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Cassowaries are like the Funnel Spider in that regard, a good offense is the best defense and it will attack anything if in doubt, including rocks, trees, humans etc. It has a large, hardened lump on it's head that works like a shock absorbing helmet when charging headlong towards "enemies". Once close, it will try to disembowel whatever is in front of it. Edit: From Gromnirs link above, related articles: Five Fascinating Facts About the Amazing Cassowary (just the paragraph headlines) 1. Yes, they could absolutely kill you 2. They can jump five feet off the ground 3. They have giant fingernails on their heads 4. They don’t like you, either 5. Australia is trying to protect them, because they’re really endangered

Death to "Rouge Trader" and "Angles of Death!"

Hmm, because the $200m is only the initial development cost, not the running cost. Even assuming they sold 2 million boxes of $100 each (not including any subscriptions at all) would not cover the cost of the game the first day after launch. Only the subscribers would be able to cover the running costs. I checked a few websites (because I was curious) and none of them has swtor in their top 10, whether it being popular, populous, healthiest etc. whatever at the end of 2018. So it might have been able to stave off death by starvation for a while, but I do honestly wonder why EA is bothering at the moment (unless there is something we don't know in their Star Wars license agreement).

The number I heard was 200 (gamespot referencing a no longer existing Los Angels Times article, but it's still a tonne of money. Without a cash shop, it would have required 1 million users for a year to make a profit? (numbers pulled out of my butt, mind you) As for how Bioware ended up in where they are, I wouldn't really point fingers at EA, but at Bioware management and company culture. Things you can get away with as a small company tends to explode spectacularly and create headlines when playing the big league. Lots of talented people doing the work. but less impressive management.

Who cares about politics anyway, there are more important things in life From the BBC: 'The revolution can wait. Football comes first' The mood in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, was different on Wednesday. Anti-government protesters put up huge screens to watch Barcelona beat Manchester United 1-0 in the Champions League quarter-final first leg. "The revolution can wait," a journalist tweeted, summing up the mood of the crowd.

Oh stop getting reasonable...

I was listening to something slightly related when youtube recommended Sabaton... I listened to a few of them and found them to my liking. One for Poles I guess (Live in Poland): Live at Wacken:

I would've found all of the "Epic exclusive" type deals a bit more palatable if they were all 6 months vs. a year. A little bit. Agreed. 6 months is sort of a "sweet spot" for me. These days I don't buy games at launch anyway and 6 months means most of the obvious bugs will have been ironed out through patches.

So, scheduled for release in May 2027?

Somebody in the GOG thread mentioned nostalgia and the first PC game he ever played. Made me feel like dusting off the first two PC games I bought. While I don't have the boxed versions anymore, I do have Fallout 1 from the Fallout Trilogy pack (FO1,2 and Tactics) and I have the original Tombraider from GOG. Heh, I still remember actually buying an Orchid 3Dfx card just to get the nicer graphics in Tombraider. Glide drivers.... yeah. Those were the times Maybe I should try to see if I can find the emulator versions and have a go at the first two computer games I bought: International Soccer by Commodore and Beach head by Access Software/US Gold

Actually, according to the article, the problem is exactly that they thought they could do like Bioware of old and get away with it (it = a good game). With larger and larger projects, it just ended up not working, as the consequences became more and more severe. Edit: E.g. DA:I was just about salvageable as a project, ME:A didn't succeed particularly well. Swtor.... has an issues list that is longer than a Russian War and Peace novel and Anthem has it's own share of issues to deal with

Meh, nothing truly new (as that was revealed by Randy in a twit last year). New thing is it's "only" a six month exclusive. But yeah, Take 2 and their subsidy, Private Division, which sucks for Obsidian fans, has definitely decided to share their bed with Epic.

I used to have Origin installed, but since the last Bioware game I was interested in (ME3) got released a long time ago, I don't have it installed any more. Gog and Steam for me in that order, Epic when hell freezes over. Never had games that required the Ubi or Bethsoft launcher, so no idea how good or bad they are. Edit: Small correction, I probably use proprietary, game specific launchers the most for the two games spent the most time on the last 7 years, swtor and GW2

Just bought tickets for the Metallica concert in Melbourne later this year. Still 7 months away, but looking forward to it... https://youtu.be/i9fxUlTMRz8 /headbang

Need a bit of foreign policy stuff to take peoples minds off the Mueller report? Russian troops arriving in Venezuela. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47688711

More deeds done here

Start of old thread End of old thread you got a serious advantage over shady when it comes to improving push ups. takes real effort for shady to make gains, but since you has only done once in decades, your gains would/should come much faster. is always a bright side. HA! Good Fun! Heh, add me to the list of the "needy"... I used to go to a Gym, just for 2 hours twice a week, but dang, I can *feel* it, that it's been 6 months since I moved (and haven't rejoined a gym), The curse of age. It's like the maintenance work just becomes more and more demanding

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Start of old thread End of old thread Continuting the news.... and just a reminder. There are already other threads about Epic Games and if a specific thread about the subject is lacking, by all means, create a relevant topic for the subject, so lets move further discussions about the pro's and con's there? Basically, leave the troll posts at the entrance please.

More Guild Wars 2... not so much my little Asura engineer showing off the shield on his back (although it's nice, especially the animated water, wonder how it keeps refilling itself???) It's my excitement about the achievements nearing completion in the upper right corner. The two top ones will give me a mastery point each, exactly what I need to have fully unlocked all "Central Tyria" abilities. The connection to the shield being, I need those two mastery points to learn tier 4 legendary recipes so I can finish the legendary precursor shield he's wearing. Once completed (in some distant future), it will also feature a Quaggan who has made his home inside the shield. ("Out of Cluck" is an achievement for killing all the chickens in a specific Fractal) Edit: What the finished shield looks like from the wiki page: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shooshadoo

Rumours about a Swtor live action movie/series since Disney really wants a return on their LA investment... Disney reportedly planning Knights of the Old Republic show

Majorly disappointed, but I'll add it to the list of things to do in 2020 (like Borderlands 3) when available elsewhere. Found this interview snippet from Boyarsky from about a month ago: "You have these robber barons at the turn of the 20th century. A couple of hundred years later, what if we still have that culture. The corporations have pretty much taken over everything." Just seemed to fit the occasion somehow... losers in the end are the people who have no real choices but what corporations to support.

Gives new meaning to "flexing your brain muscles"

Not sure I would like a CEO running my country when he has 6 corporate bankruptcies and billions of lost dollars (mostly other peoples dollars) as his CV Latest ancestry check did showed that I was of 50% male and 50% female origin. Who would have thought???

Steam may not be perfect, but at least I can understand their business and motives (cornering the market and greed). Epic.... with Tencent owning 40% is a bit more obscure. If backed by the Chinese government, they can offer developers/publishers the kind of money that privately owned corporations are struggling to compete with, because their ultimate motive may not be profit from games sales.