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How so? Don't you know that buying distribution services from publisher means that you also sell you soul, your kids soul and you have to give all rights to any material and immaterial things that you possess, addition to that you also become eternal slave of said publisher. And you don't get any benefits for yourself from this deal.

I find it some what ironic when Russia moan about politicians and political parties that lean towards neo-nazism and xenophobia in Ukraine, when they have right wing politician that want throw all foreign born citizen from country, make threats against their neighboring countries, create laws that stop victimized minorities to even tell about violence against them without risking time in prison and who semi openly support violence against said minorities. And they have political youth movements that say they are anti-fascist, even though they preach against foreign born citizen, seem to accept violence in their protest and preach against their neighboring countries. Especially considering that they are very adamant that western countries should not interfere in their internal politics anyway and are very upset when people remark that their politics lean towards neo-nazism.

Good new IP > Good sequel > Bad new IP > Bad sequel And license games can go anywhere on that scale depending on how well they are executed.

I am very sure that Russian annexation of Crimea was nothing to do with new oil and gas source founded from there and it's area of Black Sea, in same way as I am sure that USA didn't attack in in Iraq to make sure that it has access to it's oil fields. Especially when one first things what Crimea announced that it will do is to nationalize said oil and gas reserves from Ukraine's companies to itself.

Actually read the article. And the total number was $4.5m? They really got that much from PayPal? I guess I should not be so surprised. Not when kickstarter campaign ended, but people have had 1.5 years time to become slacker backers.

Partnership with Paradox is good news to me, as Swedish company they probably have ability to ship physical goods in EU and especially to Finland so that I don't need to worry about customs and extra taxes.

There is disadvantages to play with linux, one for example is that you need to use linux

Unless you refer to something new. I'll have to take an issue with the part I bolded. Ukraine has continuously tried to defuse the situation and shown utmost restraint to the escalation. So placing them in the same sentence with Russia is just buffling to me I mean even if you are one of those who still think that the highly organized/coordinated/outfied anti-Ukraine "local defense" forces were not Russian forces or taking point and outfield by Russian forces, I think that Russia reaction escalating the Ukrainian crisis with its mobilization/rhetoric and placing soldier inside of another sovereign country defacto taking over it, is enough to separate the two. There was news that Ukraine's military base in Crimea was stormed and one Ukraine's soldier was shot dead during that raid. Attackers are unknown currently, but there is really only three possibilities, Russian's did it, so called Crimea's self defense forces did it or Ukraine's troop did it themselves (which is of course very unlikely, but probably something that Russian's media could try spin around as truth, giving that reason what I earlier mentioned) EDIT: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/18/ukraine-crisis-putin-plan-crimea-annex-speech-russia-live My prediction failed, Russian media's story is that dead soldier was not Ukraine's soldier, but member of "self defense" forces that was killed by sniper.

And now it seems that some idiots are decided to escalate things and change nature of this conflict from political to armed. Question is who these idiot were, Russian's soldiers, "Crimea's self defense" forces or maybe Ukraine itself trying to get western countries give higher sanctions for Russia .

One could also ponder if this conflict would be over now already, if UKK would be here to keep one of his sauna-evenings.

Western Democracy is heavily bureaucratic, with lots of rules, regulations and double checkings, way to stop nation making any drastic decisions in anyway swiftly. It tries to stop dictatorship of majority, by using constitutional laws that are difficult to change, by using political system where power is divided to multiple parties (like for example president, cabinet and parliament, which all have power to at least delay and make other parties to rethink issue at hand) , and that come from different political backgrounds with different agendas, consisting people from all around country to make sure that any area of country have their voice heard. Addition to divided political segment there has to be court system, with multiple courts that has power to enforce or nullify laws made political system but in very heavily regulated way and there has to be police force that has ability enforce regulations and laws, addition to average citizens, towards people in political and judicial systems. And large part of western democracy is western ideals which our heavily bureaucratic systems are designed to protect, although often same bureaucracy fight against, as laws of our past don't always match with our ideals, but as our system is designed to slow down any changes in our laws, which means that oversights or lack of understanding of past is often slow process to change. Western democracy don't mean systems where you people vote in referendum that causes drastic changes in under month notice, in surroundings where they don't have good access to information and are pressured to feel someway or another by mobs and soldiers that don't carry national symbols with them (which mean that they would have been called terrorist if they had been in are where they didn't have most military power). And where political system is very unilateral with very little of separation of power and where there is no judicial system where citizens (that hold minority opinion) could complain that they feel that political system goes against founding principals of the land, with their referendum. Western democracy is not about people ability to vote about things that government approves both ways (for example people don't refer North Korea as democracy even though people there have power to vote their government as they can only vote candidates that government approves) So in short power of majority is not western ideal, but thing that we regulate heavily so that it don't interfere with our ideals. P.S. every western country have their own variation of this regulation system which we call democracy and their own variation of ideals that they try to protect although today more often than not those ideals are in harmony with each other.

Kosovo's situation was bit different from Crimea's situation, in that sense that their options were to be part of Serbia as autonomic area, or become independent nation which can't join with any other nation than Serbia, which for example means that UN will not recognize if Kosovo's Albanian majority decides to declare that Kosovo will join with Albania. Some quotes from Wikipedia about Kosovo's declaration of independence.

