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Closing mosques is most likely illegal (as it prevents ) as France is member of European Convention on Human Rights, which article 9 promises freedom to manifest a religion or belief in worship, teaching, practice and observance (which means also freedom to establish and places of worship according to ECtHR case Manoussakis and others v. Greece , §§36-53), but of course it is possible that those mosques belong to such Islamic religion that practices things that are against law and democratic society (what those things are one needs to read cases from).

I don't think that Clinton is that keen to social and economical equality like real liberal would do, but she maybe more European in her thinking and support for moderate forms of social safety net and of environmentalism. But word like Classical Liberals, Neoliberals, Liberal Conservatives, Liberals, Conservatives, Social Liberals, Conservative liberals, Libertarian conservatives, etc. don't really have consistent meaning outside Political Science, so it is quite hard to use them in such way that two people using same words mean same thing. But in short I would say that Clinton mostly supports how things are currently run, which I would say makes her quite conservative, but also somewhat liberal as foundation and culture of USA is quite liberal. I could do more in depth analysis her views, but I don't think I have such interest in me that I could ever do it way that it would have anymore value than me saying that she is Liberal Conservative.

Leferd please tell me you at least are excited about Hilary Clinton..I am worried how no one on this forun seems to like or support her ? It is probably because her best quality is one that many people at least publicly dislike. She is full blooded career politicians that bases her agenda to what she thinks public wants and she relies heavily on experts and other interested parties to form her answers and solutions instead of her own personal thinking, which make her look a person that is cold and who don't have solid foundation to her beliefs. Although when you add her understanding of law, political process of making laws and quite long experience of foreign politics to her ability to be "sock puppet", then she makes a excellent candidate for president, especially if you are liberal conservative. But as said she appearance may give cold and calculating expression to people, meaning that her personal charisma, which is for some people much important persons efficiency in job, may cause them seek some other candidate. Of course Hillary isn't best candidate for people that seek change in how politics are played in USA. For those Sanders is much better option if they want USA to take more socialistic approach, and for those who seek something else republican candidates may be only options. What's a liberal conservative? "As the conservative ideology in democratic countries embraced typical liberal institutions such as the rule of law, private property, the market economy, and constitutional representative government, the liberal element of liberal conservatism became consensual outside of the socialist camp. This consensus has been so complete in some countries (e.g. the United States) that the term liberal conservatism came to be understood simply as conservatism in popular culture, prompting some conservatives who embraced more strongly classical liberal values to call themselves libertarians. Nevertheless, the liberal conservative tradition in the United States often combines the economic individualism of the classical liberals with a Burkean form of conservatism that emphasizes the natural inequalities between men, the irrationality of human behavior as the basis for the embrace of traditional ethics, the human drive for order and stability, and the rejection of natural rights as the basis for government." - An Introduction to Political Science. Cengage Learning, 2011

ISIS/ISIL isn't just some organization that does terrorist attacks. It leadership has lot of Iraq old leaders, those bureaucrats and local leaders that actually were responsible of day to day running of things in Iraq during Saddam's reign. So they have actually quite good knowledge how to run a country and what and how you need to establish supply and production lines. Where they get all their resources, that is quite complex question, but they control big sunk of Iraq's oil field they have control over some oil refineries (meaning that they can produce diesel and gasoline themselves), they have billions of dollars worth of money that they got during Saddam's reign. They also got lot of that money that USA give Iraq for rebuilding, their weaponry comes from Iraq's own weapons, some are given by USA for Iraq's new defense force from whom ISIS has taken them or who are actually joined with ISIS or whom ISIS has bought them. Also there is no easy way to tell who belongs in ISIS and who are peaceful Iraqis or Syrians and it is especially hard with people that support ISIS but are from other countries. Which gives them ability to buy things from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, etc. countries where it is easy to ship things to Iraq and Syria. And they are also able to sell that oil which they produce to get more money. So ISIS is not just bunch of raiders, but actual terrorist country (for lack of better description). They actually run such as schools, hospitals, gas stations, etc. in areas that they control, probably because their leadership has members that know that you can't run country without them. And people should not forget that one of ISIS's goals is to establish new country run be them. But the answer to question where ISIS get their resources and money is that they get it from themselves, they loot some and from trade.

