Rosbjerg

From what I've been able to gather, it happens when a few files in the game becomes corrupted (most often by a faulty installation). There's no fix that I know of, other than a clean install + earlier save. But you could try cheating, http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/920601-star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-ii-the-sith/faqs/35636

From the few early access videos on Steam it seems like that is already in the game? I saw a video of a guy walking into a hangar, entering his ship via elevator and entering the ****pit, then cut to him flying around, exiting to eva, shoot at another ship in first person with a gun, crawl back into his own ship and then fly back. In beautiful graphics too and without any loading screens. Which is exactly what is promised there.. Of course this didn't show the gameplay/quests etc, but so far those bullet points were pretty much covered.

Paradox is doing a big Steam sale.. Of course it's still +30€/$ for all the DLC of Crusader Kings II, even on sale.

Do you frequent the Codex OP? You'd fit right in. I find amazing that people expect 50+ million dollar quality from >4million dollar game. Wait... Let me guess, you work in middle management? That aside, sure Obsidian games are buggy, but that seems to be the price of modern quality unfortunetaly... Paradox, Taleworlds, troika, double bear and on and on.

He would've gotten away with it though, if it weren't for those pesky kids!

Try the mod After The End. Set in postapoc America, with a myriad of new religions (consumerist, Americanist, Gaian, Cetic, voodoo, rust cultists and on and on each with unique features). It really spices up the game and is very well done. https://m.reddit.com/r/CrusaderKings/comments/3eoujq/after_the_end_06_released/

It's a shame we're all so jaded though heh, that it has to be an entire sentient species on the line or the validity of an entire belief system and cultural root.

Yeah, they're 10k from reaching their goals now.. Wow, Harebrained seems like the clear winners in the KS era.

If Civilization has taught me anything, it's that India must never taste real power.

Yes, what did you think I meant by it? That was exactly my point. American and Anglo-Saxon culture is right now the dominant culture with the umbrella term "western culture".

I'll never not find those games extremely weird, which is weird 'cause you'd think we as species should rather play that than Murder Simulator 5. Alas.. You're weird Keyrock. Good weird.

You say in English on an American board about western people.

The Adam Curtis doc? No, although his "The Century of the Self" certainly influenced my thoughts on political machinations, so that makes sense. Edit: reading up on it though, no I don't agree with his views on this. I don't think there's a conspiracy here, just people who are using circumstances.

What I find interesting is that we hold values such as freedom to be universal, but safeguard nationality as if its an aristocratic right. I disagree on the principle that you or I have some special right to more resources than everyone else on this planet, purely based on birth. Edit: of course that's in the larger scale of things. In the here and now, yeah I do think it's a good idea to give people something to aspire to and it can be citizenship - but there's a reason why the "American Dream" was so effective in the 1800s - we need to sell hope. Definitely agree on the last points, although human trafficking won't go away no matter what you do unless you confront the reason why they come here. We're waging a cultural war - and winning - which is why you're seeing China scrambling to mount a defense by trying to create their own cultural mythology. A lot of the backlash in the Middle East I believe comes from the constant assault on their values by a European and American cultural monopoly.. and if you go back to say Nasser, the counter cultural war he fought was extremely effective, almost creating a unified Arabia and Arabian cultural identity in the process. They really need something like that and we need to push for that too.

On that I think almost any rational being can agree. It's just that the current rate doesn't really meet the standards of what I would call "mass immigration". Closing our borders will not solve this issue either, we need to help them help themselves.

They won't because they are not even remotely the cause of it. In fact throughout history influx of workers have been a boon to the economy, they take loans you see and need to buy a lot of things, plus they want luxury items to "fit in". The problem for a fractional reserve system is when money is kept in the banks and the banks are apprehensive about loaning them out at anything but outrages rates. Our system runs on inflation and loan bubbles, without 'em (and with the current austerity fad) the growth slows to a grind. Of course European neo-liberals love to shrink the economy for intermittent periods, as it consolidates power (in the hands of their backers to boot) and reigns in the state's influence over businesses. With the added bonus of creating bursts of unemployment which drives wages down (high wages being the true culprit in many libertarians eyes) - on top of it all the crafty ones can even use the outrage to fuel xenophobia and grab those votes. It's a neat package.

