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Sorry :'(

That whole scene (going the wrong way) had me in stitches when I first saw it as a kid. Seeing their faces turn to skulls, John Candy as the devil and the sheer absurdity of it all was just too awesome! I'm laughing just thinking about it. As for a single scene causing a rating increase, that's not surprising. I remember watching a behind the scenes of Fast and Furious and the director was talking about how the MPAA notified them that currently the film will get an 'R' rating. They told them what scene was causing it, though not what specifically was causing it (apparently they have to figure that part out for themselves). The film crew figured it was because of a close up of the guy's arm when he's hanging from the truck door which was rather bloody.

That sounds right. It wasn't a perfect match. But that is besides the point. I brought it up since we were discussing spawned versus preplaced enemies.

Other than mandatory alcohol consumption at the polls, I can't think of a better way to form public policy. Forgive me, but I laughed out loud at that comment. Not "hehehehe" style, but "bwahahaha" style. I think I'm giddy.

It would.

It seems this is also a condition of developers trying to balance gameplay issues associated with non-linearity. NWN did spawns so it could create encounters more appropriate to your level. In fact, I think they are even called "Encounters" in the Toolset.

I couldn't find anything for requirements. I imagine this probably means that the March 15th release date I saw at IGN may not be appropriate anymore " Oh yeah, it seems no longer needs the " to complete. Which is completely wrong!!!1

Silent Hunter 3 definitely was! It was ridiculous in 1944. If you were lucky, you got away from Great Britain and into open sea. If you were even luckier, you'd not stumble upon a Hunter Killer group (think 5-6 destroyers with the sole task of patrolling sea lanes for submarines....though you'd usually only encounter them near land, and therefore near airbases). If you were super lucky, any convoy escorts would not be armed with Hedgehogs (an awesome forward firing ASW weapon that only explodes on impact, so they can keep ASDIC scope on you the entire time), and if you were super duper mega lucky...you'd find a solo ship. It was fun dodging depth charge run after depth charge run when 80 m below sea level spamming decoys and trying to get below the thermal layer that reflects ASDIC back. I had some encounters last 30 minutes to an hour just trying to get deep and lose the hunters. Few things are more ominous than the "ping" you hear. YOu just pray they don't hear it back :D

But you _need_ a goaltender!!!

We'll give you Jussi Markkanen for Souray!

A longer good game is better than a shorter good game in most cases. Making something long for the sake of making it longer doesn't add much IMO.

I vaguely remember you and Nick talking about it before I abandoned your HOI2 game. Agreed. Once the Liberators are out with their surface detection RADARs, you might as well just dive your submarine to crush depth and save the British the ordinance. I remember my first death. It was just outside Brest, and I get the "Airplane Spotted!" So I go to the Conn Tower, and see probably 12 Liberators all streaming in on my position. I barely had time to state "Oh. My. God." As many strings of splashes quickly converged on my sub. I actually survived that attack....it's just they took out both of my diesels. The best I could do was dive (since the game wouldn't let me use electrics on the surface...), but I couldn't repair the flooding damage fast enough before another squadron of Liberators decided to waste 30 bombs on me to overkill me to hell and back. I'm still interesting in the 4th installment though. Submarines are fun regardless :D I'm looking forward to the dynamic mission updates that will hopefully keep things fresh.

At the same time, it was in Hallowbrook Hotel that I came to the conclusion that the Glock was a pretty darned effective gun.

"You're going the wrong way!!!" "How would they know where we are going?"

I'm ambivalent about Souray unless he wants to resign here.

I do still use the Katana at times towards the end of the game, such as in the Hallowbrook Hotel. Mostly because of the ability to stealth kill.

I love my Killmatic. I only use melee at the beginning of the game when my firearms skill sucks, and the overpowered Blood Buff skill makes up for my melee deficiencies.

Because there are protections against tyranny of the majority. Things like Equal Rights are pipedreams without protections against tyranny of the majority. Because without protections against tyranny of the majority, the majority can exert whatever influence it likes over the minority.

I'd rather people in power not be selfish and take advantage of those not in power. Besides, no one is saying the minority should have more power than the majority. Clearly you do not understand tyranny of the majority.

So the needs of the minority are irrelevant since they're not the majority? How is that right? If the majority of the people in the United States voted that homosexuals should not be allowed to marry, you'd be A-OK with that?

By simply allowing the majority to exercise their will over the minority, duh. Part of the law is to prevent tyranny of the majority. But you said tyranny of the majority is just "a lame excuse against democracy."

And this stops tyranny of the majority how?

If only we lived in your fantasy world. I guess then, you'd have no problems accepting a majority ruling that enacted policy that discriminated against a minority?

Right. And in just the other thread you were talking about how much work was needed to be done to ensure equal rights.

In that case, I'd say it shouldn't. Though I imagine it does.