Raithe

"If there was a way to get magic for free, do you really think I'd have spent so much time sacrificing children to my dark gods? For spells, I mean. Obviously there'd still be sacrifices. A hobby's a hobby." - Blackguard

If you liked Sun Tzu, you might want to have a gander at T'ai Kung's Six Secret Teachings, the Three Strategies of Huang Shih-kung or The Methods of the Ssu-ma. Just for the slightly more esoteric military classics from ancient china

"In wine there is wisdom,in beer there is freedom,in water there is bacteria" -Ben Franklin

Well Kipling does seem to last in the Military.. and there are a lot of damn quotable moments from military history..

Logged in and can't vote.. hm...

Realising how often I pull out obscure quotes that for various reasons I find amusing or thought provoking in one form or another... I thought I'd see what quotes other forumites might have found sticking in their minds, or just saved for later dates.. Such as:

Well, Sun Tzu did write about human nature. Considering that people have been using his advice in one form or another for around two millenia now, you have to say he probably had a fairly decent grasp on human nature. Hell, he's the one that said the best general is the one who doesn't need to resort to force and solves the problem before armies have to start moving.

Well I nearly said Confucious before double-checking So don't be too embarassed.

classical chinese thought.. otherwise known as Sun Tzu.

To go with the quotage rather then any opinion "Human nature is bad. Good is a human product... A warped piece of wood must be steamed and forced before it is made straight ; a metal blade must be put to the whetstone before it becomes sharp. Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles."

No, it's all just xkgb...

Are you using default keys or did you change them? The default keys it had after installing the dlc. Installed it, ran the game, went to the planet.. picked up the Hammerhead, and got a little puzzled when the onscreen instructions of "press button x" did nada. Went into gameplay options/key binding and found it was all set to buttons other then what the onscreen prompts were... Nada majorly troubling once I figured that out what the correct buttons were.

Hm, and just done the first mission of the firewalker dlc.. picking up the Hammerhead..and is it me, or are the in-game "tutorial" instructions using the wrong keys.. being told to use right mouse or left shift.. and then you check in the key bindings and they're actually set to completely different keys.. The joys of new dlc..

For the slightly cheesey factor, Tron 2.0 was actually quite decent for a kind of fps that was released about 7 years ago.. If you want to try finding something that came out of the 90's... for the classic lucasarts adventure, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - captured the Indy spirit quite well. Or for the other 90's classic.. Alien Legacy - oold sierra, an interesting mix of strategy game with some pseudo-rpg elements to the storyline. Throw in a nice colonise a solar system, resource management, building up research and assorted other factors..

As has been said, they dropped the Gehenna background and concentrated on the urban angsty side of it. But I found it lacked a lot compared to the original WoD stuff. But that might have just been me I'd say just use the Vampire Masquerade Revised and forget about the metaplot aspects if your friend wants to play the Urban Vampire stuff.

And apparently Jude Law's second acting job was a part on the old Granada TV Sherlock Holmes series.. and Ritchie got the actors to watch some of those episodes to help get a feel for it. The film was a fairly enjoyable victorian romp, and the slightly stylised way they had of showing off "how" Holmes saw the world around him and deduced things was quite interesting.. A good way for that form of media to show it off. Re-watched Tron the other week.. maybe it's the inner geek in me but I still enjoy that film. (Hell, I even enjoyed the Tron 2.0 game that came out about 7 years ago..). But it's kind of funny that there's about 3 or so people in Tron that all turned up in Babylon 5 years later.. Did catch the new trailer for Tron Legacy which does look fairly slick and interesting.. Although shame they aren't meshing in anything from Tron 2.0.. Ah well.

I got into the start of A Game of Thrones.. read the first 4 or 5 books. But I found the last two I read were like hammering my head into a wall and I just forced myself to finish them. So I gave up on the series. Might try again in a few years mayhaps... Enjoyed Baen's eARC copy to get hold of "Mouse and Dragon" by Sharon Lee And Steve Miller. A nice space opera continuation there...

Maybe it's just my age and how long I've been playing computer games.. But I didn't see any real issues with the graphics shown.. It amazes me the comments that have shown up on some of the sites showing the developer diaries and walkthroughs complaining about the graphics.. It's a freaking rpg, it's not meant to be a Crysis/Splintercell type of game.. Personally, it mostly looks smooth and from what I've seen, seems to fit the mood of the levels they've shown off. So it works for me so far. Of course, I still hold the right to change my mind on how well it handles when I actually sit down and play it for x many hours

Pre-built characters that were all designed to fit several "extreme" character types from the sound of it. Which is one way to highlight the differences in the skills use.. What was it, the tough/shooter guy, the sneaky/martial arts guy, and the slightly sneaky/tech/sabotage guy from the sounds of it... Not exactly balanced characters but if you have limited time to show off concepts to a previewer it's one method of handling it.

I restarted BG a bit ago... finally reached the city of Baldur's Gate and just haven't been able to get back into it to actually progress beyond that point.. Going to have to sit down and make a firm attempt at it again..

I like the way they suggest that Mike can sound mental if you keep changing styles of conversation.. I mean, major concept.. a spy who acts differently in circumstances depending on the people he's talking to and how he wants them to react to him.. Yeah, I can reaalllly see why that would make him seem mental.. It gave some interesting snippets of information , but it does seem that the guy who wrote that article was expecting something that was more splinter-cell then an rpg...

Trust the communist-wannabe to follow in certain bloodstained boots to stand on a pile of dead bodies..

I liked the Mako.. I just really didn't like the worlds/terrain you had to drive around on... That was the key fault to it.

How onerful that would be?

Killer Tomatoes did it well.. but Bond did it best