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Joss Whedon makes characters that some people like and some people don't like and because of that he will receive praise and criticism, which some is well though and some is just thought vomit and amount of that criticism and praise is massive because millions of people know his work and has opinions of his work. It really don't have anything to do any political/social/economical/etc. movements/ideologies, although probably every movement/ideology at least in western countries have people that have opinions about his characters and when they express those thoughts they are often wrapped by their world views, which usually causes them to be single sighted and highly interpreted by those said world views. Which of course don't necessary mean that their interpretations anyway represent movements/ideologies that they believe, but that they have hard time to see whole picture because of their base like/dislike towards said characters, which is why they try to make up reason for their dis/like by using world views as reference point. (I know, there is no better way to express my thoughts) So for example feminist that likes Joss Whedon's female characters will find reason why those characters are feminist and feminist that don't like his characters will find reason why they are anti-feminist. You can find examples of this from many feminist writings about Buffy. And you can find out that this is not something that is unique for feminist movements/ideologies. I believe Joss when he says that twitter is distraction and addictive thing, which distracted him from things that he likes to do more, because it can give you constant feed of messages that are easy distraction, even though not very meaningful and not necessary that fun, but that easiness of way how it distracts you can be very sneaky and it is very easy to slip back to it, because people have ability to access it from everywhere and they can access it fast and it gives feeling that it don't really take any time to do so, even though it is easy to spent hours in reading messages and commenting things. And same goes to many other successful social media platforms and things aren't made better by fact that many people communicate many of their acquaintances/friends only by social media. Anyway people that attack other people in social media or other internet services are in my opinion idiotic that should learn to behave better.

Every place in PoE has meaningful name, even if you don't know what that meaning is. They have alien sound because of that, and that alien sound makes setting feel much better than using some English phrases, because that would drop history behind the setting. It is similar mechanic that Tolkien used in Middle-Earth to make it feel that it has history behind it. If you don't appreciate such effort fine, but in my opinion you don't just understand what makes good setting.

In my opinion they should go with all in crafting system, where you can enchant all the wearable items and have ability to put about any enchantment that there is on them, but I also think that they should make enchantments recipes such that you can find them all around world and some you need to buy/learn from masters. And they also should go back to their original vision that you need forges, labs, etc. to enchant and craft items. And of course materials for better enchantments should be rare or even unique. Current solution to limit enchanting to make findable loot feel more special don't seem to have desired effect within players so as compromise didn't work so I do see little point keeping it in the game anymore.

Pigs were one of animals that often had parasites in past before better domestication and medicines that were dangerous for humans, which is speculated to be reason why Jews considered them as unclean and I would guess that it was similar reason for early Muslims. But one don't write in holy book that you can't eat this meat because it may make you sick or even kill you, but that some holy power has deemed animal to be unclean/dirty/etc.. And threat from those parasites has not yet fully disappeared. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/05/110502-wild-pigs-parasites-animals-pork-science-health-nation/

0.1% of game owners in steam have unlocked it and you can find several guides how to do it from these forums. Still at that percentage its a very rare one to be had. Not for the weak hearted Yeah, although only 6.3% of owners have even finished the game at first place.

But you can stack deflection from shields, hatchets and rings/cloaks/etc..

it does poor job to describe world outside of Dyrwood area. I'd say that's intentional. For Obsidian it's better to be vague now so they can adapt the setting as the games progress. Yeah, but my message was only to point out that if you are interested about other parts of Eora, than Dyrwood region, then that book will not help you much.

0.1% of game owners in steam have unlocked it and you can find several guides how to do it from these forums.

That is right they don't count against solo achievement

Yes but it don't mean that topic is not worth to talk nevertheless Remember the definition of Trolling on these forums for some people is when someone makes a point you don't like, agree with or just don't understand I am not Trolling, I stand by my points on this topic. I may be wrong thats not the same thing as trolling I took it more that you try get people give their reactions, opinions, objections, etc. for the topic without actually giving your view point for the topic. In other words fishing reactions, which is something that is at least past considered as trolling. Trolling isn't inherently bad, even though it meaning and how people react towards it is changed quite lot in past two decades, as now internet troll seems to mean criminal, people that are offensive towards other members of forum/social media/etc.. Internet vocabulary expands and evolves so fast that it is nearly impossible to keep up with it. Okay maybe, I never thought of Trolling like that before. I see Trolling as a negative thing where people make a point just to get a emotional reaction and have no intention of really debating the issue And in this case I have stated my own opinion but I am still interested in what others have to say Getting people mad by making outrageous claims is probably what is caused trolling become synonym to all bad behavior in the internet. But when I started use internet forums in middle of 90s trolling was usually used in reference of people starting topics asking opinions of something without actually giving clear indication what they think it themself and after initial reactions they offer partial version of their opinion to get people continue and so on and so forth. So something like what interviewer would do in focus group interview, but because people haven't consented such they start to feel that they are played or in other words trolled.

