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US wants to have a world leading industry. Socialized health-care is not so great at R&D.

Reaching space is far more about total speed then starting height.While there are some airborne launch systems it's just rarely worth the effort. Actually you are incorrect. Escape velocity is inversely proportional to the r (distance from center of mass). Get farther away from the center of mass and you need less V. You also need less energy to overcome air resistance if you begin thrust higher in the atmosphere. Less V means less fuel. So the idea would be to use lighter than air lift to elevate and orbital vehicle to an optimum altitude and then begin thrusting from there. The math just may not work. Otherwise I'm sure this would have been tried. But, in theory... But air launches have been done with Pegasus. And balloon launches are being developed. But it's clearly for minor payloads, they can't scale the same way that rockets can.

The most trustful sources Codex and reddit. Other than that? I know it's Codex's wishful thinking for PoE2 to flop, because of Avellone drama, but are there actually any numbers behind that claim? I am really curious, because I like both games, and I would not be very happy, if the IP would go six feet under... Steam API leak showed 200k copied with any achievement. Which is pretty disappointing but game pricing is not indicating a major flop. Just under-performance to expectations.

Reaching space is far more about total speed then starting height. While there are some airborne launch systems it's just rarely worth the effort.

Something like Spec Ops the line, only for RPGs. Heroic fantasy genre could use some deconstruction.

The combat in DK really wasn't fair. It was entirely at the mercy of your character level which is still a problem in Original Sin games. But other than that Original sin games have been terrific. It's a little strange seeing Larian as the best hope for crowd-funded RPGs but here we are.

Why? Shouldn't children of immigrants naturally support Democrats? Or at least vote against the party that would have their family deported?

Well, sometimes you also use brace. Other than that you're not really missing much in the way of feasible options.

Many strategy games and management sims. Jagged Alliance 2 would be the perfect example. A game so good it killed it's genre.

Killing memes? EU regulations doing something right for once. Now if only we could get them to ban twitch chat as well.

Third world is not a problem. The problem is pretending they are to absolve us.

Even star citizen's whales must have limits. ... Right?

Damn. That level of integrity and customer advocacy is irreplaceable. RIP.

Apparently Deadfire already had the first -25% off sale on fanatical. So soon after release it doesn't bode well.

Steamspy is unreliable ever since it cannot scrape steam accounts. But from what I seen Deadfire flew completely under the radar on steam. On top sellers it couldn't reach #1 and disappeared from top #10 within a week. Steamcharts show a player peak roughly half of the first game.

It should be comparable to Shadowrun Returns. Supposedly it's slightly less than Frost Punk but a solid result by indie standards.

That concept seems to be based upon a chemical propulsion model. Perhaps an air-breathing, beam-powered propulsion system may still work, if the lasers are applied with sufficient strength and duration? IIRC beam powered propulsion in atmosphere is subject to other limitations and is only marginally better than chemical. With gravity this strong you'd have to resort to nuclear with all the problems that entails.

1.5 million for Divinity: Original Sin according to Steamspy while the sequel will inevitably pass that number in quicker time if it hasn't already. Yes but Tyranny failed to sell well and Shadowrun has shown that this audience is not just nostalgia-driven but also fleeting. Josh is right that RPGs need innovation, I just think that window of opportunity passed us by about a decade ago.

It's a limited strike against chemical production facilities which makes far less sense than last years show. Assad has to have enough sarin stockpiled for numerous stunts like that in Douma.

And which side should "the world" have chosen to be the victor? Neither. The point of intervention is that you get to lay down your own rules.

By intervening openly and forcefully. Obviously it would be a political suicide for some but it could have been done when the war was just beginning.

Does it come with a money back guarantee? It's just a plan for a research reactor and that promise in the headline is absurd. So no.

Who said this? I'm quite sure that most people who praise Original Sin played for ~10 hours and then moved on to other things. The game was really good at leaving a nice first impression, with the pretty graphics and and interactivity. Or maybe people who actually played them for longer? After over 50 hours logged in each of Original Sin games I certainly think them much better than the rest of these so-called RPGs released recently.

RTS is dead due to the MOBA, sadly. Would be nice to have a 40k version of Arma :D I haven't played DoW3 but I was under the impression that Relic tanked their own game by pushing a bit too hard with the esports-friendly, moba-like angle, thus alienating the actual RTS fans they still had. Wasn't DoW2 MP fairly popular a few years ago? They tried to take the best parts of DoW1 and DoW2 only to discover that the audience is simply not there anymore. I don't think DoW3 pushed e-sports or moba mechanics any more than DoW2 had.

But that's Curtis. He has interesting view of our times but the way he connects facts and events smacks of over-intellectualized conspiracy theory. But the way he does narration is worth seeing: