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My memory is that Discovery is set to tell a serial story with this charter as the protagonist. The next series may focus on a different character and so onm

Moved a giant metal desk that used to be a computer desk but had become a junk container out of my house. Sadly, however, the junk is still there. So that's probably my next few days too. Hope I don't trip and kill myself at night on crap in the floor. "It's so sad...he slipped on the Icewind Dale map and hit his head on his shredder..."

I quite liked Suicide Squad in the theaters. Looking forward to the extended cut.

I've found them interesting to read to understand characters I haven't used much yet (Harsk and Lini) or to see some long term thought on the one I have (Merisiel)

And to be fair in the books, Hargrid can and does still do magic (his broken wand is held in his umbrella) he's legally got issues if caught. But the implication of FANTASTIC BEASTS is that the Obscurus is related to kids suppressing their magic and/or being open to creating an Obscurus within themselves due to lack of training. It also lies a heavy implication as to why magical societies find magic schools such a necessity.

So, yeah, it was absolutely meant to be the first in a trilogy of games. Yes it was totally sold on the idea that it was going to be a trilogy. Which makes its transition from heroic pulp sci-fi swashbuckling adventure to horrors-of-war military campaign war story so mystifying. I can't help but wonder if the real difference in the games as we see them was down to the change in lead writer (Drew Karpyshyn to Mac Walters) Honestly while I thought the end of ME3 was a let down on multiple levels, the thing that made the second and especially the third less replayable for me was that tonal shift, not the daftness of the immediate end. I played ME1 (including the Mako stuff) multiple times, 2 and 3...not so much.

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Probably would have helped if I quoted the original post I was replying to in order for there to be context there...but maybe its not needed after all.

My thought is that the dice chosen is typically used to represent the chance of success the designers want something to have and the more numbers the more nuance you can have. Lets say you want a check to have a base 60% chance to fail. 60% of 6 is 3.6; so to represent 60% with a 6 sided dice you either have to go with 3/6 (50% chance) or 4/6 (67%) chance. If you went with ten sided dice you could make 6/10 your score and achieve a 60% base fail rate. If you go with a 20 sided dice, you can now start looking at half-percentages on one die (excepting .5). So 65% would be 13. Note some systems used to use direct percentile dice (two ten sided dice, 0 - 9) allowing the player to roll the tens and ones slots on a percentage up to 100% or up from 00% (depending on how you agreed to set your rolls). This of course leads to the obvious problem of arguing over which dice was the 10s slot... Original D&D stats were derived from 3d6 (3 six sided dice, or 1 six sided dice rolled 3 times). So STR, CON, DEX, INT, WIS, CHA ranged from 3-18 ± racial stats with very little means of raising stats. You used to also need a full battery of dice - d4, d6, d8, d12, d20, percentile dice and rarely a 100 sided die. And in the early days use could use chits for non-standard dice roles like 1d3 or 1d5...anyhow d20 system kind of standardized things to d4, d6, d8, d12, d20 and thanks to the open gaming license, a lot of systems revised their core rules to be more d20 friendly as I understand it.

The obvious answer is going to Andromeda means they don't have to detangle the end of the original series.

We do not talk about the purge. This year?

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It appears this thread has run its course; the issue has been reported for the developers to see and if new players encounter it they can see this on a search and then start a new thread to provide more information on how they encountered it.

And you are certainly entitled to feel that way. My experience on this forum (and Interplay and Black Isle Studios previously) is that there are points were the Devs have to choose between being responsive to the community and dealing with issues that have been identified (and trying to replicate those that have not). I'm sure they are grateful for the posts by users here, whether they have the time to say it for each post or not. Or even to acknowledge they've logged a bug for the I reports/testing. Your mileage may vary, of course. There is nothing in the forum rules that says you can't complain. We are only asked to not post material that is abusive, defamatory, libelous, harassing, hateful, obscene, profane, vulgar, or illicit; from spamming, from posting discriminatory remarks or from impersonating a real person (and a few other provisions) I believe that leaves plenty of room to register complaints, to be negative over development of the game or speed of fixes.

You can also PM forum moderators if you're not sure if something should be reported or not. I think some frustration is understandable; it's seen in all forums I've been a part of when bugs have been encountered. As I understand it the PACG ap has ten people on the team and only two that I've seen checking the forums - at least to post. We don't know if anyone has logged issues without posting. With a patch pending the team may be focusing on getting the patch out rather than posting here. I think we can at best just post as much information about bugs we encounter and wait for Obsidian to check the threads and fix the issues.

