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I noticed that Gfted1's rank is "Forum Moderator" and he's part of the "Moderators" group. He also has a huge "MODERATOR" tag right under all of that. My considerable deductive powers suggest that he may be a moderator, but I would need more evidence to make a definitive statement.

Yeah. Mentalism • • • • • sounds crazy broken, but it *is* a five-dot application of a discipline. In any case, that would only deal bashing damage to a vampire, which seriously limits how much hurt you can put on someone who is an actual threat as opposed to just mortals. The main mechanical disadvantage of thin bloods is their reduced ability to store and burn blood. I don't expect them to faithfully represent this, as it was also ignored in Bloodlines 1 where, going by your blood pool, you were like 8th gen or something. For reference, canonically, Jack is 10th. I'm not against this on principle, as adapting p&p rulesets to computer games 1:1 doesn't work well in general. Hopefully the main drawbacks of being a Thinblood will be presented narratively rather than as straight ruleset penalties that everyone hates.

Does this mean topics no longer need to be locked and re-created after page 30, or is this just a facelift and the db is still the same? Also, it would be nice to have a way to disable the autoformatting. I may not always want a blank line inserted when I press return.

...infantry? Air support? Looks like another underwhelming and overpriced DLC. Pass, and strike two.

Agreed on all points. However, knowing that your poorly trained and motivated army is probably going to make a mess, take a long time to achieve any objectives, and incur heavy losses in the process -possibly among people you personally know- may be enough for even the most gung-ho of hawks to reconsider the use of military force. Weren't the Founders against keeping standing armies too?

So what you're saying is... it's actually a very good idea? I wonder how many countries wouldn't be veritable ****holes today if the US military wasn't so effective. As for "wanting" to be there, it'd be interesting to know how many people who enlist want to be thrown into a war zone, as opposed to how many would rather just have a stable job with literally zero experience required, affordable tuition rates and the rest of the perks that come with wearing the uniform.

This is a very good idea but maybe make it military service? Dude, seriously? Yeah. It's funny because in the movie, it was suggested that the well-off didn't really need to serve -- which defeats the point. Johnny had a bright future ahead of him, going to college and making obscene amounts of money to spend on cruises around the rings of Saturn or whatever (giant bug meteors of death permitting). He only signed up because Denise Richards. Sadly, thinking with your **** IRL tends to yield worse results than what one may glean from Rico's tale. And to no one's surprise, Brucie fully endorses any universal scheme that he can pay his way out of.

Global moderators are invested with... as opposed to regular everyday plain average mods, who have jurisdiction only over specific forums. It's great because it suggests they have been doing good work so far. And, as usual, good work gets rewarded with... more work. So yeah, "great".

KK: "we are developing something" related to KotOR Guess Disney did tell EA to get off their asses and take SWTOR out maintenance mode to build hype for whatever they have prepared. Otherwise it's hard to understand why they are suddenly investing on modernizing the engine and tools, developing new content and adding long requested features after it took them a year and a half to make a single raid.

Can't imagine you'd need to know the details for any practical applications, but chemically speaking that's all incorrect I'm afraid. I suspect you've misremembered some of the stuff on ductility/ malleability. There aren't really any rules for stability vs melting point, but there are some guidelines for other relationships like ability to make good wires and ability to conduct well being linked to having a medium MP (that the three best conductors in silver, gold and copper all make good wires and have MPs around 1000C is not coincidental). I seem to remember that melting point and cohesion in general was a result of delocalized electrons. The amount of those depends on how many electrons there are in the highest energy orbitals compared to how many the orbital can hold (as in the case of mercury, both the d and s orbitals are full, so you have crap cohesion and a metal that is liquid at room temp). So, similar melting points within a group given their equivalent outer shell electronic configurations (as is the case with Cu, Ag and Au), increasing mp as period increases, and decreasing mp as we move to the right on the periodic table as orbitals get filled up. Electronic configuration isn't as far as I know related to nucleus stability. However that's all off the top of my head, and I'm getting stupider all the time, so it's entirely possible that all of the above is complete nonsense.

The area isn't exactly easy to access for large vehicles. Furthermore, the fire apparently started in the scaffolding over the roof, which is ~70m high. Not sure how high the ladders on the heaviest fire trucks reach, even assuming Paris firefighters have them. Putting large fires out is not easy. If the structures involved are hard to maneuver around and wooden, well...

Seems you are spot on, and the game is apparently doing much better than I would have imagined. Either that, or Disney put a boot in their ass to do something about the license already. They just announced what seems to be the biggest expansion since Shadow of Revan -- "Onslaught". New Storyline New Planets: Onderon and Mek-sha New Flashpoint - Corellia New Operation on Dxun Nautolan Playable Race Level Cap Increase The Spoils of war (further customization)

Yeah, it's all speculation. The game kept being mentioned as a revenue growth force in earnings calls (at least until ~2016, which is where I stopped bothering), so I'm inclined to believe that it was regarded as a somewhat stable, if rather unexciting, source of profits for EA. Of course if the idea was to kill WoW it failed, but that doesn't mean it was an unprofitable failure.

