I think the same as well. Even if we never entertained the nolynch idea, we would have still lost. Because the numero uno factor that made us Town lose was terrific scum play, you see, it's the kind of gameplay that is prepared for whatever twists and turns came up, and the whole NL fiasco was just one small bump in the road.

With all that said, trent is right about one thing: I shouldn't have voted early and instead waited for ZFR to explain his new viewpoints. I don't think it was very likely for someone other than nmillar to be lynched, but it was at least worth a try before anyone was going to bite the emptiness of the void.

Btw the main draw will be done in a bit(maybe 2-3 hours) for the prize listed here

Also wanted to say Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it, and Happy Holidays to everyone else. :)

i'm going to try to as well, just probably not until very late tomorrow (30+ hours from now). It just seems our schedules never line up. :sad:
Saturday or Monday I need to go phone shopping. Sundays never work until about 8PM GMT.
Ah, I see. Thank you. I shall reapproach that math problem knowing that the variable isn't...variable. :P

Such an awesome meme....much win, much nice.

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Btw O-M-G...you won the special draw for the Heretic-Hexen Bundle :D

So now you have a choice...you can either claim it, or allow me to re-roll a new winner from Post 801. I know the holidays are upon us, so take yer time, but plz feel free to lemme know your decision when ya can.

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To everyone else: that may not be the end of the giveaway.....we will see...more info to be posted after I check a few things.

I disagree. If we go NL on MYLO, it's better to do it fast without exchanging viewpoints, without giving scum ideas on whom to NK.

My viewpoint on dedo was simple, someone said it already: He was super Towny, yet for some reason he was still alive. I was only semi-serious in that statement.

Also, dedo: I want that pelt back.

Very well played, dedo! Congratulations!
That's a great bundle for the final prize! No matter who wins: many thanks for the giveaway!

So were you. That's why I kept you around to the very end.

I did pick up the slip by myself but since you did help capitalize on it I you can have it as a gift :)

aw boobs boobs boobs!

good game everybody

Sorry for the late response, please go ahead and draw another name out of the hat! I'm not much of an FPS guy and I've already been the recipient of your generosity once.

K....will draw a new name in a sec.

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And I hope you don't mind.......winning the special heretic/hexen bundle giveaway :D

Catte had me re-roll, and you have won!

So your call...do you claim it or have me re-roll yet again? :)

Hmmm... I hesitantly accept your generous gift.

I feel conflicted about it because I am utterly pissed at Gog and did not want them to give them a single cent after their recent blunders, like c̶o̶w̶a̶r̶d̶l̶y̶ ̶b̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ t̶o̶ ̶C̶C̶P̶... *cough* "listening" to "many gamers"™. But my accepting this gift or not doesn't change the fact it has already been bought.

Thank you for the giveaway Gym.

I am also somewhat perturbed by all that....still, I figure my small amount of game buying won't really offset the likely much bigger amount of sales lost due to others "holding the line" and not buying. Also, I like to see people happy with the gift of gab...err game. :)

And thank you for participating. Check your PM box in a bit.

the way i look at it, GOG had very little to do with the decision made by CDPR higher ups to insert DRM into CDPR's newest game.
Yeeees, the social media manager seems to have acted like a utter nitwit announcing that one game over the chinese version of twitter, but his actions do not reflect on gog as a whole. Of course, GOG predictably backpedaled so far that they jumped too far the other way in trying to appease everyone. I don't like this one bit.

However

GOG makes little enough money as it is compared to other storefronts. No other storefront that I know of has many of GOG's fine titles, including that I have been saving towards for literal years and gradually acquiring (a massive amount of that through the generosity of others! I've also been tossing most of my non-bundle-purchase money GOG's way.)

IF gog loses money as a subsidiary of CDPR, the board is more likely to either a) close it b) spin it off or c) sell it. GOG doesn't really make enough to make a go of it on its own in any sort of meaningful way as a AAA store (the way they do now) without the bankroll and reputation of CDPR behind it. If the current issues of attracting AAA games seems bad, just wait until the company becomes much smaller.

Since it is the current leaders who have been the only "drm is generally bad" voices in the industry with their own storefront, the outlook for games and gamers as a whole would be infinitely worse. The same goes for if they sell it off to another company instead. Would MS's or EA's bigwigs care one hoot about DRM? YES--but only as long as it took them to insert DRM into everything in the store.

The only way to keep either of these Very Bad scenarios from happening is to support GOG more than ever with our purchases, while making sure GOG's Directors know we are quit unhappy with their PR department and some associated decisions.

As such, I intend to make some purchases that i can't really afford right now, trusting that I will be able to afford them retroactively--all with the ultimate goal of keeping GOG--who, despite their (sometimes glaring) flaws, remains one of the best storefronts in the marketplace in terms of general ideals and offline installers and OLD titles that no other publisher bothers to touch--literally saving many games from the dustbin of history for those of us without the know-how, resources, or patience to get a DOS or 8 / 16-bit program running on a modern 64-bit PC.
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see my comment above please