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You right that numbers from China are unreliable but you can only fudge the data so far before you get caught. In fact China was called out on their coal consumption reports recently. And they are slowly modernizing their energy sector so things should steadily improve. When it comes to developing countries India is far bigger problem.

COP 21 talks in Paris have actually reached an agreement. Of note is that this time voluntary pledges are up for verification every 5 years. Other than that we are apparently hoping to limit warming to 1,5°C while planning for 2°C but polluting for over 3°C.

Wendelstein 7-X achieves first plasma. No, it's not a German terminator sent from the future.

They are about a year away from finishing Underworld Ascendant. I love SS2 but this doesn't inspire confidence.

I'd call this plan idealistic if it owned up to massive sacrifices required. But trying to sell enormous social and economic costs as benefits is something else entirely. And it's a real shame as he was in the perfect position to speak some sense on climate change.

He is seriously pushing a 100% renewable plan? And they say republicans have monopoly on nutcases.

OPEC just decided to set no extraction limits for the future. Putin might have to behave for just a while longer.

Capra Demon was the reason, why I stopped to play DS ( I played as pyromancer and was unable to stay alive in the room more than 5 seconds... after few hours, I just quit the game for good... I had very close to Demon's Souls platinum, and not a single boss on NG+++ were so annoying and depressing for me than this one :-/ I actually never played DS1 that far (burned out on many hours of playing DS2), but I think I've heard you can beat him with throwing firebombs into the arena without actually being in the arena? There is a small ledge in the back of area that sometimes allows attacking without being hit. Any other game would class that as a exploit.

Just as some fans would bash Fallout 3 for it's graphics but found no wrong in New Vegas. It's all about the developer.

I doubt that Obsidian can deliver production values expected of first person games. Unless Paradox is willing to invest in the project we will likely get another nostalgia cash-grab.

Not to bright pun aimed ad personam. There are clear standards to decide objectively if the game was successful. Taking budget in to consideration 500.000 units sold is not a success for PoE. How do you know that? I don't have much stake in the *argument.* Of course, I *want* PoE to have done well in terms of sales and sustainability, but the argument of whether it has or not isn't particularly important to me. I figure if it has, we'll know by what Obsidian *does.* However, from the point of view of folks saying 500k is a success or a failure in light of budgeting, how do people know? We can't tell if Poe was a success, but we can compare it to the competition. And we know that Wasteland 2 managed similar numbers despite lower KS budget, smaller names and worse reception.

Armored Warfare claimed over 500k signups so numbers could be good but looking at match queues and game quality I doubt it will be profitable in the long run. Especially since they are trying hard to undercut World of Tanks.

Kickstarter for Pillars 2 is almost a given if only because HBS and Larian already got away with crowdsourcing their sequels. But without any reliable sale numbers from the White March we have no basis to speculate about future of the franchise.

If Pillars sales are in the same range as Wasteland 2 then that's not a good news for Obsidian. But this sounds more like a off-hand remark.

Not too sure about this one. Shadowrun was worth it only for the writing. A strategy focused game doesn't play to their strengths.

The whole secession debate seems strange to me. The only reason it happened in 1861 was the heavy investment southern elites had in slavery. What economic gain could Texas hope to achieve with secession?

Might as well ask why is this outrage happening only now. Mass panics are a funny thing.

Poor choice of start date. The ending of Divinity 2 campaign may steal all the attention.

That's one way to see things. But you see - the crusaders would say that they were overthrowing a usurper and restoring a rightful ruler to the throne. Also they hardly had monopoly on killing fellow Christians.

Can you retract a pledge? Or better yet lower it to 1$?

Not all missions start in MTR. You should check the docks.

I wonder how they can make combat visually bearable. It was already awkward even when every unit fought with bayonets. With the sheer variety of monsters and weapons melee could end-up looking like a ridiculous puppet dance.

As someone who knows a thing or two about Polish history, was born in Poland, whose entire family is Polish and can trace their ancestry all the way back to when Poland first became Christian then later officially became the Kingdom of Poland, I can say unequivocally that Poland has always been "super white". The whole idea of 'whiteness' is a product of colonialism and it applies poorly to a place like Poland. There were better ways of tracking ethnic identity than skin color.

Was there any word about release date for the mini-campaign? Storyline got really rushed around the finale and then left some dangling threads.

They were hinting at October/November so December seems a reasonable guess.