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Considering I've had exactly zero interest in the last iterations of BF (the last one I played was BF2), I doubt I'll get this one either. But never say never... edit: I meant Battlefield, not Battlefront, obviously.

Yep, much like Monte, I wouldn't wait 3 weeks. Cancer is srs bsns. On the other hand, from the pic you posted it doesn't seem to fulfill any of the ABCD criteria. Get it taken a look at asap, but don't start writing your goodbyes just yet.

Funny, the forum isn't displaying the YT vid for me, I had to go into quote mode to get the link. Coincidence? I think not!

Meh. Less ranting about trolls (pro bono or otherwise) and more lezginka vids and pics of "real" Caucasian women. For science!

Well, what's the point of taking the initiative then. That was never a problem in the old XCOM games as aliens would be around the map slaughtering civilians or simply roaming, not just sitting around bunched up waiting to be "revealed". It's very much my fault, though. I should have researched the game before getting it. Looks like the game I want is actually Xenonauts.

So I picked up the 2012 XCOM for like 7€ from the Gamersgate sale. Good thing I'm a cheap bastard, because I'm less than 4 hours in and I'm already hating it. Random thoughts: - Does this mind-numbing sequence they call "tutorial" ever end? (y/n) - Is there any reason (other than "because **** YOU") why aliens always get a free move when they are spotted, interrupting my turn? - Why don't soldiers *stop* advancing if they spot an alien instead of constantly ending up standing in the open, like in the old XCOM? - Why drop the action points/stamina system in favor of this either/or "fire or move" bull****? - Lying prone or kneeling down is so 20th century. In future warfare we facetank plasma fire. Like a boss, YOLO, etc. **** this ****. I'm not a cranky old fart shaking my cane at new stuff. It's that new stuff is objectively worse than old stuff. Yeah, that's what I get for trying a console strategy game. Back to Brutal Doom.

No, you were informed. You've just pre-emptively repressed the memory. Because that's how bad it's going to be.

Store sent me an invalid Sleeping Dogs key (they refunded me though), so I'm playing Brutal Doom instead. pewpewpew

Looks like opinions for Sleeping Dogs are mostly positive around here, so I'm going to give it a whirl. Thanks guys. The upgraded Mace of Disruption is plain unfair, man. Trivializes liches, vampires... even Kangaxx. And unlike the other OP weapons it's really easy to get. As you say, you're not even penalized for trying to pull a fast one on that pompous **** Sir Sarles. I don't know what they were thinking when they designed it.

CBA to play PoE, it just doesn't grab me. Funny thing, same thing happened to me with PST. Was thinking of getting Sleeping Dogs for 10€. Any opinions? Yeah, why not mod the EE? Outside of Ascension (which I have on good authority that can be made to work with a little modding of your own), there's a ton of good mods that have been adapted.

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.” - Kurt Vonnegut

I will never understand how cops can even get away with all this in the USA. I just don´t get it. Land of the free...more like police state. It remains to be seen if he'll get away with it. Thing is, you can hear over the radio that somebody calls for police to "stand off" when he lets off a shot — a rather sensible approach. Max Damage here couldn't pass up this chance to score a "Piledriver Bonus".

Woohoo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHrGmRRMtXc "Jesus Christ, man down!" Actually, you can see him flying upwards.

In BG1, not that I remember. In BG2 some douche shows up and insta-imprisons you if you don't cough up Drizzt's loot, though. That sucked.

I hope he and Drizzt make an appearance in this game. Me too.

Oh, i know that feeling. You can eat, walk and carry, but your mind isn't really there and you end up with that thousand yard-stare. All the senses feel slightly numb and you cannot really think of anything. Yuck. Even stranger is that feeling of being fully awake and active, even energetic and in a fraction of a second you are either walking into a door frame or your head hits your keyboard because your brain "disconnected" without any further notice, trying to force you to sleep Yeah, funny how that works. I found that provided I kept physically active, fatigue didn't seem to be such a big deal. Howeer, sitting down just for a few minutes I was guaranteed to doze off, often without even realizing, only to wake up to a tongue lashing (and "muscle memory" reminders). Anything more complex than tying my boots was completely out of the question as I'd skip steps or make bungle due to shaking hands. Auto-pilot mode only. Fun times. My recipe for eternal life: lift hard, eat well, rest better. So far it's working...

