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Didn't vote since i used to love the game. Played it a lot for 2 years until the latest expansion. I wouldn't say it was the Revan story that killed it for me, as that is only half the truth (never liked the character itself or the story related to him), it was more the change to game mechanics, classes and end game content that felt like the game shot itself in its foot with a high powered assault weapon. Dind't hate the discipline system as that just removed the illusion of choice (a choice is really only a choice when choosing between valid options). It was the changes to abilities, the awkward and unintuitive rotations, the heavy handed removal of iconic abilities, the shoehorning in of new abilities that has no history or relation to the classes, the class balance that was the worst since 1.2, the very fact that you paid $20 real world money to have access to less content at end game (trust me, it's not a joke) and so on and so on. Adding Revan was just the proverbial icing on the cake to make interest plummet. Edit: I suppose bugs should get the honorable mention. 3.0 has so many bugs that Kotor2 appears like a well polished masterpiece by comparison

Sort of. Problem is just, most people don't care and would rather let the running of a country be done by somebody else. Always easier to criticize than to participate actively Being an old Cynic, my only contribution to conspiracy theories (as far as i know) is, the world is run by those who control the contemporary media and by extension form the public opinion of the masses.

Sounds better than *modern oligarchies* anyway. The only thing correct in the original post seems to be the fact that Socrates is dead and the Athenians are credited for that. The rest is mostly a number of traits rewritten with a lot of artistic freedom from his original description of oligarchy as a form of government.

I'm trying to get a game of PoE started, but dammit if I can find the time at the moment >_

I'm sure that if the kickstarter had given them a few billion dollars more they could have invested more in the QA process (since they seem to be the scope you want to compare it to).

Ah yes, planes never crash, cars never gets recalled by the manufacturer...

That reminds me a bit of whatsitsname that old movie, Minority Report? Where crime could be predicted. Now we just need to enforce surgery and incarceration of people where statistics say they are genetically disposed towards crime (and/or genetic diseases)

That should make a mockery of all those D20 patents where people claim to have invented the D20... Dice Patents

Couldn't have said this better myself: I see the green dragon beat me to it, so I'll just shut up and agree with the quoted bit and think it's a nice gesture amongst colleagues in the business of video games (and yes, some of the Bioware people are backers too, helping making this game possible).

Isn't there a certain cut over date where evidence can't be used anymore?

This probably belongs in the category "scientific re-discoveries". Thousand year old Anglo-Saxon potion kills MRSA superbug Grognard potions ftw! See link for full story

Not to be a spoil sport, but the thread creator requested the thread closed...

I wonder if I'm just weird, but Dead Money was probably my favourite DLC for FONV. Big MT wasn't bad though

Deleted a couple of posts... Lets try with less sniping at each other and more constructive help.

X-Com 3: Apocalypse and Jagged Alliance 2 are two serious contenders for that title

Thread pruned a bit. Lets try more feed back on the game, less feedback on fellow posters.

You just summed up 3000+ posts

That was my thought too... the rather non constructive opening post makes me doubt this leads to useful discussions. Lets see if we can keep it civil?

Trying to focus on work today, but somebody is playing bagpipes outside and now i feel like going out and conquering something Maybe it's just because its spring, who knows.

Indeed A shame PoE is so close to release now, I really need to finish my original game of New Vegas, got close to the end and then fell into the trap of indecisiveness about what path to pursue at the end

Hello youngster I need to play Zork Zero some day to find out how the altercation between Lord Dimwit Flathead the Excessive and Megaboz the Magnificent ends. Edit: Welcome by the way, almost forgot my manners

Since when is ignoring the cause of a problem going to help? Israel, the US, Serbia, Greece, Iran and Iraq Kuwait, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, China, Tibet and two score more countries would like to have words with you. The UN and international community understands perfectly well and enforces absolutely nothing unless its the enforcing arm of some economic and military powers extended arm, trying to give it a thin veneer of "legitimacy" (because selling it at home is easier then) Oh my... Bruce, I sometimes hope you *don't* wake up to the real world (hint Libya was a chance to pitch in and try to be on the "winning" side in a tribal conflict and Serbia was real politik in action, trying to limit Russias sphere of influence in eastern Europe) Sometimes you dont need to formally annex anything, especially not if installing local puppet governments is a lot more cost efficient and achieves the same result.

A good starting point would be to examine the "legality" of the nation state of Ukraine, the ways in which the borders between it and its neighbours were drawn etc. (hint: they were established as rather insignificant administrative lines, at a time when ethnicity was irrelevant and independent Soviet republics were unimaginable) If the lines had been drawn with the benefit of hindsight, a lot of bloodshed could probably have been avoided. As for annexing territories and spheres of influence, Israels (never recognised) annexation of the Golan heights, the rather unsubtle western interference in Libyia, the forced change (and following anarchy) of regime in Iraq, the meddling in Serbia, the meddling (in the end, without any results) in the affairs of Georgia and where the minorities there were never consulted about which country they suddenly wanted to belong to... it's a long list. Nobody is entitled to wear a halo in the world of "realpolitik"

I was sooo tempted to edit your post and add spoiler tags...

The Ig Nobel price is turning 25 this year. Happy Birthday It's part satire, parts recognition of less glorious scientific subjects getting studied in all seriousness. "Assembling a team of balding physicists, Goldstein set out to tackle the subject, publishing their research in a peer review journal. It detailed the fluid mechanics of hair, drawing on a rich seam of scientific observation stretching back to Da Vinci. They even coined a new term: hairodynamics." "The Ig Nobels skewered the U.S. Government in 2012, awarding them the Prize for Literature 'for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.'" "Past recipients include a man who dressed up as a polar bear to scare reindeer and a study of homosexual necrophilia among mallard ducks" Science doesn't always have to be boring particle particle physics