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A fuckton. Do some research.

Yes. Because without Obamacare the plans, which have been more than sufficient for the vast majority of people for the past 40+ years, would have just kept on keeping on. Obamacare is what imposes ridiculous requirements like maternity care for men and menopausal+ women. Cause and effect...

Liberal tool confirmed.

So you are saying that people aren't going to lose insurance when the employer mandate hits? Is that because you think the millions who have lost reasonably priced insurance under the individual mandate and are unable to pay 5x their previous rate to purchase Obamacare insurance aren't trying...

My bet is it'll be some kinda player build-a-thon like EQN. There's no way Brad gets the money and/or people to actually create it w/o player help.

Most of the people who get dropped will end up with no coverage and yes employers are dropping coverage once the employer mandate hits. They have no choice.

Note the above was with the 2013 Employer mandate so add a year.

From the 2010 Federal Register I would feel bad taking your money Vaclav. These are not the predictions of yours truly: an Obama-disliking, Obamacare hating Libertarian, but the people running Obamacare.

Probably. But it doesn't matter. Most people on employer plans (particularly if your employer is not one of the Fortune 500) will lose it after the elections next year when the employer mandate triggers. Most small to medium sized employers can't afford Obamacare compliant plans so they...

Probably but then again Beta/Early Release VG was a trainwreck and still my favorite MMO.

Bill Gates FTW.

I like how you've totally bought into Obama's "blame the insurance companies, not me" bullshit. 1. Of course companies are going to start rentseeking if that's what it takes to make a profit. 2. Under Obamacare companies had no choice but to throw people off their plans if they wanted...

Calling plans substandard doesn't make them so - indeed many ACA plans have higher deductibles, much higher premiums and loads of bullshit like requiring maternity care coverage for men and women long past child bearing age. Basically you guys are trying to force people to buy Escalades when...

Not the Dems who are going to lose their seats in 2014. It's a pretty big deal to them. Nor to the 40+ million who will have their insurance cancelled when the employee mandate goes into effec - and now you know why the Obama administration illegally suspended the employer mandate for a...

PAX is in Seattle which is a rainy damp shithole. Comicon is in San Diego which is full of vapid idiots. So no.

Applies to OP.

Nah. I'm pretty sure that Sigil was out of money and they had two choices: release the game in late Jan 2007 or go hat-in-hand to Smed again and give SOE a bigger slice of Sigil. Brad made the wrong choice.

Good topic. My first love is board games, specifically 18xx, and that's a much older crowd than this board and needs at least four people for a solid game so the Elder Gods/Great Old Ones of 18xx gaming already have plans afoot for just this sort of thing. I'm just trying to convince them to...

More specifically - Vanguard did not load textures properly and did not implement any type of object occlusion/culling/wtf. When you chunked in you had to slowly turn your guy 360 degrees to pick up textures and objects all around. If you didn't it would hang as you walked. It wasn't bad...

So I gather the kickstart is in three weeks? Will be interesting to see the response.

Yes, I want to see this list putting non-American hospitals at the top of any specialty. :-) Vaclav, I agree with you MMO preferences but not with your healthcare choices ;-)

And that's the problem right? If you've got more than two classes - you can't ever actually balance. The best you can do is RPS - Warrior beats Ranger who beats Cleric who beats Warrior.

Yeah "voices" that's not a reputable cite. Anyway, it's just saying these are good hospitals in this area. It's not saying the best hospital in Thailand is better than Mass General. So no sale. So yes. US Healthcare is far and away #1.

I'd rather SOE had nothing to do with this game. Smed has the Mr. Hankey touch - everything he touches turns to shit.

So basically she has to get cancer to make the fact she's paying three times as much for the Obamacare plan a good idea. Nice. I notice how Consumer Reports fails to mention the fact that shew also will end up paying for Maternity Care and Dental and Health Care for children she doesn't...

I'm pretty sure you're completely wrong. US leads the world in all aspects of health care including the development of new pharmaceuticals. But you're welcome to cite something to the contrary.

South Park nailed it tonight. Obama's refusal to admit the problems with Obamacare and the website just make the whole thing so much worse.

Best episode in ages: a good analysis of Obamacare from South Park and the 80's music was awesome.

US denies Obama knew of Merkel spying - Yahoo News Obama Unaware as U.S. Spied on World Leaders Those silly Germans. Of course Obama don't know bout no spying on Merkel.

You are all such tools of the boomers. What group benefits the most from the ACA? Babyboomers who aren't on Medicare yet. What group pays the most for the ACA? Our generation and the one after us. When we're all 55 and need health insurance for our pre-existing condition what will the...

Commutes on trains I never minded (used to commute Providence to Boston - about an hour IIRC) but I fucking hate my current daily traffic jam which is also about an hour but leaves me wanting to nuke the city or at least the other drivers. Edit: Bottomline - we need more commuter trains in...

Please go sell your Ponzi scheme somewhere else BW. The setup of the ACA means that the only people who can possibly be saving money are those who are currently (a) not eligible for medicare/aid/wtf and (b) have some horrible pre-existing condition such that their current policy is...

This is just plain stupid. Avatar is appropriate.

Citation needed. If this was at all true the White House would have all 50 people saving 1,000 a year on the front lawn and Sebelius would be hanging the HHS equivalent of the Medal of Freedom around their necks. Zhaun's response just proves he was lying. The only people who could...

If it were true Obama would have called you up personally to the podium to sell the shit that is the ACA. Because, if you will recall, the White House went out of its way to dig up any good news about the ACA. So yeah I'm calling you a liar on this one.

I don't believe you.

I still don't trust Brad to run a project. I'd kick in 20 or 25 to a kickstarter, no more unless someone else with a better track record was in charge. I still haven't seen any evidence he's learned from his mistakes running Sigil.

So has anyone on this site actually registered and gotten a plan from Healthcare.gov. And yes, I'll need proof - not an anecdote or a "yes". Also, if there is a yes, I want to know what you're paying with proof required for the monthly amount.

Yes. No. No world destruction. No playable Go. No ability to swap fifty different classes. The problem with games since VG is that people have gone so far off the reservation with what they're trying to deliver. VG was buggy as shit but at least it was trying to deliver an MMORPG. I don't...

Yep - but I think this is Sigil not SOE. In late Beta VG you could create truly gross and or demonic characters with the sliders. I think they limited this by release. Too bad - as you could make a really bad ass looking dark elf.