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Well, then. I hear Los Zetas are pretty good at getting stuff done, if you don't much care about morals. Also, they are fairly upfront regarding what they are about, unlike the US government. Great track record dealing with complainers, too.

It's always fun to see that people still think that the solution to a fractured society is more authoritarianism. Because of course in these dark times wise men of strong moral fiber are needed to drag the unwashed masses to greatness—kicking and screaming if need be. This time we'll get it right, guys.

And in a hilariously tone-deaf exercise of social media'ing...

Hmm. Investors don't really need to think. Not the institutional ones anyway, that own like 80%+ of EA, ATVI, etc. They literally have turned to machines to do this "thinking" for them as a response to the (investing) public complaining about high fees and poor performance, which will only exacerbate the problem Zoraptor described. Sure, Skynet didn't explicitly approve Bob Kotick's appointment, but the point is investors don't really need to know the business because they trust managers who in turn trust machines. So long as the guy in the chair doesn't massively crash the stock by opening his mouth or something no one really cares. Accelerationism at work. Hop in or you'll be left behind.

He's possibly referring to "Tactics" in the topic title not being capitalized as it should because it's a proper name, and may be read as being about tactics in general in Fallout games. I played it exclusively in real time, but the lack of a pause function could be rather crippling because if things went sideways, it usually meant reloading. I wish the game had been successful enough that the planned sequel didn't need to be canned, but alas.

Perhaps. It's the undead eternal under the Blackpits. I mean, sure, I could just bring a billion oil barrels from the machine upstairs and explode them on her, giving her a taste of her own one-turn-KO medicine. I could abuse charm grenades and have her own dogs tear her a new one. I could respec everyone for max weapon damage and Opportunist and place them around her while she's talking so she's dead as soon as she takes a step. I could hit her from stealth for 9999 damage with a telekinetically hurled indestructible ornate chest containing literally everything that isn't nailed down in Driftwood. Whatever. Much tactical, such fun, wow. It's exactly as you say, the encounters feel like a succession of puzzles where the "solution" is some variant of coagulated casein. When I lose, I'm pissed because the AI doesn't play fair. And when I win it leaves a bad taste in my mouth because I didn't play fair. The issue is also compounded because the game seems to encourage exploration but not really because level gating and you're going to have a bad time if you run into a level 12 encounter at the end of that level 9 area. I was enjoying the story, but the gameplay is dreadful. Funny story, I never actually played DOS1.

D:OS2. Got into a fight with some undead bitch that spams summons that one-shot you turn one, because of course they go first. The suggested "strategies" I've found online, come back when you outlevel the encounter by two levels or play on explorer. Love this "design" where the difficulty comes solely from stat bloat, and then some cheap **** on top of that for good measure. Uninstalled.

Yeah, mission design is really barebones, so it gets rather repetitive. Still, open-world coop is never not fun if the people you play with are willing to go off-script even a little. It's the only reason I considered getting Far Cry 5 for. Me, I've been going through Divinity OS/2 with a friend. Loving the writing and characters, but the stat bloat and progression model kinda hurts the whole experience for me. Stellaris still unplayable, even with the beta patch.

If you haven't yet, you'll soon realize that's a huge waste of time. Drop where most people are going, find a weapon as soon as possible, and start shooting immediately. You'll probably be dead within 5 minutes, but it's the only way to get some practice and improve. Always being in the top ten by avoiding people in a multiplayer game and getting killed with the goal in sight gets old real fast. Like foreplay without sex. Hell, even fisticuffs on the school rooftop are preferable to 20 minutes of Hiding Simulator 2017 followed by a potshot from someone you never even saw.

Apparently Wiz has stepped down as game director to work on some unannounced project. New guy has pledged to focus on fixing the damn thing, mentioning performance specifically. There's an interesting thread analyzing multi-threading, and the results are... not encouraging. This is worrisome because in my limited understanding of kuhm pyoo tuhrs, really fixing that would involve some serious retooling, which is probably beyond what PDS is willing to invest on an aging engine. Bah. They really should have billed this as "Early Access" or open beta rather than as a finished product.

It's interesting that in a forum that has seen such luminaries as obyknven, Lord of Flies, and others that may or may not still be active, this person has managed to one-up all of them and get a rise out of so many users, so consistently, simply by virtue of their posting style (because there is no substance to speak of). That being said, I find calls for deletion and/or bans frankly unwarranted. If self-control is an issue -a problem I understand well- Fenixp kindly provided an easy-to-use script to have content by users that may be found grating to go *poof* with no trace. Unpersoning has never been easier!

After putting a few hours into Megacorp, I've had enough. The game is currently so broken that I don't see the point in playing any more. Balance is out of wack, the AI simply cannot play the game, Crises and AEs just fail, and performance takes a huge nosedive past the late 2300s. Paradox clearly rushed this looking at a holiday season slam dunk, and while technically it's "playable" in the sense that it won't give BSODs, it's a huge step back from Niven currently. The potential is there, but I doubt it'll be realized in any appreciable way before April at the earliest. Bad form, Paradox.

