Xard

European Lazy Irresponsible Troupe of Essayists - ELITE *applaude*

That sounds way too familiar to me That's just about everyone, Xard. Let's put up Lazy-Insecure-European-Wannabe-Writers-Coalition! LIEWWC! ...wait, that acronym sucks

That sounds way too familiar to me

Yup it was very brave work by journalist who's responsible for this I think she/he was from BBC

awesome!

If I don't remember wrong didn't you write? It was some sort of New Year's promises topic or something years ago

Did you ever get past the "getting publisher" part? (not mocking, just curious ) edit; oh, as a person *duh* ...you should've at least tried to change your avatar with your name if wanting to go by Hades style

writes Brandon in his blog So quit whining and start to hype yourself up

wait, we have real author around here?

dude, no It's the same old Hades lol Anyway, I guess I miss meta most. Propably the smartest guy on this forum. and the Jesus WHO LOVES YA dude was fun. As was Baley. And many others Eldar/Cantousent has been away for some time now

NWN2 was everywhere KotOR 2 did get fair amount of coverage too MotB not so much but it is just expansion pack

well, yeah Actually we don't know anything about motives yet, but this follows the same pattern as before in so many ways bingo With bad luck we end up as another Japan

lern2read and there's no doubt capitalism kills people btw. So does socialism and nazism and others, but those are basically ideologies, capitalism is merely system of running systems. So it's kinda scary

yahh, we love our bears fine <3 haw haw haw As for why; really good question I'm not ignorant enough to write down specific reason(there's surely many), but I can't help but stretch the sad state of our psychiatrical halthcare. The finnish mentality doesn't exactly help either, it being the "deal with it" and "no whining" grumpyness. That certainly doesn't encourage search for help or whatever. Anyway, in recent years (for quite some time now actually) finnish society has drifted a lot more towards capitalistic system (well, we've never been socialists of course but you know what I mean) and it shows in bad ways; money, money, profit, profit and general "coldness" has been creeping in unlike before. Part of the blame (small or large) for the whole picture goes for that. Cases like these and situation our mental services stuff has ended is part of the reason why I so strongly detest taks line of thinking. It's what happens when capitalist values come to forefront. "yay"

David Gilmour - Murder Fitting song remembering the news

That happened way too close for my liking I don't really have to anything to say. I know I should feel bad or angry or sad or something, but... nothing. I didn't feel anything at all when I heard of it. There's only this fleeting "oh for ****'s sake, not again. Stupid twerp" Anyway, this definetly marks end of an era. Jokela's shooting was absolute, horrendous shock but it could've been written off as one time act of madness. Jokela, recent stabbing of teenage girl and this surely gives a lot to think about uhh, he only had one gun

The Beatles - Back in the U.S.S.R

The Beatles - She Said She Said

Pixies - Dead you crazy baby bathsheba, i wancha you're suffocating you need a good shed i'm tired of living, shebe, so gimme DEAD

Vangelis - Wait For Me Blade Runner...

Don't let taks or Guard Dog hear you say that or you'll be labelled a 'dirty socialist'. # too true too true benelovent, invisible hand of market is just bs I wonder have they ever heard of Rawls...

there is only The Black Hound [/handwave]

lolwut, Xardosaurus?

Yes. Shepard - "Tell me about whatever" the other person - "wall of awkward text" I have to disagree on that "wall of text" part. For most of the time, Mass Effect didn't hit you with wall of text, you could skip out of talky situations fast with right side neutral option. Even if you chose to ask just about everything, there wasn't that much text. More detailed info went into codex and then it would be your option if you chose to read it, or some cases, listen excellent narrative voiceover. I think other developers should do the same and give players more options how much info they want about the world, story or the characters. The point isn't that you have an option not to read it, but rather that the information in those monologues should be conveyed to the player through flowing conversations, and through mise en sc

Uhh, Bloodlines has absolutely fantastic writing No, it was okay, but surely not fantastic. But then again, Bloodlines also put additional emphasis into the actor performance, I thought that contributed also to the personality of the NPCs. In the end, it's not purely the dialog quality that makes or breaks an RPG these days, but how well all parts (acting, VO, design, functuality) play together that make it a satisfying experience. And I think if I can survive some badass dialogs a'la Gothic and still can enjoy it, DA should be a diamond among good ol' fashioned RPG goodness. I can't think of single badly written character in the game. Jeanette, Prince, Anarchs etc. were fantastically written. Even minor characters like Fat Larry (best. shopkeeper. ever) and that japanese demon hunter had a lot of character in them Storytelling ranged from average to utter fail, but that's not writings fault.