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GOG keys have been out for ages, a week before release iirc. You just have to pick the GOG option from the drop down when redeeming a key at the ranger centre. Don't know about the the cross promo ones from the PE kickstarter and how they're done though.

Supposedly alt-155 but that produces 'ø' when tried here. And unfortunately 'my 10ø' just looks wrong.

r00fles! People have let you off too lightly, not only did he not admit to harassment, his accuser had to formally apologise. If you're going to continue making accusations under circumstances where not only has he never been found 'guilty' and the complaint withdrawn but he also got a formal apology from his accuser then one could certainly say, "you're trying way too hard with the Wardell dissing."

Not really. Paradox is on board to do certain things, primarily marketing and using their experience as a publisher/ distributor to Obsidian's advantage, and they will be getting money from the partnership. And if they don't do those jobs well then partnering with them is pointless to counter productive because they get paid for doing them, money that otherwise would have gone to Obsidian, or someone else who would have done the job well. (Far too early to tell whether they've done the job well since they are effectively just starting and have 5 (?) months to go with the marketing, I'm just glad I backed the project so none of my money goes to Paradox who I dislike intensely)

Nice to see Gorby getting some proper recognition. I'm not really the sort of person who has personal heroes, but he and Mandela probably come closest because they took circumstances that should have ended terribly and managed to end them with something approaching genuine hope, no matter how their successors may have made a mess of things. In theory. In practice, not so much. The basic (mis)assumption that both philosophies make is that people are rational actors who obey what are effectively little formulae written onto paper underpinned by what may as well be a god of societal modelling- the invisible hand of the market vs each according to their abilities, each according to their needs. Practically, neither works according to their little formulae and theories because the formulae work on the basis that 2+2=4 while people may decide that actually 2+2=5. And most evidence is that default human society was not based on capitalism and competition, but on either intra communal cooperation (small scale) to stratified dominance (large scale) neither of which are compatible with theoretic capitalism. The current model requires an extra input, technology, to function even slightly properly and still often resembles the stratified dominance of feudalism as much as actual capitalism. A Bruce thread calling out the ghost of Lord of Flies? How can it turn out anything other than well?

Yes, because Nouri al-Maliki was so desperate to have US troops stay! He was chasing after Obama on hands and knees begging rather than offering to pack their bags and see them off from the airport while bouncing up and down with anticipation! No, he wasn't. You weren't going to get troops staying because it wasn't what Maliki wanted. Both parties had to want the troops to stay and the Iraqis didn't want them, if they had they would have simply extended the old SoF. And if Obama had pushed strongly for an extension and failed it would be used as evidence of his failure (had to go on bended knee to Iraq then got rejected) and if he had accepted more restrictive conditions then he'd be criticised for that (went on bended knee and sold our guys out for Maliki/ didn't do enough/ broke his promise to withdraw).

I rested twice in the entire Dragon's Eye and twice in Severed Hand last time I played. It helps when you've played before and can remember what is coming but those two areas are not particularly hard. I do remember there was an odd bug in Severed Hand where one of the shaman type enemies cast healing spells on the party (!) which helped a bit there. Also paying attention to floaties to see where ambushes were going to occur and bottlenecking as much as possible. OTOH the Barrows in HoW with those asterisking Drowned Dead and Banshees...

George Washington fought for the British (in the 7 years war, iirc) before he turned traitor and fought for the continentals. So he was both a British soldier and their implacable foe as circumstances changed.

Not like you can't add the game to steam manually either, then it's the same to most practical purposes as the situation now, launch a launcher to launch another launcher. I am finding the butthurt generated absolutely delicious though. I may actually have to buy a Ubisoft game to compensate them for the entertainment gained. Toyota selling new cars at Ford dealerships so Ford gets 30% of Toyota's sales is the analogy I've always found illustrates why they don't want to do it.

It was also the Iraqi's decision not to renew the status of forces agreement, and the Iraqi's choice whether US troops stayed or not. If Obama tried to keep troops there- against the wishes of the Iraqi government- it could hardly be an improvement over the current situation, certainly not so as far as the US is concerned. Which really illustrates how easy it is to pot shot Obama using hindsight. It was the right decision for the US to leave Iraq and the only realistic option, indeed it was the right option not to bomb Syria. Obama just ended up looking spineless and weak for doing both things, but that was far better than the alternative 'strong, but stupid' from a McCain or Bush.

I wonder if it's to do with Valve's DLC policy that also got EA games removed. I haven't heard anything about the policy changing, and Ubisoft didn't fall foul of it as EA did since you could buy their dlc on steam as well as via uplay- though the current situation is exactly equivalent to EA, you can buy them just about anywhere DD that isn't steam (eg the Gamersgate and even Origin versions of Ubisoft games are still there, as you can buy EA games on Uplay and Gamersgate). Can only presume at this point that they have genuinely pulled them or decided that the dlc policy is just too restrictive. Avoiding the 30% cut on most sales has to be a consideration too, especially as EA's digital revenues have increased massively over the past few years despite the supposed hatred for Origin. And there are rumours of others doing much the same- WB most persistently, but also Rockstar with RSC. I'm actually a bit surprised that the latest CoD is still steamed, since I'd heard that one of Ghosts' services from the console versions got scuppered on PC due to Valve's TOS (CoD: Elite? Big IIRC on that though)

Ubisoft have pulled their upcoming games from steam. Surprised they've kept them there this long, really.