Uprisings don’t generally stay leaderless for long. Yes, spontaneous flashpoint uprisings without leaders do happen, but any sustained uprising is going to look for a leader or leaders at some point. And at that point, it's game over man game over. Once there's a head to speak for the movement, it's a head you can bribe, blackmail, or otherwise pressure into getting in bed with those he protested against yesterday. Remember Tsipras? I member. I also member our own grassroots movement that was quickly hijacked by a bunch of sorry ****s fresh off the ivory tower (cf. vanguard party), and repurposed into another vector for the culture war cancer, while its newly minted leaders laughed all the way to the bank. Macron knows this and that's why he's not overly worried. Or perhaps he actually believes his own "Jupiterian" bull****. That's the funny thing with leaders—if their blind gambles pay off, they are 11D chess masters. If not, haha, loser gtfo lol eggs dee.

Yes. Also keep in mind that y'all old farts aren't necessarily the target for the "conditioning". After all, you've been around long enough to remember the time when MTX were not a central design element around which games are built, so you know that a magical communist utopia existed at one point, where megapublishers weren't out to **** you over for that extra percent profit point. It's the new generation that was born with an iphone in hand, who are being raised on this so they literally won't know better. If they also manage to suck a few of you in, that's just the icing on the cake.

As far as I know, you can skip all of KOTFE/KOTET and jump straight into the new content through the mission console in your ship. Default choices will be applied to the character, but it sure beats having to sit through the whole Valkorion Bunch drama. The companions/decisions cluster**** post-patch has all the markings of a bug that will never be truly fixed. To nobody's surprise. Logged in a few days ago to find that my guild is completely dead, and the new "leader" is a dumb broad that can't be arsed to even say hello. So I guess I won't be raiding much... if I keep playing at all.

Can you believe that Baby Boomer? How entitled can you be? Take a page from the Greatest Generation, pull yourself up by your bootstraps and stop asking for hand-outs, you whiny (old) manbaby. I swear, between this and millennials not spending the money they should be saving, this country supranational monstrosity is going down the drain.

UI Overhaul 1080p Plus - this is a must for me, I hate scrolling up and down all the time Ship behaviors and computers - so that every fleet action doesn't turn into a huge slugging match past the opening volleys, ships remain at their assigned ranges Stronger Orbital Bombardment - for non-crisis countries, vanilla bombardment is weaksauce and takes forever I haven't had a chance to fire Stellaris up since 2.2, so there's a chance the patch broke some of those. The most important one, UI Overhaul, has been updated, though.

A no-fly zone over France would be nothing short of glorious. Where's Oby when you need him/her/it? I mean, the narrative just writes itself.

I hate both and I want off this planet. I hear you man. But if National Geographic has taught me anything is that within 5 years of establishing a Mars colony, megacorps would be up there ****ing everyone over, with no gov't to put sticks in their wheels from time to time. So take solace: it'd be even worse anywhere else.

Getting the references in HoonDing's posts is like that minigame you can't ever seem to get better at but can't stop playing anyway. Hey man, they are honest about taking money, you know where their loyalties lie. The others, they won't even admit they are being funded by Soros, the church of Baphomet, and Kalergi's MJ12. I mean, how can you trust those people.

^ pretty sure we haven't got rid of fighting, and there's no shortage of whorehouses where I'm from. Fathers, then. Must be fathers... Probably because self-styled PUAs and other assorted internet trash are mad that they can't rake in thousands of obamas just by broadcasting themselves being bad at games while playing up their, uh, "equipment". I know I would if I could. Only stream I watch is Paradox's dev clash, so it's no skin off my back if there's a fake ass tart pointing her webcam at cleavage on the channel next door. edit: the scorn is probably even more aimed at their enablers than the streamers themselves, I'd say:

never got it, there is so much porn on internet to bother with thots on twitch Unlike porn stars, streamers on Twitch actually care about their audience, just ask them. And besides they are so appreciative of efforts to help out by moderating their channels and sometimes supporting their hard work through donations. Not to mention the odds of actually getting to meet one are much, much better, because they are just so down to earth and nice. You are just jelly. I'm a mod, btw.

btw, are you a mod?

Is this Early Access or something? That looks like some rando's account. Tindalos have shown that at least their cutscenes are really on point. VA, music, camera work. It just works. Here's hoping they'll support the actual game better than they did the first.

I'm a bit surprised at the list of what they are excluding, or maybe I'm not understanding the context. Nutritional therapy? Good nutrition would seem to be just about as important as it gets for maintaining health. I'm also pretty sure vitamins and human movement have plenty of research to back them up as important for maintaining health. The article is a bit confusing. The Legislative Decree actually provides that homeopathic medicine is medicine, in line with an EU directive back from 2001. It's just that an administrative decision has been made not to offer homeopathic treatments in the public health service, or subsidize their sales via prescription. And yeah, the absence of nutritionists (most of which graduate from public universities) could be rightly seen as a flaw. Supposedly, dietary oversight and guidance is to be managed by endocrinologists. It's not that they aren't up to the task, but specialists already have more than their share of patients, and incorporating nutritionists to handle that would at the very least improve waiting times. I'm guessing it would also help people manage things like type-2 diabetes before insulin shots are needed, etc. I don't think much is being done to fix the fat epidemic, in general.