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No, that was me. I always get those seismic sensors a buzzin' <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You won't think it's so funny when we invade you And on that nuclear powers list, you forgot Israel.

Come on! = I love the Tick = I love Minsc. This is indisputable :ph34r: . And having played st00pid computer games before playing any actual PnP D&D, I can't help but love me munchkins I prefer my characters to have utility without fancy schmancy equipment, thankyouverymuch. *edit - That's not always the case, mind yous. I had a friend who played BG2 for the first time, and his first stat roll was 16-16-18-10-13-16. I thought that was pretty excessive

**** that guy I really liked Aerie and Viconia, too. It's odd, because I know a lot of people who really hate Aerie (or rather, the fact that she's always so doe-eyed and innocent) The only people I didn't like in BG2 were Edwin and that Bloodaxe dwarf guy. As far as BG1 went, they were all just sets of stats to me Khalid was never, ever in my party. 15 strength on a fighter? That's even more stupid than a mid-level intelligence on a mage (ie Aerie)

According to CNN, the nuke didn't quite work. It was purported to be a 4 kiloton payload. The evidence since the test seems to indicate around a half kiloton of ordinance. Hell, a lot of the early Manhattan Project tests fizzled, and we were better off than these guys /:|

Yes, we all know the Iraqi experiment is working splendidy. Despite what you people say, the US (or at least this administration) has a clearly vested interest in Iraq. We'll leave once we're assured that the Iraqi people won't democratically elect a regime that doesn't support us. After Hamas got democratically elected in Palestine, we realized that we can't afford to leave until the place has been westernized and "made safe for democracy". That was the aim of the war from the very beginning. We care about the well-being of these people only as far as they can run their country in a way we can live with, and with Iran right there, looking to set up its own client kingdom, that's a long goal. What if we leave a "trained security force" and the country still splits into sects? Are we going to "help the people over there" then? This entire war will have been a waste. So we're there until that assuredly won't happen. And I've yet to hear a ****ing word about how we're going to make sure things are going to be stable when we leave. Except if we remove Iran's influence, and hmm, I wonder how we're going to pull that off. And don't blow so much smoke about security. Paul Bremer ****ing disbanded the Iraqi army when he came to power in Iraq with the fear that the Baathists spread amongst them would cause unrest. Bungle #1 with a bullet in the mismanagement of the post-war state. When unrest hit without the army baathists, there was no army to keep the peace. Thus we had to train a new army, and it's not clear if that's even going to be adequate. This is our mess, and we're going to clean it up, because that's how the hubris of assuming people halfway across the world are our responsibility pans out.

That's true. But does the toolset only allow for making magic weapons, or is it a cosmetic NWN thing?

If there are other modders out there with the same problems, somebody is going to make new weapons, somehow.

If only I had $12 of disposable income.

That goes without saying. Held off a bit on that one with BG, though. Aside from the rather passe gibbing.

The "presale" thing I got says T. Usually that restricts a game, but this is D&D. Explicit cursing and ****ing are not usually part of the "normal" gameworld. It's a clean world, and as bad as you get is BG2, in which it might as well have been a major revelation that sex will get one pregnant. Incidentally, BG's deviation from the prudish nature of the world was to its merit.

Uh, there's no NPC interaction in BG1, at least in comparison to BG2. They'll have little voiced interactions that don't stop the game. One character telling the other that they shouldn't be so evil, etc. Having also played BG2 first, it makes the game seem bare And there are plenty NPCs from the first game that never made it into the second one in a playable capacity, unfortunately. You accidentally murder Ajantis in the Windspear Hills, and Xan/Montaron are obviously killed by the Harpers. Quayle becomes Aerie's adopted father ("uncle", whatever) and settles down, Tiax is imprisoned in Spellhold, one of the bards (never used him) is killed by a werewolf in one of the forest maps around Suldanesslar, another of the bards I believe is mentioned by somebody to have written a song about you. Dynaheir and Khalid are murdered by Irenicus. Viconia and Edwin are still playable, as are Jaheira and Minsc, obviously. I guess the "canon" BG1 party consisted of the PC, Imoen, Minsc, Dynaheir, Jaheira and Khalid. Pretty similar to what I used, actually, except I replaced Khalid right off the bat. There are probably a few I'm missing I've been trying to install the banter mod for BG1tutu, but it's not working

Or, you know, they could just spontaneously have at it. MCA doesn't seem like that kind of storyteller, though Intra-party banter is pretty much standard for crpgs nowadays. Doesn't seem like they've been as narratively interesting as they were in BG2, though.

