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That's why I don't follow Zappa beyond his music Besides, he wasn't exactly a hedonist. Never did like drugs. Kicked some kids out of his band for doing lines.

Why couldn't they just have had an AoE hold person spell that effects everybody but the caster? Same difference. If Time Stop only works within 50', anybody outside of that 50' effectively gains all the benefits of the spell. TS is supposed to affect the caster only, that's what made it powerful. Hence, the spell is useless if it only affects a certain area.

Explain why staying alive is more important then actually living. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> First, that's a logical contradiction. Living is worthless when one is not alive. Second, there is a heirarchy to happiness. We've got health on the one hand, and we've got aesthetic pleasure on the other. The argument can simply and effectively be presented as a comparison. Consider that we're judging art and medicine on the basis of the "good" that they provide. First we have to define the "good", and for the purposes of my argument I'll define it under classical utilitarianism, as in the creation of happiness and the prevention of pain. Under this model, it becomes necessary to distinguish between the orders of happiness. The highest happinesses being the excercise of one's right to life and continued existence, and the lowest happinesses being the fulfillment of base desires. A desire for sketch comedy, in this case. So let's weigh these two concepts. Creation and distribution of, say, antibiotics, or clean water, with sketch comedy. Sketch comedy may cause happiness and pleasure in those that watch it, this is undeniably true. But antibiotics cure plagues, prolong life and thus, maximize our potential for happiness. Many people would be happy that they were able to effectively cheat death. Reasonable calculus weighs medicine against art. The assumption that life is not worth living without certain arbitrary sensory pleasures is irrational, animalistic hedonism. It also implies that those who are unable to enjoy art are not truly alive, which is a narcissistic claim at best.

Oh man, that takes me back to 1998 is he still a villain? Which reminds me, I should probably look for the N64 No Mercy game. I loved that when I was a kid :D

At higher levels, I much preffered horrid wilting.

Weren't they petitioning Nintendo to get this on the Wii, or something? Good to see point / clicks aren't fully dead.

So we give him fangs and one of those high-collar capes. And have him do Schrek poses. And jedi backflips. Best . villain . ever I'll have to use that.

They could make a whole IP based around Darth Nihilus

You never know. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's just that I'd see anime going towards a more traditional RPG route, like they always do (I have friends who wank all over Kenshin) in light of that, Obsidian optioning seems unlikely.

Somehow, I don't see Obsidian getting those rights

Pssh, no weaker than Star Wars' space setting. Greyhawk, now there's generic. Meh. I preferred Spelljammer when it came to my "far out" settings, but that was killed in its relative infancy.

I never warmed to any of the D&D worlds other than the FR, mostly on the merits of BG. As an addendum to my earlier statements, I would be satisfied with some reference to BG in NWN2, just so I can know that they're not remote from one another. D&D doesn't benefit from Star Wars' looooong timelines. And spoiler warnings would be nice, btw.

That would be nice, but I'd also like to see BG3 made. My familiarity with the FR hasn't bred contempt for it. They aren't mutually exclusive desires.

Your position is too conservative. (1)The first story has ended thus (2)there should be no more stories.

Cut the conservatism, folks. Should we have stuck the fork in Star Wars after the first trilogy? The second trilogy was certainly ****, but KOTOR would also have been "unnecessary" by those terms. I agree that the Bhaalspawn saga is over and done with, that much should be obvious. But even if several games take place within the FR, they all might as well take place in different universes, as things like NWN and BG aren't connected much beyond the geographic backdrop of Faerun. And I wouldn't even expect those two franchises to touch each other, seeing how they tell different stories. I loved BG, I loved the feel of it, not in its look but in the relatively nuanced way it presented its world in comparison to other trite fantasy games. It was a long, deep kind of game. Even with the Bhaalspawn epic over, the death of BG means the death of that kind of game, because I've certainly never seen an equal in any games thus far (hopefully that can change with NWN2, but I doubt it) I loved the BG world, which dipped liberally into the established and deep history of the FR but wasn't a slave to it. I loved the characters, who I would kill to see again in another game. But that's the thing. The epic's over, but that doesn't mean it's exhausted its potential. BG might as well have never existed in any another FR game. That's what sequels are for. I'm not convinced it should be dead. The closure of a storyline is no reason to retire it. I'd want for something like a Fallout 2, which figures the original game's story and setting prominently, but whose main focus is entirely different.

****in A I say. Have they not nailed the coffin shut on BG over at Bioware? Is it possible they might restart the third game? I would go mental if that happened.

patch v3.1 released. I know how much you ladies loooove that stuff, eh?

Fire! Most of the blatant advertising I've seen in EA games (and man, there's a lot) seems to have been for other EA games, namely the sports ones. Then again, I haven't played any of their recent titles.

I reckon I do :\ I'm not big into this stuff. I probably should have gotten a better vid card than a 6600.

Primal Scream - Trainspotting The Black Keys - Just a Little Heat Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows

I'll probably run it modestly well, certainly nothing to write home about I've got the RAM, but my processor and vid card barely pass.

Not only does it have the guy from Nip/Tuck, but also the guy from the Shield. It's FX madness. I'm going to go see the Last King of Scotland here soon, whenever I can make the time to go down to the Mayan in Denver.

Muslim lady lost in court.

Don't **** on the board. Both art and medicine have their value, but medicine has the kind of utility art doesn't even come close to. I'd rather have a polio vaccine than a Beatles record. Alexander Fleming is a hero and a savior of millions, Toby Jones wrote some funny sketches. But the implication that he deserves cancer is your retarded, simple logic, not mine. If we're lucky, somebody more important than he is will cure his cancer, and then everybody will be happy. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> sarcasm dude, sarcasm. and the thing is, you cant choose. i'm pretty damn happy for monty python, they've given me a lot of good moments. and what does terry jones's achievements in comedy have anything to do with other peoples achievements in medicine/philosophy/anything else? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> WELL I'm sorry about that. I need an exclamation point, or bold / italics, or something. I've run into more outlandish logic out there. Honestly, I'm not even sure how it got to this point. I must have started the whole thing with meta.

Don't **** on the board. Both art and medicine have their value, but medicine has the kind of utility art doesn't even come close to. I'd rather have a polio vaccine than a Beatles record. Alexander Fleming is a hero and a savior of millions, Toby Jones wrote some funny sketches. But the implication that he deserves cancer is your retarded, simple logic, not mine. If we're lucky, somebody more important than he is will cure his cancer, and then everybody will be happy.