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Where do I place a bet on the UK crashing out of the EU?

The less impersonal horrific crimes are, and the more dispersed it is. The less society relatively punishes for it. If you are an identifiable dev writing an identifiable character who acts out an identifiable crime which is a singular act in the game as opposed to a frequent minute to minute mechanic. Then you are as guilty as the character you wrote, and we (they) can rally against you ever putting such a thing in a game again. Not only has Paradox's fan-base been of the type that wouldn't really care about depictions of historic horrors. There also isn't much explicit or easily identifiable. Compare to having a character hit a woman in one scene, but redeemed in another. Uhh ohh, that is misogyny alongside misogynist sympathizing. We (they) better make sure you game is critically panned. Better not suck the blood of that woman, cause that's rape.

Free to current owners? Meaning that steam license I bought like 9 years ago? I get a free remastered game off of that? Hell yea!

Fun fact: The artist is my profile pic wrote the song they used for this.

I actually like that austere composition.

It seems to me like they don't want to prosecute a public figure with an otherwise fine public standing with the weight of the book. They also don't want to overrule the precedent of the book that gives it it's weight, which they wish to reserve for you everyday offenders. Why would the prosecutor try to teach the Police a lesson? It's not like investigations don't make incremental reports. Claiming that doing so was muddying parts of a trial process is not an excuse for exonerating a person on grounds of a rocky trial process. The act of realizing a trial had been primed by wrong priors is the exact clarity of thinking that would imply it's precisely the time to follow through with a just trial, not shirk. I think this was absolutely a case of the prosecutor protecting the prosecutors office by maintaining the power of their book. I also think there is some racially biased grace being given here. An attitude that punishing a symbolic acting out of hate crimes should be given a pass, as so many other hate crimes (some enacted by cops) go unpunished. In a sense the charges seem partially dropped as a form of out-of-channel justice, while maintaining the subjective strength of precedence.

Unique. Not a tone of games in the style at the time. A big community patch fixes a lot of the jank and cruft. People used to be able to suspend their disbelief. Vampire chicks.

After you had introduced me to Scott Walker, I knew you'd probably be taking this news hard. What a pioneer, may he rest in peace.

Into my veins.

They learned our secret, that we millennials were the true audience of Dora.

Is Chi Com the new hot lingo or something?

Sally's Bloody Wishing Well Game Emporium™ LLC *Portrait of a cute baby animal* © I feel this is the case though for most companies founded as outlets for creative types. Not real different from movie production studios or music labels. It's just now there is this awful "brand cliche" prototype that requires the companies to prematurely drape themselves in mystique and prestige. Cue golden fig leaves around random twitter comments.

The thing is that it doesnt matter who made the decision. In this purpose the developer and publisher are one and the same. It may suck for the developer but they are inseparable in guilt because either they are not able to separate or they do not separate and for us, the consumer, the end result is the same. Everything else is just shooting ourselves in the foot and making excuses for greed. This is logic. Your arguments is logic cut in a third and presented as the full result. It is faulty and it is misleading, it is borderline lying. Spoken like someone who has no idea how contract law and publishing deals work. I suppose developers should divorce from the constraints of reality for us consumers too? Obsidian should have been prescient when the signed the deal to know Epic years later would rocket onto the multiplayer game as a service scene, and launch a store with a salacious deal to wag in publisher's faces. I completely understand and this is the entire point. You however do not understand it seems. When you sign a contract that takes away your independence then you are responsible for what comes from it, good and bad. There is no "but" or "if" or "however". It may be necessary, they may believe it is necessary or it may just be ignorance and greed mixed with intentionally blinding themselves to reality (my money is on a mix of the last and the middle) but in the end it does not matter. They are responsible for their actions and this fact is something that all the apologists in the world and all of the greedy or well-meaning-but-naive companies in the world wants to ignore. Reality is a double edged sword and they want to throw themselves on the blunt end of the blade, giving the illusion that it is a selfless sacrifice to reality. You cannot nitpick on logic, if you choose one branch you have to follow it to the tip. They remained independent, that's how they could be acquired by Microsoft. It is necessary to obtain funding for these people to continue their livelihoods. The end does matter, which is you having a bug-fixed game on non-EGS platforms. For happily ever after. Apologists? Throw themselves on the blunt end of the blade? Illusion of selfless sacrifice? Nitpick on logic? How about try talk in congruence to reality rather than waxing righteous indignation with angry metaphors sprinkled with angry talking points that sound like they were lifted straight from the works of Dawkins or Hitchens but without any of the backing substance.

