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Maybe but I mean, again bringing the example of TellTale - their games don't really need that graphical pornography because their products have strong style which won't require any such thing. It simply works well as it is. Just like Team Fortress, which is why Thief aged very well or why Black & White 2 still is IMHO one of the better looking strategy games, even if it's actually older than 10 years. But it really looks almost on par with Ubisoft's From Dust at first glance unless you get really down to nitpick every pixel. But that's not how you spend most of your time playing a game like that anyway.

You're not alone. QTE's work well with all TellTale games. They were also cleverly implemented in Witcher 2 and 3 for dialogue on a time limit, all geared to add tension.

The best vote given is with our money in this world. This too shall pass.

On this line of thought, Tels had plans to build a roguelike algorithm of level generated mazes in TDM. Too bad he went AWOL before it went to the light. On the gameplay and cliché note, I'm only expecting new things from the new Pathologic by Ice Pick Lodge and maybe, one day something more on LA Noire or something with that face scan technology. There's also TellTale Games and their wonderful Sam & Max, their The Wolf Among Us. Someone argues that adventure games, point & clicks aren't even games at all. My answer is just let's wait and see. Who knows what innovation lies around the corner? I definitely can't fault anyone among those mentioned for conveyer belting standard Bethesda RPG's with the same engine every year. Err once - shame on the ads, err twice - shame on the buyer. What Sotha mentioned of The Long Dark is perfectly valid for Don't Starve and other roguelikes. If you need inspiration there's also always Fallen London which didn't cease to amaze me how it always found a good audience with such a simple, comprehensible RPG text game that absolutely doesn't feel like it disrespects the player or his time. A refreshing return for me each time I come back with quality writing and narrative. The devs behind it also made Sunless Sea and will soon make Sunless Skies. All within the same universe. Just as every bit as gothic as Thief and The Dark Mod on that note. In the end, for those guys, it was enough to surpass the beta of Echo Bazaar and pass onwards beyond the word count of War and Peace by Tolstoy.

You seem to have finished the one you started and only need to wait for a response from Aluminium Haste on this: http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=4488 ​Could you check out mine? The bugtracker issue is fresh but the issue has actually been dragging on for 2 years. Never managed to set it up properly. There were some people that helped me a great deal, but somewhere halfway through, one forum member, Tels just went AWOL and I'm stuck. I really, really dream to see this make it into the 2.06 version of the game. http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=4523

For most people probably depends at which point in life one had more free time, periods such as childhood. I never had a console but various friends owned Play Station 1, Sega mega drive and the original Xbox. What I appreciated with console exclusives was the sheer amount of really creative titles such as Silent Hill, Far Cry Instincts and some others that slip my thoughts right now. There were definitely enough games that can't be called addictive, but compelling. Ones that gave you something so that you could have some food for thought. Games that respect you and your time. Not things that abuse your subconscious like these MMORPG stories that give video games a bad rep.

Thieves don't go on the job out of good life mayhaps.

So you mean that the district attorney being a democrat willtry to cover up and whitewash Clinton in this web of conflict of interests? Wasserman is a Jewish name btw.

In the developed world mafia isn't that powerful due to high government regulation and rule of law. Mafia is still strong in countries left behind like Venezuela, Russia or elsewhere and usually they act only if the government allows it or they are just too insignificant/haven't attracted attention yet to be bothered with. Hard to say how cybercriminals with mafia ties can realistically intimidate a serious or more or less respectable business or organization in a developed country. The usual shady business with tons of money involved comes from the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Chechenya or whatnot. Proof for North Korea: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-cybercrime-idUSKBN1AD0BO?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=597adb1604d30123a8932257&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook   Also isn't it a contradiction? More government surveillance actually lessens the chance to having cybercriminals abuse their position or insider knowledge ever again.   Otherwise what is called the dark internet is mostly just for lurkers who are concerned about surveillance or just need a middleman service such as TOR. But that's hardly a tool to influence much of anyone in intimidation or harassment of someone. Just for private interactions away from the public eye.   Basically this is an issue for weaker countries rather than the ones at the top.

The poppies blow here when Interdnestrkom, where I'm from in Transnistria locks all SIM cards to be used only with the phones they sell for maximum efficiency of phone tapping and total control of the population. Long live Putler. ​Just buy whatever you feel is right. IMHO as long as a phone has basic capability for good quality voice speech, has skype, has decent internet mobile data for internet and/or Wifi that sufficient because for work you'll probably use a notebook or tablet anyway. ​Also when your phone is stolen it's really sad if it's expensive. Not a lot to lose when it's a plain Nokia or Motorolla and you just call the operator and tell them to lock up that SIM card. That's what matters. Also just some minimal password for entering your phone. At least something. If you travel often nobody won't really be able to track you using your phone, especially if your country is not known for great connection in every region. Not precisely anyway. Especially during summer when those waves have a harder time penetrating leafs of trees. Easier in winter though with that to my knowledge. ​I'm not really sure where you're going with surveillance from crime groups, AFAIK it's only government agencies and companies unless there's a hack and/or a leak, especially from the inside.

+1, willing to help and need more details when the time comes.

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It's not just the target audience. The Thief trilogy was beyond any argument more gothic aesthetically and this made wonders for the plot and the narrative and the presentation. That is simply not the case for Thief 4 on its own merits. Maybe odd example but probably that's why The Elder Scrolls II Daggerfall is better than Arena. Has a 3D map, allows more freedom, tried to give a better tutorial. Maybe not to important when both games are a hurdle to play but you get the idea. Daggerfall was also inarguably darker and more gothic.

Because they have a positive outlook on life.

Don't know about 32 threads but my potato could use another thread used as it helped with any other game around. Weak Celerons need any push they can squeeze. Imagine the changes you'll see!

