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  1. Caliane

    Business Ethics - Companies that you refuse to do business with

    did you actually even read it? "For fourth-quarter 2012, U.S. revenues were $5.8 billion, a decrease of 9% compared with the year-ago quarter.This decrease was primarily the result of the loss of exclusivity of Lipitor in November 2011 and Geodon in March 2012.International revenues were $9.3...
  2. Caliane

    Business Ethics - Companies that you refuse to do business with

    I know a number of chemists at Pfizer. They are get hit hard by generics. Every time a patent runs out, they get hammered. Spend billions on R&D. have your drugs copied and you get undercut. there is a reason generics are much cheaper. Zero overhead on research, or clinical trials, and...
  3. Caliane

    Robocop - Remake

    not a fan of what I see. however, the pg12 vs R is not a big deal, imho. ratings have progressed. Robocops original R would be pg-13 by todays standards. culture of violence and all.
  4. Caliane

    Business Ethics - Companies that you refuse to do business with

    well. I am with Tuco. I can't think of any brand I boycott on ethics. there are brands I avoid because I have been dissatisfied with quality. Hewlett Packard, many car brands(never a Chrysler, Ford,etc,) I'll avoid Apple like the plague. I'll avoid some brands due to cost. Sony...
  5. Caliane

    League Of Legends

    I suppose you could argue that is sortof similar to my problem with a competitive game like LoL. I basically refuse to play Ranked, because I am too competitive. The compulsion to win and rank up, interferes with other games, and even work, etc. So I basically don't play it at all. So I...
  6. Caliane

    Comic Books

    http://www.comicvine.com/articles/j-...p/1100-147150/ For fucks sake DC. "Unfortunately, in recent months, DC has asked us to alter or completely discard many long-standing storylines in ways that we feel compromise the character and the series. We were told to ditch plans for Killer...
  7. Caliane

    Strife - 2nd gen MOBA

    there are a few champ specific ways. Alistar heals, Anivia wall are obvious ways to mess with creep waves. Another way to build a larger wall is to run past your creep wave. draw aggro from the opposing wave, run to the side. The creeps will follow you, delaying their fighting. You can...
  8. Caliane

    Strife - 2nd gen MOBA

    Its simply a zoning mechanic. Which can be handled much more elegantly in other ways. ways in which are not counter-intuitive.
  9. Caliane

    [Manga] Naruto (warning: spoilers up to current chapter)

    After Sasuke gets another powerup too.
  10. Caliane

    Dragon Age: Inquisition (Plot Details in Spoilers!)

    C: dodged that fucking bullet like I was in the damn Matrix.
  11. Caliane

    Strife - 2nd gen MOBA

    not really an engine limitation. More like... feature. An emergent tactic from an rarely used feature. Akin to rocket jumping or z strafing in Quake. An oddity of the physics engine, that was very useful. and even fun. None of which are very intuitive. Rocket jumping I will defend...
  12. Caliane

    Favorite cult movies

    Was linked this today. Seems relevant. http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/so...y-story-of-how Clue.
  13. Caliane

    Strife - 2nd gen MOBA

    In LoL before the addition of gold/5. And re-balacing of gold/exp on kills, there was an amount of bitching on KS and supports killing minions. LoL solved this in a few ways. First, already mentioned. Assists yield so much more for the team, that crying about not getting the kill is kindof...
  14. Caliane

    Is the MMO Market imploding?

    ps. my pc sales figures were out of date. d3 has sold 12 million copies on pc. Yeah. Thinking d3 is only going to get 1m in console sales. Massive wishful thinking. That pos will probably break 5million. FFS sites are giving it 9/10's and shit.
  15. Caliane

    Is the MMO Market imploding?

    what are you trying to say with D3? it sold 9million fucking copies on pc, made billions in the RMAH, despite peoples "rejections", and is now going to sell another 5 million Console copies. Where the hell are you getting Rift underperformed as well. it stayed sub fee for 2 or 3?YEARS, in...
  16. Caliane

    Dragon Age: Inquisition (Plot Details in Spoilers!)

    a well crafted game. one that is designed for the medium that it is, will be written with the express purpose and interaction of its medium. Just those statements of hers alone, means she can NOT write player interactions or visual story telling. She writes to be read in book form. FMV cut...
  17. Caliane

    Is the MMO Market imploding?

    that is an interesting question. Anyone that was in beta or alpha have any idea? was high level cut off? we can look at RvR and its 2 week rotation claims. And when it went live sat at daily for what 3 months? And ended up at 1 week intervals.
  18. Caliane

    Is the MMO Market imploding?

    who knows. Rift dialed back and nerfed their Rift events due to noobs crying about towns getting overrun apparently. Incredibly lame. Rift's rifts had a chance to be game changing really. GW2 talked a big game about PQ events being these massive chains with multiple "paths" they could...
  19. Caliane

