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Robot Apocalypse is a little different than I expected...
pmp10 replied to Oerwinde's topic in Way Off-Topic
That assumes that we don't start inventing jobs to keep those people employed. Technological unemployment will be a real problem in the future but for now we can just develop new needs that will spawn businesses and industries. -
By now it's safe to say that nobody knows. Maybe in a month we will get a decent investigation and write-up. Right now there is a new conspiracy theory every day.
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Zoe Quinn, developer of the indie game Depression Quest had sex with a games journalist, according to a butthurt ex-boyfriend. This led to accusations of nepotism and unprofessional behavior (also ****-shaming). That's about the whole story, really. If only. The whole thing started as some kind of holy war over women victimization and misogyny. By now it seems to be about defending the holy right of the internet of tearing down whoever we don't like. There was also the hacking thing with Phil Fish where his data went public supposedly for white-knighting.
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I hope I misunderstood you there. You are aware of the things gaming communities are capable of?
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Funnily enough this new patch broke quite a few things with a 80% resist hard-cap. Steam users can get easily screwed by auto-update.
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The game most likely doesn't regenerate random seed at reload. You could load a 1000 times and that shot would always be a miss.
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Pathfinder CRPG by Obsidian?
pmp10 replied to Jigawatts's topic in Pathfinder Adventures: General Discussion (No Spoilers!)
It less a problem with the game and more with the sad trend Obsidian projects are taking. You'd think that after South Park they would find some high profile work. Instead we can almost see the bottom of the barrel. -
That's a interesting theory but it begs one question. How can you reconcile majority getting poorer (relatively or not) with democracy? Surely if those people are in the majority they can change wealth distribution by voting.
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That's not strictly true as more developed countries often control future technological trends. If US/Europe can move some industry standards towards less greenhouse gas emission there is a chance that even poorer countries will adapt them.
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Honestly without spells or a bow your thief won't be of very much use in combat. The whole combat system weights far too heavily on magic and elemental damage.
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That's pretty much the whole appeal of the game. Unrestricted looting in Cyseal and figuring out crafting recipes with adventure game logic. Don't rush those things as there really isn't much to the game afterwards.
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The problem lies with efficiency of alternative technologies. Investment return on them is unlikely to reach the same level as fossil fuel burning. If you refuse to believe in global warming then logically renewables are simply a waste of money.
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TBH after 2 weeks of being the bestselling game on steam I expected a bit more than 250k.
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Well no. This is either a logical discussion on flaws/merits of DoS or a competition in conversational manners. If you are having both then winning the latter doesn't automatically make you the victor of the former. That said this game has some major flaws that fans like to ignore but you certainly didn't come close to pointing them out.
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So Ubisoft is reducing the French Revolution to chopping off heads but all that get's noticed is a social justice crusade.
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European Parliamentary Elections results, major concern?
pmp10 replied to BruceVC's topic in Way Off-Topic
They share 'American' identity today mostly thanks to civil war and subsequent rise of mass media. For EU to realize it's imperial ambition it would have to undergo a similar experience. -
Today there isn't one. Used to be that the way stats were driving the gameplay was defining RPGs. That's why too many options would result in a strategy game or maybe a tactical-rpg. The original formula got boring with it's limited interactivity and so we use the term for almost every game where numbers can be seen.
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Thats not a bad post of one definition of an RPG but I want to add to it. An RPG must allow you do adopt a certain playing style of your choice. How could you Role Play if the game doesn't allow this? You can call them that even when playing a preset role. You always have limitations imposed on who your character is and what they would do. Especially in older RPGs that didn't allow for major character alteration and offered no meaningful choices.
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So not only is the game years away but Epic has learned nothing from shootmania. Expecting a comity of nostalgic gamers to do a good design job by steadily working for months doesn't seem particularly bright.
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This wasn't organized and may not really matter much in the grand scheme of things. Intervening on account of Odessa implies you will take your power to Odessa. That could be too far even by Russian standards.
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And what does 60000 casual hat-collectors have to do with hardcore twitch-shooters?
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Epic teases new Unreal Tournament. I really wish it would sell today but twitch-shooter formula has died for a reason.
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Interesting thing about the new continuity is that they declared everything EU defunct. Including still ongoing things like Old Republic. I wonder if EA won't force them to change their mind about that.
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Historically marriage was less about social pressures and more about economy. Transfer of property has always been absolutely vital in making the wealth of families. Modern times simply reversed the cost/benefit ratio of marriage. Today you are more likely to lose property in a divorce than gain anything substantial. And unlike in the past rising children costs a fortune but produces little benefits. The only thing that awaits us in the future are state-run reproduction programs.
