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Thread: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/104779-rumours-about-acquisition-by-microsoft/ For general Obsidian topics (like this rumor) please see the above thread in the correct forum. Since there is nothing in this thread that speaks specifically to Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire, it is locked in favor of the existing thread.

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.

If I'm on the kingdom map and turn on location names, my FPS goes from 60+ to 20... What the hell? :/ If you are even remotely attentive during meets it is inevitable that you will learn almost all relevant stats, weaknesses and strengths of almost all monsters and adversaries in the game. Without writing them down. We always played under the idea that you and your character couldn't act on information about the game mechanics and rules, only things that made sense in-game for the knowledge of a character. So a monster might be "strong", not "19 STR". And you could remember a monsters weakness to fire or frost, etc. from experience. Or that slashing was more effective than piercing (but numbers wouldn't be involved). That said everyone plays the games differently and the beauty of pen and paper is there is really no wrong way to play as long as everyone in the group is enjoying the game.

Yes I was blocking Sybok from my memory. Although he doesn't disprove the beards are evil theory.

I would be really surprised if they continued the story from a 20 year old game. There is an entire new generation of players now and they will want to appeal to them. I'm not even sure where they could go with the Bhaalspawn at this point that wouldn't be a narrative railroad ignoring most/all the ends of the game.

I guess we can hope WotC/Hasbro decides to not armchair quarterback their pick for a developer for BG3 (assuming its real, I took the reported tweet as a joke when I first read it).

The Vulcan's realized early on that facial hair was a gateway drug to being evil. Or a hipster. Possibly both at the same time. Clearly this new Spock violates accepted cannon and is evil or a hipster!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111onetwodooby-doo Do I need to point out the intended jokiness of this?

Please use the existing thread in the correct forum.

Let's not have an intervention and say we did. Actually, lets not direct posts at other users at all, and then I won't have to close threads. Like I just did this one.

You're probably aware of this, bu THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE is based on a 1962 novel.

Have you reached out to support@obsidian.net yet?

Wil Vinton, father of Claymation: https://variety.com/2018/film/obituaries-people-news/will-vinton-dead-dies-claymation-animator-1202969895/

Yes, certainly its on the low end of the MCU as a whole in terms of box-office.

Ant-Man and the Wasp made more a little more money theatrically than Ant-Man ($216,154,693 domestic/ $621,401,629 worldwide vs $180,202,163 / $519,311,965) so I'm not sure it'd be considered not so successful. Seems like the sequel had roughly the same level of interest from viewers as the original. I would agree that from the perspective of the narrative, they didn't juggle the characters as well as in the first film. However there were a lot more characters fighting for screen time (all of the original cast + more Wasp because she's a bigger player + more Luis because people liked him first time around + Janet + Ghost + Goliath + the tech thieves double crossing the Pyms + the SHIELD agents/Jimmy Woo)

I've never been a big fan of the epistolary format of Dracula. It feels like you're distanced from the proceedings so while it can be creepy, it's not really goosebumps hearing-sounds-at-night paranoia inducing. RE: Stephen King, I think Needful Things was the last book I read from Stephen King - and I did enjoy it. Most of his plot hooks after this period didn't hook me enough to pick up the book so I can't say if they are good or bad, but there are a few I'll eventually read (Desperation/Regulators and Dr. Sleep for example). Mind you a lot of his work seemed to get lost in the Dark Tower, the first book of which I found unreadable.

That might help on interstates, but when you get into city traffic - well you've still got distracted pedestrians and cyclists for your computer to deal with.

The push for education started in the US post-WWII. With GI's returning and women not leaving the workforce because they'd shown they could succeed in the job market of the time, companies and government worked to forestall a huge unemployment number for the GIs by encouraging high school students to complete their high school diploma rather than drop out of school at 16 and join the job market. The problem is, once you establish education as an arbitrary gate-keeper to employment, its relatively easy to lower the candidate pools by increasing the educational criteria needed to hold the job. And while some jobs really can use the extra education because of their highly specific nature, that doesn't follow for all the jobs that hold a higher education requirement. Further the push for students in higher education has been to the detriment of the trade schools, which really are a viable alternative (and the skilled trades have a deficit of people going into them).

I've tried reading DUNE at least a half-dozen times but have never managed to get more than a third into the first book.

Talk about the ideas, concepts and issues - not each other. Thanks.

I saw the first Jurassic Park multiple times at the theater. The last time I saw it, I'd mistimed the end of the movie so bad I had to run a mile and a half so as to not miss my last chance to get a ride home (instead of the leisurely walk I'd planned). Good times, good times.