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Hm, and the joy of the clocks going back tonight..so technically I'm losing an hours sleep tonight.. So now I'm rolling into "official" all hallows eve time.. Not sure if it's its just that wave of tired that's kicking in for some reason or not.. or maybe listening to too much Loreena McKennit music.. but having that roll of loss and missing the girl I really should be over by now.. that totally inspires the urge to drink copious amounts of alcohol.. Which I shall resist and settle for a large mug of hot chocolate.

Dang it.. did you virtually pass it across to me? Curse you Wals!! Finished off my first playthrough of FONV this morning.. then caught up with reading.. working my way back through the Wheel of Time before the next book is released in November..

It depends on the character build.... I kind of pumped up my lockpicks, science, stealth.. then barter and speech.. There were some fun perks that helped around.. but I couldn't see pumping so many perks on Training ..I mean by the time you reach high level..you've got a lot of skill points if you had high intelligence to start with.. Woops, my bad.I was having a brain fart moment and for some reason thought the Intensive Training was the skill boost.. well, if you've got the money there are always the Implants you can get that give you a bonus of 1 to a stat.. although you can only have so many Implants..

Just have to remember not to kill Cachino early..otherwise it'll break the main quest line for both the NCR and House... Even though I decided to get around it by killing Troike, the other guy, and Big Sal.. I still got word the Omerta tried attacking the strip during the Hoover Dam assault...

Finished my first walkthrough.. and on the one hand.. I love that you actually get comments about the various communities and the effects from your choices on them... On the other.. While one tells me what I did reduced chaos to a minimum.. another tells me that due to the increase in chaos x happened around group x.. and then another tells me that due to the presence of group y thats in the same area as group x, the streets were safe and quiet... It's like some of them almost contradict the "general background" of some of the others..

A chunk of what seems "silly" to a lot of people is how the Fallout world uses the whole concept of.. everything is based around the 'traditional 50's view of what the future would be like'.. and how thats taken to a certain level of..caricature.

Its the Ewok vs Stormtrooper syndrome at work....

On the slightly random tangent.. the Star Wars Saga RPG supplement inspired by The Force Unleashed was actually quite well written with a lot of expansion on what the SW Universe was like during that time frame...

Fallout: Hawaii.... Surfing Glowing Ghouls...

Only certain weapons can be hidden.. so if you're not actually carrying any that qualify... So lets see.. Brass Knuckles, Switchblades, Silenced 22, 9mm, Laser Pistol, Grenades and dynamite... Oh and you'll probably need to remap the quick keys for weapons everytime you go in and out of a casino.. And on the Laser weapons.. Meltdown + Laser Pistol is deadly to use in close quarters..

Isn't that just the Bounty Hunter gear? the Wasteland trenchcat with a little armor? You can also get it by pickpocketing it off Red Lucy after she sleeps with you if you finish off The Thorn Quests... Edit: When you find the dead patrols of Brotherhood..the Armor you pick up from them was listed as Brotherhood T-45 Power Armor.. so I'm wondering if that's the "faction disguise armor" as opposed to the T-45 you earn as a quest reward. And yeah, I prefer the look of the Trenchcoat..but the + to strength for carrying capacity from power armor is so darn useful...

Red. Entertaining in that light and fluffy manner. A few outrightly humerous bits, and seeing Helen Mirren use a large amount of guns is worth it.. The romance sub-plot is used for the humour effect to start with then mostly forgotten abouts in the last half of the film. Brian Cox is quite standout as the aging russian spy who used to be the enemy.. and until he opened his mouth I didn't recognise Richard Dreyfuss in his evil businessman character.. Some nice action sequences, but nothing too overblown.

Waking up from vivid dreaming..to find yourself wrapped up in sheets, really warm..comfortable..(apart from a slow-grinding headache in the background) and the realisation that its cold, grey, and fairly miserable outside.... really makes it an effort to push yourself out of bed and get the day started.....

There's a glitch where if you tell him to go the Lucky 38 to wait for you..he instead returns to the Kings School of Impersonation...

Where do you get the training to wear Power Armor then? The Brotherhood Idolise me..but I've not seen any "get trained in power armor" options...

Well..besides the only 1 humanoid and 1 non-humanoid companion at any time.. I think you have to make some comment in the right manner about the Brotherhood of Steel for her to travel with you... But then she was the first human companion I encountered and tagged along right away..

Yup, done that.. picked up Cachino's journal.. read it.. talked with Joanna..found out what a creep Cachino is.. even unlocked that room up in the hotel suites area and found the tortured and dead hooker... Which is why I handed the journal to his Bosses which led to him coming down with a sudden case of high velocity lead in the head. Of course..all that was before I tracked down the platinum chip at Ceasar's camp.. so.. I think that's what somehow broke it when I finally arrived at this point.. Which is odd.. I mean the game recognised I'd encountered the Boomer's at Nellis and danced right past House Always Wins pt III..

Yup. That doesn't work. The trouble is that I think Cachino puts you on the trail of some other information of what the Omerta are up to... And the fact that I'd used up the "favour" the receptionist owed Benny means she's already spoken to me about where Cachino was... So there were no dialogue options to pressure her for information to find out what the next "part" of the quest is... So I'm just left with the quest pointing me to talk to the Receptionist..and nada in the conversation tree moving the quest on..

Well, I sat down after dinner to get some FONV on..and found that I seem to have broken one of the main quests.. - The House Always Wins IV I'd already talked to the Receptionist and hit her up for info and handed Cachino over to his bosses.. and done the whole.rescue Joanna and the Hookers before getting on with the House Always Wins quest line.. so now that I've started House Always Wins part IV...and it keeps pointing to the receptionist but there are no options in talking with her that let me carry on.... I get the feeling that this means the only way I can carry on the main quest line is if I stop working for House, and pick one of the other groups to support.. or just go totally independant..

Just that slightly random thing... Can you just imagine the effect on the world's geeks if anything did happen to Taiwan's trade?

Well I made it through the day getting assorted odds and ends done.. some basic labors, some actually mentally challenging.. Got poked at by the cat and leapt at by the dog.. Then the evening rolled in and I had to make the choice.. a quick shower and some time to sit down and play FONV...or take the time to soak in a hot bath with a good book for an hour or two.. I decided on the latter... So that's an entire day without any FONV playtime managed.. I know technically I've got about another 30+ minutes before the days out..but that seems to be pushing it for just a "quick dabble".... So I shall leave it till manana to see if I get a chance to continue those wasteland wanderings at any point...

All sorts of girls fell for Spock during the 3 year span. Nurse Chapel had the ongoing flame for him, there was the mating madness, there was the planet that made him euphoric.. There was even the one where he played harp in a greek/roman setting and had Uhura panting after him... I think he actually had more girls fall for him then Kirk did.. but Kirk was more likely to chase them.

Nah, they have to be able to **** everything of the opposite sex in the universe. Pfft, if only it were that simple. They also have to be able to **** everything of the same sex. And lets not forget the inter-species stuff. I blame this on the influence of Kirk and Spock.. their "every week one of them gets a different alien / starfleet girl"..

That kind of makes me want to do the reverse pick pocket with a Frag Grenade on Ceasar at some point...

Running through my first playthrough of FONV .. a few hours here, a few hours there... although I haven't gotten any in today as of yet.. I'll have to figure out some way to cram it in somewhere...