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All these AAA published RPG-like games have to have a promotional video with some respected A-list or B+ (let's face it, Carrie-Anne Moss isn't exactly headlining any Oscar nominated films,) actors singing the praises of the game's story or writing no matter how bad it actually is. EA has money to burn.

What makes you think the sword is better than whatever the boss was equipped with? Or that the boss is some ambidextrous polymath talented and trained in the use of all weapon types? A fancy-pants rapier is no use for someone who's trained in the use of maces. Nits status: Picked.

Sales of what? No products were ever named. You know "the point"? It's on the opposite side of the Earth from you. In regards to the post I made and the reply. Ignoring that, more than half the people in the US are "health crazy people on the fringe" by your definition. The proportion of Americans who smoke tobacco is about 17% these days. Laws and ordinances going up to prevent secondhand smoke (i.e. you smokers bothering other people by giving them cancer, or with your noxious hobo-like stench,) are constantly popping up in cities and states without fail. Yes, you are being persecuted. It's a tragedy.

I was going to make some excessively sarcastic post exalting how this thread's OP opened my eyes and saved my life, but since they're never going to come back here again there's no point. What a disappointment. I think I'm going to take up smoking to alleviate this stress.

Try and get the guy who did Bastion. That would be so awesome. Only if all your ****-ups are narrated.

As far as paintings go, in my experience, I've found they tend to be found prominently mounted on walls, usually at the height of human eyes.

There are chat rooms and forums on the internet for a reason. And MMORPGs. If there were, hypothetically, multiplayer, you would be playing the same campaign with the person you're "drinking" with, ergo, there would be no "adventure stories" to tell them about because they were there and saw (read) it all firsthand. There's a line between roleplaying and having bizarre psychological inclinations to sit around in a single spot both in-game and in reality clicking "use beer" over and over for several hours.

Nobunaga supposedly had some sort of primordial ironclad, emphasis on supposedly, but there aren't any records of any significant seaborne aggression from the era. Well, my original point was that it's likely an issue of drivers and backwards compatibility (Just Cause 2 isn't new, after all, and wasn't designed when the architecture of a 680ti existed to be taken into consideration.) The thing about perceptions of time and age in the computing sector was just a tangential observation of the reality. I won't be convinced until I can powergame and exploit my way to replicating this scenario:

Odd considering there was little naval action in the Sengoku period. The ships were basically floating forts whose purpose was blockading supply lines.

Tested the structural integrity of the layer of ice now covering the 5ish inches of snow covering the Portland metro area. Not as robust as the time several years ago when I could walk around my yard without breaking through the inch-thick ice layer on top of about a foot of snow (although there was a fascinating noise of the ice straining and cracking as far away as the back yard as a result.) Drank cheap plastic-bottled whiskey whose name I don't care to remember as snow + freezing rain - snowplows + the assumption that it's all going to melt tomorrow with a projected high of 50F = there's no reason to even attempt to go out except to test the strength of the ice layer on top of the snow. I guess The Walking Dead is back on tonight, might catch that if I remember (the whiskey might actually have been a poor choice at noon-ish. But it would be legit if I had a St. Bernard with a tiny cask attached to its neck.)

People's idea of "old" for computer parts sometimes disturbs me...my mother was still using an old single core Athlon 64 up until a few months ago...now that's getting on the old side. Mothers don't count unless you're a mother who builds/buys a new gaming rig every few years. That said, it's not irrational to consider a product 2-3 years old to be "old" in the world of computing, given Moore's Law. Besides, for those of us who still haven't hit 30 and didn't major in geology, archaeology, paleontology, or astrophysics/cosmology, 2-3 years is a long time (I suppose I should also assume there are those who did/could not attend any institutions of higher education,) especially considering the fact that humans' biological clocks accelerate as one ages. 2-3 years pass in the blink of an eye for a senior but feel like an eternity for a 6 year old. BUT I DIGRESS.

I've always felt scrolls are a bit absurd a concept, in terms of RPGs. If you want to store a spell for use by non-mages or magicians without consuming mana, it's effectively a magic grenade, and a scroll is technically is only different from a book/grimoire in that it's a single rolled up parchment with (presumably) the same text rather than a bunch of sheets of parchment or vellum bound together in a rectangular format. Unless it is the same thing as a spell written down in a bound book/grimoire, only with some sort of self-destruct enchantment or charged with power such that the parchment/vellum is destroyed by the release of said power, it seems to me like some other kind of vessel should contain the spell/effect. Of course, if it was charged with some form of power there's no reason another object like a runestone or inscribed/enchanted crystal ([sarcasm]because they're obviously magical in nature, obviously,[/sarcasm]) couldn't perform the same function.

