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This is so freaking hilarious, i´m laughing so hard it hurts....bringing the bank bailouts as an example totally kills it, oh god so funny. I´m not even going to start to point out how naive and blind this is. Thank you. You made my day and really proved that any sensible discussion is pointless with you. Oh well, no hard feelings, i will continue to laugh now, because that was really funny. As for TPP, there are more leaks and they all show it´s a disaster and i hope it fails, but they are trying hard, very very hard to make it happen, no matter what the public thinks. Democracy......if that would be the case the TPP files would be open and we would have a public referendum about it. It's especially funny when one considers that a big player of them bailed-out industrialists is currently making headlines with their product manipulation regarding the emissions of certain diesel engines. But hey, that info was probably deemed confidential by VW's higher ups, those scientists that uncovered the manipulation should be sued for lost profits or maybe tried for something or other.

I found SWTOR to have a crafting system that is fairly easy to level. The reverse engineering is a bit of a pain in the arse but compared to other MMOs getting to max doesn't even require any interaction what so ever, except sending your goons on missions every 20 minutes. Then again, it is also one of the most boring systems I ever encountered.

That kind of goes way back to the first Wing Commander where Derek Smart sued (or tried to) Origin and Roberts because they allegedly stole his ideas.

I've played games and followed hypes long enough to know for sure that Star Citizen, when (if?) it is released in a final version will never ever be able to live up to the hype. It'll end up being a game full of cut corners and good ideas gone wrong. A tad like SW:TOR was when it launched. =(

Curious how a host of anonymous current and former employees just happen to leak info that seemingly confirms everything that Derek Smart conjectured a while ago, and the more The Escapist insists they have properly vetted their sources the more it makes them look like a bunch of boons that got trolled. Heh. I am, however, kind of partial to some of the criticism towards Star Citizen. Feature creep is really looking to massively impair this project and if there is any truth to what Chris Roberts' (confirmed) co-workers said recently he's literally working himself to death with it. Which would be a shame, I really want a new Wing Commander game, even if it is in spirit only. I kind of gave up on knowing the fate of Blair a long time ago. *sigh*

I don't believe there's been anything confirming it either way. I would however point out that the name that follows Darth isn't normally a family name, it's more some form of title. Anakin becoming Vader, Palpatine was Sidious. Darth Thanaton had some other name before he became a Darth.... Like how the Sith Inquisitor is granted the title Darth Occulus or what have you at the end of their storyline. The Sith Inquisitor gains one of three possible Darth Titles - Nox, Occlus or Imperius. For being dark, neutral or light side respectively.

It was Cataclysm that removed both the defense and block stat on items (along with a few other things), not Wrath of the Lich King. Tanks still had to be crit immune and balance their avoidance in Wrath. Endless healer mana-pools and overpowered paladin healers in ridiculous 25 man raid encounters just made it so that tanks geared for the minimum defense necessary and put everything else into their health.

Yeah. Made me go "click" and "typie typie password" and "click" and now I'll soon be 275$ poorer for it. Awesome how my resolution to keep my credit card bill a little smaller this time got blown away a couple hours after I went and made it.

The whining on the forums here just exacerbated the problem with trash mobs in the base game. In the name of "balance" in a single player game we went from being able to efficiently deal with boring groups of enemies to having to sit and wait longer for the fights to be resolved. They didn't get any harder, just more tedious. Bleh. At least White March was much better in that regard, aside from some enemies that seem to have been designed purely to mess with the players who demanded damage types to have a greater impact.

Yeah, come Mists of Pandaria Blizzard decided that tanks were not having fun actively trying to hold aggro and moved towards giving tanks a massive bonus to threat generation. First along the lines of +300% and then later much, much more to the point of it being a complete non-factor. The new tanking was supposed to be active damage mitigation with having "lots of buttons to press, because pressing LOTS of buttons is fun!" That approach led to increasingly ridiculous things like Paladin tanks stacking haste. In reality of course simple "fun while tanking" was far from the only motivation for Blizzard, they were desperately trying to fix the damage caused by Cataclysm and failed so utterly that it kind of became hilarious. While I stopped truly actively playing WoW with the Dragonsoul patch of Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria just made sure that I had no regrets leaving. Although I have kind of been tempted to see how the game is now that ghostcrawler can no longer mess it up.

The stat overview of each item is updated with all available enchantments. The base armor type of The Saint's War armor is scale armor (as noted in the description) which has a base piercing damage resistance of 5, not 8. It's the same thing with the dagger.

8==D I hope everyone here now feels properly harassed by my cyber-exhibitionism. *pose*

Care for some cheese to go with that whine? Nothing, really, it wouldn't be the internet without whining.

