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How do you feel about GOG.com exclusives? I'm actually okay with GOG exclusivity since GOG is a secure platform, unlike the Epic Store which is a spyware for the Chinese Uh, that's not true? Which part? The part about GoG being secure or the part about the Epic store being spyware? https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/03/16/valve-to-investigate-epic-game-stores-use-of-steam-files I have not seen any sort of evidence that the Epic store spies for the Chinese government specifically, but it's had more than it's share of privacy concerns over the last few months. As far as I know the spyware accusation is based exclusively on the import friends from Steam feature, and it is baseless. The bit about China is just silly.

How do you feel about GOG.com exclusives? I'm actually okay with GOG exclusivity since GOG is a secure platform, unlike the Epic Store which is a spyware for the Chinese Uh, that's not true?

Again, regardless of how you feel about this decision, advocating piracy is not the way to go. Posts doing so will be removed.

I don't think this is at all true but, regardless, you know what this reminds me of? (Where 'this' is people saying "I'll never an Obsidian game ever again!!1!!" ) It reminds of when Steam was new back in 2003/04. The ****storm that was kicked up over it was epic among nerds. Heh.

I don't know how much rents have increased compared to inflation, but what I do know is that effective wages have gone down. So maybe the problem with high rents is more a problem of purchasing power than anything else.

The housing bubble wasn't a construction bubble, it was a lending bubble. Lenders were giving loans to everyone that could breathe which drove up prices, which drove up the loaned amounts, which drove up the premiums, which house owners couldn't pay, which crashed the economy. This may have driven up construction as well, but if so, that was a consequence of the bubble, not a cause.

https://komonews.com/news/local/bellevue-driver-learns-the-hard-way-dont-use-homemade-license-plates Insane libertarian dude?

This doesn't make you smarter. It just gives you internet access, which is essentially just installing a backdoor to your brain. No problem there!

Is English not your first language? I don't get the sense that english isn't their first language, though the formatting is strange, like they typed it up in notepad with word-wrap off and then copied and pasted or something. But can you parse that?

Is English not your first language?

I would love seeing Clinton announced as Sanders' VP. The meltdowns would be delicious

If BioWare can capture some of the Chinese market with Jade Empire reboot, they could make a fortune. The negative reaction to "white folks" making the first Jade Empire is what canned that franchise. What canned Jade Empire is that it wasn't very good.

13 is absolutely true.

Alanschu is around, you guys.

Don't know if I can agree. Most older gamers (who were around for it all) consider Mass Effect 1-3 the best that Bioware's ever put out. lolno

I can try to check. Edit: for what it's worth, social media tells me he is still there.

Many are calling it just that... Or the worst since Crash.

Dialogue isn't necessarily just to listen to, it can be a gameplay loop of its own. Planescape: Torment is the egregious example.

https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1098700066150334465 AOC has Guard Dog's vote locked, it seems.

This could go here on in the funny things thread. Watch out for the language, and enjoy Carlson make a fool of himself:

So Judas died from hanging and fell headlong from that hanging position. That's some impressive gymnastics, especially coming from a dead man. Or perhaps it's the mental gymnastics that are impressive. Also, that doesn't address in any way the money issue.

^My Google grab for the night from some former atheist site. After applying some zoom to that passage, it appears that it says nothing at all. Here ya go, in any case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_consistency_of_the_Bible

And I'd ask you to point out those contradictions and agendas (not to argue but just to know where you're coming from out of curiosity) but I think we both know you're not going to answer that and that's fine by me. As I said before, many non-Christians view things they don't understand as contradiction, displacement or something other than believable. The Bible is interesting because you may read one thing abd have a question and then see an answer a thousand pages later. Are you kidding? The bible is filled with contractions, especially between the old testament and the new.

Perfect summation of why cats are better than dogs.

People assume that? seen some stuff like that, I mean I seen a lot of them saying he was comunist or socialist, seen few about anarchist as well Well, the notion that he was any of those things is dumb, of course. What one can say, though, is that Jesus' morals, as set out in the gospels, fit quite nicely with communist and socialist ideals. The largely American phenomenon where capitalism is morally attached at the hip to Christianity is, obviously, patently ridiculous. This is nothing new, though. Supply side Jesus was a great comic. Personally, I've always thought Marxist rejection of religion was a huge mistake, at least from a "marketing" perspective. And what about all that '"Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's'. Really not fit that much That is kind of contentious in interpretation but, do you mean separating church and state and putting the law of God above the law of man doesn't fit with communism? I dont think its about separation of church at all, as at that time there was no church to talk about. And Rome at that time was senate ruled republic (well, kinda ) in sea of feudal kingdoms. I am pretty sure that commies called religion 'opium of humanity' so that really does not click either, I can see why people would kinda see him as socialist but I am not sure if he ever talked about 'politics' or how society should be structured, only on personal level Yes that's what I meant when I said I thought marxist rejection of religion was a "marketing" failure. If we're going to take that tack regarding what Jesus thought at the time, in my opinion it's pretty clear that he was just being a smartass and rules lawyering around the question, which was basically a thinly veiled attempt at entrapment.