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Yeah, this. People complained about three planned expansions/DLCs a while ago already.

I don't think there's any advantage in not bringing your full might to bear. Other than achievements...

Yeah, the forum is dying from the load and GOG's download is slow as hell (and no, it's not "just" 11MB/sec this time, more like 0.1). Thanks interweb for forcing me to watch the ESC semis instead.

Is that a picture for ants? :> One does not mock the Throroughbred of Sin even if his magnificence is diminished by low resolution.

So this is what I imagine an Obsidian owner meeting looks like:

Feels like producing laser cannons but it's probably more profitable in the long run. Hrm.

The random fudge factor is screwing me over. Not in terms of winning missions because the only one I couldn't save-scum into a win so far was a base defense where a total of nine mechs (six of them as "reinforcements") spawned right next to the buildings I was supposed to protect, blowing them away before I even got a full turn out. Nah, every time I negotiate for more salvage becaus the mission promises to have some nice loot I go home with half a dozen Locust and Commando parts, and the two skull mission I did for money right now had three Jaegermechs and a Grasshopper spawning (I'm still on mediums trying to train my roster as the last story mission headshotted my primary mech warrior group to a combined 200 day hospital time) and I got two medium lasers for fun and "profit" out of it. Meh.

Yeah you always had a faint sparkle about you.

Wasn't the earlier consensus that BGE2 will end up vaporware just like Star Citizen?

Sure Chris. Or just maybe you're not so entirely right as you want everyone to believe.

Paradox is involved, you can bet your ass that there will be mech skin DLCs. Both free and otherwise.

From the movies thread for people who enjoy the occasional 8-bit: SA's NESCover.

Ah hell, don't remind me. A while back I brought Something Awful's NESCover MP3s with me to work and gave them to my colleagues (streaming available, just not on YouTube). It's a bunch of songs both old and new played on an NES. Among the items is probably the best Tetris remix ever made and, uh, Led Zeppelin's Kashmir. So one colleague starts playing Kashmir and is like "Wow, nice, Kashmir!" and my boss goes "Huh what, no that's that rapper from the Godzilla movie!" at which point I may or may not have roundhouse kicked him. Geez.

Half a year ago I actually found out why people are annoyed by what they see as cultural appropriation - even it if might not be meant as such. Insofar I can understand the person that initially accused that poor girl of cultural appropriation for wearing that dress. This does however in no way justify how the Twatteria piled up on her afterwards or that he acted on his feelings with no harm meant on her part. In my case I'm not even talking about my actual culture, race and symbols associated with either. I just visited a medieval themed christmas market that is only open on one specific weekend in December. It was packed - almost impossible to get through the market and look at the available pieces in some semblance of peace. Not only was it packed, it was chock-full of f'ing hipsters and jocks. The same sort of people who only a couple of years ago would otherwise beat up and bully people for even mentioning that they would want to visit anything medieval styled. And while that was in no way rational (well, emotions rarely are) I actually got angry at them for being where they don't belong. This is my nerdy hobby. MY nerd culture. Something I endured humiliation and bullying for in the past. And no, in that moment I dind't think that they had any right to be there and clog up me and my friends trying to have some fun there. Granted I never Twattered about it or otherwise made them miserable for following whatever's hip at the moment. Yet I still can't help but not liking the way nerd is becoming the new chic. Especially those thrice damned lipstick lesbians geek chic people that are literally everywhere these days. So, there I was, suddenly understanding why people can get their knickers in a bunch over a white guy wearing dreads. So TL;DR: I can understand why the guy posted what the did on Twitter. I don't agree with doing so because there was obviously no harm meant, but I can understand why he did.

Peppering enemies with LRM 20s never gets old though. The way the game handles missile accuracy and stability damage makes them perfect for setting up called shots. Even the large lasers have a point when you can PPC/L Laser called shot spam everything from very far away. At least until the point where you can field pilots with maxed tac skill that can essentially two shot everything with the heavier ACs.

Since the quoting function's acting up again I'll just throw this in here, it regards Eric's posts about MCA's work on PoE's companions and having to crunch to implement them at all. That reminded me of something I read ten or so years ago. Eric's statements very much echo that of PS:T's producer in an interview way, way back. He basically said both MCA and Colin McComb were, for all their creativity and skill, extremely disorganized and slow and that he repeatedly had to very liberally apply pressure (he likened it to having to apply thumbscrews) to make sure deadlines were met, cut sublpots and generally having to reign in the feature creep. He also found that experience to be so miserable that he vowed never to produce a game again (left Interplay shortly thereafter). And to this day he states that his contribution to PS:T was always downplayed because as producer on that game he simply had to be the unpopular guy who fired team members for not meeting deadlines and drop content all the time so that they could actually deliver the game in a non-crippled form because Interplay kept bugging him about keeping the release deadline. Source (in German) Not that it matters so much in how Obsidian dealt with MCA leaving, but Colin went on to work on Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera, both games that can, I think, be generously called unfinished in their release state. Just like KOTOR II and Alpha Protocol. For the longest of time I simply thought Guido was salty over not receiving enough credit for PS:T. Nowadays I'm no longer so sure about that... *shrug*

Fair enough. Yeah, pretty much. I know a guy who tells everyone that his former friends ruined his life by getting him unjustly fired from his new position because he left them. In reality he was the one who left his old job while secretly working for someone else for a year and then attempted to poach both customers and employees of his friends. His new employer paid the year's salary of the guy secretly working for them to avoid a lawsuit and forbade him from taking customers and employees with him. He was fired for poor performance a few months later (his only plan was to poach as much as possible). His former friends tried to get back in touch with him a while later, what with being friends and all but he rebuffed them and blamed everything on them. The best part? His friends were the only reason he got his original job in the first place. edit: Everyone involved were also upper management, for what that's worth.

Well maybe Gromnir can write an enlightening post about it but if MCA was a co-owner and had shares and/or a stake in Obsidian then how could he not have gotten anything for it unless he agreed to do so when leaving? Honest question, I don't really know much about (US) corporate law.

Thanks for the tips guys. Can't beat random luck though. I was uhm, reclaiming a convoy when I managed to randomly PPC a Hunchback in the face and got all the parts as salvage. The original Vindicator lost an arm in the process but that's... not too bad, all things considered.

Watched Pacific Rim: Uprising. Not sure what the critics are on when they say this is worse than the first one. This was... almost a movie while the first one was just pretty in del Torro's usual unique visual style. And while I could see the twist coming (no, wait, they even spelled out the twist in dialogue the first minutes) the actual implementation was better than anticipated. Eh, of course it's still saddled with the inanities of the setting but at least this time around nobody's pretending that one of the Jaegers is actually analogue and can withstand an EMP (while still having the usual brain to mech interface, right).

Watched the beginning of Westworld's second season. Still not convinced that continuing the show was a good idea.

Finally got to play around a bit. Any tips with the initial mech setup? I increased the armor where possible and dropped some of the more useless weaponry but is there something really good to do with the initial loadout except play a bunch of missions and get better mechs?

Says it all. (Shamelessly lifted from some other thread )

I didn't lose him either so far... he did get injured though. However I freely will admit to reloading the first mission because he got spanked hard the first time around.

Cheating a bit since it's not from a movie but I'd say one of the most hilarious scenes on TV: