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  1. Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs. Old photographs have problems that don't fit into modern facial recognition (lots of beards and profiles rather than full face) but technology is trying to solve that.
  2. I didn't back for either of those reason. I backed because I like Obsidian games and wanted to support them making a new game. If they'd tried to kickstart an action RPG like DSIII or Alpha Protocol on consoles, I'd have supported that as well. Heck, I didn't even know backing the Kickstarter was helping Obsidian at a time when their finances were problematic due to cancelled titles (I knew there was cancelled titles but now how badly it had affected them). If I had known how dire their straits were, I'd have tried to pledge more. The primary thing to me is Obsidian, a company that makes games I like, making games I like. Time will tell what impact the MS purchase will make on this, to me, bottom line but for now I see no point in worrying about it (particularly given that, in the end, there's nothing we can do about it).
  3. I wasn't crazy about Avatar. Wouldn't have seen it if not for the insistances of family members. I enjoyed it, but the trailer pretty much told you what all the story beats were so there was little reason to actually see the film (IMO).
  4. The other way around IIRC. They were first but Chucky out-cheesed them. I think it goes like this: Norm Bushnell creates Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater as a way to expand Atari and looking at crossing his experience with amusement parks and Disney attractions Bushnell buys the concept back from Warners who wanted Atari the game maker, not Atari the pizza maker Bushnell tries to expand the line with franchises; he signs a deal with Robert Brock. Brock, afraid that Bushnell wasn't protecting his investment by not keeping his animatronics up to date cancelled his deal with Bushnell and opened restaurants using the same concept but with animatronics from a company called CEI after Brock was convinced that the technology that Aaron "Whack-a-mole" Fechter was working on was better than Bushnell's. This was branded ShowBiz Pizza Bushnell sued Brock over breach of contract; the end result was that ShowBiz Pizza paid part of their profits to Pizza Time Bushnell took Pizza Time public in 1981, but the video game crash of 1983 sent Pizza Time into bankruptcy ShowBiz Pizza bought Pizza Time in bankruptcy, merging to become ShowBiz Pizza Time Chuck E. Cheese proved a better mascot and eventually all of the restaurants became Chuck E. Cheeses and the company rebranded itself CEC Entertainment CEC entertainment was bought out by Apollo Management Group who is altering some restaurants to have a dance floor rather than an animatronic show to appeal to adults.
  5. "Change, my dear. And it seems not a moment too soon." Start of Old Thread End of Old Thread Yes, but in this context you are the sand.
  6. I've always liked Prince of Darkness. Its not perfect, but I've watched it several times over the years and always enjoyed it.
  7. If it makes you feel better Mamoru Oshii, the co-writer and director, has said even he doesn't know what it is about.
  8. I imagine if you could get into the humour of The Bards Tale 2004 it'd be fun, but it just didn't work for me. I still beat it - it wasn't a poorly made game. Just not for me, ultimately.
  9. Hunted: The Demon's Forge is why I backed Wasteland 2 on kickstarter. The only other game I'd played by InXile at that point was 2004's The Bard's Tale, which I didn't like.
  10. Its probably tied to the presentation of the press as the fourth estate that can act as a balance between the other three estates (in the US, the three estates aren't exactly as described by Burke and Carlyle, but has represented the three branches of government). My thought is that the legal system is the oversight for the US press, as they could be sued in various circumstances if they aren't legitimate in their reporting. Also the press doesn't always prevent disinformation from "the government" since there is historical evidence of the press spreading governmental propaganda in times of war or omitting things on behalf of the government (like the US press never reporting on or showing FDR's wheelchair).
  11. RIP Mr. Lee.
  12. Newsflash: The purpose of playing Crpg's are for story, gameplay/combat was always horrid from realtime with pause systems. You were afterthe wrong thing. You do know that Tides of Numenera's combat system is turn based, right? Don't confuse the issue with facts.
  13. support@obsidian.net You can also go to https://support.obsidian.net/article/12-looking-for-help-on-our-older-games and click the "Contact Us" link for a pop-up web form to send an inquiry. Since the devs aren't as active here, this might get your issue to the eyes of someone at Obsidian faster because there are people who read and forward support inquiries to appropriate areas in Obsidian as I understand it.
  14. Mods are still here, but we're not employees of Obsidian so can't really help with game issues. Did you send your issue through the Obsidian support email as well as here?
  15. What I meant was, PoE1 had a big hook, "Hey everyone a spiritual successor to a beloved game!". People flocked to the new game. Then they received it...and using myself as an example, maybe felt that the only resemblance to the BG series was the isometric view or some other minor similarity? I have a hard time believing that the developers changed the mechanics in PoE2 for the lulz, so imo, PoE2 shifted because of what the data showed about how players were engaging the game. To be completely honest while I liked PoE1 okay, I was rather annoyed that after beating the game and coming back to do the White Marches months later when all the content had been finished that it was like playing a complete different system due to all the updates that were made. It was such that I felt the character I'd built previously and beat the game with didn't seem to 'work' any longer. I've still not finished the White March 1 & 2. Maybe its not there, but I really felt like my character was useless despite using a near the end of game save to try and go to the White March with. Most of the changes announced for PoE2 I wasn't crazy about. I backed it because I like Obsidian, but personally I didn't want dual classing, I didn't want less party members, etc. I haven't played PoE2 yet simply because my PoE1 experience makes me think I'm better off waiting for it to be finished. So I hope I'll like it. But it didn't really go in a direction I was personally exited about.
  16. So if Im reading this correctly, an environmental "study" was concluded 2 years ago and determined the XL pipeline risk to be negligible. Now some random judge decided that the 2017 analysis wasn't enough and requires further "reasoned explanation". Why do "prior facts" supercede new findings? Well he cites prior court precedent on similar policy change according to the article. Not being a lawyer, or familiar with the precedent I don't know what it is, but if it does exist then there's something - theoretically - that is being looked for that isn't showing up in the government's documentation. Or he's being an activist and subsequent legal action will reverse his decision.
  17. As I understand it, his decision wasn't on the "feels" but I could be wrong. I took it that the issue was that the Obama administration denied the pipeline addressing specific concerns while Trump administration granting permission didn't address those concerns since the concerns had become part of the governmental record. So the block is, theoretically, temporary as I understand it until the Trump administration demonstrates why the concerns of the government a few years ago aren't concerns of the government now (the fact that the administration changed isn't relevant, this is why - theoretically - our laws don't flip-flop around like a fish out of water in the bottom of the boat every time someone else gets into the hot seat). As I said, I could be wrong, just when I first heard the news story I didn't see judge activism. That said I'm not a lawyer, so if one comes around and says it is judge activism, go with them.
  18. In the end it'll be appealed, and eventually either it'll be let through or shot down, hopefully based on the law. I'm not sure why allowing the process to work is a bad thing, this is the way the system is supposed to work.
  19. Some other fair points to me - Pillars 1 had the advantage of being the biggest funded game (at that point) so got a lot of press from that, so perhaps a lot of people curious about the hype checked it out that otherwise wouldn't have checked out the style of game it was. Pillars 1 also went through a lot of changes between launch and final game, so non-kickstarter types may be waiting for all of the work to be done on it based on previous experience. People may not have liked the fact that they discarded all of the systems from Pillars1 for Pillars2, in addition to changing the setting.
  20. Time does indeed fly...
  21. ....and that fact made me feel old (can't imagine what it did for you Gfted1)...
  22. You gotta love the polarity in campaign ads. I find it all hilarious. I like it when the ads play back to back.
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