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Given that everything Onyx Path has touched turned out to be solid gold, I'm somewhat apprehensive about that course of action. Of course it's Paradox's IP now, they can do with it however they please, especially considering they've decided to keep the new World of Darkness line (renamed as Chronicles of Darkness), which I've personally always liked more. Wouldn't surprise me if they try to get the guys from Onyx Path back into WW (considering they are mostly ex-White Wolf employees anyway), or at least into a consulting role. It also wouldn't surprise me if they completely cut off Onyx Path, instead desiring to put their own stamp on the game and not be bound to the old guard. From Paradox perspective In house development of new version of rule system is only reasonable path to take. As we speak about IP and rule system that they plan to license forward to other companies, so putting its development on hands of third party isn't just sensible thing to do from business point of view. Of course ensuring quality and loyalty of fan base of said IP is also important. But developing core rules in house don't mean that Onyx Path loses their licenses (at least I would guess that there is no point for Paradox to cancel those licenses) to make stuff in Classic World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness universes.

It depends what part of it you read and how literally you take it. "Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury. Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a human being is to be put to death." Leviticus 24:19-21 (NIV) It also has this passage "You have heard that it was said, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth". But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also." Matthew 5:38-39 (NIV) Although it also says "Thou shalt not kill." Exodus 20:13 (King James Version), which for example has changed to "You shall not murder." in New International Version (one of the English translations, which is meant to be a translation in the common language of the American people. also translation where I took eye for eye quotes), which has quite different meaning in our society. So everything that you read in translated or copied versions of bible should be read with grain of salt and ponder what were world views of those that produced, made, translated, write, copied that version of the bible. And of course when you teach you kids you have lots of different translations from which you can choose and decide which follows best your world view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo6Rdr_pVg4

100 million if they just spent it idiotic stuff will give them game body that is playable and can be expanded in future (like most successful MMOs). As they have cult following like fan base that has given them already 100 million dollars, it is not impossible or even far reached task to get 100-200 million dollars from selling actual game when its is ready and continue the development of the game and then sell more and develop more and so on and so forth. Of course there is always high change that such hopes don't ever realize and they never achieve the goal they aim towards. But their current success gives indication that game have possibility to be actually successful MMO. That could've been possible if they stuck to their original pitch. They could've built the base and slowly added more stuff, like Elite does now. Problem is, that's not what they're doing. CR wants it to be "everything for everyone" from the very first day. They actually plan to release game sooner than most of the stretch goal stuff is ready (if they haven't changed their plans, as I don't follow the game's development, as I am not backer or I am not interested to play the game), although they have increased original scope some what with their single player campaign and FPS modes and such, which have delayed their project, but in my understanding otherwise they have not changed their plans in grand scheme of things.

100 million if they just spent it idiotic stuff will give them game body that is playable and can be expanded in future (like most successful MMOs). As they have cult following like fan base that has given them already 100 million dollars, it is not impossible or even far reached task to get 100-200 million dollars from selling actual game when its is ready and continue the development of the game and then sell more and develop more and so on and so forth. Of course there is always high change that such hopes don't ever realize and they never achieve the goal they aim towards. But their current success gives indication that game have possibility to be actually successful MMO.

There is 26 different quest ids for minuteman from which four I think repeat to infinity. Same thing is true with BoS and Railroad, meaning that some of their quests just repeats to infinity. That doesn't seem right. Even if only 4 are the repetitive ones, that means 22 are new/different quests. I honestly do not recall doing 22 unique quests for the minutemen. And I don't think there will be any major ones coming up as I unlocked the "castle" achievement thingy, which I assume is the major sidequest for them (not including any main quest stuff that's related to them). Minuteman Main quests When Freedom Calls Sanctuary The First Step Taking Independence Old Guns Inside Job (if you ask Minutemen's help to build teleport device) Banished from the Institute (need to be banished from institute) Form Ranks (going with minutemen ending) Defend the Castle (going with minutemen ending) The Nuclear Option (Minutemen version) Side quests Abernathy Farm: Retribution Clearing the Way (this repeats twice in radiant locations (random workshops in the map)) Ghoul Problem (repeats infinity amounts to radiant locations) Greenskins (repeats infinity amounts to radiant locations) Kidnapping (repeats infinity amounts to radiant locations) Out of the Fire Raider Troubles (repeats infinity amounts to radiant locations) Resettle Refugees Returning the Favor Rogue Courser Taking Point The Sight Troubled Waters With Our Powers Combined

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCI4bUk4vuM

That was more or less what I guessed, but as I know one of the people that made the languages, I was interested to hear what people though about them.

