As I understand it, an independent Scotland would want to be rather inclusive in terms of who is a citizen and who can apply to be a citizen.
Yes Scotland wrote:
British citizens habitually resident in Scotland on independence will be considered Scottish citizens. This will include British citizens who hold dual citizenship with another country. Scottish born British citizens currently living outside of Scotland will also be considered Scottish citizens.
Following independence, other people will be able to apply for Scottish citizenship. For example, citizenship by descent will be available to those who have a parent or grandparent who qualifies for Scottish citizenship. Those who have a demonstrable connection to Scotland and have spent at least ten years living here at some stage, whether as a child or an adult, will also have the opportunity to apply for citizenship.
How that'll work in regards to the EU and border controls is still up in the air, despite what the SNP think. If Scotland were outside the EU once they became independent, then I'd imagine that Scottish citizens in EU countries would have to apply for the right to stay there, or else they could be considered to be residing illegally. Potentially.
Related to the border controls idea, new countries joining the EU have to sign up to the Schengen Agreement. The UK and Ireland are currently not in that agreement, which is why we need passports to go visit the continent. If Scotland were to join Schengen, and the remaining UK stayed outside of Schengen, then that would imply the need for border controls to exist between Scotland and the rUK.
Elan's crafted an illusionary Roy beneath him, and Haley's about to move in to flank Tarquin
Anyway, the problem isn't just that it's slow to update, it's that we've had cliffhanger after cliffhanger since Durkon got vamped, with the fight swinging back and forth to favouring OOTS, then Team Tarquin, then OOTS, then Team Tarquin.. there's only so many times that you can raise the stakes before fatigue sets in.
Or V was just telling the gang that the guy in the scarf (chilly) was the primary target (Xykon), so they should focus on him. As explained by Belkar, not four panels later.
Mass Effect 3's ending could certainly have used a focus group.
Then again, Mass Effect 3's ending could have done with being run past an eight year old and asking them to point out all the logical inconsistencies and flaws.
Special mention should probably be made towards the new Tomb Raider game.
Consider me biased and maybe a bit uneducated towards other games, but I don't think a game with a female protagonist has had such a high level of story quality as this game had.
I don't think it was just about attractiveness either, which I think hurts the whole argument to a degree, but it was just a fantastic, action-packed game that had some real emotion-turned-hardened character throughout it. It could've been done with a male protagonist, but I can't imagine it would have been done nearly as well.
I don't think it comes down to Lara being protrayed as "weak" either. The opening cutscene stresses how survival instinct is the key theme, and those cut scenes are powerful.
The game does explain why there's no female thugs ** spoiler omitted **
Personally, I found the Tomb Raider game to have a shallow, cliched mess of a story that had no characterisation in any of the characters aside from Lara, who's character goes from normal girl to mass murdering psychopath in a few moments. It didn't help that the gameplay was mostly lifted straight from the far superior Uncharted series.
Which is a shame, because the previous games were quite enjoyable.
If you believe that the "universal health care" in Europe and Asia is actually providing health care without interminable delays and rationing of procedures, drugs and services, then there''s really no point discussing it with you.
And when that starts happening here, I suppose you'll be surprised. Oh well.
This is entirely true. As we all know, Stephen Hawking would have died if he had to use the NHS.
SO what are the ramifications for you if this continues and no deal is achieved? Where do you go from here? What do you do? Do you become economic refugees and attempt to cross illegally into Canada?
Remember reading in history class about the Great Depression? Well, we won't have to look in books to see how bad it was back then, we'll just have to look outside.
I reckon once Xykon hears about him being called a 'sub-boss', he'll teleport over to Tarquin's room, kill him, then teleport back and continue the fight with the OOTS.
A fitting death, I'd imagine.
Tarquin is the most savvy character in OotS history. If it came down to him vs. Xykon, I wouldn't count Tarquin out.
He's also cocky and not expecting anything like that. He thinks of Xykon as a sub-boss! He may be very genre savvy, but he's blind as to his actual importance in the world.
Also, mechanically, he's a high level fighter vs an epic level sorcerer.
I reckon once Xykon hears about him being called a 'sub-boss', he'll teleport over to Tarquin's room, kill him, then teleport back and continue the fight with the OOTS.
Still wondering why Tarquin called Haley up, so far nothing talked about has really needed her.
I'm also willing to bet that we'll see Tarquin start exploring the other side of the rift, though that'll be off-screen. Like Orthos, I don't see Tarquin having much screen time after this.
There comes a point when healthy caution crosses over into unhealthy paranoia.
You really have to ask yourself: What would Microsoft even GAIN from spying on you? Information on what kind of underwear you buy?
It's not Microsoft people are worried about. It's the NSA forcing Microsoft and other tech companies to hand over data about their customers that people are up in arms over. Which, uh.. has been done en masse.
Also, I don't get the auto-save issue. It prevents save scumming and I have never been more than 15-20 minutes away from a save 4 hours in.
Yes, limiting people's options is always a good thing!
If you want to avoid save scumming, don't do it yourself. Why would you care how other people play? Not having a manual save option is madness, and knocks a couple of points of my score for the game.
