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IIRC Skaen is scarred as well as missing the nose and ears so perhaps the godlike of Skaen has a body that creates scars and wounds naturally? Maybe they end up looking something like a more natural, less extreme S&M Cennobite in the Hellraiser series?

Yeah super-tech opponents popping up in a high magic world could be interesting even if it wasn't literally the Reapers. Could even bring in the idea of magic and tech not sitting well with each other similar to Arcanum (but hopefully not as broken). Probably not really a Pillars game (or ME) at that point, but it could be interesting.

I believe it's being referred to as an overbooking issue because United followed their overbooking guidelines of first offering an incentive to passengers to take a different flight followed by random selection. Arguably, if your doing logistics right, you would have reserved the seats for flight crews to be moved around, so that they booked those seats could be seen as overbooking, hence the use of the rule. Not an expert though. If one person is allowed to refuse, then they all would be. You then have less of a leg to stand on when you get to the last passenger after all others refuse to be removed, he refuses, and you remove him anyway because your applying your own rule arbitrarily.

Given her fight with the DNC higher-ups and leaving it to endorse Bernie Sanders, I imagine that the Democratic leadership and insiders will look for anything they can to use against her.

Have at thee! Last post from previous topic was... How Germany is effing up Europe if they don't want spent their money to strengthen their own defense? I understand that Nato countries maybe angry if they think that Germany don't do as what has been agreed on, and they are free to kick Germany out if nothing else helps. What? There is so many reasons I can't force myself to point them all out. But at least the basics - If we have agreenment both sides should honour it. Its manners 101 Yes this is what all NATO members should do yet only 5 NATO members are paying what they should and contributing fairly, this includes the U.S., Greece, the United Kingdom, Estonia and Poland. So its not just Germany that needs to pay more http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/NATO-Member-Countries-Trump/2017/01/25/id/770363/ I know, thats why USA requested recently that all members should pay their agreed share, and as far as I know some states responded positively - even tho they stated taht it will take few years. Some may not do it, but at least they are not shouting it into media ffs Considering that Czech uses less of their GDP to military than Germany, I would say that you should complain to your own politician first how your country don't do what is agreed on. I am, but our government promised to raise our funding, besides we are behinde Germany by 0.1 percentage Also the Czech economy and GDP is much smaller than Germany's so I would expect Germany to contribute there share with much less objection we are talking about percentages against GDP. Germany gives much more in total for sure

Topic closed for length. New one open for business here.

In game description for might is: So somehow or another physical strength in the Pillars of Eternity universe seems to stand for muscles and spiritual strength. There could be a handwave to this (something like a body-soul interface that requires physical strength to channel the full magical spiritual strength safely or something while mental strength allows one to channel for longer whatever amount of energy ones strength allows to be funneled through the body) but I'm not sure one is ever made in the game.

This forum is intended to discuss PoE2: Deadfire, to debate its mechanics and story and - at this stage - discuss what we'd like to see in this game. It is not here for posters to discuss each other or to try to tweak the nose of one another to get a reaction. Please modify your posting patterns accordingly, lest the mod team decide that it is time to alter them for you. That people were veering off-topic was already brought up before in this thread - https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/92019-things-you-want-poe-2-to-specifically-avoid-if-possible/page-9?do=findComment&comment=1903849

gfted1 beat you to it in the movie trailers thread: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/89834-nerdgasm-movie-trailers-and-clips-fall-2016-and-onward/page-6

I think the reason people go back over older areas in open-world gaming has less to do with the character build and more to do with the idea that open-world games are at their heart about exploration, and typically that exploration is multi-level (ie going back to an area with more experience either alters the area or allows you to experience more parts of the area). The narrative, while existant, is secondary to the exploration. Traditional RPGs are about narrative more than exploration. Therefore returning to an area only becomes important to the player if the narrative itself returns the player to that location.

Irish Spring as in the soap product? I have no clue the product origins, but I'd suspect since its soap, its supposed to refer to both; as in its as "clean as Irish spring water" with a fresh scent like "Ireland in the spring".

That's a fun trailer. Hope the movie is as good as that!

Since its not on the pre-vote, it must have something to do with the vote. Like showing which option is in the lead if you can't see the graphic or showing what the voter voted for or something.

You are right, I misremembered Dr. Muzyka's statement as an apology but re-reading it, its clear he did not apologize for anything. I do think the apology with respect to Hainly was for PR purposes; I don't disagree with you there. Whether a re-write is warranted or not, I couldn't say. I talked to Hainly Abrams in game and moved on without that dialogue effecting me positively or negatively - and I doubt any re-write would either. So I'm not the audience who'd care, I guess. I remember Chris Priestly and another moderator whose name escapes me getting (or giving, depending on your perspective, I guess) a lot of heat on my limited time on the old Bioware boards. I heard complaints about some later mods too, but by that point I rarely went there.

