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  1. pseudonymous
    And they were mocked while you were performing them in IWD2. How else is a low level character going to gain experience, though? If they threw monsters at you at that point you would die repeatedly, grow frustrated, and go on the internet to complain about how crap the games were.
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    Have you played the Baldur's Gate games recently? Both Baldur's Gate games are incredibly annoying. From the emo npcs to the stupid fed-ex quests to the kill a basement full of rats trope, it's depressing that they are held up as "great" games. They may be the best games BioWare were ever involved with, but they're certainly not great. Once you stop arguing about rules, Dungeons & Dragons is about slicing and dicing increasingly difficult monsters, not about shacking up with an emotionally damaged drow, a whiny she-elf, or a recently widowed druid on your path to god-hood. Granted, god-hood is a nice way to duck the question of alimony and who gets what in the separation, it makes for an incredibly silly game plot. The Icewind Dale series got it mostly right, even in mocking Baldur's Gate. No muss, no fuss, just kill anything that moves.
  3. pseudonymous
    I don't know about that, watching MCA equip the shopkeeper at the beginning of the game made it worthwhile.
  4. pseudonymous
    They're looking for readily available cloth sims, which leaves Havok, PhysX, and Bullet. PhysX's cloth sim actually performs better on a CPU than Bullet's cloth sim. Download them both and see for yourself. This is easy for you to verify for yourself. Bullet requires too much work to make it worth using. It is currently at the state that Havok was in back in 2004, which is to say it very often looks like ass due to it's poor collision detection (see VtMB dresses riding up female characters), let alone the extremely poor performance when compared to the other two. The choice is really between Havok and PhysX.
  5. pseudonymous
    Do you really want to sit through 20 hours of MCA whining about harm spamming? I don't.
  6. pseudonymous
    Nope. It was a procedural destruction done in Houdini: http://www.cgsociety...her_2_cinematic Bullet is the worst physics engine they could possibly use. They still haven't integrated multi-threading which makes it incredibly difficult to use for good looking cloth in a decent performance range.
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    That seems like a low estimate, to be honest. South Park has appeal to a large, existing audience and the only people that don't want to play Saints Row are members of al Qaeda.
  8. pseudonymous
    How else are they going to accept the contradictions of their dogmatic beliefs? As an offensive example: If Mormons didn't have faith, they would have to ask themselves why their deity suddenly decided to stop being a jerk to black people in 1978 and why their deity's view of black people tended to follow the prevailing social mores of the US, from the blatant racism of Joe Smith and Brigham Young in the early-to-mid 1800s, to today when the LDS can point to Gladys Knight (and many others) as shining examples of inclusiveness, all while ignoring the schizophrenic nature of the situation. Without faith they'd have to admit that their religious organization was founded by bigots and for the bulk of time since its founding, the LDS organization has reflected that bigotry. As an amusing example: Without faith Christians would have to ask themselves why it is alright to eat at Red Lobster but not alright for two consenting adults to fornicate and marry. No one wants anyone to face that hard question, so they must have faith.
  9. pseudonymous
    Yeah, only 82% of the unique ip addresses are pirated. That 90% figure is WAY off. Those horrible liars. tl;dw: Multi-millionaire says "Yeah, I've got enough money." Firefly is just meh.
  10. pseudonymous
    http://2dboy.com/2008/11/13/90/
  11. pseudonymous
    Why would killing the god of light have dire consequences? He's just an egotistical jerk living off the prayers of primitive sun worshipers and and manipulating them into doing stupid things from a different plane of existence; he is entirely separate from whatever star the planet is orbiting. Any powers the god of light may have before he dies would be seized by some other member of the pantheon assuming the deity didn't have enough worshipers to resurrect him/her/itself. At least, in the typical fantasy cliché that D&D and pulp fantasy authors use.
  12. pseudonymous
    Well, when you don't have an argument to use just hurl as many insults as possible. It works for the idiots on talk radio, why wouldn't it work here? It's not about taste, it's about realism. A pair of colanders strung together and worn like a bikini top may look cool, but it isn't going to protect the character wearing from bullets or energy weapons nor will a skimpy fur bikini keep the character warm on the tundra.
