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Note to self... avoid BioBoards at home....

Declaring to myself that I can no longer visit the BioBoards when I'm not at work.

Though isn't the dexterity hotfix going to make them weaker by the end? You'll get your .5 point of damage for every dex point now (for +18 damage at 36 dexterity), but you'll now only get .5 point per cunning as well (instead of 1). In other words, if you're at 36 dexterity and 36 cunning with Lethality, you're going to get +36 damage with either solution.

The sum of all fears? Also, uncanny valley CGI scenes should be in Matrix-like movies. For instance, the protagonist hallucinates and the real/CGI scenes are used to tell apart when he's seeing things and when not. Patriot Games and Hunt For Red October were two excellent Tom Clancy-based movies.

There are issues with the end game epilogues in general. IIRC they are being addressed in an upcoming patch.

Isn't this what Paradox has been doing for years now, what they basically did with Hearts of Iron II (and I believe many of there other games... don't have firsthand knowledge of those though)? Paradox Plaza released a stand alone expansion called Doomsday, as well as a DLC called Armageddon, for Hearts of Iron 2. I can't remember if Armageddon actually changed aspects of the game though. It may have.

From what I gather, your liver is slow to let you know it's unhappy

My impression is that DLC won't be more than content expansions. Probably as a result of the scope, but also because there's concerns about alienating people that don't have the DLC. I also think there might be some barriers due to the consoles, where DLC can only do so much. Having said that, a DLC model could make the type of patching you would require more feasible. Part of the reason why that stuff is done in expansions, is because the costs get recouped in the sale of the expansion. Warden's Keep is probably similar in length to the Return to Ostagar one (I haven't played Return to Ostagar, but it took me about an hour or so... I wasn't really paying attention) to complete Warden's Keep.

Regarding Ser Cautherine:

I vaguely remember rage quitting a discussion with numbers regarding pirated DVDs in London or some **** like that

I like the idea that the Maker doesn't actually exist.

I'm a bit skeptical to the overall health benefits of drinking 3-11 shots of vodka a day.

Huh? I made a post and changed my mind about keeping it there. It was just a question in a similar vein to yours regarding culture.

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@Rostere That's not surprising, given that Sweden is a fairly socialist state. That benefit comes with the other costs of living in Sweden.

I'm not taking it anywhere, I asked my question and you answered it.

So you feel that by the state actively expressing that same sex marriage will not be recognized is a way to protect your culture?

Doesn't Tales of the Sword Coast require you to not have finished Baldur's Gate though? (I only played the game with the expansion)

Why?

Nothing does. In fact, it seems pretty clear you are in favour of it. However, given your previous posts throughout the forum regarding the freedoms/liberties and rights of people, and a general discourse on goverments not getting involved in the lives, I was making an assumption that you wouldn't support legislation that explicitly discriminates against a group of people.

It's debatable that two people getting married is the same as two other people getting married? It's only debatable if you think that a black marrying a white is different than two white people marrying each other. The act we're discussing here, is marriage. Two people getting married. If you make constitutional distinctions between same sex marriage and heterosexual marriage, the government is telling people that it feels gay marriage is different. Since the only component of gay marriage that is different from heterosexual marriage is the participants of said marriage, it implies that homosexuals are different enough in such a way that, constitutionally speaking, they do not deserve to have their marriage validated and recognized to the same degree that a heterosexual marriage does. You may not have said anything to the contrary, but given how quick you are to discuss and go on about political issues you don't agree with, including political discussions not even involving your state, in addition to concerns about compromising the freedoms and rights of individuals, I'm rather surprised you haven't actively spoken out against the Texas amendment. Although you have danced around the issue quite well.

That's fair. Though by expansion you definitely don't mean something like Tales of the Sword Coast then, right?

I guess it's not a broken record by you, but certainly a lot of other people. Hard to keep tabs. Apologizes my potential company of heroes comrade. What's the viewpoint on DLC if an XP still comes out?

Well, to not approve is pretty close to disapprove, so I guess so. The reason it was stated in the constitution was because there is a push to legalize it, so that was a counter reaction to make sure it didn't happen. Also one state normally recognizes marriages performed in another state, so that's the other reason for the amendment. By stating in the constitution an explicit and deliberate viewpoint that the governments of Texas will not recognize it is more than simply "not approving" it. It put up a constitutional barrier to it. In doing so, the state has defined that same sex marriages are, in fact, different, and not worthy of the entitlements and recognition of a heterosexual marriage. It's institutional and systemic discrimination for the government to explicitly state that a group of individuals will not be recognized the same way as a different group of individuals, in spite of performing the same acts.

So is your "Oh dear"