Elerond

Russia has similar tactics in use. Although they seem to want sanctions gone instead of just asking money.

I would say that they didn't actually look for their best interest, they just looked solution to specific problem they had. As I don't really think it is GM's best interest to let city/government poison their workers and it is not their best interest take massive PR hit for news that they got special treatment when their workers suffered. In short while that special treatment may have helped them bit, but on long run their ability not to recognize what the larger issues behind their problems probably will cost them lot (It is quite difficult to estimate how much damage this will cause their reputation, but it will because people have already gotten image in their heads that GM didn't know about children getting poisoned and GM didn't care enough to inform public [trueness of these mental images don't really matter as PR image is based on people feels not on facts]).

It can add bugs and other problems and game starts to be end of its life cycle so they want to limit resources they put in the game to minimum. So adding any features are on too risky list if there isn't substantial reason to add it. (This is just guess based on how things usually go in software development)

I think we should let Gfted1 and others have their wishes come true in PoE2 and include armors that give zero protections, and that make moving next to impossible but they look cool/sexy as hell Stats are something on line -30 DR (because they actually not just fail to protect wearer but actually make even glancing blows to become life threatening) and-90% to recovery time penalty (because they are so tightly fitted and use design choices that limit movement of body to enhance look of bodily assets)

Here is my view on this education of Western moral values to the refugees Firstly I agree with the article that the refugees are not all stupid or ignorant and this education is not necessary to explain " rape is wrong" As I mentioned numerous times if you travel to the ME crimes like rape and murder are not common. So of course the refugees coming to Europe know this So we are dealing with a small percentage of the refugees who are knowingly committing criminal acts for a number of reasons, we must charge them and we mustn't defend them. But they represent a small percentage of the overall refugees, 5-8 % ? So its also unfair to think " these criminal acts represent the overall views and actions of all the refugees " Percentage of refugees that commit serious crimes is under 0.1% (which is small but still higher than what is within original population), but because there is tens of thousands or even millions in some countries, number of actual crimes is still worrisomely high. And education is not meant to prevent crimes that are done in purpose, but to educate people about cultural difference and therefore what things our culture don't accept. This education is meant to put refugees in mind set that they prevent other refugees to do things that our society don't accept if they want to keep living here. Meaning that we actually acknowledge that refugees are intelligent people who will understand that it is best for themselves if there is no refugees that break our cultural taboos or certain laws that our culture has stronger views than other laws.

2020 or maybe 2077 depending on which time continuum this is

It is not sudden notice, as from beginning of the crisis in last year estimates were that around 50-90% of asylum seekers don't actually fulfill requirements for asylum. But asylum process is quite lengthy and takes from 6 months to several years (because there is possibility to complain in several levels of court including European human rights court, which all can take quite lot of time especially when there are (tens of) thousands complains). This is also reason why some politicians have argued should be faster. Also deportation process will not be easy and it also will take quite lot time and in many cases it will fail, because home countries of deported people aren't that keen to take back those that are deported. Also some people whose asylum request get denied will go hiding or will try to go to other countries to seek asylum. So without massive change how things are handled, lot of this people whose asylum got denied will be around years to come.

Calendar: Anni Iroccio (AI) was adopted in year 2680 AI.It replaced it much less practical predecessor, said Aedyran calendar that was replaced was steeped in the traditions of its posttribal kingdom, and included days of reverence devoted to political stations long since rendered obsolete. Meaning that people don't necessary actually know why calendar was started the day it was started because that event has become meaningless to them, like many other things in old calendar, so they just created more logical calendar that continued where their old ended (year 2680). In other words year 1(or 0) don't really have any significant meaning for people any more they just continued to use same year count because it was convenient1. 1 Of course this is something that can change in PoE2 when Obsidian continues to develop their world more

It good to see that we are two years in this crisis and politician still continue same working policy do nothing to solve it.

The name has little meaning in reality, since people have been calling those of different cultures "barbarians" since the times of Rome. Plus, with the fact they are "fantasy warriors" you can justify praticaly anything, including they using their powerful brains to project telekinetic waves of force from their weapons. I, however, prefer the simpler explanation of careful positioning and disciplined rage. I do not oppose making Carnage independent on INT, I am just trying to point out why making it rely on Int is not stupid. If the class had any name other than Barbarian or Berseker, then I doubt people would care so much about that. OMG.... you're part Barbarian aren't you?! I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. On a serious note, lets just leave as it is. Our opinions on what a barb is are obviously different. All non ancient Greek speaking people are barbarians, as it comes from ancient Greek term βάρβαρος term that said Greeks used for people that didn't speak Greek or other Greeks when they wanted to insult them.

"But we are still a very generous people (compared) to almost the rest of the world." In other words, We are still superior and it's all that matters

I don't think that it will solve problem with you save games, but it will bring that "Story Mode" difficult level that makes it possible to reach point where you can start expansion content quite fast, which of course is not most optimal solution to you problem.

And if an unlucky player has GOG version??? You either wait to next month and official release of 3.0 or spent bit more with game as you play to expansion point in easy mode.