  13. pseudonymous
    Are you sure games aren't doing the impractical things with female characters because they are designed by people that have no social interactions with women?
  14. pseudonymous
    That's just cruel. Sure, the music was great and there were a few neat ideas in the world background, but nobody should be pushed into such a terrible ruleset against their will. What's terrible about the ruleset in Arcanum?
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    from: http://www.lectlaw.com/def/f079.htm You have to prove that they intend to break their word. As an example, the author of a certain open-source non-linear video editor is, apparently, using his two successful kickstarter campaigns to travel to software conventions around the world instead of getting the NLE into shape to make basic edits. However, there is code in a public repository, so he can claim that he isn't defrauding his contributers, even though the kickstarter campaigns are his only source of income and these conventions and travel to them are not free. That being said, Kickstarter is not a store.
  16. pseudonymous
    Way to take a critical view of your favorite platform. In ten years, will you be the first in line explaining to each and everyone of the linux users how to extract the game from the debs and rpms they purchased when package names change and both dpkg and rpm can't find the dependencies? No? Maybe tarballs with dependencies included aren't a bad idea after all... A little common sense practicality now will make everyone's future enjoyment of the game that much easier. As an exercise in awesome, try installing and playing any of the games Loki software ported on a modern distribution, xlib and libc errors galore. For extra awesome: try extracting the source from any src.rpm from Fedora 17 with the rpm in Cent 5 (and vice-versa, of course). It's fun, you should try it sometime.
  17. pseudonymous
    To be perfectly honest, rpm and deb would be the worst possible move they could make for linux users, it would be as wonderful an idea as the loki installer, which gave everyone an awesome graphical installer that looked great, until glibc no longer supported the features used in the installer and gtk 1 was dropped from a distribution which crapped out any attempt at running the installer as it was intended to work. That event left people wondering how to install their games through the shell commands of make self (which the loki installer was just a gui-wrapper for). In 10 years Obsidian is not going to repackage the game so you can play it on Ubuntu farting ferret, and you'll want to play the game, however dpkg will barf on a deb made on the current Ubuntu lactating lemur release (RPM has the same problems and worse given the various incompatible forks of the RPM project). So, until the open source community figures out that backwards compatibility and interoperability between distributions are important features of the consumer desktop, you should stick to asking for tarballs or Steam which will hopefully include the dependencies of the game. This, of course, is assuming Valve doesn't go bankrupt like every other company that has attempted to support consumer oriented linux.
  18. pseudonymous
    The problem isn't the pet, it's that certain tiers are excluded from having the pet. It is very similar to the bs publishers are pulling with pre-orders at various stores (ironic given Kickstarter's recent announcement that it is NOT a store). Exclusive content really is the kind of bs that needs to die in fire. Give everyone the same content in game, what is so hard about that? Obsidian has a chance to make a great F'n game without the typical bs from publishers and they are pulling the same bs that publishers pull and further blurring the lines between Kickstarter and a pre-order store.
  19. pseudonymous
    not everyone will have the steam version Yeah, yeah, I've read the arguments that people use to justify piracy (2DBoy listened to those arguments as well and World of Goo had an 82% piracy rate without DRM), but have you ever attempted to find anything on the Nexus? It's a usability nightmare.
  20. pseudonymous
    The Nexus for mod support? Why not use Valve's Steam Workshop which makes sharing, searching, and installing mods easier on all involved?
  21. pseudonymous
    My condolences to your liver. Lowered Intelligence, lowered dexterity, and higher constitution does make for an interesting brawling mechanic.
  22. pseudonymous
    What's wrong with move camera -> click -> move camera -> click? Why does it have to be clickety -> click -> click -> click -> click -> hold -> drag -> click -> what the hell is wrong with this fricken mouse -> click?
  23. pseudonymous
    Wonders what 2 seconds of internet searching can do for ignorance - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paladin *sigh* please don't use Wikipedia as a reference for anything but how incredibly stupid the human race is becoming
  24. pseudonymous
    That is why you allow evil paladins.
  25. pseudonymous
    Um... no. Paladins are fighters that can heal once a day, not clerics with heavy armor. Clerics cannot use edged weapons and have no restrictions against heavy armor.
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