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I'd say that building roads in general is a strategic decision. Having a road wind left or right around a particular tile vs driving through, and the exact distance from the mountain to the road is the tactical part of it. The topology of the map (such as mountains and open fields and the existence...

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Sableagle wrote:It’s now shockingly clear that Donald Trump is Putin’s poodle.

That looks like that was written late last year, aka two decades ago.

Koa

I think you misunderstood me a little in the second quote, but I'd rather go past that and ask a few questions. Would building roads be a strategic or tactical decision in your example of defending a rush? Also, if you happen to be next to a convenient mountain range that does provide a choke, and w...

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MLM schemes and cults and narcissists all pull from the same set of tools as the president, the GOP, and right wing media. You don't have to be afraid whether or not they will listen, because they won't. You can sometimes deprogram certain individuals after hours of conversation, but you can't get t...

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There's not a lot for me to engage with given that in a few brief paragraphs you went from strategic depth being unique and incomparable, to the rules of strategy being universal (implying comparability?). In a way I can agree with both of these statements but I must admit and state that I have to c...

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So, this just happened to me in coop. Brutal difficulty no mutation, I'm level 6 Artanis with a level 6 Karax. Part and Parcel, the Moebius thor thing that breaks the hybrid cell. Not exactly ideal. My ally is getting himself killed but he's working well as support for me with the chronoboost and he...

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There are no rules imposed on Megaman's world that suggest he should take fall damage. You can look at it as a power due to an unexpected lack of consequence, or recognize that your expectations have been subverted and that it is not a game rule. Falling long distances without damage allows for game...

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Well now the game doesn't work. Everything is fine until I search for a match, then the main render starts flickering. When I go into a game I see either one or two out of the three parts of the renderer. The three parts of the renderer are apparently 1. entities and skybox, 2. basic map geometry, 3...

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The administration is very decisive when it suspiciously has a vested interest in the financial effects of certain policies. The rest of the time it seems completely inept, a game of telephone where the original player is cheating. "I can't speak for the president" Is all that you can say ...

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I agree. I specifically highlighted the strategies going on with the analysis, because that is what we're talking about. I also highlighted the human elements, because that is what people often find most difficult to see. You notice how the casters are kind of all over the place. Sometimes they're e...

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It strikes me that, while you're saying "strategy", what you're actually talking about is tactics. Deciding to go all in on blocking/guarding the ramp rather than diverting some of your forces to guard against flanking air units is a strategic decision, but the individual positioning deci...

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Lightning Gun has finite range - that guy was beyond it. I haven't seen anything I could call blatant cheating for months now, but aimbots and wallhacks weren't rare a year or so ago though. I guess. It just seemed a little odd that they were standing still and I couldn't hit them, both times. Just...

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The real time component and imperfect tools extrapolates the number of required decisions, many of which will have important effects on the game. In Civ the number of actual decisions you can make are small enough to be calculated (though not without difficulty). In Starcraft I would never be confid...

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Well I'm trying it out. Here are my live impressions: Cool intro movie. Bethesda account... Definitely not something I am interested in but whatever. Privacy policy says: IF YOU DO NOT WANT THIS PRIVACY NOTICE TO APPLY TO YOU, PLEASE DO NOT USE OR COMMUNICATE WITH US VIA ANY OF OUR SERVICES. Okay......

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When I play turn based strategy I fully reflect upon every singular decision because each decision is presented in a singular way, wherein you should pick the choices that most benefit your grand strategy. Usually you aren't aware of what your grand strategy is yet, you have to feel around first. Bu...

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Witcher 3's late game is all about stacking bonuses so that you can continue to one-shot things or otherwise kill very rapidly. That's how you tackle death march. If you do only story missions, you'll find that the game is slightly difficult but doable. You can also completely ignore the story missi...

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Gamespot is saying that you get full access to the game for free if you participate in the trial?

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I almost went the Battletech route too, but I decided against it because I couldn't find any videos demonstrating that the AI was interesting, or that you ever felt like you were among powerful mechs that dwarfed the Earth. The battles in Battletech all look like rock-'em-sock-'em slugfests. My flav...

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Well I was really enjoying Pillars of Eternity 2 until real life happened in a big way. It's like what reviewers are saying, they improved every single aspect and it's a wholly better game. Some combat imbalance but whatever. I really love the different factions. The leaders are each compelling, and...

