Sarex
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And who exposed the falsity of the WMD claim? The Western media.
Remind me what happens to media outlets which contradict the Kremlin?
By then it was to late, the damage was done and the people were informed too late. You could say that by that point it didn't matter what the press printed. When the truth was needed the media did nothing and parroted what it's government said.
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Misinformation campaigns and irregular warfare was Putin's modus operandi in south ossetia as well as Crimea. A sudden 'need' for military intervention presents itself and he retains deniability.
You are honestly fools to believe much of anything with an official Russian stamp of approval. Western media has a different disease. Quite often an editioral line or simply entertainment masquarading as news is what muddles the waters. There are precious few news outlets concerned chiefly with a reputation for impartiality and quality reporting.
The western media flat out lies, so I don't know what you are talking about. They lied in Iraq, they lied in Bosnia, they lied about Kosovo. There is no muddling of the water, there is just media printing what their government tells them.
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I am almost speechless. You're buying the idea that the Russian media, with provable direct ownership straight to Putin, is more trustworthy than Western media organisations with a long history of independence and multiple mechanisms for enforcing as much impartiality as possible...
I guess what interests me is why you'd pick the former. Is it that you hate the latter and you'll choose any damn fool who is against NATO?
Can I ask whether you also believed comical Ali? I'm genuinely curious.
Oh Russian media is not more trustworthy, it's pretty much equally trustworthy as the western media. That you think that western media reports the truth is oh so funny.
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As far as I know and what I heard from the writers them selves, the wiki definition is pretty much spot on. Low Fantasy strives for realism and believability above all else, while High fantasy is more about being epic and grand. Though WoT has connection to the real world mentioned throughout the whole book, so it is speculated that the world we live in now is from an age that has happened long ago in the WoT world.
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John R. R. or George R. R.?
George! In the interest of full disclosure, I read Tolkien many years ago, so A Song of Ice and Fire is much fresher in my mind. That said, I appreciate the gray area in Martin's fiction -- morally ambiguous characters face morally fraught quandaries, and even though it's not Good vs. Evil, it takes place on a grand scale. His world feels grittier and more "real," but it's still richly imaginative.There you go Sheikh gritty and real, just like I said it.
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So gutted about the WoT licenses, giving them to Red Eagle was such a waste.
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I finally read the Song of Fire and Ice books a while back. I enjoyed them well enough, although the meandering plot where nothing ever really happens is irritating. They suffer from some filler, but nowhere near as much as the Wheel of Time series. Nothing contains as much inane filler as the Wheel of Time series. For anyone interested in epic fantasy, I strongly recommend the Malazan: Books of the Fallen. As complex and arcane as a WoT fan could want, as bloody and grim as the Fire and Ice books, and amazingly light on cliffhangers and unfinished plotlines. Its also the only series mentioned that's actually complete.
To you it may be filler, to others it's development of the rest of the characters. I read Malazan: Book of the Fallen, it's great, one of my top reads, though it has it's own flaws, the biggest one being plot inconsistency.
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Sarex: What appeals to me most in ASoIaF is it's characters who have real motivations and mostly react understandably to situations presented to them. That's not something you can say about LotR for example, where characters are mostly just perfectly honorable good guys doing good stuff or treacherous bad guys doing bad stuff. That's why I liked Boromir most of all characters: He was one of the few character who really showed some inner struggle about his motivations and openly questioned the goal of the fellowship and their plan's rationality. Aragorn then again is good example of traditional fairytale hero with his infinite bravery and infallible honor and of course he gets his princess at the end and, not half, but whole kingdom to rule. I'm not saying Tolkiens style is any worse, but it definitively is much more superficial.
What George R.R. Martin has achieved in my opinion is creating completely believable fantasy world inhabited by real people. It means there will be some stuff about tax policies, but mostly it means you are getting bunch ofmaybe the best dialogue ever, interesting tensions all over the place and as the story progresses even some high fantasy starts to raise it's head. ASoIaF is kind of like reversal LotR: In LotR magic is dying; In ASoIaF it has been dead for a long time and is coming back with a bang.
Oh, I get what you are saying, there is a reason it is called low fantasy and yes it obviously has it's market, but it's just not for me. For me fantasy is getting to those grand moments, where there are epic fights, or unbelievable things happening, it makes the hair on my arms stand up. I just couldn't find any of that in ASoIaF.
To be honest apart from Silmarilion(which is awesome) I found LotR to be ok. The kind of fantasy I like the most is in the vain of Wheel of Time. WoT was my first fantasy book and it was what hooked me to the genre. Since then I read many great books, but sadly ASoIaF just wasn't one of them(for me).
And to steer back to the topic, I think it would be wrong to change genres in PoE as it was sold as the spiritual successor of the IE games.
