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Yeah, it's currently a buggy mess though. And the whole "progress is only saved for the host" not-a-bug-actually-a-feature thing is just brilliant, guys! Worth $20... in six months, maybe. I've only had one crash so far, I wasn't hosting but I didn't lose any. It seems to be an isolated issue (affecting select players). Other than the one crash I encountered I haven't found any bugs but then again I only have 8 hours worth of play and 30 achievements out of the 50 so maybe there is something I don't know yet. Either way to me it's been one of the best games I've played this year. Uh, no bro, it's not an "isolated issue affecting select players". It's by design: "In multiplayer, only the host's stats are saved currently - by design. Items are left behind via a swag bag though." http://steamcommunity.com/app/641990/discussions/0/2579854400753208720 I'm really surprised that the game is flawless for you, despite the general whining and moaning about various issues in the discussions area, and instability that is apparently significant enough that developers have promised to be working on a day 1 patch to address. Positively shocked. But I guess it's just "something about these boards" or whatever, right buddy?

when was the last time christians killed a gay in public just because he is gay? somewhere in the muslim world they are probably killing one right now. all religions have some ****ty beliefs, but in this day and age only one has its followers act freely on them at the expense of any number of innocents. Lol. Are you for real? Wait, wait. That doesn't count because... they aren't shouting "God is great" while they do the deed, right?

And by "various religions hating on gays" you mean Christianity too, right? Oh wait, no, that was yesterday, it doesn't count. Am I doing this right?

What's this pattern you're referring to? And by the way, nobody is justifying violence. However, considering historical and current contexts is useful when you're trying to understand why stuff happens and maybe help solve problems. If I wasn't such a cynic, I might also believe it may prevent similar mistakes from being made in the future. Just one? For example, Muhammad Abduh was a 19th century Egyptian Islamic scholar that was big on opening re-interpretation of Islamic doctrine to better relate to current times. In this regard, he encouraged the use of reason and independent discussion to modernize the religious doctrine, and was personally against polygamy, forced conversion and in his view jihad was understood as a purely defensive business. This is especially radical in the sense that in Islam, the average joe isn't meant to interpret jack squat, he's to defer to his local imam or other religious authorities to do the thinking for him. He's far from the only Islamic reformer to have ever existed though, but from what I know, sadly his views and those of other modernists were mostly buried in the aftermath of WWI. Then, more recently you have Ba'athism, a markedly secular, pseudo-socialist, authoritarian pan-Arabic movement... that has been crushed by the West wherever it took root. Aw crap, I'm "splaining away" stuff, again. My bad.

Yeah, it's currently a buggy mess though. And the whole "progress is only saved for the host" not-a-bug-actually-a-feature thing is just brilliant, guys! Worth $20... in six months, maybe.

I'd see MP monetisation as a separate issue. I also fundamentally don't care about it, since I don't play it. But by and large I wouldn't defend anyone's MP policies, I was even mildly annoyed by something as trivial as Larian having the MP rps minigame in SP DivinityOS, and stuff like the 'forced' MP in ME3 to get war score was obnoxious- but it was only 'forced' since I never did it. In Andromeda's case I'd need a fair bit of convincing that MP or EA's policy towards it was the reason the game failed, and BiowareM knew the requirement for it before development started. It's also, in the end, the player's collective fault that such focuses on MP happen, if nobody bought premier packs and loot boxes and game currency and trivial skins etc etc etc then the companies would not do them. Can't generally say the same for a poor SP game though there are examples (Fallout 4). The reason? Probably not. A reason? You bet. Andromeda MP managed to both expand the scope of microtransactions and deliver less value for them. ME3 had several unplanned MP DLCs that were the result of the success of the model -- they got it "just right", and folks were willing to shell out some cash every time a new content patch dropped to get some new stuff. The DLCs were absolutely fantastic. In Andromeda, there rarely was genuinely new stuff to be had, mostly just reskins or trash repurposed from SP, and no DLC either: they went with a drip-feed model that spread the delivery of what little they had produced over months. Not to mention the initial move away from biower points to Andromeda points, just in case you had some left over from purchasing stuff in ME3 and DA. And as their final parting gift they decided to crank loot pool bloat up to 11 by adding a ton of minute +% garbage that doesn't expand on mechanics and appears designed solely to slow manifest progression to a crawl, while creating the illusion of "content". I wouldn't say it's a separate issue because many MPers are also SPers and vice versa. The MP adds staying power to the game as a whole and provides additional revenue, which may justify and help towards development of SP content. By all accounts, this is what happened with ME3. However, unlike in 2012-13, consensus on Reddit and the BSN is that biowEA can get bent with their approach to monetization in this game. It is perhaps true that, with a publicly traded company, the success of a specific microtransactions model entails an expansion of said model in future titles. What I'm not so sure is that naked greed must be the design cornerstone for the whole thing. We'll never know for sure because companies don't release that kind of data, but if we accept that players encouraged it with ME3, then it also holds true that players have discouraged it this time around. I'd sooner expect EA to bury biower than turn the ship around, though.