What you though about alien languages?

There is 26 different quest ids for minuteman from which four I think repeat to infinity. Same thing is true with BoS and Railroad, meaning that some of their quests just repeats to infinity.

Luke Skywalker is a jihadi who was radicalized by the Jedi Bit different view point to original trilogy

I agree with topic, they could change system to classless. Which won't happen. I disagree with OP, game don't need more restrictions in character builds, but oppose instead in my opinion.

I am not sure what he actually means, but he says that there were projects like hypothetical project that has "Old" and "Republic" in its name that Obsidian didn't know that they couldn't do and that he learned about that after his departure. So it for me it gives impression that some people in Obsidian has at least tried to pitch making said hypothetical game without knowing that they didn't have any change to do it.

"The town would not benefit, from a tax base standpoint, from the solar farms because they are not located within the town limits, but only in the extraterritorial sections. The only funding the town would get is approximately $7,000 per year for specialized training for the Woodland Fire Department in the event of an electrical malfunction at the solar plant." But this reasonable reasons aren't so reasonable reasons to forbid private citizen to sell their lands outside of town limits. It is just extortion by town council. Also Higher Learning's fact check is bit incomplete as it bases their fact check in same article that I posted, and decided that it has done fact checking by pointing out that there was other factors than outlandish claims by town residents behind council decision that should not surprise anybody, especially those that read the article. Of course their fact checking is mainly aimed towards those other media outlets that wrote articles based on that Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald's article, but if they really would have wanted to do fact checking they would have checked Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald's facts. So at end their refutation is just opinion based to the original article that created outlandish headlines. Higher Learning refutation also forget to mention that council not only refused to give permission to this solar farm, but all future solar farms that would be build in areas that town council has say so. Quote from original article "The council later voted for a moratorium on future solar farms." and that can't be put on claim that those future farms don't benefit the town by giving it tax dollars or cheaper electricity as they are projects that don't even exist today. So there is something other in play than pure financial details of this denied project. So I would say that our fact checker should check their facts before claiming anything for sure, as original article don't give any reasons for either of council's decisions, so it is just anybody's guess what they factored and didn't factor in their decision. But also Woodland as community rejected at least partially that solar farm on those reasons that I quoted as they were given by citizens of Woodland in public comments about the farm, meaning that they are reasons why some people at Woodland thing that those farms are bad for the Woodland, even though they aren't necessary reasons why their town council didn't approve said solar farm.

My interpretation is that he sees making games as hobby and which should be fun to do, but it wasn't as fun as it should be or possible it was too much focused around making money, so he felt that life is too short to do something that don't satisfy you so he decided to look that sparkle that made him to love making games elsewhere, even if that means teaching others how to achieve their game making dreams instead of making more games himself. But as he don't directly say what actually were his reason only general feelings of things and observations of how things were, it is impossible to do anything else than guess.

http://www.roanoke-chowannewsherald.com/2015/12/08/woodland-rejects-solar-farm/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link Woodland in North Carolina rejects solar farm for quite interesting reasons. Jane Mann said she is a local native and is concerned about the natural vegetation that makes the community beautiful. She is a retired Northampton science teacher and is concerned that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the vegetation from growing. She said she has observed areas near solar panels where vegetation is brown and dead because it did not receive enough sunlight. She also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her that solar panels didn’t cause cancer. Bobby Mann said he watched communities dry up when I-95 came along and warned that would happen to Woodland because of the solar farms. “You’re killing your town,” he said. “All the young people are going to move out.” He said the solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not come to Woodland.

It is meant to be contrived as it is slur to dismiss people opinions that disagree with you.

This is a bit crazy. New York apparently had the same threat and stayed open. It does seem like an overreaction to me. I would need to know more about the threat, but closing down the second largest school district is a pretty big action. I know it is better safe than sorry, but I also worry that we let terror win when we react this way. It is normal overreaction sentimentality when there has been tragedy near you, you keen to be more careful for short time. After school shootings, some people find it funny soon after incidents to call hoax threats to schools, which of course usually reacted by closing down. But when some time (about year or so) had passed from latest incident, schools barely even reported such threats to police let alone closing down. Of course closing whole district is much bigger action than closing one school, but I would guess that fear of terrorist attack is currently quite high in CA.

