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If we look European countries that are under strain because of existing populace we will find that it is most cases because age structure in those countries is starting to become too top heavy, so flood of under 35 year old refugees will actually lessen that strain during next couple decades, but of course on short-term it can make things worse especially if the refugee flow continues to be uncontrolled.

Scaled stuff is not actually that challenging for high level party as bonus that scaling gives enemies is not that great. Meaning that encounters which are actually designed (meaning adra dragon, bounties, etc.) for high level parties are still more challenging. If you want to scale the game just drop 10 (or 15) points from all your defenses and accuracy and you have about replicated what that scaling does.

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WM don't become high level content even with scaling, it just make monsters there bit more challenging, but it is still quite easy for high level characters. Main plot is always been easy for high level characters, WM didn't really change that any way. Some side content in WM and other places in world is aimed to high level characters, which can offer one some challenge addition to Cragholdt's Bluf, but there isn't really encounters that are challenging for party of six well build max level characters. Yep, I know it. But main thing and my problem/question is that, in what order and with which modifictions(Hard,PoTD,exp nerf 25/50% IE mod) I should visit and complete respective locations. I heard that completing WM+additional subquest(Old Nua,bounties) give us too much exp with reference to finishing main plot in satisfying way,game is too easy. And players have to choose between leaving WM/new companions for the end of gamethrogh or use WM content, but later on fighting in main story is boring and not challenging even with PoTD. That's why my question come from . If you do side content in vanilla campaign you can level up so much that plot advancing quests become cake walk, this is because plot quest are designed so that people that skip most of side content still can finish the game, which means that they just can't offer that much challenge for max level parties..

WM don't become high level content even with scaling, it just make monsters there bit more challenging, but it is still quite easy for high level characters. Main plot is always been easy for high level characters, WM didn't really change that any way. Some side content in WM and other places in world is aimed to high level characters, which can offer one some challenge addition to Cragholdt's Bluf, but there isn't really encounters that are challenging for party of six well build max level characters.

Scaling option is/was meant in first place for those people that had already finished the game and want to use their character(s) which they used to finish the game to play the expansion also, but not have it to be too easy as expansion was designed to be mid game content.

In my understanding no. Game checks your level when you first time go in Stalwart and if you are level 9+ then it gives you option to rise levels of the enemies in White March areas and you can't reverse that choice you made and if you weren't high enough levels when you enter Stalwart first time you will never see the question.

Dude are you being serious about that Finnish dislike of small talk...that doesn't sound very nice. South Africans are very comfortable and enjoy making small talk....I would also battle to live in Finland. I make small talk all the time....but I dont see it as irrelevant as it helps to build a rapport with someone..normally a stranger. And that can be useful Here example how people in my home city will react when you try to small talk with us. Although you can get much more out if you offer couple rounds in bar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4fSiWSphe4

Finland will create much worse impression in time period from December to February when temperature here is averagely between -10 - -30 degree of Celsius and you see sun only couple hours in day. Culture shock that it causes for people from ME is enormous even when one is prepared to it not to mention people that aren't. Do people have to work if its -30 ?And what public transport, is it operational in this cold ? -30 don't usually cause any big problems, schools and such start to close when it goes below -40. Public transport will operate if there aren't technical problems like Italian made trains that have problems to work in such temperatures. That sounds hectic to me....you must realize I dont think I have ever experienced anything lower than -10. And this is only from Skiing in Austria...so how cold is your average ski resort? Anyway the thought of -30 terrifies me a little. I am just imagining having to go to work in that cold...going to gym...meeting people at bars, it must be tough at times to motivate yourself I would say that during days temperature is somewhere between -5 - -15 degrees of Celsius on average day in Lapland's resorts and during nights it is probably somewhere -10 - -20 degrees of Celsius. There is usually one to five those -20 - -30 days during winter and couple that are colder. Past few years winters have been warmer than that, but this year seem to indicate that winter will again be colder. -30 makes it uncomfortable to be outside long periods of time, especially if there is wind, as protecting your face can be tricky, and I would not recommend heavy exercise as breathing such cold air isn't good for your lungs when you take deep breaths. But in warm clothing it isn't problem to be outside even several hours at the time (although I would recommend not try such in first time when you are in such temperature, as you don't know how your body reacts towards such coldness and it can be surprisingly tiring).