Which is a shame, cause everything else is pretty much wonderful. Really looking forward to new content coming out for it.
Janiries, after sneaking into the house in the dead of night, takes down notes about the murderous party while drinking and eating well. Her detached demeanour falters a moment as Drow are mentioned, however. Drow, here on the surface? That's not good at all.
"I'm sure I can ask around the city, see if anyone here has information as to this group's whereabouts. People like that don't just disappear."
The Sun Elf then holds up a different piece of paper.
"Spent last night getting us a good deal for our loot too, here's the details."
Spoiler:
Coinage
427 gold coins
112 silver coins
53 copper coins
3 silver bars, with the number 25 and seal of Zazzespur on them, Trade Bars, count as 25 Gold each, 75gp
Gemstones
Small bag of five gemstones, Frost Agates, 50gp
Small pouch of three small gemstones, 3 little jasper stones, 150gp
Small pouch containing five gemstones, 2 flurospar, 1 obsidian, and 2 sunstone, 50gp
Small pouch containing three amethysts: 170gp
Armour
6 suits, leather armour, 30gp
2 suits, scale mail, 50gp
1 suit, breastplate, masterwork, 175gp
Many broken shields and heavily damaged suits of armour, ?gp
Other
2 Horses, light, 75gp
Silver Belt Buckle, 10gp
Silver Jewellery, Necklace/Earrings, 25gp
Small, Red Velvet, Music Box, POSSIBLY MAGICAL, value to be determined
Small, Red Velvet Bag, MAGICAL, Bigger on the Inside, value to be determined
It's an entirely different thing to the Total War games, so some confusion at first is understandable! Paradox are not known for their solid tutorials, sadly. Luckily, Crusader Kings 2 is one of the easier Paradox games to get to grips with. (Seriously, try understanding Hearts of Iron 3's Order of Battle system.)
Firstly, don't go and start as the Holy Roman Emprah. You'll quickly get overwhelmed which just how much you have to do. Instead, I'd suggest going for an Irish Duke. They're all independent, they don't get bothered by anyone (most of the time) and you can learn the ropes of the game on your own little island. It also gives you an achievable goal to set yourself, becoming the King of Ireland.
Start slowly. Get your character married (make sure to check your wife's traits and any alliances you get. You don't want a wife with bad congenital traits, as those can pass onto your children and make life rather hard for you in future!) then start planning your wars. You'll need a Casus Belli in order to attack other lands, you can't just march your troops in. So set about fabricating one!
I should note in politics and business its actually quote often that people claim one thing and do something entirely different,
Yeah, but that's not what's going on here. Uzzy is saying this guy is claiming something, when in reality he claims the opposite thing in the exact same article. If you want to illustrate that his actions don't match his words, go for it. But don't say his words don't match his words, and then mangle his words to make that true.
'This guy', being the head of Xbox Marketing, made the claim that most customers don't care about the details. They then went and constantly obfuscated the details, didn't clarify them or put them down in detail at any point (save for a few statements just prior to E3), safe in the belief that most customers don't care about the details. They took pride in the belief that most customers are idiots, who'd just blindly buy the Xbone out of some misguided brand loyalty.
Sure, he also said he wanted to educated customers, but they had TWO major press conferences where they could do that, where they could explain their plan for always on consoles. They, uh.. didn't.
The console doesn't come out for half a year. In that intervening time, it is absolutely certain that every policy that wasn't already fully explained would be fully explained, because news outlets would be battering down Microsoft's doors if they didn't.
Yet they had two press conferences, including one at E3, where they could have calmly explained these things and knocked back a lot of the criticism. I don't think Microsoft were entirely unaware of people's concerns prior to the launch, but rather than addressing them, they chose the path of obfuscation and had plenty of contradictory claims made by various Xbox figures in various interviews.
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They were "talking it up" as that before they walked back their DRM. That was actually the plan.
Oh, I'm aware of what some of them were talking it up as. But I would be truly astonished if it was even close to what people were thinking it was. Publishers would not agree to a mechanism by which they'd lose £360/$540 on every sale of a game. It runs contradictory to everything Microsoft were doing with the always online component and killing of used games.
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CBoaT was wrong about multiple things this year. The consensus is that it's no longer clear that he has reliable insider information anymore. Combine that with the fact that a time-limited sharing plan doesn't make any sense from the business side, and it starts to paint a pretty clear picture of how someone decided they'd troll the internet by creating a legitimate-sounding rant that just happened to "reveal" that one of the most anticipated Xbox One features had a huge drawback.
Consensus amongst whom? Cause I'm on NeoGaf right now and everyone there is still taking CBOAT's word over people like Aaron Greenberg. The time limited sharing plan makes perfect sense really, when you consider what Microsoft were doing elsewhere.
Also, if people really think this was some sort of magical way where you could share your brand new £40/$60 game with 9 other people with no restrictions, you're wrong. You really think that publishers and MS, so eager to kill used games dead because they cost publishers money, would happily agree to a new policy whereby they'd lose £360/$540 every time a game is sold? That's fairytale stuff.
