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If we compare whose people have treated most wrongly in history I want to bring Finns on table. Because before year 1000 AD we had several kingdoms in area that is now know as Finland, but then Swedes come and conquered us and forced us to convert to Christianity or die. Then they made fictional history that made Finns the bad guys of the conflict and forced every Finn to learn it and shame their forefathers actions. Then they prevented us to make trade with any other nation than Sweden. Then Danes come and take over Sweden and with them us then then Sweden take control back from Danes, then Swedes had civil war and we become part of Poland, but soon we were again part of Sweden. During their rule Swedes destroyed our culture, heritage, self worth and even that wasn't enough the made new racial study that taught that Finns were lesser race compared to Swedes and then Swedes made us fight their wars. That humiliation continued over 700 years then 1809 AD Russian Empire decided to invade us and Swedes didn't even bother to fight against them they just fled to Sweden, so we become part of Russian empire without even giving fight. But lucky us Russian empire had new young czar that had all sort of enlightenment ideas and give us autonomy and own parliament, probably mostly because he wasn't that keen to try to govern us himself. But then Russians start to regret that they gave us autonomy and started to bit by bit take it away, but lucky to us Russians interest then was taken by other matters and we changed our governance system from feudal class society to equal democratic society and started to build new peoplehood for our nation and thanks for WW1 and Bolshevik revolution we were able to declare our Independence in sixth of December 1917 AD. But then Bolshevik Russia become Soviet Union and they decided that Finland should be part of it and they invaded us, but then for lots of reason first time in Finns history we were able to prevent another nation with overwhelming force to conquer us. But because Soviet Union was winning side of WW2 we were made the bad guys again by people trying to invade our country and we were forced to pay them all their losses against us and then we were forced to become a pawn in cold war between Soviet Union and West. And now we are counted to be part of evil west that has done terrible things to other nations in past and apologize those acts, which is totally fair and all.

I think you are making a big mistake there. You are saying the mobile market is to blame for these companies now running into issues, the truth is the company is just run like ****. Any company that makes 5 billion dollars and is somehow in financial trouble only has one thing to blame. **** leadership, cause that is the only thing that can cause that hard a fall that fast. But easy billion dollar fluke success doesn't mean you know how to run a business, it means you got lucky, and it isn't a shocker that someone who found instant success might not know how to duplicate it or keep themselves liquid while trying. Also no the "Candy Crush" variants haven't failed. They just aren't making a million a week. That's like saying the original Laura Croft reboot failed because it only sold one million copies. Which is actually something Square Enix claimed at the time, they must have exaggerated though since the game recently got a sequel that probably cost more than the original. You don't need 100 million downloads to make money with a mobile game. You might not even need 1 million. But they don't make 5 billion dollars, but much less and problem behind their financial problems is of course in leadership and failure to make other games that are as successful as products that they are now for. But as I said you don't need as successful products that I used in my examples to make money in mobile market, but if you have company of that has hundred or more people you most likely need to make over ten games in year to keep company running without need of downsizing. Tomb Raider reboot failed because it cost to make nearly 100 million of dollars and Square Enix needed it to sell over 6.5 million copies to make even. So even though it sold millions of copies and is best selling game in franchise it wasn't making money for SE at time they made their claim that situation has then changed and it has become profitable for them. So how much you need to sell to be financially successful depends fully on how much you need to invest money on your products. Like for example King has 1400 employees so they need to get quite lot money from the games they make to keep things running as they are now. So their failure to produce another Candy Crush puts their company in bad situation as if Candy Crush stops to make money their company will crash.

My character has done 130 successful persuasions (charisma checks) during the game, for comparison my character has picked 326 locks and hacked 111 computers. Persuasion seems to be there mostly to get more money from the side quests. In some occasions you have option to persuade people help you in fight or leave before fight so fight is easier. And some rare cases you have given option to dodge fight altogether. And of course in flirting and romancing are charisma checks. Then there are occasional check that give you background information sooner or more information and some cases you get earlier/easier access to some locked areas.

After doing all companion quest I must say that best companion is Dogmeat because he don't constantly comment why I take all the stuff with me, even though it should be obvious to anybody that has traveled with my character even little bit of time (I use that junk to build my empire, which is aspect of the game I like most especially now that I can use artillery to bombard my enemies). EDIT: Most of the companions will become much better in combat when you equip them with better armor and weapons. Robots seem to be most useless and suicidal of the bunch.

Alright, which don't mean that I somehow accept premise of this thread it is just name of my new profile picture

I would guess it more about that Play-Asia had something that people wanted and have hard time get it somewhere else, where that another store just tried to get more customers by not offering certain products to market its values. As offering products with limited availability is usually always better way get customers in short run. In long run marketing values can be more effective to get repeat customers where those customers that used your shop to buy limited availability product are much harder to get come back and buy more stuff. Although I am not sure that it is effective marketing strategy to go with "SJW" values because there are no certain set of values that common all the people in that crowd, so it would in my opinion better to focus certain aspects that seem to be more popular.

