Darkpriest

@Zoraptor Watch when in the next 5-10 years China nd Russia will go to replace petroDollar with petroYuan and gasRouble, once China will kill HKD and move the Asian stock centre from HK to Shanghai, where they already have a good setup with precious metals, especially Gold. They've already put an umbrella over Iran (the recently signed deals, including direct investment into Iran from China and arms deala from Russia) , Syria. In a few years house of Sauds will lose its significant grip on the oil markets, and you have had some prelude to what may happen on the markets, once Russians will show a middle finger to Sauds on pricing and production quotas. Now imagine that biggest growing market will also start skipping Sauds, as they will have oil lines from Iran? The one thing that is volatile and can drag power one way or the other is Turkey, but their leader got drunk on this power and like a donkey in some old tales, cannot pick and will starve. India is a big country, but do you really think that they'd rather pick deals with US than brokering some deals with China? After years of abuse first by English and later by corporate US? Look how quickly things de-escalated, even though soldiers on both sides were killing each other. Unless USA and EU will put their **** together quickly and they will start thinking and act like meritocracy technocrats and at the same time understand to introduce policies addressing wealth gaps and introducing national, cultural goals and bringing more cohesion to societies, then the Western cultural and economic dominance is done for. The alternatives aren't pretty though. Funny, how many parallels you can draw between USA and Roman Empire. Killed by ineptitude of leaders, corruption of wealthy, laziness of citizens, with demorizliezd policing and overstretched armies that consist in significant amount of auxiliaries with residence. Emerging faith replacing the old one that pushed people of the past. Just waiting for a barbarian revolt and sacking of Washington.

Perhaps the language is responsible for some misunderstanding, or just me writing from a phone and not giving enough time to second read. Prejudice did exist and will exist. That's in a human nature. It's derived from the ingroup and outgroup perceptions nd exists in all groups of life (in different forms) , which is not solitary. It's a part of nature and how it deals with scarcity of resources. I'd argue that Italians, Irish, Polish, Russians, Bulgarians, etc now have it much better. From what I observed, you need to be 2nd or even 3rd generation in US to have a reasonable chance for a success, if you are not coming in wealthy or via some corporate assignment to a high paid job. You are even more out of luck now, if you come now as a melatonine deficient human species representative. It's hard to ignore this blatant power grab. It is the same as bolsheviks or nazis 100 years ago. Great ideals, some wealthy enemy being the source of ill fate and mass outrage. Same happened to France and French revolution, which eventually led to rise of Napoleon. I like civil rights movement and I'm in favor of tolerance. But tolerance is a two way street and tolerance should not be abused to change it into a fight for privilages. Especially when that fight becomes voilent and turns into riots and looting. Look at Poland for example, (the 1989-90) No looting, mass movements and the positive change, which led to end of communism in the eastern block. Society, even though still with inclinations to remnants of communism, which is shown in beurocracy and some view on the role of the state, over time reduced coruption, has one of the best success stories in terms of development and increase of wealth per capita, and with eservices much better than in the USA, as a corner shack with vegies will still allow you to pay with your smartphone. Crime rates are low, and cities are now cleaner than in Germany, which would be beyond imagination 30years ago.

Not that it was less, juat less visible and perhaps as a kid from a post-communist country i also had a limited visibility to how things work? A bit rose tinted glasses to all that vision of wealth and freedom Prejudice was always there in the people. Heck, go back to the early 1900 and all those Irish, Italians, Polish etc in NYC and similar divisions in other big cities of US of A. I've been here for a long time, just didn't bother to post. But what's going on now is simply too much to ignore. The concepts like white privilage etc are just bull****. There is a wealth privilage and that wealth privilage is linked to English culture descendands.

I've been lurking here, but in general, the big problem is, that US population is incredibly ignorant, even at corporate level. (telling people they won't get raises, where they earn on average lesss than US minimal wage, because of crisis, and then boasting and flashing BLM in corporate msg boards and donating nearly a billion usd to various organization supporting that political movement is a slap in the face of people working for the profit margins, as the corporates also reduce their US employment and move positions to eastern EU, India and China) US has few hundred years of culture, that is a pot of identities, yet people think they understand cultures much older and much more coherent, than the US consumerism is. Imagine if a rainbow flag would be considered offensive in some part of the world, because 500 y ago there were some attorcities commited by a band of people from an unrelated culture, which you did not know. That's how some of the cultures in the East see treatment of some of the symbols, which were long before a certain group of people decided to use them as their own and murder people. Last 50-70 years threw a grenade into thousands of years of cultural and genetic evolution. I'll write something later, but I'm happy that I've decided to stay where I am and not move to US. When I was a kid 30ys ago, US looked bright and nice, 20years ago it seemed that there was a huge prejudice and treating outsiders, even with better education, as second rate residents, it was a first warning call. 10ys ago, it was obvious, that US is going downhill. Economic crisis, double standards, bailing out "too big to fail" and PC culture showing its ugly face. Now, this is the downward slope, indebted society, with morality policing and science in regression for the sake of ideologies. In 10-20 years, the US will be in the likes of Australia or UK at best, and at worst a group of nations divided like balkans are after the fall of Yugoslavia. And there will be a China-Russia domination on the world stage, as majority of production and resources will be controlled by them and their economic dependants in Africa, Middle east and south America. All the groups that US managed to piss off and alienate.

