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  • Mages are really nerfed despite the story saying they’re super powerful and dangerous.

    This is kinda selling mages in the setting short.

    Magic in this setting is basically the same as it is in Warhammer 40k: mages get their power from an alternate dream dimension that is also where demons reside, they can spontaneously explode and/or summon demons if they’re not careful, and they’re heavily regulated/repressed. Rogue mages are hunted down and killed by Templars, and everyone else is mostly confined to wizard towers that double as prison camps.

    It never comes across in gameplay, but mages and how they’re treated are major plot points in all three games.









  • And yes, that’s just. Yet, the same slave going into a spree and killing everybody that crosses his path would be a terrorist.

    This is something that an awful lot of people seem to miss.

    Kira made it very clear that her and her fellow resistance fighters actively targeted Cardassian civilians and she never showed any remorse over doing so. Civilian casualties are inevitable in a scenario like this, but going out of your way to target them, even if they’re occupiers, is crossing a line.



  • I remember laughing at some dude in a Ferarri not checking his blind spot and hitting his buddy’s Lamborghini. Then I read the story, and it turned out that the Ferrari flipped, landed on its roof (trapping the driver inside), and caught on fire. The driver and his wife burned to death.

    I mean, fuck rich assholes in their $300,000 cars, but dying a firey death isn’t funny, no matter who they are.





  • I just hope and pray that when Gabe Newell decides to retire, he hands the reins for Valve off to someone like-minded.

    A huge part of the reason PC gamers have it so good is because GabeN refuses to sell Valve (and by extension, Steam) and also wants to deliver the best product possible. He’s content with merely making lots of money, instead of trying to squeeze every last cent out of Steam at the storefronts expense.