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You can also shove sleeping or downed companions?

I beat him by cheese in a different way. If you follow the panther, it will lead you to the room where the fight starts. But, if you skip that room and go further down you'll end up in another area with a structure that looks like a gazebo with a large spider corpse inside.

You can go all the way to the back of this room where there is a chest and wait for the panther to nibble on the spider. Kill it and then above you on the left is the boss with his little army. You can trigger the agro from below by shooting arrows, world, or throwing things up and getting the mobs to approach the ledge above you. Just stay back and target whatever you can on the edge and they'll keep standing there until they're all dead.

You can sometimes get the boss to stand there too or you can get him to come down and at fight him solo which is quite manageable.

Wonder who they're aligning with post-Russia.

This was my point. Thanks for expanding on it.

When they come knocking they usually also confiscate your hardware, question and interview your friends and family, etc.. Good luck with that defense :)

This is actually a huge joke on the film and television industry. Back when Napster blew up the music industry was in a full panic that their industry would die while film and TV were cozy because the media was too large to mass-pirate compared to music.

The music guys figured it out. Cheap subscriptions with massive catalogues that don't disappear.

Movie and TV still hasn't figured this out.

Regarding gambling, it's not quite so simple. Valve doesn't exist in a vacuum. Many rich people see what goes on in that ecosystem and they lobby their governments to make it easier for themselves to do even more audacious things. Valve can lead by example instead of opening the door

If you didn't sample 4chan in that time you missed out on a lot of Internet culture. Not everyone posting on there was. It was really entertaining to watch the shitshow.

Do you think any indie developer has the means to achieve a lower cost to distribution and promotion if they try to sell and support the game themselves?

Valve solves many problems for developers and these problems aren't imaginary and free to resolve.

Not saying 30% is justified for all games, but if you want a quality title it's going to cost more than just development. Since the Unity debacle we've seen some developers even say openly that costs of promotion and support dwarf costs of development.

This is a good thing. People will need to find alternative sources for news. I don't see a problem.

I stopped reading after "Sunday's".

Or use the energy to desalinate sea water or any of a multitude of other uses for spare capacity.