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New electronics are far more sensitive to damage than older solutions, and the more complex your systems the more points of failure there are. I also think that funding as shrunk relative to what it had been, and far more bright people are pursuing other avenues.

Wow... I thought we had totally lost contact with Voyager 1 a few years ago... This is like someone coming back from the dead.

I'm reading this thread and taking notes.

Yeah, there's no chance of areas like the deep south switching to vote Bernie or whatever. Unlike commies the average southern voter is religious and won't vote for a godless commie- and even the democrats there preferred Hillary to Bernie by a large margin. France also had 4 candidates not two. That effect did happen in the US last election, it just happened in a near direct parallel to how it happened in France, ie you had traditional left voters in the rust belt voting Trump. The main difference being that many did so after Hillary was dumb enough to tell them they were irrelevant and offer them no hope while still expecting their vote. Stupidest mistake in a campaign replete with them. Her basically ignoring Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania may have been worse than her deplorable comment. One of the regions where blue collar work could be most responsive to labor opportunities if the dems to put people to work as opposed to stuffing their ivory towers full of more positions.

Maybe have it holdable equal to the duration of recovery, after which it auto casts to the last designated target. Have the recovery cooldown start right after the cast is complete, as you say. Indefinitely holdable seems to really change how risk plays into combat. You could charge, switch to auto-attacks, wait for debuffers to do their think. Then crack the whip with no penalty. Or maybe that is exactly what you want? It certainly is strategic, but I think it's too useful and would take away from the natural risk that casting presents. Because with your suggestion you could just run your casters back a bit, charge up, then run back in. Only costing movement time, which is probably paid off by avoiding various aoes and flanks, etc. I'd rather keep the focus on protecting the casters with how the front line is managed.

I actually don't think Sanders should run in 2020, at least from what I'm seeing at the current moment. I really don't see him getting passed the media, nor the bastion Clinton hive which will forever use him as a litmus test for the wrong type of liberal. (The economic, not identitarian type.) The dems should either throw Biden back in, or start looking to Gabbard. But both is asking for a lot, so I'd not be surprised we get Trump again or even a different Republican depending on how the GOP tries to play things. I get the sense to left shift under post-Bush is mostly over, and that enough of the non-voting critical mass of young leftists are becoming moderate, conservative, libertarian and voting. The internet has a bias of reporting the feelings of LA, and not so much the rest of America. So we'll get a corporatist from the Dems that speaks to LA mentalities, and we'll see how the GOP organizes when Trump enters his first, and hopefully only lame duck period.

My admiration for this man grows each time I hear him speak.

Me thinks legal writing would be more clear if it was literally higher order logic and code.

hah, i did the same

I agree it was pretty neat and refreshing, but just almost every good scene seemed like a disjoint idea that had to be stitched together.

Man, Dr Strange was one of the worst marvel movies... I even liked Cumberbatch as Dr. Strange. The surgery scene was awesome though. Redeemed the movie, but who that final act was **** in general.

fun fun fun

Oh hey, it's that feature they advertised as being the essence of the gameplay from the beginning. I have a feeling the only reason we are getting it now, is because this system is the basis for the FF7 remake.

I believe it. But maybe we are only nice because we are almost never given a direct audience. I know the goblins lurk amongst us...

Yup... that's a tumblr gif...

I am pretty sure Josh said they designed PoE around normal & hard. Why wouldn't you add easier difficulty settings? You wider the target audience without compromising game. Well I'm not quite sure what all their design philosophy is grounded in. But I think you may misunderstand me. I'm mean to say that offering a range of difficulty settings is nice for the reason that it reaches a wide audience, without having to sacrifice design ideals that would be appreciated by highly invested users of your game.

Which is odd, because they also go to great lengths to offer very easy modes for your average person. Maybe they should be designing their games around the harder difficulties? I don't know exactly how they do it. They are only human though, so all the issues with real world implementation and a limited amount of time for testing the "statistics" of their system I think also leaves a lot of gaps.

That sounds fun for someone, sorry it wasn't you.

My favorite thing about Josh, is that he doesn't hold (that many) sacred cows. If something doesn't work he can revert back, but he is a great catalyst trying to improve upon old cruft that grognards would die for.

Always been that way online. As it was in the pub before it. Pubs are one of the best parts of rpgs. Whether it's your pnp session or game. Gotta love pubs.

If someone is still walking into the second act of their first play through I'm going to wonder how they spend their time.

Steam was awesome from 2006-2011, I've found it really started going down hill since then with repeatedly awful decisions. I get making a loot store, hosting f2p games. But the shovel ware situation is nothing but repeated **** ups of the utmost. If Valve wasn't just an entertainment company I'd find it more worthwhile to bitch, but there are real world problems to attend to. No wonder their economics expert left to try to save the EU. Personally I can't give two ****s about a company that built itself on high quality single player content and tossed all their expertise in a hold.

That movie has everyone who ever existed in it. Same with Band of Brothers. Which is funny because when I watch both of them I mostly had never scene most of the actors before.

All indigenous peoples, nations, and ethnicities of North America are lumped together over a shared history of being confronted with a frontier nation that thrived on expansive large plot farming. Disrespecting one native peoples in a flippant manner has more to do with one just being disrespectful and flippant in general, and further about being callus to our nations history. If you are black and become president, with no ancestral ties to forcing Native American's off their land, when you become president you take on the nation's guilt even if your inherited estate bares no lineage to those who forcefully settled land. Quite simply, Trump does not represent the country, nor does he represent the position he was granted. He represents himself, the position is what he makes of it, and the country is what he pretends it to be.

Yeah, that's without a paddle. Awful that such a thing can befall people. Hopefully that wasn't in winter.