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I understand indie games are indie games because their budget is small, but I don't think that justifies using people who clearly can't draw for crap, those soldier mugshots look hideous. I dunno, the ones on the website looked functional; maybe not spectacular but not hideous to me.

Fire Emblem: Awakening is still a squad-based tactics game. The only real choice is in matching character up in battle to develop relationships; the stronger the relationship the better stats that pairing characters up gives. A line of friends of equal level or so to the enemy is going to squash them (provided they have decent weapons and you allow for particular class weaknesses). Within the relationships are the ability to marry characters; married character's children from the future will appear in the present and can be recruited to make the army bigger and these characters have stats and skills derrived from the parents (and if the parent has been more than one class, they may have quite the skill list to inherit).

The COPs spoof was one of my favorite mini-games in SR2; it was sorely missed in 3 & 4 for me. The septic tank minigame...I never found it fun. Had trouble keeping the controls going correctly (but I sucked at driving anyhow).

Well that's pretty much it; DVD pirates (again excepting the collector-to-collector market) tends to be all about price point. "I have to see this, but if I go I have to take my wife and kids and it'll cost over $50 then there's all the food...or I can buy a $5 DVD from the back of this van no questions asked. The VOD and MOD markets in the US, though, have been slowly eroding the main DVD pirate market in my experience. If people can get what they want fast and cheap, the alternatives that are fast, cheap and low quality don't look as good. I think the same is true for video games; even now I think the online services (fast, cheap, safe, sales) have put a dent in "casual piracy" leaving only those who'll pirate anything, those who can't afford anything and those who have no legitimate means to get a game.

Well it certainly helps keep their name out there, of course. And if they want the Pillar's setting to become a multi-game setting (possibly even featuring different styles of game set in it), it probably can't hurt to demo it to other producers.

Well I guess not everyone in the world is as perfect as you. Seems reasonable enough that people would look more favourably at alternatives if they feel the 'legitimate' retailer is just screwing them. So they'd buy cheaper pirated DVDs, etc. My experience with people who buy pirated DVDs* is not that they're thinking "Yes, I am doing this to protest the outrageous prices for these movies before the ridiculous retailer mark-ups; I shall purchase the DVD from illegitimate means thus allowing me to strike a blow against the corporations who extort us all for high quality entertainment" so much as they're thinking "Oh, hey X-Men: Days of Future Past on DVD for $5! Now I don't have to go to the theater!". YMMV, of course. *this is excepting, of course the "collector to collector" market buyer who is typically trying to find movies that aren't available in their country through any legitimate means.

Well it looks interesting to me so far. Will look for more information to see how it shapes up.

I suspect the problem is that regardless of the intent of the poster, there will be viewers who'll think "**** yeah!" when they see the video. It does remove - to me as well - any ability for the video to be funny.

Its easy to miss, unfortunately. In my experience, just like when you drop certain vowels the reader can still read the sentence, dropping prepositions can lead to a person reading the sentence and mentally inserting the correct preposition into the phrase.

Grrr...this line: "Researchers at the University of Illinois analysed data on fatalities from every hurricane that made landfall in the United States from 1950 to 2012." was followed by this line: "Prior to the decision in the late 1970s to alternate male and female names, hurricanes were only given feminine names, a practice born out of the belief that storms, like women, were unpredictable." This means that the data UI is looking at is skewed - by at least 20 years of data - to favor feminine storms doing more damage as from 1950 to sometime in the 1970s all storms held feminine names. The idea of drawing a conclusion based on such flawed data is ridiculous.

I'm not following you, what do you mean in the context of this discussion by "neglect to get outrages over the fact that profiling is being done every single day around the world" My suspicion is that he's saying that the game highlights a problem that perhaps as a society we should be outraged over but aren't - namely the day to day profiling of people within our society and how the use of the "profiler" in Watch Dogs is an underline to the dangers of real profiling, ramped up in Video Game style to a level which its odoriferousness cannot be ignored.

Funnily enough, as I recall linguists aren't sure of the origins of "g-string". There is a reference to "geestring" from around 1877 referring to loincloths, but the reason for the attribution is unknown (theorized that "gee" and, subsequently, "g" perhaps stood for "groin", which may not have been used in polite society at the time but that is certainly uncertain.)

Does the test actually tell you at any point that it's incorrect? I saw no grading of any of the actual individual answers. I do agree that it's a valid sentence though, particularly if it's in response to the question "Did you end up going to the beach today, or did you go somewhere else?" "We *did* go to the beach, and it was lovely". Note the sentence does not have a "to" in it. We did go the beach We did go to the beach

I love SR3 and SR4 but I'd agree that in general I probably enjoyed SR2 best (but then it was my gateway drug to the SR universe).

Whoops, don't want to bring the thread down with too much text, so umm...how about:

Paper all the way for me. I understand why people like digital versions, but I'm not a fan of them to be honest.

I actually don't own a camera, so difficult to do.

Went to a comic convention yesterday and bought some comics. Now my legs are sore from all the walking and standing. But, mmmmmmm....comics!

Am I the only person who doesn't know anyone who looks like these people?

I actually think he's talking about giving the player character creation choices that fly in the face of the railroading the story does to the character (like having rogue as a class but being put in situations where being a specific type of rogue is nonsensical. The height of this, IMO, is Hawke in DA2 being able to be an apostate mage without the Chantry falling on him/her like a tonne of bricks simply because the game doesn't support that even though, realistically that's what should have happened).

Our top three guesses for your English dialect: 1. American (Standard) 2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics 3. Canadian Our top three guesses for your native (first) language: 1. English 2. Dutch 3. Norwegian

Saw Maleficient over the weekend. Thought it was pretty good; I think there's a few things they could have developed in a stronger fashion (and rumors of at least 15 minutes cut from the film makes me think some of that may have been). Still it was a fun revisionist fantasy telling of the Disney version of the fairy tale.

can't you romance characters in fire emblem: awakening? tell bruce that it were buckets o' fun when you romanced an elf girl (or boy?) and got yourself married. c'mon, it will make his day. HA! Good Fun! Haha, yeah as Drudanae linked, you can "romance" characters (take them to S support). You can do this with a number of characters, though, and the character's children travel back in time to try and avert their future from happening. Many of the characters have friendships beyond that (going to A level support). Support levels add bonuses if the characters fight next to each other, so its an important part of the game.

I left Bioware's boards during the DA2 development (particularly the Bethany Romance threads). I've only been back when someone makes a specific reference somewhere about something worth reading there. Prior to that, I was periodically active, particularly in the JE2 group when the BSN started.

If the person who owns the copyright publishes an item that they have the right to publish in any format that they wish - including putting their material on torrents for all to download, it is their right as the copyright holder to publish in that fashion (or even in multiple fashions). This is a vast difference from someone who doesn't want their copyrighted material to go on torrents but others put it up there anyway.