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Finished The Crown. Supposedly its pretty accurate, which gives me a newfound respect for the Queen and those who hold the office.

Been sick in bed since thursday, got a phonecall at 2 am last night that my grandmother died. Since I already used my one annual sick day, the bereavement time will allow me to stay in bed instead of working a 10 hour workday.

I don't think there is a consensus on whether TNG or DS9 was the better series. I know I preferred DS9. The movies were largely pretty good in my opinion, though the Motion Picture and Final Frontier were pretty terrible.

Started on The Crown. Am really enjoying it. Superbcasting, though not huge on John Lithgow as Churchill

Examples?Major examples would be abortion, gay marriage, immigration enforcement and voter id's.I do not know enough about most issues to comment on them, but the right to abort and gay marriage sound pretty good to me, wouldn't you agree? That depends on your views. The right generally sees abortion as murdering babies. The left doesn't see babies as human until they are born so see it as a womens health thing. So the courts enforcing a woman's right to murder babies doesn't sound like something super cool. I'm pro choice, to a certain degree, but I can understand the other side. Abortion is a womens choice, no one should have a right to tell any women what they can or cant do with there bodies Abortion is also a very traumatic and emotional experience to go through so its important to be supportive if you know anyone who had an abortion. It can be hard for many men but trust me the majority of women suffer emotionally much worse than most men Abortion is a very complicated issue. As a father, I disagree it is solely a woman's choice. I think it is abhorrent to say that a father has no say on whether or not his child lives or dies, as long as the coupling was consentual. I understand that to pro-life people it isn't about the woman's body, it is about the child's life. Despite militant leftists saying its just about men wanting to control women. That said, a woman raped absolutely should have the choice, instances of incest the same. As for a cutoff point, I would argue if the baby could survive outside the womb, than an abortion is murder.

Examples?Major examples would be abortion, gay marriage, immigration enforcement and voter id's.I do not know enough about most issues to comment on them, but the right to abort and gay marriage sound pretty good to me, wouldn't you agree? That depends on your views. The right generally sees abortion as murdering babies. The left doesn't see babies as human until they are born so see it as a womens health thing. So the courts enforcing a woman's right to murder babies doesn't sound like something super cool. I'm pro choice, to a certain degree, but I can understand the other side.

Really enjoyed Star Trek Beyond. They could bring in the alien girl to replace Chekov in a sequel.

Yup, though thats the only bad thing I've heard about him.

The Warhammer license must be pretty cheap, everyone has it.

RIPD. Fun movie, definitely reminiscent of Men in Black, but I liked Jeff Bridges' Roy better than Tommy Lee Jones' K. Very predictable but some fun action and Kevin Bacon does some great scenery chewing.

Its the crowd sourcing platform that a bunch of the successful kickstarter devs helped get off the ground, that combines crowdsourcing and investing. So you can do standard crowd sourcing with soliciting donations in exchange for rewards, or you can invest and get a share of the profits. I think at first there was a sizeable minimum investment if you wanted shares, but they are trying to set it up so smaller investors can buy shares as well. The projects are curated by Fig, with advisors from the various kickstarter successes, in order to minimize the likelyhood of projects not delivering the product. So far it looks like its been quite successful, raising some decent sized sums. Thanks! And I assume one of the "successful kickstarter devs" is Tim Shafer, then. Who is successful in the "getting large sums of money from crowdsourcing" way rather than the actually delivering on it. Having Tim Shafer in any way in control of those (or any) finances is a red flag for me. As far as I know the Fig people don't have a lot of control over the money. They take a cut of crowd funding and a share of the profits, but otherwise the devs control the budget and keep the IP. Feargus, Tim, Brian, and such are there for advice and such on how to run the campaign, and deliver on the product. I'm sure the people involved can choose who they can get advice from.

Yeah, fix the combat (either go with RTwP or Turn Based, not both), and update the visuals and we're good. Ditch the tiles and go with either a Divinity: Original Sin/Wasteland 2 style 3d world, or go with the Pillars of Eternity/Tides of Numenera pre-rendered. Steampunk is an aesthetic that needs decent visuals.

Its the crowd sourcing platform that a bunch of the successful kickstarter devs helped get off the ground, that combines crowdsourcing and investing. So you can do standard crowd sourcing with soliciting donations in exchange for rewards, or you can invest and get a share of the profits. I think at first there was a sizeable minimum investment if you wanted shares, but they are trying to set it up so smaller investors can buy shares as well. The projects are curated by Fig, with advisors from the various kickstarter successes, in order to minimize the likelyhood of projects not delivering the product. So far it looks like its been quite successful, raising some decent sized sums.

Supposedly the mid credits scene teases the next villain.

I've heard good things, except the same complaint everyone has about every Marvel movie: forgettable villain.

Activision revived Sierra to do smaller budget titles by indie developers. If they put up say 5 million, and Obsidian ran a Fig campaign to get another 5 from outside investors and crowdfunding, they may be able to pull off a decent sequel with minimal risk from Activision (compared to say spending 200 million on another Call of Duty.)

Denerim still wasn't as disappointing as the city of Orlais. It was supposed to be the largest city in Thadus, but boiled down to a single small level. At least Denerim is kinda explained away by Ferelden being a poor backwards country. Denerim at least did a better job of portraying your visit to the city as limited to small parts, Val Royeaux didn't even let you see any landmarks. This is the capital of the most powerful nation on Thedas, center of the Chantry, and you don't even get to see the Imperial Palace, the White Spire, or the Grand Cathedral in the background.

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I think they were just approved to allow people to buy game shares for small investors.

So after a few more days with Civ6 I definitely like it more than 5,and aspects of it more than 4.the way religion works I like a lot, but natural spread seems broken. The policy system is way better than the civics system of Civ 5, and more realistic than governments from civ 4. The one unit per tile seems less restrictive than civ 5 too, with allowing 1 unit per type.

Anyone here a lootcrate subscriber? A couple months back was a Star Trek themed one came with a code for some goodies for Star Trek Online. Anyone have that code still and are willing to part with it?

I had Civ 6 and Star Trek Online going at the same time last night. Dual monitors, played Civ while waiting to travel or respawn in STO, played STO while waiting for next turn in Civ.

ShadySands was super nice and gave me a copy of Civ 6. I am definitely liking it more than Civ 5. The district system i interesting, makes your cities look a little more natural, as the farms and such get pushed out to the outer bits of your cities, and you can't build every building in them, so not every city ends up pretty much the same. It's now nearly 4 am and I have to get up in 4 hours. One more turn...