L-l-l-ook at me buy-buying thththis immediatly. :D

Wings of Liberty ranks highly amongst my disappointments in gaming. Not because of the gameplay but because of the story (that little there actually is). I wonder whose brilliant idea it was to turn one of the most badass characters in the history of RTS into a mewling, alcoholic emo clutching a picture of Kerrigan and whining "Sarah I MUSS U SOOOO MUCH!!!!" into his drink. Sheesh. Of course Blizzard managed to top even that with retconning the Zerg origins in Heart of the Swarm, but then again, at that point I no longer expected anything better. Getting drunk after your lady love became a genocidal alien monstrosity also responsible for the death of at least one good friend is a reasonable reaction imo. I was more annoyed by Blizzard need to do a 'Have we mentioned how heroic Jim is today?' every cutscene. Ah, uhm. No? Raynor knew Kerrigan for a handful of missions before Mengsk abandoned her on Tarsonis. Raynor's dialogue was retconned in that Wings of Liberty cutscene so he talks about leaving *her* behind (whereas he was pissed off at Mengsk for leaving THEM behind in the original). Also, well, there is this intermission in one of the final Brood War missions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCcnd1WJVCo Yeah, sounds just like SC2's Raynor. Except for the part where he wants to put a bullet between Kerrigan's eyes and virtually everything else. Eh, I don't know. There is so much that doesn't make sense including a lot of the retconning and some character design. Brood War left the Dominion battered and broken, with Mengsk having to call in a lot of favors to even make a final stand against Kerrigan - and failing utterly. Yet, here we are, four or so years later where Mengsk spends trillions looking for Raynor. Who is sitting in a bar getting drunk on his old colony Mar Sara, pining over his lost love who he wanted to put down like the rabid dog she is only, well, four years earlier. Said Raynor who is easily found by his old friend Tychus who just got released from prison. By Mengsk. Yeah. Makes sense in the "not" way. Then there are all these choices that always end with Raynor being right, even if it makes no sense in context. If he trusts Nova (for which he has no reason what-so-ever) then Tosh really is the psychopath she says he is while you go on and liberate the wrongly imprisoned rebellious heros if you don't. Oh, and yeah, Ariel or whatever her name was goes from praising Raynor for cleansing an infested refugee station to actually flipping out over cleansing Haven. Why? Because screw characterization I guess (oh, and again, Raynor is right whatever he does, man that must be hard never making mistakes). Also, what's up with Raynor fighting his friends, the Protoss? He's a large part of the reason why they still exist after the Zerg invasion. There is no way that Raynor couldn't at least reach a compromise with the Protoss regarding Haven. Then there's the prophecy crap, the Overmind sacrificing itself so the Zerg can be led by Kerrigan with free will (well after Kerrigan is cleansed from her infestation by an artifact so ancient it can't possibly have been built to combat the Zerg, which are relative newcomers) and whatever else hell there happened so that Valerian Mengsk and Raynor end up working together. Okay, time to stop ranting. There were good things in Wings of Liberty, like the atmosphere and the presentation in those in-game cutscenes. Blizzard did a good job at showing, not telling, but the things they showed us were a disappointment for me.

Wings of Liberty ranks highly amongst my disappointments in gaming. Not because of the gameplay but because of the story (that little there actually is). I wonder whose brilliant idea it was to turn one of the most badass characters in the history of RTS into a mewling, alcoholic emo clutching a picture of Kerrigan and whining "Sarah I MUSS U SOOOO MUCH!!!!" into his drink. Sheesh. Of course Blizzard managed to top even that with retconning the Zerg origins in Heart of the Swarm, but then again, at that point I no longer expected anything better.

Except he said nothing of the sort, and certainly nothing of it was in the past tense. Varana's translation is servicable enough, as far as that snippet goes, because that is exactly what he said. That they [not necessarily Germany alone] would fight them [ultra-nationalists, inferred most likely to be people like Le Pen or Orban] with whatever options they have at their disposal.

Oh, nice, finally a thread that I can derail somewhat by mentioning that I want to strangle BruceVC every time he messes up their and there. Which is, quite frankly, every time. *sigh*

I don't know, the end of the Trooper storyline was plenty climactic - for both my keyboard and my desk, that is.

I think I'll be having nightmares for a while.

I think it's finishing a quest that always counts as a turn while journal updates generally have a chance to do so.

The first thing I played on Linux was Quake (not counting the solitaire-like games that came with every window manager), but that was a long while ago, almost 20 years now. Not sure Loki was a turning point - when they went belly-up in 2002 it almost turned out to be the nail in the coffin of AAA games running on Linux.

DS9 certainly had the best character development of any Trek series and it had the advantage of having Robert Hewitt Wolfe (whom I would say is the MCA of sci-fi writers) working on it for a while, and a noticable dip in quality after he left at the end of Season 5. TNG had some really, really good stories that easily rival the best of TOS but it is all wrapped in a lot of filler and sprinkled with some damned awful stinkers that kind of dilute the experience - for every Drumhead there are two Shades of Grey...

Oh, I'm all for diversity and choices, please don't get me wrong there and I would love to see Linux succeed as a viable alternative in gaming - if only because it means that the current chokehold on game development is broken up a bit. Look at how Vulkan made Microsoft streamline DirectX for the first time in ages - DX12 is so much better than the past decades of improvements they made. I just don't share the opinion that Brandon Adler's comments are harmful towards Linux gaming or that there is any major migration going on - and even if SteamOS succeeds on the market, it might just be used in the way consoles are these days with the remainder of its capabilities as fully formed Linux distribution lying fallow. Time will tell, but it is really far too early to play a requiem for Microsoft.