Meaning... something even worse will come along, championed by some clueless suit promising the board an eleventy trillion yearly revenue, only for the model to crash and burn half a decade later? I can't wait.

Hold up. So the same jackasses that rail against feminism in general declaring that it's become a witch hunt and to be mindful of due process and so on, have no problem using the exact same tactics they denounce, to smear political opponents when it's convenient? I suppose a case could be made that this is in fact a sort of twisted, slippery slope-type parable that's meant to teach the perils of such tactics, but I firmly believe that such subtleties are well beyond what your average "youtuber" can accomplish, and it would be wasted on their audience anyway -- as your post evidences.

Hey man, those lawyers don't pay themselves. Randy needs the cash, you understand.

The funny thing being that BioWare's response came literal minutes after the Kotaku article was published, in other words, it was a canned response written before they even bothered reading the entire thing based on the synopsis sent to them by Kotaku (which they didn't bother responding to). So yeah... This is typical Bioware. Generic "we have received your feedback, please keep it coming" responses instead of properly addressing points has been their MO for years now. I expect them to do precisely nothing about the issues mentioned. Insulation is the word, I think. And maybe too many John Romeros on board? I legit lol'd at the VB suggestion that Edmonton should take a page from Austin's gross mismanagement of SWTOR regarding how to run live services long-term. I guess if they haven't gone under yet, they must be doing something right... right? Heh.

It isn't really the EU bureaucracy making it difficult for Britain, though. Mostly British politicians refusing to accept the result of the referendum on one side of the aisle, and hardliners frontally rejecting any kind of deal that may "bind the UK to Europe" and who are banking on a no-deal hard Brexit on the other, making it impossible to break the legislative stalemate. No argument from me.

There's some evidence that homo sapiens evolved to be more gregarious and have more complex social structures than neanderthals, which may be why we are around today but they aren't. Philosophical foundations like Rousseau's Social Contract came after humans organized themselves in societies across the world, rather than acting as a catalyst for their formation. I remain somewhat skeptical that bureaucratic monstrosities like the EU are in any way an inevitable result of natural forces beyond our control like evolution or electronegativity. I may be a bit on the "extreme existential nihilist" side, though.

I thought Jack was interesting because ultimately he embodies what vampire society is all about regardless of sect and clan: manipulating those lower in the totem pole than you are to do what you want. He may seem fatherly, but he's in reality anything but: he doesn't care at all whether the PC ends up blown to smithereens, and he sees them as a convenient tool to pull a fast one on Lacroix. The only really useful piece of advice he gives you is to watch yourself about vampire politics, while at the same time he knowingly feeds you bull non-stop. Creating chaos is what he's all about in the lore, if I'm not mistaken, and weakening the grip of both the Kuei-Jin and Camarilla on LA seems to fit that. In short, he's exactly what you'd expect from a low-humanity, selfish, cynical bastard with centuries of experience navigating vampire politics. That only becomes evident after the epilogue, which is why I think he made a fantastic character. Most other major characters are very much archetypical clan representatives and from that someone familiar with the lore would probably know what to expect from each. Except for perhaps Lacroix, who turns out to be an even bigger poser than most Ventrue, and Beckett, who is a bit of an anomaly, but as you say, underused anyway. I want them to recapture that, I don't care if they are male or female, or whether they dial back the titillation/ objectification/ fan service or whatever they call it these days.

Yeah, and The Outer Worlds is going to be on the Microsoft Store. Doesn't change my argument. If you're mad about not being able to get this game on Steam, you should try applying pressure on Obsidian, Microsoft and Private Division to demand the same deal Ubisoft got. Well, if you own (and I use this term loosely) any Ubi games on Steam, you already have to deal with Uplay. It should be not a huge problem to buy whatever directly from there instead of Steam in this case. However, as a W7 user, I do not and cannot have Microsoft Store. But no, I'm not really mad about TOW. I don't buy games on release anymore. I can wait until it comes to GOG.

The only really memorable female characters was Jeanette/Therese. VV was one of the more transparently manipulative characters, and the Kuei-Jin leader mostly didn't even bother trying. Now consider Andrei, Jack, Nines, the Prince, Beckett, Max... etc. Hell, even Grout's disembodied voice was a more interesting "character" than 95% of the women in the game. If anything, I would want more interesting female characters. It's not like there's a dearth of them in the lore.

In this case "Epic-exclusive" means "it won't be available on Steam", rather than actually exclusive. It is still available for purchase directly from the Ubi Store/Uplay, much like The Division 2. Bad Infinitron.

Either that or Somalia. In any case, it doesn't help that victims reporting a crime are as likely to be punished as the aggressor, and the fact Islamic law doesn't seem to contemplate the concept of rape within wedlock. It's bad optics that we're propping up the rape capital of the world, that also just happens to be a huge sponsor of terrorism, and is currently engaged in genocide, though. So, something something Sweden.