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It did, with some parts of season 5 (Stannis' Battle of Winterfell hasn't happened in the book version yet but is very close) and much of season 6. It also confirmed one of the oldest fan theories.

You're awfully optimistic there with 2020.

I probably read the old Star Craft manual more often than I actually played the game. Wings of Liberty was really bad with messing up the story but Heart of the Swarm went wild with the reconning, what with a new home world for the Zerg, "primordial" Zerg versions of the units we have now (who were in the old manual lovingly described with their freaking place of origin and what they were before the Overmind assimilated them) and ehm... lots of other stuff I already repressed.

It was deer. Well, deer calf and to be perfectly specific saddle and tenderloin. Young venison runs a much smaller risk of being gamey and tough so the extra money is well spent - assuming one likes venison and has no problems with eating cute little baby deers.

First I hear that Baldur's Gate was tactical and now that Wings of Liberty had good dialogue. Does Western world consider Czech Republic inferior and we therefore get inferior versions of games or something? What is happening? No, there's just a difference between good dialogue and a good story - or good characters for that matter. In terms of storytelling Wings of Liberty was a disaster written by someone with the attention span of a mayfly: A convoluted patchwork of storylines barely two missions long stichted together with no regard for consistency, established lore or sense and a retroactively patched in lovestory that turned the badass marshall Jim Raynor into the hard drinking wild west emo pining after his lost love we got in Star Craft II (fun fact, the last time Raynor saw Kerrigan in Star Craft: Brood War he promised to kill her, not being beaten up about it at all). It also doesn't help that every, and really every decision you can make in Wings of Liberty is right. Some nice settler genocide? Yeah, sure, they all were infected anyway (and what the hell, Raynor fought that very thing in the first Star Craft, how would he every agree to the Protoss here, ah hell, never mind). Attacking your old protoss buddies? Sure, Dr. Feelgood came up with the cure in time. Buying Nova's Dominion propaganda? Yeah, Tosh really is a bastard, and so on and so forth. The presentation of the Wings of Liberty campaign and the dialogue itself were pretty good - and much better than what we got in Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void. Legacy in particular was terrible, not only did we get fanfiction level storytelling but also ridiculous dialogue and terrible characters.

I played the game in the same way and the only thing I can tell you: Ditch the Hinterlands as soon as possible. Fight the urge to complete the map. The rest of the game isn't paced as terribly. Just... come back later to finish the collections (shards and all that jazz). Every time you harvest a resource or some crafting material drops it can be a fade-touched version. Part of the problem is that the better stuff has a terrible drop chance and there are fade-touched materials that can have different bonuses. There's nothing like farming your arse off to find that fade-touched snofleur skin for the Horn of Valor buff and then notice it dropped with the freaking 1% health on hit bonus. Fade-touched material boni of the same tear don't stack by the way, but different tiers do. So wearing mastercrafted items with both fade-touched silverite and fade-touched obsidian will net you a +8 guard on hit. Of course the funnest way to utilize that would be having Varric (or a player character artificer) field some items with the tier 2 and 3 materials for the Hidden Blades procc and the Horn of Valor buff and some nice crit chance. There's quite nothing like killing dragons in three or four hits on nightmare with chained leaping shots. 12 projectiles per shot with cooldown reduction and stamina on hit/crit and 12 chances pro procc Hidden Blades and Horn of Valor with each shot.

It comes up in the middle of the tweets there when they start talking about a forced labor draft. That's when it turned to slavery and KP just picked it up and ran with it.

Well, 'twas yesterday but anyway: A fine roast of young venison with a nice sauce made of root vegetables. Sides were red cabbage with chestnuts, potato and bred dumplings and finally canned peaches and pears with (wild) lingonberry jam.

Dafuq, can't this bitch of a year finally die as well? To quote Vader: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It works for Germany. They came up with an awesome really German name for it too: Hartz IV (Schröder's "Agenda 2010"). The irony of it being introduced by a social democrats/green government knows barely any bounds. *laff* Anyway Bruce, in case you really didn't get it and aren't trolling: I do see a way around this, just declare being unemployed as illegal with the punishment being indentured servitude or some such.

Merry Christmas. \o/

For a moment I thought you were serious and I had this long-arse reply typed up and ready to go. Well played sir, well played. I would think that statement is true and very applicable ?

Reminds me a bit of the case where some nutjob blew up the Boston marathon. Wait, where was that? Somewhere where the government run by Obola isn't as bad in these things as Germany's. Ah right, got it, must be France. Cuz cheese. Unless one has a cozy plaze in Cuba to put people there without due process or having commited a crime. Or in case that gets too unpopular just blow them away with a drone attack or two without any sort of process, due, short or kangaroo.

