Everything posted by Amentep
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The US Election, Part XI
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.
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What's on the idiot box?
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.
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Azaven constitution check and Thassilonian Sins
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.
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Fidel Castro Dead at 90
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.
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Movies You've Seen Recently Thread
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?
- Movies You've Seen Recently Thread
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Not getting gold when completing scenarios
If you can provide any information asked for here -https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/86274-reporting-issues-useful-information-to-provide/ - it may help devs identify the issue.
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Multiple Bugs
Can you provide any of the information here - https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/86274-reporting-issues-useful-information-to-provide/ If so it may help the developers if you can provide it.
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What's on the idiot box?
I've not watched the show, got it from this article about the show - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/10/11/foxs-pitch-is-fiction-but-a-female-mlb-pitcher-isnt-that-far-fetched/
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What You Did Today
Glad you're okay and the fire didn't spread I've never had a kitchen fire (thankfully) but the experts seem to say you should be able to smother a fire in a pot or pan with a non-glass lid to cover the pot/pan and turn the heat off. Baking soda (not powder) can be used to smother small fires as well.
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What's on the idiot box?
prediction: the first female mlb player will be an american league knuckleball pitcher. haven't seen the show you reference, so am not knowing if she is a knuckler. HA! Good Fun! She's a screwball pitcher in the show, as I understand it.
- The Funny Things Thread
- The Funny Things Thread
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
IIRC Bioware have already stated that the trip to Andromeda will take 600 years. Which is probably why they've set it as a dual exploration/colonization thing. I'd imagine there's more buy-in for volunteers when they can take their family with them in cryosleep and such.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
I don't think there is a Hercules in Space by name, but one of the 1980s Lou Ferrigno Hercules films has sequences in space. I'm not sure the changes in Andromeda could be attributed to simply "it wasn't working" (I'd also dispute that it "went for fun" too, since my memories are that the series got bogged down pretty quickly in its mythology and overarching stories). The show itself was cobbled together from unused ideas of Gene Roddenberry (part of the idea for this series can be seen in the TV movies GENESIS II, STRANGE NEW WORLD and PLANET EARTH); Sorbo was a star coming off Hercules and the production didn't want to bury him in an ensemble; the ensemble included Rev Bem whose full body suit was wearing out the actor and Trance Gemini whose makeup shifted colors in natural light from the studio and necessitated creating artificial reasons why the character showed up in location scenes. I think a number of the supporting cast existed because they weren't sure what the show really was, and it wasn't until it'd been running for a bit that they were able to figure out how to address it (I don't say this to mean it was bad; Tom Baker's first season on Doctor Who has a similar feel; Harry Sullivan exists as a companion because they weren't sure who the Doctor was going to be; once they got through the scripts commissioned before they figured it out - they wrote the character out).
- The Funny Things Thread
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Chris Avellone hates Obsidian!
I was totally the market for FO:BOS when it came out - I liked the setting, I liked the console action games that had come out around that time (Dark Alliance, Champions of Norrath, Hunter: The Reckoning) but I just didn't like FO:BOS.
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The US Election, Part XI
Similar but not the same as I understand it. The Democratic party has Super-Delegates to the Democratic convention, so while the primary elections will determine which delegates or sent (or in what proportion for non-Winner-takes-all states), the Super-Delegates can, potentially, swing the party away from the vote of delegates. No such entity exists in the Electoral College (and shouldn't, IMO).
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Revelation Quill Bug
Amentep replied to FlowingBits's topic in Pathfinder Adventures: Technical Support (Spoiler Warning!)It isn't spamming, in my opinion, since each bug is relevant to the forum and relevant to the developers. I agree with mccrispy that ideally a poster should check to see if a bug has been reported and post in the existing thread with the useful information to provide for their own encounter with that bug before starting a new thread. But if you've found 10 new bugs for the latest release that haven't been reported before, feel free to post ten new threads.
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Heals stopped working, entire game super buggy
Hello, sorry you're encountering the bug and alas I can't help you with it. However to help the developers, can you provide all of the general information and any gameplay information you think is relevant - General (For all issues) What device type are you on? Android/iPad, etc. What version of the OS are you running? Android 4.4, iOS 9.3, etc. What model is the device? Galaxy Tab 3, iPad Mini 4, etc. What is your PFID#? (Located in the settings menu) Gameplay Is pass & play on? Is permadeath on? Tutorial, Story Mode, or Quest Mode? (If not quest mode, did you recently enter it?) Characters in Party Location of each character Turn Order Scenario & Scenario Difficulty. If on non-normal difficulties, which wildcard powers are in play? What card was encountered when the issue occurred? (Or check, or card just played, etc) Did the issue occur on the first explore or a subsequent explore? If subsequent, what card did you last encounter? What was its resolution? (IE, you just encountered an enchanter and failed the check, and on an additional explore you ran into a blessing of the gods but didn't auto acquire it) Did other characters aid the check? What did they use to aid it? Was the encounter a Horde? (Skeleton Horde, Goblin Raid, Zombie Nest, Zombie Horde, Garrison Location Power w/ multiple characters, Henchmen encounter in Black Fang w/ multiple characters) This may help the developers to identify the problem when they log this problem.
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Chris Avellone hates Obsidian!
I still remember the weekend FALLOUT BROTHERHOOD OF STEEL was announced. Crazy times on the old message boards...
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Favorite Charities
I donated a bunch of stuff to Goodwill of West Palm Beach back when I moved out of South Florida. I was carrying boxes out a U-haul into their warehouse and the two ladies inside were going through them. One of them liked one of my ex's purses I guess. She took it out of the box to her car. I figured whatever. I had a receipt for it. Not much more I could do. Never had any problems with Goodwill here, and have donated a fair amount of things to them over the years, particularly clothes still in good condition.
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New Mod in the Sandbox: Amentep!
No alts. While I think there was legitimate reasons to go with an alt back in the BIS days, I'm not so sure they make sense now, so didn't even ask if I could do it. Plus I have so many logins for everything now, it'd take me 40 minutes to remember my login everytime I wanted to mod something. I hear there were masts, yards, sails and cordage, so I'd think rigging was involved...
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when I have two characters roles unlocked, the game crashs
Payuntio, thanks for your report. Could you provide any information listed here - https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/86274-reporting-issues-useful-information-to-provide/ - so those who can perhaps hel will have as much information as possible to find the issue? General (For all issues) What device type are you on? Android/iPad, etc. What version of the OS are you running? Android 4.4, iOS 9.3, etc. What model is the device? Galaxy Tab 3, iPad Mini 4, etc. What is your PFID#? (Located in the settings menu) Gameplay Is pass & play on? Is permadeath on? Tutorial, Story Mode, or Quest Mode? (If not quest mode, did you recently enter it?) Characters in Party Location of each character Turn Order Scenario & Scenario Difficulty. If on non-normal difficulties, which wildcard powers are in play? What card was encountered when the issue occurred? (Or check, or card just played, etc) Did the issue occur on the first explore or a subsequent explore? If subsequent, what card did you last encounter? What was its resolution? (IE, you just encountered an enchanter and failed the check, and on an additional explore you ran into a blessing of the gods but didn't auto acquire it) Did other characters aid the check? What did they use to aid it? Was the encounter a Horde? (Skeleton Horde, Goblin Raid, Zombie Nest, Zombie Horde, Garrison Location Power w/ multiple characters, Henchmen encounter in Black Fang w/ multiple characters)
- Combining necromancer cleric and gunslinger