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Yep. A soap bar inside a sock works on the same principle as a whip. Conservation of momentum means the soap bar is traveling much faster than a (child or otherwise) fist ever could. Make the sock long enough and the soap bar hard enough, and you have a perfectly good sledgehammer: Perfect tool for "imparting discipline", if you ask me.

I much prefer the term "administrative punishment".

If memory serves, Abduh died a pretty gruesome death to make way for the return of the father...

Same here. If it's possible to choose between RTwP and TB, I'll choose TB every time. I really only started enjoying combat in IE games after fiddling with the auto-pause configuration and finding a good party scripts pack. But even then, I'd have to manually pause the game fairly often. Generally flow is just better in TB, I've found. I hated the way they handled initiative in D:OS2, though. In fact, I think I hated just about everything about combat in D:OS2, except for the fact that the majority of encounters were distinct with their own flavor and there were very few generic "trash pulls" thrown in just to pad dungeons.

Yeah, think about it man. Hillary not being elected was a waste of a perfectly good opportunity to go toe to toe with the ruskies in (possibly nuclear) combat. Now with these lily-livered pinkos you're getting on one side of the aisle and Putin fanboys on the other, you may not get another such chance in your lifetime.

Bah. Camarilla vanilla. Boring.

Yeah, I see that as well. Unicode Inspector says there's some stuff in there, including a "ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE" from the Arabic Presentation Forms-B character set. And Unicode Inspector is never wrong. You thought that if you hid your subversive propaganda under the guise of a massive game giveaway none would be the wiser, didn't you, Mr. Sands?

Summer sale is on.

freedom isnt free

Totally not astroturfing, yo.

The upside is that discount Donald Trump is apparently a top contender to succeed May. Politics really is the gift that keeps on giving.

It's almost as if they believe that innovation and a feature-rich product will put them on the map, as opposed to undercutting the competition and cornering the market.

So after eleventy billion dollars spent in development, and a geological era later... I can finally play Space FedEx Hey, at least it looks pretty. And no, that's not really a plastic bag on my head.

Reddit user requested all the personal info Epic Games has on him and Epic sent that info to a random person "Oops!"

Found another article on the whole Austria dumpster fire. For those who didn't care to bypass the FT paywall. https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/strache-caught-on-camera-in-ibiza-secret-recordings-a-1267959.html Interesting, because it raises the possibility of illegal financing, which may lead to prison time for someone, at some point, if the allegations turn out to be true. Gotta love his fixation on everything being very legal & very cool, though I wonder to what extent it's an example of the "lawful = ethical" mindset that is so widespread or just plain fear of criminal penalties. edit: guess Majestic previously discussed the illegal party financing matter, and that apparently carries some fines at worst. No big deal. I just assumed it was potentially more problematic because we have jail sentences for illegal party financing here, under some circumstances.

Yeah, I was thinking about that, when you posted it the other day. Ibiza is already a cesspit, choice destination for hooligans, jacked up morons and the international "beautiful people". Now add corrupt politicians to the mix -- not that we didn't already have our own homegrown. Really not my kind of place. A shame because it's really nice, otherwise.

Possibly a falling out with their Russian overlords? With these things, the timing is never a coincidence. I liked him trying to pass it off as a bunch of drunken talk to woo a Russian broad. So what you mean is, Herr Kanzler, not only are you a corrupt, inept piece of fascistoid trash. You're also hilariously bad at dealing with women. I'm sure the lady in question was thoroughly impressed by how readily you will bend over and sell your country. But hey, at least he's stepping down. Slim odds of him landing behind bars, I'd assume, since there was no, erm, consummation?

bluh bluh pony up or stfu, uncle scrooge

Most Notre Dame pledges have not yet been honoured. Anyone surprised? I wonder to what extent a donation pledge that isn't honoured entitles the donor to the tax breaks applicable under French law.

Israel.

Iran needs to take a page from NK and get the bomb by yesterday.

Don't quote me on this, but I believe those were specifically things the new game director wanted to do for the next "big" DLC. Myself, I would settle just for AI that can work with the new economy, fixing sectors, and in general solving the problems left over from 2.2. But if they haven't got around to it six months after release, I don't see it happening.

Paradox is a bit of an anomaly. They keep updating and changing the base game so that there's usually very significant differences one year after launch, whether you buy any of their content patches or not. And for the most part, their paid DLC have offered good value for the price tag (Plantoids Pack etc excluded). Yet, after my own recent experience with Stellaris and from reading I:R and MtG user reviews (currently sitting at a dismal 39% and 38% respectively), I get the feeling they are also veering towards a focus on profits rather than delivering genuinely great games. I can't help but be reminded of the fact that all of these flops have coincidentally occurred a few months after the company's long-time CEO stepped down and was replaced by someone whose previous experience was managing an online gambling services company. Post hoc ergo propter hoc and all that, sure. In any case, the ratings speak for themselves.

MW said nothing of the sort. He said "like it was 15 years ago?" Considering that 15 years ago expansions weren't free, he wasn't agreeing that we should return to the good old days when everything was free. Rather it's a comparison to a time when you weren't sold a one-time use dye for $15. When games didn't live or die based on their ****ing daily Twitch viewership. When devs weren't in perma-crunch trying to fix their broken ass games while putting out new content. But you knew that. Pretty sure I paid close to $100 for each of the NWNs and their expansions, and the only reason I didn't pay more is because they didn't keep them coming. I've also spent way more than $100 in subscription fees in each of the few MMOs I've played over the years. The hours/dollar ratio tends to be pretty good and it is, by far, the cheapest of my vices. The problem is someone did the math, and they figured that that model just wasn't bringing in enough money to hit double-digit profits or whatever. So they decided to go with this freemium-but-full-price with totally not gambling thrown in for good measure model, instead. And if you're not happy, too bad, because there's a whale out there somewhere that makes up for your lack of spending, that of everyone you know, and then some.

Uh, yeah. It was you who suggested everything has to be free, forever. Oh, I get it, you were being sarcastic! Do you have a point to make or are just trolling for effect?