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Seems to me they're doing the same thing Obsidian did with Project: Eternity which heavily touted Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale and the Infinity Engine despite the fact that its not set in the Forgotten Realms or the Planes of the D&D game, nor using Bioware's engines. Its a hook. They're saying. "We liked Torment. We're going to do a game that explores themes similar to PST. It'll have "torment" in the title. But it won't be set in the Planescape campaign setting because Hasbro wouldn't license it to us". But just as PE isn't going to be Baldur's Gate 3, Icewind Dale 3 or Planescape 2: Electric Boogaloo, neither is this game. Don't really see what the big deal is, tbh. Really? Because I always figured if another Planescape game had been done at best its only connections to Torment would be references (like Dak'kon's blades or some other relic) because the story of those characters was - IMO - done and that really only leaves the abiltyi for the sequel to be thematic in nature. Maybe it'd be less of an issue if Black Isle had done the PS1 Planescape game...? EDIT: Clarity.

Even if the government went home to home, building to building etc...there's too many places in the US for people to hide guns and there's no way the government could afford to check every square inch and blockade areas they've checked. So the idea that the government could take away everyone's guns is silly. They can't even keep convicted felons from getting guns even though they're actually supposed to be doing that.

I thought about suggesting "The Eternity Project" but it sounds like a 70s album-rock band.

I'd argue it sounds like a problem of "silent expectations". I know a woman who is a mother and she constantly complains that her daughter-in-law never volunteers to help her in the kitchen. She hates people helping her in the kitchen and wants people out from underfoot when she's cooking. But she still feels like her DIL should volunteer to help in the kitchen to show that her DIL cares. And then she can politely decline the offer. More than likely her son told his wife that his mom hates having people in the kitchen and she just avoids the area when she's cooking not realizing that she's slowly grating on the nerves of her mother-in-law. I'd have to agree with your father on the first two of his points. We've been to a lot of parties and also held a lot of parties and never been in a situation where we had to get wine after guests have arrived. It shows that you're not well organised and running things by the seat of your pants. If we arrived at a party and the host had to go out and get wine after guests arrived, We'd be thinking 'what have they been doing all day to be getting wine now?' This is the exact reason why I hate giving or going to parties. I understand some folk feel like that being invited to a party is a honor bound contract that their every whim is catered to by a coterie of servants, but really if'n ye don't like gettin' some vittles and some hooch then you can get your back-end of a donkey back in your cart and throw yourself your own dang party without me. Next you'll be saying that a clean shirt and jeans isn't acceptable dress, that we all need to be in fancy-shmancy evening wear and the silverware should be laid out in accordance to Hoyle...* *This works best if you imagine "Gabby" Hayes sayin' it.

i always thought the gun thing was because we think that we're out to get ourselves. Yes there's a bit of a "defend ourselves from the tyranny of England" in the intent, but also "defend ourselves in case our government becomes a tyranny" too. I think looking at logical gun control makes sense; particularly looking at closing the loopholes that allow people to get around the current laws and perhaps looking at ways to keep guns moving into black markets as well. But generally speaking bans don't work in the US, IMO. But I also don't think that a tragedy like this would be prevented if there were not guns; something like the Bath School killings in 1927 (38 children killed) illustrates how a particularly dedicated and desperate person will find a way to be destructive with or without guns.

"The Obsidian Crowdfunded RPG Initially Known As Project Eternity" Because regardless of what the name ends up, it'll always be "Project Eternity" to me...

Its sad that such a universally loved movie couldn't break 15 million US gross. Supposedly a 50 million take would have greenlit a sequel. I figured that was an easy task then it debuted at number 6 or so behind a damn re-release of Finding Nemo. It should have done a lot better. Alas, what could have been.

A lot of its going to depend on how they implement the classes. Cipher is probably the 1st choice based on what little I know. Druids, Barbarians and Chanters I'm also interested to see what they do with them.

Stupid non-canonical theory probably contradicted by some bit of information I forgotten from ME2 or 3, but... In ME1 if you use the object the Asari consort gave you on a special Prothean artifact you find on one of the worlds/moons you moon-buggy across, you get a vision of a small group of Protheans capturing and experimenting on early hominids on earth. I've always assumed because of that scene that humanity was engineered by the Protheans to be "awesome" the next time a cycle came and humanity was at the reaper extinction level.

Not sure if this is funny or awesome: University of Chicago gets an interesting mystery package - http://uchicagoadmissions.tumblr.com/post/37809971913/indiana-jones-mystery-package-we-dont-really

I really don't care one way or the other about LARPing. But I really hate when people are like "I hate A" "I hate B" "I shall describe A as being B to show my disdain for both." IMO, If you think that a costume design looks poor, say it looks poor, not looks like a bad LARPer.