A company that has remained independent for years, far beyond most every other video game company in existence. In part from learning from mistakes, and from putting the games first. A company that still needs to find cash flows to support their full time employees with families, debts, mortgages, health and insurance needs, and retirements plans. A company that has a legal team that can only sign as good of contracts as their lawyers are prescient. A company that isn't actually one in the same with the publisher, that doesn't actually need a divorce, but does have a contract that needs fulfilled. A company that started this project long before Epic's re-ascent as a developer, way back when Leonard Boyarsky departed Blizzard after Diablo 3. Way before this new wave of games that Overwatch was part of. Before they would ever need to lock down launch platforms back when Take-Two was known as being a 3rd party multi-platform powerhouse. That company? That company should take on greater financial risk? Avoid being coupled to contracts even when mutually beneficial? That company is really guilty for being unable to separate out of their contract over a 1 year exclusive deal made by their contractual publisher? Because that's what I was arguing against. A company as good as Obsidian cannot predict all the schemes of a publisher. Further it's slim pickings when it comes to publishers, and publishing models always leave certain powers to the devs, and certain one's to the publishers. That's what incentives the contract in the first place. You'd love to agree but can't because Obsidian should know better? They only know better in relations to the circumstances they have actually fallen prey to. They have avoided more than any other independent dev, and successfully got bought up by a stable 1st party that can ride out all sorts of risks. They earned their victory. And this final publishing deal that got them through a very rough time is supposed to be a grave mistake? I came into this thread to loathe Epic and it's store. Not to victim blame Obsidian with entitled ideals and estranged understandings of business, economics, and contract law. Take-Two gave them their creative freedom, this game will eventually not be an exclusive. It will be around until the end of human civilization. But I guess it still wasn't worth it or something because "consumer needs" and "Obsidian got properly ****ed and they should have known better." Come on!

The thing is that it doesnt matter who made the decision. In this purpose the developer and publisher are one and the same. It may suck for the developer but they are inseparable in guilt because either they are not able to separate or they do not separate and for us, the consumer, the end result is the same. Everything else is just shooting ourselves in the foot and making excuses for greed. This is logic. Your arguments is logic cut in a third and presented as the full result. It is faulty and it is misleading, it is borderline lying. Spoken like someone who has no idea how contract law and publishing deals work. I suppose developers should divorce from the constraints of reality for us consumers too? Obsidian should have been prescient when the signed the deal to know Epic years later would rocket onto the multiplayer game as a service scene, and launch a store with a salacious deal to wag in publisher's faces.

I'm an adult now, Cyberpunk 2077 and Half-life 3 are the only two games I think I'd still crack and willing buy via having my hands tied behind my back while letting Epic fondle my back pocket to swipe my credit card for me. Thankfully those are the two games that will never be exclusive to their store. Soon no game will make me crack as a consumer. I shall be moving onto new predatory markets like home ownership, vacation deals, and audiophile sound equipment.

Disney: We never really were good at making games. We have full confident in our partnership with EA. EA: Disney: We are reviving Lucasarts.

I would bet her future husband once had a thing for her mom. Probably still does.

Solid period piece right there.

Yeah, I have a lot of allergies and have been amply loaded up on gobs of anti-histamines when drinking a class. Tannins might be a culprit, I mostly only drink herbal teas now. That is also due to them being caffeine free and the diuretic nature of caffeine + the lowkey anxious buzz just means I can't get cozy to normal tea anymore. Water? Yeah, I drink a lot of water but a little too much salt hear or forgetting to drink for 2 hours there can really **** me up. I don't remember needing this much water as a kid. I don't mean by volume, I mean the constant need to have a water bottle on hand.