Totally valid concern Melan. Nobody here will be contesting that. The idea is that for some of us who were not born in democractic countries, phone tapping, opression, jail time for free speech has always been the norm, so the occasional misdemeanor by Microsoft or Google pales in comparisson to the desire of the Russian Government to make a national OS and force everyone to use it. To have every major corporation allow the Russian gov to store personal data of all citizens on Russian servers for easy access of the FSB. IMHO, if you take the large picture, the bigger worry is that Google for example is happy to cooperate with China to create a customized and censored search engine. On the big scale, having limited access to information and build an internet Chinese Great Wall is worse than just the occasional privacy surveillance breach. Why? Because tomorrow or the other day after the US will be ran by Democrats whether in Congress or in the White House. No American party has yet managed to win the race more than 2 times consecutively. To me things are really clear in this line of thought. We could spend our time ​much more usefully protecting political victims in dictatorships rather than nitpick over what's going on with corporations who just pursue their own business interests.​ After all, can we argue that if Microsoft would have been harshly punished for pushing Internet Explorer over Netscape preinstalled in the OS, would Windows be today as used as it is today? Let's be honest, in 2'nd and 3'rd world countries hardly anyone uses a licensed Windows copy. This went in an uncontrollable and very favorable direction to advance people's knowledge and limits. It broke many boundries and in perspective it will unfasten a lot of problems with economic activity all over the world. This progress is far more significant than having one corporation lose over the other for technical, even if bad faith competition practices persist. ​It is no excuse for monopolistic behaviors, but western democracies have a strong system of checks and balances that work very well in comparison to dictatorships in Putin's Russia, Lukashenko's Belarus, Castro's Cuba, North Korea and communist China. ​This is my subjective opinion, but as long as we have at least one dictatorship in this world, it's kinda weird to talk about corporations bringing evil when clearly they are at least mildly in check, whereas in dictatorships all red lines are crossed every day, all day, all night. No amount of armies of attorneys can do nothing to and independent and impartial Judge of Prosecutor. That's what matters if everyone does their job - which they do in countries better than mine. ​If you allow another digression - that's why Victor Bout, the hero of the famous movie "Lord of War" is now in a US jail, maybe in some way due to Amnesty International's promotion of the movie, promotion of the issue and rising public awareness. Who knows? BTW weird situation when the depressing movie ending actually got overturned in the real world. To me that's why the Edward Snowden motion picture glorification by Oliver Stone is bs. If Bout had the chance he'd be in for asylum in Russia exactly as Snowden. For a reminiscence on what I'm talking about to bring us up to speed:

Bill Gates is in charge of MS even while not being CEO.

Part 2 is WIP.

Nero is replaced by a capability built-in at least from 7, maybe even Vista to burn a disk, rendering Nero deprecated. The original Paint can still probably be reinstalled as a workaround such as getting Office 2003 or something. I'm still using the old Office 2003 copy for the last decade. We don't know what the future holds and of course I'd like the newest Word version to be free and packaged with Windows as a service in the ideal scenario but we'll see what happens I guess. If there's too many mistakes made on behalf of Microsoft, they'll just lose customers. I suggest you look at the statistics for the purpose of cheering you up in relation to how many people made the decision to go to Win 10 in reality! http://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide#monthly-201506-201701 ​Sure, in the long run Microsoft has an advantage in relation to the unaware non tech savvy user. But there will be lots of people who won't be afraid to set precedents in the US and overturn some of Microsoft's decisions in court. Also let's not forget about Chromebook. Only the most responsive and competitive company will win in the end. Today it's too easy to adapt these systems for common sense the of every user. Or just reinstall Win XP/7. And there's nothing they can do about it if they abuse their position. ​That is, if they still care to get into the Phone market for example. They have been rational and sound in their decisions to my knowledge. Lumias is at least as good as the old Nokias as far the brand and their physical resilience goes. Even if it failed financially.

Let's be honest. They're not that stupid to shoot themselves in the foot. Lots of people still use Win 7 and they will reserve that privilege of independence no matter what if Win 10 S is as scary as is written. Granted and ​especially​ if they intend to replace Win 10 Home Edition with Win 10 S. I'm amazed they still update Windows 10 Mobile. So there must be some common sense around here.

Alas many of us have been there because you never know where life takes you. We just got to do our jobs and make ends meet. And everything will be fine. We've got to convince ourselves of that and go forward. We have no right not to believe that things will turn out better tomorrow. It works for me and lots of other people near me. I also live near a psychiatric hospital though I never needed anything more than the trivial certificate for driving/gun ownership. Medical exams don't help nearly enough to figure that psychological contact with us, to fix what's wrong and go forward. But we obstinate and we realize that this shall pass too. Life goes on.

Guess we'll wait and see as usual. They'll be more active again this autumn with the Windows 10 Fall Creator's Update.

While some of all this is valid, Windows 10 S doesn't mean an upgrade from Windows 10 Home Edition to Win 10 S. As I understand Win 10 S is about new devices. ​Moreover if you ever dug around Windows Store you'll see that even for people who buy/use Win 10 S or whatever other variation of Windows 10, it's going to be fairly easy to get TDM through that store. Applying for a free exe. as TDM would be as easy as doing it for Google Play. Very, very accessible and that's their goal at the end of the day. What matters is to see what's it all about as more people come to use it. Alternative opinion on Windows 10 S:

Swell news. My microwave laptop could see the other thread being used as a good performance hike. Wasn't aware TDM runs on an older version of Doom 3.

Japan population deficit: http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-mystery-of-why-japanese-people-are-having-so-few-babies/ar-AAovlDf?ocid=ob-fb-enus-280