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No idea. Maybe you could explain how you reached that conclusion, since literally no one has suggested that's how it's supposed to work.

Giving your kids money to spend on virtual cosmetics sounds like seriously questionable parenting to me. Bonus points for becoming a whale-by-proxy. Tim Sweeney appreciates your support.

Unwarranted Self-Importance: The Thread

Don't know about Setites (I think they have more potential as NPCs anyway), but the website says you begin the game as one of many victims in a mass embrace -- which is a signature Sabbat move. Doesn't necessarily mean you'll get to join the Sabbat, of course, much like you didn't as much "join" the Camarilla as simply were press-ganged into service by Lacroix in the first game. But the current story setup probably means they aren't closing the door to allowing Sabbat clans at creation.

I'd guess Giovanni, Tzimisce or Lasombra. Because cool powers mostly, which seems to be something they are emphasizing.

that was your mistake

Hilarious considering how lawsuit-happy Bethesda's parent Zenimax is. Perhaps someone found overnight that they had to write and design a new expansion and this is their way of flipping off their boss. Even considering Bethesda's complete lack of original ideas, I find it hard to believe it's studio "policy" to straight up lift whole modules off other games (that they don't own).

I didn't see this posted before (trigger warning - Avellone opinions!): Obsidian’s Aliens: Crucible RPG would have been like a “more terrifying” Mass Effect

There's no legislative initiative that can make games not be ****, though. What this is likely to lead to is more straight up cash shop "optional" P2W à la Star Citizen and $20 one-use dyes as in SWTOR, and not significant game design changes to stop fleecing chumps players. I might be persuaded that requiring them by law to be open about what they are peddling is a good thing, but an outright ban? Expect lawmakers to **** this up in all kinds of ways you didn't think were possible, while simultaneously failing to address the central problem that is investor -both institutional and private- greed taking over just about everything. I mean, if they explicitly stated that 95% of all pulls in FUT are going to be utter garbage, and that, in order to get that one Icon card you'll have to spend 4,000€ on average*, would they still be raking in billions? Just stop buying that **** and raise a stink about it whenever possible, and it'll eventually go away. *No guarantees of course that you won't get it for less... or ever. No guarantees that it's even truly random.

"I agree with a libertarian perspective that gov'ts shouldn't have to do this... but these are bs tactics that prey on people, so I'm ok with the gov't shutting them down" The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.

edit: pls convince me to watch DIS last two or three chapters. Really cba

The quote is attributed to Hitler by William L. Shirer in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. It may be an apocryphal quote alright, but to my knowledge it's attributed to no one else since the book was published in 1960. Or should I say, it was attributed to no one else until May 1st, 2019. And yeah, considering that the end result of Operation Barbarossa was around 5 million dead on the Axis side and the complete defeat of the regime -military occupation of the capital included- by their would-be victim four years after the offensive was launched, you'll be hard-pressed to find a bigger strategic error in judgment.

Lol: All right, so not only does he unironically quote literally literally Hitler... the idea in question was famously associated with the biggest military miscalculation in history. You just can't make this **** up.

You're just saying that because he voted for the Iraq war, he likes **** Cheney, he is against Medicare For All, he is ostensibly in favor of continuing the war on drugs and he's hosted by Comcast. But really, they are nothing alike!

In related news, the alpha is playable for free until May 8th.

“Star Citizen is a playable game,” Roberts insists. “It has more functionality and content than a lot of finished games.” I mean, he's not even wrong. I also enjoyed the "ignorance of crowds" pics interspersed. I predict a 2025 launch after Roberts has sold a technically-not-bankrupt CIG to Activision and they re-start the project barely using any assets at all. It'll then be forever immortalized as a "killed in the crib" myth with gamers everywhere wistfully musing about "what it could have been".

Possibly this: Though it's anyone's guess, really. I like to keep my daily brain damage low so I didn't dig too deep.

Are those laws perchance like the EU's own "carbon neutral" plans that simply assign a value of zero to emissions from burning biomass, or is the plan to build a few hundred thousand more nuclear reactors? Because I refuse to believe that it's just a legislative pantomime that will accomplish nothing. Well, I never!

I'm sure that's bound to happen any day now. Meanwhile, in the real world...

Reminder that the reason the UN didn't supervise Venezuela's election -despite being invited to do so by the government- is because the coup-mongering plutocrats in the opposition knew they stood no chance so they called for a boycott instead, and requested the UN do the same. In any case, I don't think even Bolton's boss is stupid enough to actually want a civil war scenario in Venezuela -- so the military option is likely not really on the table, saber-rattling notwithstanding. That's bound to cause a humanitarian situation comparable to what we had to deal with in the aftermath of Syria and Libya, and that's no good for anyone involved. Or... maybe that's precisely Trump's strategy to finally get a proper "national emergency" to get his wall funded, and he *has* been playing 11D chess all along.

Err, I'm not. Though I see how you could get that impression from what I posted. Poor choice of words. "Bolton" and "intelligence" should never be used in the same sentence.

I suspect you might think differently if someone was openly calling for your government to be overthrown, possibly by means of a foreign military intervention, which would in all likelihood plunge the country into a civil war. Then again, considering who's sitting in the Oval Office these days, you might not. Just for reference, the Lima Group is a bunch of countries that failed to get enough support in the OAS to drive their coup agenda forward, so they appointed themselves "arbiters" of the situation in Venezuela. They have zero international recognition (outside of the US and its lapdog Canada), and their declarations carry about as much weight -- except with neoliberal ****wads, School of the Americas fanboys, and assorted trolls. In other news, Leopoldo López is now seeking asylum in Spain's embassy. When push comes to shove, it seems not even Chile (a proud member of the Lima Group) wants anything to do with that flustercuck.

Also in Bolton's. No matter what comes, Guaidó will always be the president of his heart. Brucie, gdiaf.

Seems today's coup attempt also failed. Lol, Guaidó is every bit as ineffectual as his master, and worse, he's nowhere near as entertaining. SAD!

Because it wasn't used "in public", it was used in a meeting with some ****bags (oops!) in the Oval Office. For consistency though, "****show", is also filtered out, so you can hardly accuse Obsidian of being political in this regard.