Agelastos
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Cipher. Seethe. Siphon. Soul Vampires.
I think that the Cipher fills up the Assassin slot much better than the Rogue.
Thoughts?
Based on...?
Could be kind of cool with a Cipher specialization/prestige class inspired by D&D's Psychic Assassin, though.
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I'd much happier with hideous undead abominations. Kinda starting to miss them ugly bloodsucking bastards.
I don't mind vampires being sexy if it's their predator tactics to lure food. But they still should end up like Witcher bruxas: when you see them up close, you get an irresistible urge to kill them with fire and not plough them. Well, except with an aspen stake.
Why aspen? I know they used ash in Russia and the Baltics, hawthorn in the Balkans, and oak in parts of Central Europe, but where did they use aspen stakes?
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Oh, and Lord Dunsany. How could I forget?
And Eiji Yoshikawa.
Sorry! Couldn't find the off switch.
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Neil Gaiman
Umberto Eco
H.P. Lovecraft
Thomas Ligotti
Robert E. Howard
George R.R. Martin
Neal Stephenson
Terry Pratchett
Steven Erikson
Glen Cook
Yo Mama
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I mean on a basic level I suppose you want to support the developers of games you like, and you want other people to as well, but lets be real here. The main victims of piracy are gigantic faceless emotionless corporations who would gladly fire their employees or exploit legal loopholes for material gain, so what's wrong with reciprocating?
The underpinning idea behind capitalism is competition, If I can find something cheaper(or free) I'm going to use that instead and the companies that sell crappy goods at jacked-up prices are just going to have lower their prices, make better goods or deal. it's not my responsibility as a consumer to care about this kind of thing, it's theirs. When corporations suddenly grow a conscience and stop exploiting slave labor, cheating content developers and poisoning the air and water to save a buck, maybe I'll start shelling out for their products until then, worlds smallest violin.
Wouldn't that make the employees the real victims? That's something to keep in mind. You make it sound like the pirates are taking some kind of grand stand against corporate corruption, but in reality they're just hurting some poor working schmucks. The head of the snake remains intact, but its tail hurts like hell.
I think you missed my point. A corporation is without feelings, there is no reason therefore that a consumer should feel for one. The whole "Poor corporations!" mindset people have when arguing against piracy is frankly sickening. Despite what some have said, corporations are not people and you conflating the two, as if pirating games somehow directly translates to employees being fired is stupid. They have easily enough money to pay all their employees they just choose to send it all to the top of the ladder, if we accept your absurd scenario and a corporation for some reason fires all their employees as a result of my pirating their game, then perhaps they will realize that a company doesn't last very long without employees and realize their value.
One person pirating may not make a difference. But when millions of people do it, it does make a difference. Especially for smaller companies (or game developers that focus on PC-exclusive games). I think there are plenty of good reasons to download something "illegally" (like the ones Valsuelm listed), I do it all the time, but it's not always a victimless crime. If a company loses enough sales, it will have to downsize (not fire all of its employees - I never said that). That's not absurd at all.
I don't understand how you can complain about corporations "exploiting slave labor, cheating content developers and poisoning the air and water to save a buck" one minute, and defend pitiless capitalism the next.
The simple ideas behind capitalism that are drilled into our heads at school in America are that the system runs on competition. If a company cannot make me a better offer than a pirate, it's my obligation to get the better product. Don't try and make me feel bad for taking the best offer, that's how the system works.Good thing I live in "socialist Sweden", then.
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And, Germany didn't lose to justv Europe. They lost because non European countries like the US and Canada also pitched in. Nice try, though. Bottom line is one country was able to take on a whole continent.
*sigh* The war had already turned when the US got involved. Russia did a lot more to defeat the nazis than the US did.
With that said, if they hadn't pitched in we would have had a lot more Soviet satellite states in Europe during the Cold War, so I guess we should be thankful for that.,
I'm sure the Soviets didn't mind eating the US food and stuff like that though. Or flying British aircraft, or being trained by British pilots, or driving British tanks, or wearing British boots.
I know Stalin was a shrewd diplomat, but I don't think he was completely blowing smoke up America's butt when he acknowledged that their contributions had been very important at the 1943 Tehran Conference.
Of course they helped a lot, but the Allies would have won anyway. It might have taken another year to win, taken longer to rebuild Europe, and probably have made the Cold War worse than it already was, but the Allies would have won.
And I don't know what the UK has to do with what I said. I was merely saying that "No, we would not be speaking German now if it wasn't for the North Americans".
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I mean on a basic level I suppose you want to support the developers of games you like, and you want other people to as well, but lets be real here. The main victims of piracy are gigantic faceless emotionless corporations who would gladly fire their employees or exploit legal loopholes for material gain, so what's wrong with reciprocating?
The underpinning idea behind capitalism is competition, If I can find something cheaper(or free) I'm going to use that instead and the companies that sell crappy goods at jacked-up prices are just going to have lower their prices, make better goods or deal. it's not my responsibility as a consumer to care about this kind of thing, it's theirs. When corporations suddenly grow a conscience and stop exploiting slave labor, cheating content developers and poisoning the air and water to save a buck, maybe I'll start shelling out for their products until then, worlds smallest violin.
