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Let's face it folks, Trump's always known he's going to be president, down to each and every minute detail... [Youtube]

Oh, and I just learned that there will be a day 1 patch of 9GB on top of that, so the game's huge, and I stopped caring about copy protection since I made tapes of games on my Commodore 64.

Yeah, I saw that when he held his president-elect speech, his little son to the right. Although, I got scary vibes from him. He never seemed to empathize with his father in anything that he said and done at the podium. Rather, his uncanny eyes peered in various directions, almost absorbing info about everybody there. He felt a bit like the little boy in Omen, if I let my cruel streak loose for a sec.

I've preloaded Dishonored 2 now, and what a beast of a game, it was: 38GB! Ouch! My biggest game on my HD. Tomorrow, I'll get to play it. Sweet deal indeed!

Oh, I almost forgot: I also love that Donald intends to do much more for the veterans. These guys have really given their all and more, often to lost causes, and in foreign lands and messes. I reckon that's great.

You're so right about that, in a double sense.

Wow! Not that I'm all that surprised, but still... I listened to Donald's elected-to-be president speech, and it was at least the best I've heard from him. The cool thing is that he's no political baggage to speak of, it seems. And I like that he's hellbent on fixing the infrastructure, and make it one of a kind too (Well, a certain Mr. 88, was the same thing back in the day in Germany - no, just kidding). Let's just hope that he'll deliver to all those people in the Rust Belt, coz I had no idea the US was so divided as far as the country side vs urban is concerned. Those maps were really telling. I've never considered USA a true democracy, and I doubt, its democratic stock will rise now, unfortunately. All I want is for the US, to flourish, so, fingers crossed. And Hillary not making a congratulatory speech at 2AM, very weird and low on her behalf. Not good. Let's pray for Marine Le Pen being the first to congratulate him wasn't an ill omen...

Oh, just a tidbit about the D3 improvements ahead: All those ingredients and mats we use in the cube and at the blacksmith, they will no longer take up stash space. They will get their own handy tab. Also, there will be an Armory, where you can have five loadouts of items and chosen skill trees at your finger tips, like one for speed runs, and one for greater rifts, and so forth. Pretty neat, huh? Better late than never.

I'm merely an outsider, but my sentiments exactly.

I loooooved the necromancer class in D2, so this is a no-brainer for me. Day 1 buy, I don't mind paying for it, that's for sure. I was hoping for an expansion, but a few new areas are at least better than nothing, and the entire D1 periodically once a year, yum!

Sources, and no bombastic claims of veritas (in vino?) - I prefer this Meshugger any day! Great! And I love you for mentioning Ulysses. I read it when I was eighteen, and what an utterly confusing eyeopener it was. I had no idea literature could be like that.

Sorry for using your post as an example, but see what happens when you shroud a few excerpts taken out of context in social reality? Pretty nasty, huh? Not at all. You are perfectly welcome to shield yourself and dismiss others as you wish. The truth is that the guy has suspicious contacts, mentioned by personal name in the Podesta-leaks (Austyn Crites), and it is already been established that the DNC hire professional agent provocateurs thanks to the Project Veritas investigations, where they admitted to the Chicago and Arizona riots. No need for shielding (from what?), as I'm obviously just as subjective as you are, and I'm certainly not dismissing you, but rather what you delineate with such absolute certainty, when it's just a matter of leaning on a termite-infested pole. Transforming a textual game of Chinese whispers into "the truth", the "established", and other claims without any other scientifically stringent or reliable sources than bits of text strings garnered over the internet grapevine is quite a feat, but it has nothing to do with reality. It's just as real as those talking heads you see in documentaries, it's just blah, blah, blah. It seems barbaric in nature, the post-Nietzschean 21st century kind. Oh, by the way, did you know that the etymology of that word "barbaric" is blah, blah, or "bar bar", in ancient Greek? My point is a serious one, though. We should all be much more careful in our usage of internet sources, and that goes for all the wikis out there. And, please, keep on rallying for your sociopolitical views, but why mask them and present them as established truths, when they're just opinions and wishes? Stand up for your beliefs, no need for filters or smoke screens. Just go get 'em, champ!

Sorry for using your post as an example, but see what happens when you shroud a few excerpts taken out of context in social reality? Pretty nasty, huh?

You do realize that this is exactly what I mean? Subjective, context-bound text statements - nothing more, nothing less. I'm certainly not pro-Clinton, as you already know. I just lament that someone like Johnson or Mitt Romney isn't a candidate instead of neo-fascist Trump, which certainly makes me reluctantly preferring the lesser evil in this case: Clinton.