Had MS managed to pull something that magical off, they'd have been shouting it from the rooftops. Not burying it deep in amongst a bunch of interviews that never explained the policy.
I'm going to stop you there. Microsoft might not have earned your business. They might not have earned your appreciation. Heck, they might have even made you a little upset (about something that really just boils down to a purchasing decision), but they were the ones who came forward with that information. It was not exposed by some third party, and it wasn't a scandal that they tried to cover up. Just a set of policies that they outlined, and then decided to reverse. Trust doesn't enter into it. It's not like they released the console and then told you that it had DRM. By the time the Xbox One came out, you were going to know exactly what you were getting into. You didn't have to trust in anything.
For an illustration of what a breach of trust actually looks like, see the most recent PS3 update. (Or, for a more Microsoft-hater-friendly example, the RRoD issue.)
Microsoft never properly explained or outlined these policies. They relied on a few interviews full of conjecture. They relied on obfuscation, thinking that people would just buy their new console without knowing about the features/drawbacks of the new console. Now that the feature no longer exists, they can talk it up as some kind of magical 'share games with 9 other people all the time', when that was never going to happen.
If CBOAT says it was a sixty minute sharing plan, then that's what it was. He's more believable on the matter than anyone from Microsoft, frankly.
I kind of doubt that is a real "MS employee" from many factors...
As Scott said, there's no reason to limit "Demos" to just 10 "family members".
I mean, there could be some limitations, but not as described.
Alot of other aspects of the "leak" scream fake to me as well.
Which is unfortunate. CBoaT supported the rumor, and he's normally seen as very reliable and in-the-know. He'll lose a lot of credibility for trying to back up a false rumor.
Doubt it. CBOAT's earned the trust of people with constant reliability, while Microsoft.. haven't.
Gamers being angry about something results in a change for the better? I'm shocked, but go us!
At least now the Xbone is just horrifically overpriced and launching with no good games, rather than being offensive to me and trying to remove my consumer rights. The first two will, of course, change in time.
The only thing is I do miss playing in more comfortable surroundings and with a bigger screen. Although, its not THAT big of a screen. A new television has been on the list for awhile too.
Nowadays, you can just bring your PC into your living room and plug it into your TV. If you use Steam's Big Picture mode and a controller (like the Xbox 360 ones which are trivially compatible with PC's), the experience is very similar to the one you have with consoles. Only with much cheaper games.
Not splitting up. The reason for splitting up was to cause a distraction, and if the people inside the church can do that for us, we may as well keep the party together.
I'm not a big fan of a bunch of his 'executive' actions. But I'm a canuck so he's not going for my vote. I also don't understand why he was popular abroad, other than the fact that he was someone other than a Bush.
Killed Bin Laden
Ended the war in Iraq
Seems to be ending the war in Afghanistan
Far less likely to go full retard and invade Iran
YouTube commenters are the scum of the earth, news at 11.
Really don't see why this is news, and I really don't see why she needs Kickstarter to make a documentary, given that she seems to be already doing that. Furthermore, anyone with a functioning brain (so not the people on YouTube) would be more then aware of this issue and have already been exposed to the debate.
Hey guys. I'm about to DM a game of Council of Thieves for my local group, but I have a question about a possible players handout. Namely the Westcrown: City of Twilight Chapter in the Bastards of Erebus. I've had a look through it a few times, and nothing really suggests that it'd be inappropriate for my players to read, other then the brief stat lines of course, but those are easily changeable. So, am I missing something important, or can I give that chapter to my players and not worry about spoilers?
As a little companion piece to the 'General State of Science' thread I started, and as part of a quest to learn more about what life in Golarion is like, I figured I'd ask a series of questions about the laws of Golarion, mainly in those areas around the Inner Sea (as they are, for the most part, the more 'civilised' areas of Golarion). Naturally, there will be differences depending on where you talk about, but I'm sure there can be an overview of sorts.
I will point out that I am not a lawyer, or even a law student, so my knowledge of how the law works is rather limited. If someone who has more knowledge of that wants to weigh in on my questions, feel free. That means you, Sebastian. ;)
How developed is property law? Which nations actually treat people's property as private?
How is inheritance handled? Is it the First Son always, or something more advanced?
What about adventurers. How does the law treat them? Can private citizens walk around with weapons, or do they need to be registered? And by extension, do adventurers need to be registered?
Now for international relations. How are they handled? Are there embassies dotted around the various capital cities, and how common are they? How is extradition handled? Are there rules in place, or are such extraditions handled on an ad hoc basis?
With Halloween coming up, I've been looking at running a brief horror game for my group. With that in mind, I've been looking at the 3.5 module Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, or the Pathfinder module U2: Hangmans Noose.
Anyway, in this thread I'd like to talk about Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, and moving it into the world of Golarion. I've got some ideas on sticking Castle Ravenloft in Ustalav, and using the Harrow deck for the reading, but I'm wondering if anyone on here has any other ideas on how to run it? Has anyone run this module, or know of any good resources for this module or Ravenloft in general?
Thanks in advance guys for any help you can send my way.
