LadyCrimson

Bao's voice annoyed me quite a bit when I first got him, plus yea, he seemed weak when I knew nothing about the game initally, hehe, thus the first play-thru I stopped using him as soon as I could. But later, I gave him a chance and turned him into a Jedi and all of that, and he was quite decent. Plus he has the coolest DS 'look..' His background/motivation is pretty interesting, but as others already said, in-game he was lacking something. I still don't like his voice tho - it's too whispery for me. I don't think he sounds anything like Walken tonal-wise. The throatiness yes...tone no.

You can also set mines in front of one 'area load' doorway, exit the door, go back through the door, disarm the mines you just set for the experience. Course, you have to have the skill to disarm it, so to get the really good experience w/the higher level mines you have to wait till you get the skill up...plus it's a damn sight more boring than the two combat exp. exploits. I also finished the game for the first time around lvl 30-32, I forget exactly. I'm a real stickler for doing everything possible so...

When all else fails, re-format. Once you learn to keep your system organized in such a way as to make it a fairly simple process to save the files you must have, it's really pretty painless to reformat. Tho the re-installs of software is always a pain. I've known people who've spent hours to get rid of a virus/trojan when it'd take half that time just to re-format/re-install everything.

Oh fine...semantics...I think my point that it should not be illegal just to posses it was clear enough. :D Sure, if you're stoned and driving, an arrest for driving under influence is suitable. But for having it or even smoking it while sitting out in your backyard? Something that marks you as having a 'criminal record?' Nah. The illegal = forbidden excitment also is a good point, for many cases. But I don't think that's really the biggest cause...I mean...booze is legal, and I don't exactly see that harming the booze business/drunk driving problem much... :ph34r:

I say...definitely de-criminalize it. I think it's silly to toss people in jail just for possessing a dime-bag in their glove box. As to whether it's harmful or addictive...everything is harmful if you consume enough of it, and most people are not addicted to pot in the sense that they have a very difficult time stopping for lengthy periods of time if they wish to (ie, unlike nicotine). I've known pot-smokers from all walks of life, rich to middle-class to poor, from blue collar to white-collar, young to old. Daily users and 'social' users who'd get high several times a year or something (and never increased that useage despite years of continuing). If a person has an obsessive and addictive personality, they may get very psychologically addicted to being stoned - but then, those are the people who are likely to get potentially over-addicted to anything that provides mental escape (that includes games, haha). You do not have to be a physical alcoholic (one that can't metabolize the alcohol sugars or however that works, it's been a long long time since I read up on it) to be a pyschologically escape-addicted every-day problem drinker type of alcoholic. For these type of people, almost ANY drug that they have a 1st-time, positive experience with can be a 'starter' drug - whether it's pot, caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, or sniffing glue in Wal-Mart. And yup, of course if you smoke it a lot, you can get what some people call 'pot cough' - this is partly because of the way people smoke it - inhale deeply till the lungs are over-full and hold it, hold it, hold it as long as possible. By contrast, cigarette smokers generally inhale more lightly and do not hold it in more than half a second. In fact, I've seen non-cig smokers who smoke pot who have worse coughs and more constant sore-throats than 10-20 year pack a day smokers. Course, cigs are much more likely to give you actual lung cancer, but I digress. In terms of medicinal useage - my sister is a doctor (she works a lot with 3rd world/low income women, she's not a rich spoiled surgeon, haha) and she wants it legalized for that purpose. My cousin-in-law has very bad rheumatoid arthritis, where she can barely walk and is on chemo half the time and recently they mixed drugs and she lost half her bone mass and she uses pot in the evenings to help her relax/sleep. If someone is terminally ill or something almost as severe, and it makes them feel better, leave them alone and let them. The FBI certainly shouldn't be knocking down their doors. Bah...that ran a lot longer than I meant it to. And if you're wondering...no, I don't use it...although I did for a couple years in my mid-twenties. Was fun, got boring, I stopped, haven't used it in years. Addictive? Nope, not for me. No problem stopping at all. Time/life-wasting? Oh most certainly. But then, in a way, so is playing video games... live and let live as they say.

I thought the 'Normal' servers (what I'm on) also served that purpose, since typically you can't be PvP'd unless you specifically agree to it or do one of the few actions that opens yourself up to it by default. Maybe the RP server aren't as RP as they were intended to be - ie people don't stay in character or whatever - as I said, haven't been there...and in that case the difference between the two server types is nominal and one could RP on the 'Normal' servers as well as the RP. Perhaps they'll retire the RP server eventually, then.

*argumentive stance* And you failed to notice that my comment wasn't directed towards making a statment that MORPG's should be considered fun for all time, all the time, for everyone. I quoted the poster for a reason - my comments were directed towards the concept that he/she had played for a while and then thought there was no point even tho he/he was still having some fun because of the community aspect. If you play a game and you have fun, that's the point. If you play a game and have fun and then get bored enough to dislike/hate it, stop playing by all means, but it doesn't negate the fact you had fun before you got bored. Get it?

