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False equivalency much? Here's a secret, every single one of my Steam games is backed up in it's original folder structure with a crack set up and fully playable on my storage drives with a soft link to take advantage of any primary drive saves. Steam DRM is ridiculously easy to crack by design. The only reasons they have it at all is for legal coverage and publisher mollification as well as multiplayer verification. It's not really there to stop pirates. Moreover, offline mode works quite well and lasts for three months. So, if for some bizarre assed reason, I wanted to cart my 70lb tower around when on a road trip, i would only have to log in once every three months to play my games. Even members of the military can get some sort of internet connection that often(Seriously though, with the 24hr connection process they wrote off the entire military sector which is, quite frankly, ****ing stupid. In fact, if Sony was at all smart they would offer a promotion to military members for 10% off of games during the 1st year of the PS4s release). Whereas I've had multi-day broadband outages before and continued to play my PC and console games. Calling the XBone's DRM similar to Steam's is like calling Obama's Fast and Furious program similar to Bush's Wide Receiver. Only in the broadest ways are they at all similar, and thus the only people who can legitimately hold that opinion are those who are ignorant of the details. Everyone else holding that opinion must be a blanket partisan. Sooooo...you pirate your Steam games then??? Do you perhaps need to take remedial english classes? I said my backups are cracked. As of last count I have over 75 steam games. Of which 10 or so are F2P things. And all of the games which have single player functionality have cracked versions on my storage drives. The only ones which are unplayable with my normal saves are the Fallout/TES games because I haven't replicated my mod structures on the backups.

Unless the only way you meet that person is face to face in an area without cameras and passing handwritten notes to set up any communications, your attempt at secrecy is futile. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-12/what-if-the-redcoat-nsa-had-access-to-paul-reveres-metadata Metadata is POWERFUL.

False equivalency much? Here's a secret, every single one of my Steam games is backed up in it's original folder structure with a crack set up and fully playable on my storage drives with a soft link to take advantage of any primary drive saves. Steam DRM is ridiculously easy to crack by design. The only reasons they have it at all is for legal coverage and publisher mollification as well as multiplayer verification. It's not really there to stop pirates. Moreover, offline mode works quite well and lasts for three months. So, if for some bizarre assed reason, I wanted to cart my 70lb tower around when on a road trip, i would only have to log in once every three months to play my games. Even members of the military can get some sort of internet connection that often(Seriously though, with the 24hr connection process they wrote off the entire military sector which is, quite frankly, ****ing stupid. In fact, if Sony was at all smart they would offer a promotion to military members for 10% off of games during the 1st year of the PS4s release). Whereas I've had multi-day broadband outages before and continued to play my PC and console games. Calling the XBone's DRM similar to Steam's is like calling Obama's Fast and Furious program similar to Bush's Wide Receiver. Only in the broadest ways are they at all similar, and thus the only people who can legitimately hold that opinion are those who are ignorant of the details. Everyone else holding that opinion must be a blanket partisan.

That's kind of what I was driving at. Can they make it work by attracting publishers? Ehhhh. Hard to say. If the whole NSA froufrara hadn't been revealed as it has I would have given them even odds for your average consumer to be gullible enough to go for it. Unfortunately for MS and fortunately for first sale doctrine, the NSA froufrara is occurring and thus when Christmas rolls around the idea of government, or anyone else, spying will still be in their heads. Thus, when presented with the choice between the XBone and the PS4, which has better hardware anyway while being cheaper, they will tend to come down on the side of the PS4. And those who would buy the WiiU will buy that anyway. I predict that without massive changes to their policies, MS will get a thorough ****kicking this console generation. As it should be.

The proper moniker for the device is XBone as it bones any consumer using it. Which isn't surprising since the real clients that MS is attempting to cater to for this console are the publishers.

Anything above 160-192 VBR is nigh indistinguishible to the human ear. Unless you are intimately familiar with the track and using very high quality audio equipment, you would not be able to tell compressed from uncompressed, let alone the difference between 160 and 320.

