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alanschu

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  1. As I didnt see this in the article, I can only guess your pulling it out of thin air. Unless the UK police force is so unbelievably inept as to cost themselves tens of thousands of pounds in the process of typing a single report, there is no way this can be true. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Why would heroin cost tens of thousands of pounds to make?
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    And yet the movie enemy at the gates is a classic example of over exaggerating Hollywood made rubbish. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What's your point? He was talking about the movie Stalingrad, not Enemy at the Gates.
  3. You mean at the very beginning? I'll check. EDIT: It's inconsistent. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I don't know if it's a bug, or if it's just the way the game was designed. I noticed shadows on the roof when I was crawling along the pipe over some fire, and along the wall in one of the stairwells. Not too often at my feet however. EDIT2: Unfortunately, my game seems to explode on the oil rig. Forces a reboot of my computer when watching the cutscene of the technician
  4. I never really understood this complaint. I mean, saying stuff to make someone trust you in order to have them talk to you isn't really all that unlike reality. If someone doesn't really like you, why should they talk to you about stuff they don't want to talk to you about?
  5. In what way does the party member restriction relate to the story however?
  6. This doesn't prove your statement. All you're saying is that it was worse when they got to the USA. You can't deduce that they weren't leaving because of persecution. Well, it is quite close to Ireland, and you know, people are dying and all that. I'm guessing it was significantly cheaper to move to Great Britain. In order to make a conclusion though, you'd have to see what these people did after they arrived in Great Britain. They may have stayed temporarily, and emigrated the main island shortly afterwards. Such actions were not uncommon throughout all of medieval europe though. But, in your own words, they hadn't been sovereign for "centuries" :] Unfortunately, the perception of the people is what matters. If they feel they are being persecuted, then that is a viable reason for the emigration. If, upon hindsight, we look at it and say "You know, it wasn't really persecution" based on some application of the definition, it wouldn't mean that those that left because they felt they were being persecuted are wrong. Having said that, I'm not sure how you can say that "it was Governmental stupidity and an unwillingness to disrupt the cash flow they were getting from Ireland's other food exports" while still holding the idea that they were not subjected to ill-treatment. Maintaining the food exports of Ireland while the people are starving in a famine is not ill-treatment? And you could argue that you might be a bit bias in favour of it. It seems as though you live there based on your other posts, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if you're defensive about it. However, I believe Meta is also a Brit as well.
  7. I declare meta the winner!
  8. I was looking for it. I do seem to have character shadows (I noticed them in the security room upstairs in the police station of tblisi (the demo level. My goodness I must have played that one 100 times) EDIT: Man, this game is still crazy fun. Though I find myself trying to get myself out of tight situations like in Chaos Theory, where Sam has a plethora of close combat moves to incapacitate enemies. Not so in the first two. But the story is still a gooder as far as I'm concerned.
  9. IIRC, the epilogue for the third one was a bit short. I just finished installing the original. See you all next week
  10. alanschu

    NHL

    Agreed Kor. It was an entertaining game. Too bad Mr. Kariya was able to make that sweet pass to Legwand. I thought for sure we were going to tie it up at the end. What a chance by Torres!
  11. Been a while since I played Pandora Tomorrow. Maybe I'll dig up the old copies and play through them again.
  12. Of course it's a spoiler if she hasn't played it. Let's step through the logic: Darque hasn't played game, someone tells her something about the game, now the surprise (and possibly her enjoyment) is spoiled. Hence: spoiler. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think the situation is compounded by the fact that she said "Hey, I'm playing NWN at the moment." It's one thing to talk about it in an open discussion and given its age, I wouldn't lose much sleep (any sleep) if someone mentioned it without hiding it in a spoiler tag. But when someone says "Hey I'm playing the game," it's a bit bizarre to just go out and state straight up what the end of the game is like. Even if she already has been spoiled from previous discussions. If someone where to pick up Ultima VII ( a 13 year old game now ), I wouldn't just blab the ending suddenly to them.
  13. alanschu

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    Hahaha, I can imagine. I love how they bitch and moan about the historical innaccuracies of Medieval II, but...hello people, their haven't really had much going for historical accuracies up until this point, what makes you think 4th time is a charm??
  14. I'd recommend playing them in order as well.
  15. alanschu

    NHL

    Yeah. I love how they point out a -4 game in 2000 for Lidstrom. And do you really want an effortless player representing YOU at the All-Star game?
  16. Different Strokes for different folks. I'd probably rate the Fallouts just behind Ultima VII for favourite role playing games.
  17. alanschu

    NHL

    http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/spo...3e-fdee76eaa870 Hahahaha
  18. The "reviewer's tilt" is the most important rating as far as I'm concerned.
  19. Oh yeah, I remember that bug now. The way I worked around it was to quit to main menu before loading, since I was always allowed to load my game from there. It was in the streets of that town, which had lots of soldiers and resulted in me dying a lot :D Hahaha, there was no hot loving for me. Must have missed that part
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    So is your criticism of Batman in a role that other superheroes have been in (helping the military) more because you don't like Frank Miller, or because you actually didn't like the role? For what it's worth, I think Superman helping the military in WW2 was stupid, because it just leads me to think "hey, why didn't he just go get Hitler?"
  21. Heh, I wouldn't hold your breath.
  22. alanschu

    NHL

    Yeah, you beat me to it.
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