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I've seen the complaints about the lack of transparency but... ...I can tell where the characters are when they're behind the trees. There's a vague shape with a circle under it. I can't say that I've gotten this particular complain. Or I developed a weirdly particular x-ray vision that allows me to barely see through obfuscating layers in video games, which as far as superpowers go is about as useful as having the proportional speed of a slug.

Is there a meme for Russia shutting down memes yet?

To paraphrase Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West: "How can you trust a man who wears both pants and shorts? The man can't even trust his own legs"

Oby...is that you?

I thought Trial of Iron only deleted the save when your character died. Otherwise, wouldn't you have to play PoE all in one setting to beat the game with a character (trial of iron indeed!)

I didn't know the Forgotten Realms Lore when I played BG or IWD1. Couldn't have told you the difference between Elminster and Volo and Drizzt Do'Urden looked suspiciously like a developer puked on the keyboard. I couldn't have told you where Baldur's Gate was, where Athkatla was or where they were in relationship to the Waking Sea or Rashamon or anything like that, who the gods where, what their portfolios were or anything like that. For me, as long as there's some context I'll have an idea of what is going on even if the finer details may be lost. 1Planescape and Ravenloft 4 evah

^Seriously, it was a local news thing here (maybe national news, but I distinctly remember it on the local news). I should point out that local news LOVES scare mongering. "Tune in at 11 to see what product in your home is killing you right now."

I know it'd flipped before and would flip again. Would be totally cool to be looking at a compass when it flipped. Unless you were in a plane trying to go north or south. Anyhow, it was the thing about it destroying life as we know it was what I was wondering about. I know scientists poo-pahed it but for a minute it was a total panic bait on the news.

I'm tired of being confederated myself. Dammit people, don't you realize that never ends well for us?

See I'd like the glaciers. Be nice to get a cut in my air conditioning energy usage before I get killed by a wayward ice floe Weirdly the last couple of years we've been better on seasons than, say, the 1990s. Also I miss the theory that Earth's Magnetic field was going to invert and kill us all. Is that still a thing?

I thought that was how you got to Carnegie Hall...?

It is true, people do resist new ideas (because people resist change). Personally, I like to imagine that the Ice Age came out to much applause, but Global Warming came out of the back locker room, and they're now having a best 3 out of 5 falls, no holds barred wrestling match over which will destroy life as we know it.

Funnily, if I could keep rolling dice I didn't restart as much. I find it very hard to get the character I want with point buy (because ironically point buy makes the points more important and thus ultimately less forgiving to accidentally gimping your character when you're distracted.)

Well, first I look at a string of text and try to parse words and punctuations. Then I try to relate the words to each other so that they create a context within a sentence. Then using that context I try to further extrapolate sentence context into paragraph context. Later, I review the content in my mind to determine rising and falling action, foreshadowing, character development, setting and mood. Occasionally graphs are involved.

I've always re-rolled my characters (even if Bioware games with full voice-acting ). I've never minded replaying the opening; really its a matter of finding a character that feels right. Hoping my current Paladin is that character...

Its the new PoE (Pillars of Eternity) Law of the internet - discussion of limerick removals will be transformed to be about scientific dishonesty, scientific theory and conspiracy theory in 24-26 pages. EDIT: About Climate Change - I think part of the reason people are reluctant to accept it is because those of us alive in the 1970s remember how the earth was due for an Ice Age that would destroy civilization as we know it. Then 30 years on we're told that the world is heating up and it'll destroy civilization as we know it. Since most people wouldn't be able to parse a scientific journal (reputable or not) all they hear is talking heads going "You're going to freeze to death...no wait, you're going to drown due to rising tides because the world is heating up...or if not in coastal areas starve because food production will cease to exist because everything will become arid desert".

I can't really pick an option in the poll. So far I've enjoyed the game. I'm not done with it, though. That said, like Stun I like the concept of party-based, isometric class based games. And so I'm happy to have supported this games existance and to have supported my favorite game developer in the process. Since I was really keeping my expectations low (ie I wasn't expecting Baldur's Gate III) I find a lot to like in PoE. Is it perfect? No. But I've been playing it for some time and enjoying it, so perfection is kind of irrelevant. There are good and bad things and I'd support another PoE style game (or sequel) from Obsidian in the hopes that the good stuff will continue and the bad stuff be fixed.

I think - even in a situation where deadly force might be justified - the tool is important. They didn't train the cop in , they trained him to use guns, rifles, tactical rifles, shotguns, pepper spray, batons and/or tasers.

You know why we have false dichotomies? Because if you added a third choice, they'd be false tracheotomies. Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Be sure to tip your waitresses. ... Seriously though, I think I'd rather Obsidian use any money they raise from licensing to invest back into the company in some way, instead of using that money to add full VO to a game that was never planned to have full VO. EDIT: I know the topic has also broached fan-made full VO which I also think won't work, but hey if someone wants to do it and gets enough fans...why would I care?

This. It's painfully clear that the developers were playing favorites with the classes. Cipher got all the love cause they invented it. Wizard and Paladin clearly received quite a bit of neglect, comparatively. Not sure I can buy this; Ciphers were part of the 2.5 Million Stretch goal with Barbarians. They reflected the Psionisist in D&D (as each of the classes correspond to a D&D class) and had every chance to not be in the game at all. I think an easier (and most likely true) argument would be made that Obsidian had trouble finding places for all the D&D classes in their setting. Chanters and Ciphers are really good lore related classes. But finding a role that distinguishes Paladin, Barbarian and Fighter seemed to be a harder task (since Fighter seems to tank as good or better than Paladin and the extra abilities of the Barbarian don't really improve its damage potential heavily over the Fighter, in my experience). I mean it could be true, but to me the problem was being beholden to the D&D class distinctions because they choose to D&D-mirroring classes.

This is a good point. However, to play Devils advocate 2 and 3 wouldn't be an issue for a hypothetical VO DLC. Everything in the game is already written, so adding VO to it wouldn't effect the writing at all. But it raises a problem you wouldn't have if total VO was "in" from the begining - Obs opted for a description & dialogue written presentation. So do you continue only voicing the things being said (thus meaning the game isn't really completely voice acted) or do you add a narrator to have complete narration (which means it now has to be done in a way that meshes with each individual voice performance)

There's not a mention of how the moons travel (other than both are faster than our moon). If moonrise and set are at the same time (ie synchronous with the day) with respect to the visible moon, Beläfa, then the day could be split into threes and fives rather easily (sunrise (sunset), moonrise (moonset), (no sun, no moon (Cawldha Dev rise/set)), I'd think.

After CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK didn't work well, they didn't have the budget to continue the Necromonger storyline directly, so went back to a "Pitch Black" type of story. I liked it a lot, and hope they get to do the last two films.

Being able to recognize a physical difference (skin color, eye color and type, hair type) is not logically followed by hating/oppressing those things that are other to yourself by necessity. There has to be an intervention to create the idea that that which is other to me is inferior/hated/evil/whatever.