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File: ada5ad0364e0bd2⋯.jpg (71.44 KB, 600x800, 3:4, deadfire.jpg)

4e4be2 No.15128414

I am archiving some rpg games for my backlog when i'l be turned off from access to torrents soon, is Pillars of Eternity I and II worth the size? Any other rpgs of note to save?

3d81b0 No.15128429

If you somehow have a boner for the IE games they're worth playing, stay away otherwise.


4e4be2 No.15128433

>>15128429

I kind of do have a boner on everything fantasy related. I just never found an information on how's roleplay/atmosphere of those games. Only complains about grind and nonsensical story elements.


dbdf31 No.15128447

>>15128414

>Pillars of Eternity I and II worth the size?

no


8f3f8e No.15128457

>Pillars 1

Bad combat, decent roleplay opportunities, almost too much background info. Grind isn't really a thing but clearing each map is a good idea regardless.

>Pillars 2

Complete and total clusterfuck. Writing took a hit, combat is worse because they essentially give you kid gloves compared to PoE1, ship "combat" is an awful joke, and the only real improvement is the addition of factions.


b3a7fe No.15128535

>>15128457

So you're saying first pillars is actually good?


30584d No.15128536

File: 830c957f2c1b797⋯.jpg (52.58 KB, 630x360, 7:4, AgeDecadence_1000-630x360.jpg)

File: 6e08d403fbaa9cb⋯.jpg (70.49 KB, 460x215, 92:43, header.jpg)

Play Age of Decadence and Underrail instead, they are both better cRPGs than Pillars and are a lot smaller as well.


b202b7 No.15142306

>>15128414

2 isn't bad,


c64400 No.15142480

File: 08f3757ea62e163⋯.jpg (85.07 KB, 1280x720, 16:9, 4fa4e35e31fa979d86cfbb07a3….jpg)

>>15128414

> turned off from access to torrents

How?

Genuinely curious.


160a90 No.15142511

>>15128457

In the end i couldn't even make pillars 2 work on my machine. I guess that's for the best, won't have to see gay fish.

>>15142480

Its complicated, do you really wish to know since you bumped this thread out of whatever page it was on?


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60c8e8 No.15142533

File: 28f0a3a5a5590ea⋯.gif (684.36 KB, 288x192, 3:2, bonnie2.gif)

>>15128536

>underrail

fuckin love this game


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fe5299 No.15142615

File: 2bebaecb0ad0cc5⋯.jpg (79.91 KB, 326x479, 326:479, smoking.jpg)

>>15142520

>>15142544

Okay, don't mind the id switch them, if you're going to read my shitty pasta, i am actually russian. There are multiple complications to modern law and slowly our internet laws turn into chinese system. This particular system involves multiple laws being created against piracy, against "hate speech" (the so called 282 law) and against all sorts of misconduct and critics of government. That includes posting of swastika imagery even without supporting natsoc ideology. But as far owners of properties are concerned, the new law (№386109-7) is in order that allows companies to check for illegal pirated software any particular user (including some changes in classification of software). That is alone is not really useful, but there are some complications (which i will explain). And that technically was just old anti-piracy law being heavily updated for new classification because government educated itself on the subject (including IT education being now required by Duma's ministry as basic knowledge for all deputies).

A few years ago russia approved so called "Yarova Package", that aside of all kinds of anti-terrorist ideas also approved 100% collection of all internet traffic within the country and reducing foreign traffic within russian internet. This of course created a lot of troubles and protests, but that aside all it taken was time to approve it and make all means necessary to upgrade the internet and give internet providers and websites enough resources to save all the information in the country, unencrypted at that. Internet providers protested, saying it will increase prices of the traffic, but all futile, they were given enough time to acquire and set up traffic collection servers. First it was for 6 months, now its around a month of kept data of all internet users with 15% increase each month.