Yes but it don't mean that topic is not worth to talk nevertheless Remember the definition of Trolling on these forums for some people is when someone makes a point you don't like, agree with or just don't understand I am not Trolling, I stand by my points on this topic. I may be wrong thats not the same thing as trolling I took it more that you try get people give their reactions, opinions, objections, etc. for the topic without actually giving your view point for the topic. In other words fishing reactions, which is something that is at least past considered as trolling. Trolling isn't inherently bad, even though it meaning and how people react towards it is changed quite lot in past two decades, as now internet troll seems to mean criminal, people that are offensive towards other members of forum/social media/etc.. Internet vocabulary expands and evolves so fast that it is nearly impossible to keep up with it.

it does poor job to describe world outside of Dyrwood area.

Yes http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pillars-Eternity-Hero-PC-DVD/dp/B00QGNX0P2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430745273&sr=8-1&keywords=pillars+of+eternity+pc Although it is steam bound. Some backers (those who paid to get one) will get DRM and service free physical copies of the game.

Yes but it don't mean that topic is not worth to talk nevertheless

When we speak organizations like Boko Haram, we should not forgot that we had quite lot bad people in our countries, although our government and peace keeping organizations usually can keep it so that such people don't get parts of country fully under their control, like they have done in some parts of world. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-19984615 http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/organized-crime-and-human-trafficking/trafficking-in-human-beings/index_en.htm

I can't be sure in this particular case, because I haven't seen any actual art from this exhibition, but usually in these cases people just try make things that they think people will find offensive and some better ones try to put them in form of political satire or social commentary, but as general these kind exhibitions try to cause outrage in some subsection of people who exhibition organizers don't like. Because by doing so they get press time for their opinions and world view that they wouldn't get otherwise.

Point behind this kind events is to get some idiots riled so much that they attack/try attack the show (when you do such shows enough of times you eventually find someone/s that are just crazy and idiotic enough to do such attack), because that make public see all the people belonging to same broad group as attackers to be dangers to society that need to be watched and whose rights can be violated. Should such controversial shows be legal, yes. Should they such idiots (meaning people that purposefully try get violent reaction from people so that they can claim that those belonging same group (religious, racial, national, sports fan club, etc.) of people who attacked them should not have same rights as them) that do them get protection of law, yes. But in my opinion press should do better job not making such people some heroes of free speech, because they really aren't such, as they usually think that only right sort of people should have right to free speech and their whole act is to get public opinion to same wave length. But anyway to your question it is worth for the organizers to have this kind event, because they convey their message better than anything else, as most other cases their message would go unheard as public would mainly ignore it as idiotic and something that is against their values, but when they make events that get threatened by attacks or better attacked their message will get in news and it becomes easier to public accepts it and usually it don't put them at risk as most of the risk goes to those who protect them from the possible attack/attack.

1) Some players do enjoy the challenge of getting all achievements and value the 100% badge. For them, achievements are a part of the game experience. 2) Achievements are supposed to be awarded for in-game accomplishments. These players are arguing against something that should never have been an achievement in the first place, not whining to get something they "did nothing to earn". In addition to being wholly inappropriate in that regard, the backer achievemet also prevents non-backers from getting 100% achievement completion and thus damages their experience. It's not difficult to understand why they complain about it. 3) I'm a gamer, and I don't want to see this s*** become common in an industry that I care about. Also: Empathy for fellow gamers. I might not enjoy achievements like they do, but I don't see any good reason to screw up part of their experience. There are better ways to reward backers or make them feel special. 1. It is not challenge achievement, it is mark that person has kickstarted the game. It really don't block people getting all the achievements it only cause that number representing all the achievements collected is not 100%. If your game enjoyment is tied to fact that you can get it say 100% there is several ways to do it, and it should not matter as it isn't gameplay achievement. (People for example can get it by using steam achievement hacking program or by buying kickstarter copy of the game from me [limited supply] ). 2. Achievements are arbitrary things that developers have decided that they could be fun to mark that player has done them, things that developers want to see how many players have done them (like for example finished the game), sometimes they even are mark that player has done something in the game that developers feel to be worth to mention. But they really aren't any kind of awards, because developers rarely use them as such, at least when we speak all achievements that game offers. 3. I am gamer and I feel that if this is **** that cause people problems it is better to remove achievement system as whole, because it really only works to distract people from games they play. For example developers have for years already added new achievements in the their games that can be only achieved by buying their newest DLC and such achievement add-ons destroy players 100% marking, even if they don't buy the new DLC. Meaning that if it really matter that one has 100% achievements they are forced to buy DLCs so that they can keep that number up. So I say that it is just better for gaming at general that people start to learn that getting 100% of achievements is meaningless especially when it is used to force people buy bad DLCs just to keep up that record. But anyway this is thing that people already complained during KS, addition with backer only ingame things. And I am quite sure that Obsidian probably will not offer those things in any of their future KSs if they decide to do more of them.