I know that feeling. The only way I can get past that starting indecisiveness is to create a cookie-cutter hero-type (Paladin, usually) and decide that since I'm going to be replaying the game multiple times anyway, might as well explore the obligatory "fight baddies, rescue maidens" path first.

This is the philosophy I live by: I get absolutely as much sleep as I possibly can. And then some more. Natural sleep for me is ~10 hours, regardless of activity, fatigue, stress, etc. I'm at my best with a bit over 7 hours. Better focusing, more energy, better mood. Problem is that I really need to muster all of my willpower to get up, unless I have an appointment, class, work, etc. Back when I was in the army, I'd have to pull all-nighters during exercises, which seriously wrecked me. It wasn't hunger, cold or stress that got me, it was lack of sleep. One of the very few things I'm honestly jealous of is the ability to function on 4-5 hours of sleep daily. If you can do it, I seriously recommend power naps. Big cup of coffee immediately followed by 20 mins of sleep. You'll wake up good as new. For a few hours anyway...

In short, you can't fix stupid. Depressing.

This is a simplistic picture of a phenomenon that is quite complex. In addition, you are working from some assumptions. Chiefly, a) that thieves act rationally, in the sense that that they can accurately judge the optimal risk/reward ratio in the different courses of action available to them, and b) that thieves are pushed to thievery out of choice and not need. We know that (a) is simply not true. Prison inmates are known to have a lower IQ than average (1) (2), which translates into a markedly worse ability to judge the idoneity of a given course of action. This can lead to people making seemingly "dumb" choices that land them in prison. In addition, Dunning-Kruger is a mechanism which may help explain why less intelligent people consistently believe they can get away with crime. Now, the most controversial point is by far b). Please understand that I'm not a crime apologist — I'm simply trying to discuss whether the huge drain on resources that a prison system entails has any effect on crime rates. You might argue that there is always an alternative to stealing. Even if we accept that, that's not the point. Rather, the point is whether people who steal are able to see that alternative. Owing to the intelligence argument, we know that people with lower IQ or developmental disabilities have more trouble negotiating difficult situations. That should be enough to give you an idea of why prisons don't serve to deter the majority of criminals* — they simply don't think they'll end up there! *remember, you are only a criminal if you are caught and convicted. An argument could be made that very few really intelligent criminals are caught. Considering that intelligence is mostly inherited, how fair is that? I'm not a sociologist, but untested suppositions and tradition aren't enough to convince me that crime rates are affected by their legal consequences more than they are by, say, economic causes. So, you are saying that statist oppression is a necessary evil to defend against... foreign statist oppresion. This is the line of thinking that almost plunged the world into nuclear war in the 60's and 80's, and the line of thinking that has enabled tyrannies to take hold since, well, forever. I can turn this argument around and suggest that unified resistance may encourage the enemy to use even more force to achieve its aims than it would otherwise, as exemplified by the US nuking Japan into submission, for instance. The truth is you can resist a foreign oppressor exactly the same way you resist a native one: as passively or actively as circumstances allow. There is functionally no difference because oppression is oppression is oppression, and once made a second-class citizen the causes and means by which this is accomplished matter little. Going to die in a war to resist foreign invasion because that's preferable to dying at home being accused of treason and shot is a proposition I find difficult to defend, but, eh.

I remember that time, and I also remember the "abuse" (I was one of the abusers myself). It was all in good fun and no unicorns were harmed by it. Back then the forum software didn't add the "edited by <name>, <date>" notice automatically which is more than anything else what enabled the shenanigans; the edit notices would have made any foul play evident. Now we have both measures in place and it seems... excessive. Having mods involved in editing old posts by request of the author is clunky and inefficient. I'm with OP here.

That **** looks seriously unhealthy. Ew. edit: I don't mean to insult your sausage, evidently. Ahem. Also, I thought this was a sausage-only thread. I came here specifically to have my sensibilities shielded from the flabbiness of those slabs of meat. So... so sausage-less.