Attaching "leaks" to any bulk of information is deliberately suggestive of wrongdoing, of an assorted collection of conspiracies, of anything bad you wish to read into the stuff in question. People are hardwired that way. Our brains seek patterns in everything, which essentially is the same as subjective interpretation, an interpretation which in turn is steeped in a number of sociocultural contexts. How we use such information, the ways in which we approach it analytically, are pretty much the same issue as to what makes good science versus bad. How are we looking at the info as the results of subjective statements made, or numbers crunched, at specific sociocultural points in time? Are we taking into consideration all the aspects and perspectives possible? Obviously, we could relativize the contents of any such bits and pieces of info ad nauseam, but that would be overdoing it. Let's just settle with the obvious: each and every leaked email, for instance, is quite comparable to hearsay, and equally objective, i.e., not at all.

Hi! I'm just sharing a few pics from my very first Civ6 game. Towards the end, I had a number of ways that could bag me a win, but I opted for cultural victory (It was fun using lots of archaeologists and creating great writers, musicians, artists, etc. This image is of my core territory a few years before victory IIRC. The Ai was pretty invasive and eager to suddenly pounce me without warning. I never started any war, but I did hit hard if they attacked me. The Aztecs? I obliterated them. Gorgo? Weirdly, I met my very same leader, (Gorgo II?) and I had to blot her out of the game as well. Luckily, she declared war, so said and done. I also took a city from Kongo, and that shut them up (not their denouncing, though - it was endless henceforth.) Here you have the cultural standing one turn before I got the cultural victory. Tourists were pouring in after all of my artefacts and great works, plus heaps of wonders (China hated me). Yes, there are victory slides with narrative, and lots of end game statistics. Love that! Overall, this is the most complete out-of-the-box Civ ever released. You get all of the fun at your finger tips from the get-go. There's a nasty crash bug, though, where your save may get corrupted. I managed to solve the problem, but others haven't been so lucky. The music is great, as are the sound effects. However, the undiscovered parts of the map are confusing to me, as that paper/papyrus-thingie sorta looks like a jagged coastline. I love all the lenses you can switch between (see tourism in one of the images above).

Yeah, the exploration aspect of Skyrim was by far its strongest asset. It really felt like you were there, in those chilly forests, by them hills and brooks. I can imagine that the exploration got even stronger with a graphics update. In Fallout IV, I felt more like I was in Bioshock 3 or something. F:NV was more exciting to explore.

Yay! Finally someone who writes "a" like I do in handwriting!

You bet.

I'm still sceptical about the game, but it was fun watching Day9 playing it (where he literally wets himself at the end, hours into the game). However, I hit a big snag when it comes to the release date of Tyranny: It's the same as a pre-ordered Dishonored 2, and being a huge fan of Dishonored and Civ6, I simply don't have enough time to play it all.

I just had it downloading on Steam. No info, but the size says it all: 1.4 GB.

Also, I can appreciate the sentiments of those who're tired of games in high fantasy settings. But at the same time for others like myself, sword and magic is all we really care for as a setting for an RPG. I simply cannot get into guns or lasers so I'm never going to play a Fallout or Star Wars game no matter how good it may be. Obsidian already has the license for Pathfinder; the setting and the game mechanics are thoroughly developed so very little resources need be expended on those major aspects of any new game; and, the setting comes with a reasonably large existing fanbase. So a Pathfinder CRPG would be a relatively low cost and low risk but high return game for Obsidian. Thus from a business standpoint, it makes perfect sense to do it. And best of all, Pathfinder is perfectly suited for a Neverwinter Nights style game, meaning you build a moddable base game, and then you release a series of new modules for the game for years thereafter. As was evident from the survey, Pathfinder already comes with a very long list of mostly-popular game modules to work with. I feel you! I've given so many CRPGs a chance, where they involve post-apocalyptic landscapes, lasers and a wide array of hand guns, but those still don't fly too well with me. I'm not engrossed in the same way as I for some nostalgic reason get to be in the admittedly worn out genre of LotR/Rune Quest/D&D-kind of Medieval-ish high fantasy. The reason's on my end, in my twisted head, but I just love that kind of setting. And imagine if you're right about a moddable base Pathfinder CRPG that beats the hell out of the rather big disasters of Daggerdale and Sword Coast Legends, I'd be so happy about such a product, and imagine the longevity. Wow... Finally, I trust that Obsidian would make one helluva of an interesting game, using the Pathfinder setting, which is both unique and mature enough to be to my liking.

@Bruce: What a tragic story! I'm truly sorry for your loss, and yes, it's much more often than not, an awful industry.

I'm sorry, sir. But you've been the victim of a shrewd Vulcan grip. The Vulcans aren't too keen on people getting elated, so one of their agents stealthy assailed you.

Wonderful pictures from a pristine landscape with undulating forests! Fantastic stuff!! For some reason, it makes me think of the first European settlers arriving to America. They must have been awestruck by it all - the varieties of terrain, huge expanses of it, seemingly up for grabs (This assumption fuelled by them usually regarding native Americans as savages, almost a mere part of the wild fauna, either infantile/peaceful or territorial/ferocious). Heck, even large parts of Europe looked like this around the time of Christ. Nowadays, there are entire countries in Europe that never gets to experience nature like this - think of the crowded Netherlands, for instance.