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Regardless, you should probably complain to HBS' support. Or Paradox, or ideally both. Tyranny had a preorder bonus as well (obviously no Kickstarter DLC) and that worked entirely without any Paradox accounts, it was just a small file to download seperately. On a more entertaining note that GOG thread already has complaints about the pronoun selection.

Not sure if serious but if so then no. That's about just shy of explosive decompression in normal atmosphere. 180/110 would be considered a medical emergency.

Could one of you old timers tell me what this thing is about? There is definitely some history to it as I've seen you fellas write that here quite often. Secret of Evermore was developed by an American team of Square so technically it's techincally not a JRPG. And Gromnir is Gromnir because of Bioware. The Baldur's Gate manual stated that Wisdom would be a decent stat for fighters to have because it boosts saving throws - and indeed in AD&D that should have been the case, but the Infinity Engine only supported one special effect per stat table, and so wisdom ended up giving divine casters bonus spells and no bonus to spell saving throws*. Gromnir has made his fighter dumb but wise. For naught, as it turned out. So he started posting like Gromnir posts demanding that Bioware fix the wisdom table. Alas, as you can imagine, they never did. And Gromnir still hasn't given up posting as Gromnir does even after Bioware made him into a Bhaalspawn boss in Throne of Bhaal. And that's been going on for something like 20 years now. HA! Good fun! PS: At least that's the story as I remember it. Details might be off or things not entirely correct but it's really been almost 20 years. As TNO once said: Time lays waste to all things. *Actually spells that were mind controlling in nature, it's not a flat bonus to all saving throws regarding spells. AD&D was... complicated.

Logging in wasn't an issue but the unlock simply doesn't work. It's stuck at "checking code" and I'm afraid to kill the game, who knows if they just mark the code as used in the background and I'm screwed. Happened to me with WoW. Meh.

Sheesh, I'm only getting 11MB/sec from GOG. Hurry up service, I wanna plaaaaaaaaay.

As long as it's not based on the Kelvin timeline or the STD area that would be fine.

The fun part is when he doesn't understand why other posters say he's trolling.

Aww, don't be paranoid. If anything the state is going to rent or sell you out to whatever company needs cheap labor and we all know property is better of in private hands, human or otherwise. Or to be a bit more serious, just look at Germany what happens when the state locks you into a subsistence dependency. You'll end up being a cheap labor drone with the theoretical ability to improve your lot, except you're not given any bootstraps and anything resembling one is taken away from you. Both the state and the economy love it.

Yeah, my key arrived as well. So many games, so little time. I'd better complete Tower of Time before starting Battle Tech because otherwise I fear I won't be going back for a while...

NuTorment was okay as long as you go out of your way to avoid the crisis system. There are a few non-optional ones but those aren't even about combat - more or less (one is about running away and the other is about surviving long enough). The actual main quest wasn't bad either, the game is just so full of filler and terribly verbose at that. Sometimes it felt like every side quest was a doorstopper type book. Even when all you had to do was fetch a trinket from a pile of rubbish. Sure PS:T also had a bunch of filler content but Tides of Numenera lacked the narrative focus of PS:T. Every time you had a memory there it pertained to the main quest or your current situation - in Tides whenever you have a memory it's just some random musing of who came before you. Most of the time with no connection to what is going on. It's just there to have you read more text. Oi, and it is also full of obviously unfinished things and left the interesting parts of the main quest annoyingly unexplained. Not just unclear or intentionally fuzzy as it was with PS:T (the nature of TNO's crime or his name) but things that would have helped to explain what was going on simply went without any further information. And for a game called Tides of Numenera there was preciously little about the actual tides in it.

You do know that what you're describing isn't your skillset becoming obsolete but rather the tools with which to apply it changing, right? That's not exactly the same as being replaced by a machine or being outperformed by a sweatshop at the ass end of the world. They need to pull themselves by their bootstraps and become machines. You just need to realize that apparently Poland is like 15 years behind the "West", when he got his master's degree they were still hand-drawing and inking design projects. Unless he graduated from university like Sheldon Cooper that would put the timeframe somewhere from 2008 to 2010. The last time I've seen someone hand-drawing anything was in '97 during a summer job at our municipal office - and those were drafts from an architect.