Leferd please tell me you at least are excited about Hilary Clinton..I am worried how no one on this forun seems to like or support her ? It is probably because her best quality is one that many people at least publicly dislike. She is full blooded career politicians that bases her agenda to what she thinks public wants and she relies heavily on experts and other interested parties to form her answers and solutions instead of her own personal thinking, which make her look a person that is cold and who don't have solid foundation to her beliefs. Although when you add her understanding of law, political process of making laws and quite long experience of foreign politics to her ability to be "sock puppet", then she makes a excellent candidate for president, especially if you are liberal conservative. But as said she appearance may give cold and calculating expression to people, meaning that her personal charisma, which is for some people much important persons efficiency in job, may cause them seek some other candidate. Of course Hillary isn't best candidate for people that seek change in how politics are played in USA. For those Sanders is much better option if they want USA to take more socialistic approach, and for those who seek something else republican candidates may be only options.

Base building seems to have it downside in causing game run worse when you have more complex bases and lots of supply routes. I would guess that minutemen patrols also are in partial blame as their numbers rise.

Which seems to be quite common thinking process among the voters as most of the talk I hear is why somebody should not be elected to be the president and much less reasons why one should be elected. It is quite strange way to approach such elections, but maybe it is realistic point of view, as it follows thinking "everybody is awful with such much power so we need to find one that is able to do least damage" (which is quite conservative world view, but not necessary unexpected if most of the people are happy with their lives as it is now).

Like how every victory that she has leads to another catastrophe and how regardless of what she does everything seems to keep to be miserable only thing that changes is who are the abusers and the killers. And how she constantly grows thicker skin that allows her to do more drastic measures. PoE isn't as dark and cynical as you are actually able to make people start to tolerate and live peacefully together.

I guess the difference is that ASOIAF feels dark and hopeless at all times, whereas PoE feels hopeless because they are in the middle of a very grave crisis, the kind of which I don't think we've never seen in the real world. Seriously, was there ever a plague which targeted only children while leaving adults alone? There has been quite lot of diseases that target only/mostly children (mainly because people that live to adulthood had immunity by nature or by surviving the disease). But there has been times in our history when infant death percent has been near 50% if not bit over and only under 30% of people actually ever saw adulthood. So hollowborn epidemic is actually more horrible for modern people than what it probably would had been to people that actually lived in our history's darkest times.

Game has choices and consequences quite lot, but player has quite little agency over the story as player's character mostly does what they do because of flow of the story. So in other words story don't follow players decision, but instead players decision follow events in the story, which come in linear fashion. It is format that IE games, which PoE tries to mimic, use. I personally have same preference as Chris in this subject.

Interview don't seem to be very political, only political views Jennifer Lawrence express in it are that she was raised to vote republicans, but currently she can't do that as she disagrees with GOP in some issues (mostly what consist women basic rights) that she feels strongly about and she thinks that Trump would make very bad president. So I am agreement with Bruce that interview in question isn't very political and those political views that there are, are quite mild. At least for american political debate.

If you have it in your inventory it'll be used automatically. You don't have to (and can't, as far as i'm aware) brake it manually. If you really want to scrap them you need to drop them to ground from you inventory and then you can use settlement mode to scrap them. But as said previous posters game will automatically break junk items that are in your inventory or in settlements storage when you build something that need resource that said junk item gives.

Full upgraded Dogmeat is best friend that wasteland wanderer can have.

Impressions so far: Story is typical Bethesda story, so it mainly works as explanation than motivation why player's characters is where they are and why that player finds are there. Voice acting is so far best that I have seen in Bethesda's Fallouts or Elder Scrolls games. Sound track is quite disappointment so far. Classical music radio is Ok, but Crystal city radio is just weak so far, mostly because of cringeworthy speaks with middle of songs that repeat often make it painful to listen (even force than similar radio station in Fallout 3) It continues Bethesda's tradition of walking simulators, exploration is addictive like it always is in this kind Behesda's games. Base building is mainly tool that gives player ability to something with all the junk they anyway collect. So far I haven't seen any deepness in it, so far it has been just increasing numbers with no need to think if what you are building actually works. Role playing has made to be nearly non-existent. In conversations you have mostly option to be sarcastic, yes/no man or ask more information. But in some conversation there are bit more nuanced options. But I would say that even Elder Scrolls' old pick conversation topic system felt more interactive than this. Character development system is build around SPECIAL attributes and perks. In beginning you get 21 points to put in attributes and then when you get level you get one point that you can but in attributes or perks. Attributes tell mostly how good you are in things and perks unlock special abilities, like pick locking, hacking, crafting. Although perks also give damage, health, carry capacity, find more stuff, etc. bonuses. Perk UI is quite awful. There are some bit more interesting perks like high level charisma perks that give you option to pacify enemies that are lower level than you character. Game seems to run smoothly enough. Brotherhood of Steel seems to again be the good guys without nuance Minutemen don't seem to live for their name Power armor use has been tied to resource management mini game. But made even more powerful than what it has been in past and it has it own HUD that which is quite nice touch Fatman is back sadly, and if you die in mysterious explosion it probably because raider shoot you with fatman. There seems to be also mines that don't appear again if you die on them and come back after the load. Close combat enemies are made to be annoying jumpers, probably to force player to use close combat weapons against them Bethesda seems to learn bit from Fallout 3 and Fallout 4's world is not as full of critters and critters don't seem to respawn or their respawn rate is very low. Textures and animations are Bethesda quality if you compare them to other games (even open world games) out there, but they are better than what they have been in any of their previous open world games. Final verdict: Playable, addictive, poor rpg, hiking simulator, excellent exploration, combat isn't noteworthy.

