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Restart the game, and refrain from changing the display resolution in-game.

Good question. What happens if the person who is fighting in your honor loses? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The game ends, just like any combat in which your entire party (in this case, your chosen guy) dies.

Bah, they're getting rid of the weak link (that damned quarterback) presently. What they need to do is get that Shanahan running game back.

Ho, friend, meet the stumble button, now with pr0n-seeking categories. Also, if you need a laugh, there' pornotube.

Keep in mind there are no expansions and no box sets, of which there are numerous NWN incarnations. So a comparison might not be apt.

BOLLOCKS I SAY

Butterfly Effect may be Donnie Darko for special people, but Donnie Darko is The Matrix for people who want to appear intelligent and hip. At least Donnie Darko had actual actors in it. Not so. People love **** movies (ie Titanic). But seeing how easy that is to forget, if a movie has a small, rabid fanbase, that may lead many people to regard that movie as better than it actually is, which is the definition of overrated. Example: The Warriors. Midnight movie cult favourite. Yet, it's completely unwatchable and tacky. But the fact that it still persists as a cultural phenomenon has led many to call it a "classic". It's not. The Godfather is a classic. The Warriors is kitsch. Or another example: Ed Wood films. People (ie Tim Burton fans) talk about his films like they're overlooked classics, labors of love from an untalented but big-hearted hack. But again, they are **** films. Just ****. Funny, but unintentionally so. Cult audiences tend to willfully mistake embarassment for accomplishment, and thus overrate the quality of their films. But that's not always the case. The Big Lebowski was a cult movie that is as loved as it deserves to be, Texas Chainsaw Massacre was pretty scary, and as much as I dislike Tarantino, Resevoir Dogs was very much the right film at the right time.

Oh **** it, I'm going to ruthlessly exploit our member gallery. You can listen to what I list here there, if you like. That's the whole point of the thing, eh? Wagon Christ - Bend Over Hecate - Input Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek

o i c. Gallery is totally useable but nne of my 10mb + songs made it. Oh well!

I'll give it another shot.

Not working for me size restriction. And I'm also no allowed to upload music into the "my music" portion of the site, for some reason.

I did not. Wasn't aware of the need to remove mods before the patch. The game doesn't seem to have any failings beyond the menu problem. Could possibly run into some new obstacle, but I haven't, yet.

I mean, you can't upload music, you have to link it from some other source. Pictures look to be okay. I just don't have many to share.

Patched, and I'm not noticing any huge changes in performance (the fixing of the camera issue was welcome, though) However, I did implement a minor mod, the one that adds clerical domains. The problem is that it seems to clash with the beta patch. The new camera options menu has about half its text replaced by text from the mod. There are 3 sliders, one for "clerics with the elf domain have", one for "clerics with the halfling domain have" and one for "SEBEK" and one toggle option is "clerics with the orc domain have" I've intuited what the sliders are actually for (although I have to reset them every time I load for some reason), but the toggle is lost on me. It's the button on the lower-left hand corner of the menu.

My documents, at least in my experience.

Ya, the com college deal is pretty sweet. I'm taking advantage of it presently, since I never did anything in high school (I had a <2 GPA) the fact that I'm financially invested in my classes turns skipping out of class or partying too hard before tests more stupid than rebellious. The only problem I have with college thus far is the text, which is groin-grabbingly expensive. Costs hundreds of dollars a semester, and I'm pursuing an associates'. Going after masters or doctorates would result in some serious financial ankle-grabbing. But then again, if you're smart about it, you can pull it all off with minimal debts incurred.

Burnout 3 is in the top 5 best games I've ever played.

Bah, you have to link music from other sites :'( if only there was an FTP to use. That limits my choices somewhat!