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Or, at least, don't enter into any negotiations or any deal where Trump might maybe think that you might not be complying with your end of the bargain. Facts need not apply. This just makes me wonder how much backstabbing is going on within the administration. It would only take a couple small lies...

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So all the desperate lies and obstructions to the investigation are... what? Raw stupidity directly from Trump poisoning his whole administration? Maybe Trump was so stupid that they were originally colluding but Russia distanced themselves further and further, perhaps especially after his whole &qu...

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The general skill of players related to their league has fluctuated a lot over SC2's life, and it's mainly due to changes directly by Blizzard. They've experimented a lot with increasing and decreasing the size of bronze league and where the system prefers to place people. It seems like they've sett...

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There's a process, it just costs more money than the pension is worth and has no guarantee of success. There's not a lot of legal precedent about flagrant abuse of presidential power, because usually it would cause issues even with their own party. GOP is complicit, so there's zero accountability, a...

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Huh? What? Oh. 2016 2015 2014 Hollow Knight is my GoTY. It has strong artistic cohesion. Ori and the Blind Forest is a somewhat similar game, and both are pretty to look at, but for some reason Ori didn't leave a lasting impression in terms of art-style/world/sound. Hollow Knight alludes to a greate...

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The story trailer for the new God of War is amazing.

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@Thesh It is dangerous and sickening and all that. But I would never attribute the actions of those in power to the desires of those who support them so crudely, especially with hyperbole. It comes off as nonsense to the supporter and they stop listening, at best. I instead probe their beliefs and p...

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So that's what the genuine worries of concerned citizens looks like.

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Super BunnyHop made a video on it.. He outlines the situation, then goes through predictions and raises further questions. It's probably going to be the best resource for this topic.

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The Star Wars Battlefront reboot releases in 2015 as a success despite a significant portion of gamers feeling it was a barebones release specifically due to the lack of a campaign. There was some P2W backlash but EA ignored it and it died down after release. Meanwhile, Overwatch releases and many c...

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Putin's press secretary said they didn't discuss meddling. Trump spoke to reporters on AIr Force One and said he had brought it up. He called the directors of the IC political hacks, called Comey a liar. So, undermining US agencies to side with Russia's good word, and yet Russia doesn't side with hi...

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Has anyone tried the Axiom mod? https://www.axiommod.com Essentially a lot of macro has been simplified or removed. It's mostly the same game, except for health being doubled which will do things like devalue attack upgrades and mess with spell balance. A lot of the changes seem clever so I played a...

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Trump boasts about being humble You couldn't make this shit up. I showed this to a supporter many months ago, who is still waist deep in the crazy. Their response: "Well maybe he's right. Maybe she doesn't know. I don't know how well researched she is on him." I paused for a second to let...

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I've been playing the starcraft remaster. It's worth it alone for matchmaking and sub-minute queue times. Back in the day there was a lot of idling looking for games and no guarantee that you're playing against anyone near your skill level. Communities form around that issue. Now you can just hit a ...

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It's a scribd option. The text is encrypted in a very simple fashion, and then it gets decrypted live using javascript for display. When you copy it you're copying the original encrypted text without the javascript decryption. It's a little obnoxious.

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Shotgun Spoiler Expansion on SOMA The idea of the Ark and the general reason for all the disarray were very interesting. The virtual consciousness thing was good. The body swapping was okay. The robot killing was a little strange. I guess it was playing a little on a neat reveal about the robot or h...

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I don't think SOMA really followed through too well either, as the dialogue never really advances the themes so much as it's just about a clueless person who is reacting to them. It's a more traditional game with enemies and an endless quest of fixing the station, and while it's probably the weakest...

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Opposite conclusion? I saw a miss is all, there are going to be many more chances. The main limit is time, time for the public to forget, time for the seeds to grow, time for complacency, time for elections. We're all very quick to forget the nature of fascism, where it comes from and what it looks ...

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I heard him say that on Fox today and it got a laugh out of me. It doesn't get much more inane than that. I would be interested to hear if conservative media is running with it. It's the same old tactic though. The American public is deeply confused about what is going on, so as soon as something ag...

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It's hazardous to consider that someone who thinks Trump is less complex or intelligent is doing so simply because of political disagreements. Полезный идиот. He's definitely complex in the sense that he's a great case study but that's not necessarily the same as being complex in the non-caricature ...

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It seems like a survey asking programmers what they use rather than looking at what they end up with after a program likely autoformats, along with other weird questions like cat vs dog, star wars vs star trek, rockstar vs ninja...

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