That's pretty much what I do with all games. I don't think there's been a game in the past 3 years that has 'held' me for more than a couple months. A couple that I occasionally go back to for a few hours one day, now and then, but nothing more. I find all games a static-map level-grind of some sort and once the novelty stops being fun I stop playing. I miss the DungeonKeeper series. I want DK3, damnit.

Sure there is...it's fun. Isn't that the whole point of any game/entertainment? If you had/are having fun, I'd say there was enough of a point to make it worth the time you spent. On-line RPG's, IMO, are mostly about two things. One, building a character from top to bottom...different builds (or 'alts') to try their skills and see how they fare. There's no story point...just the 'what if' and 'can I' and 'will this work' and 'how does this work' of character building which some people really like on its own, story or not. Two, playing with other people, either co-op or PvP. Not everyone sees a story or an 'ending' as the point of a game. And in case you'd forgotten, WoW does have a few RP servers...where people who want to stay/talk in character and actually roleplay can go. Not that I've made a character on one of those, so I don't know how well it works out...but the option is there.

Yay, someone else with a taskbar like mine. :cool:

Yeah, it's more a 'mood' song...have to hear it. edit - oh wait maybe that wasn't directed at me...never mind.

Kate Bush - UnderIce. Listen to it very loud through headphones and feel creeped out... It

Doesn't matter one whit, since influence/bad-influence achieves the same result...except maybe w/Handmaiden or something, I think? I played DS my 1st time through and once I got over the "I'm a goody two shoes" mental issues I had a blast. Definitely try it once. That said, once I finished that game and went for LS, I've gone LS every time. I prefer the way the NPC's look LS. I'm so shallow.

Just some random 'puter doodle I made. So..it's whatever you see in it. "

I've never understood the hunting games. Play a PC game so you can sit and stare at the screen waiting for a deer to 'walk' by? Zzzzzzzzzz...........

My scholastic tests always said I'd make a good lawyer.... ...I like battle and atmosphere sound...I don't care about background music and usually end up turning that off pretty rapidly. In fact, for RPG's anyway, I prefer no background music because it's creepier/more involving when I can hear birds and water and zombie moans without blaring violins and trumpets over 'em. ...I don't much like the footsteps in games either. They're always too loud and too 'regular'. "tap-pat-tap-pat-tap-pat" Drives me batty with headphones on. I wish they had a 'footstep audio OFF' option. I was fishing in WoW with the music off and the water ripple sounds with the pretty lake while my avatar cast her line into the water was almost soothing. Not realistic, but kind of relaxing. For about 5 minutes anyway. Then I got bored. :D Edit: I have this feeling I'm a bad-grammer&spelling Lady this afternoon..

No...but my fingers are long and can stretch through the window. The periscope helps too.

Or you could download GoogleEarth for free instead. heh Anyway....nothing exciting ever happens in my part of town. If you could get even closer with those satellite maps you'd see me snoozing in the backyard.

lol...everyone's so 'mean' to poor Baley. :D

I find it intriguing that the site has a disclaimer that reads "This site uses online satellite imagery from Google Maps and MSN VIrtual Earth without permission..."

Another aspect to forums is that sometimes the 'regulars' - assuming there are any - run out of new/unique serious topics to post and thus the chatty threads become more prevailent. Or the board gets slower. See it happen all the time.

Well, the mages are fun...and once out of the newbie class-starter areas it's...well...huge. I'm so lost. :D

I just had to post a new pic so I could 'justify' complaining about how time consuming it can be to re-install your OS and all programs. Not to mention trying to remember all those little things you did to tweak WinXP the way you like. What was it with XP and all those darn popup reminder things.... I only have one game installed right now...and that's WoW. Yes, I caved in and bought it a couple days ago. Feel free to bash me for it. hehehe.....

Musc about sums it up for me too. Fantasy is what (many) people are used to, and they start to cry if the usual stuff isn't there. Dragons, damsels, fireballs, the same classes and spells etc. I've seen games that are more sci-fi oriented, but it still amounts to a similar gameplay concept - fighter(soldier)/magic(chemical)/archer(grenader). And they usually - not always of course - don't sell as well. Thus I'd assume business wise it's about that aspect. Consumer-wise, perhaps players tend to associate tech/guns/space with shooters/action/strategy and not RPG's out of long habit. And as we all know, some habits die hard.

...you can just say 'no'/insult him when he asks you about maybe joining forces or whatever come on line he uses after the intro dialogue. I've done that before. Although I'd then go back later to get him, before leaving the planet, so I dont' know if he just shows up on the Ebonhawk regardless, like GoTo or something. To skip his intro dialogue entirely yeah you'd need a mod or something.