It seems obvious to me that the NWN2 orc cave situation was devised from a Kantian perspective. That the orcs were going to die anyway or that they were suffering was not considerable. Killing in the name of mercy would still be killing them when they posed no threat to anyone, and killing is not prima facae a good act in any case, especially when done arbitrarily, as in the example. In PnP, it falls to the DM to decide whether an act is considered right or not. But it's always assumed that altruism is good and egoism is evil. the personal philosophies of characters are pretty much laid out. Kantians are generally LG. Lockeans are good. Utilitarians are generally good but tend towards neutrality in many cases. Teleology is generally neutral, as is thomism. Egoism is almost universally evil (Ayn Rand's version pretty much defines evil), nihilism is always CE. Which is where we get to the retarded stepchild of ethics, relativism. Remember that this is D&D we're talking about. Relativism cannot reasonably exist in the D&D universe. The central claim of relativism is that there is no objective right or wrong, good or evil, that it's all dependent on context. The very existence of the alignment system makes that claim blatantly untrue. To a relativist, the only measuring tool one has for the morality of an action is the dictum of the society in which the actor lives, thus no action is always right or wrong. But we've got this handy dandy system of alignment that governs D&D, so that relativist assumption is rendered false. Furthermore, one of the arguments for relativism in the real world is that there are no tangible "good" or "evil" objects, and thus the objective existence of such concepts cannot be proven, but that is not the case in D&D, as good and evil are manifested physically in angels & demons, the upper & lower planes. It's ludicrous to suggest that demons are evil only in context. Thus, your conclusion is hollow. If anything, the D&D universe was concieved to avoid contextual right & wrong. The White Wolf games, however, are another matter entirely. What "preserving your humanity" means would be diametrically different between DMs who take egoist and altruistic views of what being human entails. A subjectivist DM could effectively remove the entire concept of humanity from the game. What fun would that be? Morality serves an even greater purpose in that universe.

God, I can't remember a single area from any Bioware game post-KOTOR that didn't play some part in a quest. Most of BG1 was completely aimless, BG2 not so much, but it still felt big. I'd bet money on Mass Effect being in the vein of KOTOR, just with bigger relevant areas. It does look more free-form, but such footage is easily contextualized. Much as I'd hate to admit it, quality non-linear RPGs are pretty much dead. I'd cite Oblivion, but it was extreme non-linearity: the parts of the game that had a point didn't really have a point either. I don't know how a big BG wilderness would go down in a game like NWN2 (assuming the engine could render it) the lack of an isometric perspective would no doubt make it seem longer than it would be.

There are a lot of active but inactive doors in NWN2. All the doors in Ember are usable, but they're all locked, and you never enter them. One wonders why they were included at all when most of the other areas don't even bother. Are sub-areas that much of a problem, or was that simply a part of the game that couldn't be implemented due to cuts or time constraints or whatever? Because if it's the former at the very least it's problematic from a custom content standpoint.

Load Z with heals and mass heals, preserve your rod of res, and keep using the statue powers and he is indeed a pushover. Totally unmemorable boss fight.

PST's combat was weaker than BG1's. It might have been the same format, but the playing area was smaller, so you had less room to move that made spell combat and ranged combat trickier... and in some cases pointless. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There was no ranged combat in PST Nor was there armor, nor any reasonable selection of weapons (fist, knives, clubs, hammers, axes) You play PST for the RPing.

Chapelle is an ironist, and he comes from the Pryor tradition, in a way. He's not out to show that racial slurs have no power, he's out to show that racism is everywhere, in malign and benign forms, and that it's all foolish and ridiculous at its heart. The racism in Chapelle's Show is grotesque so that people can laugh at it and wonder why anyone would ever really take it seriously, and thus it helps to accentuate just how wrong racism really is. It's unfortunate that anyone would ever have to watch what they say, but that's the fact of the matter. Everyone makes mistakes (I've made a few myself) but if no intent to demean or insult was present, it should be water under the bridge. Just don't expect anyone to like you if you keep doing it. You mean Archie Bunker? Certainly racism against whites is heinous, just as racism against blacks is, but with all of the history and official support and violence behind it, racism against blacks is arguably moreso. That doesn't mean you have to take it when someone calls you trash. That's an extreme, and it shouldn't be the case that any person should be punished for a joke made in ignorance. Sexual harrassment guidelines in this regard are unreasonable. But there are plenty of rational and fair laws regarding the way diverse coworkers interact with one another that should be enforced. Nobody likes their ass to be grabbed by old, overweight supervisors. Those chat systems are lame, btw. Who says those who throw slurs at you are any more justified than Kramer? And would you really consider "cracker" to be that harsh of a barb?

*Bumpp* The imminently respectable Onion AV Club review: B- grade. The overall tone of the (kinda short) review is pretty positive, but of course the reviewer takes issue with the high-maintenance engine, although he names slow framerates as a necessary evil to be endured in the face of spectacular battle effects. No mentions of actual game mechanics. Likes the story, loves the character dynamics.