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The optional client is optional so that can't be the problem. It is possible to buy the upgrades through GOG's site, in fact, when the upgrades first appeared Galaxy was still a closed beta (if even that). Offering upgrade paths for other games and other companies doesn't automatically mean it works for everyone. We have no insight in how GOG or Paradox offer the upgrade paths but it is quite possible that there is a technical issue and not enough impetus (potential buyers, in other words) to fix it. If I had to guess the problem's either with some form of communication between GOG and Paradox or the billing process, possibly both. Fun fact, there are a two upgrade packs in GOG's Paradox catalogue, but these really are only DLC packs more akin to an expansion, not real edition upgrades. Either way, neither Paradox nor GOG are really going to release the gritty details, but if it were a trivial issue they would have fixed it already.

The thing I find odd is the idea that a 12.5k gold item can somehow break BG's economy and lead to a lack of balance. If there's one thing that the BG games weren't it is balanced. Class choice matters more than any item you could buy, not to mention that you're almost literally swimming in gold a few hours into the games anyway. Not that I disagree with the notion that a low level party member should not be carrying around stuff worth that much. That's just plain bad character/equipment design in itself.

Gamestar stopped being good 16 years ago when the went from sticking it to the man to being the man. *sigh*

No, that's not it. GOG has upgrade paths to higher tier editions available for a number of other games, including Wasteland 2 and the Shadow Run series, some of which I consumed myself. The Galaxy client is currently sort of not capabale of actually installing White March (at least on existing installations) but that is a whole different level of suck that really is GOG's fault.

Apple's products are almost never cost-effective. You get mid-range hardware for high-end prices and buying only makes sense if you do it for the software and the ecosystem (the hardware stopped being unique a long while ago). Or maybe for brand recognition because let's face it, no one makes mice that can't be used while charging look as good as Apple does. *scnr*

Two hourish DLCs nonwithstanding I would argue that the unmodded ToB is amongst Bioware's weakest exansion packs, just only barely pulling ahead of Awakening. The best I would say were the NWN expansions. They even managed to salvage the utter shice that the original campaign was.

Just watched Space Cop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjjiE0OD4K0 I doubt any comment is necessary. Absolutely epic.

By that metric I've been old for 17 years now, and I'm a few years over 30.

I think I've come across every bug so far discovered: Hitched turns, characters (especially The Spectre) getting stuck after interacting with the environment, the upside-down screen problem and the wonderful one where starting combat results in the AI not doing anything at all until you completely quit the game and try again. Not to mention the excessive strain the game puts on the system, but that just might be a Unity 5 issue. Still, I've already spent hours trying and retrying the character generation and I did laugh out when someone called my castoff Adahn. So far so good.

The Earliest Bird Consortium Rook tier seems like a decent deal. Backed.

Assuming the movie is a somewhat faithful adaptation of the book nominating Fifty Shades of Grey for worst screenplay is a bit unfair. With that source material not even the most talented screenwriter could come up with something worthwile. I didn't see the film but next to E. L. James even Stephenie Meyer looks like the next literature nobel laureate. And yeah. I wish I was kidding.

Add a few things here and there and it's the perfect guide to BruceVC's posts. Bruce is too tolerant of the opinions of others to be an SJW. SJW's are basically relatively powerless Stalinists by another name. True, Bruce is the root beer of social justice, but don't let that fool you.

As much as it is painful to admit I think Anita Sarkeesian had it right when she said that the movie is good fun in the cinema but the more you think about it afterwards, the more it falls apart. Of course she then complains about the interpersonal relationships coming too short in a science-fantasy action movie while ignoring the blatant mary-sueing of Rey but thank god, the last thing I want is having to fully agree with her, on anything. JJ at least managed to create an interersting juxtaposition here. Star Trek 2009 which is effectively too different from its base material and Star Wars VII that was so similar to the original trilogy that it essentially is a soulless remake not quite capable of standing on its own. During both films I had fun at the theatre and both films crumbled after repeated viewings and some thinking. Ah well.

That's just how it works. If your character can notice the hidden object it will be highlighted for you, if not you can't use (or loot) it even if you as the player know it is there - because no one in the party does.

So Lexx's post over at the Psychonauts 2 thread gave me an idea for this one: I want a Ron Gilbert headed Monkey Island that explains what the hell happened at the end of Le Chuck's Revenge.

Add a few things here and there and it's the perfect guide to BruceVC's posts.

Eternal Darkness 2. My personal dream game has no defined genre or structure. What I want for any game is to give me the same experience that the first playthrough through PS:T and Zelda: Ocarina of Time gave me: To be lost so completely in the game that time stops being noticable. For me these two games were the pinnacle of immersion, the perfect gaming experience never to be reached again afterwards. Oh, that is also probably one of the reasons why I hate Mass Effect 3 so much. The game came this close to reaching a similar level only to end the way it did.

So it is essentially like most recent Tarantino movies except the "everything's falling apart" bit at the end was moved to the 45 minute mark? Damn shame.

1. Yes 2. Definitely 3. Yes, I think so. 4. Indeed!

In terms of breaking established rules the one thing that bothered me most was Han's hyperspace jump behind the Starkiller base shields. Good grief why did they drop a ground team on Endor with a stolen shuttle in Return of the Jedi if they could have just jumped right on top of the shield generator, or just jumped straight to the entrance of the second Death Star's superstructure?

I see, I never followed the Cantina Tours. Well then, that was a straight out bust. On the other hand they also said they'll look into GSF (and that even on the GSF forum) and never really did. PVPers generally whine too much in MMOs anyway - regardless of the MMO they're playing. The funniest part is when they think they have mad skillz in an environment locked to ~40 APM. edit: Reading all this just proves that I was kind of right to quit when I did. It's a pity because I really loved this game and some of its content has the best atmosphere I've ever seen in MMOs.

DA2 wasn't that bad except for the reused assets and I'm not really talking about the fact that most of it plays in three seperate acts within the same area, a city won't completely change its face (barring some cataclysmic event) within a few years, but the fact that seperate caves and houses had the exact same layout all the time no matter where you went. Okay, no, the act three story climax was pretty terrible as well what with the way the templar/mage war started. No, that did not completely freel contrived, and no, certain people certainly did not start to act completely out of character so we can have RAAARGH DEMON BLOODMAGE because we wanted to reuse the Flesh Golem model from DA:O. Oh, and boom goes the Chantry.

Well, that's okay. I watched the entire run of Andromeda even though the show went from campy good fun to a ridiculous space-borne spinoff of Hercules for no other reason than to ogle Lexa Doig in a leather costume every week. The flashback we got when she touched the conveniently placed original lightsaber of Anakin showed her being brought to Jakku while she was pretty young. Not that there isn't sufficient precedence for Jedi training to begin very early that would not really account for her lightsaber prowess (and no, a quarterstaff is not the same proficiency as a blade, no matter how much streamlining D&D got in recent years ).

I think you're mixing Schengen with the "four freedoms" of the internal EU market. Quotas and limits placed on labour immigration of EU citizens are not regulated by the Schengen agreement, that was - and is - solely about abolishing physical barriers and border controls between common borders of nations within the Schengen area. Not that you don't have a point there, but the really rich EU nations and the US appendix north of France don't really need to use any (temporary) suspension of the Schengen agreement as fig leave for limits and quotas - they already got those anyway. If you really think the EU will cut support for the poorer members here's a little reality check: That would be a bad idea. That money is, for the most part, destined to be invested into infrastructure projects. Many of which are then awarded to corporations from the richer members of the EU. For that reason alone this isn't anything but sabre rattling.