    Comic Books

    I didn't even know about the later books with Weta. The original coloring/3D was "snakebite". he sticks by that pseudonym heavily. Uses it for his animation, tattoo, etc as well. Although early comic work I think was his real name. He is super proud of The Red Star. And it did get alot...
  20. Caliane

    Best PC RPGS of the last decade

    I dont know. did you open the box?
  21. Caliane

    Best PC RPGS of the last decade

    PS:T is one of those games that really should have just been an adventure game or interactive novel. yeah. the combat really sandbags it.
  22. Caliane

    Is the MMO Market imploding?

    rofl. is this a joke? "I have this great game idea. we make a game about nothing!" "nothing? how do you play nothing?" "thats the beauty of it! You don't! while NOT playing our game, the player gets bored and plays other games, or watches TV, reads books, chats on irc/skype/twitter!"...
  23. Caliane

    Flash/Browser Games Thread

    city of steam?
  24. Caliane

    Borderlands 2

    http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/...loody-harvest/ "A much smaller take on Bloody Harvest was first conceived in 2012 as a Halloween treat, level designer Josh Jeffcoat tells us. It was an idea hatched by Borderlands 2 art director Jeramy Cook and lead creature designer Ruben Cabrera...
  25. Caliane

    Breaking Bad

    I'll admit I have gone through like 3 of them. But they still all worked for a while. Even right now, the compressor works on one, while the battery starter works on the other... light works on both. So yeah, I can't recommend a good brand or anything. But even with them breaking down, I...
  26. Caliane

    Saints row 4

    yeah. once you get the hang of it.. Think of it as a laser. While the effects are really flashy. it ACTUALLY has a very accurate straight line shot. Head shots all day with it. And upgraded deals explosive damage, so blows everything up too. Easily the most powerful gun fully...
  27. Caliane

    Breaking Bad

    I would not recommend. It is not particularly safe. a loose gas can is not going to be secured remotely as well as your cars gas in case of an accident. no gas can is 100% airtight. fumes will escape. in your trunk or in your cabin. not safe. Gas only lasts like 3 months. (stable...
  28. Caliane

    Saints row 4

    Each design also plays a different song too btw.
  29. Caliane

    Best PC RPGS of the last decade

    yeah. I don't bother with hard anymore. 99% of the time it just makes the game in question tedious. not more challenging.
  30. Caliane

    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

    yeah those are both great. And really. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_%28franchise%29 Just a giant NOPE. this vs. theory is clearly wrong.
  31. Caliane

    Saints row 4

    Tarisk. dude. fucking spoilers.
  32. Caliane

    Best PC RPGS of the last decade

    yeah. I am not going to pretend I know the answer. what makes an rpg an rpg? I dont think there is one. You would be hard pressed to find a game these days without a few rpg systems. levels or items. But even those do not define rpgs. Zeldas dont have levels, and Final fantasy has been...
  33. Caliane

    Best PC RPGS of the last decade

    I don't know. The problem is just "rpg" is a meaningless term these days. Zelda is an action rpg. Path of exile and Diablo are also action rpgs. But even there, two WILDLY different kinds of action rpgs. we have sand box RPGS. we have jrpgs. We have tactical rpgs. we have interactive...
  34. Caliane

    Saints row 4

    I also just noticed your homies have party banter if you bring them out while running around. This is easy to miss as the game is so easy, and you may not ever bother to call up the characters and have them help. (did sr3 or earlier do this? seriously never bothered since its so easy to just...
  35. Caliane

    Saints row 4

    Saints of rage kindof blew my mind. I want to be able to go back in, wearing different cloths.
  36. Caliane

    Best PC RPGS of the last decade

    now you mention it. NWN 2 is totally within the "decade" marker. at 2006. Avellone worked on that. Mask of the Betrayer is pretty great. Storm of Zehir was pretty enjoyable imho. And again, there are definitely some good modules out there. (harp and chrysanthemum, is the only one I remember...
  37. Caliane

    Best PC RPGS of the last decade

    what? Atlus literally just released Dragons crown like 2 weeks ago.
  38. Caliane

    Best PC RPGS of the last decade

    Indies. handhelds. mostly. And playstation3. NIS and Atlus doing their thing. 3ds/ds. mario and luigi series still going. the world ends with you. Wii has a few too. Fire emblem, the last story. EDIT: found a good list. But yeah. across all systems. psp, ds, wii, Xbox360 and ps3...
  39. Caliane

    Neverwinter: PC

    it is fairly interesting. Playing badly as one class, can negatively effect others. Wizards can really annoying rogues for example. by using too many knockbacks, when they are not needed.
  40. Caliane

    Marvel Heroes 20xx

    oh neat. I can't say I liked the game all that much. But yeah, more consistent hero drop materials, cosmic teir, etc all sound very good.