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    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-11-23-why-are-we-stuck-with-games-being-released-on-a-friday
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    But it wasn't laws that caused content cuts, as PEGI and similar boards accepted game in its original form, but Ubisoft sti ll decided cut some content out because they deemed it would help them to market game better. Which they of course have every right to do, but I can understand that some people feel somewhat scammed when versions of game that were promised to be uncut by Ubisoft revealed tone edited versions in some places.
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    If Crimea declares itself independent it is pretty much same as if it joins in Russia, because Crimea don't have economical or military power to keep itself independent and by separating from Ukraine, Russia will be only country that can offer economical and military aid for it as Russia will block any help from other countries as controlling black sea is too important thing for Russia to lose. And to ensure their control in black sea Russia will make sure that its naval bases in Crimea will not be touched and they probably will add some civilian ports in their control zone and remove any traveling restrictions and tolls considering Russian citizens. And Russian military will probably take permanent residency in Crimea to protect it against all foreign aggressions. So I don't see that Crimea has any real option for independence. And for Ukraine it could be very costly in its current state let Crimea declare itself independent as people of Ukraine are currently divined and Crimea's separation would throw more gas in those problems and could easily lead in civil war.
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    Answer to all questions is I will let developers decided what the see to be best for them and for the games.
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    I like more our army structure where majority of army's power comes from conscripted reserves which means that government cannot use army against anything that people don't approve and army can't do coups at least not easily. Although this and our quite strict gun control laws don't stop us owing guns as there is one civilian owned gun per every three citizens. For topic itself I would say that gun control laws or banning guns don't stop people murdering or killing each other, but gun control laws in my country work at least in some extend to stop unstable people getting guns in their hand and people need to know how to use gun before they can buy one which has decreased accidental deaths and injuries by guns noticeably.
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    But if law is against moral code of other countries that are getting involved, then that itself works as their justification to get involved as you said all justifications are based on some sort of moral code. And if other countries don't get involved it is also justified by their moral code and works as statement towards issue on hand, as silent acceptance of law. Of course law maybe against moral values of countries that don't get involved, but their values also have other things that they see be more important, like for example country's right of self governance and independent decision making and those values of course can be canceled by facts that they don't want to finance countries that have moral values that are so much conflict against their own values, which of course can be in conflict in their moral values that they should support countries that don't have resources to feed and educate their people and so on. So at the end of day everyone has justification for their actions that are based on their moral values but questions is that which values are most dominant and which parties have most resources or/and will to push their values to be the dominant ones.
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    This is only true way to stop a car
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    Sochi 2014

    Elerond replied to obyknven's topic in Way Off-Topic

    Not in coverage. They suck because they played better than Finnish team most of the match and they had audacity to win. It is typical view for Finnish sports fan in Olympics especially if it was Sweden on winning side.
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    Omniscient Wikipedia tells us that both Constant and Constantine are mainly names for males And that some female variations of name are Constance, Connie, Constancia and Constanza. Although today more and more names have become such that you can see them given both genders. And it's always been common occurrence that name that is given for one gender in one country/region is given other gender in it's neighbor.
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    I would play Titanfall if Origin would allow me add beta key instead of throwing error message that say that "An error has occurred while trying to process your request. Please, try again later." hopefully it will work tomorrow. So as Titanfall don't work I probably play new version of Divinity Original Sin, which was released today.
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    Lol? They already got paid for this project; they already saw demand on this project; i should say this is one of the most non-risking projects in game history. Where u see GREAT risk? Failing to produce good enough game will in most probably impact much heavier on public opinion of their future game than what would happen if game was publisher funded. And when they produce games for publisher they also get paid before they ship the game. And in both scenarios if game is good enough they get extra money, in publisher funded games they get bonuses that are usually tied on reviews and sold copies and KS model they get money from sold copies. Risk for them comes after game has been shipped as they need money from somewhere to pay for their employees, so if they don't have another project on the line, regardless is it publisher or crowdfunded they need to pay their employees from their own pockets, meaning those bonuses or sales revenue. And it should be also remembered that they already plan to make expansion pack fro PoE from their own pockets which lowers their ability to put their own money in PoE itself.
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    There is no hard deadlines in software development only soft, softer and when it is ready
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    Might be just you. Wolves don't have a distinct mane, or a "fat" muzzle/head like that, or a long, lion-like tail like that. Etc. *Shrug* Mayby so, but at least i think that their jaw is a little bit to long ... but mayby it's becouse of angle ... To me it look very lion like, maybe bit more square, but that is probably result from low polygon count.
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    Cat model looks good in my opinion, as with some shaders it will have that magical effect what Lephys mentioned. I like how death godlikes look, those heads make me want to make death godlike be my first characters race. Both areas look superb, they capture exactly that aesthetics what I expect from this game. Earth godlike's portraits look magnificent. Question is that portrait for female orlan based earth godlike or some other race or are they general portraits for all earth godlikes? Ears in those pictures make me think that she has orlan heritage.
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    I don't think it was ability to write high quality stuff in romance path (as they could always hire specialized writer do it if they doubt themselves) which lead their decision but how they would implement influence system that is able to make progression of romance feel natural and don't have gimmicky mechanics that make characters fall love you even though your interaction with that character don't give any previous indication for such thing (especially when they try to get rid of such gimmicks in other aspects of the game).