Batman's original appearance he sported a gun. Which he used. In 1940 issue he used the bat plane to gun down men who'd been turned into giant monsters by Dr. Hugo Strange. However there were already complaining about comics and kids and National Periodicals made a line wide mandate - their heroes didn't kill. This held until at least the 1980s when comics had completed their transition to the direct market and had primarily changed to an adult oriented product. However it should be noted that the 1989 BATMAN film also had Batman killing thugs during the bell tower fight (and fir the record, the people who complained about Superman killing Zod in MAN OF STEEL forgot he killed all the Phantom Zone criminals in one version of his origin - an act that led the character to adopt his no killing stance) As an aside, National's no-kill stance was not the industry's norm and most Golden Age Heroes had some deaths on their hands - even Fawcett's Captain Marvel often seen as one of the most whimsical charcters/series.

To be fair though, it'd my understanding they're generally speaking not supposed to. School pull all sorts of shenanigans to hide or improve numbers. When I was in HS one of the best performing schools in the area wouldn't provide weak students with their school number, so only the strongest student's scores ended up in the school's naturally high SAT average.

Does this thread seem to match your experience? http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/90170-sins-of-the-saviors-thassilonian-sins-scenario-can-not-complete/page-2?hl=movement

Yeah, LoT is the only one I'm watching regularly, so I'd initially thought your version of things (only watching the show) but with all the other Flashpoint changes I became uncertain if that was the case.

At least locally, they can transfer disruptive students to special schools to keep them from disrupting classrooms. And they can expel students based on actions in school (fighting, drugs, weapons, etc), but I'm not aware that an average public school with no special programming could turn away students (and in those cases, as I understand it, they could only turn away students from the special program). I could be wrong, of course, but that's my understanding of it.

They do that to keep their averages up to seem like a better more attractive school, and it makes public schools look worse. It also points out the hypocrisy of criticizing public schools that - unlike private or charter schools - can't reject students who aren't going to perform well, and further are being held to the standard that they 'fail' if they can't help all students. The line of thinking seems so pervasive in modern thought - that essentially education is a manufacturing job. The warehouse (school) gets material (children) with which they produce a shirt (graduate). This is nothing like what schools actually do - in fact it kind of misses the point of education. And I'm not saying that education in the US can't be criticized - I certainly have my own feelings about it - but it is (IMO) kind of silly to create impossible standards for public schools and then complain when the schools can't meet them.

I watched the Supergirl that tied in to the Flash episode. The fight scenes we're maybe not as big as what's seen on display in the Flash episode - however I think they had a couple of episodes last season that allowed Supergirl to really display all the Kryptonian powers based on previews and teasers I'd seen. First time I'd watched a full Supergirl episode. Since I'm not watching Flash though...I had a question. Cisco is mad at Barry for changing time with the result that Cisco's brother was killed. But how does he know that happened? None of the other people who'd had their history changed (like Diggle) knew it. Stein didn't totally know it (he knew his history was changing but not why) and he's a time traveler.

I don't know anything with respect to the development of this game, but my memory from backing the game is that Obsidian's PILLARS OF ETERNITY was designed - and thus tested - to expect the player to use as full a party as they could. They didn't prioritize soloing the game or making sure it was possible. The physical card game is playable one player, but has the caveat iirc that not all characters were equal for solo play. My guess (perhaps wrongly) is the additional modes were tested with likely parties rather than solo play. Again no special knowledge, so I could be wrong.

Given the track record of the US, the alternative was getting replaced by a CIA puppet dictator. Sort of like Batista(who Castro overthrew) or Pinochet. While I wouldn't say Castro was good in the sense of being ideologically close to my ideal or good in practice, it's hard to imagine the alternative that wasn't as bad or worse. Its probably also fair to point out that Batista was showing no indications that he didn't plan to be a lifelong dictator himself. Unlike his first stint as President, he wasn't elected for president his second time around - he'd led a military coup after losing the election and installed himself as president. He reportedly had done many of the same things that Castro would later be accused of doing as well.

was that beyonce. pffffft. Maybe she'll be playing a Ruby Rhod type role? I'm not sure if Beyonce has the acting chops to nail that type of role as perfectly as Chris Tucker did, though, despite her decades of experience in the entertainment industry. I can't say the trailer leaves me inspired, apart from the visuals, but I'll hold out a tiny flicker of hope based on how freakin' awesome The 5th Element was. Are you all referring to Rihanna in the VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS trailer?