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Well, I finished it up.. and got to enjoy the "epilogue"... where I was told that people I'd killed were alive and making things horrible, people I'd actually saved were dead, and groups I'd made peace between had actually slaughtered one another because there had been no peace.. Okay, about half of the "and so and so happened" was based on my actions, but the other half were all very strange considering I kept going asking whether it had played the same game I had...

I have to admit, I ran Makeb first with my Sith Assassin and then did the dailies.. and it has its grind but it wasn't a problem. I then ran the Republic side dailies/weekly with my Smuggler, and holy hell, that was painful. So many freaking mobs and longer routes to get anywhere, it felt like I could barely move 5 paces without having another grinding combat. All these things that should take 5-10 minutes to run through and it took me about 4 hours to get through them. I've pretty m uch promised myself never to repeat that experience...

I haven't had a single crash or glitch out in that way... The only oddities I've had is the not being able to return to hand in Sue's quest because the airlock was shut to the West farm at the Ag Centre, and the oddity of the Prison where I got yelled at for having killed Red Scorpions there when I didn't on my first visit.

I caught the first two episodes of Forever. One of the things I did like was that the homicide detective actually has a dozen or so cases, and gets yelled at for focusing on one case over the others. Has a lot of nice, dry wit running around, especially from the protagonist - the immortal who keeps waking up naked in water whenever something kills him. In a search for a "cure" that will allow him to finally die for real, he's ended up becoming a Forensic Medical doctor...

... <owns them all. Also I've gotten back into this kinda... managed to finally get a toon to the max level and then just have no idea what to do. Heh, then Calax, maybe you should take a look at the Knights of the Old Republic run they did - the introduction of Zayne Carrick, and the early simmerings of the Mandalorian war and all that jazz? Once you hit that point in-game, have you looked at the CZ-198 and Oricon stuff yet?

Having a poke around Rodina in LA. Hm. spiked the drink of Pat the Axe, fed the tainted possum meat to Biggun, but can't seem to figure out how to get the last guy... Swear there's got to be something about spiking bottled water with tequila or something but can't find anything that works. Got the tequila recipe after doing a stealthy bank heist, but that doesn't provide anything...

This is what happened to me so I started over. This time I'm going to do the prison before moving on instead of coming back to it. Heh, I did the prison, and killed Dantforth before going to the Canyon in the Beta. And it broke the game. Ended up with me still getting the radio messages about having to go to the Prison to checkout the Scorpions before I could go any further.. but I'd already wiped them out and salted the earth...

You should hunt down the graphic novels that started the whole "5,000 years before Star Wars" setup. They're not too bad, and they lay out a lot of what got used as a basis for the KOTOR games.

Yavin IV.. as in the moon on the Yavin system that the Rebels were based on when the Death Star swung by... Which also happened to be a location used 4 thousand years previously by Exar Kun (who sacrificed his followers in an attempt to become immortal but became a dark side ghost) , and before him Freedon Nadd who was himself a fallen jedi turned to the Sith ways and apprenticed under the previous ruler of the Sith Empire Naga Sadow who was in hidden stasis on the moon -(Sadow is also the one who started the Hyperspace War that led to the Sith Empires "destruction" and ultimately the TOR Emperor's Rise). If that satisfies your basic EU overview there?

Hm, came out of the Titan Canyon after having completed that section, got sent to the Prison..to find the Red Scorpions had killed everyone in the valley and getting rants about how I'd killed some of them on my previous visit.. which is odd, since I didn't kill any Scorpions there... Is that just a glitch, or does that pretty much happen on every run through? Is there a way for those miserable and poor farmers you meet to be alive before you head to LA?

Especially that picture of Kate Beckinsale?

Not as much. But then I'm still keeping up with some of the training post Tough Mudder. No sense in letting it all drop.

I think part of the fuss is that it's pretty, and it's a lot better then Oblivion was. Apart from that, it's pretty much your standard Bethesda hiking simulator that's got a huge modding community. It's one I can dip in occasionally when I can't really focus on anything and just idly wander around in with no particular goal, but it doesn't exactly have depth of story behind it. Depth of in-universe lore and history, yes.. but involving story.. not so much.

Yeah, I've slid back into that zone of not falling asleep till some point after 3am, then being stuck in that not fully awake, but not quite sleeping doze for a few hours before managing to get up. And my attention span for anything non-escapist is shot to hell. Okay, even with the escapist stuff of reading some books or playing games it's still being somewhat scattered. Try to do some research and it gets a few google searches in and things chased up before "oo shiny" happens. Just seem to be having trouble focusing and getting in gear on things at the moment. Which is annoying.

I actually went through the Underworld series over the weekend. It had been years since I saw the first film. Definitely see the contrast in the last one, they push the stylish action sequences over the dialogue heavy stylish sequences of the first three. Rumour has it they're now getting ready to work on a new one in 2015.

All about the athletic skill there?

The only weird thing I've had is that after dealing with the infected village and such post Ag Center, only to return to hand in that completed quest and found that for some reason the West Airlock had shut. According to the computer in the basement all doors were open, but it wouldn't let me through. Ah well. For the sake of one minor sub-quest, I couldn't be arsed restarting it all. So I just carried on.

But to help the Monday morning start..

Heh. Well to jump back to the vague origins of this series of threads... Part of it was "supposedly" to consider the different values of attractive / sexy around the world via the wide-ranging spread of the forumites country and culture-wise... Also, interesting point to be made - Does Attractive / Pretty / Aesthetically-Pleasing-to-the-Eye always mean Sexy / Erotic ? I would say not. I've known girls who I've thought were pretty or even beautiful, but sexually nah, something just didn't click. Or mayhaps that then becomes a question of personal chemistry when you're actually interacting with the ladies in question?

To carry off the sunday, and just to keep Wals happy then..

One of my friends announced that this song has become their latest guilty pleasure. And then made everyone listen to it.. http://youtu.be/QgmzAu7_wyc

Aren't all men hormone crazed 14 year old boys somewhere deep inside?

Just to throw in for the weekend collection..