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Politics and Statesmenship: A Forum Special Report
pmp10 replied to Amentep's topic in Way Off-Topic
No threat of soviet union to keep people in line this time. Being the lesser evil helps enormously. -
Politics and Statesmenship: A Forum Special Report
pmp10 replied to Amentep's topic in Way Off-Topic
That's mostly buying credits, offsets and lies of statistic. Sadly oil will stay vital for a long time to come. -
Politics and Statesmenship: A Forum Special Report
pmp10 replied to Amentep's topic in Way Off-Topic
All well and good but what would you suggest? Pretty much every soft-power approach has been tried and Venezuela is still rushing to be the next Cuba. Perhaps aside from outright assassination or invasion of course. And these didn't work out so well in Cuba. -
Politics and Statesmenship: A Forum Special Report
pmp10 replied to Amentep's topic in Way Off-Topic
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Are AC heroes no longer required to procreate to be featured? That was a bigger plot point of the earlier ones.
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Meaning... something even worse will come along, championed by some clueless suit promising the board an eleventy trillion yearly revenue, only for the model to crash and burn half a decade later? I can't wait. Maybe except for the crashing and burning part. Micro-transactions have not gone away and I doubt service model will either. In the end, money talks.
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Their stance is that corporate money fits really snugly in their pocket. like on other side of spectrum is it any different Tell me about that immense amount of lobbying money that goes towards pushing climate change action. Their stance is that corporate money fits really snugly in their pocket. like on other side of spectrum is it any different Tell me about that immense amount of lobbying money that goes towards pushing climate change action. I think 'Act now on climate' has just dropped about million $ for one democratic candidate. Anyway that is a pittance compared to what invested industries can do.
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You know, one could just as easily question where did you get that 25% number from. It's oddly specific and reputable people that promised to benchmark the thing didn't deliver so far.
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Well I'm not terribly surprised. I loved the ideas that went into Phoenix Point but the game was nowhere near ready and had almost no following to speak of. It wouldn't sell anywhere in it's current state. If Epic store can have them survive to make a sequel it may well be worth it.
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What makes you say that? DMC5 is supposed to conclude the 'Sons of Sparda' storyline according to developers. Which also would explain aging Dante so much.
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And that new life will likely be formed around better micro-transactions in another battle-royale. Bioware may never come back to traditional RPGs but let's not kid ourselves that any replacement for them would either.
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To be fair, they did try with the former.
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Both corpses and stalling are fantastic ideas dealing with issues that many turn-based tactics games never quite managed to get resolved in a reasonable manner. Bleeding to disintegration a corpse of bleed-immune skeleton is neither a fantastic idea nor a cornerstone of developer vision. It's just an ugly crutch that's necessary to save a badly thought-out targeting mechanic.
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Nah, one of the things I admire about Red Hook and their development of Darkest Dungeon is that regardless of hate they receive, they'll stick to their creative vision and create a game they want created, not a castrated version their community would force upon them. I'm quite hoping that's what they'll do for the second one as well. Sorry, but if they have to deal with nonsense like corpses or stalling that's because the mechanics were bad to begin with.
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Darkest Dungeon 2 is coming: Now if only they would fix the underlaying mechanics.
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But that's a Fortnite install base, the overlap in target audiences can't be that great. As much as I'd like to see Valve cut down a peg I doubt timed exclusives will cut it. Yes. There are plenty of mods for Warhammer Total War.
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For a beginner Civ IV would be easiest. Unless you are strongly into warfare in which case try Civ V.
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The ending of original Fallout. One of rare moments in gaming when I got upset at game world and characters and not writers and designers.
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Sad, but the audience was just not there. The game was effectively dead long before battle royale craze.
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This isn't about us. We will be gone by the time climate change turns serious. The question is how much investment do we have in the far-off future. If you attack the speaker and not the speech it's all I have to know. If there was anything in that speech might actually discuss it. But I'm sure they will have a counter-report ready relatively soon.
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Is this really the consequences, its very extreme and paints a grim picture of the USA and the potential damage to many aspects to civil society? Potential consequences if by 2090 we follow the RCP8.5 instead of RCP4.5. The obvious problem being that there are more responsible parties than just the US.
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IIRC that's mostly from Chinese sources. If so you might need to drop a zero from that number.
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Might be the first civ expansion to get a pass from me. Civ 6 launched strong but Rise and Fall was a big disappointment, and this sounds even worse.
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So an end of an era. All the best in the future.
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Ah, but at one point so was stars and stripes. That's the funny thing about symbols, they change meaning overtime.