There's a lesbo npc mod? am I totally oblivious to all these mods everywhere? What is the deal? THERE IS NO AGGRO RESET! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I heard there's an Imoen romance mod... but that's all I've heard of. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Heh, next thing you know you'll get mods where you can fall in love with your familiar IT'S A SLIPPERY SLOPE I SAY. I'd be interested to see how it was written, though. Whether or not anyone vomits at the realization that they've boned their sibling is a good indication of the mod's intent Are there certain mods that cancel out other mods? Because if the banter pack was working I'd have seen something new by now (chapter 3) Then again, 2 of my party members (Fade and Yesraelin) are probably not augmented under the mod

Heh, I'll stay away from that one, then. I'm currently playing with Fade, Yesraelin (sp?) and the Dark Ritual mod installed. Fade is very well written, Yesraelin is okay (obviously a female Drizz't) and Dark Rit is throwing all kinds of weird **** at me. Charm spells are working now and that building in the Temple district that houses the evil adventurers with the +3 katana is no longer there but overall, it's all excellent. I have yet to determine whether the "Banter Pack" works. Maybe I have too many inelligible mod npcs in my party.

Can't it be both? By their hacking cough, I'd guess that what they do is not good for them. So there's the dilemma of whether or not you want to use them, and the fact that they even exist in the first place. " At the same time, from what I understand it's only the little sisters that are capable of it. Whether or not they were engineered that way (OMG those monsters!) or if something else caused it is probably something we'll only figure out after playing said game." That's true, but they certainly made it out to look like what these girls do is not natural.

They're supposed to be monsters, refining the adam through their bodies, and thus eliciting all sorts of "omg what are they doing to the children!?" moral disgust. The children are not supposed to be creepy, it's what's been done to them, and the ethical bankruptcy that would even lead anyone down the eventual path towards that point. That's what I gathered, anyway.

Except if it's your birthday.

Have you seen the later seasons? The show gets much during the 4th and 5th.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone speak a certain dialect of japanese, well enough that when South Park is rebroadcast in Japan all the voices are done by them. They picked it up in College, I think. It's pretty cool. And Casa Bonita is 50 miles or so from my house, down in Denver, but I've never been there

There's a lesbo npc mod? am I totally oblivious to all these mods everywhere? What is the deal? THERE IS NO AGGRO RESET!

A good villain (and a good game) will keep you up at night. I played through the last part of BG2 in about 8 hours of straight gameplay, because I couldn't break the tension.

I did, talked about it a bit in the recommendation thread. Over 24 hours later, and there are still knots in my stomach. Electrifying movie. Incredible dialogue (so many awesome insults, too), bowstring-taut atmosphere, lots of great twists, and an incredibly satisfying ending. Some people say it's a copout, but those people are crazy Best movie I've seen all year, maybe one of the best movies I've ever seen, period. Scorsese never lost it.

If George Lucas now considers film to be too risky and not cost-effective enough (Lucasfilm is closing), it would follow that KOTOR could very well be deemed "not worth it" as well. Just a thought.

I remember going to Nicaragua and seeing how we "aided" them in the 1980's, and I imagine the "aid" of the British and French were just as appreciated through the 1800s. It's not as simple as throwing handfuls of money at a problem to end it. Self-sufficiency and deregulation are bad ideas (hello Great Depression!) the idea is, if we want to bring a nation out of poverty, they've got to have a commodity to trade and create markets with, which "aid" gives us first dibs on, such that a market is either never created, created with us specifically in mind (ie Saudi Arabian oil) or nationalized and then dismantled in the interest of western capitalists (ie Iranian oil) Interesting that China and India are cornering the labor markets these days, what with western industrial sectors shrinking and white-collar and retail sectors on the rise, particularly since India would be the best-off former colony in the world (not counting the US, since the brits pretty much stopped ****ing with our government post-independence).