It was Arcanum wasn't it? Yes, but I've gotten over it. ...really I have... *sobs*

In light of your earlier post - Is the problem that they apologized at all or is it that they didn't apologize to everyone? This seems unclear based on your posts. As someone playing the game, I didn't really feel they need to apologize to me, no more so than Obsidian or Bethesda do, for a buggy game. Or Troika, the only developers whose game hit me with a truly game-stopping bug (where an item necessary to complete the main quest was destroyed in my inventory forcing me to relaunch the game as despite having about 20 saves, the bug was present in all of them). With respect to not apologizing for writing before, Bioware did apologize over the ending of ME3. Not sure if you count that as part of the writing, but I would. So for me at least they have been fazed by criticism of their writing before. Given that we were talking at cross purposes regarding our respective use and understanding of the word it seemed appropriate. You provided examples of your definition, I provided mine. Now we understand our comments better with context, yes?

I don't disagree, stats are abstractions for interaction into the game. So it doesn't bother me, but this particular debate has been around awhile and while it doesn't bother me, ultimately, I understand why it bothers others as it feels logically inconsistent. In retrospect, they may have been better off leaving Dex, Con and Int behind and using other descriptors that could divorce further from the D&D origins might have helped.

When I learned the word years ago, the definition was as presented in the Oxford English Dictionary: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/pander pander verb (pander to) Gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire or taste or a person with such a desire or taste) ‘newspapers are pandering to people's baser instincts’ noun dated 1A pimp. 1.1archaic A person who assists the immoral desires or evil designs of others. ‘the lowest panders of a venal press’ EDIT: I should probably also note that Pandering, as a legal charge in the US at least, is related to procuring prostitutes for someone or finding clients for prostitutes. Therefore when someone uses pandering, I - and a lot of others - are going to see it as a condemnation of those who they are declaring to be pandering. And seeing that applied to an apology by a game company seems strongly negative and very odd to me.

My confusion in this situation stems more from the fact that if we go with this definition, the entire gaming industry is built on pandering. So why exactly is it a bad thing now? Traditionally, pander has a negative context of providing gratification to base and/or undesirable desires. Porn panders to base sexual instinct, gossip columns pander to the need to spread malicious rumors, "if it bleed, it leads" journalism panders to a desire to see blood and guts, etc.

Yeah just read that. RIP.

Talking with your fellow posters about things that are "literally irrelevant" to you is relevant? So the takeaway is that you like talking about talking. Cue Inception/Xzibit memes. Sorry, I don't buy that the reason for you quoting me is simply that "you're reading the thread". Do you post nothings in all the threads you read? And, since you are a mod, you probably read a lot... What was the point you were trying to make, again? That you don't understand or care about some things other people talk about? And therefore... no one else should care either? Okay chief. But that's not quite how this whole internet thing works. To be honest, most of my posts are in WoT, so probably the vast majority of my posts could be considered nothings. And to be fair, I also have went years reading without posting anything. It was a slow 5-6 years. Anyhow, to summarize as I see it, you posted your opinion that Bio's apology was pandering, I posted mine that Bio's apology was irrelevant to me and that I didn't understand why it would be to anyone else and somehow or another you think my posting that opinion is some sort of claim that you shouldn't be able to hold your opinion. Which it isn't. If I'd thought you shouldn't hold that opinion I'd have written something like "I don't care about Bioware's apology and no one should". Which I didn't. So therefore I've made no value judgement on your opinion, nor have I suggested you should not have any opinion you wish to take. I just stated I don't understand it. Which is vastly different conceptually. I don't understand your opinion. I don't understand the use of 'pandering" unless you see the LGBTQ as having immoral or distasteful desires, needs or habits. Maybe you do. I do not. Perhaps that's the piece I'm missing. Does it matter? No again I make no value judgement on your opinion. I am trying to understand it. Trying to understand why a company apologizing to a group that you and I (presumably) are not members should matter to us. Its not going to change the game substantially; if you don't like that they included a LGBTQ character the apology and the change isn't going to remove that. So what does it matter? “For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.” ― Stephen Hawking

I'm playing ME:A and PoE right now. I should be offended at myself, obviously.

There's no such descriptor tho, there's just an abstract 'Constitution'. This whole line of argumentation is made fairly fruitless by the inclusion of such attributes as 'Intelligence', 'Charisma' or 'Resolve' - in other words, physical and mental attributes get mixed together and combined without much coherence to it anyway, might as well clear up the confusion to some extent and give them clear gameplay effects. By "descriptor" I mean the in-game text that explains the attribute. Had it said "enduring and coping with pain" I'd agree that the desciptors used to describe the attribute bridged mental and physical attributes. Since PoE was "inspired" by the BG/IWD D&D games, I think partially the issue stems from expectations. D&D classifies STR-DEX-CON and physical attributes and INT-WIS-CHA as mental ones. Part of the disconnect I feel is that CON and DEX still heavily imply physical qualities and INT-PER-RES imply mental ones. This throws MIGHT into its own category since its in-game description does state it covers both physical and non-physical things.