Yup, that worked out so well in 1. Boston. Or that 2. schoolshooting. Or the 3. Batman shooting. Or the 4. New York sniper. Or the multitude of family dramas. Or the 5. schoolshootings. Etc. etc.It only looks like it helps the perpetrators. Or is that what you want? 1. Yes, because people are suggesting guns work against anonymous bombs. 2. Gun Free Zone that is a felony to ignore. Just like every other school shooting. 3. Oddly enough, he picked the ONLY movie theater that banned CC within a 40 mi radius of his house. And no it was not the closest or biggest movie theater nearby either. 4. Do you mean DC snipers? Correct, it wouldn't have. Of course, the casualty count of the DC snipers was correspondingly low. 5. See number 2 As for family dramas, if one excludes black people from both the victim list and perpetrator list, the murder rate in the US is cut in half. And that's only removing 11-12% of the population And yes, race, or to be truly specific culture as it applies only to urban black populaitons when you bore down into the numbers, holds a much stronger correlation than income or pop. density.

I am frequent visitor of d20pfsrd website, and I have it opened on my notebook during our sessions as well, fastest method to search for some rules, when none of us is realy sure about some rules we need to incorporate into the game What kind of gamemastery cards are most helpful or you are people using for easier flow of the adventures? The only cards that are REALLY helpful are the condition cards. Buffs tend to stay the same outside of a few specific builds and so aren't that difficult to remember. Whereas if you get slapped with 3-5 conditions in a row it's a pain in the ass to keep track of. Not to mention the variety. Crit decks are just flavor, and the fumble deck is much more dangerous to your players than the monsters.

Be glad you're running PF. The special attack rules, ESPECIALLY grappling, were horrendously complicated in 3.5. They managed to simplify them quite a bit. Also, these condition cards are VERY useful if you have players/enemies that constantly cause debuffs and or grappling. Also the flowchart here is useful in case of a player who grapples constantly. Hell, that whole website's useful.

Soo, apparently I'm not allowed to edit older posts. Annoying. Anyway, one more thing I'd like to add about Kingmaker is from what I've seen as a player either players will plan properly for their cities/kingdom and have no trouble running it(By the time we hit a dukedom all our rolls were roll 1 or succeed) or they will be perpetually bankrupt.

Yeah, that could be a problem. Definitely stick with Rise or Council then. As for SD http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2jmsh?Second-Darkness-Conversions-to-Pathfinder That has all the enemies converted. I'm not entirely sure how balanced everything is since I've only played the first 2 books in 3.5. The problem with kingmaker is that there is a LOT of time you're sitting around running the city and kingdom, especially between books 2 and 3. It took us 3 play sessions to go from one to the other and even then we fudged a lot of the process as 2 of our cities are carbon copies of our capital city. Not to mention it's ridiculously broken in terms of wealth by level as per the rules unless your players are mature enough not withdraw 1-4000gp every month(I gamed it in my head for ****s and giggles and once you hit the 4th or 5th kingdom level you can do so without any real penalty by building at least one house in every city every month) and there are at minimum 3 years of kingdom building between books 2 and 3.

The 'whole point' of steam is to allow you to have everything under one canopy? Not to, for example, make GabeN money? The original purpose of Steam was to give Valve it's own publishing outlet and allow them to further lock down the multiplayer servers with VAC2 to help prevent cheaters. Half Life on the old PB setup had more cheaters than XBL has foul-mouthed 10 year olds and VAC1 was pretty faulty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02IjuxJS90k Last three songs in my youtube playlist Last song is Halestorm's Love Bites.

I regularly make pig candy* for a snack, so no, it is not excessive. It is, in fact, ****ing awesome. and the ONLY reason anyone needs to go there is "Because **** You, That's Why". * Although I tend to add more than just cayenne pepper. Specifically a bit of cinnamon and crushed red pepper.

Rise, Council, and Second Darkness are all balanced runs that are easy to do. Kingmaker REQUIRES at least 2 players who like to play with the pen and paper equivalent of spreadsheets and are very good at doing basic math quickly in their head. Also is RP heavy unless you want to run it as a dungeon crawl especially as you get into the later books. Assuming you can do that it's loads of fun though.

You do realize that none of the shotgun pellets stayed IN the watermelon right? The fact that it splits has to do with the nature of the rind and flesh, nothing else. Both an AR with ball ammo and a shotgun with #00 are unlikely to overpenetrate unless at point blank range.

