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Relatedly, NwN2 Complete and IwD2 are 50% off on GOG right now. For games that I own on CD and for which I already paid full price, I'm trying to decide whether 50% off is a reasonable price for buying them a second time, factoring in avoiding the hassle of trying to run these old games on modern machines. I would appreciate your thoughts, guys.

I needed a bit of time to reflect on what Sawyer says here before responding. Whatever way I try to slice it, I come away rather dispirited by what he says here about any possible future PoE game. Seems to me that he is pretty much closing the door to any new PoE game, at least in the foreseable future. Am I wrong? I certainly hope I am wrong, but that's what I get from his words here, even after re-reading them multiple times.

A new Arcanum game is also now possible.

Yes I saw that in the blurb about the episode when I was scrolling through the channels. But that info has been extensively (and better?) covered in multiple other UFO-related shows (including a very recent 8-episodes show on the Travel Network). Edit: I believe that show was titled UFO Witness.

Anything new?

Hey @Wormerine, you seem to be so radically opposed to romances in RPGs to where I have to ask: does that carry over into RL as well?

I guess the many delays were justified if they helped bring about this result.

This is 100% the same with me. :)

This is a HUGE issue I have with BG3.

Interesting. It's entirely possible they used to pay attention to the forums right after release but perhaps not anymore now. People posting in the forum has now died down quite sharply, as is to be expected. But the main point I'm making is that Owlcat, way more so than any other game developer to my knowledge, has a record of being welcoming of and receptive to player feedback. They seem to take player feedback seriously, and give it sincere consideration even if not all feedback results in changes to the game. And in the case of WotR, just like with Km, I expect we will get a "Definitive Edition" release later this year that has meaningful changes and upgrades to the game. So player feedback continues to remain useful, imo.

Fair enough. I don't do Discord myself as a hearing impaired person. But I post somewhat frequently on their forum, and from what others there say about comments Owlcat devs have made in other settings such as social media, Discord, and Reddit, it would appear they have people assigned to reading and reporting on what's being discussed on the forum.

Huh. For some reason I thought there was such an option. It's been quite a while since I last played it. Sorry. May be a mod?

There's so much interesting discussion in this thread, not just about bugs and the like but about the game itself and its story and characters. I just wish you guys would consider posting this awesome feedback in the Owlcat forum or bringing it up on their Discord channel where the game devs will have some chance of being exposed to them and potentially reacting to them.

The stats affecting conditions is one thing that is best turned off in the difficulty settings. They're just an annoyance that has nothing to do with making things challenging.

Stealth-based designs don't allow for those graceful aeronautical shapes of the past. The F-15 is my all-time favorite fighter jet, but I have to admit that the original Su-27 in clean mode is the most beautiful fighter jet ever built.

I agree that the US has lost all credibility in the world these days. But I also 100% believe that the world will come to deeply regret this situation very soon. People often say "history repeats itself." I have always intellectually rejected this notion. But nowadays increasingly I find myself wondering if indeed there is something to the notion of history repeating itself. The world today feels very eerily similar to the early 1930s.

Sorry. I think they're trying to cover the range of different types of games here. The WotC guy even suggested they were open to strategy games based on D&D. And I think the classic iso RPG type is supposed to be covered by BG3. Personally, though I also prefer party-based isometric cRPGs, a game like what Hidden Path may be working on could be great if they're doing something similar to the Witcher games: third-person open world game where you're playing a specific character (like Geralt). I would LOVE to be able to play Elminster or Storm Silverhand or Erevis Cale, or my all-time favorite Forgotten Realms character: Khelben "The Blackstaff" Arunsen!!

My favorites were "Rivers of Babylon," "Brown Girl in the Ring," and "Malaikka" (sp?). Never did care for Rasputin myself. I just liked the songs that have a lot of Caribbean steel drums because I love that sound.

Well, my expectation is that war with China is inevitable one way or the other. The question is which country gains with the passage of time. Some analysts believe that China has peaked, and so the balance of power will become more favorable to us the longer we can delay that fight. I disagree, and believe we are better off fighting them sooner rather than later. There is also the issue of ever-increasing strategic coordination among China, Russia, and Iran these days. I think the Chinese would very much like to wait until the three revisionist allies can carry out a coordinated assault on the US international order: China invading Taiwan, Russia invading Ukraine, and Iran moving to take control of Iraq through its proxies. But Putin seems to be messing up China's plans by being overly aggressive and impatient right now vis-a-vis his plan to take Ukraine. I think Putin feels that at his age his time may be running out to go into Russia's history books as Vladimir the Great.

Actually no, if you read the evaluations that were done. The -25 was billed as a M3.2 jet, but the manufacturing was so bad that any more than a few seconds at those speeds and the airframe literally tore apart at the seams. Also, its Tumansky engines only had about 200 hours of flight time, again because of very poor manufacturing. The design of the aircraft was pretty decent, but Soviet manufacturing was atrocious.

Hehe. Her. But with a male co-/backup vocalist.

Hehe, yeah any group that was internationally big in the 70s or 80s is in my collection. A lot of Cliff Richard, and among US groups definitely John Denver, and also Leo Sayer, Simon & Garfunkel, and so many more. Maybe we should start a 70s and 80s international rock/pop music thread. As for life in the US, I definitely cannot complain as I have had a very successful career and am financially in great shape. And especially since many of the kids I went to school with are sadly no more, killed in the war years in one way or the other. That could just as easily have been my fate. But I have wondered if I would want to come and live here if I were a young kid today. The answer is definitely not the resounding 'yes' from my youth. I know this will upset some people here, but the US I arrived at in '86 was so much a better place than the US I'm living in right now. Materially, things are much better today of course. But morally, spiritually, and especially socially, not so much imho.

Back in the Cold War the huge disparity in the military expenditures of NATO v. the Warsaw Pact clearly also showed up in the disparity in technology quality between the two sides. This was especially true after Belenko's defection with his MiG-25 in '79(?), where before we were so awed by Soviet fighter jets but after we got to examine the -25 we learned that it was pretty much crap. But looking at where the Chinese are now, the same pattern does not hold. Despite spending a lot less on defense than us, they have largely caught up with us in many areas of military tech and are ahead of us now in some areas. They are now able to field a navy that is bigger than ours. This is why it has been such a shock to US military analysts and especially members of Congress. We all were told for many years that U.S. spending far outstripped Chinese spending (including in story after story in the newsmedia as justification for defense cutbacks), which then meant we were way ahead of them in capability (it was logically assumed -- though not by me). Then, just like that over the past year or so, the Joint Chiefs are testifying before Congress that the Chinese have caught up with us and even surpassed us. But how can that be?!! We've been outspending them by vast sums of money!!! This is the best ever example of official budget numbers not being reliable indicators of military capability. The Chinese are clearly able to do a LOT more with their defense dollars than we are.

I have every one of their ten albums plus all the singles. All on CD, as is my entire music collection of about 270 CDs. Growing up in Sri Lanka in the 1970s and early '80s, the sole English language radio channel in the country played a lot of great Western rock and pop music, but overwhelmingly European than American because as a former British colony everything was much more Anglo-centric. So ABBA got played a LOT (along with another very popular group called Boney M, a Jamaican group but from Germany), and I spent many hours in the afternoons after getting home from school listening to ABBA on the radio while dreaming of someday living in the West.

No, the only things we know so far are that it is third-person, open world, and AAA. And another D&D game is being made by OtherSide Entertainment. Zero info on that one. WotC boss has said they have about seven D&D video games in the works, with an expected one or two releases per year from '21 through '25. This year was Dark Alliance. in '22 hopefully it is BG3 plus the Hidden Path game.