He was not deported because Tunisia initially denied that he was a citizen. His asylum application had been rejected. Apparently, papers that would have allowed for his deportation have arrived... today. Psht, don't you let facts and pesky international law get in the way of a sensationalist headline.

For a moment I thought you were serious and I had this long-arse reply typed up and ready to go. Well played sir, well played.

I read it on Facebook, or the comment section of Breitbart. I'm not sure. Why? (wakey wakey, woosh *wink*)

I'm hopeful that our reptilian overlords won't let it come to pass. Or alternatively Hitler's old allies from Aldebaran. Or was that Deneb?

No, they got the right guy, it's just that Merkel can't afford to have a refugee as terrorist, so she ordered the police to either botch up the investigation or find someone more fitting. Like a bit back in Munich. /tinfoil hat edit: In case I disappear from the forum in the near future keep the flame burning and know that I've been spirited away by the newly formed Merkel Stasi/Gestapo hybrid that incarcerate poor Yuropeans who dare to stand up.

That makes a disturbing amount of sense xD It would be more subtle than that. They would force the EU to become a federation, effectively eroding the borders and then Brussels will impose directives to move refugees into zones/districts areas in need of "human development". Same result, different methodology. Not necessary, we're already in the middle of the execution of the sinister Kalergi plan...

Sez the biggest edgelord on the forum, lel. Don't bother denying it by the way, you like the Neverwinter Nights original campaign. That's about as edgelord as one can get. That said I just came back from watching Rogue One. Managed to get free tickets so perhaps that unduefully increased my enjoyment of the film but I kind of liked it more than most of the others. It is, in particular, much better than The Force Awakens. It has the same problems most near-original timeline prequels have insofar as there isn't much breathing room to try new things, but in the end it is a prequel and I can forgive a lack of moving the setting forward much easier due to their nature than I could deal with the remakey build of TFA. Rogue One could not have been a mover and shaker while TFA should have been one and just wasn't. I have to agree with Drowsy Emperor on one thing - it didn't quite capture the allure of the original trilogy. For want of a better term, it doesn't feel like Star Wars in the same way the originals did. None of the new films did, but Lucas' prequel trilogy did it better than the two Disney ones so far. Sometimes I do wonder if that isn't also technical problem rather than only a storytelling one. No matter how much one might try there is a certain look and feel to 70ies and 80ies movies that somehow can't be recreated. Kung Fury came close in its own hilariously ridicoulous way but it still pales in comparison to the real stuff. It can't all be nostalgia and growing up in the 80ies. I'm not sure it was deliberate but there was one thing that I really liked about the space battles in Rogue One: The reduced pace of the fights. The original trilogy' dogfights were modeled after WW2 air battles which - while silly in space, of all things - created a certain intense aesthetic that was completely absent in all the other films (with the battle for Angkor Wat in TFA being the worst offender). Now if only they would get rid of the shakey-cam sillyness for the ground action. Bottom line: I was entertained for the full duration of the film, something that I wasn't with TFA. The third act had a very "war movie" feel to it that sometimes came off as too formulaic, and there are a few nits to pick here and there but overall I found Rogue One to be very entertaining even if the best Star Wars offering of recent times come in a reset-button prequel spinoff riding in the wake of a 40 year old film. *shrug* Jared Leto's Joker was fine. The scenes he was in just weren't.

It isn't explained all that well in-game but in the story material built around SW:TOR (like Bishop's Gnost-Dural's journals). Imperial Intelligence owned the current Mandalore at the time of the Great War: https://youtu.be/KeboxMqdXdE?t=10m30s Actually the Sith Inquisitor gets a different name for being dark, grey or light side. Sure he gets the Darth title and a seat on the Dark Council (what else would there be for such a powerful Sith) but the actual name varies. Nox for the dark side, Occlus for grey and Imperius for light side inquisitors, along with different spheres of influence. Of course, afterwards it only comes up once afterwards when Darth Marr calls you about the crisis on Makeb but the basis was there. It just remained unused.

Thought that too but after the FPÖ dismantled itself in Austria back in the early 00s they seem to be coming back hard these days. Come to think of it they should actually be a poster-case for what happens when right wing populists are given any sort of responsibility. Scandals, corruption and racking up more combined debt than all the Austrian governments with at least nominal left-wing participation before them could even dream of. In other words, they are... or end up being... politicians, in the end. Who would have thought? Heh.

Heh. "Islamization starts with a kebab and..." I just noticed how hungry I am, and kebab seems like a wonderful idea. *dials*

Aren't you barking up the wrong tree here?