Doesn't sound like them being much of refugees if an incoming cold winter and an economic downturn would make them think twice. //edit: They were Iraqis, lol I'm fine if less refugees come to Europe because they think life is hard in the EU...life is harder in the EU than people assume So Elerond and Meshugger if you guys are feeling guilty about Finland creating such a bad impression of the EU....don't feel guilty. People also need to see the negative of the EU that isn't even that severe Finland will create much worse impression in time period from December to February when temperature here is averagely between -10 - -30 degree of Celsius and you see sun only couple hours in day. Culture shock that it causes for people from ME is enormous even when one is prepared to it not to mention people that aren't. Do people have to work if its -30 ?And what public transport, is it operational in this cold ? -30 don't usually cause any big problems, schools and such start to close when it goes below -40. Public transport will operate if there aren't technical problems like Italian made trains that have problems to work in such temperatures.

Doesn't sound like them being much of refugees if an incoming cold winter and an economic downturn would make them think twice. //edit: They were Iraqis, lol I'm fine if less refugees come to Europe because they think life is hard in the EU...life is harder in the EU than people assume So Elerond and Meshugger if you guys are feeling guilty about Finland creating such a bad impression of the EU....don't feel guilty. People also need to see the negative of the EU that isn't even that severe Finland will create much worse impression in time period from December to February when temperature here is averagely between -10 - -30 degree of Celsius and you see sun only couple hours in day. Culture shock that it causes for people from ME is enormous even when one is prepared to it not to mention people that aren't.

U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 Same time in US Teen prosecuted as adult for having naked images – of himself – on phone http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/20/teen-prosecuted-naked-images-himself-phone-selfies

Comparable how? Or are you counting your native population birth rate as a collective or your genuine native population. Because last time I looked, the only reason most European countries have a positive birth:death ratio, is because the immigrants have several children and make the overall stats look better. And where did you get 850 million, EU has about 500. I get my numbers from the World Bank and UN websites, as opposed to the time honored tradition of pulling the numbers out of your ass. The UN sets a cautious estimate of the population of EU at 738 million. Source. While other projections are almost a billion when Russia, Turkey and other countries some times affiliated with Europe are counted in, so I went with a nice middle ground. Do you also need help with finding sources on population growth? Your source claims that's the population number for the continent of Europe, not the Union. EU's population is about 500 million.

Article behind link is in Finnish, as I don't have seen any articles about this in English, so I must use this http://yle.fi/uutiset/irakilaiset_varoittavat_toisiaan_somessa_alkaa_tulko_suomeen_taalla_on_kauheaa/8320618?ref=leiki-uu Iraqi refugees in Finland have started to advice other refugees that they should not come in Finland or even Europe because even though there is safe life will be much harder and very humiliating. Also it is mentioned that everything is expensive, toilets are unclean, refugee centers give very small portions of food, refugees can't work. Also it is mentioned that some refugees say in social media that they want to return in home. So what do you think isn't our social paradise on Earth that nice (very likely) or do these people just try make their own situation better in future by dissuading their commorades from coming here (or other places in Europe)?

Obama can be pretty funny. Bad president, but decent comedian. Isn't this old....like 2011 old ? It seems to be that old, it has just resurfaced in social media, probably because it fits so well in current debates.

inorite? The whole setup in Gilded Vale really seemed like it was leading to that. The two should really have been blended together. Josh's argument is logical if you look it from point that they didn't had enough resources to polish every feature in the game and as Stronghold turn out to be much more difficult to implement than they expected, so when they had to look features that they don't polish they probably had bias to look reasons not to polish Stronghold (as they didn't really have resource to do that anyway), which lead them notice anti-stronghold faction much more than they noticed other anti-factions (not including anti-romance) and use that as rationale why it would be wasteful to put resources in the stronghold. Their original concepts for stronghold show that they planned to make it much more interactive than what it become at end. As Tim seemed to have planned whole own mini-game around it. Similarly crafting, skills, resting and cooking become much simpler than what their original plans for them were.

Obama seem to care less and less what people think about him these days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8TwRmX6zs4

Not at university level, no - but that's no reason for ad hominems. I think you may be misunderstanding what I meant by "back to the beginnings". Christians believe that Jesus existed as a pacifist preacher who walked around Judea and Samaria (today known as the West Bank) around 30 AD to teach and heal people, and that the first Christian churches were established in line with his teachings shortly after his death. So that's what a "Back to the original teachings!" reformation naturally moves towards in the case of Christianity. Whether Christianity was actually formed in the 4th century and the now-canonical origin story inserted retroactively (a theory held by some historians, and apparently considered a fact by you), is totally irrelevant to that. You would think that is what they would move towards, but if you look reformation movements of Christianity they took more from old testament that they took from teachings of Jesus. They also were quite heavy in punishment of sins where Jesus mostly taught about forgiveness. Also some Christian reformation movements were heavily influenced by states, like in Sweden, Gustav I decided to secede from Catholic Church after disagreement with pope and decided to convert Sweden to Lutheranism (influenced by Lutheran scholar) and used Luther's teaching that Church should not have large treasuries to seize gold, silver and other valuables from Sweden's churches during conversion to enrich his own treasury (which was quite empty after Swedish war of liberation). In England Henry VIII (of Tudors) decided to separate from Rome and Pope and declare himself to Supreme Head of the Church of England, he also seized quite lot of churches treasuries to England's treasury (which had also suffered from previous wars and conflict with Rome and civil unrests in England). These (and other) separations from influence of Rome lead latter on additional conflicts between Rome supporting states and separated states, some of these conflicts were so heavy that they still cause conflicts between people in Europe. Point begin that reformations in Christianity didn't always born or/and spread out because of religious revelations and that many of them didn't focus on teaching of peace, forgiveness and harmony, but repentance of sins, converting killing infidels including other Christians that didn't followed their interpretation of Bible. And they were more often than not used by some state leader as tool to achieve their political goals.