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Since the thread title makes the thread have to do with humbleness. Lets talk about the story. Humbleness in the story makes it believable.
I have not finished BG, but the beginning of the story is: Imoen and you are childhood friends and have grown up under the tutelage of their guardian Gorion. Is that it? If thats it, then it sounds like a fairytale.
The reality would be that the PC would not hold close ties throughout their childhood with some certain friend, especially if they were of the opposite sex. It just wouldnt ever happen in real life. Also the PC would be troubled very much by whom were their real parents, especially as they grew up. This is just an intuitive understanding of humanity. And since the people involved are still humans, this beginning of the story is either partial or just not believable.
Also there are questions as to who is Gorion ("guardian?") to the PC and why is the PC under his care. How does candlekeep function?
And thats just the VERY beginning.
I dont get any vibe of a fairytale when reading A song of fire and ice. And I dont think a good game can afford to have a fairytale for a story either.
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ASoIaF bored the heck out of me, read book one, stopped reading it after the first third of book 2(same for the tv show). I am just not in to low Fantasy, I don't see the point of it. If I am going to read something that is real and gritty, I'll pick up a historical novel or something similar. There was an interview with G.R.M. in the Rolling Stones magazine, in which he described how he felt about Tolkien's works. Here is the quote:
"Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren't gone – they're in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?"
Who cares about tax policies? Is that the point of the story, does it add anything to it? I personally like to read epic fantasy and I expect the story and characters to be fantastic. I do not go in to an epic fantasy or sf book and say "man this is totally not believable".
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^ No one saw nothing, you hear!
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Awesome channel.
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HoF Light of Cera Sumat.
Then I wish you luck, but man it's worth it. My Paladin/Fighter dual wielded the vanila and HoF Cera Sumat, it was the best thing ever.
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There is a market for that too, I forgot what it's called though.
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Hard to believe that IWD2 was made that quickly.
Currently playing it right now and intending to claim Cera Sumat.
The vanilla one, or the HoF one?
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Wow, 10 months! That is unbelievable for a game that large. While it may not be the best IE game overall, it is certainly my favorite. It was one of the first games I ever played as a kid (the first IE game) and while it took me a long time to finish, it inevitably sharpened my fangs for all the games to come. Comparably the BG series was a breeze to finish when I got to play it.
I can only wish that the soundtrack, atmosphere and combat of PoE is anywhere near as good as that of IWD2.
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This happens to a lot of League of Legend streamers too. It's kind of ridiculous.
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More Antz?
The incognito pick. Get a better camera Nepenthe, we need cleaner picks if we are going to....ahem...enjoy them.
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I type on a Fujitsu-Siemens ("Made in Germany" Wow, didn't notice that before) now, and it's been serving me for three years by this computer, with no glitches whatsoever.
Well it is German.
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Lol, I still remember when DA2 was going to come out (while I still visited BW forums) the fans were asking can you romance you sister/brother. The funny thing is that lot's of them were serious and were saying how it would add realism to the game. I'm cracking up as I'm writing this.
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I have the logitech wave keyboard/mouse combo I got as a gift with my computer over 6 years ago and it still works great. Though I did have to put wd-40 in to the mouse left click sensor to get rid of the annoying double click(it seems that over the years it gums up and gets stuck and so it produces a double click when you only click once).
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Not only that but the info window in IWD2 on classes and feats and abilities was great and comprehensive.
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It's all over the place, oddly enough, it's just very subtle with it. In the Unseeing Eye quest, if you're low level you'll fight a few gaunths and if you're higher level you'll find full blown beholders flung in. During the temple ruins quest you can actually encounter Liches if you arrive there late enough.
The beauty of BGII is that, unlike Oblivion and Dragon Age, it doesn't scale ALL the fights, so you will still plow through those dungeons faster at a higher level, it's just that there'll be two or three fights within where you'll need to don your tactical hat.
Oh, and, that adds two case in points for my original post - the first case in point being myself when this was pointed out to me.
Never knew about that, well what do you know. But still that is not the classical level scaling where the enemy is just higher level or does more damage, they changed the type of creature you will encounter. That is in line what PoE will do with it's difficulty settings as far as I know.
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He listens! Or at least has similar ideas. There was a thread about this a few months back, and this exact problem of "the pre-fight routine" was mentioned. Good to see it's not going to be in there. I get reaallly tired of casting the same what feels like a hundred or so buffs on all my party just before entering every difficult combat scenario.
Now you get to cast them during the fight, happy days.
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Finished playing Burial at Sea 2. I'm a little bummed out, these kind of endings always get to me. All in all it ties the story between Raputre and Infinite nicely. As for the gamplay, I went with the no kill runthrough and it was ok, nothing special but also nothing bad. Definitly worth giving it a go for those who like the Bioshock series.