(Classic Alternative: But thou must!)

McCain went bonkers after Rove did his kneecaps in 2000, before that he was relatively sane. You never really know whether politicians actually believe what they're spouting or are just saying it for effect, in McCain's case safe in the knowledge that having lost in 2008 he doesn't have the power to implement them anyway and trying to establish an alternative narrative where Pres McCain would have avoided all the pitfalls Pres BHO fell into.

I feel rather sorry for her, to be honest. Just doesn't seem to be either very happy or successful, and that seems to have gone back a fair way. Easy to play amateur psychoanalyst with someone who you disagree with though.

This is wrong as well, he would have attacked after the 'red line' was crossed whatever the UN said- after all, Russia and China weren't going to allow anything authorising force through the UNSC- but couldn't muster the support needed from allies or US politicians. Then he had to be bailed out of the mess/ was out manouevred by the Russians which was deeply embarrassing. And that pretty much encapsulated Obama's problem, it's now apparent from many events that he has no real spine. It's a different problem from GWBush's consistent poor judgement- and rather less serious in its practical effects for the US- but no less fatal for a politician.

Plus Blaise C was spirited out of Burkina Faso on a French helicopter, and had extensive support from the french over the years. Certainly a bad example.

Why don't they just include them in the base game? Why are they chopping bits out to then just give them away? Typical CDPR. At least when other companies do it has the purpose of making money, CDPR cuts bit out just to get good PR. And their continuous patching and support, horrendous, all just so they can sell the enhanced edition, super enhanced edition, ultimate edition and really ultimate edition later, and it shows they didn't test thr original game properly as well yet people lap it up. Why do people fall for their nonsense?

The Chinese are hardly benign philanthropists but at least they are giving something back in terms of infrastructure. They're far better than that bunch of hypocritical holier than thou carpet baggers from the Old World. And going back to the original topic for a second, we tried the catcall video here to somewhat different results.

I won't be playing on release, still haven't got around to ordering a new computer and won't prior to Christmas. It's not so much the ordering which would take ten minutes but the price/ performance research that will stop me. Strangely enough, the only part of my 8 year old current PC that is below min spec is the CPU.

http://www.gamesradar.com/ask-gr-anything-how-much-do-game-journalists-earn/ Keep in mind it is dated 2011 though. It should also be borne in mind that some major players employ unpaid interns to do a lot of work, indeed Gawker (and hence Kotaku) is currently being sued for 'mislabelling' employees as interns and not paying them properly. On the matter of what reviewers should and should not take into account when reviewing it is very much a question of what I can only really call 'declaration of interests'. Explicit interest sites can mark on 'ideological safety' whether they be SJW, Christian, Muslim, Communist or whatever. You don't go to a Christian gaming site without expecting Christianity to be a factor, that's not reasonable- and if you do then that's your problem, not theirs. If you're a general interest site you should not mark on ideology unless you have specifically said that you do so. That's not to say that it can not be mentioned, but if the outside, external interests of the reviewer are given undue weight the review cannot be good. Judging on gameplay, graphics and the like are inherently necessary to the process of reviewing, and you have to assume that your views are legitimate when writing or you wouldn't write one at all. OTOH, external ideology is not inherently necessary, you don't have to assume your views are legitimate and necessary in that case. The example I'd give is something like ME2, I thought some of the poses and camera angles on Miranda were pretty cringe inducing. Mark it down for it? Nah. Same as I wouldn't mark it down for being made by Bioware or EA- or more accurately since I have nothing particularly against Bioware/ EA, mark Fallout 4 down for being made by Bethesda. That's all external from the game itself and just me pushing my own agenda which others reading the review may well not share. If I'm pushing any other agenda than whether my readers will like it I'm not doing a good review. (I have rather more tolerance for activist reviews when they aren't actually labelled as reviews, such as the 'Wot I Thinks' that RPS do and do not give scores as they are not reviews per se, but are explicitly what the person thinks- and can not be metacriticed either)

Oh no, and then it is even the weakest Fallout game. Well, if you rule out Fo3 that is. Herve Caen is pleased you liked FOBOS more than FOT and FO3.

Volo's being Volo more in the gaming journalism/ harassment thread, mispelling Awesome Protocol is pretty minor on the Volo scale.

Don't think there was any legal action though I'm not certain, a quick search suggests not. HH had no money to spare (which is one of the complaints about constructive bankrupting, the victim pretty much by definition has no money to make legal complaints with) and Bethesda... well, it's probably telling that despite HH refusing to work and seemingly quite clearly breaching contract by working on other titles there was no legal action from them despite their reputation for litigiousness. (Or in other words it ended with both sides walking away from the contract, the work reverted to Beth and HH had no further obligation to them)

Maybe, that was the game where the developer claimed that Bethesda were deliberately trying to bankrupt them by arbitrarily failing milestones and not paying them so as to buy them out cheaply, so there were definitely two sides to that story.