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I'm still convinced she's only popular because of female readers/viewers who want to be ravished Harlequin-novel style by a ripped exotic war chief. The only thing interesting about Daenerys is wondering how she'll react when she learns she's not the only Targaryen left, and the possibility there might be people with a stronger claim to the Iron Throne than her. And you're right to assume I'm even less interested in Sansa chapters. The only known living Stark to the people of Westeros also happens to be the most astonishingly boring.

But this is a PC game, PCs don't run games off of discs (at least not for over a decade.) And most players will be playing via digital download. It should fry your HD in hardcore modes. Maybe if the PC get killed then the game should send the coordinates and someone should come to your home to kill you. That would be super hardcore and really immersive. Obsidian can't afford to hire assassins or the legal fees they'll need to defend themselves from all the mass murder and conspiracy to commit mass murder charges.

I don't celebrate anything, I accept gifts despite insisting all year that "I don't want any, you don't need to go to the trouble, etc."

When the player character dies, that's generally called "game over" in most games. But this is a PC game, PCs don't run games off of discs (at least not for over a decade.) And most players will be playing via digital download. It should fry your HD in hardcore modes.

No. Also wolves don't have "tribes," they're not sentient beings. You may as well propose that every single creature you encounter in P:E be sentient and taught English (or whatever language the game is translated into,) despite having no capacity to learn or speak it. Barbarians? No. There is no "Scholar" class, either.

Yeah, they screwed up some stuff, but they're cramming a 1000 page novel with multiple perspectives into 10 hours of TV per year. Besides, Daenerys stuff is boring.

This has no basis in reality. Here's a random pick of titles you can find on the shelves: Crazy Chicken Soccer Focus Hotbarels Clay Pidgeon Shooting iFluid I doubt anyone ever expected those to sell a 100,000 copies, let alone a few million... That's shovelware. Cheap to make, cheap to sell, and the target audience is not people like us, it's people like... well, Walmart shoppers.

Not analyzing, correcting. I'm just correcting his misconception, which was the starting basis of his idea. I don't see how that's not a valid point to make. If he doesn't want to be corrected he shouldn't use incorrect interpretations as the basis for his ideas.

People have a lot of emotional/mental experiences. Many people have episodes of these conditions as a result of trauma, stress, etc. An episode isn't the same as a chronic disorder, though. A soldier who was in close proximity to an explosion and has suffered some degree of brain trauma might (and often does,) experience one or more of the listed symptoms. In this case it's not a matter of chronic mental illness, it's a matter of incidents or episodes. But any mental dysfunction is something to be taken seriously to some degree. Obviously no two people are the same, and experiences differ between people depending on genotype, phenotype, hormones, etc. I say this from the perspective of someone who has actually suffered from and been diagnosed by medical professionals with chronic mental illnesses (none of the aformentioned,) and firsthand experience with family members suffering from some the conditions named. In the case of this family member, it's an uncle with a history of marijuana and cocaine abuse who was (and still is,) instiutionalized as a result of a dissociative episode which left him unable to recall where he lived, how old he was or what year it was.

Friendly reminder. The guys who bought Interplay and ran it into the ground were the developers of this game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(1999_video_game)

Their TOS says no refunds. At least it did last I checked.

I'll have what Josh is having, whatever it is. Biker's rush?

Pure fantasy. Absoludicrous. As likely to gore your fellows as your foes.

A Feast for Crows. UGHHHH. No wonder the cover is red, it's all Lannister crap. If you ever needed proof of how terrible a person Cersei is, this book is it.

Civ V, mine own noble people, the Celts, are the most scientifically and culturally advanced civ in the known world thus far. The Celtic cross will be the first symbol planted on the planets of Alpha Centauri. Also TF2, finally got naughty crates after Valve cheated me last year. They still cheated me this year because none of the items are likely to be as stupidly valuable as last year's haul of naughty crate contents.

But you're not talking about illusion magic at all, then, you're talking about the Geomancer (or Feng Shui Knight, for an accurate translation, Feng Shui falling under the Western category of Geomancy anyway,) class/Geomancy ability like in FFT. The character you're talking about filled the role of Geomancer in FF6 which had no class system. Which wasn't illusion magic. At all. The idea of Feng Shui is sorcery based on spatial positioning/orientation, whose power is derived from the four cardinal directions and the center, these each being associated with an element in Chinese and derivative civilizations (Japan, Korea.) http://en.wikipedia....e_constellation In this case the five Japanese elements being relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_elements_(Japanese_philosophy) .

One possible player character background should be "village corpse-stacker."

What do you mean "double-sided," like those lightsabers in star wars with a lightstaber sticking out both ends of the hilt, or a double-edged blade (which is common to the point of being standard throughout history)? Or are you talking about dual-wielding without managing to use the commonly accepted terminology for dual-wielding?

Aesthetic improvements don't equate to making something more interesting. You can have an amazingly well-designed cover for a dry and mind-numbing textbook, that cover won't make it more interesting.

I've got a parrot in TF2. What does it do? Sits on my shoulder leering at me. The dog in DAO wasn't much use. The dog in Fallout was slightly less useful due to the fact that dogs have no armor. The dog in Fallout 3 was not much use until lolbethesda turned it immortal because the Bethesda fanbase. Just the Bethesda fanbase. That's all the explanation you need. The only effective pet (of an earlier, weaker boss,) I've ever seen in a game was a three-legged crow final boss who throws stars (as in those big hydrogen fusion reactions in space, not five-pointed shapes,) at the player character (and the PC will die in one hit, obviously.)

I think there should also be an underwater maze dungeon. In 3D.

No, Americans (as well as many other people around the world, don't feel all superior, Europeans, I heard about how a bunch of looneys in France thought UFOs would save them if they went to some hill in some tiny village on the 21st,) are stupid and gullible and easily fall for History Channel tinfoil hat BS. The Mayans never predicted the end of the world. This is literally the end of a calendar cycle in the Mayan calendar. A new one starts when the old one ends. And once again, the Mayan civilization died out 1000 years ago.

Probably because he has bills to pay and doesn't have the confidence/recklessness/investors/team to strike out on his own venture. Not everybody is well-equipped to thrive in the winner-take-all, (financial) might-makes-right world of capitalism, after all.

A common-sense approach that one would hope conservatives would accept (they wouldn't,) would be to treat guns the same way we treat and regulate cars. (the key difference being that guns are meant to kill people, that's why they were invented, and cars are not.) But with mental health screenings mandatory every time you want your gun license renewed. 50 years ago nobody cared that the mentally ill had no rights and could be imprisoned and "treated" against their will indefinitely, and it certainly didn't help when Ronald Reagan made massive cuts to mental health care spending. Conservatives would rather see the mentally ill go untreated until they commit a crime as a result of their illness and then call them bad people who should be put in prison or executed on account of their being fundamentally evil. If responsible gun owners don't want their rights threatened, they shouldn't support far-right groups like the NRA. They should do that thing conservatives hate most.

Not particularly, most of the combat taking place in any given RPG is unrealistic. Nobody's ever fought a lich or a warg or a dragon in real life, so what are they going to reference? But if you want it to be realistic, use motion capture. And motion capture isn't much use or economically viable for an isometric game where the characters are low-detail models or pixelated sprites. Besides, referencing a bunch of reenactors isn't primary source knowledge of how a given military's people fought in any given time or place, it's almost entirely guesswork based on very few manuscripts and awkwardly drawn medieval illustrations. There's a greater wealth of knowledge when it comes to the far East, but that's not this game's scope so far as I can tell.