's been going on here as well. The government wants to push people who would otherwise get long-term benefits into the needs based minimum income system, which at the moment is a seperate thing. Not that it would be a bad idea to streamline and consolidate systems if it weren't that the minimum income system has a 4200€ upper limit on assets per person. Or in other words, unless you literally own nothing you can't get minimum income. It wasn't designed to accomodate people who worked for 30 years and lost their job over being too old (read: expensive), it was meant as a last resort to keep people who already have nothing off the streets. If you needed the benefits you'd have to sell everything you own - including any real estate - and move to an appropriately sized appartment. The idea behind replacing long term benefits with the minimum income system seems to be to force cheap real estate and labor on the market, and that's after Dumbo suggested buying real estate as provision for one's old age to young people who aren't too optimistic regarding the future. Needless to say that the ECB's zero interest policy has jacked up real estate prices something fierce. But hey, that's right wing logic for you. An inheritance tax would be the government getting its greedy fingers on money they don't deserve, but forcing people who lost their jobs to sell off all assets and taxing those sales is perfectly fine. I mean... someone's getting cheap estate out of it.

In a movie series that has ships flying by with screeching sound experiencing the doppler effect as they go by...do you have to ask? That said, I'm pretty sure the director and producers have said the bombs were designed to propel themselves via a magnetic lock onto their target... EDIT: NINJA'D! The sound in space is emulated for the benefit of the pilot. It's as good an explanation as magnetic lock bombs. Except bombers in Star Wars in the past could launch self-propelled bombs. No need for launch bays.

In a movie series where starfighters (well and a modified light freighter) destroyed two Death Stars, the Starkiller Base and the Executor no less. Oh and Poe took out a dreadnaught's entire defensive weaponry with a single X-Wing. All without capital ship support. The whole chase scene falls apart considering that within well established series canon the First Order would have just launched every TIE available and easily intercepted a single cruiser with a frigate and a corvette for support. Especially since the movie actually shows Ren's Silencer and its escort having heavy missiles. The ragtag rebels had B-Wings capable of destroying Star Destroyers 25 years before this movie happened.

We've had these dolls available in brothels for a while now, just not one that is exclusively a puppet show. But I'm also not German. And Ben is something like 17, unless I'm mistaken that's too young for brothels.

And he didn't. He just had the one moment of weakness, of hesitation, which makes him human—unlike a certain other protagonist. ROTJ Luke showed that he can be one angry mofo, all because pops teased him about his sister a little. That's the only part of the movie I actually liked, tbh. Other than that, it's trash, and I'm feeling pretty smug right now that I saw it coming after TFA and avoided giving Disney money. And of course I'm 100% certain that nobody connected to no entertainment giants whatsoever called Mark Hamill and suggested he reconsider his somewhat less-than-rapturous public feelings about these steaming turds. No siree. See, I can understand where it is coming from, I don't really agree with it - sames goes for Amentep's argument. I'm also not suggesting that Luke wouldn't have failed training Ben, or anyone else. He would have. Because failure is a part of life, unless one is a young Jedi hopeful from Jakku. Yoda even calls him out on it. This is the guy who refused to destroy his father, the most evil and reviled man in the galaxy because he was family. He wouldn't contemplate killing Ben in a moment of weakness. Luke would have went directly to confront Snoke and prevent him from corrupting Ben or end his influence over him. Ben could have felt abandoned over this, imagine your master leaving over night without any real explaination. Luke would fail, come back and realize that he just made things worse. Proceed to exile from there. Oh boy, does anyone else feel the Star Wars nerdness level rising? edit: In the Legends books (formerly Expanded Universe) Luke all but ignored the fall of his nephew until such a time it threw the galaxy into another costly civil war. Yeah, I know the EU should not be used to argue the movies but it's really hard to untangle everything. The originals aren't at all meandering like The Last Jedi is. They do feature a very simple premise and character archetypes but that doesn't mean the narrative can't be tight and compelling and structually the original trilogy are good movies, and TLJ just... isn't. That's also a part. Star Wars always had a little comic relief but it was used appropriately. It's all over The Last Jedi and falls flat most of the time.