It's rather absurd to think Obsidian, of all devs, wouldn't flesh such a thing out in detail. There's no reason to fear they would make PE's handling of player's choice of race and sex in a way similar to Bethesda's (that is, barely/not at all.) Especially considering it's primarily text with a small amount of voiceover. I got called "my little honey-bunny" by the doctor at Camp Forlorn Hope when I was playing a Confirmed Bachelor Courier. Keeping in mind that race has always been a non-issue in the Fallout world (since the real conflict is between humans and mutants of various kinds; Super Mutants and Ghouls are almost certainly no longer the same species as Homo Sapiens.)

That's odd, because Just Cause 2 came out a couple years before the Core i5 and nVidia 600 series (I haven't had any problems on a machine running a similar CPU and a 580 GPU.) Possibly an issue of backwards compatibility with the drivers? Then again, I haven't played it prior to the recent addition of official multiplayer, I'm sure that must have added a load of bugs.

Nothing, unless you listen to the Bioware fans who got outraged when Dragon Age 2 was called Dragon Age 2 instead of Dragon Age: Trapped in the Box. #3 jab at Bioware/its hardcore fans. I'm on a roll today.

The names have already been established. Obsidian: 1, ZornWO: 0.

Bioware Social Network. Second time in as many days as I've been able to make fun of them.

Trying to make a Neutral karma NV run while continuing my quest to explode ALL the pants. Finally got a mod that gets rid of the positive karma for killing fiends and feral ghouls which made it impossible to achieve/maintain evil or neutral. Super Robot Wars Z2, in anticipation of the April release of 3. Original, or Director's Cut? You playing on PC? What kind of rig you running?

Indeed. Unless the player is controlling an actual character with their own predetermined personality and dialogue, and such a relationship is part of the story, it almost always comes off as pandering.

http://www.gameranx.com/features/id/10388/article/an-interview-with-chris-avellone-on-project-eternity/ One of MCA's many comments on video game romance:

It looks like you missed the forum you intended to post this on. I think you wanted http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/index

You're really jumping the gun there, buddy. Pal. Boy-o. Chum. Compadre. Kemosabe. 友達。 বন্ধু. दोस्त. φίλη. رفيق. חָבֵר

Why? It's a given that the one called "Pillars of Eternity" is the basis for "Pillars of Eternity: Infiniternal Subtitular Melodrama." If you saw "Pillars of Eternity" and "Pillars of Eternity: Grandiose Metaphysical Psychobabble" next to each other on a store shelf, which one would you think is the original? If you answer the second, there is something wrong with you. Although that may be apparent from the content of your post.

Pillars of F... what? F isn't close enough to E to justify that level of typo. JUST SAYIN'

A neutrino can be observed in a similar fashion to everything else there is in the world, it's just that it is much more complicated in practice. You see, there are (to our current knowledge) four fundamental interactions - strong and weak nuclear, electromagnetic and gravitational. It can be said that the definition of something "existing" is that it can have an interaction with something else. Our senses are just a detection device which lacks a lot of precision. Neutrinos, along with everything else there is, can interact with your own body as well, it's just that for the amounts of neutrinos which fly through and into our bodies that interaction is negligible. It's really unnecessary to make a distinction between what our senses can in practice make out "directly" and what they can't. A scientist noting a detection of a neutrino on a computer screen is not fundamentally different from a captain observing a ship through his binoculars, or you reading a book with glasses on. People often unnecessarily obfuscate and complicate modern physics. My entire point was that, contrary to the beliefs of the one I was responding to, it's possible for us to understand things we cannot directly perceive by way of technological instruments and mathematical models. You're just going on some strawman tangent listing examples of humans using technological instruments to observe things even making such a rookie 0/10 trolling mistake as mentioning optics like binoculars in what appears to be an attempt to disprove a point I never made, in which I noted that humans can use telescopes and microscopes to view things that are beyond the resolution of the human eye (i.e. outside the realm of natural human perception.) I never said anything about neutrino interaction with the human body (a vital crux of your strawman, which is to put words in my metaphorical mouth and imply that I claimed they don't interact with matter in the human body even though I explained that a neutrino detector's function is to observe the results of neutrinos interacting with other matter.) I said that a Neutrino cannot be perceived by direct means, but the products of their (rare) interactions with other forms of matter can be observed only indirectly (only with highly sensitive neutrino detectors.) Neutrinos pass by the trillion through your body every second, and the mathematical chances of one actually interacting with any of the mass in your body are astronomically tiny because they're only affected by the weak atomic force, and when they do actually interact with matter in your body you cannot detect it under any circumstance, it's simply through mathematical logic that we know such interactions occur. Making some vague claim about someone "unnecessarily obfuscating and complicating" "modern physics" is just pointless. Observing a neutrino was a highly complicated feat. Modern physics includes classical mechanics, which I assume is your trump card in claiming I'm pompously making physics sound more complex than it really is. Or are you going to go out and show me you can explain Quantum Mechanics to a group of high school dropouts in such a way that they can accurately calculate the probabilities of electron behavior? Physics has many levels of complexity. Newtonian physics can be simple, i.e. f=mv, but reaches into far more complex operations and formulae.