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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:

Well because most historical Youtubers would be mainly bothered by factual inaccuracies. There's a problem with re-creating historical societies - we don't actually know all that much about them as life of peasants was hardly ever really recorded. Still, I'd have liked if Warhorse tried at least. But that's a normal problem with historical realism in interactive medium. Forcing the player to sit through a mass everyday would certainly be realistic, just not very interesting. And it would be even worse when it comes to people. Nobody would relate to a set beliefs that would be accurately represented.

Wait, how do you use black holes to push political agendas? I see it happen all the time in history but you'd think astronomy should be relatively safe.

From the before mentioned invasion of Vilnius and Czech lands to the polonization policies in the east. And that's before we even get to the topic of internment camps, pacifications and eventual reprisals during the war. Or of the pervasive antisemitism that's still going strong and is used as an excuse to justify that 'Polish death camps' nonsense. I could go on but the point is that Poland needs an honest look at it's history not western-style denial and shouting-down of anyone who disagrees. Yeah they did most of that, but to iterate, there really wasn't pervasive anti semitism in Poland, since people are likely to reflexively disagree with Sharpie. Nationalism, sure, and at times that was as unpleasant in Poland as in most places hence inter war Poland's behaviour was not always the model of restraint, shall we say. But, most of the stories about Polish anti semitism are Israeli Creation Myth propaganda- there literally being no safe place for the Jews except Israel. There may well be some anti Israel resentment now, but that's neither anti semitism nor unjustified given that Israel is effectively slandering them for their own political purposes. I really wish that was the case but it's simply not true. There was antisemitism in polish lands before 2nd republic came about. The ways it differed compared to antisemitism in neighboring Germany and Soviet Union is quite another topic. The point is that's just a result of semantics. Who qualified as a native Pole and who as an ethnic German living in Poland was largely decided antebellum. Also it's based on the assumption that there were no Polish citizens willing to run Poland for the nazis. Such people were simply turned-down.

From the before mentioned invasion of Vilnius and Czech lands to the polonization policies in the east. And that's before we even get to the topic of internment camps, pacifications and eventual reprisals during the war. Or of the pervasive antisemitism that's still going strong and is used as an excuse to justify that 'Polish death camps' nonsense. I could go on but the point is that Poland needs an honest look at it's history not western-style denial and shouting-down of anyone who disagrees.

Did you equaled an epidemic in prison with Nazi death camps? You did, didn't you? Is that something you picked in school or read some low quality website? no, I pointed out the issues with making “polish death camp” a legal term. I don’t seem to deny, dismiss or relativise the Holocaust. But we are in a discussion about a law. And if we are doing that, I think it is perfectly reasonable to consider just how much history can or could be denied when forbidding the term “polish death camp”. Essentially, I was talking about terminology. Granted though, I should’ve made that clearer. I’m sorry if I confused anyone. Well the term isn't specifically mentioned in the law. It's just an example used by the media and legislators. The law is penalizing false statements that Poland was collaborating with Nazi Germany and was involved in Holocaust. There were certainly people who did collaborate or cooperate willingly, but I suppose the law is aimed at statements saying that the government at the time was? That's right. Of course there were such people. And they were trialed by the Polish undergroud. We were maybe the only country to do that in WWII. Depending on your definition of collaboration, 'such people' could number in the millions. Poland swept plenty of ugly history under the rug and the last thing we need is to start rewriting it.

Births could start to massively increase but nothing indicates that they will. Historically fertility rates that have fallen below replacement level are almost never coming back to that point.

That's assuming there is anything like an equilibrium. There is an argument to be made that decline in birth rates could be a one way trip.

Supposedly there is a serious law team behind Crytek on this one. This may actually be more than a desperate extortion lawsuit from a bankrupt ex.

I'd much rather see transparency in candidate selection. Salaries don't mean much if you can't land a job.

What is the idea of masculinity? I'd say a attempt to steer male risk-taking behavior onto something socially beneficial. Is is toxic? If society has no use for any such behavior then I suppose it is. Today in developed world may very well qualify.

Climate change is science but taking it as a opportunity to push agenda is very much political. You can easily tell by the offered suggestions where the authors stand politically.

Anyone who says that additional layer of code on top of the base package of software does not have any performance impact is either liar or Fortran god. And I highly doubt that in this case, the latter statement is the more probable one... Fair enough but Denuovo was removed from multiple games by now. The performance impact was nowhere as dramatic as you make it out to be.

does anyone care anymore? They can make daily show out of this shuff Nobody died so that's hardly a great political fodder. Besides I think people are starting to notice how ineffective Islamic terrorism really is. A decade of terror in UK killed about as many people as a bad tower fire.

Right, sorry.