You mean other than change the release date so they had less time to finish the project than originally promised? I would call that shenanigans... And doing half asset job in QA, which was their responsibility, especially considering that criticism that F:NV got was from how full of bugs it was on launch day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_Kosovo

One road isn't "faster" than another road of the same length, either. They're roads. But, when you're always accounting for roughly the same amount of traffic in an area whenever you take a trip to your destination (such as having to go to work, during business-hour traffic), people often say "Route X is always faster." What they really mean is, "with all the factors you're going to have to deal with in both routes, Route X typically has factor values that allow you to get to your destination sooner than if you had taken the other route." I'm not sure what you're trying to prove. A program compiled to native CPU instructions is always faster than the same program compiled to byte code. The programming language is irrelevant. BASIC, Lua, C#, C, Java, Fortran, C++ -- it doesn't matter what it's written in if the end result is an executable in native CPU instructions. The BASIC compiler I used in college produced executables every bit as fast as the C compiler I used. Anyway, glad to bump the post, there's a lot of good information from the devs here... Some native code compilers produce faster (better optimized) code than some other native code compilers, and efficiency difference between compilers only rises when complexity of compiled code rises. As popular programming languages have more compilers and more money put in researching and developing said compilers, they usually have usually compilers that produce faster running code. Although programming languages aren't equal in way they are designed, for example C++ is designed to be more high level programming language than C and therefore programmer using it needs to know less about hardware that will run code than what C programmer, but this also means that its compilers can't always produce as highly optimized binary as what C compilers can produce, which mean that in most times code that is written with C runs faster than code that is written C++, but C++ code is easier to move to another platform/processor/chip than what C code. So at the end it matters what programming language you use, even if code is compiled to binary, as there is differences between what languages are designed to do and how optimized compilers there is for platform that you are writing code for.

I found that I liked game much more when I pretended that game ended after Barcelona and only rerun game until I found most of ways to pass it to that point with several different builds.

Many reviews claim that it is very noob friendly as there is many roles that they can do even if they can't kill other players, but it seems that they have exaggerated things.

I don't think that is necessary good idea, as Ukraine is too poor (like Romania and Bulgaria are rich compared to it) to be effective member. Which means that it would get heavy restrictions or it will lose lot of it population to other member states (especially well educated people, which it need to fix its economy).

Now try re-reading what you wrote and try not to laugh. Especially the sanctions part. I tried to give my best sarcastic voice as I have really great doubts that EUs sanctions have any impact towards anyone, let alone USA, Russia or China.

EU gave same punishment for USA for giving false information about Irak and again when NSA scope spying was revealed, ergo EU halted temporally free market and visa free traveling talks and our foreign ministers called Bush, Obama and Putin to tell them we are very disappointed on them and they should go in corner and be ashamed. As we all know that EU is well know of it willingness to take swift and heavy actions against those who are it biggest sources of income, you can always depend on us in that.

That I pretty much knew already - What I don't know is what exactly defines the supposed C-RPG. Is Witcher a CRPG? Is Dragon Age Origins? Could Bloodlines be defined as a C-RPG. Can you give me some exampls and explaination as to why the said examples are definied as such. The Witcher and Witcher 2 are action oriented CRPGs, as they have game mechanics that give you in limited scope ability play monster hunter Geralt, which decisions and progression you can choose, but their RPG mechanics aren't very deep and focus of those games are more in combat than character development. aspects of roleplay, which is why they are categorize to belong in ARPG (Action RPG) and hack and slash genres, than traditional RPG genres. Dragon Age Origins has much more focus on character development player''s ability to mold his/her character in way s/he wants and so it falls in more traditional RPG genre than any other, even though it's mechanics are somewhat simplistic and game has major focus is in party based combat. Bloodlines has quite wide variety of RPG mechanics although game don't always use them in their fullest extent and game has major focus in combat, that uses mechanics that are usually associated with shooters than traditional RPGs, which why it's categorized as ARPG, even though it has quite robust RPG mechanics. Baldur's Gate and Bladur's Gate 2 are categorized as more traditional CRPGs for same reasons as Dragon Age Origins, ergo their mechanics give player ability build and play character role that they see fit, which makes them quite traditional RPGs even though their major focus is in party based combat. Fallout and Fallout 2 give you quite good example how traditional character focused RPGs look in CRPG form, as they give player quite great freedom in the way which they play the game. Arcanum is bit more modern example of same style of play. The Elders Scrolls series and Fallout 3 and New Vegas, give player quite great freedom to play character in way which they want, but their combat mechanics are closer to shooters same way as Bloodlines' mechanics, than traditional RPG combat mechanics, which is reason why they are categorized as ARPGs, even though they have much more complex roleplay mechanics than what most ARPGs have.

RPG is game where game's mechanics give you ability to play certain roles in limited setting, so it's very ambiguous definition as are all top level game genres, which is why there is sub genres to specify what kind of game we actually are speaking. Wikipedia quote

It seem that diving for foul tactic is not exclusive for sports, as politicians also use it with all grace of the world

CRPG is short from computer or console role playing game, so it's definition is RPG that is made for computer or/and console. And then it's everyone's own choice to decide what games they perceive to be RPGs

Game is not yet out in Germany and Germany's version will be different from UK version, which is probably why steam don't allow its activation yet.