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Ahhh, I see now, I thought you were talking about the lack of a popular vote in the states on the law, that instead the states were forced to over-ride local laws or face funding cuts and I was just trying to be annoyingly funny. So yes, you are correct!

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/not sure if serious: National Minimum Drinking Age Act. Smoking age. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otbml6WIQPo Might want to check the bit past 1:52 of the Schoolhouse Rocks video where they talk/sing about bills going for a vote in the House and Senate.

Im not sure about Amentep's state, but you cant do jack in IL without ID. You even need it for booze/smokes. Here you'll need a state issued ID to get booze, you'll need state issued ID to OPEN a bank account, but once the bank account is opened you won't necessarily be asked to show ID (but some will); instead you may be asked to show the bank issued card, and/or they'll match signatures, and/or they'll match a photo taken and stored in their system at the time the account was opened. You have to show state issued ID when writing a check to a company, and you have to show a state issued ID while driving. In this state you have to show a state issued ID to vote and the state ID (not driver's license) is free is gotten for the purpose of voting. For doctor's visits, you'd only show a state issued ID if you don't have an insurance issued insurance card, IIRC. But you're not required to have the ID on you if you are just walking down the street, so technically you don't have to have a state issued ID. One of the things that advocates against ID laws will argue (at least when they come up here) is that ID laws tend to be a burden (and thus a potential disenfranchisement) on the poor, the people who don't have a bank account, don't drive, etc.

Identification outside of the social security number (which was intended to only be used for federal services) isn't the domain of the US, but the states. The states I'm familiar with do have IDs - either a driver's license (which serves also as a state ID) or a state ID (that does not serve as a drivers license). But states do not (in my experience) require you to have or carry an ID to conduct general business (outside of operating a vehicle). You'll use an ID for driving, for banking, and in some states, voting.

I'd left this topic open because there was originally some compare/contrast with Deadfire. However the topic is veering into discussing Divinity Original Sin 2 without any connection to Deadfire, which is off-topic. The COMPUTER AND CONSOLE forum is the appropriate forum for discussion of non-Obsidian games (there is an existing, albeit older, thread on DOS2 there as well - https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/93751-dos-ii/)

I'm making no claim about political motivations, I'm just trying to illustrate how its so easy for the mismatch law to catch people given the way things have been done (which is why it was complained about when it was a policy and not a law). A young woman named LaKeisha might have their name entered Lakeisha, La Keisha, or LaKeisha. A young man named Carlos Salcedo Hernandez might end up on a voter roll as Carlos Salcedo, Carlos Salcedo-Hernandez, Carlos Hernandez, Carlos Salcedohernandez and Carlos Salcedo Hernandez. In both cases, only the last one would be a match. And that doesn't take into account misspellings (like LeKeisha for LaKeisha). Or worse, a long name being concatenated because the fields don't contain enough characters.

^Sadly, I can't say because no way in hell am I clicking that link.

One thing that was pointed out was hyphens. If your name was printed as Johnson-Smythe on your birth certificate but entered as Johnson Smythe (or vice versa) in the voter database, then you're not an exact match. Sometimes its a case a person's middle name was placed as the first name because the official entered the name backwards on the birth certificate. Or as an example of a extreme case, I have a good friend who was named one thing by her parents (a common diminutive) and the hospital put the common full name on the birth certificate against the intent of the parents. Since no one cared about exact match documents until after 9/11, a lot of people still have valid government issued IDs with the 'wrong' name on it, including mismatches with voter rolls. Also given the lack of hospitals in large parts of Georgia, there was probably a lot more live at home births that were recorded well after the fact, particularly in rural and poor areas which can also lead to miscommunication about names on documents.

Which scenarios? When you check the scenario completion of the characters who didn't receive their reward, have they completed every prior scenario?

most democratic governments aren't limited to two parties. which may be why 40% of US citizens never vote, they're eager for option C or D but it doesn't really exists. That way, 'correction' wouldn't have to be so drastic every time. You hit the nail square on the head. They saddest part is there ARE other options. The problem with "third parties" (even though most races field 4 candidates of more) is that people are always told "they can't win" That is only true if people think it is. If people voted for third party candidates they WOULD win. And one win helps another and another and another. One thing the Democrats and Republicans agree on (one on many, many things) is to deny ballot access and debate invitations to Libertarians, Greens, etc. The message you hear over and over is "Voting 3rd party is throwing you vote away" and is the same as voting for the party you are supposed to hate. The two parties are well invested in their fostered hatreds. One of the biggest motivations for voting these days is to defeat the alternative rather than vote FOR anyone. It got Trump elected. So they compel people to choose the "lesser evil". But all you get is evil that way. Sauron or Saurman? Pick one! That Aragorn guy? He's third party, he can't win! Don't throw your vote away! Actually the problem isn't that people are told that the third parties can't win, its that somehow or another people in the democratic process believe that you have to vote for the winner, for some reason. Are they handing out $20s to everyone who backed the winning candidate? If not then back the candidate you believe in. If you don't believe in any of them, given them a vote of no confidence by voting for a fictional character. The only wasted vote is the one not made.

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Seriously? After that finale? Heroes for hire then? I don't care for Iron Fist himself but I want Colleen Wing. Or Daughters of the Dragon with Colleen and Misty Knight teaming up.

FASA studios - acquired 1999, closed 2007 Digital Anvil - acquired 2000, closed 2006 Bungie - acquired 2000, became independent from MS 2007 Ensemble Studios - acquired 2001, closed 2008 Rare - acquired 2002, active Lionhead studios - acquired 2006, closed 2016 Bigpark - acquired 2009, active Twisted Pixels - acquired 2011, became independent from MS 2015 PressPlay - acquired 2012, closed 2016 Mojang AB - acquired 2014, active Undead Labs - acquired 2018, active Ninja Theory - acquired, 2018 active Playground Games - acquired 2018, active Compulsion Games - acquired 2018, active I think the other game subsidiaries they own or owned were all launched by Microsoft, but not 100% sure. I also wasn't sure if Aces Studio (closed 2009) was started by MS to keep Microsoft Flight Simulator going or if it was formed out of the Bruce Artwick Organization when they bought it and the MSFS assets in 1995.

I dunno, I like del Toro and Perlman as much as the next guy, but Neil Marshall and David Harbour aren't bad choices either.