Elerond

Thats also true, how much useful information is actually gained ? It is difficult to say http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/09/cia-torture-effectiveness_n_6297720.html

I can't say what Leferd's point, but most likely we will see next decade full of movies that try to mimic Hunger Games, New Star Wars also current comic book movie trend most likely will continue. So if you aren't fan of those type of movies then you probably will not enjoy most of the big movies coming in next decade (although there is always hope for trend changer, but Hollywood isn't known to taking big risks).

Well that's a relief. If a CIA director says it, it must be true. Although it isn't necessary use waterboarding again, as there is other torturous methods to interrogate people that aren't controversial.

Yes and no. There has been crimes that people have discussed, but mostly public discussion has moved to other topics (like Panama papers). Although this is most likely because our government made backroom deal with Putin and now refugees can't cross Finland-Russia border and also Denmark and Sweden closed their border which means that refugees can't come from Sweden either and people can't anymore board ships coming to Finland without EU passport or visa, so there is no more refugees from Germany either.

The Longest Journey and Dreamfall The Longest Journey, were already hipster games, so did you think that it would change in next chapter

One could interpret Chris' tweet so that people's dissing of his writing has given him motivation to improve his writing skills in level where he can choose which companies he lends his talent. Of course one can also interpret it as dissing towards Obsidian, although in that case reference towards PNP writing don't make that much sense. But drink your tea as you like.

Elerond you know David Camerons father is dead? He has been dead for 6-7 years now Do it change the fact that Cameron himself has spoken against privacy protections (in certain circumstances)? EDIT: As fun fact one of the Finnish owned companies exposed by these papers had dead CEO over 10 years, until somebody noticed that their company's official front had died over decade ago

Sass is real in this one

In Finland people seem to be quite displeased after the fact that this papers show that one of our biggest banks (Nordea) has helped their rich clients to establish off shore companies in tax havens when they have same time call for cuts in salaries and benefits for poorer people. It is probably help that their defense was, what they did wasn't illegal and it was their clients not them who possible didn't pay their taxes. Also Iceland's prime minister seems to be on hot waters, because of his ties to off shore company that was one of the biggest creditor during Iceland's bank crises and he conveniently forgot mention that when he seek office on platform against Iceland's banks and people using this sort of companies. I would guess that even though I am bit skeptic that this will cause any serious criminal cases it will produce movement that seeks to change international financial agreements and set of laws that make tax havens if not illegal then at least much less attractive.

You think that communicating such decisions later will reduce PR drawbacks? I think the opposite. The bigger of a bad surprise it is, the worse the reaction will be. Of course they can also easily say "we didn't decide yet" if it's indeed the case. You mean that it will cause smaller uproar if they now say that game will be in GOG, but closer to release date they change their mind, than them never saying that game will be in GOG?

Wouldn't they know about such plans already now? Or you think it can be still undecided? They really don't need to make such decision before game is in gold

I would say that whole controversy was because of artist not art. As comic covers have had some questionable pieces through whole comic book history and rarely anybody speaks about them, especially in mainstream media.

We start on 20 days leave and we get about 15 days sick leave ? But I seldom take sick leave and I take time off when I work overtime so I normally get about 20-30 days leave In Finland full time worker typically has 6 weeks (usually divided in two parts 4 weeks and 2 weeks, and amount is negotiated by unions (workers and business)) of paid vacation in year and in theory infinite number of sick days, although after certain number of sick days person goes to get benefits from government instead of salary (mandatory worker insurance or personal healthcare insurance most likely compensates difference depending on why person is sick so much).

Paid vacation is really means that you get less salary for days that you are in work, but you are compensated for it by getting money during your vacation. This is meant to ensure that people have constantly access to steady income. Paid vacation systems usually also include statutory free days that employers need to give their workers, to ensure that workers don't burn themselves out by doing too much work (this is of course meant to lower number of people that need treatment from public healthcare system and of course higher retirement age). Paid sick days are bit different as they are usually compensated to companies by tax benefits or direct payments from government (although there is sometimes own risk share that both employee and employer share). But main idea behind paid sick days is to ensure health of workforce which will allow them to work longer before they need to retire. So mostly it always comeback to socialistic aspects of economy.

She argues that stereotype/trope where male characters are constantly sexualized and made to look sexually pleasant, don't exist in our culture which is why portraying men similarly sexualized as women don't enforce (fe)male gaze trope for men as there is not trope to enforce in first place. It is like gender swapping trope all abusers are men, you don't create trope where all abusers are women but instead it usually just works as comedy aspect that enforces existing stereotype where all abusers are men. But Elerond why did Anita upset so many gamers?....Why didnt people just ignore what she said ....but many of you guys seemed to actually read her videos and get upset? That is the question. Probably because many journalists and the media at large use, or used to, take her her seriously. Like she was the most important person to go to in gaming, compared to real heavy weights like Carmack. It was like Jerry Falwell would've been the go-to when it came to what music or movies should be made. But journalist started to take her seriously only after she got lots of criticism from people and some harassed her. She become known because of her speeches about that harassment and then later on when she started to release those tropes vs. women in video games, media outlets started to write articles about her and then she got more criticism and harassment that eventually lead that main stream media started to write articles about her and then she become one quite know person speaking about video games in world. But if people had ignored her KS campaign instead she would had barely got money to make one video, instead of couple hundred thousand dollars. So her fame is mostly product of internet trolls. Although you need to credit that she was quite skillful to use that attention that trolls gave her to her benefit

