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Lanfear was an old poster from Germany who frequented the old Black Isle/Interplay boards during the BG days. She was obsessed with the Coran character and wanted to romance the guy. Gaider in those days actually included some of the more memorable posters on those boards and included them into the games -Mencar, Del, Gromnir, and Lanfear. As a joke, Dave created a love triangle between Lanfear, Safana, and Coran, that ultimately led to the murder of Coran. The real Lanfear was not amused and apparently found it insulting instead of finding it funny and or flattered.

Yeah. Too funny.

I hope they try to do that to Lanfear.

Personally I just wanna see a photo of Urquhart's face when Sawyer told him Obsidian funding his parties in Vegas was an important part of the game development process. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/1257-darren-monahan-and-chris-avellone-lost-1050-to/?hl=poker&do=findComment&comment=36996

I know Steve Dengler (founder of xe.com) put up 10k for DoubleFine Adventure, Torment, and Veronica Mars. Not sure if or how much he put in for PE.

Tats and scars. And ear piercings. Lets not overlook the gratuitus piercings.

Great piece of long form sports journalism on Japanes baseball. http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9452014/pitcher-tomohiro-anraku-future-japanese-baseball-espn-magazine I disagree strongly with some of their practices but can understand why they do it.

So last night, my 99 accuracy Support Sergeant has a 99% chance to hit against a floater to finish off the mission? He misses. Next turn he got critically hit by that same floater and joins my memorial wall. A nearby Support Squaddie then panics and kills one of my Assault Corporals. That's XCOM for you.

Yes, a Japanese team can beat MLB teams. Given a small enough sample size, they can even beat the out over a series. If you insert them into the AL or NL, will they be able to come out with a .500 plus record over a 162 game season? Nope. Then again, Japanese teams have won the WBC and Little League World Series against strong international competition.

Justin Sweet and Jason Manley are cool and all but I'm really impressed by Kaz, the designated portrait artist. http://media.obsidian.net/eternity/media/updates/0040/orlan.jpg http://eternity.gamepedia.com/File:Dwarf_ranger.jpeg Errr..that didn't work quite right. Darn iOS.

WH saying that chemical weapons have been used and very little doubt that it was Assad. Very clear language.

I bet it comes with multiple hats. Multiple fancy hats.

I let my rice cool just a bit then saute it in a bit of olive oil with chopped up veggies (whatever strikes your fancy) and a dash or two of soy sauce. I like it a bit browned. Super good. I've even taken the leftovers the next morning and added eggs to it, scrambling it all together. In California, we call that fried rice.

Some are better tweeters than others. Haikus aren't that much longer. Dave's actually not so bad...but snarky comments about crying babies and murder is laying it a bit thick. He did that a few weeks back. Still twitter is a pretty good medium for informal interactions and is more accessible than Internet forums.

I don't actively follow Bio anymore - atleast not much since they switched over to the BSN - but I do follow Gaider's twitter. He's always been one of the most accessible developers and speaks his mind and takes his licks very well. He'll banter sometimes playfully, sometimes seriously. But I've noticed that he's been ornery of late... Especially when it comes to babies and criticism. Kinda coming across as insufferable and off-putting at times. Far cry from the days when he was posting in character as Viconia and Jaheira.

I think The Maker's got a sick sense of humour And when I die I expect to find Him laughing

Ahh yes, the known entity that is Cavelierus Albinus.

I had carbonara for dinner last light. Death to cream in carbonara! Bacon, 50/50 whole eggs to egg yolk ratio, pecorino romano, sea salt, freshly cracked tellicherry black pepper. Sometimes I add red pepper flakes and garlic - but that's just me being decadent.

*Gromnir spreads arms wide and offers tim cain, and feargus urquhart a manly group hug* *Feargus and Cain cry out "He likes us. He really likes us!"

I throughout I enjoyed RecOctober and Patriot Games. But after Cardinal in the Kremlin, it just became...too much. That's not to say they weren't well written, after all I also ended up reading Without Remorse, Rainbow Six, Debt of Honor, Sum of All Fears, as well as Airborne! The problem for me was that after the end of the Cold War, his novels became too convoluted and his antagonists were blasé. I liked Irish Terrorists and Soviet Commies myself

"while i enjoy watching the playthroughs of arcanum by sawyer, he would have taken away much more by reading the rulebook (which he didn't do given his issues with the interface). it had great fluff and told how it was envisioned, which is really good, and has pretty much what was lacking from the game itself." You're actually confusing Josh Sawyer and Chris Avellone.

It's like he became a parody of himself after his success of Patriot Games. Each subsequent book became a whale of a tome of the efficacy of the Amerikan Intelligence/Military Industrial/Ekonomik Complex.

10 hour road trip. Longest I've driven in a while. All good since get to see my niece and nephew - 1 1/2 years old and 4 months.

Haha yeah. I almost considered actually buying alacrity potions...before I came to my senses and just waited it out. Still, it was a fun game once you took out the silly social/FB/farmville mechanics out of it.

One of their more under-appreciated songs. Almost forgot about it until the Watchmen trailer.