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I suspect no. But I am making a NWN2 module

A deficit of 9 trillion dollars? Somehow I find that hard to believe, especially when the CNN just announced that the deficit is $477 billion. I'm assuming you mean debt (an exceptionally important distinction is required between debt and deficit). Well, would Bush really be alone in this? Haven't most presidents in recent years left office with a larger debt than when they started? $9 trillion dollars, and an alleged surplus under Clinton (especially since your use of surplus is meaning lack of debt). You make me laugh. Learn your financial terms before you start to criticize people.

Yeah, he got beat 5-hole that I'm sure he'd like to get back. The two on one started because Greene lost an edge. Speaking of hitting, Peca is definitely doing it now. He has been very active in the past few games.

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter is one of the funniest B-Movies I've seen in a long time. Right up there with the Cheerleader Ninjas.

We lost to three odd man rushes that Minnesota capitalized on. I felt Edmonton carried the play for the most part. EDIT: Sorry about the quadruple post :">

Not technically, but Theodore winning the Vezina/Hart was likely heavily influenced by his playoff performance.

I doubt you'd even know who Lundqvist was if he wasn't a Ranger.

Teemu didn't lead the league, he was tied with Mogilny. Besides they should both retire from pro hockey. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He still lead the league. No one scored more goals than him.

I didn't mind the mouse flight. IMO they handled it quite well. Oddly enough, it's very similar to the excellent mouse flight of the early Wing Commander games (which were made by the same dude). I disagree with the notion that a space sim needs a joystick to be proper. Never was a problem for me.

He also has a very real chance of leading the league in goals scored as a rookie, a feat not done since Teemu did it if I remember correctly.

I'm not sure about that GameDad or whatever site. I remember running away from fight near a town, and a good number of civilians were killed. The thing about walking away from the main plot, I find it easy to "deal with" as when I'm in a situation that requires "immediate" results, I don't just leave and come back.

I think I prefer Civ4 more, but I still really enjoy GalCiv 2.

Grrrr, not Agent Pierce. I like him. I felt the last episode was a weee bit too action/dramatic with

I guess the one place where it is really useful is when haggling. You get better deals if their disposition to you is high. I always persuade the merchants.

I just reinstalled Freelancer. It's funny as the game gives me a warning because it does not recognize my video card. Radeon 9800 Pro is total overkill. The game still looks pretty nice. Very colourful! Getting reacquainted with the game. I remember when I had the quad level 10 uber fast firing guns....the level 1s just don't cut it

It is used. But I get the impression I could successfully perform those persuasions with a speechcraft of 5. I guess it just makes it less tedious.

I agree. The only real advantage of the Speechcraft is for further conversations...which aren't really difficult. It'd make more sense if the guy cut things off if you hit a low rating, but I was at 0 for quite some time when I was still learning it. About the only good thing I can see with it is that I took it as a class skill, so (for better or worse because of the scaling) I can level up with it.

I agree with Gromnir. The scaling has left me mixed feelings. If you skip on too many combat skills and level up like crazy, you're going to be in a world of hurt, which is too bad. On the plus side, the difficulty slider makes a signficant difference. Even just a shift makes guys significantly more manageable. Which is good, as it means you can avoid getting permanently stuck. It's bad though, as it really shouldn't be a necessity in the event of a non-combat build. At the same time, I think "balance" can be a little overrated. I actually don't mind the odd area where my higher level guy has little problems, as it helps give the image that my character has become rather strong. Too much of it though, of course, is a bad thing. I was a little surprised though that my lower level character had little problem wiping out a cave of vampires. I suspect a good chunk of the score is for how ambitious of a design it is. The two biggest flaws with the game are the balance system, as well as the main story (though I have only just touched on that). I am genuinely having a ton of fun with this game though. I'm currently playing with the Thieves Guild for the most part, as well as just getting started on the Mages Guild. Some of the Thieves Guild quests have been a ton of fun. It is kind of funny as my current quest had a requirement that I fence like 600 gold worth of goods...and I think I'm at like 2100. The "Independent Thievery" quests require zero effort from me now. As soon as I get it, I've completed it :D It did probably get a few points for hype acknowledgement as well. The freedom of the game is a real joy IMO.

No idea. Suppose it's handy if your in a dark area but my kitty has "blue" vision (night vision in blue) so it's of no particular use generally. Although my game seems to be a lot less dark than the screenshots people have posted here. Could be because I'm playing it on a TV. And the aforementioned invisible things. Although most will cast and then immediately attack anyway. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think, as people have stated, it has more to do with the way the screenshots are taken and how the gamma is not taken into account. My screen isn't that dark either, and I'm on a standard CRT monitor.

It's just the name of their AI. They could have called it Goomba AI or OMG_I_R0X0R AI.

You guys were correct, I do not need a CD Key. If you're up for playing, let me know. I'll be leaving on Thursday for two weeks though, so don't wait up

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> I figured you'd be more upset at him having sex with your wife.

I thought that both of those were garbage. The ones I enjoyed the most were the Tomb Raider ones, probably because they could have just as easily been done if the games never existed. Sadly enough, there was a long stretch when Mortal Kombat was the best videogame to movie transition. All in all, movies to video games seem to have much better (though definately not guaranteed) success than video games to movies. None of the video games to movies have been particularly "good." As for Silent Hill, it looks like a classic case of a horror movie trailer showing way too much.

Hmmmm....urge to play Freelancer...rising.

Those are totally FedEx quests. I mean, you have to go places, and do stuff. Sometimes you have to go over places that you have been before. Complain about the quests being too easy. But they clearly are not FedEx quests. Unless FedEx quests have been expanded to (small spoilers for one quest): Learn about concerns of merchants Talk to merchant in question Follow questionable merchant after hours Learn of secret rendezvous with strange person Follow this strange person Discover the residence of this strange person Wait for person to leave house unattended Break into strange person's house, looking for evidence Upon finding evidence, confront questionable merchant Obtain clues for the strange person's current whereabouts Find strange person, and defend yourself against an ambush Upon defeating the strange person, obtain some final evidence to further clear questionable merchant Return to leader of concerned merchants, and talk with questionable merchant I wish games had more FedEx quests like this. I don't understand the "skill" comment either. FedEx quests aren't always cakewalks either. The quest for the Carsomyr (which is total FedEx... "Go to Place X" "Obtain Item Y" "Return to me") from Firkraag is a difficult quest. I think you're being overly critical of the game, for the sake of just bashing it (perhaps some bitterness since ShadowStrider is involved, since you two are always disagreeing about something).