When Obsidian launched their Kickstarter for PoE quite lot of first day backers spoke against backer only achievement, pet and item, but in that point there wasn't anymore anything that Obsidian could do as Kickstarter don't allow removing promised rewards on levels that have backers and when they promise something as reward they are actually legally binded to deliver it. Although if they decided to breach the contract that they made with backers by changing those rewards so that everybody that has bought the game can have them, then I would be quite surprised if somebody would sue them for breach of contract, but it would make at least some people think twice before they trust anything that Obsidian promises in future and such thing isn't usually good for business. But anyway and on the actual point of this message, if somebody really wants that KS achievement and don't want use hacks to get it, then you are on luck as I have couple keys for the KS edition of the game and I am willing to sell them with quite reasonable price. If you are interested sent me private message.

Any map of the stronghold, not any map in general. Sorry, I guess I am a bit dense today. Any map of the Stronghold? What does that mean? When you click rest in any of the maps that Stronghold consists, meaning country yard, Brighthollow down- and upstairs, throne room, prison, library and barracks, and shops, church, and warden lodge, you can decide to take rest bonuses that you previously got only in second floor of Brighthollow.

Danger sign that tells you all the important information.

All foreigners, and many Britishers get this totally wrong. The key point is that we don't actually need to vote for parties AT ALL. We vote for a person. Parties are supposed to form when the monarch asks a given person if they can form a government. The government doesn't even technically need to have the majority of MPs. Hence what I'll end up doing is voting for the bugger I like, rather than the party they are in. Sorry, in scando-land such a thing is incomprohensible, as we inhale socialism and exhale solidarity. Can this "person" you speak of have thoughts and form opinions of their own? Well, i never! Either you belong to a group or become shunned by all, that's what i say! You can vote person even in such scando-land systems, but because one person and form minority government/cabinet, but that is usually just waste of time, because one person don't have power in parliament of hundreds of people, so they need to create alliances (in other words parties) to get anything done and minority governments/cabinets have bad habit to fall soon as there is issue that MP in opposition don't like (we have had several minority cabinets that weren't very long-lasting). Although our voting system favors parties especially bigger parties because of usage of D'Hondt method. In parliament votes parties can use issue party discipline, meaning demand to vote as party sees best instead of what individual MP sees best if there is discord in party by threatening its members with different punishments (closing them out from party's functions or in some case even by threating firing them from the party), which usually would make MPs in question job much harder (although not impossible but rarely MPs go against them, at best they just don't vote), which is not necessary best way to do democratic politics, but such things are hard to prevent in any political systems that are based on cooperation between large number of people.

That is almost never the case. In most cases, achievements are goals set by developers and therefore, by definition, a very much intended way of playing the game. Actually developers often use achievements keep track how many players have get to what point in the game. But usually they are challenge suggestions for gamers that have bested the game. But by definition limiting oneself by limits (like playing tactical group based game with only single character) that game don't put over one (by changing for example difficulty mode of the game) aren't intended ways to play the game, even if developers give one sticker for doing so. Game is balanced to those intended modes/ways to play, which of course don't mean that it can't be played by limiting oneself, but it becomes harder and more challenging and may need use of glitches/heavy meta knowledge/etc. things to actually be bested because developers have not taken account those limitations when they balanced the game. For example when PoE was released nobody in developing team wasn't succeed to achieve triple crown solo achievement and they weren't sure that if it is even possible because of that fact, which tells us quite clearly that they have not balanced game in taking account that particular way to play the game, even though they put it as achievement, which they did because they know what lengths players of their previous games have gone to challenge themselves.

Considering there's an explicit achievement for triple crown solo playthrough, I'd say your definition of "intended" is a bit lacking. All official modes of play are intended—that includes all difficulties and any number of party members including solo—and all of them deserve balance in all things. Achievements don't tell what kind ways to play game is balanced for or intended be played, but to show that player has done something that developers feel is worth to be mentioned.