You're right, any ol' retard can get a Law degree from Syracuse University. All you're doing is making immature ad hominem attacks on a person so you don't have to actually argue your position with reason, logic or evidence. You'd get a big fat 'F' in a debate or philosophy class for this assignment. This is Fox News-caliber posting. This is the same person who plagarized 5 papers and then came up with the excuse that he was unaware of the proper rules of citation(given that he was in the graduate program at this point that was unlikely). Not to mention I made no case that he was always retarded, just that he pretty currently hits the requirements. Also, landing in the bottom 5th percentile in both undergrad and graduate programs with the grad program being a 3rd tier law school ain't exactly spectacular.

And you would be wrong about him not having kids. Just like you were about ease of use. Moreover, with the higher difficulty in aiming, along with the much higher difficulty of reacquiring the target given the vastly larger recoil(we were talking about women shooters remember), you'd better hope for damn sure that first shot don't miss, whereas with the AR you could have 4-5 rounds downrange by the time you shoot round number 2 from the shotgun. Also, people are not watermelons. Not to mention that was shooting 3" slugs and #000 buckshot which are the ****ing poster children of overpenetration and recoil when it comes to shotguns. Not #00 buckshot or bird shot.

Yeah you right, except for the fact that throughout the world strict gun control laws has reduced massacres. But you right, lets not look at evidence and rather make incorrect and controversial comments The only place such a trend exists is within the Australian data subset. Which is an OUTLIER, and therefore statistically irrelevant. But to own a car you still need to register it. And to be allowed to use one you must be properly trained in its use and maintain a license and insurance in case of its misuse. And some vehicles of high enough power levels that using them for normal uses is ridiculous are not allowed on the road. Guns should be treated similarly. No you don't. You only need to register it if you drive it on public roads, otherwise you can own any kind of vehicle you desire. I would LOVE for gun laws to be made equivalent to automobile laws. It would be AWESOME. And you have exactly zero data to back that up. Outside of a short barreled rifled shotgun firing buckshot(the effects of centripedal force on the wad are fun), the spread pattern of a shotgun is not large. Maybe if you live in a house with a room the size of an olympic swimming pool you get a basketball sized shot pattern. But for normal houses, the maximum size will be a softball. Meanwhile the average shotgun(not talking about newer models like the KSG) is both heavier than the average AR, and much more unbalanced towards the barrel, along with MUCH greater recoil, which means more difficulty acquiring or switching targets. However, to give the perspective of someone who has metric ****tons of more experience with both than either of us, along with training PLENTY of newbies. http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/carbine-vs-shotgun-vs-pistol-for-home-defense/ Of course, I suppose that if you are talking a Saiga 12 the difference between shotgun and carbine is minimal. But since you don't like "assault weapons", the Saiga would probably make you **** your pants.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWpIXPqdJqY Dubba barrel shotgun solves all your problems, especially if you discharge it into the air when you don't see anybody. Of course, doing so is illegal in both his home state of delaware as well as many other states, but I can understand why he doesn't understand that's a problem as I'm sure he and the cops would come to some kind of understanding. Not to mention his utter bull**** where he claims that it is easier to handle than an AR-15 which, besides being as misogynist as ****, is asinine. Not only is the AR-15 lighter but it has a ****load less recoil. And since women have no problems operating the controls in a car, issues with spacial awareness notwithstanding, I somehow doubt the 4 controls on an AR-15 are going to be too complex. Then of course there's his own flipping admission that an AWB won't do anything.

Alternatively just use the phoenix unpacker program on PE, find a hacked .exe and run it. Pretty sure Obsidian doesn't care, as long as you buy the actual game, HOW you run it.

Between 1934 and 1986 there were a grand total of 3 crimes committed with registered full-auto weapons. 2 of those crimes were committed by LEOs who could have easily gotten access to similar weapons through their jobs. The law banning all full-auto weapons made after 1986 was an amendment slipped into a pro-gun bill as a poison pill, and was never properly voted upon. Instead it was 'deemed' passed contrary to the apparent voice vote by that rat****ing son of a bitch Charles Rangel.

Phhhbt. Silly human, everyone knows dwarves are all male and reproduce through mitosis.

There's also the fact that the Yakuza itself frowns upon gun trafficking. When the major crime organizations of a relatively xenophobic island nation are completely in sync with the law, there is not going to be an overlarge black market in the product in question.

Aww cmon, they should get him to do at least one romance. That way on my third playthough I'll have a delightfully twisted relationship to go through.