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Imperative voting doesn't fit in with the American concept of rights. I'm not even sure I want people to vote if they're not going to make an effort to understand what it is they're voting for, and I'm not sure compelling them to will make much difference. Tight tight tight race. Dems have assuredly won the House of Representatives. The Senate stands at 49-48 favoring the Republicans, but 2 out of the last 3 states are leaning Democratic. If we get those 2, then it's going to be 50-50, but that's no win for the Dems, since **** Cheney is going to be the deciding voter. Feels good, though. Hopefully we can at least move towards turning this damnable country around

If you have trouble keeping up with this show, then Losticil may be right for you.

There are some tough boss fights through the rest of the game. I think part of my problem was that I never really bothered with spell casters all that much. I stuck with Casavir, Khelgar and Neeshka for most of the game. Spellcaster AI just ticked me off, so I just got rid of the spellcasters. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sand was pretty powerful for me, especially at later levels (he murdered a lot of the bosses, thanks to greater stoneskin, empowered cone of colds and plenty of meteor swarms) and from what I hear, Qara kicks the **** out of everything. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I noticed that Qara kicks the **** out of everything when she :'( <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hehehe,

There are some tough boss fights through the rest of the game. I think part of my problem was that I never really bothered with spell casters all that much. I stuck with Casavir, Khelgar and Neeshka for most of the game. Spellcaster AI just ticked me off, so I just got rid of the spellcasters. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sand was pretty powerful for me, especially at later levels (he murdered a lot of the bosses, thanks to greater stoneskin, empowered cone of colds and plenty of meteor swarms) and from what I hear, Qara kicks the **** out of everything.

Oh, it only gets better from there.

I'm all for romance if they can make it work over an extended period of time. Like somebody said here earlier, KOTOR and other Bioware games made them happen too quick. I liked BG2's romances (never played Anomen's, so I can't comment on that) in part because they weren't tied to the main story, for the most part. In KOTOR and JE, the romances came to fruition at the very end. In BG2, the romance mostly takes place towards the middle part of the game, and continues into the expansion. I really liked how they worked the Viconia romance, and the epilogue made the whole thing a tragedy, which I thought was pretty mature of them, at least in relation to the "happily ever after" plots of other games (notable exception of KOTOR). I too think third-party romances would be great. I'd love to see how they could actually work that into the game. Perhaps they could work better together in combat.

South Dakota abortion ban just died. Looks like these giants bleed Perry wins governorship of Texas over popular dark horse Kinky Friedman. I'm thinking maybe I should have made this thread about Britney Spears' divorce. Maybe then people would pay attention. *edit - scratch that, abortion ban not totally dead, but with a a quarter of the precincts reporting in it's 56 / 44 in favor of repeal. Let's hope it stays that good, eh?

I've no problem with CE characters per se. But you have to remember that not only was GOTO forced on the party, there was no good reason for him to even enter the party. At all. At least with Bishop . The two aren't comparable. Bishop might be an unlikable character, but that doesn't mean he's the kind of blunder that GOTO was.

Well, you know what they say. No vote at all is a vote for the incumbent party so functionally, you're a Republican. HOW DOES IT FEEL?

Nothing wrong with that. Some people prefer to vote on the merits of individual candidates' positions, but you have to remember that when you vote in a Republican or a Democrat, no matter what they say to the contrary, you are in fact promoting their party platform. That's how this works. Looks like both the Dems and Reps lost to Lieberman in Connecticut. It's darkly ironic. The Dems abandoned him in favor of a more pure idealogue and the floor was wiped with their ass.

Get out of the thread, cretin! Just to put things in perspective, many of the dems that are winning are conservative by dem standards. This is the way it must be if the Dems are to gain anything. We may be seeing a new paradigm. Gay marriage bans have a 21-0 record and I wouldn't be surprised if the state ballot initiatives voted on today bring the record to 29-0. The battle between dem Jim Webb and republican George "Macaca" Allen looks to be leaning towards Allen (Virginia is red all the way through) but it's tight. Looks like the dems got Rhode Island, too.

Oooh, it's a pitched battle between the Repuglicans and the Spendocrats, but it looks like the House of Representatives may fall to the Dems as predicted, although the Senate looks out of reach. Looks good for the dems so far. Got Ohio, kept New Jersey, got Pennsylvania. That **** Santorum is most likely out of a job. More as it develops!

But I do get to wear the NW9 armor and hang out with Nevalle. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> why would you want to hang out with that whitebread lump? You're nutty :crazy:

Hey, hey, the eyebrow / dancing combo can only be properly used with jokes of a sexual or ethnic nature.

And is it really smart to have 4 classes? You wouldn't be able to take advantage of the best abilities of any of them.

Was that the one that Tim Cain had a hand in?

The two romances I can think of are Elanee the druid and perhaps Shandra Jerro, I don't know about Neeshka. It should certainly be possible to play an amoral mercenary.

I haven't lost sleep, but I've gotten waaaaay behind on my homework :angry:

Level 18 with a Drow monk, which means I got to 20 and pwned you all. The last level up happened during the last battle. You could say that. It's very possible that it was a reciprocal deal. She gives you a greatsword, and you give her a little bit of the greatsword know what I mean? yeah!

My, I've never seen such fertile soil for enlightened rhetoric and debate

I don't think Jack Thompson is a "leftist".. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Who exactly is Jack Thompson? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Jack Thompson, the one man who protects innocent, pure American children from the foul corrupting touch of violent, obscene, trashy video games. Obviously, a weak liberal relativist in every sense of the term.

Where'd you hear that? o_O I found the loot progression to be pretty seamless. Of course, you'll find just +1 daggers at the beginning, but by the end you're not finding hordes of +5 greatswords. Like BG2, the vast majority of the enchanted items you'll find are +2, with slightly more +1s at the beginning of the game and +3s at the end. But it's not like the original NWN, where the scaling is obvious. As far as difficulty goes, there are certainly difficult fights (the party AI doesn't make things any easier ) but there's never anything that's impossible, just so long as you're given the chance to buff a bit beforehand, which is always the case. But there are plenty of fights you'll end up reloading for, especially when you've got the rare spawning enemy groups and especially enemies with constant ability drain and fear tricks, as I've found. Save aplenty. I found the sense of "early game" is lost just about as soon as you get out of West Harbor and start moving north. When you get Khelgar and Neeshka and you've got what could pass for a party, the game really starts.

Also: Being white and thus being unable to even hint at the slightest ethnic joke <{POST_SNAPBACK}> **** that. An Irishman walks onto a building site and asks the foreman for a job. The foreman is a little wary, so decides to test him, asking him, "What's the difference between a girder and a joist?". "ah, well, that's an easy one", the Irishman replies. "You see, Goethe wrote Faust, and Joyce wrote Ulysses". Or how about this one: An Irishman walks out of a bar. ... It could happen.

Fight Fight Fight Blood Blood Blood yeah, that's the stuff. So, was anybody else underwhelmed by the ending? Anybody? If it's not blatantly obvious, I'm now having a hard time distinguishing between the NWN2 discussion thread and the NWN2 impressions thread.

I'm glad the eyebrows made it in. Now I can tell off-color jokes with aplomb. you know what I'm saying? yeah, you know what I'm saying yeah yeah.