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I'd participate if I still had a copy of HL2, but I don't, and getting a new one doesn't make any sense when the Orange Box is just around the corner, which contains TF2. But at that point, sure, I'll play.

Looks thematically similar to SS, but if Dead Space is the name of the game and not just a project codename, it's probably not SS3.

Sounds like a sort of revisiting of PST. I wouldn't be surprised if there turned out to be some critical consequence to soul eating in the grand scheme of things, just like how somebody, somewhere died prematurely every time the Nameless One was resurrected. Could make for some interesting endgame possibilities.

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KOTOR 1 did it. If you played the dark side. But then you're just an evil guy who turns out to be more evil than you originally thought you were. Has there been a game in which you go through thinking you're doing good but are doing evil instead (that isn't simple i.e. Bioschlock)?

That's the sorta-Lovecraft game, right?

Isn't a likelier explanation that the radio lied? Or maybe they didn't do it right at all.

I always found PST to be limited by the D&D system in regard to philosophy, but not by much. Chris Avellone is a crazy philosophy **** (not really, he seems okay), and it really feels like he threw everything he had into that game. Whether or not it amounts to anything, well, some people think 2001:A Space Odyssey is boring and empty, so it depends on your outlook, I'd say. I was impressed by PST.

Details or GTFO.

By the by, you can't legalize underage sex, you can just lower the legal age of consent. Unless there would be no age of consent, which is dumb.

Does that mean that CNPCs are even less involved in conversations in MotB than they were in NWN2? Because while CNPCs butting into conversations is certainly desirable, it seemed only half-there, if that, in NWN2.

No, no, yours is better.

If you've ever had a babysitting job in which you were forced to watch the series, there are rogue AMVs on Youtube that pretty much perfectly lay out all the stupid bull**** in that show. There's something like 25+ episodes now. BEHOLD. The voice acting gets better over time.

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Are you calling me fat?

The GBA stuff was basically very expensive microtransactions. Hook up your GBA to Splinter Cell and you get suction-cup cameras! Ooooh! And what about that cord coming out of the bottom of the controller? That takes it from bulky-but-manageable to ridiculous.

BG2 was only really easy for me when I had played it enough that I knew what was coming around every corner, and thus knew when to Barry Bonds my party. The first time around I got clobbered by everything from the few gauths hanging out past the broken bridge under the Temple sewers to every mind flayer I encountered (the city of them seemed goddamn impossible) I still have trouble with the mind flayers, what with the lack of grappling (when are they going to institute that in a game) and instead just making 2 hits an instant kill. Fallout 2 was only really difficult if you didn't know about the drug dealers in the Den that you could effortlessly knock over and equip your party with.

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You didn't, really. Unless you like Shenmue, in which case, you have my sympathies. Seriously, what the **** is this.

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They are not seekers of truth.

Cults. Lots of cults. I was always more interested in post-apoc fantasy not so much as a setting you put your players into initially but something you use to pull the rug out from under them and change the rules at a base level to see what happens and how the players react. I was considering running a heavy-magic campaign (I'm a slave to the FR, unfortunately) and having the players either witness or enact a cataclysm that either negates magic entirely or severely scales it back in the gameworld. I also considered making the players some of the few people who could still use magic post-cataclysm, in effect making them something like superheroes amongst normal men (even more than they already had been, heh). Not so keen on actually using atomic weaponry from modern times, per se, but any analogue doomsday weapon would work. What about a fantasy bomb that, instead of emitting deadly radiation, semi-permanently alters the magic cast in its area into wild or dead magic? Think mythals. Another cool idea would be, instead of taking the easy way out and throwing interdimensional Soviet scientists in with an atom bomb, you have the bomb actually discovered in the world. Say, for instance, dwarven miners come across a never before seen glowing substance that seems highly magical but sickens those who come into close contact with it. Then some malevolent group kills dwarves and seizes magic metal. PCs pursue the malevolent group not knowing what's afoot, and by the end of the adventure the malevolent group has built a dirty bomb / atomic device and detonates it. Or you could have somebody trying to use the weapons to kill Gods, or something.

We've obviously got a similar movement of sorts in America. To most people, there are african americans, irish americans, italian americans, etc. But there's really no such thing as a "mexican american". There are just mexicans. There's all sorts of talk about fences and right-wing militias along the border. It's a sexy issue, in a way (it doesn't seem to rate high on most people's list of political priorities, curiously) but it doesn't look like there's going to be any kind of reasonable compromise regarding it anytime soon, what with this last "best" reform bill dying in Congress. On the campaign trail, Guliani's talking about "motion detection" technology along the border, Romney's talking about pulling fed funding from those cities that house immigrants, Ron Paul's talking about abolishing natural citizenship, Clinton's voting record seems pro-immigration, though I can't speak to any campaign promises, and Obama "will not support any bill that does not provide [an] earned path to citizenship for the undocumented population." and supports guest worker programs but supported the Secure Fence Act.