Wouldn't that make the employees the real victims? That's something to keep in mind. You make it sound like the pirates are taking some kind of grand stand against corporate corruption, but in reality they're just hurting some poor working schmucks. The head of the snake remains intact, but its tail hurts like hell.
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It could also be a very powerful genius loci that the locals worship as a god.
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Why reinvent the wheel?
Agreed! I only use wheels for their original purpose: making pottery, and I absolutely despise spokes and ball bearings.
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The why was asked for, and got the answer. Don't like it? The only solution is to go back to 6372 BC, get yourself appointed God and redesign human nature so we're capable as a collective (or even as an individual in most cases) of putting moral considerations above economic, political or practical ones, that's the only thing that'll 'fix' it.
And contend with the near-complete religious monopoly of the Mother Goddess? Nah! Sounds like a lot of work.
What about the 4th millennium BC? That seems to have been a pretty good period for up-and-coming new gods.
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You wouldn't download a car.
If you could, you probably would.
You would download a car, you would download Jamie Farr.
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I’m not going to call pirates “thieves” because they aren’t stealing tangible property.
Depends what jurisdiction you're in. Anyhow, it's still theft.
But the sexy kind of theft, like in a heist film where a ragtag band of lovable rogues steal millions of dollars from a villainous casino owner, right?
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It's not about supporting neo-nazism, it's about supporting free speech.
Russia, which lost millions of soldiers and civilians in the fight against Nazism, has criticized a number of controversial moves by foreign governments. In 2007, for example, Estonia made the decision to relocate the Bronze Soldier, which marked the graves of several Soviet soldiers, from central Tallinn to the nearby Tallinn Military CemeterySeriously? Of course Estonians wanted to relocate the statue. To them, it was a symbol of the oppression they suffered under Soviet rule.
Funny how your conspiracy theories are almost identical to the ones commonly spouted by neo-nazis, only inverted.
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^I agree it's utterly crap. Well, until you tap into a certain mindset (like regarding anything, of course). Luckily the guy uploading these videos has been kind enough to tell the "Time mark" in the descriptions so you can skip it.
Why would I want to skip it? I don't like anime, but that song... oh, that song... I'm going to listen to it again and again and again.
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That theme song... words can't describe how brilliantly awful it was! I... wow!
Thank you, Osvir! That made my day.
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The answer, as always, is to abolish money and change to a hug-based economy. If that doesn't stop piracy, I don't know what will.
I am willing to pay no less than 50 digital hugs for this game!
That's a lot, considering I hate digital body contact.
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Hah! I thought the Pirate Party was an exclusively Swedish phenomenon. I had no idea it had spread to so many countries.
Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, considering how successful the Swedish Pirate Party was in the European Parliament election of 2009.
Fascinating.
Sorry! OT, I know...
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Hopefully, they'll release a toolset so that we can tweak, remove or add features ourselves.
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Very nice.
A mindflayer lich is called an Alhoon, btw.
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And, Germany didn't lose to justv Europe. They lost because non European countries like the US and Canada also pitched in. Nice try, though. Bottom line is one country was able to take on a whole continent.
*sigh* The war had already turned when the US got involved. Russia did a lot more to defeat the nazis than the US did.
With that said, if they hadn't pitched in we would have had a lot more Soviet satellite states in Europe during the Cold War, so I guess we should be thankful for that.,
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Bah! When will you hu-mans understand that your "free will", as you call it, will inevitably lead to your own demise?
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There was trade between China and Europe, how do you think the west got gunpowder?
From the Middle East. Apart from a few explorers who went to East Asia (Marco Polo, for instance), Europe had little to no contact with East Asia during the Middle Ages.
The East Asians traded and warred with the Central and Western Asians, who in turn traded and warred with us.
I didn't say the middle ages, this game is set in like the late renaissance or something isn't it? Even if trade was monopolized largely by middle eastern nations, Europe and Asia were connected by land and trade routes, travel from one to the other would have been perfectly reasonable, if hard. Besides in this game presumably their is travel assisting magic, so theoretically a Chinese person could just teleport to Europe.
The Renaissance was a cultural movement, not a historical period, and it began during the Middle Ages. The game setting is inspired by the Late Middle Ages (15th century, IIRC), and we didn't really develop a trade relationship with the Far East until the 16th century and the beginning of the Early Modern Period (at which point we started going there, but they didn't start coming here until much later).
Also, the Silk Road didn't go farther west than the Ottoman Empire, which half of Europe was pretty much perpetually at war with.
And we did get gun powder from the Middle East.
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There was trade between China and Europe, how do you think the west got gunpowder?
From the Middle East. Apart from a few explorers who went to East Asia (Marco Polo, for instance), Europe had little to no contact with East Asia during the Middle Ages.
The East Asians traded and warred with the Central and Western Asians, who in turn traded and warred with us.
Ok so Alignment, Character Creation, and Relationships...
in Pillars of Eternity: Stories (Spoiler Warning!)
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Something like the Background questionnaire from The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall would be awesome.
Edit: Also, separate Appearance and Charisma attributes, like in Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines (this way, it's possible to be ugly/scary-looking while being charming and debonair at the same time, or beautiful/handsome but socially inept - something that isn't possible in most cRPGs). Gear could still factor in to the equation.