Say what? https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scottish-man-convicted-calling-ex-girlfriends-boyfriend-leprechaun

First custom made character on WHFB license: this gives hopes for things like Araby and perhaps Albion, also hobgoblins in game 3 maybe?

I was hoping for Phoenix Point to be good, but it feels that you will basically need to abuse the free aim feature to play the game efficiently - I'd rather keep general probability with center point and deviations from it, and specific body parts aiming, with special feature. Tiles should be aimed at their center mass points. Anyway, back to XCOM and legacy scenarios - they are actually quite fun

That UFO themed soundtrack.... omg... so good for my ears and heart

I'm master necromancer I like to keep specific game threads going instead of creating a new one. I'm going through the game for sure. The new items make it worth it to go XCOM again, and soundtrack will make it so much better. I'm fairly confident, that this event is prepping people for a new product / hype train. They just want to get their attention on the franchise again, and with people being mostly positive on this free add-on (well console guys are not the happy part) they will probably drop some news on their new product - at least i hope so.

I can't believe this has been already so many years. hah. It seems Firaxis are delivering goodies for a really good game for free: My gut tells me, that are checking the hype levels and are prepping for some new XCOM game. The 80s synth like music sounds amazing imo

I love that theme. Now i just wish even more that they had the guts to implement the naval combat. I guess resource starving and cost efficiency are a thing though :/

Nah, the difference is the rules are made for turn based game. Pen and paper games are turn based and rules are designed for those. If you port those into real time environment, they just don't work well

Well, i guess it can depend on the setup. It can be set to be annoying and counter you to delay your progress, or it can be setup to be the most efficient and try to defeat you as fast as possible

How would you decide what's on given difficulty level if you want to maintain same ruleset? How would you teach AI to be less efficient and handicap itself on purpose? Or would you rather keep "AI" to the level of fallble scripts?

Recently I watched how a fairly fast developing OpenAI managed to get more than a basic grasp at a co-op game - DotA 2. Last year, they've shown one hero AI, being able to beat consistently with high rate top human players. Now, while still with significant restrictions, they managed to make 5 AI bots co-operate in a team game and beat 5 men team of really good players (retired pros). I wonder, how could this affect gaming. I mean, we often hear complains how AI is bad in this or that game, etc., but think of a scenario, where AI will beat average player 99.9999999999999% times, and the best human player 90% of the time. Where is the limit for an enjoyable, yet challenging AI in games, which would be playing by the same rules and with same resources, and where the good AI becomes too good for a game to be fun (no one wants loosing all the time, even though you know the conditions are fair) https://www.joindota.com/en/news/72530-openai-stomped-first-but-there-is-still-hope-for-the-human-race

Am I blind or really no one yet mentioned Heroes of Might and Magic III ?

update to DLC - would rather have medusae

The giant is actually a gift connected to the Warhammer event on Steam - Skull for the Skull Throne

Interesting, I liked AoW for the mix of magic and civ. a call to my younger days of Master of Magic - not sure if the Sci-fi AoW will get the same appeal on my side, but I'll def. watch its development.

I dare to say, that this description is interesting as well: But this is not all. The Druchii possess a dark and powerful weapon. When blood runs in rivers and the air is choked with Death, the chains will break and this monstrous secret will be unleashed. Which could mean something special and big is coming with the DE (big monster, or perhaps a special greek related mythical creature)

I used a funny party of 2 heavy armor melees (warhammer, shields), 2 hybrids (pikes and arquebus) and 2 ranged (arbalests) all fighter party. it ran quite well for a long time. All dwarf party, just for giggles because i love dem dwarfs (I still miss my RP sessions as Moradin's cleric)

They also confirmed that there will be a Free DLC content - Legendary Lord: Alith Anar

And finally some new content coming, along with Norsca update:

You'd say different things back when it was released. It's one of the games why Bullfrog became a recognized brand. Shame it died after being swallowed by EA