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I think the difference is that an expat retains citizenship to the country of origin while the immigrant attempts to gain citizenship in the country they actually live in. But in practice there is clearly a class distinction, you just don't see the moral panic around "illegal expats".
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I think the biggest problem with Dragon Age is a lack of consistency in design goals. There's a disconnect between DA1 and future games in the series that seemed to jettison more of the "rpg elements" in favor of more action focused gameplay and cinematic experiences, in addition to jumping between smaller personal story to single player mmo with a multiplayer minigame slapped on. By itself that isn't a problem but I think that Bioware just isn't good enough at either gameplay or cinematics to really make a good action-rpg, looking back now I remember next to nothing about actually playing DA2 or DA3 beyond silly stuff like the "ANOTHER WAVE" yells or spamming the magic sword power to reflect projectiles. While this new one does look like it's doubled down on action it just doesn't look good, like an inferior Dragon's Dogma with less enemy variety or real options.
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You naughty But I can't really see this as much of a surprise, Cyberpunk 2077 and BG3 both did this at least a year before (dragonborn genitals are horrifying). I think we all know that a segment of the internet is addicted to being mad, but this is just getting pathetic. Please just let me hate on the game for looking uncanny and having bad combat without getting spammed by videos from some mediocre youtube guy with 100 gigs of CP hentai on his hard drive. It's like NuTrek all over again, let me hate in peace you maidenless reprobates.
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I didn't watch this or the DA review, I just know about Mort from the Owlcat Pathfinder games where he'd do relatively in depth videos about content as released. Tbh I rarely watch videos about games beyond skimming for specific content. Anyways, I've done a playthrough of BG3 and DAV just doesn't look nearly as interesting nor does it really want to make me give it a chance to just enjoy the story. If I wanted to sit back and watch braindead action stuff I'd just bite the bullet and put on a cape**** movie or shonen anime. BG3 does a good job of making the most of a janky pnp system and also does quite a lot of out of combat gameplay that is very memorable. Something I'll never forget is failing to intimidate the owlbear and getting attacked by it, in the moment it reminded me of something from Disco Elysium. In contrast, DAV looks like repetitive combat spaced in corridors that is occasionally broken by "epic" cutscenes or very simple puzzles.
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Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to Bartimaeus's topic in Way Off-Topic
Just read it on break. We're so back. No, I like to be surprised. -
US Presidential Elections - 2024 edition
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to Gorth's topic in Way Off-Topic
As someone much smarter than me once said "What Enoch Powell says today, the Tories say tomorrow and Labour legislates on the day after". Kinda sad how regular this seems to be. The wildest thing about that to me is that by the numbers the people who thinks the sun shines out of Israel's fundamental orifice are (white) Evangelicals who are already in the tank for Trump. The radical centrists need to learn they're never going to be enough for such folks, but at the end of the day the radical centrists are those folks with a thin sheen of decorum. Trump will probably accelerate things tbh, but the path of the US into a decayed empire only capable of sowing death has been set since at least the triumph of neoliberalism. -
I haven't played the 40k game to know, but that sounds about right. In the Owlfinder games they assumed players would cheese the system, so they inflated stats based around that assumption which makes stuff like heavy armor Paladin have a lot more trouble than it would in pnp. It's not impossible to solve the numbers game but it makes the game feel more like you're managing a spreadsheet than fighting tactical battles. Compared to BG3 it's not near as fun for me, as BG3 managed to make a simpler (and often very janky) system feel much more tactical than WotR, which my last run was prebuffing and steamrolling.
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US Presidential Elections - 2024 edition
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to Gorth's topic in Way Off-Topic
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I think Trump is going to win by peeling at least Michigan. Feels like watching a trainwreck in slow time tbh, but this has been known for over a year at this point and not only are the dems not doing some very obvious things to appeal to voters there that would cinch the state for Kamala, they're actively doubling down by refusing to meet people or kicking out former democratic politicians from events. Frankly it's baffling that Kamala and her team thought it more advantageous to pal around with Liz Cheney than bother to meet with a single Muslim when everything shows the dems are loosing Muslims, who backed Biden by a large margin last time, in droves. But maybe I'm wrong and maybe there really is a massive base of hardcore anti-Trump conservatives out there who will come on out. Seems less likely than winning the lottery though. -
I think that my two playthroughs, Azata and Trickster, were pretty much the same. I've heard that those two paths are some of the lightest on unique content but still there just wasn't too much to them beyond managing a new suite of abilities and the ending slides. Guess I'll see if Lich feels different when I finally get the time to play it.
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Given the rest of the site, it probably used ai. On Owlcat, I've spent loads of time on both of their Pathfinder games but they definitely tend towards being played as a spreadsheet more than tactically. No idea if the 40k game showed any growth on that front, but based on their track record I think an Owlcat PF 2e game would be pretty much unplayable as that system is very sensitive to numerical bonuses and there just isn't a way to stack the ever loving **** out of your stats.
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Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to Bartimaeus's topic in Way Off-Topic
Dandadan ep 4 - The End of ZA WARUDO Turbo Granny It's a very fast paced action episode that climaxes in a much different way than expected. As has been par for the series so far it's just incredibly visually striking, some of the best animated sequences I've seen in quite some time are in this episode. Though it's kinda telegraphed that there's something wrong with Okarun's..........Manly Essence and I guess we'll see just what that is. -
Cinema and Movie Thread: coming at you at 24fps
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Salem's Lot (2024) I think this is like the third one and it's in the genre of "ancient evil comes to a small town and gets killed after terrorizing the townsfolk". For me it wasn't bad.....it was boring. Generic and forgettable with packaged horror movie scares. I will probably remember nothing of it within a week. I think you're the fifth or sixth person to reccomend this to me, and I've decided to catch it this weekend. -
The TV and Streaming Thread: US Writers/Actors Strike Edition
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.....What the ****? How the hell did that **** get greenlit? -
The TV and Streaming Thread: US Writers/Actors Strike Edition
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to Raithe's topic in Way Off-Topic
Is it a pretty even split so that you can just stop or fast forward?