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I feel like I'm going to regret this. "#GaiderGate?"

In the Underdark, everyone calling me "male" with a condescending tone. Listen up, buddy, I just did all of the mage battles in the arena with a throwing knife. Do not get on my bad side.

For KOTOR 2, it's established that Revan's motivation isn't conquering the galaxy for a Sith Empire, it's strengthening the Republic. Even in his worst acts, he's only trying to make the Republic stronger to prepare for a worse war. Revan disappearing into nowhere with a dominant Sith force outside his guidance isn't really going to be feeding into that agenda. Perhaps he took it with him to confront the true Sith. Or he would have disbanded and betrayed it. And regardless, nobody was strong after the Jedi civil war. Sure, he could build a giant fleet with the Star Forge, but he wouldn't have anyone to actually man the dang ships. That was kind of a major point of KOTOR 2. The events and wars of KOTOR 1 were so disastrous that everyone was still weak. The Jedi were nearly wiped out by it.

Dragonfall is out? I have to test the perf on that, see if it runs better or worse than the original.

I have four skeleton summons quickbarred on Viconia just for that. Feels pretty cheap though.

Haste and improved invisibility works well. Damn, it's honestly been about ten years and I still remember that So does protection from evil, chant, aid, free action, chaotic commands. But sometimes they swarm. Or there's only one of them and I totally don't want to blow a bunch of spells on one guy, but they get lucky and it's ARGH.

Have I told you that I hate mind flayers? It's not helped by the fact that I know of no spell that totally prevents int damage. Also Minsc is my front line. And his int is like 8. Three chomps and he's gone.

I hope you get better.

The biggest lie of depression is the feeling that it will last forever. And the truth is that it doesn't have to. There is help. Sometimes medication, sometimes circumstance, and sometimes we just get over it. And there's no really a way of telling which it'll be. It's hard to come out the other side, but it's worth it. Depression doesn't want you to know that. It's silly personifying a feeling like that, but there's no better way to express it. It makes you forget the good days or tells you that they were never good enough. But it is wrong.

I thought if I made my surprise over the top and ridiculous enough then nobody could take it seriously. I have failed. No, it wasn't my first run with him. In fact, I only brought him along to Spellhold so that he could betray me. I vaguely recall bringing someone else in run #2 and them getting stuck there in the maze. I figured old Traitey-McBackstabber wouldn't cause that problem.

Baldur's Gate II I am now a victim of betrayal most foul. Curse my trusting nature, I say! What could possibly have possessed me to bring that character along even though I never used him at any other point. I'm certain things would have gone differently if I had not. I art the fool.

The old Star Wars EU operated on a tier system. Movies, television, everything else, and then a few more items to be totally disregarded, like SWG. In that order. The only "fully canonized" level of that was the movie one, known as G-canon. Telvision (T-canon) seemed to be pretty close. But the stuff below that was disregarded with wild abandon. The fun thing here is the T-canon raised a few elements of lower canon. The Dark Sun and Falleen appeared in The Clone Wars. The cartoon almost had an appearance by Revan, in fact, but it was scrapped. George Lucas never cared about the EU. And you don't have to look any further than his stance on cortosis to see that. Doesn't exist anywhere in the movies, doesn't exist in the cartoons, but the EU was built on the stuff. They tried including it in the cartoon and Lucas told them no.

Oh, just because I have 17 reputation I'm suddenly too good for you, Dorn. Jerk. I just want to kill someone to lower my reputation. And I know if you point them out for me they won't be related to another quest. It's win/win, buddy.

Right now, officially, the only things considered canon in Star Wars are the films and the upcoming products, IIRC. EU stuff was never canon to begin with. It was just EU stuff. I think lots of people, myself included, entertained other delusions back before the prequels came out, but once they did, Lucas was making it clear. He didn't care about the EU. Note that prior to the prequels, everyone thought that dark side users would explode on death because Palpatine did. And that the Clone Wars were fought against crazed clones. And Boba Fett has like three origin stories. The big change that occurred with the EU recently is that no more EU stories are being produced. the prequels are based on novels from what i ve heard, and for some reason, they kept out of the movies all the parts that were relevant to a sensible plot for example the escape from naboo in the first movie, was supposed to be done by hiding the ship in the sensor shadow of an enemy cargo ship and sneaking past. in the movie to make it more spectacular, they made a frontal assault and then ran for it Someone was lying to you.

Bungie just made Destiny for both consoles, so I'm not sure what their relationship is with Microsoft anymore. The new Halo (and the last Halo as well as Anniversary) aren't made by Bungie.

This is actually only my second full-run of BG2. Lots of stuff I remember still, especially the frustrating bits (you want me to fight two stone golems and a clay at the same time with only two people that can hit them, what?!). For everything else there's Jan Jansen, who I never used before.

Perhaps, but the druid spells, man! Ain't no party like a druid party in IWD. Baldur's Gate gives me a bad taste for Druids. Jaheira's fine as a character, but her weapon proficiencies are pure crap. I'm sporting +2/3 daggers at this point in BG 2 and she's got a +1 scimitar. I think the first time I played through Throne of Bhaal, I might have finally found her a +2 club.

It is every citizen's responsibilty to protect glorious Arstotzka from terrorism. To deny this is treason.

I think I've settled on a party composition for IWD. Throwing a bunch of eccentric characters I've played over the years into one party. First up are my converted 4e characters. The brother-sister Paladin-Warlock Sorcerer Mage team. They're Tieflings Drow a human and a half-elf, because blasted elves can't be Paladins. The Kobold Gnome Warlord Fighter. The only time in my history of RPGs I've used spears. The party thief originated in Neverwinter Nights as my booksmart rogue. Originally built like a mage by focusing on skill points and UMD, now he's just a pretty standard thief with some pointless stats. Filling the last two spots are a token cleric and a mage/fighter. I need a healer and a mage with two-hander swords sounds more interesting than a ranger or Barbarian.

I started up Icewind Dale just to create my party and I can't believe how spoiled I've been by EE and Tutu. No sorcerer? No style proficiency? You're throwing me off my game here, people!

Thread is past the limit, let's move to a new one. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/68476-discussion-the-poe-beta-xp-system/

It was a prostitute's shawl. It's easily possible that Kominski was a John, but not the killer.

Old thread. Am I right in that the discussion has turned into "what is a gamer?" Well alrighty then. I always fancied the idea that a "gamer" was anyone who engaged with the gaming subculture. They visit forums or chat about games with other people. But I was never married to it. And I think I'm missing the context everyone's involved in there.

New thread.

I got the collector's edition for the first game. It came with a batarang, which was a hunk of scratched up plastic permanently attached to a badly balanced stand that kept falling forward. Never again.