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[quote who="Alstein" reply="81" id="3290458"]That said, stuff does exist in that community. A female game journalist who is a personality (realistically: she isn't a top player, but she is decent and tries hard, like 90% of us) was at EVO last year, and broke down in her second match and screamed. If it was a guy, it would have just been a "salty moment"- instead you hear all sorts of "crazy cat lady" comments and other stuff. Honestly, given what happened an

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[quote who="Martimus" reply="54" id="3286610"]Although most AAA games I have played lately do more objectifying. I just started Dishonored, and it is horrible about this. It is like the developers never met an actual woman in their entire life.[/quote] Did you feel like dishonored accurately portrayed men?

Reply to Oh Gawd, PLEASE stop the auto-raze in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Mistwraithe" reply="22" id="3285769"]I think you are talking about kiting in tactical combat. Everyone else is talking about kiting on the strategic map to lure dangerous monster stacks away from cities etc.[/quote] Why would you do that? Its a waste of moves that could be used to convert the monsters into delicious XP.

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[quote who="Jythier" reply="51" id="3286126"]I find that many women are busy making an actual contribution to the world, and so they don't have much time for gaming. Obviously some of them find gaming to be fun, and find time to do it. Shrug.[/quote] Like how gaming is helping develop cures for cancer and aids? http://techreport.com/review/11022/a-closer-look-at-folding-home-o

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When you are a man and you deal with an ignorant idiot, its just an unfortunate happenstance or you being "overly sensitive". When you are a woman and you deal with an ignorant idiot you have been a victim (TM) of misogyny. As for games... 1. Men in games are presented as an impossible over sexualized under dressed testosterone lactating ... things. Creating unhealthy issues for young boys who see that. Just like with women. 2. Male character's behavio

Reply to Oh Gawd, PLEASE stop the auto-raze in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="kosiam" reply="18" id="3285611"]I too do not like the fact a group of elementals or a dragon can come from no where and raze your city. Especially early on when your Sovereign is around level 6 or so, you can not do anything about it. I personally consider the tactic of kiting to be cheating, as it simply exploits faults in the AI.[/quote] This isn't true, kiting exploits having higher speed not faulty AI design. There is absolutely nothing you could do to prevent

Reply to Oh Gawd, PLEASE stop the auto-raze in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Vallu751" reply="3" id="3284766"]That sounds like an awesome idea! A city razed by monsters becomes a lair and the tile remains fertile. Me like.[/quote] yes please

Reply to What's the most overpowered strategy you can think of? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Custom sov, full melee build with resurrection and ritual of blood. solo the game with 4 digit HP

Reply to Master of Magic: not that great in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Sammual" reply="42" id="3281346"]Correct me if I'm wrong but AoW:SM was a stand alone sequel to AoW2 that was just AoW2 with bug fixes, a third plane, new units, and a new campain. Why did you dislike AoW:SM and think AoW was better? Sammual[/quote] It is a standalone expansion. Same game, a smidgen of new units, and a new campaign. I didn't notice any bug fixes. There aren't that many new units. The meat and pot

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[quote who="Borg999" reply="130" id="3280591"]One thing I would like to address is the notion that increased taxes will force a business to let existing employees go. The math simply doesn't hold up. Simply put, if a company's profit is $250K before a tax increase, and $200K after the tax increase, all other factors held constant, the business still has sufficient funds to meet the payroll for it's current employees.[/quote] Employee salary and benefits are not

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[quote who="Sammual" reply="41" id="3280451"]ake sure you try Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic. It is much better then AoW1 or AoW2.[/quote] AoW Shadow magic is the worst AoW ever made. It was actually bad. AoW2 is best followed by AoW1

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="126" id="3280046"]Yes, and even within the 'friendly' circles/community that is the Stardock Forums there are still people resentful/envious of Frogboy's success, particularly within the skinning sector which has always been perceived as a Hobby/Hobbyist activity, and yet there are a few who have made a success of it as a business. A decade ago this 'resentment' was palpable. The reality was/is that it demonstrates the naivet

