Everything posted by Amentep
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Road to the White House 2016
Who would be an inappropriate woman president? Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann for starters? I get what you're saying. You're using inappropriate to mean "not suitable" whereas I was trying to read it as "not proper".
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Road to the White House 2016
Who would be an inappropriate woman president?
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
Still want to know more about the gameplay.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
There's really no need to complete the set unless you want to. The only thing that would ever be an issue is you can't create/play toy boxes based on themes/game elements that only exist in what you don't have (which I think isn't too often the case excepting specific skins) with respect to gameplay. But there is always more stuff coming to get - plus Disney stuff is collectible on its own, so I've heard of Disney collectors buying the Disney classic stuff (say the Mickey, Donald or Princess characters) without buying the game / non-Disney stuff. That can be a headache itself (which I think is par for the course - heard of the same thing with Skylanders). I've heard Skylanders is pretty fun too (I think unlike DI, you have one game and each figure unlocks specific locations in the game there). Not clear on where Lego Dimensions is going with their TtL game.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
Its a "Toys to Life" game system (similar in thought to Skylanders). You buy a toy, put it on a platform and the character the toy represents appears in the game. In infinity you can build simple games (typically action, platform and racing) and each toy and each set can unlock things in the toy box to facilitate building. Toy sets and character are usually reserved for those characters (so a Star Wars character can be used in a Toy Box or in the Star Wars Set. A Marvel character can be used in a Toy Box or a Marvel Set. But the Marvel character can't be used in a Star Wars set or vice versa. They can meet in the Toy Box - and besides creating your own you can download a bunch from Disney that fans make and upload).
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An old but endless discussion...the Backer Achievement
I honestly can't fathom achievements. I don't see why anyone even likes them, much less tries to collect them. They range from "can't miss" (DOOR TO ADVENTURE: You opened your first door! Congratulations) to nigh impossible (MIDNIGHTER: kill 100000000000000000 opponents between 11:59 pm and 12:01 pm to unlock). That said, since people seem to care a lot about it for whatever reason that seems alien and foreign to me, it probably would have been better to not lock the retail customer away from 100%.
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If Pillars of Eternity had romances
Were they straight up born without reproductive organs? I guess that's true. Romantic love and familial bonds should really use different words rather than share the word "love". Moving the goalposts... you asked if people had heard of eunuchs being in love and now add in "But they must be born it!" when people responded in the positive. Many eunuchs were made eunuchs before puberty, effectively preventing them from developing into men and yet they still could have sexual desires for others (which seems to be what you really mean when you say love, not love itself), close enough? People can also have romantic love without engaging in sex as well, some people just mistake sexual desire for love. Sexual desire seems to be the different word for the kind of love you are thinking off, so there's the different word for ya, desire. I can totally see a Godlike travelling the world for another like themselves who can love the way they do. Maybe they even feel emotions differently from the others? I know I missed most of the boat on this, but if memory serves me, castrato Giovanni Velluti was well known for his sexual misadventures (often with wives whose husbands didn't realize that him having been castrated before puberty didn't mean he couldn't have sex).
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Sawyer on vacation?
Can we eat doughnuts if we do like it, or do we have to not like it to eat doughnuts now...?
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What's on the idiot box Part 4 (or something)
I liked Ep 3 on Bates Motel (I'm not a binge watcher - I have no time - so I get only one episode a week unless something special happens). Seeing some of Norman's problems surfacing was interesting. Agents of SHIELD - man this isn't going to end well for anybody, I don't think.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
To no ones surprise, Disney Infinity 3.0's launch is centered around Star Wars: https://infinity.disney.com/news/3204/disney-infinity-3-revealed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWnA-yXUmJI
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Journalism and Bias in the Gaming Industry
Whedon Recalls "Unpleasant" "Age Of Ultron" Memories, Quits Twitter: http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/whedon-recalls-unpleasant-age-of-ultron-memories-quits-twitter
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An Honest but Harsh Review on the Setting
If Eora speaks language "A" and language "A" has a relationship with language "B" and the relationship between language "A" and "B" is equivalent to say, the relationship between English and Cornish/Irish, what's the issue with representing Eora langauge "A" and "B" with English and Cornish/Irish?