That's really not a good argument.Most of Christian religious beliefs are nowhere near as extreme as they used to be. It took centuries of violence and bigotry for modern tolerance to finally be build. "Modern tolerance" was actually formulated by the likes of John Locke, back in the 17th century. Christian religious persecution and sectarianism was curbed because of it. It actually laid the foundations upon which the modern secular states rest. Toleration is there to protect you, not just Muslims. You think rolling it back is a good idea? Sure, why not. I'm sure the precedent will not be taken advantage of the next time a scapegoat needs to be found for whatever. And because the only way to actually do that necessitates abrogating civil rights, I'm sure a police state won't be a problem down the line either.

Yeah. To no one's surprise, their "significant contributor to revenue", and whose performance they were satisfied with has been dropped like a bad habit. Gotta love corp-speak. Clearly this has been a managerial cluster****, and it's not even the first time. I wonder how many flagship projects have to crash and burn at biower before they realize who can and who cannot be let at the helm? Anyone who may be inclined to defend EA here haven't been keeping up with their practices regarding MP monetisation, btw. Rest in pieces.

Uh huh. It used to be that Catholics weren't tolerated in England because of their implicit allegiance to the Pope, who was a foreign head of state, and this conflicted with classical liberal notions that prescribed that toleration be predicated on submission to the local magistrate in all matters non-religious. Somehow, Catholics live just fine in England nowadays, and nobody has "betrayed their beliefs". The "render unto caesar" bit is no doubt a useful modern interpretation of a possibly apocryphal anecdote about a guy who may or may not have existed more than 2,000 years ago, so Catholics can be convinced that fire and brimstone isn't necessarily what awaits them if they accept that someone other than the Pope can give them a ticket for jaywalking. Of course, it's completely impossible to fashion a similar loophole within all of Islam because... reasons. But please please, tell me more about how XYZ will "never be".

Funny that, considering that we've owned territory in the Maghreb for more than a century and have had exactly zero problems with Islam itself (mind, Morocco's king is a reactionary ****, but his ambitions are territorial rather than religious or cultural) until Dubya & friends started turning the ME into a shooting range and Terrorists-R-Us franchises started popping up like mushrooms. Funny, too, considering that we've had way more deaths from separatist Basque terrorism than from jihadis, so I guess Basques and Spaniards have never and will never be able to coexist. Or something along those lines. But hey, don't let me get in the way of your grandstanding... Had to be really cool to live under muslim rule of the Moors. I guess they can rename that region to Al-Andalus, right? What could go wrong with that, just a name after all, right? **** are you even talking about. You trippin'?

Funny that, considering that we've owned territory in the Maghreb for more than a century and have had exactly zero problems with Islam itself (mind, Morocco's king is a reactionary ****, but his ambitions are territorial rather than religious or cultural) until Dubya & friends started turning the ME into a shooting range and Terrorists-R-Us franchises started popping up like mushrooms. Funny, too, considering that we've had way more deaths from separatist Basque terrorism than from jihadis, so I guess Basques and Spaniards have never and will never be able to coexist. Or something along those lines. But hey, don't let me get in the way of your grandstanding...

