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We have binders full of uncracked codes!

I'm not in the beta, so I'm waiting to find out. So Tentatively speaking, I'm neutral but I'm erring towards disappointment... I don't mind Vancian-casting, but it must be tuned right. In PoE1 it wasn't quite there, because you had 2 main reasons to rest. Out of spells, or low Health/Endurance. Some other needs crop up too like ailments and rest bonuses running out. So 2+ orthogonal reasons that might trigger the need to rest. If you are punching above your weight in an area (which means you are having fun, and you should always be having fun, so the game should always be somewhat challenging) then you'll burn through your per-rest abilities fast even having just rested on account of health. Next thing you know your health is fine, but now you must rest again to recoup your spells. ^ That was the problem. Empower sought to fix this to an extent, allowing you to manage a Vancian-like empower but keep the utility of your spells by your side at all times. After all it's your ability to pick from all or most of your abilities that makes use of your build interesting. Instead... I think they used Multi-classing / Sub-classing as a way to categorize existing spells/abilities (while cutting many as well) instead of using it as a chance to grow the sorts of spells/abilities of the series. This regression I believe has led them to make some questionable choices (like 2 abilities per level) in order to preserve choice and differentiation. Instead of making choices natural as you progress, it forces you to pre-plan, because once you declare your character there does not seem to be nearly the choice available that there had been in PoE1. Now the plus-side though, is that your declared class might enable far more intricate reactivity to your build within the narrative, but that remains to be seen. That in my mind would justify this change to pre-declaration of choice limitation. I'm also a bit split on the increased casting time. I like that spells are getting more oomph, but getting to cast 5 spells instead of 3 during a fight of the same length seems more interesting to me. Maybe to other's that is more tedious, but I'd rather be engage in a deeper sense instead of clicking to get through battles. Having to plan more moves out is always a good thing and I'll shut off my mind if I'm planning ahead but the battles keep ending before I ever get there. Too much wasted thought. Honestly, if Might wasn't returning I'd really really really be bemoaning casting right now. Instead I'm somewhat annoyed but somewhat undecided and partial. Because of longer cast times, less spells to choose from, and I think the somewhat regressive nature of the class system. The issue now will be that you're locked into a very primitive and un-interesting spell rotation. The concern of rotation spamming is probably the most apt complaint with regards to your standard encounters. I'd rather Obsidian do things differently, I think a lot of their decisions are correct and better than what has been done in the past. So here is what I want: Save long casts for Empower (wasn't that the whole point? Unfortunately long casts are probably their solution to guard against spell-rotations... which is a lame solution!!!) Make a class system that makes the build options more vast, not just seemingly combinatorially more vast cause you've diced up the categories far finer. (Too late probably.) Bring back the old Health/Endurance system, but keep an improved injury system. (Less important, but an unnecessary regression imo.) You'd think because now we have 1-less party member they would have decreased cast times a bit, and increased the amount of spells you could pick per level. It's clear the Class-system is very much at odds with most of the other design decisions. Too many abilities where garnished into the sub-classes, and multi-class diversity has distracted from building solo-class that rival or are greater than their Pillars1 counter-parts. If anyone thinks I'm getting it wrong or off-base I'd like to know, once again I'm not in the beta. But have watched plenty of streams and have tried to keep up. edit: Some grammar mistakes.

Hopefully they are terrible. At this point the mistreatment of the franchise is entertaining to me I need it to be good.

I would not be opposed to some 11th hour semantic changes to ability names if it better reflects the lore. Perhaps they could poll the community for ideas, like they did for multi-class names.

Congrats to Katrina, knew she'd landed something good.

Path of the damned it is.

I agree it's one-sided. I personally feel a lot of the tech innovation can be leveraged for more good than evil, that drastically off-sets the bad. Still... if people don't fight to create the system they want to live in then certainly surveillance and "economic-levers" might become quite tyrannical. I don't see any of those outcomes as permanent or irreversible. Though we might experience another 20th Century but within the digital space instead. It's quite interesting but inter-state cyber-warfare is quickly becoming to be viewed as seriously as atomic weaponry.

Good ****! Seriously one of the densest pieces of literature I've ever read, it needs the room to breath. Unlike those mal-adaptions of The Hobbit.

H O L Y E O T H A S Rejoice this day my fellow disciples of might!

Yeah, those are great. I especially like the 4th and 6th ones.

Looks like inception but with day dream drugs.

A cannon shooting dragons? I'm thinking it might be a quicklime cannon.

If this can be done purely through visual analysis, I'm not even sure I'd be mad. It'd be too impressive.

I agree with Indira, some of the thought titillation in here is beyond concern trolling and has moved into narrative role-play.

She was planning to give 4-8 of her life as a "civil servant" I'm not surprised she still has the itch for the limelight. We'll be living with hillary flare ups for a while still.

Trump is an unworthy piece of ****, but my god she sounds delusional here. We have idle populations in the heartland that want to work. We have poor working class whites who are increasingly turning to the labor politics of Bernie Sander's, yes in red states. Her accreditation of GDP to a specific population is a flawed argument from the start because wealth and cash flows are arbitrated and controlled. In fact tons of GDP gets accredited to people who are essentially rent-seakers. Then there is the whole issue of pushing the surplus population "out of the kingdom" where they are of the wrong background to share in the state sponsored opportunities that she pretends to create. He party is the one against victim blaming, you'd think she'd see the irony. Instead she willfully turns the working class population into something she can resent, absolutely disgusting. Hillary cannot be a more out of touch person. To think how many supporters she has that threw in behind her back when Obama was campaigning, a lot of those same people now act like Obama was their savior. People who will hitch themselves to anything that expedites their moral standing amongst the left collective, those are especially as deplorable as any of the identitarian collectivist right. I can't believe people still cling Hillary's every word.

I think it could be neither A nor N, but X.

Very nice.

Yeah, that's an interesting question. I'm hoping the political axis reorients around left and right libertarianism (in the lower-case sense). With maybe a cleaner defining of what social nets should be in place, and how to keep the market from becoming a racket. There is too much throwing babies out with bath water and I'm not purist when it comes out societal systems. I think we need a cultural shift though before the political shift really bears any fruits though. I'm not entirely convinced my generation "millennials" are situated to have that discussion. If nothing else though the balkanizing of my generation (despite many being collectivists in ideals) is almost a renormalization of individualism by the account of people's actions. (My generation is very individualist, but less so politically, but what I'm saying is the localized ideals contradict how the political ideals play out.) So that is a good start, plus it's hard to control a highly divided nation, the only real way is through economic means and while we need to sort of the stagnating wages it's not like the middle class isn't watching the technological state improve around them. Of course a divided nation does mean a unified upper class get's to more or less float on a settled sea, but there will never not be that upper echelon. The real fight to be had will be reeling back the growing oligarchical class.

I think America's assets are diversified enough that it won't all come crashing down. Unless of course the oil stops flowing.

Interesting... the era of Netflix is upon us. Watch out Disney.

It's already on Netflix? It's not even out of the theaters in the states.

They cuck themselves, no need to gulag the cucks.

time... to die.