The thing is that traffic collection together with complicated anti-piracy laws and anti-hatespeech laws allows to jail absolutely anyone. On top of that government promised to search kept unencrypted database of user traffic by keyword search system, they even provided an example that they will search every keyword that contains the word "bomb".

But this isn't the only problem.

The third and most important part of this is that russia currently massively bans "forbidden" websites from being accessed, including means to sneak past that, which includes proxies, vpns and tor, tor was planned to be banned completely. Of course they can't block "all" proxies and vpns across territory of the country, but with 100% collection of data they can check by keyword system who is currently using or used from collected data "forbidden" websites and who used proxies/vpns, because all traffic will be saved unencrypted.

Mind you your average russian is not prepared for them, and even though they will misjudge what is happening by saying "they won't jail everyone", they will certainly start jailing people for show, just like chinese do it and especially extremist ones will get special attention, especially the ones visiting sites like 8chan which is banned for drawn anime girls, but contains tons of extremist boards within itself. Should i mention that drawn lolis in russia are equalized to cp? That's a thing too.

Now all this law currently upheld to those dates:

Since 1 july 2018 all russian websites registered as ORI are to save all private messages, comments and acces data and provide it to russian government structures.

Since 1 september 2018 all internet providers will conduct a test run on saving unencrypted traffic across all users.

SInce 1 october 2018 all internet providers will be forced by law to save all internet traffic of their users by the amount they saved around september, or else they will be heavily fined for going against the law


a09570 No.15142619

>>15128414

Naval combat was shit.


25e8c8 No.15142639

>>15142615

Damn thats terrible. Why does every government in the world have to constantly attempt to control everything.

>SInce 1 october 2018 all internet providers will be forced by law to save all internet traffic of their users by the amount they saved around september, or else they will be heavily fined for going against the law

Isn't that expensive to the Internet Providers?


fe5299 No.15142644

>>15142639

Indeed, they promised to rise their prices as the answer to actions of russian government and think this will convince users to do something.


3829d0 No.15142669

Both games feature inane mechanics and a pointless story.


0cf828 No.15142724

>>15142639

>Why does every government in the world have to constantly attempt to control everything.

Why would you expect them not to?


d848af No.15142804

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c64400 No.15145319

File: 426e077a1c31f86⋯.gif (130.63 KB, 500x281, 500:281, 1436306324964.gif)

>>15142615

HOLY FUCK.

Is there anything to bypass this? I can't believe Russians would just leave this lying down.

Mesh nets? pirate internet?


32fbba No.15145415

File: d3df6f9e692fdb7⋯.mp4 (740.77 KB, 326x326, 1:1, mildly perturbed sponge.mp4)

>>15142615

thats worse than korea level


b65f66 No.15145481

>>15142639

>Why does every government in the world have to constantly attempt to control everything.

do you remember the commie meme that you cant have an independent and isolated commie state because the rest of the world will destroy it? thats literally the playbook for modern "democratic" nations which really activates my almonds.


7502ce No.15145497

>>15145319

Well, most russians have no means of bypassing it except by pretending nothing is happening and continue to use proxies en masse while still being caught on the act. I know some people will go i2p, but even being under encrypted traffic means you have something to hide, and usage of i2p networks, even if without data, will show up in the internet provider logs, and government planned to caught even vpn and tor users, so its not a far step from dealing with illegal networking. As of right now i don't know about any new ways, because most russians are happy users of russian social networks (total opposite of US hate of facebook), and right now most of people who get jailed are people who share their real names on the internet. Fuck, most of those laws are ideas given by users themselves who laughed at the government first. And then government hired prominent university students to work for them in blocking stuff and giving technical advises.

Actually its not users that are currently planning secularized internet, but the government itself:

>This autumn, Russia will present two new initiatives in the field of cybersecurity to the UN. One of the resolutions, writes Kommersant, will contain a set of rules for the conduct of states on the Internet, the second will call for a radical review of the current system of combating cybercrime. Moscow primarily counts on the support of the CSTO, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the BRICS, realizing that Russia and the EU are likely to reject Russian proposals. At the same time, the Russian authorities intend to intensify work on creating an "alternative Internet", beyond their ideological rivals.

