I never said that we’d always be fighting asymmetrically though either; there’s still a real possibility that tensions with (or likely, between) other first-order militaries could escalate to the point that there might be conflict, but it could stay limited. Such as China/Japan/Russia’s territorial disputes, which the…

The point is that the likelihoods of that happening are orders of magnitude smaller than limited-ROE, theater-scale skirmishes. It’s all well and good to prepare for full-scale wars, but failing to plan for limited conflicts is just neglectful of reality.

Bill Hader was born for this part.

Yeah, I especially loved the “victim: the entire league” on the entries where it was a single player who had associated with gamblers. Yep, that’s totally the entire team’s fault, and everyone was victimized. Clearly.

One of the ones for the Packers is particularly amusing, since it’s from 1921. Yeah, that’s relevant.

Not to mention how most of the “your team cheats” stories are actually league-wide and are repeated under every single team.

I guess my point is: they were faced with a problem where the mechanic was just an illusion of choice, and rather than fix the “illusion” part, they largely fixed the “choice” part. But choices are a vital component of any game, and especially an RPG, so by dramatically simplifying, they homogenized everyones’…

I didn’t really have a problem with the low-level spreading out; it made a degree of sense that there would be some generalization, and, at least in theory, sometimes there would be occasion to spend more than the 31/41 it took to get the capstone (though that was very rare, and only got rarer). It was nice when the…

I guess the problem I have with saying “oh, they’re just passives” was that some of them were actually pretty impactful. Particularly in Survival, it was pretty notable how much boost you could get to your CC through “passives”. Yeah, they boosted CC across the board, but they also stripped out the secondary controls…

That’s not actually true though. At least back in BC, you could find a lot more variety in the “competitive” talent specs than with this system. Hunters, for example, had a weird triple-specs weighted on Survival that were great if you needed more CC, and you had leeway to shift about 8ish points around.

People act…

I think the trade off was supposed to be that the lethal takedowns were faster, but I don’t think that really mattered all that much in the end compared to the reward.

It’s definitely by far the weakest entry in the series, but it’s not actually that bad of a game. It just looks really bad in comparison. The writing and storyline is still really good, as is the soundtrack. The problem is that when you’re talking about the sequel to one of the greatest games of all time, “mediocre”…

I don’t know how I missed that clip, but everything about it is amazing.

Huh, I completely forgot about that. A quick google search suggest that there’s little, if any, other references to it though. I mean, I don’t think it’s unreasonable that a Scottish author write a UK-centric book, it’s just always been a little bit weird.

I’m surprised there were any River Krust left after I got through with Dunwall. Kill it with fire.

Relatively, sure, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t problems.

Do you think Boeing learned any lessons regarding large-composite airframes from the XF-36? I recall seeing a documentary on the JSF program, and it seemed like their gamble for a large composite wing structure was one of the biggest faults with that program.

They’ll handle it exactly like they did with John McCain, if I had to guess. Some of his less-likely primary opponents may try to challenge his eligibility in court, and then it’ll just get swept under the rug, because Ted Cruz is a political darling of the institutions that propagate the birther conspiracies.

Ted Cruz’s mother was an American citizen though, so he’s legally a native-born citizen under all but the most narrow legal definitions.

Well, there’s still plenty of religious violence in India and Pakistan between Hindus and Muslims too. That affects a rather large portion of the world’s population, just all in one place.

They are definitely not native-born US Citizens. But hey, the US mostly doesn’t exist in the Harry Potter books, so w/e.