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hehehe, never played through that particular romance. I couldn't stand Anomen at all. I probably should have put masculine female as a clarification

AvP 2 was awesome. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I preffered the first one. Had a much better marine campaign. The second alien campaign was better, though. I have to download that again. I'd do that too, but I'm going through HotU instead.

If you go for that domineering manly sort. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Better than the pussified flowergirls you're usually saddled with in RPGs, particularly jrpgs. I consider the fact that Bioware put a masculine love interest in BG a credit to the game, not a detriment. That having been said, all the love interests in BG are fundamentally feminine, as all the relationships are defined and controlled by the masculine PC. lol feminism.

Who was expecting more than ****?

Furry pic: Hahahahahahahaha, Hades. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's harsh. I don't deserve that kind of comparison.

Jaheira didn't seem really all that traumatized to me. She has a dream, then forgets about Khalid more or less for the rest of the romance.

Getting back onto the topic of NWN2's prospective plot, I'm interested to see if the first game factored in to the story at all. I just started up a HotU game and Sharwyn talked about how the Hero of Neverwinter, whom she had fallen in love with at the time, apparently, left the city because of strife with Lord Nasher. I'd really, really like to see that explored. I know everybody hates the NWN OC, but I'd rather they focus on it a bit to give the game a little more history. I love a game with history.

51. The winner is me. I think it has to do with this "svchost" program, which replicates itself to 5 or 6 processes periodically for some reason. It's a local network service. None o' my warez detectors are flagging it as bad.

I've got a list around here somewhere. I actually picked up a versus books guide when I bought ToB (the guide was free with the game) and I seem to recall it having a list of all the AR codes in the back. If no one has found a list in the next 10 hours I'll see what I can do about typing it up for you. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That'd be all smiles. What I'm really interested in, at the moment, are those three areas you have to go into to pass the Helmite Ghost's tests at the last level of the Keep, before Demogorgon's cell. As I recall, there's an orc onslaught room, a dragon room, and a room with an imp who gives riddles. Those are the ones I need thanks in advance.

Ya know I'm pretty sure the game doesn't care about *you* either. So I guess the feelings are mutual then.... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Good. It knows where I am if it wants to apologize for being the suck.

So just to clarify, since I haven't read any confirmations, has anybody been able to "port" NWN mod scripts and such into the NWN2 toolset? Or did they scrap that as well?

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I will never care about Final Fantasy. Ever.

I'm playing ToB, and that damned bug kicked in again. I can't enter areas that don't have doors (can't go through archways, etc.) Unfortunately, this means that I went through 90% of Watcher's Keep, and I can't go any farther. Anybody know where I can find an "AR####" list of every area in the game?

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Don't take **** so seriously, Jorian Dark Raven is just wrong.

See it and tell us what you think. How great it is tends to hinge on whether or not people saw the original Infernal Affairs. I'd definitely reccomend it, solely on the Wahlberg / Baldwin supporting performances.

Looks like the bots are shilling Sid Meier this time. Shame.

I was kinda wondering that too. I have a processor that runs at 2.3 GHz but rates at 3.5. I dunno what that means

Any Half-Drow there? :D ...there are normal half-elves, I do hope they included the drow variant. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That would be cool, but they've never done half-elf derivative races before. That and in the FR half-drow are restricted to the waaaaaay south, in the only surface nation run by drow (I can't seem to remember its name) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There is no surface nation run by drow There are renegades near ex-Myth Drannor ,but thats not a nation. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> NOPE. Dambrath, waaaaay to the Southeast in Faerun. The drow came up from the Underdark and consorted with the church of Loviatar to enslave the population. I was kinda wrong in that the place was originally run by the drow, but now that it's been a few hundred years the place is actually ruled by half-drow clerics of Loviatar and Lolth. The FR campaign setting states that most half-drow originate from this area.

