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I agree. Or at least I agreed before playing Dark Messiah's demo. The best way to describe the combat in it is that it feels crunchy. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Better than Kotor? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Why not... just... get the demo and find out? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's 1500 ****ing megabytes, that's why It's taking my DSL over 12 hours to download.

I Am X - President (Be forewarned that the video is not terribly good. It sucks, actually.) Hecate & Venetian Snares - Blood on the Rope Nine Inch Nails - NIN just announced that they're dropping a new European tour and an album in April, for those interested.

American Mudcrabs

No, because for the most part I think peelers are evil. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I always get a lapdance for my B-Day. Then again, it's not always with women... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> With enough birthday sangria, it all becomes relative :cool:

Bah, the Ministry song, the Daniel Ash song and the Hollywood song are the only good trax on that soundtrack. You should replace the rest with better stuff. I'm listening to the Diablo s/t. You can't go wrong with Bauhaus-y goth acoustica. I still love the Tristram theme.

Why have you not ordered the Limited Edition? Answer or we shall feed you to the sharkticons! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Because I didn't have the cash when they were being offered, and I wanted assurances that I could play the game ASAP. Plus, I live in big, gay America.

Im all for direct downloads, except that Id never want to give up all the juicy goodies you get with the limited edition box ) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> But for me, who has no limited edition (<_<) it seems pretty rosey. Music has already moved completely past physicality, why not do the same with games?

The reason I didn't like the Salvatore books (I read the first 3, in a big bitter block going on a FR binge after getting back into BG for the second time) was because they contained too much melodrama but didn't really flesh out the characters much, so reading it was about as uncomfortable as seeing a really bad play. I found the fights to be boring, but I also found them to be largely unnecessary, which is the problem I have with fantasy in general. I felt like I was reading a D&D campaign, and while I love D&D campaigns and combat, it just doesn't port well to literature. People don't ****in' fight that much and that casually. Just about any high fantasy would be on my no-list as far as books go, because of that. No doubt the untouched wilderness environments are fun to imagine exploring, though. What about Ian Fleming? Anybody want to be a secret agent man?

As an owner of an Xbox, I can say with all certainty that I do not care in the slightest about this. If the port took this long the changes had better be imminently noticeable and prevalent throughout the game.

Meh, it was about as good melee combat as you're going to get out of an FPS. Morrowind was ****tier by light years. I imagine I'll have to play this at some point.

Much as I'd encourage you to cause trouble, it doesn't make much sense, if you're looking to discuss NWN2 on the internets, to get banned from the official site Still, if you're going to get yourself banned, you might as well go out in the best way possible. God bless you.

Birthday slide.

When we get a real NWN2 forum here. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If that doesn't happen in the next 2 weeks, I'm quitting the internets

So when are we going to start really churning out the NWN2 threads? You know, "What character are you going to play" and that nonsense?

Probably the best horror book I've ever read, and I've read some good horror in my time. Totally better than the movie. Nicholson played Torrance too crazy. What made Torrance scary was that he wasn't totally out of his mind. If I had to "get lost" in some book, I dunno, I'd probably enter an old Greek epic, probably the Odyssey. I'd also probably be interested in Lovecraft, maybe "At the Mountains of Madness"

I have NBOS's Fractal Mapper 7.0, which is actually pretty useful. Not the same thing as this, obviously, but I got it off of a CD which I got from a friend, which leads me to believe that you would have to order it shipped. You could check P2P networks, but I doubt they'd have anything :[

Alright then. Done and done. Good luck on your thesis.

Hmmm, are you some kind of bot, Alfonso? Or r u for realz? I'll do the survey if not, but... we've got a few bot problems here you see. *edit - that's "4 realz", actually.

We're talking about sound logic, not common notions. Oftentimes common sense is not logical. The statement that "(1) Male homosexuals are attracted to males and (2) children are often male thus (3) homosexuals are attracted to children" is not a sound argument. The conclusion does not follow from the premises, since there are homosexuals who are not paedophiles, and thus that logic fails. The fact that children can be male is happenstance. It is certainly possible for a person to be both a homosexual and a paedophile, but those two conditions are connected via illogical assumption, not logical conclusion.

Eh. Empiricism is good for descriptive claims (it is the case that...), but it fails when it hits any kind of normative claim (it ought to be the case that...) Have you read any of David Hume's or Anthony Mackie's work? Empirical observation can only describe, it cannot prescribe, especially in ethical terms, lest we run into the is/ought fallacy. Hence, I'd say logic is just as important as empirical observation. Besides, one requires a working knowledge of logic (1+2=3, "A" cannot be equal to "not A") to even be able to make sense of empirical data. Take correlation / causation, for example. One could make the claim that consumption of ice cream causes Summer, because empirical data shows heat and ice cream consumption rising at the same time. It could be the case that heat causes people to want ice cream, or people consuming ice cream increases heat. Without logic, both of those conclusions are completely plausible, but using logic it's plainly obvious that only one of them can be correct.

She's got a point, I'm afraid. Used to be a stickler for 2nd ed, myself.

You're talking crazy talk

There are some effective ways to convert video to ipod-friendly format. I'm looking up some now. *EDIT* - There's this, but I don't know if it's reliable. You're likely to run into a problem or two with sound. Might want to, ahem, check bittorrent for better deals. Maybe on, I don't know, xilsoft. I like my ipod (I've got the black 30gb, heh) but there are a few reasons why I'm not a big Apple fan. A. The battery is the most terrible problem ever to be brought up numerous times and never addressed adequately in the history of time, and B. The reality distortion field. For those not acquainted with the concept, the reality distortion field is the combination of relentless corporate hype and "outsider" mentality that Apple employs, and those under its sway believe everything Apple ever does is hot **** in a champagne glass. Hence we have a useless, universally celebrated waste of air like the Nano, which doesn't continue the great advancements in utility that ipods are known for with their successive ipod generations, but goes much farther in the hip factor. Despite the fact that minis held more, were more durable and weren't inconvenient when it came to size, nanos were better because they were, like, sleek. In many tech forums, pointing this out is blasphemy. All that having been said, I like the new 30 gbs, but like any monolithic corporate entity, Apple is preoccupied with restricting the utility of their products in such a way that they can maximize what they make out of it. Hence we have the **** video selection and the restrictiveness of taking music off of an ipod.

That's, uh, most practices of just about every culture, ever. To my knowledge, women generally perform genital mutilation on younger women, but they don't usually do it to themselves. Which is the difference. We have to distinguish that which a society coercively imposes upon women, and that which women impose upon themselves, at society's behest. Mutilation belongs in the former category, and this particular incident of veil-wearing belongs in the latter category (although in many places and situations, it would fall into the former) Despite the fact that the practice effectively commodifies women, it would not sit well with many people to deny them their right to choose for themselves whether or not to wear the veil, which is the case here.