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Not really. I've done things in different orders and it works fine (and you may get a different outcome). You will have a different experience but not necessarily worse. No need to meta-game. It's worth playing things a few different ways to experience everything that the game has to offer.

Of course it is. That experiment has been done in the real world multiple times on different continents by people with very different cultural backgrounds. Market economies lead to plenty; controlled economies lead to starvation. For example, China made two changes; private property is allowed again and prices will be set by the market (for the most part; there is some government control of investment). They went from starvation under Mao to the world-class, fast growing economy they now have. Markets will always work better than controlled economies because they act as a self organizing system that makes better decisions about how to allocate resources. In addition to that whole starvation thing, governments that have enough power to take possession of all of the property in a society, also have enough power to be tyrants. And they are, always. If the leaders of the revolution are nice people, bad people murder them after the revolution and take power. This is so reliable it is almost a law of nature. This is where somebody will chime in with "But that wasn't REAL communism because reasons." Yes. Yes, it was real communism. That's how real communism works as opposed to theoretical communism. Karl Marx correctly identified some problems but his solution turned out to be wrong. Get over it. Or, move to one of the existing communist countries but be sure to hide your passport so you can leave when you realize what you've gotten yourself into.. Until then, markets work better than government controls and governments that can take all of your property are powerful enough to do visit any amount of suffering on you that the most corrupt, sadistic member (you know, those people that want power) of that government wishes.

Heh. "I noticed that you just had your entire party wiped out. Would you like me to reduce the difficulty for you?"

In addition to writing the spoiler tag yourself, you can also find the blue button at the top of the editor. It's the top line, third from the left, blue button. If you hover over it, it has the tool tip "Special BBCode". Click the button and select "spoiler" from the menu. It will give you an edit field to enter your text and add the spoiler tags for you. It is a little more time consuming than just adding the tag yourself but it has the advantage that it won't accidentally put the slash in the wrong place nor will it forget how to type the tag when you haven't done it for 6 months (though, that may be a moot point if you forget where the button is in six months, but hey, what are you gonna do?). If I had access to the forum code, I would probably replace the other blue button, the 'twitter' button, with a dedicated spoiler button, but YMMV.

It is a little extreme. I should probably have added one of these or maybe one of these to the final sentence. However, if DRM went away, everything would be better. Steam would be better because you would be able to download and back up runnable copies of any game you wanted to be sure that you can continue to play it. Gog would also be better because the publishers who don't currently publish on Gog - out of a mistaken belief that making their games harder to purchase is a good way to get more sales - would no longer do that. As it currently stands, anyone who buys games can only vote on the DRM issue by choosing to buy on Steam or Gog. Buying a game on Steam means that you are ok with restrictions on what would otherwise be your legal rights to the game. Buying on Gog (or choosing not to buy a game that isn't available on Gog due to DRM) is a vote to get rid of DRM and have access to your games for as long as you want. Maybe Steam will be around longer than any of us posting here and DRM will never be a problem. Maybe Steam will run into hard times and get bought by someone who will charge you subscription fees to access your games. Maybe nobody will buy them and their DRM servers will just be shut down. Maybe something else.

Yes, DRM is great (for Steam, and terrible for everybody that isn't Steam). Pretty much this. At least for the "newer" games, including some indies. And if it wasn't Steam, it'd be another company's similar "service." Or console service. If a game uses DRM, I don't buy it. If enough people did that, DRM would go away. If everyone did that, DRM would have gone away already. In the cattle ranching industry, "service" is the word they use for what a stud bull does to a cow. In the gaming industry, it's the word for what Steam, in cooperation with most of the game publishers, does to their customers. Coincidence? I think not.

Do we get to choose which god we become part of? I'm holding out for Wael. It depends on the sum total of your social media posts. If you tweet about how resentful you are, Skaen. Write on facebook about how you feel so much benevolence that you need to oppress the monsters who are less benevolent, Hylea. Angry about people posting your picture on Snapchat? Wael Etc. i had to step back from facebook entirely, as i wasted just about all my time with those little games... where your friends list becomes your vampire army, pirate armada, undead army, mafia family, undead samurai army, etc. what's that make me? woedica? Sure, as long as all of your (facebook) minions yearn for the day when you come back and rule over them again. (And, it's fine to just assume that they all do, for the purposes of this exercise).

Only at work? Abydon.

*notices all his social media posts are snarky comments and likes on cute dog videos* Looks like I am signing up with Galawain... Good call. Cute, ferocious, wild dog videos, right?

I'm not sure if this is working as intended or if it's a bug.

That will be the ending of PoE3. You will attempt to become a god and take over the throne of the now dead god Eothas. But, then, a godlike and his irrepressible little sister, along with their small adventuring party, will come in, wipe out all of your minions and kill you in an epic battle that takes place in four distinct phases. Sad story, that.

Do we get to choose which god we become part of? I'm holding out for Wael. It depends on the sum total of your social media posts. If you tweet about how resentful you are, Skaen. Write on facebook about how you feel so much benevolence that you need to oppress the monsters who are less benevolent, Hylea. Angry about people posting your picture on Snapchat? Wael Etc.

Hmm, the miniature giant space piglet that followed us around in PoE1 does lend credence to what you say.