Being a bit more serious, there was an old Doctor Strange issue where this guy basically knew shout magic; each word, perfectly shouted created an effect. I'm really thinking that's going to be what the Chanter does channeling energy into the old texts and using those words to cause things to happen. I'm hoping its not just buffing, though, as I find buff oriented classes fairly boring.

It's possibly just a physical representation of his power. Aloth: "Hey everyone! Tremble at the physical representation of my power!" Barmaid: "Let me get this straight, your physical representation of power is to hold a snake in your hand" Aloth: "Yeah, a glowy purple snake that enlarges as I channel my power in it." Barmaid: "Could your representation of power be any more phallic?"

Between this and our divergent opinions on John Carter, I'm now convinced you are the anti-me. Should we ever meet we will create a break in the time-space continuum. Sorry I have a soft spot for Legend (some would say its in my brain). Weirdly I kinda feel the same way about the books (sacrilege for many, I know). I do enjoy watching the films (and rarely fast forward over anything) but I doubt I'll ever watch them often. In fact, I thought about re-watching the films in the lead up to The Hobbit but I waited for awhile and the feeling went away.

I hope that they don't look at the D&D "jack of all trades" approach to Bards. Partially because I've always thought the class kind of weak compared to a wizard-thief and partially because I'd like them to do things different with a new IP. Anyhow, I'll be dissapointed if Chanters can't do something like the following: or I'm kind of kidding, but the description for chanters "... ambient spirits respond to the evocation of ancient, common story elements and play their part in reconstructing the chanter's tales." makes me think that part of the Chanter's skill set may be something akin to "summoning".

Yeah I didn't have a problem with the concept art either, and don't get the LARPing stuff either (other than its "kewl" to compare things to LARPing apparently as a sign of "bad" in rpgs.)

I watched the Downey-Law SHERLOCK HOLMES for the first time since the theater. Enjoyed it - particularly knowing how to interpret the clues and being able to watch the movie put the mystery together. RE: Tom Cruise, I can't say he's an actor I've ever been fond of but conversely he's not one I hate either. But dudes been in something like 35 films and I've seen like 7; for the most part he just makes movies I've no interest in seeing.

Yes, but it was sold to someone else, or how else did they get it? That person then distributes what they bought for free. The first person could have stolen it. We've seen games leaked to the internet by finding and hacking a server before they were released. So I don't think it could be really assumed that anyone actually bought a copy. Even if the first person bought a copy, what right do they have - other than that they can - to distribute a copy they've made (as opposed to selling their copy)? If the ultimate idea is to keep things secret than there wouldn't be anything shared to anyone, though. If the ultimate idea is that unique ideas should be shared then certainly there should be some rational reason why a person would share? Could you say why? Especially given the purpose of copyright? Because it gives the author the benefit of their creation but still allows a reasonable window for the work to move into the public domain and thus be inspirational for derivative works.

But isn't the whole point that the pirates are copying that which wasn't sold to them? Ergo your response is that the only safe way not to have people take your work without compensating you for it to not create the work in the first place? It was 14 years in the 1790; this was changed to 28 years in 1831 then 28 + 28 in 1909. I think it stands at 120/95 years for Work for Hire and 70 years after the authors death now. (Note, however, pretty much any work prior to 1920 has fallen out of copyright before the extensions were made with some exceptions, iirc). I really prefer the authors death guideline to be honest (man, with 14 years, 44 Stephen King books would be in the public domain...)

And? People ask for compensation all the time. Crazy homeless guys ask for change. If you want money, you monetize. I wouldn't call failing to donate to a charity case ("the creator asks for compensation for their creation"). Uncharitable, maybe, but not morally wrong. Err...exactly what has the homeless guy created that he's asking for compensation for your receipt of their creation when he begs for change? How does the homeless guy scenario apply at all to what Hurlshot is talking about?

I'm a realist. Gustave Courbet...is that you?

It might be Gary Mitchell, not Khan. Also, the Gary Mitchell episode was titled “Where No Man Has Gone Before” Which kind of makes a complete sentence with the Star Trek movie title – “Where No Man Has Gone Before…Into Darkness” For my part, I watched Breakheart Pass. Its still surprising good even when you know what the mystery is and why the killer is killing people on the train.

Obsidian puts in a friendly loading screen to remind you to eat and sleep because they don't want to lose any players? Might want to include a reminder to "go to work" too...

I thought we were supposed to play all games crying silently into a napkin. Have I been doing it wrong all these years?