She argues that stereotype/trope where male characters are constantly sexualized and made to look sexually pleasant, don't exist in our culture which is why portraying men similarly sexualized as women don't enforce (fe)male gaze trope for men as there is not trope to enforce in first place. It is like gender swapping trope all abusers are men, you don't create trope where all abusers are women but instead it usually just works as comedy aspect that enforces existing stereotype where all abusers are men. But Elerond why did Anita upset so many gamers?....Why didnt people just ignore what she said ....but many of you guys seemed to actually read her videos and get upset? That is the question. EDIT: Although Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer." And in cultural and social issues it is easy to give answers that are wrong for at least some people. Comic example of situation http://xkcd.com/386/

She argues that stereotype/trope where male characters are constantly sexualized and made to look sexually pleasant, don't exist in our culture which is why portraying men similarly sexualized as women don't enforce (fe)male gaze trope for men as there is not trope to enforce in first place. It is like gender swapping trope all abusers are men, you don't create trope where all abusers are women but instead it usually just works as comedy aspect that enforces existing stereotype where all abusers are men.

April Fools? I hate this day. You hate April Fools? Thats a first....why would you hate a day of jest? I personally hate this day because it has become day of stupidity and misinformation instead of making actual jests meant to lighten mood.

He said it was a "ways off". Then we learned about Tyranny, so it makes sense that they'd wait a while before revealing it so as not to hog the spotlight. There's no reason not to start on the sequel right away - Larian went right onto a sequel after finishing up Divinity: Original Sin. It will be quite some time until it's actually released. Well actually in that interview with MMORPG he specifically said it was time for him to move on to something different, but then added a sequel to PoE would happen at some point but that was a way off. That's the complete context of his answer to that question. Also keep in mind that it's not just PoE that's come to an end but also AW and the Pathfinder card game. They are large enough of a studio that they can and need to have multiple projects going on at the same time. So it makes sense that they could have three projects ongoing at the same time - Vermont/Tyranny, Louisiana, and Indiana - with the chronologically last one of them, Indiana, being PoE2. So I stand by my projection that we will see another RPG of some sort between Tyranny and PoE2. *shrug* There is no Project Indiana that I've ever heard of. There is a Josh Sawyer with "Revua" on his Twitter profile and an Orlan on his Instagram. And he said "we'd like to move on to a new project". That project is Tyranny. He said this: Josh: Pillars of Eternity is all wrapped up. It's been a great experience, but we'd like to move on to a new project. We'd love to make a sequel and have a ton of ideas for ways we can improve on Pillars, but that's a way off. in mmorpg's interview, then he confirmed he's not involved with tyranny on twitter so "PoE 2's in development" seems to me just wishful thinking for those who wants the sequel right away while the evidence clearly suggests a new project which is not PoE2 nor Tyranny. I personally don't want PoE 2 right away since next game, Tyranny is very similar type of game, something different; 3D for starters... would be better : d Don't think I can handle 3 games in 2D style in a row. Tho it could just be another new IP in PoE style, like Tyranny sdfgh Obsidian is releasing at least three games (AW, Pathfinder card game, and Tyranny) before Project Louisiana is coming out, so if they don't crowd source it then you will not hear about it for long time and you will not hear when they start to develop it (Like we didn't hear anything about Tyranny before now that is close to release). So I would not put lot of weight for that interview when it comes to is Project Louisiana PoE2 or not.

Is it just series of fights or is there some meat in it?

I have seen one that got about 1000 messages before it was closed.

That's a fair point. I don't think anyone here would argue the Afghanistan intervention was needed. But every one since was a bad idea. Congress could have stopped every one of them it's worth mentioning. You all know where I stand on US foreign policy and of of these 5 candidates the only two who favor a more reserved, less interventionist attitude are two who probably won't win. From a FP perspective do you think there will be a bit of difference in the actions of a Clinton, Cruz, or Kasich State Dept? I don't think there will be. So again, what does it matter? From what I have read there is only quite minor differences. Although Kasich seems to have more in focus building alliances and ensuring that they are safe (like how he speak how USA should ensure safety of Finland and Sweden for example), where Clinton and Cruz seem to take more direct approach. But for me any of them don't sound very appealing.

Your last four presidents have lead foreign policies that have had very significant impact on every day lives of lots of people all around world, in some cases even more than our local governments can do in one election cycle. Which is why your national elections have become even more reported thing than our local (national) elections in sometimes.

No Trump has demonstrated indirectly he has very little respect for women, you may think his comments are cool and refreshing but I dont I think its appalling and offensive...but I am not outraged as I am use to Trump saying similar things. I am just annoyed Also can you find some examples of other Republican candidates that have said similar things....since this is normal for you there must be lots of examples? Just watch the same debate, Trump was on the lowest on the pro-life scale among the other candidates. But as usual, only his opinion is weighed higher than the others, how strange. It's like they do not like him or something and it clouds their judgement when reporting. Yeah being anti-abortion is something that you somewhat need to be these days if you really want to win GOP nomination. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/31/texas-forced-this-woman-to-deliver-a-stillborn-baby.html

You see it used time to time in context like this "Obama dismisses idea of ISIL as existential threat"