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While I wouldn't go so far as to say the vast majority will never protect and serve, Val's general thrust is similar to my earlier post. I think the solution to or the even the appropriate action given after the fact of a shooting is not to expect the police simply to "come through on their mission statement." If the officers fails, maybe strip them of the position or retire them to the desk. We can't afford our solution to be the best case scenarios of human error, that is never good enough, and punishing human error is a capricious acting out of righteous indignation by society when it's a larger societal fault that we expect police to be the heroic archetype of "succeed or die trying."

It's working! IT'S WORKING!

Who knows if this will live up to people's conception of BG2, I bet it will set some new standards though and will be a yardstick for years to come. Might just end up was the BG2 for a new generation of crpgs fans.

Eric, MCR, Obsidian For faults or not, I still like em all. At least from the consumer perspective. I admit it's of interest to read through this sort of gossip, but the real villains in all this are the arm-chair speculators.

I wonder if there is a school mascot out there that is literally a gun, then you'd be arming the gun with a gun, heh.

If you're taking payment as a form of stake in the company, wasn't Obsidian on the brink at the time? Was MCR sure that his shares weren't dilutable ones? I don't say this to hand wave any faults of Obsidian's upper management, but I'm not understanding why a law suit wouldn't have been launched. It seemed it was counting out equity that wasn't there, and Obsidian was trying to pull all this contractual stuff to manage their reputation in light of a angry employee departing out into the world.

Hoarding consumables doesn't actually feel that great. Diablo 2 had a balance, since you would prefer to keep your inventory for items and your belt encouraged use so you could clear the potions in your inventory as you get items. Plus it was inconvenient to use them from inventory, but simple from the belt, plus Diablo has difficulty spikes where your basically expected to chug a few in a pinch.

Although things have gotten better, this is always true with games built around complex systems and bushels of bespoke behavior.

I agree, I don't know the exact details of how cowardly the person actually was. We don't want police officers who can't act, at the same time I can imagine the situation being as such where the cop was simply trying not to be reckless. I'm dubious over post-facto standards being asserted with the weight of law on a difficult situation. If the officer got himself killed he'd be martyred probably, but if he was incapacitated and the shooter continued unobstructed for several minutes more, parents would be livid he tried to play the hero instead of getting results. I'm merely suggesting that the solution probably is not to hold humans to a standard that is above the expected rate of human error. I see two side, there are gun proponents people who like the idea we need to staff armed personnel. They love the idea of the trained officer because they think gun usages is a privilege. Then you have the anti-gun people who want to hold trained personal to higher standards than possible, even though they think the cops should have a monopoly on guns. The solution has to be more than one where we rely on our expectations of people. Lawsuits against less than ideal cops is not going to deter officers from coming out in the wash as lacking in post-facto analysis, they could never predict where the fickle public would draw the line between reckless and cautious. Further such a suit is a mis-appropriation of fault when damages are being pursued. If you instead only care about seeking damages against, you might better seek it against the law enforcement, but then you're just cutting into their funding. The officer should be removed, training should increase, and any damages probably need to come from some sort of social insurance.

How does this differ from the X-Com reboots? Any significant things being done different or major gimmicks that that differ between them?

It a lot to ask an officer who isn't expecting to field off a shooter on a particular day to take up exemplar action, especially if they aren't in already in danger. Most hero's in these situations are people who are in a situation where to not act heroic may put them in even greater danger. I still think the officer might be in the wrong, but counting on staved officers to be the line of defense against these things I think is imprudent on a societal level. You can't just expect them to go out in a blaze of gunfire in order to mitigate losses. I'm not surprised an officer would become paralyzed with in-action when they don't have a clear grasp of the situation at hand.

I think Obs said the solution might come after launch for Gog users. I don't think they want to leave anyone hanging, Gog just doesn't have the sort of promotional infrastructure that Steam does.

Once again, congrats to Justin Bell. Two babies in such a short time! I'm sure both have been keeping him up at night, but hopefully after this week it will just be the one.

Haven't seen it yet, but I'm anticipating it's going to play out much like X-Man Apocalypse. Galactically powerful baddies end up being the definition of artificial and contrived. I wish they'd get back a focus on character development, but they like to string it a long worse than even dbz.

If I had quit just moments before the final boss encounter, I think I'd agree. Something about how 2 left off though leaves me very sour. Damn, this thread needs new news. No, this thread needs to be closed because it has accumulated a critical mass. Time for Teasers Part IV ! The game will be out in a week, I don't think there is enough new promotional material to even merit a new thread.

These last 15 are gunna come fast. Unless we're missing some.

Probably won't until June. Visiting home after graduation and job hunting. Also probably trying to take up some healthy hobbies while the weather is nice.

If I had quit just moments before the final boss encounter, I think I'd agree. Something about how 2 left off though leaves me very sour. Damn, this thread needs new news.

Hopefully Deadfire get's tested on the new Ubuntu 18.04 release that just came out. It should improve many things, but I'm sure there is going to be a handful of bugs as well.

Generally, to not be turn based.

Yeah, that's fair. I acknowledge the general context benefit of DMY, it's more that infographic thinks it's the one true format since it has a cute little pyramid.

That's dumb, the only reason to have YMD is for documents that will be read by archeologists. MDY makes sense if you're trying to track down a document as they will undoubtedly be stored by year. You go from greater to smaller in a way that its actually functional and not having to look at documents that start with the year of the box you just pulled them off. No duh is the same year; it might seem little but when you're sifting through thousands every little bit helps. I'm confused, sounds like you agree that YMD/MD,Y are the superior formats.