If you're talking about Blood Legacy then that's not true. Yeah, as in Blood Legacy and Defiance Bay missions (there is several) that include rescuing a person there is possibility to rescue them. Also in White March you are able to rescue people from the burning building, you also can rescue the man in Raedric's Keep, child, treasure hunters and spy in Twin Elms. I can't think any other quests where you go to rescue someone and I can't think single quest where there isn't option to rescue individual that you go to rescue.

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They have different over all system architectures. Which causes that some things are easier to do or work better on one system than another. And if you design game systems first one system in mind and then port them to another system that another system may suffer from this decision as even if it had more processing power than system which game was first designed for game don't necessary is able to use that power that well as it is designed to take advantage of that less powerful systems advantages. You can see this in many PC ports of the console games that have performance issues in machines that are multiple times more powerful than systems that games were originally designed.

If we look epicness of overall story arc in Lord of the Rings and Pillars of Eternity, we see that they are quite similar. 1. There is disagreement in divine order (in PoE gods have some disagreements and in LotR Valar have some disagreements), these disagreements are the original force that has pushed everything that happens to happen (although in PoE things are bit muddier, because of nature of gods and so). 2. One side of disagreement has player in the shadows that has favor of someone/someones in divine order, who play power game to strengthen cause of their patron. 3. There are elements in play that put current order of things in peril (War in LotR and Waidwen's Legacy in PoE) 4. Main protagonist is one that comes in play by change and heritage 5. 6. In both tale motivation behind protagonist is personal. (In LotR Frodo first need to seek help against things that hunt him [or more accurately what he possess] and then it changes to want to do the right thing (and that he don't want to give up the ring), in PoE protagonist is motivated first by curiosity and worry of what happened to them and then motivation changes bit more complex by player choices that make every player's protagonist's motivation at least somewhat different from each other) 7. In both tales there are adventures, twists, dangers etc. that protagonist needs to face. In case of LotR story is not fully focused on main protagonist as it is multi character story which gives reader much larger perspective on what is happening all around. Which is why we know about things like the war (at least humans part in it), Saruman's betrayal and etc. so much. If story had only followed Frodo then we would know much less on the peril that current order of things faces. We would have quite little personal touch to the war and the desperation it causes and heroism that it inspires. Or we wouldn't see the magnitude of Saruman's actions and destruction that they have caused. This things make the story feel more powerful but they don't actually add the epicness to it. In PoE we see only glimpses of devastation and desperation that Waidwen's Legacy has caused, but we don't feel those by ourselves because that devastation and desperation don't touch directly to our protagonist so it's all filtered by people who we hear about them, which softens the blow so much that we are able to make it background noise that don't need our immediate attention, similar effect how we filter news from war zones, disaster areas and such in real life. This approach don't make PoE any less epic story, but impact how those parts of story effect us isn't as direct and personal.

On big review sites I don't see this to be the case.

Harrison Ford don't publicly criticize movies that he acts in, as he see that it is his obligation as an actor to support the films that he is in. So if Ford doesn't like the movie you probably will not hear about it from him.

