LadyCrimson

"Fun" itself could be said to be an addiction, since in general the human race seems rather obsessed with the adrenline and psychological "rush" (or comfort...) that fun creates in our minds and bodies. Of course, what is fun to one person isn't fun to another... There's the possibility that some people are wired in such a way to be more easily addicted to certain chemicals/substances - by wired I mean through chemcial imbalances or other physical qualties that differ from what is currently percieved as the physical norm for human physiology. Sometimes the visible things (downword spiral from what's considered a "healthy productive" life) could perhaps be seen more as symptoms of the hard-wired aspect of addiction rather than the other way around - and after many years, one thing feeds off another and it becomes hard to distinguish the symptom from the root cause of the problem, if that makes sense. It's hard to say for sure sometimes, chicken and egg scenario perhaps, to coin a phrase. In terms of legalizing them - while I think they should be governmentally legal on the basis that it's illogical for this to be legal while that is not legal (the attempt of government to protect people from themselves is often so), realistically the legal route would only be effective in terms of stopping "drug crimes/wars" if prices were kept very cheap. It would do no good to make them legal and then end up having them be largely controlled by greedy companies or government itself who charge an arm and a leg/tax them at high rates so many still couldn't afford them. You'd then still have a black market. Giving them away for free...that might help in some ways, as already noted, and would avoid the affordability issue, but then it depends a lot on the quality of the stuff being given away. If it doesn't match what users think they/know can get, there still might be an eventual black market for higher quality stuff, if you know what I mean. Still, in theory it's possible in the long run many of the 'drug-war' things would be lessened from what is current. The only way to tell would be to try it. When fear keeps us from trying things, we'll never know/learn...thus I'd be for trying it...at least in measured trials and such, then widening the scope gradually if those seem successful.

I'm not sure how FTP access would help you upload music from other sites, if you don't have the songs on your HD to upload? I added an "Our Music" category under Creativity.

Certainly sounds like they're saying Kotor isn't in the graveyard forever. Who knows if that'll actually turn into a game...But it's a nice article for us who hope for one, thanks for sharing!

As if cats (or any other pets) don't have their own little...uh..quirks... I know what you mean tho.

You need Handmaiden for those, right? I've still never used Handmaiden, except briefly using a save of hubby's, once.

You need to worship Lady Crimson via PM to get upload rights. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> LOL... I guess you can post an "add me" here, too...I just thought it would be easier (for me) to keep track of who wants to upload via PM's.

There's no romance in Kotor2 beyond a few quipped remarks and cutscenes - for example, if you're a female Exile Atton has a few possible cutscenes showing him expressing interest in the Exile to bao-dur and behaving jealous of Disciple. Supposedly Handmaiden and Visas had similar jealous potential plotline, but what little there was, was cut out in both cases. Some will be restored when the TSL Restoration Project is finished. You can read about that long on-going mod project here.

I'm assuming you can run other games in higher resolutions and it's not just a monitor resolution limit itself problem. But unfortunately I still don't really know...another frustrated poster made a thread recently on the topic; if you haven't already seen it, there's a couple suggestions in there, and one or two comments that some got it to work. All I can say myself is an echo of the last post in that thread - maybe it just depends on the monitor.

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Yet another link if you don't like Quicktime. It's on YouTube, but every single upload is flagged so you have to be logged in and press the "I don't mind viewing it" button. http://youtube.com/watch?v=kvQq0HQ45Q4 And I think it does seem like a heckler-response that just got out of hand. Tho as always it's hard to tell when the video doesn't show the beginning. People love to upload videos that don't include the whole scenario... <_<

I've played in 1600x1200, so it does support higher resolutions than 1280, including a few of the non-CRT standard sizes. I think 1600x1200 was the biggest size available in the menu on my computer rig. However, I guess some people have trouble with "widescreen" & Kotor2 - maybe that's what thenatedog is referring to? Are you using a big LCD monitor with a large native widescreen resolution or something? I don't think "widescreen" was officially supported but you may be able to run it with the black bars on top and bottom sort of thing. Not sure tho - I don't have an LCD to try it on, I still use/luv CRT's...

If you're going to dislike slang, Aussie's has nothing on ValleyGirl-Speak. I kind of like cowboy slang myself..including y'all. In speech at least. It does look a bit silly in print.

R.A. Salvatore's way of writing dialogue for Catti-Brie and the dwarves in general. But particularly Catti-Brie. I can't stand it. I can't stand it. I can't stand it.... I love Drizzt's character, story, and some of his foes, but I loathe Salvatore's writing - tho he has gotten a bit better over the years.

