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OK, good to hear - I'll file that away in my head for anyone else with future troubles.

I agree, it really sucks when they don't let you directlink.

I haven't played with a controller so no idea - heck, I don't even know how you crouch with a controller, because on the keyboard it's a separate button, right? What I'd assume is try and take the value for "Move Left/Right" and then copy it across everything that looks likely.. (back up first). Or, if you're just doing this for kicks on the PC I guess you could just use keyb/Mouse for the minigames, but that's not ideal. I can have another look later but I know as little as you on this.

Krezack is now banned for advertising.

Not quite as bad as Brits.

Current Votes: Hurlshot: 1 Nightshade: 1 Mkreku: 2 Walsingham: 2 Rosbjerg: 1 Yet To Vote: 4 Remember: you need a majority (6) to eliminate someone. Otherwise, nobody will be eliminated. This has its good and bad sides: on one hand, every Night is an opportunity for the evil RFID to sabotage or even hospitalise (eliminate) innocent Single Men from the competition; on the other hand, eliminating someone now might mean that you help the RFID's cause. Of course, you may not care about any of this and just vote for revenge/competition. In any case, it might behoove you to consolidate some of the votes if you want someone to go today.

I meant ambient music/sounds by music, btw. Even in Fo3 the radio got old pretty fast. I agree with mkreku that it's much better to hear the songs on the radios placed in the world. Anyway, time for more!

Are you using the Gadgets Menu to select gadgets? That's not the PDA inventory, it's on the Z/X/C radial menu (where you also choose abilities and weapons).

No idea specifically, but MyDocs/Alpha Protocol/APGame/Config/APInput.ini directly controls the bindings, and you could probably remap those controls to the D-Pad or something through trial/error & copy/paste.

Most commonly, it's been related to frame smoothing and a couple of other ini tweaks (here); I haven't updated that in a good while, but search the PC support forums here and there's been quite a lot of discussion over mouse jerkiness. You could be talking about a very unsensitive mouse, which is a bit odd, though? Is the mouse problematic in up-down or other movements, and it's just the turning? (In which case, see above) edit: oh, and APInput.ini has mousesensitivity & a few other mouse settings.

Fiddled with the tutorial for half an hour, I actually like what they did with the music so far. Looks good.

2+ hours later I'm still downloading the patch. I don't know if it's the size of the patch (which, typically, doesn't show up in Steam displays, so I don't know) or Steam being an arse. ETW did this too, but then TW patches were always ginormous.

Got my copy from the UK today, sent 20th October - 25th was a public holiday in NZ so considering that it's not too bad. Run setup. Steam tries to autoupdate. Thinks it doesn't exist *after* it downloads update. Manually login. Login takes 3 minutes. Popup ad. All in all much better than the crapfest a few years ago, but we'll see.