Grand Jury Investigating Planned Parenthood Indicts Makers Of Videos Instead "Instead Of Indicting Planned Parenthood, Texas Grand Jury Indicts Creators Of Highly Edited Videos A Texas grand jury that was investigating Planned Parenthood just opted to not indict the women's reproductive health care provider. Instead, it has handed down indictments for two of the makers of the controversial videos. David Daleiden (photo), the founder of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), an anti-choice group that worked with Republican members of Congress for over a year to create the videos and create a marketing plan to release them, and another activist, have been indicted. "Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden was indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor count of related to purchasing human organs. Another activist was also indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record," the Associated Press just reported. The second person indicted is Sandra Merritt, also of the CMP. Merritt is also "the founder and CEO of BioMax, the sham tissue procurement company created by the Center to gain entry into abortion clinics and medical conferences," the Dallas Morning News adds. Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson "said the grand jury cleared Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing." The videos are highly and selectively edited, and have been used as "evidence" by anti-abortion activists and anti-choice conservatives to fraudulently claim "Planned Parenthood sells aborted baby parts." Every state that has investigated Planned Parenthood in response to the videos has found no evidence of wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood." But at least Texas' governor is willing to spent even more tax payers money to ensure that case, which is multiple time decided to have no merit by different investigative, legal and governmental bodies will continued to be investigated even after this latest unfortunately set back with Grand Jury or something like that what financially conservative politicians always do in these cases https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/691755304606900224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

I would say that it would help you understand several concepts that game uses, even though it isn't one-to-one copy of table top rules, but it is close enough.

torment is set a billion (or some such silliness) years in future. "caucasian" is therefore meaningless. Basically this. On Numenera, a billion years' worth of evolution, purposeful genetic tampering and changes even weirder in origin mean that the residents simply don't map to current racial phenotypes. On the other hand, you can totally be a blue space babe (well, you can't, since this is a CRPG with a semi-fixed protagonist, but in the tabletop version, you can). I think it's pretty clever. Okay lets be serious now ....I didn't realize you have played the tabletop game. What is it like.,.,..how many monsters are there? There are rules 45 different creatures in core rule book, but there are dozes accessory books that bring lots more. And T:ToN set in bit different section than tabletop game and it brings more new creatures with it.

You can't, white males are extinct (this is also true to every other skin-color/ethnicity - gender combination that exist today). Although some could argue that main protagonist look quite bit like white male/female

Elerond how would Trump be viewed if he was PM in Finland ? Dead man walking

Bruce are you sure that you weren't drinking when you recommended this thread or this forum as a place where one can find positive news about refugee situation?

This is old but I just need to say what a beautiful plan Trump has there.

If you mean that boy, he was looking escaping somebody and looking his friend But I believe that most stuff related to him has been cut from beta or not yet implemented. Of course it is always possible that they will not do anything more with him, but those lines that you learn with mind read would imply that there is at least bit more planned for him.

Now personally I didn't se this really reinforced in the beta due to all of the handholding, signposting and the fact that almost everyone treated you as special and opened up automatically, without wanting something in return or having a motivation. Now compare this to Torment where everyone was either treating you differently because of personal reasons or because it was in tehir interest to do so, and if not just ignoring or asking you to go away. This helped reinforce that though Nameless is only special because this is a personal story, and because of all the weirdness of the planes, not many are interested or impressed by this. In fact they are usually just wary, sensing doom and larger forces at play like Annah. Everybody in beta (or at least most) that offer you any sort help actually want something from you. And this becomes especially clear if you play with nano that has mind reading ability, And there seems to be clear motivations for all characters that are much easier to find out if you have said mind reading ability.

T:ToN does these same things too. There is mystery who you are and why you exist and where did you come, how you are related to Changing God or what ever entity's husk people say you are, and what is Sorrow and why it hunts CG and you. There are quite lot of people that say they know the answer but they all give different answer and quite lot of them seem to be more interested on how you can help them or get you go away. As far as I can tell they follow no coincidences rule in their writing also in T:ToN, also story and wolrd largely center around you (Last Castoff) and you (Last Castoff) don't know it. For realization part, there is no such thing in beta, but probably finished game will have such. Last Castoff is special snowflake but not demigod (or quite poor one as I would argue that TNO is more powerful in his universe than Last Castoff is their). Last Castoff can be killed by groups of random thugs, ghost, bad drink etc..

I agree with Gromnir that T:ToN is very similar with PS:T, I would say that it quite clear that developers didn't exaggerate when they said that they played PS:T again dozens times to get feel of it. And similarly to PS:T everything revolve around Last Castoff and their decisions. Although you can see some difference come in from theme, as in PS:T people constantly tell how TNO has impacted them in past and face possible need of change of your nature, in T:ToN you are bombarded options how you can impact people's futures and therefore their impact on your legacy. So if T:ToN feels off compared to PS:T it may be because of difference in the main question, as it set different tone in interactions between main character and NPCs.

https://forums.obsidian.net/blog/7/entry-175-location-of-save-games/ If you bought Pillars of Eternity from the Apple App Store, your save game directory is located here: ~/Library/Containers/com.mpdigital.pillarsofeternity/Data/Library/Application Support/Pillars of Eternity/Saved Games