Commissar SFLUFAN

Hey, cut them slack - they've repaid 2/3 of that $15 billion Irish tax bill!

Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, is a ghost town as most people stay indoors ahead of the release of disputed presidential election results. Troops patrolled the city centre, ordering people to "behave". Six people were killed after Wednesday's clashes in the city between the security forces and supporters of opposition leader Nelson Chamisa. Police in Zimbabwe have launched a crackdown on opposition leaders, raiding their headquarters and accusing them of inciting violence during protests in the capital, Harare, that left six dead.

Paging @Kal-El814

When the stock price hit $207.05 earlier today, the company crossed the $1 trillion market capitalization threshold.

All streaming networks are equal, but some streaming networks are more equal than others.

Tyranny and Shadowrun haven't, but Divinity: Original Sin/Pillars of Eternity/Wasteland 2/Torment: Tides of Numenera were ported to consoles where they faded into obscurity. I have no idea how Dragon Age: Origins did on the consoles, but I think we can surmise based on how completely different Dragon Age II and Dragon Age: Inquisition were that EA felt it needed to radically change to suit that market.

Yes, Disney controlling both ABC News and Fox News is EXACTLY what we need.

Practically all of them are ported to the consoles It's just that the overwhelming majority of the console audience has zero interest in them.

Ah!

If by "a lot" you mean "practically every single one of them", that's right.

Dropping the single-player campaign from this game pretty much killed my interest in it. The campaign appeared to have an interesting hook to it that set it apart from your standard military FPS.

As someone who is currently replaying the first game, that's pretty much par for the course with the Darksiders series

The Roman Catholic Church is the largest single Christian denomination (24% of the population) in the US, but when combined the various heretic...I mean, "Protestant" denominations account for 45% of the population. As the US Latin/Hispanic population grows, the shift towards Catholicism will become greater. In terms of political power, it's hard to say. The Catholic Church is VERY powerful in areas where there are significant Catholic populations (Boston, New York, etc.) but the political beliefs of Catholic laity run the gamut from neofascist ultra-conservative hardliners to Marxist liberation theology.

For me, the T-800 represents a raw, physical malevolence that isn't quite there in the T-1000. Put another way, your death at the hands of the T-1000 will be pretty damned quick and quite clean so you more than likely won't feel that much (if any) pain. Your death at the hands of the far less "refined", far less "efficient" T-800 will take somewhat longer and potentially with a lot more pain. The T-1000 is a scalpel. The T-800 is a bludgeon.

The T-1000 is those things, but lacks the sense of physical brutality of the T-800.

T2 is indeed one of the greatest action movies of all time and very much outdoes its predecessor in every way. It's just not necessarily a better film. I compare the relationship between T1 and T2 in the same way as I compare The Raid 1 and The Raid 2: these are cases where "more" isn't necessarily "better". For me, there is a "focused leanness" in both T1 and The Raid 1 due to budget constraints that's simply not there in T2 or The Raid 2. In both T1 and The Raid 1, there is no "fat", nothing extraneous to draw the focus of the characters and the audience away from the onscreen action. The audience -- like the characters -- is present in the "here and now" of the events as they unfold in practically "real time". Another film that contains this type of focus is Mad Max: Fury Road, for example. Everything that's not directly related to the onscreen events is stripped away to leave only the barest of narratives upon which to hang the film. And it works magnificently! But for me, the factor the elevates T1 above T2 is the practically metaphysical cosmic horror of the T-800 itself. When I describe T1 as a one of the best horror films ever made, it's the T-800 that makes it so. The T-800 in T1 is an absolutely unforgiving, absolutely relentless, absolutely unreasoning force of brutality and violence. It's both primal and calculating in a way that is almost impossible for the human mind to comprehend. It is the technological incarnation of both man's follies and greatest achievements. The T-800 is Mike Meyers, Freddie Krueger, and Jason Voorhees combined in an infinitely more frightening package because it represents a possible future that we could very well create inadvertently.

The first Terminator film is one of the best damned horror movies ever made.

@Mr.Vic20 can provide more info, but my understanding is that Tyranny just comes to an abrupt, screeching end.

In regard to Pillars of Eternity, I understand that one of the "complaints" was that it was almost TOO reverential to the Infinity Engine games of the past, and perhaps that contributed to its sequel's underperformance.

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The new Pathfinder CRPG will be a good test of this notion. In the case of Shadowrun, I think it's possible that HBS went to the well "one time too many" in releasing three Shadowrun games within the space of a few years.

That is one GORGEOUS looking platformer!