Update 2 Terribly sorry for the delay. It might be my fault for making it too complicated for myself... and of course I believe my copy of F:NV has arrived today Nevertheless, Gwyneth Higginbottom has now delivered her verdict on the first exploits of the Single Men: As dawn broke, most Single Men were ready and raring to go on their first Day Date. Two, however, were nowhere to be found: Nightshade, the Goth-Emo, and Tale, the Creepy Dude, would not be seen for the rest of the day. Some speculated that the two had retreated to a private conference of the creepy, while others adjoined that the more likely scenario was an embarrassing case of nervousness. All Single Men present laughed heartily and stroked their belly at this pronouncement, thereby reassuring each other that they weren't nervous at all, oh no. Their target this day was one Gwyneth Higginbottom, a woman whose hatred of the male sex literally oozed out of her ears. Recognising the demands of the majority of Single Men, we asked her to await them at a club with a light drink, although she was not entirely sure why she was there at 10a.m. The first to arrive on the scene (PROTIP: because all dates, unless specified, are processed in the order of posting), was none other than... The Architect, the Avatar of Cheese. Confidently strutting towards Ms. Higginbottom, he opens with the line, “I may not have gotten your virginity, but can I have the box it came in?”. As a hell-bent feminist, Gwyneth turns to snap at him, claws raised, but takes one look at his slick, charming figure and appears to reconsider. Not passing up the chance, Architect hands her a wrapped box with his phone number inside, before departing with a loud wink and a "G'day, Ms. Nicebottom." Staring at his wiggling bottom, she appears unable to decide whether to throw her glass at him or swoon. The Architect's cheese has overcome Ms. Higginbottom's aversion to men. He gains +5 POS. Mkreku, the Weirdo, is up next. He is not wearing any pants, sports a lipstick'd latex mask of George W. Bush, and attemps to dry-hump Ms. Higginbottom. Unfortunately, Gwyneth knows several methods of self-defence and remembered that you break a wine bottle under-arm, not over-arm, before stabbing strange people in the face. It took Mkreku several hours to wash the blood out of the latex mask. He loses -5 POS. Walsingham, 's witty yet stylish pick-up line of "Kuong trang naz vedkya" might well have succeeded in piquing Ms. Higginbottom's interest, were she not so traumatised by the previous Single Man. As soon as Walsingham draws his jackknife for his theatrical maneuvre, she begins to scream hysterically. Wals calms her down enough after a while, but continues to insist on calling her 'Colonel', making her think he's a bit of a nut-job. Walsingham might have fared better without Mkreku's circus beforehand. He gains +5 POS. Orogun, the Spanish Loverr makes his attempt around lunchtime. Gwyneth has now left the largely ill-fated club, and awaits the Single Men at a sun-filled flower garden. "Take my hand and we shall walk through a garden of bodily pleasure next to the divine", he softly whispers into her ear. As Ms. Higginbottom stares at him like an alien from outer space, Orogun continues to weave his magic. (PROTIP: It appears that his superior POS is coming into effect.) While Ms. Higginbottom might normally be expected to detest such soap drama, it appears Orogun can turn even the most extreme of man-haters into goo. He gains +5 POS. Awesomeness, ,the metrosexual, comes in with a very different approach. He opens by complimenting her fashion sense, then presents her with beauty care products, and is also a great listener. Gwyneth informs me that Awesomeness was by far her favourite companion of the day. Unfortunately, she appears to firmly categorise him as a non-sexual friend, in the typical gay flatmate sense. She plans to ring him tomorrow to ask what he thinks about Leonardo DiCaprio's gorgeous new hairstyle. Successful, but somewhat misdirected. No POS Change. Shryke / Rosjberg, When Shryke approaches Ms. Higginbottom with a drunken slur and stumbling feet, she initially believes him to be a loitering lunatic rather than a Single Man. She is hardly impressed by his drunken assurance that with him at her side 'there ain't gonna be nobody to mess yoo up baby." It is at this point Rosbjerg, the Sugar Daddy, enters the scene. "Wait 'ere, Guinness, Shryke says, "I'll take care of this roof, ah, ruffian fer ya." Still stumbling wildly, Shryke lunges at Rosbjerg, fully intending to throw him somewhere far away. Panicking, he flicks his fingers and calls his masseurs into action, but Shryke has already rugby-tackled him, both crashing into the flowerbed where a frantic, painful yet strangely homoerotic scene of botanical violence ensues. If Ms. Higginbottom were more man-friendly, she might have been attracted by Shryke's misguided chivalry, or sympathised with Rosbjerg's plight; as it were, she is impressed by neither. No POS Change for both. KOTOR / Hurlshot, Finally, KOTOR, the Video Game Nerd, enters the scene. Putting away his gigantic Sennheiser headphones plugged into the PSP, he looks around wildly, squinting and cursing the sunlight under his breath. But as he approaches, another, much larger, Single Man emerges from the shadows. It is Hurlshot. Though he was first to the date scene today, he has patiently waited for a scrawny fellow to come and give him an opportunity to demonstrate his manliness. As KOTOR wipes away the oil on his forehead and opens his mouth, Hurlshot sneaks up behind him and provides a powerful wedgie. It is a wedgie of epic proportions. There is a horrible ripping sound, and KOTOR's Aribeth Underwear dangles from Hurlshot's burly hands, as the nerd painfully drops, face-first, to the ground. "Don't waste your time with a loser like that, a real man is here for you", Hurlshot says, as he nonchalantly drops the underwear on the prone KOTOR. While this was a dangerous gamble, it seems to have worked for Hurlshot, mainly because KOTOR wasn't winning any points with his entrance anyway. Ms. Higginbottom smiles and suggests that Hurlshot take her to a more suitable location. Unfortunately, this is when Hurlshot's smartphone begins to blare. Retrieving it from his pocket impatiently, Hurlshot is horrified to see it explode with sounds of hard-core pornography, the lurid visuals clear to Ms. Higginbottom from her position. Going utterly red in the face you open your mouth to try and explain, but Gwyneth has had enough. "You're as bad as that Mkreku, Hurly, she admonishes. Hurlshot tries to explain that he has no idea what has happened, but a woman's head once turned is not easily turned again. -5 POS for both. Day Dates won't turn out the same way every time: a balance will be struck between honouring your own Female Action Plans (and night moves, etc) and getting a good narrative going. Next time I will probably summarise most of this to reduce TL:DR. In any case, let's see who Gwyneth finally picked as the winner of the first challenge... At the end of the day, all Single Men reconvene; Nightshade and Tale reappear separately, with no explanations given for their absence. Gwyneth now appears in front of them. Strategically situating several Single Men between herself and Mkreku, she announces that "while most of you were typically despicable, immature and idiotic men, I think there were a couple of you who were not as terrible as I expected. That Orogun fellow was very romantic, and Walsingham, if a bit old and corpulent, is very much a gentleman. But I'm going to have to go for Archie - there's just something about him that rubs me the right way." And so it is that amidst the jealous stares of the other Single Man, Architect, the Avatar of Cheese, wins our very first Day Date! It is now time for our first Vote. All Single Men have a vote; use it to eliminate one contestant from TOMDS. Architect, as the winner, cannot be voted for. Have the actions today shown you who the treacherous RFID might be? Or will you use the votes to eliminate potential threats in the day date challenges? It's up to you now.