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="125" id="3279964"]There's no evidence to back up your beliefs though. Inequality doesn't really affect anything other than offend statisticians. It's not as if Americans are living in abject poverty. My biggest beef is that humans always seem to be looking for someone to blame for their problems rather than taking responsibilities for their actions. The higher ones income, the LESS excuse they have to complain about "ri

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="118" id="3279036"]Not sure exactly what new level of crap that has attained. The poor are poor because when they work they aren't paid as well as that 'middle class' of yours.[/quote] We are specifically talking the USA. where anyone with a job is middle class. They have a roof over their head, a TV, own a car, eat well, etc... This economic crisis already made it so many people willing and able to work can not fin

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[quote who="Alstein" reply="115" id="3278967"]The poor don't produce? In that case why do they work? [/quote] The poor don't work, they get a government check every month. The middle class are the ones who work. [quote] You don't like it, but taxes and entitlements are a combination of investing in society (much like how you invested instead of spent- tax cuts are the CD's, gadgets, and games of government) and the grease needed to keep

Reply to Master of Magic: not that great in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote] Says who? The International TBS Commission? Age of Wonders is nice, I agree, but Homm3 contains some really very strange concepts, basically the fact that you spend all the game pampering your killer stack hero with experience while heavily using save/load - because frankly, once you lose it, it's game over. We tried it in multiplayer, and it's an absolute disaster. It's not a "strategy", it's riding around collecting exp game.[/quote] That is

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[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="2" id="3271800"]Nostalgia's a bitch.[/quote] I never even heard of MoM until... i think it was 2010 and I still loved it without any nostalgia. I had played and loved AoW... I found MoM to be one of the best games made. I preferred AoW2: the wizard's throne to MoM, but though MoM was better then AoW1 and AoW2: Shadow Magic. I recently replayed Master of Orion 2... that there was nostalgia colored memories... still a better game

Reply to [Suggestion] Is Beastlord OP?. Should tamed beasts have mana upkeep? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="SOLOSOL" reply="28" id="3276649"]Sorry Trojasmic, I really don't want to break the fun. But Chiarden came with a nice solution: Beasts are untamed if they leave the Sovs's army.[/quote] How about beasts require upkeep. but upkeep is waived for all beasts stacked with the sov?

Reply to 2012 Election: 24.48% Romney, 25.75% Obama, 49.77% Neither in Politics JoeUser Forums

Out of curiosity, what is it that you disliked about each?

Reply to Please change salted pork to salted fish or meat in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Notepad++ FTW

Reply to The state of Steam in 2012 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="charon2112" reply="423" id="3273825"] Quoting Viperswhip, reply 422On an Impulse note, I have not bought anything on it since Stardock sold it to gamestop. Me neither. Nor will I ever again.[/quote] Same here

Reply to Please change salted pork to salted fish or meat in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

If someone actually gives a plugged nickel, they can do this with a super simple mod.

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[quote who="jwdR1" reply="418" id="3273075"]Is GOG not selling new games because they don't want to or because the publishers aren't willing to part with their precious DRM? IMO, the issue there is not with GOG. Witcher 2 is not that old.[/quote] Gog original policies were "no DRM", "only old games", and "no game over 10$". Due to popular demand they pared it down to just "no DRM" (which is what I voted for on the user polls :)) So now newer games a

Reply to 2012 Election: 24.48% Romney, 25.75% Obama, 49.77% Neither in Politics Stardock Forums

Thank you fellow Grammar Paladin Daiwa, I have corrected my sin.

2012 Election: 24.48% Romney, 25.75% Obama, 49.77% Neither in Politics JoeUser Forums

~311,591,917 Population (in 2011) ~237,744,633 Over 18 (in 2011) 61,218,820 (25.75%) voted Obama 58,200,593 (24.48%) voted Romney 118,325,220 (49.77%) voted neither Romney got fewer votes then McCain in 2008. Obama got fewer votes them himself in 2008. Since the population increased since 2011, the "neither" category should actually be somewhat larger, most likely breaking the 50% barrier. A size