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Odd. If there would be game developer with nigh unlimited resources it's Blizzard. So let's fix the quote:

So how did you like the operations? I found that while mechanics and leghth-wise they are behind other MMOs (especially WoW's) Bioware really managed to pull off some great looking settings, fun bosses and tight atmosphere - especially Terror from Beyond and Dread Palace. Same goes for some of the flashpoints.

Word. The kids these days who think that classic WoW was so hardcore and laugh at how casual it has become. They don't realize that the initial and continued success of WoW was simply because it was the most casual MMO on the market. Farming materials for the old 40 man raids? Sure, make my day. Took some doing, was boring, but outside of having to make your flasks in Scholomance you could at least do it on your own. Try having to group to farm experience and crafting materials. And then having to play NPC on the market to actually sell to other players. Oh, and dropping your equipment when you die four hours into a musty cave and having to run back to get it through all the respawns. Although to be honest nothing really beats pre-split Ultima Online. Hordes of gankers killing you at every turn and actually taking all your stuff because you dropped everything when you died, and having to visit your in-game house at least once a week so it doesn't waste away. Heh, had to make key copies if you went on vacation and hope that the guy you gave them to reliably goes to your house, doesn't lose the key, or has it stolen - or just loots all your stuff himself. Good old times.

Hi guys, I'm one of the Duke level backers in Europe and my shipment status is still "shipping soon" - any idea when that might be? I've been away for a while and read about the delays in the Kickstarter updates but as far as I can see many have gotten their games already (granted those probably are for the normal edition). Any info would be appreciated.

Are you guys talking about this pie chart? That just means that Fig's campaign goal equals roughly 40% of Wasteland 3's budget, not that 40% of the funding is going back to Fig in some money laundering scheme. Not that there isn't ample reason to not pledge on a platform co-run by Tim Schafer - this just isn't one of them.

Yeah. The trailers always were better than the actual game. Even the really campy live action one. During long and lonely nights I retreat to my safety cupboard and weep bitter tears for the wasted potential of SW:TOR - and I loved the game and played it for years before quitting due to guild drama and burn out introduced the lack of interesting content during Shadows of Revan. *sigh*

A child, really? This is certainly disappointing. Aren't you guys supposed to be falling apart and fighting each other with people quitting over imagined slights and pillow fights with Josh or some such? *sigh* In all seriousness, congratulations and enjoy the many sleepless weeks ahead family life.

One can actually die during character creation if you screw up enough. Somehow I doubt they're going to remake the entire game just to appease the console peasants over the master race.

MOAR Dark Matter Also watched Stranger Things. Good. Really good. Bordering on awesome.

You obviously know nuffin.

It's definitely the shooter yelling "Scheiß Türken" (****ing Turks) while the balcony guy is yelling "Scheiß Kanacken" (****ing foreigners in this case) in response. The transcript posted earlier is all right - the part about the treatment isn't ambigous though. The shooter is saying that he underwent some unspecified inpatient treatment, he's talking about a "stationäre Behandlung", literally meaning stationary treatment, as in treatment in a hospital.

First three episodes of Dark Matter. I might be mistaken but the set looks much better than in Season. Also, the joke with Three's gun was priceless. I'm wondering if they can keep up with the breakneck pace though. Sure looks like they're firing all their shots off right at the start.

Apparently there is a way to rebind all keys: https://www.gog.com/forum/dead_space/about_the_unbindable_arrow_keys_heres_a_fix I haven't tried it though. The PC port is still a buggy mess. Depressing, really. Turn V-Sync off and you get very early on, after being treated to some really creepy flying corpse trick. Turn it on and the mouse controls just go haywire. Not to mention the copious dead zone space if you try to play with a controller. Sheesh.

Has anyone tried Stellaris' Asimov update yet? I just looked at the patch notes and while I liked the new war objectives the shuffling around of happiness and ethnic divergency struck me as rather unnecessary. Plus all that shuffling and rebalancing and making a lot of government type modifiers disappear means I can pretty much restart my long running empires. Good going on the Federation changes as well. Voting on wars, yeah... after waiting years to actually dictate foreign policy again. Fie. Unless maybe you can start a war vote while not being president now. No idea yet. Doubt it though. *sigh*

The Torment: Tides of Numenera Backer Portal tells me that Backers who are interested in a DRM-free copy from GOG will be able to exchange their Steam key after final release. GOG Version(s) for The Bard's Tale IV were specifically mentioned in the Kickstarter tiers so that'll most likely happen as well, assuming nothing goes wrong with the development of the game and inXile's new studio.