I would take even mark that shows what stuff is new and ability to hide things that you wear from trade screen.

Only thing I try show is that Iraq wasn't paradise before western (mainly US) interventions and it has not become better place after them. Because war don't change just because people who are warring change. Somebodies always suffer and it is usually those that can't defend themselves. Like is said western intervention in Iraq failed (at least if it purpose was to stop violence in the region) and second one more than first one. But anyway it isn't democracy in Iraq that is root of their problems. You find more blame in failing to implement equal democracy and representation behind rise of ISIS. Current crises in Iraq and Syria aren't just because of power vacuum caused by poorly planned intervention by west, but also because their neighboring countries played power politics and supported directly or indirectly parties that later become ISIS and they still support parties that cause more destabilization in the area (US also does this). So even though US second intervention created base for current crises they aren't alone with blame, because those areas play theater for international politics for several bigger countries, like Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran, Turkey and US, which all have bit different agendas and goal that cross paths in many parts when it comes to solving the crises, which is why they are so indolent in their action to solve the crises. And ISIS has been able to grow and thrive because of this to point where our players starts to become forced to act in ways they really don't want to. And to point those pictures that is post about Halabja chemical attack aren't just past but effects of that attack still play their part in current crisis, as it was justification that US used in both of their invasions and it is reason why Kurds are so willing to fight for their own state and that willingness for own state is why Turkey don't support Kurds fight against ISIS, but actually acts against them and they are also excuse that is used to justify to dethroning Assad, as he had/has chemical weapons and it is said that he used them against rebels and civilians.

Their countries won't be a mess if not because of the west...the west who messed up their countries. Such as in Afhanistan, USA who supply the Mujahidden to fight Russia and then let them loose, you give weapons to mad men, then these mad men rule, what do you expect? Below is Afghanistan before ad after USA using Mujahiddeen to fight Russian. If the west don't intervine, Afghans won't bother to migrate to the west.... Below is Iraq before and after USA topple Saddam Hussein Western peoples are hypocrite...you claim you are better than anyone, it is just because you destroy everyone else Iraq before western intervention Following picture is disturbing and isn't material that should be shown to children Picture shows victims of Saddam's chemical weapon attack against Kurds Iraq after failed western intervention Picture shows Sinjar which was destroyed by ISIS and efforts to drive ISIS away them. Picture is near of one of many Yazidi mass graves who were killed by ISIS. War and tyrants never change. Another even more disturbing picture of Saddam's victims Moderators feel free to remove pictures in spoilers if they aren't suitable to this forum.

Might as well say all humans are Africans. Not all, but some...far eastern peoples are not from Africa... I think you missed the joke, all humans have genetics roots that trace back to Africa (something you could have found out with a few seconds of research): "Homo erectus were the first of the hominina to leave Africa, and this species spread through Africa, Asia, and Europe between 1.3 to 1.8 million years ago. One population of H. erectus, also sometimes classified as a separate species Homo ergaster, stayed in Africa and evolved into Homo sapiens." "This would suggest several different species of humans co-existing in Africa around two million years ago with only one of them surviving and eventually evolving into our species, Homo sapiens. It is as if nature was experimenting with different versions of the same evolutionary configuration until one succeeded." Those are hardly the best sources but good enough to prove my point. Like i said, not all, but some...some human come from Atlantis....especially SEA peoples. My people was Atlanteans. That is all and good, but that map show that all humans have monophyletic origin in Paradise. It also claims that people actually moved in Africa and no population stream continued forward from there. It seems to also claim that Russians and Finns are same population stream and that Finns and Hungarians aren't same population stream. It resembles lot of those maps that Nazis used although it don't have their imaginative Aryan race mentioned as major population stream.

It is as hard if not harder to make success in mobile platforms than it is to make them in more traditional platforms. For example King released Candy Crush Saga in 2011, and it is still their most money making game with large margin their other attempts have failed more or less. Another example Supercell released Clash of Clans 2012 and it is still their most money making game with large margin their other attempts to make other success full tittles have failed more or less. Both this companies sold themselves with billions of dollars (King $5.9 billion and with their current income rate it takes 10 years to pay itself back, although that isn't usually that important in this big acquisitions. Supercell owners got $1.5 billion for 51% of their company) Third example Rovio released Angry Birds 2009 (which is franchise that has over billion downloads and has produced over billion dollars worth of revenue for Rovio) and it is still their only IP that produces significantly money, but now that its popularity has started to fade, Rovio has started to face financial problems and started to layoff their employees. Of course you don't need to have similar success that previously mentioned companies to make money in mobile games, but then you usually need to be prepared to make dozens of small games per year if you want to keep company with over 100 peoples up and running.

Here is statement about Sweden's decision to add board control and lessen refugees ability to get permanent residency in Sweden by Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden (the woman that cried over this as you put it) https://www.facebook.com/asaromson/posts/1008144535911068 Here translation by Google because I am too lazy to do it myself

Supporting those that fight seems to be what they have in their mind instead of actual fighting.

