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Arcanum's combat is worse than Fallout 3's, and F3's combat is bad enough.

Hey, you took care of it! Thanks. Join up everyone, join up!

What never ceases to amaze me is that, apparently, no one cares that, starting with NWN, Bioware turned party NPCs into static, monologue pez dispensers. It was a huge step backwards from BG2.

I thought that had been established many years ago.

Obviously it isn't a situation of "here's a check" and leaving it at that. It should be carefully and thoughtfully planned and managed. Also, it doesn't have to be a gift of money. It could be organizing a party for someone who's depressed, for example. I don't recall what happened to you and your brother, though...

Use the money to aid the people in your life who are closest to you and need help or just moral support, instead of sending it to some impersonal organization.

BG2 has one huge advantage over other Bioware RPGs, which is that the plot isn't a by the numbers save the world/universe/whatever story. It may not be a very good plot, but at least it isn't the same tired and trite stuff Bioware has gotten used to churn out.

Weak. There are much better reasons to hate Final Fantasy.

The talk about legal drinking age is kind of hilarious to me. In Portugal, everyone drinks before it, and I'm not talking just a sip. Almost no one cares. But of course, you Americans have curfew and stuff, and that sounds like something out of 1984 to Portuguese we-party-until-7AM-regularly dudes.

I'm still trying to meet my 1991 resolutions.

It's a new year.

I'll be working on New Year's.

Democracy: rule by the people where the only ones defined as real people are really, really rich men with absolute power who otherwise have nothing to do because their economy is slave based. Sounds about right. It's also how they had time to go around philosophizing: because they were a very small elite who controlled everything and were served by everyone. Plato argued in The Republic that it was the only way to do human thought.

Classical Greece would disagree with that affirmation.

Christianity and its popularity are, in many ways a product of of the Middle Ages, not the other way around.

The point is that a divine experience isn't verifiable or definable in the same way that a murder is. What is a divine experience?

Thinking about it again (I saw this 2 hours ago), I guess my point of contention is the big ending battle. The smaller fights didn't strike me as bad, at all, and some were quite good. Like the one with the dogs. The big, final battle had no pace, was confusing, especially in the air, it never gave a sense of the scale and it didn't make a whole lot of sense.

So I saw this today, in GLORIOUS threedee and it was ok. Technologically, it was pretty awesome with all the great and wondrous outworldly vistas to gawk at, including the realistic smiles on the smug alien bastards' faces. Really, every time generic alien love interest no.1 smiled, I wanted to shout I love you! at the screen. A proper CG smile. Wow. Other than that, I was underwhelmed. By the acting, the plot, the writing, the bland everyman, the retarded, heavy handed symbolism, and the guilt over the disappearance of a romanticized Native American culture with biological internets. This was expected. What I didn't expect to disappoint me was the mess that was the action, especially considering that it's Cameron directing this. He used to be untouchable, when it came to action. Finally, was it just me, or did the movie flip-flopped the antagonists towards the start of the war? Ribisi is shown as a complete asstard the whole time, only to suddenly feel guilt in a second, while the badass, hardworking soldier following orders, takes up the Mantle of Pure Evil in order to serve up a one on one fighting climax. Awful script writing right there. Oh, and I liked how the pantheistic god person thingie let all the Na'vi get slaughtered before saving the day. It's what I would do. I had fun though, in an afternoon TV movie sort of way.

He doesn't blame everything on the Republicans, he blames everything on corporations and a lack of regulation.

Why is a Dane telling a Finn the cost of something in Swedish crowns?

That's pretty strange. How big was the speed bump? Either the heat sink wasn't properly installed or your PC took a really powerful hit. Were the mobo and CPU damaged in any way? Anyway, if the only problem is the heatsink, replacing it should be easy.

Keep in mind that this is a lot more gamey than the Path, though. I mean the artistic intent is still a very important part of the game, but the actual gameplay systems are quite robust.

I've been listening a lot to St. Vincent, lately. Real name Annie Clark. Great guitarist. Quite awesome. (and quite hawt, too ) The Strangers Acoustic Actor Out of Work Acoustic

So he played all those games when he was 7?