It is again difficult time for our immigrant/refugee skeptic government. Last week two Iraqi refugees where detained on heavy suspicion of take part in mass murder (killing as much as 1700 police cadets in base near Tikrit in June 2014, they personally are accused of 11 murders, basin on videos that ISIS has released about said mass murder that are said to show the suspects) in Iraq and being members of ISIS. And today our news tell that they were already wanted in Iraq and Iraq is preparing to as that they will be handed over to them. Which all fine and dandy especially how our government parties have constantly said that refugees that are convinced for crime should be automatically returned to their home countries. But problems is that Iraq has death penalty and mass murders will certainly face it, but our constitution and European Convention on Human Rights both forbid returning people in countries where they face death penalty. And of course not returning wanted murderers to Iraq probably will put some dent in our government hope to make return agreement for convicted criminals of lesser crimes. So our official probably hope that they can make deal with Iraq's government that gives guarantee that those said refugees will only face life in prison. And of course this will cause some problems if Iraq's official in future decide to execute them as it would mean that returning anybody to Iraq becomes much more difficult process as our official can't (from legal standpoint) trust Iraq's governments assurances.

It is owned by Tampa Bay Times which was previously St. Petersburg Times (name was changed in 2012) PolitiFact.com was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2009 for "its fact-checking initiative during the 2008 presidential campaign that used probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters." In 2003, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described the St. Petersburg Times as a "usually liberal" newspaper. Tampa Bay Times/St. Petersburg Times has won multiple Pulitzer Prizes in categories (local reporting, editorial writing, featured writing, national reporting, investigative reporting, meritorious public service) There is no media source without bias, but they seem to have good standing within American media companies from quite long time now. But everybody is free to interpret their reporting as they see best, which is why I mentioned who was behind the graph and which media outlet is her employer.

To be fair it only counts Bill's statements since 2007

Men’s Interest in Babies Linked With Hormonal Responses to Sexual Stimuli There was no evidence of a relationship between baseline testosterone levels and interest in babies, indicating that the results were not related to testosterone function more generally but were specific to reactivity to sexual stimuli. “Young men who don’t like babies as much get more physiologically aroused by visual sexual stimuli; this makes sense from a life history perspective,” says Maestripieri. “These men ‘live on the fast lane.’ They are attracted to and aroused by novel sexual partners and are ready to take advantage of new sexual opportunities when they present themselves.” “By contrast, young men who like babies more are less sexually aroused by novel sexual stimuli (for example, erotic content), but they presumably enjoy sex more in the context of stable monogamous relationships with partners they know well. “We think that showing these mind-body connections is very novel and very exciting,” Maestripieri concludes. So basically men that like porn don't like babies?

Graph by Angie Drobnic Holan from http://www.politifact.com/ Presented in her NYT editorial http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/campaign-stops/all-politicians-lie-some-lie-more-than-others.html?_r=0

Pushing your own agendas is a great way to weaken any agreement.For now EU greentech solutions cannot move past intermittency limitation and they can hardly cry foul if China or India chooses to develop their own. China is certainly pushing a expansion of it's nuclear industry but by now almost all technology is based on French/American/Japanese designs.Russia may still be a major player in nuclear R&D but finding clients for reactors is becoming politically problematic. If countries didn't have vested interest in different energy solution then this agreement would had been much easier process and it would have some actual solution in it. Also about caring that EU has for other countries climate worries is quite low as EU has been quite alone for over decade in moving their energy sector towards cleaner solutions. So if this agreement don't work or it start to hurt EU economically you can be quite sure that EU is out or EU will fall apart (this is assessment that is made by quite lot of experts and politician in EU, as inner politics of EU aren't currently in good place and anti-EU parties use every weapon they get to ensure their success, this agreement will not be any different). Also China and India are welcome to try do their own cleantech solutions, but they are currently far behind and their economy and ability research new solution same time as trying to cut their emission will not be easy thing to do. Which is why European cleantech industries are excited about the agreement, as their products are cheapest and easiest solutions that are currently in market, of course that will change, but it will take at least little of time. If European companies can't compete when others start to bring their solutions then they can only blame themselves even though they are more likely blaming something else like governmental support for Chinese companies or Euro or something else. It may be politically problematic for Rosatom to find new clients from west, but they are building new AES-2006 VVER type reactor in here Finland starting 2018, and they also have plans of building new nuclear plants in Egypt and Vietnam. And Russia don't have similar political problems with China as they have with western nations. Japanese companies on other hand have much more difficult time in China (politically speaking).

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/2007/marswarming.html