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The Funny Things thread
I don't find that funny. :/
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An Honest but Harsh Review on the Setting
Cūthe habban béonde wiersa - hit cūthe habben ealdgewyrht geondbrædan in Eald Englisc With appologies to those who actually speak and read Old English, unlike myself. Seriously though, the PC is a traveler to a foreign land - it'd seem strange to me if everything in that foreign land was completely familiar. I recall traveling to the UK and meeting a Scottish man whose accent was so strong he might have been talking a foreign language despite it being English. Or traveling to Wales where a lot of the place names WERE in a foreign language. Even though, nominally, the UK speaks the English I've been trained in, there was a history there that wasn't all from the Angles.
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Journalism and Bias in the Gaming Industry
Even more can be seen here: https://storify.com/Astojap/wehdon-twitter-hate
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Journalism and Bias in the Gaming Industry
I don't know. You tell me. I'm not doing any research. No. I'll spend more effort to get you to tell me about this than it would take to just look it up. This, I swear. Now tell me about what people were angry about in witcher 1! There were cards of nekkid women you could collect by sexxoring the women in game, as I understand it.1 It was changed to pictures of scantily clad women you could collect by sexxoring them in the US version 1At least this is the only controversy I recall...
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Journalism and Bias in the Gaming Industry
Wait, wait, wait... ...so people think that Black Widow referred to herself as a monster because she couldn't have children and NOT because of the flashbacks we were shown indicating she'd been trained since childhood to kill people, including having to shoot a person execution style as a pre-teen in her training - a past that she's already implied had indelibly ruined her being able to redress by being a "good guy" in the first Avengers film and was used to attempt to blackmail her from releasing SHIELD files to the public in order to keep her from exposing Hydra in CA: Winter Soldier? Seriously?
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Some things need to come with base game! (soundtrack)
Amentep replied to Genghis Khan Machiavellian's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)Then...don't buy it?
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Locations of In-Game memorials
I haven't seen them all and since there may be spoilers, I'll say from what I've read, they reside at:
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Journalism and Bias in the Gaming Industry
Any source for that? Seems like its currently linked to a tweet that wasn't received well criticising Jurassic World. http://www.themarysue.com/joss-whedon-deleted-twitter-account/ Jurassic World bit: http://www.themarysue.com/feminism-aint-easy-joss-whedon/
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Journalism and Bias in the Gaming Industry
It was named by Gail Simone in reference to Kyle Raynor's(Green Lantern) girlfriend being killed and left in the refridgerator for him to find. She felt female supporting characters were misproportionately killed off violently to give male characters motivation to fight the villain as opposed to male characters. This was a good point as Uncle Ben and Jason Todd are the only examples of this I can think of. It has been adopted by SJWs however to mean any time a female character is killed. To be honest, it was a trend at the time. There were a lot of characters killed in gruesome ways in the 90s as part of the grim and gritty trend. That the majority of them were women was notable, but there were instances of men being killed as well (the "Eclipso" bloodbath, for example, or the destruction of the JSA that allowed DC to bring forth a new round of mantle-wearers). But it was something that had always been in comics: Mom and Dad - Batman Katana's Husband - Katana Dan "Blue Beetle" Garrett - Ted "Blue Beetle" Kord1 Roy Lincoln's Dad - Roy "The Human Bomb" Lincoln Ted "Wildcat" Grant - Yolanda "Wildcat" Montez 2 Vernon Van Dyne - Janet "Wasp" Van Dyne Could probably think of more if I cared to. It goes back to the roots of the superhero comic (Doc Savage's first adventure is finding out why his father died; Richard Benson, the Avenger's first adventure is about avenging the death of his wife and daughter to criminals, etc.) and possibly the way they're so often inspired by mythology (where a lot of people died propelling stories) 1DC origin only 2Technically Grant didn't die but had his back broken, so you could argue it not being quite the same thing
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Movies you've seen recently
And the Outsiders. Depending on what continuity you're talking about.
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Sawyer on vacation?
I remember back when I was a mod on BIS (yeah its one of THESE stories again) it was great to have my mod account and my poster account. There was never any confusion about whether I was posting as a mod or as my usual happy casual poster type. So I can understand having a stealth mode as a developer, in general, one so you can be you and one where you can be Mr./Ms. Developer-with-important-developery-type-things-to-say.
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Sawyer on vacation?
He sets style standards, and is followed by paparazzi and appeared on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" making where he vacations THE destination spot for the next year?
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An Honest but Harsh Review on the Setting
^You are correct, I meant "V letter" not "V sound". Stupidity on my part.