Hopefully it'll cause people to look at why we've come to this point in the first place. Hint: it's not the refugees.

I agree and years from now I'm sure there'll be mods that incorporate ideas like that. In general a lot of the companions would really have blossomed with ingame representations of their unique qualities. Aloth's personalities, Durance's Soul etc. In the end however I'm afraid budget and time was the biggest enemies to seeing that happen.

Got bored and read through some of the earliest topics here in WoT and some of my first posts. Man we all sounded so young hah, of course it was 10-11 years ago. And Pidesco used to be called Soulseeker (what was up with that?) oh and found Sawyer singing German Christmas carols... Ah, old times... /nostalgia

The thing is, for all my gripes about Dragon Age Origins, this is something it absolutely did right. There were no mechanical penalties for the mental stresses of being a Grey Warden, but the game did an excellent job of communicating the point simply by reminding you of it at relatively consistent intervals, and letting you actually see some of those stresses in action. Oh, the Watcher is having traumatic nightmares? Well, that's nice, but since I never get to see any, just knowing doesn't do much for me. I've entered walked into Ondra's Gift, a district that had its entire population drowned? Maybe the Watcher should be inundated by countless visions of suffering the first time they visit. Many of the phantom/shade fights could also have been replaced by dialogue and storytelling. There are lots of little things like that. But instead, the Watcher thing lingers somewhere between "strictly advantageous" and "afterthought" from the time you leave Caed Nua to the time you visit Tier Nowneth. It's not the lack of mechanical incentives that bothers me, it's the lack of any serious in-game reference. I agree it could've been handled a lot better. The thing is however that imho Obsidian is simply not very good at making their protagonists extremely special (like Bioware are, to a fault at times), they try to tell their stories of the world and you/the PC through their companions, like Durance and Kreia and even more often the antagonist, like Kreia again. So I don't think they really could've pulled it off much better than they did to be honest. I think it stems from the fact that both Avellone and Sawyer have become pretty anti-establishment in their writing style and seem to loathe "The Chosen One" trope. To the point that they will sometimes sacrifice story and player agency to take a wack at it. To the point where, when they do a Chosen One PC, it's often pretty much a hit or miss. Edit: What I'm trying to say is, that it would probably have been a lot better if the player had simply Awakened or had become a Watcher and not both. Somewhat special, but not the Seer-Of-All-Things. Of course most players seem to hate games where they aren't snowflakes, so that's also a risk.

I always read Hamlet as the question is rather if it is more noble to endure than to fight / more wise to adapt than to resist. And concluding that a measure of both, is probably the way to go. But yeah, I think Obsidian probably took from their experience with Mask of The Betrayer, how by and large the player base did not enjoy being saddled with disadvantages - so they had to tread very careful with how being Awakened and being a Watcher affected the player. I think they opted with letting the (role) players create their own motivation rather than present them with a mechanical incentive. Which is then scolded for being too weak of an approach. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. But I agree, I would have liked a little more punishment from the game. But I'm sure that would've been a much more lamented approach, retrospectively however MoTB is seen as a hallmark of great RPGs, so sometimes you do need to take risks.

As true as it is for acting in general. You can pull a random dude in from the street, if he's a natural.

That reminds me, Walshingham said hi GD, talked to him to other day and said he kinda misses you heh (and all you other rascalls) Also buying buying buying stuff

Wait, the old Shogun and Medieval Total War are on steam!? **** yeah.. Favorite old games right there. I'd love to take one of them off your hands. :D

Your point was that modern Muslims, as opposed to Christians, see their Prophet as a vehicle for war and change, no? I was pointing out that this was wrong and that your conceptualization of what the "origin" of Christianity was is also very much up to debate. Even among contemporary Christians. In short, you're were making sweeping generalizations based on your own presumptions, in order to support your underlying hypothesis - which I'm guessing is that the current movements of Islam is incompatible with peace? I disagree with this basis and ask that you back it up with some actual sources. Not at university level, no - but that's no reason for ad hominems. Not an ad hominen (and sorry if it seemed harsh), it was meant to give you pause and not throw out personal beliefs and statements as facts.