Alright comrade when did you turn into a pinko commie (not that I disagree with you there, at all, but that's not much of a surpise I think)?

The US. Turkey joining the EU would give them much more control over them while at the same time weakening the EU more than anything else could. It's really too bad that their proxy puppet actually decided to vote for leaving. There's a reason comrade Obama was so concerned about that happening. And yeah, I'm only semi-facetious because realistically there is no good reason for Turkey joining the EU in their current state - or the state all those years ago when the idea came up in the first place. It's not like it would be impossible to draw unskilled labour from Turkey if truly necessary, there are literally millions of them strewn around Europe as proof. Although I guess people from the former GDR are much better. Almost as cheap thanks to ol' Schröder's reforms, much easier to integrate and they happily work all the jobs Turkish guests no longer want to do. *snort*

That would be true if you would consider defense as the only mandate of the US military. The more important aspect is serving as a thinly veiled funnel for (in)direct state subvention of the industrial-military complex. I'd say you're right insofar as reducing military spending sooner than later would really do a number for your nation's debt but uhm... Hillary is going to need her toys to blow **** up real good.

I'm a little torn. The demo feels really good, but on the other hand 30$ is a bunch for a remake of a game I already have in duplicate. I'll just sit back and wait if they come up with addons. I'd like to have that Citadel Station resin cast but sure as hell not for the tier price it is attached to.

Thanks to everyone involved. That's one more copy you've just sold.

My personal crackpot theory would be that it was a land grab. No, really, the Ukraine has a lot of really good farm land (Chernozem) that can - and is - now gobbled up by foreign investors. The food market seems like a really good investment. There are more and more people who need to be fed. *shrug*

The books contain a clear prophecy (part of which made it to the show) of her having three children and all of them dying before she does, with a younger and more beautiful queen coming to cast her down - which now really seems to be Danaerys rather than Sansa or Margery, at least in the show - and her little brother eventually choking the life from her. No, wait, the little brother part is a bit murky because it states the little brother. So it could be anyone's little brother, but assuming it is going to be Jaime isn't really that far of a stretch, seeing how in the books he already abandoned her and he teleported back to King's Landing just in time to witness how much she resembles someone he already stabbed in the back.

ERock is totally awesome. Like, for real. Yeah.

I'm not sure it is a good idea for Martin's health to start using Bolivian marching powder to up his output. /scnr

If this is the case, what is your opinion of the disenfranchised feeling some member citizens have expressed? The feelings of being disenfranchised are understandable. Even though the officials all come from elected governments, or are elected themselves, the public view is generally that the EU is unable to solve any of the larger issues and it almost always breaks down to bickering, and let's face it, at the moment it can't. The financial crisis and it's shockwave still preoccupy us with no real end in sight. This is because, unlike in the US, our central bank isn't allowed to fund member states directly. There are hogwash reasons given for this nonsense by "economists" but the reality of the matter is that we're still dealing with this crap because it generates profits for the almost almighty financial sector and because Germany needs a devalued Euro (meaning easier exports for a nation generating tons of profits from them). It seems impossible for the EU to actually decide anything when it comes to the immigration issues as well. Member states are actively shirking their responsibilities and when in doubt we actually go and pick on Greece because they don't stop everyone after we've actively forced them to dismantle their infrastructure and public sector. Or in some cases, like CETA an TTIP, both of which were and are negotiated in utter secrecy (without leaks we would have nothing) that contain nice things like supranational courts that supposedly should be able to overrule a sovereign nation's legislature if it is bad for our corporate overlords, well... I'm not surprised that people are disenfranchised. There are a lot of great things the EU has done, but it simply pales in comparison to the things going on at the moment, for which there never seem to be a solution. They're all seen as being disconnected from the worries of the little man and when you look at it closely that isn't even surprising, becase many of them are. Mix and match this with scandals like the Cash-For-Laws deal while back. Now that the Brexit seems to be going down there is one little piece of irony in it: Assuming the EU survives this deal (i.e. this doesn't cause a cascade and everything unravles at the seams) finding consensus among the member nations just got a lot easier, seeing how it often was the UK who actively worked against resolutions or demanded even more of a special snowflake status that some populist parties also often cited as one of the reasons why the EU is ineffective and useless. Huh, who knows, maybe we'll finally get that transaction tax idea going on track without London's crippling lobbying. *shrug*