pretty good assessment, meta. seems you pay attention to such things. i disagreed with pop's assessment that an objectivist cannot consider others. on the surface, this is how objectivism comes across, though there is a subtlety that you won't get simply from a little reading. concerns for others are very important to an objectivist, though his motives for said concern are based on self-interest. i think ayn believed that _most_, if not all, people were actually sort of "closet objectivists" simply because their motivations are rooted in their own self-interests more often than not. the difference being that someone calling himself an objectivist openly admits his motivations (most of this my own opinion, btw). for example, people that do a lot of charity work often talk about how good it makes them feel to help others (not all, of course). that said, most of my "roleplaying" in games is based on a similar philosophy. as a result, i have a very hard time playing any alignment on the extremes (lawful good), or evil (evil deeds to not make me happy). i usually end up either chaotic good, neutral good or true neutral. that way, i don't mind walking into an empty house in the wilderness and lifting the potions of cure critical wounds out of their chest! taks <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ayn Rand argues that as soon as a person accepts altruism, he becomes beneath contempt. "If a man accepts the ethics of altruism", she writes, "his first concern is not how to live but how to sacrifice it." Rand is focused on the individual, such that she demands that one not practice altruism. Thus, a man must focus on himself, and never consider others. A man who denies a beggar coin because "they should pull themselves up" is concerning himself with others' welfare. Rand calls this "sacrificing one's life", in that one's life consists of goods earned and created. To Rand, when one even acts in a way that benefits others by not helping them, he has no longer concerned himself with the betterment of the being of ultimate value: himself. He has become an altruist, and is therefore a scumbag. A true egoist would not recognize the existence of the poor. This is where Rand parts ways with other egoists like Hobbes. The claim that all people act out of their own self-interest is made by Hobbes, not Rand. Hobbes was making a descriptive claim, saying "this is the way things are". Rand's argument was "this is the way things should be". Hobbes is much more flexible, as he says that people can include others into their own self-interest. Let's say I have a family, and I'm an egoist. If I'm a Hobbesian, I can care for their well-being, because if I'm not a good husband and father, I won't value myself. This makes some sense, but it still runs into a problem that I won't get into in that there could be a point at which I'm willing to die for my family, at which point the principle of self-interest breaks. If I'm a Rand objectivist, I cannot love my family. Rand dictates that I cannot care for my family, as I am the only morally important being, and investing in their well-being is being altruistic, which I cannot be if I am a true individual. Rand disregards the is/ought fallacy in this way, and her philosophy is greatly weakened in the process (see my signature) There are 4 parts of Rand's argument. (1) Each person has one life to live. If we value the individual, that is, if the individual has moral worth, then we must agree that this life is of supreme importance. It is all that one has, and is all one is. (2) The ethics of altruism regards the life of the individual as something one must be ready to sacrifice for the good of others. Therefore, the ethics of altruism does not take seriously the value of an individual. (3) Ethical Egoism, which allows each person to view his or her own life as being of ultimate value, does take the individual seriously - it is, in fact, the only philosophy that does so. (4) Thus, we have no choice but to accept Ethical Egoism as true. *those 4 parts and the Rand quotes taken from "The Elements of Moral Philosophy" This argument is bull****, as it's oversimplistic. One can only choose between altruism and egoism, and there's no in-between, as I've demonstrated with my family example. It makes assumptions that altruism gives individual interests no value and that altruists must be expected to sacrifice their lives totally and unquestioningly whenever asked. Which is idiocy. There is a middle ground. One can seriously consider the interests of oneself and that of others. This is why Rand's brand of egoism is not given serious consideration by the vast majority of ethicists. It's a big bad sponge of a philosophy. *addendum - And this is why Rand works so well with the Sith. One of the things you can say to Kreia to piss her off is "A jedi's life is sacrifice". Jedi in Star Wars are the ultimate Rand antagonists Sith are concerned with bettering themselves, and since they're sociopaths, they don't consider others. Everything they do, even apprenticeships, are done with the interest of the self in mind at the expense of all else. Perfect egoists.

Any Half-Drow there? :D ...there are normal half-elves, I do hope they included the drow variant. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That would be cool, but they've never done half-elf derivative races before. That and in the FR half-drow are restricted to the waaaaaay south, in the only surface nation run by drow (I can't seem to remember its name)

but is he FTW?

Freddy from the Friday the 13th series but is he FTW?

Is Robert Englund FTW?