Origin's "Great Game guarantee" allows for refunds for a week provided you haven't launched the game. If you have, it's only 24 hours (72 for tech-related problems). I know because I considered refunding the POS, and come think of it, Inquisition before it. Reassuring, innit?

"Antifa dwarfs Klansman and Neo-Nazis. Militant Marxists are, by far, the greater threat currently." 1951 called. They want their red scare back.

Thanks. Never seriously (groan) considered them. I'll take a look, should be pretty cheap and it seems to be like the kind of simple, mindless fun that's right up my alley for coop play. Never played Borderlands. I'm just not into that art style, and mechanically the game didn't look that special from what I saw in LPs.

Out there? I'm pretty sure we've got some here.

I managed to endure DAI for a full two hours before I was awash with the urge to purge with fire. I imagine the impression will be even worse after going through Twitcher3. Money comes and goes, time doesn't. I guess I could have stopped gathering elfroot in the Hinterlands, but I wasn't particularly gripped by the game anyway, and the first 10 hours or so are supposed to be where devs put most effort and care in AAA titles these days, no? In other news I just impulse-purchased Shadow Warrior 2 50% off on GOG. Is it any good? I basically stockpile coop games to play through with a friend in -rather infrequent- binges, which leads to the problem of deciding which one to fire up next. #firstworldproblems

Paging Agiel... The Chinese aren't idiots. They know that purchasing Varyag isn't going to turn them into a 21st century naval power capable of going toe to toe with the USN. And it's cheaper and easier to defeat a carrier through massed missile attacks than with another carrier anyway. That was the approach the Soviets took, at least. The long and short of it is know-how. Technical know-how to some degree because Varyag was already obsolete when they purchased it but they still spent more than a year taking it apart and studying it. But most importantly, operational know-how. Running a carrier safely and effectively is a complex task and the Chinese were millions of man-hours worth of experience behind the US. Even the Russians, according to some reports, don't have a very good grasp on it, judging from Kuznetsov's track record. Unlike Russia however, China seems to be making a sustained effort to be a challenger to US naval supremacy in the long run.

How did you get to that? I don't see any archive section anywhere and it's not visible on the way-off-topic section either. Advanced search by words (socialism), find author (Wrath of Dagon), show as posts. You can also change the forum filters to show all threads and not just from the last 30 days, under the "Custom" tab. I don't use Google because I'm 50% cranky old man and 50% hipster.

The "nazis were really commies" nonsense was laughed out of the last thread it appeared in. Ah, isn't selective memory a beautiful thing? I swear, if some of those self-styled pundits did as much actual gymnastics as they do mental gymnastics they'd have no competition at the ****ing olympics.

Funny, considering that the guy was a Jew himself (in as much as you can "stop" being jewish), and he's covering The Doors and Leonard Cohen. Maybe it's your American government's propaganda leaking out of your ears. Coulda fooled me with the orthodox christian cross, at least I think that's the orthodox christian cross, and it was ignorance on my part. I didn't catch the context of the first one, though the second was definetly bashing the botched Yemen raid. Yeah, he's supposedly Orthodox Christian now, but on the internet, who knows. He's bastardized the lyrics somewhat but from what I've gathered he's just your run of the mill anti-Zionist Putin fanboy. Not necessarily an anti-semite though.

Funny, considering that the guy was a Jew himself (in as much as you can "stop" being jewish), and he's covering The Doors and Leonard Cohen. Maybe it's your American government's propaganda leaking out of your ears.

I miss the left in 2001. Remember when they were all about that class warfare?

Just started NG+ with another overhaul mod (Ghost Mode) which took a bit of setting up because the savegame wasn't readily compatible, but I think I'm starting to feel the burnout. I wonder if all the stuff I left undone will be enough to overcome it. But yeah, I'm a CDPR fanboy now. If I hadn't got burned so bad with MEA recently, I'd preorder whatever they put out next, no questions asked. I've read they are Bethesda-sized now though, so it's entirely possible they'll start churning out garbage titles every other year as well after Cyberpunk. Gwent is entertaining but apparently crippled by extreme netdecking dominance. Hope this changes when they release the full game.

Does Trump even know who MacArthur was?