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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.

Interesting. More or less illegal than the procedure by which Yanukovych was removed from office? That procedure in my knowledge followed Ukrainian's law, although I see it objectionable as Ukrainian's parliament voted on change of constitution from Yanukovych's new constitution to year 2004 constitution, change of cabinet of ministers impeachment of Yanukovych and raising criminal charges against him in state which could seen as duress, as Yanukovych fled and police decided to stop most of their actions against protesters. So I would say that removing Yanukovych from power was actually legal, but Ukraine's court of law should go it through and procedure should be over watched international observers. Where Crimea's referendum don't follow Ukraine's laws, or international laws or agreements and vote is done in conditions that I also would call state of duress and blocking international observers to see preparation of vote is also highly objectionable and make vote seems more as false democracy than actual referendum. And also Crimea's change of leadership during this crisis was done in highly objectionable circumstances as was vote to call referendum in first place. So from perspective of law I would say that Crimea's situation seems to be purely illegal by laws of every party of crisis where removing Yanukovych from power falls on grey area that should be investigated by next democratically elected parliament and that investigation should be observed by international observers.

Can you tell what milestone/s you are currently working in PoE and how your roadmap for PoE currently looks, at least in very general level?

And with that logic if you support oppressed Russian minorities you support these nice people? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DJFNygHqK8

That in no way seems to be a retort of the point I raised; the gender pay gap is due to women choosing safe jobs instead of the high paying ones. They aren't necessary safe jobs that they choose, but many jobs that have women as majority in labor force aren't seen as important as jobs where men are majority of labor force. For example majority of registered nurses are women and it's job that need higher education and is quite important for society, but still nurses salaries are generally lower than many jobs which need same level education and are much less important for society, but have majority of their work force consisting of men. There is two different issues when we speak about gender pay gap, one is question do women and men get paid same for same job, when they have same education and second is question is there systematic difference how society values jobs that are done by mainly men to those that are done by mainly women and how society encourage people to gravitate towards specific career (mainly is there difference between genders what careers are seen suitable for them) . In today problems with first issue aren't that there is actual pay gap between genders in same job, but that women often need better education and longer career to get better paid jobs than their male counter parts, which causes that women total earning from their career are often less than their male counterparts. Second issue is larger issue than pay gap difference and it's quite hard to solve as those jobs that have women majority in their work force are usually such that they need someone to do them, and when women are encouraged to educate themselves in jobs that have men as majority of their work force that causes labor shortage in those "women's" jobs, which in capitalistic society should mean that salary in those jobs should rise, but more often than not, that labor shortage has been fulfilled by getting labor from countries with lower income levels, which has lead that pay difference with "women" jobs and "men's" jobs has steadily increased to point where many "women's" job that need higher education have lower salaries than "men's" jobs that need lower education. Which of course has caused many immigrants choose to do them instead of those jobs why they were wanted in first place and this is solved with more immigration instead of of actual rise of salaries and this loop has continued now decades causing that men start losing their jobs for immigrants that are ready to do their jobs with smaller salary and this is ironically raised issue that "women's" job should have higher salaries that women would be more interested to do them and then we could lower our immigration numbers so that immigrants don't "steal" "men's" jobs from men. Of course my view is primary about how things are here in Finland, but I think that USA and other "western" countries have somewhat similar situation, where society in some reason gives less value for those jobs that are mainly done by women, which causes several issues society wide.

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/two-choices-in-crimean-referendum-yes-and-yes-338745.html Seem that people really have lots of choices in upcoming vote

http://www.novayagazeta.ru/inquests/62578.html All troops in Crimea are claimed to be Crimea's own self defense troops, but some reason they have exact same GAZ Tigr 4x4 vehicle that Russia exhibited on their military parade in Moscow two years ago .

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-11-23-why-are-we-stuck-with-games-being-released-on-a-friday

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.

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.

Answer to all questions is I will let developers decided what the see to be best for them and for the games.