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Omg it's obvious. "Can you see it?" It's transparent UI!

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Notifications also fail to load quite often now. But alas this one has not crowd funded the forums, so I can't be a chooser.

Civ VI also does that archaic map fog of war thing. http://i.imgur.com/H4IGdMF.jpg

I like the idea of having sort of "episode" based quests that are self-contained. I think PoE had that. It's always nice when you reach a new town and you tackle some local problems which acquaints you to the local populace. Maybe the occasional connective quest. I do hope there is one grand island hopping quest line.

Throwing out outliers usually only makes sense when you don't clamp the findings to just post 9/11 either. Islamic terrorism goes back at least to the early 80's. Even then outliers get amortized over such a long period that it's typically best to leave them in when discerning averages. Next, you don't just pull older numbers. After 2001 the next deadliest years of terror attacks is 2014, 2015, and 2016. Then when talking about the US alone, you don't just cite low numbers of attacks when more than anything our surveillance programs have been setup to mitigate attacks in the first place. These days I find statistics to be increasingly subversive. You can without changing observed data, obscure the reality that produced the data set.

The reactions of the left and right you described. You know, handful of horrible outliers vs systemic murder culture. I had in mind a comparison of the pan-left and pan-right, not just domestically to the US. I was also considering the frequency and casualties of European terror attack which are far higher. The comparison is really to draw a symmetry of double-standards. Not to say there isn't still perhaps a right answer, which (I assume) you were suggesting the left has. I don't think that image really does any justice to explaining the deeper difference. Although maybe it does, because a lot of people use splash stats like that to build their world view and to underpin their reactions. But using wider knowledge and wider statistics, I don't think that image holds much clout over the difference. Turning just to the USofA, mass shootings seem to be outliers even in relation to what you might call a typical armed murder. US gang culture is ensconced in gun culture, where as organized crime abroad has developed other means to take action. At some point you have to look beyond just gun violence. If you normalize on all kinds of asocial behavior I think it becomes clearer that the vector by which people act at varies along culture and access. Mass shootings and terrorist attacks are by no means the same thing. They are motivated very differently. No doubt taking guns from the US would prohibit this from occurring as easily, meaning a reduction in frequency. If you look east to Europe, knife violence is tremendously higher than the US. So it's the variability by which violence is enacted in which people hold a double-standard over what should be regulated and what is just an occurrence that we must accept and move forward from.

The difference between what?

On the other hand. After mass shootings you get large amounts of liberals talking about needing to make societal changes to prevent such things from ever occurring again. When a terrorist attack occurs you get a similar response from the right, while the left says that's just letting the terrorists win. I believe much of the right feels the winning move is to collect oneself and move forward with the parts of life that matter, that restricting gun control is letting outliers win. This sort of "double-standard/symmetry" I've never seen talked about. So in the end what is the right move? More laws, bureaucracy, more acting like we have real power over terrible things? Or do we collectively vote with our time and money to charge ahead with what really takes precedence. I feel people would rather donate to help victims than politically engineer a solution that may or may not work. The optics of either of those two scenarios may hurt people's idealistic sensitivities, but collectively I think the answer to the cost/benefit analysis is revealed.

Wild West + Magic + tech? If that's not it, I'm going to need such a thing regardless...

Being fair, you get your own room were you can setup with relative privacy over multiple days. Hotels may certainly implement more security measures to prevent the exploitation of that privacy.

no its not, there are tons of buildings overlooking a large concert venue, what is so special about hotels in that regard? In the same way that book depositories are special.

I think a face says a lot about a character though. Especially when realized with detail. Evidence is that this portrait was wildly different than many were expecting after seeing the rather simple clean face in the concept work.

I'd imagine someone could always rig up a simple cooling hopper. The attacker last night apparently had multiple arms stashed in the room too, so It sounds like he may have switched weapons as well.

Listen to the audio in the link I posted. That was no 30 round magazine. Even if he did convert and AR you can't make it belt fed. It doe not have the hardware to self feed. AR and AKMs use a spring in the magazine to feed the next round into the rifle. And if you did make an AR full auto you can't control the rate of fire anymore. In other words once you pull the trigger it empties the magazine. But even then the biggest magazine is 30 rounds. The HK-21 & MG-34 can be modified to be belt fed. Both are illegal in the US. Just last week I saw someone convert an ar-15 to eject casings out of the lower receiver and feed in from an p90 50-round box mag. They sell even higher capacity casket fed p90 magazines. I think if someone really wanted to rig something up they could.

It was all wip, that was never a final rendition. It also wasn't in the style of portraits. As far as I am aware this is the only portrait we have ever gotten of her. The things that made everybody insane was some kind of concept sketch. That's what I mean by wip, work in progress. By it not being the portrait, it's style didn't really what the team would imagine her to be like.

When 3D printing was becoming big, the gun community was getting really interested in printing low receivers, with a long term goal of a way to make upper receivers. Part files were being made open source so anyone could start printing their own gun parts. If you had open schematics to 3D print or even CNC route out an automatic ar-15 upper receiver then all you'd need access to is some equipment to do so. You have so many people into this whole world of guns, that a future to be assailant can lead a normal hobbyist life before ever turning the barrel on the innocent.

If it IS and illegal weapon that begs the question "how did he get it". So that detail is important. How does anyone protect themselves anywhere these days? In Spain and France terrorists are killing innocent people with vehicles now. Where arms are hard to come by, acid is also becoming increasingly common, even in "non-terrorist" attacks. Petty gang violence and "armed-robbery" is now commonly carried out with concoctions of cleaning agents in the UK.

As in a new IP about vampires? Because unless they are lying to throw us off the scene, it's not a world of darkness game. The only word on the street I've heard is wishful thinking.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/catalonia-independence-referendum-vote-protests-barcelona-madrid-police-guardia-civil-a7976556.html

It's was held because the military serves the people and being volunteer based their biggest selling point is moving people up economically and offering them a career out of serving the nation. They have a responsibility to uphold fair standards and be transparent. Given our current social times, now is not the time to send mixed messaging with non-transparent internal procedures. They want to make a strong clear statement and move on. I don't understand what is childish about anything there, one of the more sensible and adult stands I've seen taken for a while.

Maybe... The more I think about it though the more I want them to leave the sidekicks as is, and create brand new companions for the expansion.

The anime chick, turned goth vampire Ydwin. That doesn’t mean anything to me. Have you not seen the side-kick portraits?

I like Universalist, it sounds hermetic to me.

I think the only thing they kept the same was the race of Bonteru and Radora.