The original statement and Hamill's reneging on it (and regretting) were half a year apart. Mark Hamill sees The Last Jedi in the theatre and suddenly becomes a fan of the new trilogy after disagreeing on his part in TFA and TLJ, saying he regrets voicing his insecurities in public. While he is of course free to change his opinion after seeing the movie the cynic in me simply assumes that the change of mind was external, not internal. I mean, if he were just another benevolent Jedi training a Padawan we'd have seen it. Because the old hermit shtick is completely original and wasn't at all used in movies like... uhm, The Empire Strikes Back.

The armor and elemental shattering enchants state that they don't stack. It's a safe bet to assume that abilities don't either.

I'd agree if that was the only issue with the movie. I'd still disagree with Rian Johnson's choices for Luke (and so does Mark Hamill) because Luke would never attempt to murder his sleeping nephew but it wouldn't be a dealbreaker. As it is it's just one more piece of the puzzle. It also doesn't help that the movie is an overlong mess. The little things just kept piling up. It also doesn't help that the only good scenes in the film are essentially taken verbatim from an The Empire Strikes Back / Return of the Jedi mashup. Everything that didn't rely on copying what came before fell flat.

If we were talking about a religious shopkeeper who refused to serve **** the freedom brigade would be here to defend his right to not serve potential customers at his own leisure, but of course that freedom isn't extended to everyone else - especially not if the opportunity arises to paint themselves as victims. So of course now it's censorship. If some convention doesn't want Kevin Sorbo or poor, discriminated against Ringo (who, according to this article, is wildly successful in the face of extreme hardship) then that is their prerogative. As Guard Dog would say, they're free to found their own ConservaCon. *shrug* Well, not that a quick googling in this case wouldn't reveal most of this story as the typical (alt-)right hysteria. Sorbo isn't banned at all from attending any convention, East Coast Comic Con just passed on an offer from some agent to have Sorbo appear that he apparently didn't even know about. Jon Del Arroz believes himself banned from Worldcon for his political views while it was because he announced to break their code of conduct on Twatter by filming private events and Ringo got uninvited doesn't appear at ConCarolinas due to threats the Con takes seriously and they can't provide enough security (well it's a really tiny convention). I think I remember a certain "lefist" called Anita Sarkeesian who had to cancel an appearance at the Utah State for safety reasons, so that really isn't a one way street. So yeah, one ace case of the pot calling the kettle black coming up. Poor convservatives, just give in. The safe space awaits. Have some trigger warnings on the house. The guys are awfully salty for not being allowed to attend "irrelevant" conventions. So sad...

Reached the fourth floor in Tower of Time. I'm kind of hoping that the floors get a bit smaller now. All the running around and backtracking is beginning to be a bit bothersome (and yeah, no, leaving a floor at less than 100% is not an option unless it is an encounter clearly meant for later).

Written after the Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots. Ben should like this, assuming the comrades in China didn't get him. Translated lyrics:

Oh yeah, let's build safe spaces for conservatives. Poor Ringo sure could use one. Socialist Doctrine something something lefists something something fighting back. The poor right, the eternal victims of leftist conspiracies in the western world that is mostly ruled by conservative governments. Sure, in reality the deep state rules. Whatevs. Man, who needs to toughen up now? On a more serious note I don't take people who go "leftist something something socialist something marxist" any more serious than I do the loony bin brigade at twatter. They're both fringe nutjobs.

The only thing better than cheesy 80ies style pop songs? Cheesy metal covers of cheesy 80ies style pop songs. Heh.