and recuperating from WW2. You also have certain other support analogues like Singapore, (and after, Vietnam etc), far smaller scale than China but clearly what the theories behind their economic miracle was largely based on. I certainly don't have any philosophical desire for it to be true though, philosophically I'd very much like everyone to have 'freedom' and quality of life and economic development; and have a pretty strong and fundamental dislike of China's government system. But there's a difference between theory and practice, practically, one can neither spring all three simultaneously from the ether nor simply dismiss China's achievements because I don't like their leadership system- facts are facts, they're strongly authoritarian yet have presided over the biggest economic miracle the world has yet seen. Whether their system is sustainable long term, whether they could have achieved the same thing without the authoritarianism- they're moot questions, we can only go by what has happened and what has happened in similar situations as comparatives, plus speculate on the relative dis/advantages of the systems relative to each other. *and as numbersman says, that works both ways. If you can't prove that authoritarianism is 'better' that way you also cannot prove that 'democracy' is better either, as they both rely on the same single run of the data, ie reality.