Well the Engwithan technology was really advanced, so they probably had the internet. The end result seems almost inevitable. Oh ****! We are the Engwithans.

Not the OP, but I think 'chosen' meant chosen by the game developers to be included in the game.

Skaen is pretty much the god of sniveling skivey dbag-ery. He is the god of hopeless resentment. If a rebellion was successful, he would now be the god of overthrowing the now successful former rebels whether they've made things better, worse or whatever. role-playing aside, this is definitely the best take to have. the engwithans were nothing more than a society so obsessed with their own self-importance that they collectively **** themselves when they realized the universe wasn't guided by any divine hands. and instead of maturing and dealing with this new anxiety they literally committed genocide to establish a more comfortable engwithan order. and then proceded to commit even more atrocities for the next 2000 years. Yes. The unenlightened making gods in their own image - not really a recipe for success.

Thats about authorship of the screenshot. If only the maker of the object could upload photo of an object, then there would be not many photos on wikipedia... The guidelines specifically say that screenshots of games are not allowed. From: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Licensing "For example, the following are generally not allowed:...TV/DVD/Videogame screenshots. ..." You might be better off DMing someone from Obsidian and asking them to put some screenshot images into the public domain.

Yeah, I can't believe I every trusted him with that job now. On the other hand, when hiring crew I'm always sketched out by someone whose credentials include being a "Novice Surgeon" Eld is fine. If you never do surgery while drunk you'll never really get good at it.

I was referring to Rauatains, more than anything else, if you couldn't tell. I couldn't. Thanks for clarifying.

Hey, I'm just sharing my personal opinions. You don't have to agree to them. Perhaps I misunderstood this part of what you said: Were you attempting to differentiate yourself from others posting on the topic?

My view is not arrogant enough to think it is superior above all else and should be imposed on others. I'm not sure I would use the word arrogant but you certainly seem to think you know the right answer to this deliberately grey situation. You keep bringing that up but who's that? A known freeloader and offender from Tikawara? Knowing his past record the warrior had every right to suspect him being a culprit. And that torture you speak of is a variant of stocks, a common thing even in the real world not long ago. I'm not saying he should pay for the crime he didn't commit, but I'm not seeing anything out of the ordinary of how he's handled for that world. I keep bringing it up because it is an injustice. He's a "known freeloader" because he isn't willing to work hard in order to give everything he has worked for to someone else - one of the many toxic elements of this culture. As a result, someone is able to frame him for crime he didn't commit and he is tortured to force him to confess. Yes, I call it torture because that's exactly what it is. If they can be falsely accused of crimes, tortured until they confess and then put to death for refusing to play their cultural role that might be the reason why they are submissive, no? Your point about sovereignty is reasonable, but you are, in fact, defending some of the worst things about their culture in the name of sovereignty. If you had been saying all along, "no, they really shouldn't be torturing the innocent person, but that's their problem to fix and no one else's" then that would sound like a pure argument about sovereignty.

Hmmm, BG2 arcane casters are called "Mages" and there is a "Wizard Slayer" class that sucks. PoE arcane casters are called "Wizards" and there is "Mage Slayer" class that sucks. You're right, Sawyer is trolling us! Well, we fell for it, fair play to him.

lol, what? No, I didn't. I specifically explained how gameplay does not line up with fluff and provided a concrete example of exactly why - I don't care how much "soul power" affects a person's physical strength, it is quite literally impossible for a three foot Orlan to lift a six foot human off the ground by their throat. You can be the strongest soul on Eora and you still cannot open a door if you need to have arms that are 3'6" in length and they are only 3'3", and so on. The point, then, is that gameplay cannot be used to support fluff because it's quite clear that gameplay regularly ignores or even violates fluff. I have no clue how you got "You said one gender is clearly stronger than the other" out of that. I didn't get it out of that, I got it from your previous comment where it is almost a direct quote of what you said. To refresh your memory, here is what you said earlier: It is going to be difficult to have a conversation with you if you don't remember (or look back at) your previous comments and then deny that you made them.

I would just make it so that you had some real influence with the faction you sided with and be able to steer them to some extent to the path that your character would take. Being able to pick who to install as chief isn't all it's made out to be considering how things were implemented in the game. Not only are you a lapdog to the gods, but if you choose to side with a faction and have that come up in the ending, you also end up as a lapdog to a faction. What a useless guy this Watcher character is. So, it's good training for real life, then? j/k Anyway, it sounds like you want to be able to, for example, voice your misgivings about the RDCs political assassinations and see that have an effect on their policies due the prestige you've earned from your actions. Is that the idea? I think that could work without changing the spirit of the game.

Not if the choice isn't available. If you're playing a pure good (or evil) character and the game devs have decided to remove pure good or evil choices for the sake of "thinking" or reflecting "real world choices," then you've just been screwed over. The choice you made to play that character is no longer a vaild one in that game. Either you have to change your concept or quit. I'm on the side of more choices for roleplaying in roleplaying games, not less. I think their point is that there's no such thing as pure good in pratice a lot of the time. True, but in the real world you can be a paragon of virtue and still be limited by the powers that be and the imperfect choices that you are presented with in our imperfect world. That happens in Eora too. it seems realistic rather than escapist - should the game not do that?