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Christmas at home. We were talking about New Years in Vegas though. If not we'll buy tickets to the Peabody NY Bash.

Just got home from a work trip to Atlanta. Got tickets to see the Alabama/Mizzou SEC championship game. Loved it. Work trip went well, weather wasn't too bad. I think Tommy is mad I didn't take him because I usually do. He won't come to me or let me pet him. He'll come around. My other dog Sunny doesn't care. She was just happy I was home.

So on a scale of 1-10 how is this looking to you guys? 10 being "must have" and 1 being "go back and play the original".

It's called shock. Unfortunately (for you) it will wear off. I think you'll be laying off the squats and dead lifts and concentrating on the bench for a few days.

That's what happens when you back Liverpool. Hope it's nothing serious. Liverpool will be the death of me. Best case scenario, this is an infection and I'll get some medicine. What I really think: Someone is trying to poison the patriarch of all patriarchs. Well good luck and just to be safe prepare you own food for a while.

Oh now they certainly need to sell. I doubt the kickstarter paid for the entire development costs. I'm sure Obsidian has invested some of it's own capital in this project. But more to the point we want it to sell because we want more of these kinds of games don't we? If PoE sells well there is a good chance a publisher will underwrite a sequel. If it sells really well and demonstrates there is a market for this kind of game we may see a few other projects in the vein pop up at Obsidian and elsewhere. Best case it can lead to a CRPG renaissance. That might be overly optimistic but it is certainly possible. Computer games have become something like rock concerts. Every show has to be bigger, brighter and louder than the last. More lights, more pyrotechnics, etc. But something is getting lost in the enhanced 3D graphics and more detailed textures that chew up more and more resources on our computers... if our computers will run them at all. Why do you think we still talk about Torment, Baldur's Gate I & II, Fallout II etc all these years and games after they disappeared from store shelves? Those games had a story to tell. You didn't play them you lived them. Sometimes modern games will still catch the lightning in the bottle. I thought Fallout New Vegas did that. But for the most part they are really pretty and pretty empty. That's why I'm encouraged by not just what I see about PoE but about who's making it and I hope there will be more to follow.

<<< not the failclowns? No they cut him loose as soon as the truth came out. Of course shortly after that he was on his way to prison so there is no way to know if they'd have done that otherwise but I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Well, I hate them because they hired that filthy dog killing savage to be their back up QB. I hated the Eagles for the same reason. But that's just me.

I think that is what has decided me against buying it. I'm a fan of bioware, but I don't have, want, or like consoles. I want games that will run right on my laptop or at least can be modded to run right. And from what I'm reading here, DA:I does not really meet that description. Thanks for the info and thoughts everyone. I believe I'll pass on this one.

Jets lost again. That makes me happy. If only I could be this happy after every Jets game.

I just spent the last six consecutive hours reading through a 627 page MOP (engineering term... Method of Procedure) looking for redundancies, inefficient process, and cost savings. I think I'm blind. The only thing I can do now is play Morrowind and wait for Monday Night Football to start. Go Dolphins.

Just got three months worth of work that must be completed by years end. Guess I better get on it.

I am so stealing that line for my next work conference call!

I'll be honest, I really can't see it. Accepting economic security at the price of an all powerful government seems like a fools bargain to me. Limited freedom enjoyed only at the sufferance of a government that can take it away is not freedom. In the US Greens, Socialists, & Democrats (for the most part) do not value individual rights or liberty. They are in favor of a government that to a greater of lesser extent has control over a great part of our lives.

Little things I hope it has: Bard music in taverns - I never realized how much it adds to the atmosphere. News of events in one part of the world to be talked about in other parts of the world Deep interaction between party members. If each NPC has their own personalities, goals, views, etc they seem more alive. I'd like caves and nights to actually be dark. They are supposed to be anyway. Make light sources something useful and desirable.

Yeah I think we are well past the point of big changes

So... what I'm seeing here is there are a lot of folks here who really don't like freedom. Not really. They like a government who tells them what to do and how to do it. To each their own I guess. I can't really see it myself but to each their own.

Well, I don't know how they look "in game" but a dragon the size of the ones in the trailer and concept art wouldn't be able to support it's own weight in normal gravity. There is a good reason why blue whales live in the ocean. You have to be able to suspend disbelief on more than just the story in fantasy RPGs. Or books... or movies

eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate. Think Master of Orion 2, Alpha Centauri, any Civ or even TW game

There is an old saying "Don't ever let the perfect become the enemy of the good". Of all the Republicans he is the most libertarian of the lot. And any Republican is preferable to any democrat. At least of any democrat likely to be nominated.

These tests have about as much merit as your average 'purity test'. They're limited by the box the designer(s) of the test think in, and I've yet to see one that isn't done in the context of the indoctrinated perceptions of mass media and bought propaganda. Generally it's a polarized box, and thus generally serves to polarize. For anyone with a working brain the majority of the questions are not black and white issues, nor yes/no/maybes. Nor does a 'maybe' make you a 'centrist'. The issues they touch on more often than not have a great deal more complexity than the question encompasses, and/or they simply rely on a false perception that's perpetrated in the mass media that makes the question foundationless, irrational, or unreasonable in an informed and truly thinking mind. Well, these really are for entertainment purposes only. If anyone needs a quiz to tell them who they should vote for they really should do the world a favor and stay home on election day.

http://www.isidewith.com/ Click "Choose another stance" for more answer choices. There is a link to expand the questions on each topic after the last question.

On isidewith.com I got: 90% Libertarians 88% Constitution Party 86% Conservative Party 80% Republicans 39% Democrats 24% Green Party 10% Socialist I wonder what question I aligned with the socialists on? I must have clicked that one wrong.

Well, as far as roleplaying goes these were the only games around back in the day, It wasn't like there was a lot to compare them to,

On www.isidewith.com I got: 89% Democrat 87% Green 68% Socialist 59% Libertarian 25% Constitution 21% Conservative 18% Republican I suppose I really shouldn't vote Republican ever. You live in California. You might as well spit on a wildfire as vote for a Republican for all the good it will do there.