They're not just presenting for UN itself ideas for secularized internet, they are already on path to close on foreign internet traffic:

>According to the document, in 2024 the share of internal traffic of RuNet, routed through foreign servers, should not exceed 5%. In the plan approved in January 2018, it was 10%. It is noteworthy that two years earlier, the Ministry of Communications (the predecessor of the Ministry of Finance) planned to transfer 99% of Russian Internet traffic by 2020, compared to 70% in 2014. In addition, the Ministry of Communications wanted to duplicate in Russia 99% of the critical infrastructure of the Internet.

And last but not least, russia had the idea for BRICS countries to establish their own internet network:

>Curious details of the protocol of the meeting of the Security Council of Russia, signed by President Putin in early November, continue to be revealed. At this meeting, which was held on November 26, the Security Council instructed the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation to initiate, within the framework of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) by August 1, 2018, the issue of creating a " root domain name servers (DNS), independent of the control of [international organizations] ICANN, IANA and VeriSign and capable of servicing the requests of users of the listed countries in case of failures or targeted impacts. "

>The Security Council explains its initiative by the fact that Russia's security is threatened by the "increased capabilities of Western countries to conduct offensive operations in the information space and the readiness for their application." "The US and a number of European Union countries continue to dominate the issues of Internet network management," the document states.

All sources taken from roskomsvoboda website.


3e1922 No.15145551

File: 54a385651e117e3⋯.png (2.54 MB, 1000x1482, 500:741, 20% less gay.png)

>>15142615

holy shit.

pretty sure they are doing the same sorta thing in the US with the spying, they just werent that upfront about it.

>anime is cp

russia, i am disappoint.


c64400 No.15145555

File: e7b5ef6c38c2853⋯.mp4 (812.2 KB, 1280x720, 16:9, e7b5ef6c38c2853b47fe0bae5f….mp4)

>>15145551

>shadbase


3b778d No.15145566

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3e1922 No.15145572

>>15145497

even tho i dont agree with all of it, one thing i will say is it's a decent idea to try to gain more control over the interwebs, considering how much influence it has on your citizens.


c64400 No.15145589

>>15145572

It's a decent idea if the govt is made up of benevolent men. Hoping that this is the case is naive in the extreme. From what I have gathered discussing Russia with a Siberian friend there are many factions int the govt and Putin's one is the least retarded. Bearing this, it is still retarded to rely on potentially morally bankrupt men to oversee and control something so vital to communication like the internet.


7502ce No.15145612

File: e3d6fa8dae01f3a⋯.jpg (24.75 KB, 333x500, 333:500, BB.jpg)

>>15145572

I think as a "pre-war" setup against spying all those ideas make sense. But that means your average ivan will get jailed for anime, political and religious wrongthink, block bypassing, using forbidden applications, visiting forbidden websites and all sorts of activities that equal to treason. And nothing can hide government's watchful eye from him. Internet becomes the world's greatest snitch tool and fearful normalfags will delude themselves into thinking they are above those people because they have no contrarian thoughts.

>>15145589

You know, i'l say something arrogant, but imagine if today Putin builds all those systems and gets steady on thought control, but tomorrow comes, Putin's gone and some leftist commie stooge replaces him. All those things will be in hands of the reds with all personal information on every citizen and all their activities in no time.


c64400 No.15145640

>>15145612

> Putin dies

>red's come back

Yer that's my concern as well.

Fucksake, this Orwellian nightmare crap needs to stop.


3e1922 No.15152049

>>15145612

i agree.

that's the problem with having to manually protect your population from subversion. You should be installing that mentality during their education.. the problem is if you protect them from outside influence, you are also inoculating them from internal influence as well. It's a tricky row to hoe i imagine. If you actually have a rich history and culture for peopel to cling to then that would serve i suppose.




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