Remember guys, judge a topic by its own merits, not the poster. That said, this one is clearly going nowhere...

Because it's a transcultural, pastiche practice that is living testament to postmodern art... ...by which I mean boobies + cutesies.

Posting random wiki-info over a dozen video game forums does count as spam, I am afraid.

NZ (as usual) copies this scheme with Kiwisaver, though it's opt-out rather than compulsory - and much smaller. I believe I have 2% of my pay going towards it, then the employer matching this, then occasional government bonuses. I can't believe the 12% figure, to be honest - what impact does that have on companies' bottom line & your salaries when the employer has to cop out an extra 12%? Anyway, given that the baby boomers will all be spending money right up to their retirement anyway, and only a few are likely to go on sudden spending binges, I don't think the inflation impact will be that high.

Only 100K on PC. Shame on you pirates. But yeah, VGChartz probably has to be taken with a grain of salt. Edit: I wonder if that counts on-line sales anyway. It probably doesn't, which means it's at least twice that.

It's not a question of whether a writer is proud of his/her work and so on and so forth. It's a very simple issue of - does a single writer in a multi-writer project (that involves more than writing) saying "I like her and she should have a big role in the second game" mean that it is a good decision? No, not if other factors indicate that the character wasn't that special. What you're saying is confusing it and getting it back to front - even in a book, a writer loving his/her character is fine, but if that blinds him/her and gets in the way of judging the role the character should play then no. So it's not really a criterion here.

Seriously? That's as idiotic as it gets. "I think she's wonderful" etc etc.\ Nice screenies, and despite how anime it's gotten I'm starting to think that they have a point in that it does give the game a stronger look.

I'm sure I'm late to the party, but that's because I don't have F:NV yet. 1.4 million in first week USA, more UK sales than FO3? Feargie got done slam dunk!

NZ teachers union is bargaining for collective agreements as well, at the moment.

Sorry for unfast updates in the beginning rounds, I'm still moving around on conferences but nearly done. I'll post the results of this date asap - it will be hard for Ms. Higginbottom to choose from such upstanding citizens, but I'm sure she can manage. And then we can vote someone off!

That's a bit harsh - MOTB had the benefit of being an expansion pack where they could solely focus on what they do best, and also had a reasonable budget/time for it (unlike SOZ). I think Obsidian in pretty much every release have proven perfectly capable of being so much better than pretty much everybody else out there in those areas (... and lamentably weak in some).