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    In Mario games you control character named Mario and your goal is to pass challenges on levels and you win game when there is no more challenges. In role-play you play a character or sometimes multiple characters, you don't control your character/s, but are your character/s. And when you combine role-play with game, you add rules and goals, which tell how your character/s work and what you need to do to win the game. And when we put role-play game in video game format, then things get bit blurry which causes quite much confusion, as in typical crpg you play role of character by controlling that character's avatar, which make experience much more like a Mario game than role-play, which is why character building mechanics and player's ability to control his or her character's choices and motivations become important features to make game role-playing game, not because they allow role-playing (you can role-play character, which avatar you control in any game if you want, as you always can invent motivations, etc.), but because they force player to role-play his or her character.
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    And in most of Europe guilds allowed women to work in their fathers and husbands forges and in some cases they were allowed to own and run forge if they inherit one, I don't have any knowledge if they did or didn't have these exceptions in Bohemia. It should probably also be mentioned that even though woman could own and run forge she could not get guild's permit, which often meant that she needed to sell forge or hire journeyman work for her to actually run her forge.
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    I don't think that claim is broadly accepted at all. Certainly not in this community. I'm very forgiving towards claims of spiritual succession, and even I don't buy that one. I suspect also that all but the most committed skeptics would agree that the PoE apple is not going to fall nearly as far from the tree as the DA:O one did. Quite many reviews at time of it release were quite fast to proclaim that it is a worthy (spiritual) successor for BG series, even though it isn't BG3. And forum chats (in popular gaming sites and BSN) somewhat agree although there is no real consensus is it better or worse than BG games. Spiritual successor is very difficult to actually specify accurately as for some it is enough that game has same thematic than game that it claims to be successor, some want mechanics to be same and similar thematic is only plus not necessary thing to include and some what both. And some goes to even further and want game to be about same in all aspects. Which it is important in my opinion that makers of spiritual successor always tell what they mean with term spiritual successor and what their goals are with their game that takes role of successor. In my opinion Obsidian was quite clear what they meant with term and what their design goals are during Kickstarter campaign and their idea of its meaning differentiate from meaning which some people use the term.
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    Or unless you're an actual nerd and therefore know about cloudflare. Sorry to disappoint, but your friend isn't a techie, he's just some guy who thinks he knows stuff just because he can reinstall windows by pressing "next" all the time. I have to defend my mate. He certainly is a techie. I care not for your cloudflare. I've seen him trying to do washing. I would say that web server techies should know Cloudflare is far from best of cloud based DDoS protection services and company would do much better to choose for example Incapsula that fares much better on reviews especially when you include WAF (web application firewall). When you also regard fact that Incapsula is cheaper than Cloudflare thus I would say that it is quite easy choice which service to recommend. And it should be remembered that even these could based DDoS protections have their limit and they can't in most cases protect web page against massive DDoS attack and even leave your service unprotected if such attack occurs to ensure that their other customers aren't effected. http://ddos-protection-services-review.toptenreviews.com/incapsula-enterprise-review.html http://zeroscience.mk/files/wafreport2013.pdf http://phoboslab.org/log/2013/02/how-much-traffic-is-too-much-traffic-for-cloudflare
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    Bioware EA claims that DA:O is spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate, which is quite generally accepted to be true claim. As everything that I know about PoE points that game will be much closer to Baldur's Gate (and other IE games) mechanically, thematically, atmospherically and aesthetically than what DA:O is, so in my opinion claims that PoE isn't spiritual successor for IE games are bit extravagant, as they are mostly aimed towards some game mechanic changes that people feel to be inferior to mechanics in IE games, even though impact what these changes have towards gameplay is quite minor as they focus mainly to balancing different roleplay choices and trying to removing some loop holes that IE games have in their mechanics. IMO.
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    XB1 and PS4 don't use PC architecture only but customized components that are use same binary code than PC. There is lots of ways how you can design engine code to be easily portable, but even best multiplatform engines can't offer straight forward porting between platforms and if you need to port engine itself amount of work needed multiples. For example porting games from Windows to Linux and Mac OS is not straightforward process even though they actually have same hardware as Windows machine. And this is result of different API in every platform, which usually cause performance problems, rendering problems, crashing, memory allocation problems etc.. But that said, porting games to new consoles is not any ultimate task that companies can't do, but it still big enough that it can be financial risk, which may cause publishers not to port games to new consoles that have been developed only older generation in mind.
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    I think that boreal dwarfs got their name from boreal climate which is other name for subarctic climate which in here Earth can only be found from northern hemisphere, as in southern hemisphere ocean and ocean currents change climate in those latitudes that there is no southern hemisphere areas with such climate, which is also probably reason why there is no southern version for boreal climate. And as name for boreal dwarfs is to give players picture what kind of climate they are from, it could be counter productive to use conlang word in English version of their race's name (If I remember correctly there is conlang words [in some case several] for every species that occur in PoE). IMO.
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    PS4 uses different application programming interfaces than PC, and it's memory architecture, call hierarchy, etc. are different. Which means that you can't do straightforward ports from PC to PS4. Xbox One's API's are more similar with PC, but even for it you can't actually do straightforward ports. And you need always optimize your ports and adapt your user interface to work with systems input methods. But porting games from PC to current console generation is in most cases easier than what porting PC games for previous generation was, thanks for more mature SDKs than what XO and PS3 had in their launch and main computing power is moved from CPU to GPU, like in gaming PCs. But porting always need work, especially when you need to port your engine to new system(s).
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    http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/38375-dark-side-exile-with-mira/
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