I would say that tone that PoE has is somewhat complex. It is high fantasy setting, as it has lots of magic, heroes, gods that interfere people's business, it has multitude of races, there are lots of fantastic creatures in the world, magic is part of society. Setting has darker tones, as it sets in land that still recovers from taxing war and it faces several crises, from which Waidwen's legacy is worst because its hits children from every social class and it cause is unknown which causes people seeking answers and blame everywhere around them. Because war was fought against entity that people believe to be one of their gods and that entity was destroyed in final battle of the war and god that entity said he is has been silent after said war, which has caused crisis of faith, which lead to cleansing of faith by people hunting and killing followers of said god. War and these cleansings have lead partial power vacuum that is filled by several new comers that want to have political power in Dyrwood, which of course has lead to some fighting between these new power groups. And of course recovering from war has caused economical crisis which is not helped by aforementioned crises. Economical crisis has caused increased of poverty, shortage of foods, decreased security of the roads, increase of criminal activity. These crises have different impact on different communities, like for example Gilded Vale is in worst condition of the all the communities that player can visit, it suffered greatly because of the war and it had major temple for Eothas (earlier mentioned god that is believed to be god and whose followers were hunted and killed) and with large number of followers for said god. It is also been hit very hard by Waidwen's legacy and increased banditry has made its ability to recover very poor. This desperate times have lead current lord of the area become very harsh with his punishments to criminals and other people that he don't like. Defiance Bay in other hand has much less of that feeling of desperation that Gilded Vale has, there war and it legacies don't cast so deep shadows and it has started to recover and build up. But there is rising tensions between those above mention new players in political field and of course there are outside powers in play that want take advantage from their weak position. And of course Waidwen's legacy causes some desperation even though situation isn't as bad as it is in Gilded Vale. And then there are Dyrford and Twin Elms that are communities that don't suffer as much from previously mentioned crises, but they have some of their own and of course those main crises have been felt even though their effects aren't as direct and blooming. And of course there is murder, greed, scheming, kith sacrifices, horrid science experiments, mad men etc. that give setting darker edge. But on lighter side there is quite lot humor (which tone I would say drying than what you for example find from Bioware's games), there is heroism, self sacrificing, moments of selfness, constant hope for better future, rescuing innocents, killing villains, co-existing with non-kith races, etc. And then everything is made grey by making some dark actions to lead lighter and more hopeful events and some light actions to lead more desperation and destruction. And end results is melancholic (like Infinitron said), bit hopeful and somewhat satisfying but also somewhat wanting more and able to make things even better (or worse). I also would say that it isn't any darker than for example Baldur's Gate or Baldur's Gate II, but how bad things are told to player is bit more hard hitting and because of the dry tone of the humor that darkness goes much more rarely fully in background than what it does in BGs. In my opinion setting isn't too dark or too light to story that it tries to tell and it works for my tastes so from poll options I would choose just right. I would say that humor isn't necessary absolutely what i would like best, but mostly it works for me. In end I would like have bit more ability to impact world and how it will advance and some cases I would had liked to have bit different result options as now they were in some cases just bad, bad and badder in my opinion. But overall story and the setting was quite satisfying.

But we didn't even got to opinions phase of debate as we didn't even find out how you define word math

It isn't opinion it is my definition for math and definition (definitions aren't opinions but information how one means with words that they use) that is generally accepted for it (meaning that it is definition that most dictionaries give for that word). You can see that I have stated my definitions for math several times during this discussion. And formed my post using that definition. You haven't yet defined what you mean with word math (short from mathematics? or something else), so I assumed first that you don't oppose my definition, but that don't seem to be the case, so it is quite hard to speak to you about this subject as we don't seem to have common words that we could use as we both seem to use now same words to mean different things. But as long as you don't define what you mean by math I can't accept your statement that I think that Math don't exist because I am Elf (name or nationality? I don't know) that relies on magic.

I think you need some magic to actually understand what math is, but everybody is free to defined words as they want, but don't be surprised if other people don't know what you mean. I provided 2 links to articles that fully discuss what you claim to be "magic" I respectfully disagree with your point of view on Math. You won't change my mind but I'm also trying to get back on topic. Agree to disagree? Definition of mathematics is the study of the measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities and sets, using numbers and symbols. Links that you provided didn't change that they spoke more how things study in mathematics aren't necessary inventions of humans but things that have always existed in universe, but that don't change definition of mathematics. Like for example meaning of geology didn't change when people realized that world isn't actually flat, but sphere. As I have said you can define math in anyway you want, but I will probably will continue to correct if people try to claim that I have something else than what I have said.

I think you need some magic to actually understand what math is, but everybody is free to defined words as they want, but don't be surprised if other people don't know what you mean.