It happened for similar reasons as it has always has, because people have fears (justifiable or unjustified don't matter) and some politician have seen their opportunity to get power in exploiting those fears by promising to solve them. But as we see currently in Finland such promises are much easier to give than keep when it comes to facing realities of world. I am currently quite curios to see if True Finns are capable to keep their support in next elections (of course current crises are well timed for them as they are beginning of current parliament election cycle), but four years is short time when it comes to crises that currently face us. True Finns are just the same manifestiation of the problem as SD in Sweden, Front National in France and so on, which goes back to your original point about politicians prolificating from fears: Are they actually all cynical oppurtunists? That's quite the claim to make. With the same logic, occupy Wall Street was about exploiting the rage of indebted people. When their main agendas surround those fears and how they will prevent those fears never becoming true or at least do their best to fight against them then they are in my opinion opportunist especially when we speak about parties that weren't previously in power. Of course there are always more nuances than any simple explanation can give, but if you look commonalities in those right wing parties you, see that how they speak how immigrants take jobs from original population and how they do more crimes (these are points that play with people's fears [which of course can be justified, but anyway they are aimed towards people's fears]), also with EU they speak how EU dictates things and forces to do things that people don't want (this also plays on people's fears [and again they can be justified, but anyways they are aimed towards something that people fear]), also with Greece they points are how Greece will take all our money (again playing with people's fears [justifiable or not] ). So to me all their main agendas use people's fears to get them motivated to vote them. Opportunist part comes from my opinion that all (at least most) politicians are opportunists that just look ways to motivate people to vote them (For example for governing parties usually motivate people by appeal their habit to dislike any big changes). Occupy Wall Street used people's anger (justified or not, but anger anyways) towards things and it would not had existed without that anger. Of course there may have been some other things that drive them as I did read quite little about it (mostly only about the police brutality cases that got quite lot press time).

This was really never a thing in non-trivial fights, except at the farthest end of optimization. C'mon, man, people are still complaining about that. They were wrong then, and they're wrong now. During early days of beta when large shields gave +30 deflection and and you could put multiple stat enchantments in armor you were able to make such tank fighters that any enemy in beta could not hit them (and if my calculations are correct with those deflection bonuses from beta fighter could have deflection that is over 200 in level 12, meaning that even adra dragon can't really hit them). Yes I know, but in this thread people have said that its ok that classes aren't balanced as game is single player which is why it don't matter that traditional spell casters become so powerful in end game, and by that logic it should not also matter if you give other classes back things that were nerfed away from them to make game more balanced, fun and challenging (I personally liked quite lot when level one chanters were able to kill everything without ever risking themselves as they were able to summon new skeletons and sent them kill enemies to other side of map and kill enemies with attrition).

Maybe devs should bring back immortal fighters and summons that don't vanish after battle, machine gun ciphers and one shot paladins and rogues, so we could get people complain how weak traditional casters are compared to other classes as balance don't matter in SP games. So that everybody can have fun with the game.

It happened for similar reasons as it has always has, because people have fears (justifiable or unjustified don't matter) and some politician have seen their opportunity to get power in exploiting those fears by promising to solve them. But as we see currently in Finland such promises are much easier to give than keep when it comes to facing realities of world. I am currently quite curios to see if True Finns are capable to keep their support in next elections (of course current crises are well timed for them as they are beginning of current parliament election cycle), but four years is short time when it comes to crises that currently face us.

"We better not send Achmed to Berlin to blow himself up in a suicide-attack, the trip is simply too dangerous. He might get hurt", yeah, what great rationale. I would guess that they actually mean that there are easier, safer, faster and more reliable methods to get their members in EU than sent them to travel with refugees in those hazardous routes where there are no guarantees that they get even close to any real targets.

Conservatives in US seems also be highly impacted by current wave of "Political Correctness" in US "It was just of hand joke" gives Emily Blunt as her defense as she forced to apologize her joke about GOP debate and US citizenship.