Atton can work well as a saber-Jedi or a blaster man. Depends on what you want. Good blasters can be hard to come by tho. I use dual-blasters when possible. Handmaiden - never used her myself, but hubby had her using sabers and she was fine. I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone say they used her as a h2h, beyond her scripted combats w/the PC. T3 - I always used double-blasters with him. He's ok later in the game if you want to use him to be different, but nothing special. Visas - saber, yup. Kreia - I tended to give her a blaster because I wanted her to stay in the back casting spells - thus when she ran out of 'Force' she would use the blaster instead of running into melee and getting in my way. You could apply this to any character you want to hang out in the back as support. Bao-Dur - I've used him with just about everything (including a saber, of course). He's pretty flexible, really, although he's not a beefy tank. I consider h2h kind of weak in this game damage wise but it's fun to watch him punch and kick people. Hahah. Bottom line - except for the droids, none of them are really "locked" into being best with one thing or another weapon wise...if you start early with something, pick the skills that go with it, and stick with it, they'll become fairly adept with it by the end. I pick the few npc's that I'll use most of the time and build them up as I want, and leave the rest as their sort of 'default' build. Just my opinion. Yes, there's a few other points in the game where your character choices are mildly to severely limited for a "mission." And I do the same thing re: character overload..tend to stick with a few faves. That's what replaying is for...trying all the others.

After watching both CSI:LV and CSI:NY most recent seasons on DVD, I'm rather tired of that phrase... :D

"arrogant bodily orifices" ...classic, Di, classic. :D Adrenline, possible inexperience, fear of possible mobs/being surrounded...all that can play a role. And while I think the repeated taserings were unncessary and probably should have some disciplinary action against the officers in question, I agree that with the info known, I don't have too much sympathy in this case for the kid, either. It's not an excuse for the officers latter reactions, but imo Di has a point. There is often blame on both sides.

Based on that video, for me it's hard to say if the first taser was really abusive or not. Yelling and screaming and all that makes it hard to be objective, as well, since such brings up emotive responses. But the subsequent taserings certainly seem highly unneccesary to me. When someone is in handcuffs and can't fight back/isn't a physical danger; well to me that's abuse of power. They could have dragged or carried him out or something. It wouldn't have "looked" any worse to those watching. Yes, once, when I was a teen. I won't say why. It wasn't for illegal activity tho.

I got hooked on Caesar4's online Empire scenarios...the high population one anyway. I love building messy high population cities...9 hours left for someone to beat my number. hehe

I've read that too - maybe not so much the opposite, but not written to be so humorous/action-stunt packed or something? The movies added the gadgets and such, they're supposedly not in the books, really. The Roger Moore Bond movies were the campiest, imo. Brosnan was ok but the movies got too outlandish action-wise...I wouldn't mind a bit of a departure from the usual Bond "formula" - it'll be interesting to check the film out.

"Well I chill in deep space A mask is over my face." LOL...creative and funny game video.

I agree. I don't like the new Doc nearly as much - he plays it too slapsticky. <_< I like Christopher a lot too. I find myself watching Heroes on Sci-Fi rerun on Fridays more than on it's network day...so I just saw the last one. Hiro in the picture thing - major paradox. Unless the gal is suddenly alive once he left,and Hiro's buddy doesn't know it yet, Hiro hasn't changed the ultimate outcome by going back...which means even if he was stuck in the past for a few weeks, it's rather illogical for him not to be able to return to the shop after her death occured in his altered time line. Or something. Time stuff gives me a headache. Unless, of course, he's skipped into a parallel timeline/universe by accident. " Also, I realize the way the plot is going, we're going to meet a lot of 'special' people so this murdering bad guy can do his thing and we can have an evolutionary explanation for it all or soemthing, but is anyone else getting a little tired of it seeming like everyone around the corner is "special?" It makes the main characters less unique and thus, to me, less interesting. But I do like the way the cheerleaders father is turning out.

I remember Lanfear. I wish I could recall the others I talked to a lot - I'm so bad with names tho. Good times, definitely.

Well the easiest way to tell would be to reinstall the game sans the patch and see if they occur. There are some people who've reported more small glitches w/the patch than without. Otherwise...such minor yet annoying graphical snags can be hard to troubleshoot. Could be a lot of things.

Yeah, that she does. I just wasn't sure if you actually got a DS hit in all of those situations - seems like there were some influence things that gave no DS/LS hit at all and wasn't sure what the balance was. At any rate - I never had any major trouble gaining enough influence with her for the plot and staying LS.

Pop - that was minor surgery? What happened to the hand? It looks a bit like some spiders or ants had lunch while you were sleeping.