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    The Cat Empire - Cinema I love it!
  2. Food and H20 meters have never posed a problem to me. Just stock up on maize and purified water and you'll do fine. That's one thing I could never stand about companions either. Mostly it was me chasing them rather than the other way around, making sure they didn't get themselves killed. At least when I took Boone he could handle himself well enough, but it still would've been better if he wouldn't open doors on his own accord.
  3. I have a question concerning the console. Is it possible to reset a quest completely and finish it another way? I did the Omerta quest ages ago, and finished it in favor of the bosses without realising they wanted to kill everyone on the Strip. Now I've put a lot more hours into the game and would rather have sided with Cachino. I tried the command resetquest xxxxx, and that makes to quest disappear from my log, but Cachino is still nowhere to be found (probably because he's dead). So how do I actually restart it? Edit: well I found a command to set the quest so that I completed it in Cachino's favor (setstage 110a63 50). It's not the same as doing it over, but at least now when I take over the Strip, there'll be some people left. I'm just hoping this won't lead to game breaking bugs because Cachino is still dead whilst he shouldn't be. Can anyone tell if he'll reappear later in the game if you help him?
  4. Question: I bought a 10mm Pistol Laser Sight and a 10mm SMG Recoil Comp. How do I attach these to my weapons?
  5. What's the command for teleporting companions next tp you?
  6. I lost Boone, so I went back looking for him. Turns out he's stuck in an infinite reloading loop. It looks like he's playing guitar on his shotgun lol. Wish I could make a video of that.
  7. Is it me or does the AI rarely use mounted units? More like almost never, only seen elephants so far I think.
  8. Award for biggest douchebag goes to Hiawatha, that guy somehow has some real issues with me every game he's in.
  9. Much looking forward to the Webb's findings, although I will be sad to see Hubble go. Simply because Hubble sounds cuter than Webb...
  10. Don't know how far along in the game you are, but nukes work to end this annoying bug. I had the same thing happen to me so I threw everything I had into research in order to tech up to nukes as fast as I could. Was going for culture so research was lagging a bit behind. With 3 cultural city states gone my cultural victory seems to be out of reach now. And Napoleon has more points because of all those cities he took. I've beaten him to pulp before when he tried invading my lands, I could easily take some of his cities, if only I could attack him.
  11. Ugh, annoying bug where I can't declare war, even though the peace treaty has long since ended. That douche Napoleon is taking all my city states, and there's nothing I can do about it.
  12. I love Husky's commentaries.
  13. I believe in coincidence and conditionality.
  14. Some unorthodox matches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWyO5Vq82hs (part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO40O3q6J3g (part 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35K4vrNDqto&feature=sub
  15. Will keep looking then. I'm only as far as Megaton.
  16. Fallout 3 at last I know it's post-apoc and all, but really, there's too little ammo around
  17. It's not about other life finding our accomplishments, it's about our accomplishments continuing what we started: searching to understand as much as possible of our surroundings, which in turn enables whomever possesses such information to survive. With today's technology indeed. I'm talking about the distant future, which hopefully we will live to see. Your further comments are interesting. I will definitely ponder upon them.
  18. The sad truth. Which again clearly demonstrates how fixated we all are on our tiny little selves. Also true, but with this planet - as any other - facing ultimate destruction, a constant cycle of resetting our advancements is probably not the ideal way to ever get away from this rock. Not that I'm putting blind faith in finding another planet like ours within reach, but there are other ways to preserve our achievements (like sending an AI into space). All very sci-fi I know, but I would just like *some* legacy of ours to endure.
  19. EDIT: I agree with Pope that fitttest can mean the most savage. And I think we agree that humans have made a lot of progress over the past couple of years and it should be protected. But I still insist we disagree over the whole way to treat the planet. Managing the resources available is simple mathematics. treating the planet as a treasure which will return the compliment is Gaian nonsense. Is that what I'm doing then? I thought I was treating human civilization and scientific knowledge as the treasure. Protecting the planet is just a means to preserve those.
  20. The term 'fittest' can have many interpretations. It can be the strongest, the smartest, the luckiest, or it can be the majority because - at least in numbers - they are superior to others. None of these interpretations necessarily equal most civilized. Relating this to the fundamentalist discussion a few pages back: imagine creationists gaining the majority of political power in the US. That is a real possibility. Then imagine scarcity of resources on top. The US currently has the strongest military force on this planet, but would it be beneficial to mankind if that military force were employed by irrational creationists to wipe out the rational human population? Survival of the fittest? Maybe. Progress? Quite the opposite. Or consider global warming. If we keep polluting the planet, its ecosystem will become so unbalanced that there will be no more room for humans. Extinction won't just be facing the unfit, it will face all of us. Once again, smaller species will survive and eventually take over, as we have done before them. Nice for them, but what a waste of the civilization we've built up, which - despite all its faults - has many things that are worth preserving. These are scenarios any rational being would agree should be prevented.
  21. Where does this morality come from? And who determines who should be preserved and who should not? Members of the G8? Yes that is indeed the real discussion here, and definitely not an easy one I will be the the first to admit. The way I see it, morality should be in function of the species. It should not be decided by the majority, which not only lacks the knowledge required for such affairs, it's also an undeniable truth that most people just care about themselves. So an elite educated in the well-being of humanity as a whole would be preferable. Alas, we're currently stuck in this idea that democracy is the ideal system for making decisions for all.
  22. Nice way of ignoring all I've said above that. People sometimes call me immoral when I discuss these things. I *am* being moral really, just from another point of view. Not in the sense that every individual is created equal, which seems to be today's consensus of what morality implies. By origin, morality is a naturally evolved social mechanism ensuring the survival of species. In that respect, it has indeed been an invaluable tool in the boom of mankind, but with over 6 billion people on a planet with limited resources, there's obviously an upper limit to the advantages of solidarity. So I consider myself moral in the sense that I think it's mankind as a species we should preserve (and all its accomplishments), rather than every single indivudual. No it's definitely not cute, but if anyone is being immoral, it's people who dismiss future generations.
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