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Ah. I figured the site was taken down by either the Codex or that spotty-faced kid living in his Mom's basement. ...Either implies there's a difference.

Isn't that basically the plot of Watson's entire inquisitor series?

And this is supposed to be a drawback... umm... why exactly?

Sure there is, buddy. Sure there is.

You don't seem to be comprehending the concept of opportunity costs. Sure, the developers could spend X amount of resources on balancing the game around the concept of friendly fire, or they could spend the same amount of resources on stuff that actually matters. Pillars had friendly fire; I never once found myself in a position where that feature meaningfully affected my tactical decision-making. Balancing is balancing. There's no more opportunity cost to balancing for friendly fire than there is for balancing without friendly fire. There is an opportunity cost to writing AI that doesn't suck arse at using AoE spells with FF, however.

You don't seem to be comprehending the concept of opportunity costs. Sure, the developers could spend X amount of resources on balancing the game around the concept of friendly fire, or they could spend the same amount of resources on stuff that actually matters. Pillars had friendly fire; I never once found myself in a position where that feature meaningfully affected my tactical decision-making.

Um...except in D&D, arcane magic is a learned practice that requires mastery in controlling the Weave, and for most arcane spellcasters, that means relying on using written spells that do a very specific thing. To make Fireball, a very basic (yet powerful) elemental spell, ignore friendlies, I would imagine it would require a complex rewrite of the spell which would probably knock it up a few levels. So really...I can't much see the argument. The argument is that when the rules of magic are completely made-up and arbitrary (which they are), there is nothing saying it can't be an inherent attribute of spells that they ignore friendlies. And, from a mechanic perspective, as Infinitron pointed out, it's just easier to balance around (not to mention that this particular knife cuts both ways, and I'm pretty sure it's much easier to program AI to use spells to maximum effectiveness when it doesn't have to take friendly fire into account - therefore battles can become inherently more tactical since the AI can use the resources it's been given more efficiently).

In my opinion, if you're a wizard who can break the rules of physics over your knee as you please every day of the week, you must be either a/ really lacking in ****s to give or b/ just plain ****ty at wizarding to be unable to selectively target your enemies with whatever apocalypse you're conjuring out of literal magic with your literal force of will.

We'll pull our own weight when the feds quit flooding us with illegals. "It's the fault of dem durty immigrants!"

My drill will pierce the heavens!

Given enough time, the inevitable heat death of the universe will cause a bunch of immortals to seriously reconsider the wisdom of their life choices.

"Who wouldn't hollow out their humanity to become a transcendent god-monster" is probably an even better question, Gromnir's tongue-in-cheek interpretation aside. That got me thinking a bit. Lets say for arguments sake that it is achieved. First, we would have to stop reproducing since no one can die, but that's not possible because people like sex and not everyone fancies abortions. Faulty assumption number one: nothing says the process can't inherently result in sterility. Or that a bunch of immortals with literally infinite time on their hands who also happen to like sex and dislike abortion can't invent a convenient and reliable form of contraception. Bit of a non sequitur really - if the problems an industry is meant to solve no longer exist, the industry in question has little use anymore, yes. Hardly a meaningful loss. I'm pretty sure that even millionaires who have more than enough money to ensure they'll never starve to death still do work. I believe the threat of starvation to be an exceedingly poor motivator, all things considered. ...By your notions, no love can exist between same-sex couples. Umm, I'm pretty sure that's not how love works. People who create "culture" (by which I assume you mean art, entertainment, philosophy) are typically not driven to do so because they care about the achievements they'll leave behind, but because they find the process of creation inherently pleasant. Or become a bunch of pacifistic Time Lords having adventures in time and space and making everyone's lives measurably better! Who knows?

...The what now? I thought that you used a sentiment typical to the magyar culture and spirit, thus highlighting the social bond of what a citizenship constitutes in Hungary: being hungarian. Nah, it was a quote from one of our greatest writers. I don't have a statistically significant sample of Hungarians whose opinion I know about what the elusive "magyar spirit" is like; I can only speak for myself and what being Hungarian means to me.

No, you seem to be missing the point I was making: namely that in extolling the virtues of fighting for one's community, you chose an example some would consider to be a good reason to actively cheer for the increased atomization of communities Mesh seems to be so worried about.

"Who wouldn't hollow out their humanity to become a transcendent god-monster" is probably an even better question, Gromnir's tongue-in-cheek interpretation aside.

So... I'm supposed to find it admirable that people would be willing to fight and die for one of the most disgusting practices of human history even though they had no personal interest in doing so? Because I'm sensing some mixed signals here.

...The what now?

Most people... tend to have a decent grasp on their mother tongue, you do realize that, right?

Interesting. In this vein, allow me to take a shot at explaining the Hungarian spirit - or, at least, borrow the words of someone better qualified than I am. "Fura dolognak látszik talán, vereséget megünnepelni, de hát aki a győzelmét ünnepelhette volna itt most, a hatalmas ottomán világbirodalom, már nem volt meg. A tatároknak is nyomuk veszett, sőt időközben, szinte a szemünk láttára, a szívós Habsburg-császárságnak is. Megszoktuk hát, hogy egyedül ünnepelgessük vesztett nagy csatáinkat, melyeket túléltünk. Talán azt is megszoktuk, hogy a vereséget izgalmasabb, sűrűbb anyagból való és fontosabb dolognak tartsuk a győzelemnél - mindenesetre igazibb tulajdonunknak." My terrible terrible attempt at translation: "It may seem curious to celebrate defeat, but those who could've celebrated their victory now, the mighty Ottoman Empire, no longer existed. The Tatars disappeared as well; in the meantime, almost right before our eyes, even the tenacious Habsburg Empire did the same. So we've gotten used to being the only ones celebrating the great battles we lost, the ones we survived. Maybe we've even gotten used to thinking of defeat as something more interesting and important than victory, made of a thicker substance - or, at least, as something we own in a truer fashion."

I seem to be really special then because while I have enjoyed our time together immensely, I think in the end it's not that outstanding even by Kickstarter standards.

These people would be awesome in a Dark Heresy group As heretics to be exterminated, maybe. They distinctly seem to fall short of the required minimum number of skulls and guns any self-respecting PC group would have

You two do realize that i'm from a Socialist country, right? Socialism is the state owning the means of production; what this entail can be anything in the private sector from agriculture to recreation. It is state owned and the state reaps the benefits. If you actually believe that in Socialism the state is a collective of the people or that they have the best interests of the people in mind you're sorely mistaken. No don't tell them. I've been getting a real laugh watching them explain how socialism really works to YOU! It is, indeed, quite funny how somebody who supposedly grew up in a socialist country apparently needs an explanation why the USA isn't socialist.