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What level did you pledge at? Any level that gave the Boxed Collector's Edition also gave a beta key... It's why I didn't get the Boxed Collector's Edition. I didn't want the temptation of a beta.

I've kinda just about given up on Obsidian and I'm guessing many of the thousands of other physical backers have too. Hence not hearing more about it. Obsidian has been just shy of horribad when it has come to communicating with the physical backers since the game launched. We had to wait a long time for the actual disks, we had to wait a long time after that to be able to patch, we can't currently patch to 2.0 (or at least there's no easy way to know how to do this), we can't get The White March for our physical copies (or at least there's no easy way to know how to do this), and there's been very little communication / heads up as to what's going on, and what little there has been has just about never been in a timely manner (we need multiple threads asking the same type of questions). This is a failure on Obsidian's part to meet expectations, and moreover to communicate proactively to set alternate expectations in order to preserve the respect of it's customers (arguably many of it's most loyal customers (or at least formerly so)). Frankly, while I've little doubt there are some great people working at Obsidian, I get the impression that Feargus and the other guys at the top have taken the goodwill of the game's backers for granted at this point. Which brings up a related issue: Where on earth is the Novella from Avellone?! There's been multiple threads asking about it, yet nothing from Obsidian, and it was promised quite some time back. All it takes is a heads up Obsidian. Basic customer service etiquette. Be proactive, not reactive. Someone in that company is failing in this department, and hard.

Soon has come and gone... A better answer would be nice.

That there isn't one is good evidence of just how out of touch the mods and/or Obsidian are with much of the community... Missed opportunity. Alas, oh well, c'est la vie.

I can't recommend the books enough, they are to this day my favorite series. As for the Eye of the World, yeah he blatantly copied a lot of stuff in the first book ((one spoiler in the second example) though he might have not copied the works them selves but the source material), but by the end of it he makes the world his own and in book 2 it really takes off. Robert Jordan is an unparalleled world builder (well one of the best at least) and a foreshadower unlike any other, plus to this day I have not read a work by an author that portrays battles and conflicts better them him(or at least give me goosebumps). The culminations in his books is what kept me reading the most, he would build and build and build the story and the payoff he would give you in the end is like no other. Some would say it's like going through mud to get the pearl, but in my case his pearls were worth it every time. The thing about his books is that there really isn't one main character and this in combination with his long descriptions and world building makes for really long books and a really long series. My recommendation is to give it a go until book 2 and see where you stand there, as book 2 is really the benchmark for the rest of the series. Jordan is great. I highly recommend checking out Erikson's Malazan series if you've already read the Wheel of Time. He does battles, 'epic', and evokes raw emotion from the reader even better than Jordan methinks.

Did you install the hotfix, which is said to address this issue (or one just like it)?

Which would be when?

Anyone know how the 50% rate holds up in 1.06? Is it too much after the nerf to bounty XP or does it still balance well?

So far as I've been able to determine there is no way to patch it as of now. Obsidian said weeks, if not a month or more ago now, that they'd be making a stand alone patcher for it soon. Soon hasn't materialized yet it seems.

This forum should adopt this rule.

Grow up. Seriously. Please.

Oh, come on. If you want to leave in a righteous and grandiose manner, then please give it a little more effort. I'll rate your post with a D- Not everyone here operates on a 5th grade trolling mentality. Many of the most recent posters in this thread have a lot of growing up to do. It's sadly doubtful they'll ever do it at this point. I just about never agree with PrimeJunta, but the immaturity, tastelessness, and derailing attempts indeed has sunk quite low. It's unfortunate that yet again, a moderator (same one as before) is the prime instigator of this off topic trolling crud that drives people from threads and from the forum all together.

The bastardization of the US Flag with Pan African colors is indeed problematic on a number of levels. The Confederate Flag isn't corrupting anything, nor does it represent a movement that seeks to undermine the culture of a nation. It represents quite the contrary to most of those who would fly it, and originally did. Both the Confederate flag and the Pan-African flag have been misused to represent racism, and unfortunately have come to primarily represent it in the minds of many ignorants. Though it could be argued that the Pan-African flag was racist from day one given it's origin, it represents liberation to many.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2DTLbTQj0I

You need to learn yourself quite a bit more geography and history. Those are the colors of the 'Pan-African' flag. It has other names as well, but the gist of it is that it represents the people of Africa, their plight, their struggle for liberation, and African nationalism.

What a noob.

On the other hand, if it wasn't for rodents, humans would never have existed in the first place. There's a big difference between theory and fact.

Rodents are probably the #1 animal vector of disease and death in humans. They transmit far more nastiness than just the bubonic plague. In fact, only mosquitoes possibly beat them as a vector in terms of number of people killed. Though if you factor in other ways that rodents can hurt humans, such as eating and destroying vast quantities of food which leads to starvation and other diseases, rodents probably surpass mosquitoes to take the #1 killer of humans spot. As much as The Secret of N.I.M.H is a favorite movie of mine, the real world realities of mice and rats are far uglier than portrayed in that Don Bluth gem. People who 'love' anything or anyone based largely or primarily on how cuddly or cute factors, are crazy, ignorant, and/or just plain unintelligent to say the least.

Al and co. were indeed prophetic.

If you guys abandoned the retarded policy of locking threads when they reach an arbitrary 'post limit', which unduly interrupts whatever conversation is being had, this thread wouldn't be necessary.

In this particular situation the person wasn't shot.... It's unclear exactly what happened, but evidence suggests he was beaten to death, and pretty gruesomely at that. And most police do not need guns.

World Civics 101 Nah.. this one should have been covered for you in Jr. High. Either your schooling failed you. or you failed your schooling. The constitutional monarchy parliamentary governmental system in the United Kingdom and representative republic federal system in the U.S. are not the same system. In a many fundamental ways they are different. The two party system and two dimensional thought conceived right-left paradigm are for the most part smoke and mirrors, bought and paid for you by the ruling class that you elude to, know exists, but don't understand. That ruling class doesn't derive it's power from the government, it runs the government. Look to the puppet masters, not the puppets, for the ruling class. Voting alone will never dislodge them.

Until it's burning you I'd wager. Yet another situation where the police murdered a guy, and rather than combat the problem many use the problem as an excuse to do evil themselves.

Seriously? Please provide a google maps (or similar) link. This I gotta see.

There are good reasons there are terms like 'crazy cat lady' and 'cat people'.