Chibiabos

Chibiabos

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Seems difficult to raise spell mastery aside from crafting amulets :/ Darn, was hoping I could charm dragons with enough spell mastery given they say 130% resistance. I thought it was like Elemental wherein it would say 'Immune' if it were immune

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[quote who="Primal_Savage" reply="2" id="3600913"] ...So when I try and move my units, they pretty much always stop on the (1) position... Master Scouts works perfectly fine (No penalty in Forests/Swamps and on Hills/Rivers). You can see the Movement Cost of moving a certain Unit over a tile when you hover over that tile (while said Unit is selected) and look at the Minimap (Bottom right). Example #

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Many of the tooltips in faction creation are not working (a tooltip shows, but is devoid of any description). The following traits have no description show up in their mouseover tooltips: Archers Assassin's Tools Binding Cult of a Hundred Eyes Enchanters Axe Mastery (also oddly shows up out of alphabetical order) Great Hammers Light Plate Masterwork Chainmail Wan

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You probably don't need an app for that, nor the NSA. Sony was already caught engineering a rootkit virus that would stealthily auto-install anytime you played an audio CD or DVD from Sony on a PC, and there was the pre-release Xbox One from Microsoft. Chances are slim that Apple and other device managers don't spy on you themselves. You plunk money down for closed-source, proprietary hardware or software, you may well have paid a corporation to spy on you. I c

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Honestly, AIs uniting against you because you are too powerful just becomes annoying grind, unless they actually unite and become one civ as would happen in Master of Orion II if you went against the AI winning a Galactic Council vote. Weak AIs that have fallen behind simply flinging themselves at you just because you're winning does not make a game more enjoyable for me.

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I'm a bit baffled that anyone thinks data stored on a cloud is private, given a number of companies including Microsoft and Google are widely believed to datamine user files for their own market control purposes. MS has certainly not been a strong advocate for security, private property nor data privacy when it comes to how it regards its customers and its increasingly incomprehensible EULAs. They no longer sell 'software' but 'licenses' which is a legal dodge

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Tooltip estimated damage for casting Sunder on an elemental was 5. Spell tooltip (mousing over the spell from the list of spells) estimated 90, and indeed 90 damage was actually done. It seems the mousover tooltips are generally not updating nor calculating correctly between spell cooldown timers and certain spells (though most seem to generate accurate estimates).

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On the slim chances some Homeworld fans read this thread but haven't heard the news, Gearbox Software bought up the franchise and is working to update the engine, graphics and audio (on Homeworld, Homeworld: Cataclysm and Homeworld 2) to work with modern OSes, and greatly enhanced graphical and audio fidelity. They are really putting a strong foot forward on this, and are not merely upscaling the graphics nor audio using some cheap, lame filtering, but actually going back to the sou

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It is a bug, as they aren't supposed to be able to re-target the same unit with the same spell when the effect of the spell are still in effect. It was considered a bug when this was done by ... Wilding Shaman, I think, re-casting Shrink multiple times on the same unit (in that case the effect stacked, at least visually, making even large units very tiny).

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[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="16" id="3482438"] Quoting Jafo, reply 14 Even singling out 'radical islamists' is about as narrow-sighted/myopic and discriminatory as one can get. ALL 'radical' factions/entities are dangerous, from animal rights activists to white supremacists. Cleverly the same Cons

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Most traffic fatalities are the result of criminally negligent driving, and I find any ready dismissal of deaths due to negligence or margininalizing them as less than deaths from a single act to be patently absurd. And I would find it laughable, if it were not so tragic, that so many forget that the founding fathers were the 'extremists' of their day, lighting an armed and bloody rebellion. Deaths from traffic and lack of universal access to health care greatly outnumbe

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[quote who="Borg999" reply="141" id="3482323"] Quoting Chibiabos, reply 140 If you believe "Godwin's Law" in any way asserts the one to draw the analogy automatically loses or that the law dictates the thread must then be closed, you have adopted a twisted re-interpretation analogous to Charles Darwin's Theor

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[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="10" id="3481265"] Looks like another O/S that needs some skinning to make it palatable. [/quote] Stardock should thank Microsoft for contorting their OS UI into something so unpalatable that it creates a market for Stardock to exploit with a fix. :)

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[quote who="Cauldyth" reply="139" id="3482321"] Yep, that's a Godwin. THREAD CLOSED! [e digicons]:grin:[/e] [/quote] Only for those whom redefine "Godwin's Law" to be something other than the 1990 USENET newsgroup post made by Mike Godwin, after whom the 'law' was named, in which he simply observed that, essentially, the longer an Internet discussion progresses, the more likely an analogy to Hitler or the Nazis w

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[quote who="myfist0" reply="134" id="3482304"] As I said before, art is not the place to debate or inject ideology. People that can't differentiate between art in print or screen, IMO, have more than a few screws loose. If we wanted to go that route, and say people will learn to act out what is in film or novels, our jails would be filled with people that got a gory revenge on their perpetrators.

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I haven't played for awhile, so apologies if this was recently changed in a patch that I missed. Rivers no longer seem to stop movement at all as they once did, or inhibit movement in any way beyond a normal 1 movement point cost (which makes them a faster way to get through forests or hilly areas, actually).

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[quote quoting="post"] The Internet is toxic, but its toxicity is usually equal opportunity One of the more annoying trends in our society has been the substitution of action with rhetoric. This has really taken off in the age of Twitter where people think hashtags are a replacement for actually doing something.[/quote] It isn't really new. Its long been prevalent in political and corporate slogans, from the founding fath

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There are many sides to this. I am very leery, in fact with some aspects that have made it out in public, outright disdainful of U.S. agencies utterly regarding the people of the United States to essentially be enemies and regarded as such in terms of taking way too many liberties in spying. However, in regards to drones, the determination of right versus wrong isn't so clearcut. Pull back a bit from the question of "is it right or wrong

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