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1 stupid looking lightsaber 3 shakeycam fight sequences where you can't tell what is happening 6 ridiculous amounts of inappropriate lens flare 2 pointless overlong cgi action sequences designed to sell games/ toys (not JJ's fault though, was Lucas's sole stipulation when selling) 1 time travel incident... I did think the casting in nuStar Trek was pretty close to spot on, except for Simon Pegg. To me it felt like he wanted to make a Star Wars movie though, instead of a Star Trek one. An annualised movie system for Star Wars- next, we find out who really stole the Death Star plans, yet again- does not fill me with confidence, nor does the rather staid and conservative content Disney has already released.

Needs more references to 'levelling up' or- and really, the set up is so perfect for this- 'get out of here gamer girl' Though I presume they do exist somewhere else in the jpgverse. Stalin too was infamous for his complete lack of sense of humour. Not sure about sarcasm, I doubt anyone dared to even consider using it on him. Though it might explain certain things ("yes, Josip, eliminating our officer corps is a great idea! Why don't we wipe out our doctors as well, while we're about it?")...

All the bundle deals are up now, along with some indies over the weekend and Div:OS for 40% off as well. Pretty good options there (Lucasarts, Paradox, M&B, Gothic, Divinity, Men of War, D&D especially), though I expect most will have already played/ already own most of them.

Yeah, the edit limit may be somewhat annoying- very occasionally, mostly it's who cares- but the quote system has some pretty significant and very annoying issues where it breaks quotes about half the time if you shorten them and is (was?) refusing to delete nested quotes properly. All topped off by the plain text editor not wrapping text lines any more meaning that if you use that you have to scroll half the way to India if you're writing something longer than a sentence and it not behaving consistently with those problems, sometimes it's all fine and other times it's not at all. Mind you, I complain now but it's been like that for months and I haven't been bothered to actually write anything down before now, so the edit time people are certainly motivated.

Yeah, the new stuff from Disney or licensed by them is automatically canon, old stuff automatically isn't though it may be recanonised by being referenced by new stuff. That's pretty uniform, only grey area pretty much is TOR and whether that counts as 'new' or 'old' (or some weird situation where new content is canon, but old isn't). Currently it's a weird Shrodinger's Canon case, but obviously one very peripheral to the movie series.

More political murders in Kiev- this time a pro Russian jouno and an ex PoR politician, within two days. Must be Putin though, because something something evil something something false flag something something dumb enough to kill off his own allies something something because just evil!!! something something. Still, pretty lol (if inappropriately so, under the circumstances) that political murders of the opposition in Ukraine are past Putin's supposed 17 year total already when the year is only 17 weeks old, and what the difference in response is when it's pro Russians being bumped of rather than a pro west irrelevancy like Nemtsov.

It's a Trap! There is no trap laid for the General. I wouldn't mislead him so. No, not from the general. You appear to be taking seriously someone who writes that state sponsored channels are biased then immediately cites the BBC as an independent counterexample. He does that sort of thing all the time, it's a baited hook to get a a response- or alternatively, he's so incredibly un self aware that why bother anyway. That's why I didn't use a gif for "It's a trap!", Ackbar would probably sue me in Russia for using him against such a weak effort.

It's a Trap!

Who knows, might be both. Those aren't mutually exclusive. Aztlanian food or an Aztlanian standoff just sounds wrong though.

The only preferences in terms of vendor that really count in this case are GOG and Origin (plus backers), all other versions count as steam 'sales' since they must be registered there. The steamspy data is from general steam (publicly viewable) ownership data so a retail copy or a copy bought at most DD vendors counts towards the steam numbers, as does a steam registered KS copy (though the sales rankings on GOG don't count backer versions, our copies are separate untracked SKUs, hence why backers get PoE marked as unbought at GOG). Steamspy is not itself country biased though purchase preferences and the data it relies on certainly may be- and it does actually provides a by country breakdown of sales too, I believe. Its main source of error is potentially sampling bias; especially if particular groups or nationalities are more likely to make their profiles private so their ownership data is unavailable that may make any extrapolations to overall ownership inaccurate. I could easily believe that, say, Germans or those interested in a relatively niche game are more likely to make their profile private, which would certainly introduce potential systemic undersampling. Then again, Steamspy's data has a pretty large margin of error already, statistically speaking.

Well, I was thinking of petitioning the Powers That Be here to get rid of white lettering so I could have letters of colour on a background of colour instead of having the important parts of the forum be near uniformly privileged and hegemonic white. (yep, somebody out there doubtless would think that unironically. Though they really shouldn't use twitter if they do since its default colour schemes involve lots of white as well)

Stickmen are an unreasonable and unattainable representation of physical appearance and subliminally encourage anorexia and bulimia in their readers. They should also be referred to as 'linepeople' rather than stickmen, since 'stick' and 'men' are respectively a phallic codeword with intimations of the sexual act, and a sexist term that marginalises 51% of the population. And, of course, while linepeople on the face of it have an excellent proportion of lines of colour and properly low representation of privileged white lines this is only because the background- usually the largest proportion of the comic- is disproportionately white.

For these purposes PoE is Paradox's game as well, since they are the 'publisher' they have direct access to/ from the portals rather than Obsidian* same as for C:S which was made by an independent company as well. Though that doesn't mean that Obsidian certainly won't be the ones to release the figures, if it happens, but if they do they'll have got them via Paradox. *take with a grain of salt as unfortunately I cannot for the life of me remember who actually said this, except it was someone at Obsidz. And finding something that specific is what search engines are terrible at.

It's worth it. Beyond Divinity not so much but the other two are pretty good.

Meh, that [gfted1's pic] at least should be banned for crimes against photoshopping. Sloppy and lazy, incorrectly apportioned, poor lighting match, obvious quality variance, cut and paste artefacts. It makes my eyes bleed (mission accomplished?) OTOH Putin riding bear and Putin riding dinosaur never get old and are rather good, technically. Or maybe they aren't actually 'shopped; who knows with Putin.

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.