I would say that Qui Gon never mastered path of immortality as his body didn't become part of force during his death like Obi-Wan's did in New Hope. Qui Gon was just poor jedi, which is why he couldn't even win wannabe sith like Maul.

Interrupt works as I think it works, but you don't seem to understand what is my problem with it.

I don't know what there is so hard to understand? Topic idea is to converse how to make interrupt more interesting mechanic and I voiced opinion that mechanics behind interrupt should first make more clearer for players by offering them ability see all the interrupt rolls. Or do you mean that you don't understand how it's active use of interrupt mechanic if you target attacks from character with high interrupt value towards enemies that use abilities/spells which effects you don't want in play and therefore giving you higher change to delay their ability/spell use and give you party more time to kill said enemy before anything bad happens?. Or do you not understand why I think that such use of interrupt mechanic feels currently waster of effort? I just have difficulty to comprehend what you don't understand or what was the problem in first place in this whole conversation.

Everything in PoE has some sort random factor in it, so everything you do you need to take account the randomization. Biggest problem with interrupts is that it is much more difficult to estimate, compared to other actions, how probable your success will be, which makes active use of it quite difficult thing to do, but not impossible, although currently it feels that it isn't worth the effort.

By targeting high interrupt attacks/spells to enemies that are using their powerful abilities/spells.

Although that isn't what spell originally did. But it was changed that when they changed interrupt system, although they didn't change it description. Yet again game fails to tell player what effects its interrupt specified thing has.

It depends. Pilot may have tried to identify target that locked his plane by locking all the targets that his radar shows. Which of course is not best course of action but inside of reasonable behavior if pilot panicked for example. But anyway I haven't hear reasonable explanation why Russians would have done it for any other reason. Of course they have history of poking and testing other countries readiness states, but said incident don't at least follow their typical habits in Finland's airspace. Of course we don't have full picture of incident from either side so there may have been other factors in play that caused that incident and even this current one.

There is also items that need to take in consideration in builds. If you know which enemies are weak to interrupt you can make deliberate choice and try to use that against them. But now you mainly need to make wild guess which make usually other build choices much more attractive. Which leads current situation where most people don't use weapons with long interrupt time, fast weapons to get more interrupts, or interrupting spells at all as they don't know how they really effect gameplay if players aren't willing to spent quite lot time to test how interrupt works. Which is why first thing to improve interrupt mechanic is to make it more open and understandable. When they have done that and let players play around with it bit then we can start to make better suggestions how it could be further improved. Apologies for the double post. The problem is that interrupts are random and don't work the way you seem to think they do. Durance, who has -3 Interrupt, still rolls a fair number of them (AoE spells for you). Pallegina, who has 27 Interrupt by the time I'm done with her, still hits people without interrupting them. Their random number was bigger than her random number and that particular attack rolled down the wrong side of the bell curve. You seem to be starting from an assumption that the interrupt system is broken and in need of tweaking. May I ask why? Last bit: the mechanics of this has been beat to death over in the Class Builds sub. If you want to know more, I recommend heading over there and finding that thread via the sticky. Hope this helps. Lets put it in this way. When you have difficulty to predict how well your characters will interrupt enemies by looking their interrupt value how you can think that there isn't room to improve it? If you need to look internet forums or do research by yourself to know how mechanic works there are room to improve how game represents it. And I would also like to know why my characters interrupt value changes from one interrupt roll to another (at least combat log show different number). Which is reason why there should be option to see all interrupt rolls so that player can know if the mechanic is consist and fine tune their character's values if they want to use that mechanic. Now interrupt is something that which player has hard time to tell do it work, do it work as game says it works, is it effective, etc..

There is also items that need to take in consideration in builds. If you know which enemies are weak to interrupt you can make deliberate choice and try to use that against them. But now you mainly need to make wild guess which make usually other build choices much more attractive. Which leads current situation where most people don't use weapons with long interrupt time, fast weapons to get more interrupts, or interrupting spells at all as they don't know how they really effect gameplay if players aren't willing to spent quite lot time to test how interrupt works. Which is why first thing to improve interrupt mechanic is to make it more open and understandable. When they have done that and let players play around with it bit then we can start to make better suggestions how it could be further improved.

You don't believe their claim that fighter flew Turkish airspace to get rid of radar lock by unknown SAM? http://www.janes.com/article/55776/russian-jet-was-avoiding-sam-system-when-it-flew-into-turkish-airspace

One improvement that I would make is to give player ability to turn on showing all interruption roll not only successful ones. Because it would help players to understand how well their current build can interrupt certain enemy types and give them ability to adjust their build more interrupt oriented if they want.

It's more than "unnecessary", it's murder. They were waiting in an ambush with cameras at the ready like rats. This is the view in Russia. Okay I'm not sure if that is true ....what do you mean cameras? Are you being serious I would guess that he means that there are videos about shooting that plane that surfaced quite soon after the incident.