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IMO, a seperate campaign is optimal because they wouldn't have to worry about narrative conflicts or balancing new items and higher levels in the OC.

I'll agree with that, and will argue that it is the best anti-mage weapon in the game, but I still find that it could be easily improved. As to NPCs, I think the "alignment corrections" component of the BG2fixpack does solve most of those issues, but I think having Carsomyr(and Purifier) gain the extra damage against all Evil targets would be optimal.

Well, I could take you to a couple of places where you would find that opinion pretty common...

Well it is a blasphemous opinion certainly. My problems with Carsomyr is that it (1)only gets a damage bonus against Chaotic Evil opponents when it should be getting it against all Evil foes, (2)isn't very utilitarian as most of it's abilities focus on spellcasters, and (3)like all two-handers, it is beat out by dual-wielding when not using GWW.

Had a very long Saturday night. Drank a lot of vodka and woke up in a place I didn't recognize while Pulp Fiction was playing while a cat staring at me.

Paladins>Magus(Fighter/Mage)>all other classes Shields are very underpowered in most games Dual-wielding is almost always OP'd, but isn't as cool as Two-Handed or Sword'n'Board In BG2, Carsomyr and Purifier were underpowered

In all honesty, I would prefer for them to assume a canon for the background story and just focus on making each individual game have the most reaction to PC actions, rather than worrying if a Warden dp'ed the slutty pirate and the bard chick with the horny elf dude or whether Hawke helped butch guard shag up her underling.

So is this thread going to get a facelift everytime it gets restarted?

I didn't know women with coke habits were that common there.

Hello chap, how's the weather? Now, let me introduce myself: I'm an emeny of man. You too? Sure are a lot of us these days. I don't suppose you happen to have wealth and taste?

In the frame shown, you look like you're about to piss yourself.

I find taking an occasional intellectual **** is good for the soul. I actually wrote that post as an addendum to yours - in support - not as any sort of retort. I (basically) agree with all of your statements...at least on this issue. "Opinion" news shows I, too, find incredibly unappealing. As if I needed any additional bias in my life by filtering it through more people who clearly have agendas, whether I am for them or not. I've pretty much given up on all TV news, except perhaps local news in very small doses. I like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in small doses, too, - primarily because they actually are pretty funny - but find that I can't really stomach watching them much, either. TV really just isn't my thing these days. @Valsuelm: No, I disagree. A person intrinsically, for no "absolute" - absolute in the sense of being completely reinforced by something else - decides that some things are right, and that some things are wrong. As an example, most people believe that murder is "wrong" - not all, but most. Why? Such a concept, the innate wrongness of killing, does not exist anywhere else in the animal kingdom, (not that its existence elsewhere would justify it, mind you). Yet most of us have decided that it is indeed wrong - evil, even. It is a fiction - a social construct - that we have completely made up, and one that most of us choose to follow. Any rationalization you could use to explain our belief in its "wrongness" is similarly unabsolute - such lines of thought are (at least to my knowledge) completely circular and recursive. What's even worse, I think, is that though most of us believe killing is wrong, many of us also believe that certain conditions can make it unwrong, whether intellectually (really thinking it's no longer wrong) or in actuality (still thinking it's wrong, but assigning no blame/consequences for it). Apply this principal to less extreme examples, where more people disagree with each other - abortion, as an amusing (to me, as it's still to do with "killing") example - and you find that such biases paint the lives of every single person. There's no [human] logical root to why we believe what we do, or value what we do, yet such beliefs and values still persist. Not that I think that's necessarily a bad thing. Humans would be very boring otherwise, I think. I think the only type of person that is intellectually unbiased is the person that completely lacks any sort of intellect - sapience - to begin with. And even then, only intellectually. There'd still be behavioral - as in, what we actually do - biases. Dang. I did it again. Oh, I got that you agreed with me there, I just like hearing myself talk. Consider my post am addendum to your addendum.

You're too kind... make it a gallon. You'll have to wait a few weeks, I'm running low on War and the supply of Famine I have isn't up to par.

Quickload isn't THAT expensive A real man takes death seriously, which I suppose makes it convenient that you're playing a fictional character.

Two, please. Pint or Quart, love?

Of course, everyone has their biases. It is impossible to get away from them. Even if you try your hardest to be perfectly objective, bias will show as you're going to focus on and analyze issues that you feel strongly about much more than those you feel less strongly about. I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with biases, as we probably wouldn't have theories or ideologies without them, but pretending you don't have them is intellectually dishonest. As to media, I would argue that Western media's largest bias is towards sensationalism, as they want as many viewers possible to make more money. I think what some people forget is that media is fundamentally a business and that their highest priority is to make money, so obviously they may provide more or less coverage on certain things if it benefits them. Bit of a tangent, but I believe the reason opinion shows, like FOX News and MSNBC prime time slots are so popular is because they provide the product of validation to viewers. I've always found those programs to be incredibly unappealing myself, and get some enjoyment out of watching them ridiculed in shows such as The Colbert Report. I find taking an occasional intellectual **** is good for the soul.

I agree about The Breakfast Club, but why Catcher in the Rye? So they go crazy and kill John Lennon?

If I may respond to this in a slightly more serious manner, I think one of the hardest things to come to grips with is that those who disagree with you aren't necessarily evil, ignorant and uninformed, stupid, or deluded. The realization that someone can disagree with you for reasons that are well-intentioned and thought out is a bitter pill to swallow, but is something that people benefit from understanding. I probably disagree with you on more than a few matters GD, but I won't insult you by implying that the reason you hold those differing beliefs is because you don't have all the facts or haven't thought things through or are a heartless bastard. Now on the two major parties in the US: I don't think it's much of a stretch to say that they're both ideologically Authoritarian Corporatists. They may attack personal freedoms from different angles and coddle big business in different manners, but they both do it just the same. I'll go back to cracking jokes and trolling now.

I think that deep down, way behind that veil of treachery, ambition and callousness, lies a girl that wishes nothing more than to marry a lumberjack, move to a little cottage in the mountains and have lots and lots of babies. Don't dissapoint me, Bioware! Most women have the secret desire to be ravished by a chaotic neutral barbarian.

The Apocalypse. Brought to you by everyone. Apocalypse Ice cream: Hellfire ice cream with brimstone swirls and chunks of Conquest, War, Famine, and Death. Best idea ever.

I second giving the classics a try love. I'd recommend playing BG2 first, but you might want to read up on gameplay a bit first. Playing BG1 does give you a bit more time to get used to the mechanics, but until you hit level 3 your party will die pretty often and resurrection is pretty expensive. Not to mention BG1 has a lot less action than BG2. In all cases, the games take a little getting used to but once you get into a game it's pretty hard to stop.

... I have a feeling that vegetable-flavored ice cream will take off any day now. We should have a Kickstarter.

Butthurt because PoE isn't exactly like BG2. I'd say the idea that a game isn't going to be fun because the ability to spend a few minutes before a fight casting buffs and the absence of death spells is a pretty strange argument, especially about a game no one but the devs have actually played yet. That would be pretty damn cool. But what about celery-flavored ice cream?

I took a year off to work after a series of bad things caused me a lot of financial grief. Recovered from it, but it was pretty hectic for a few months. What I'm torn about is that my current job pays $20 an hour, and that I have an offer from a large company we work very closely with for a $200,000 yearly position after I graduate with a BA. It's good money, but the 50+ hours I have to deal with is a bitch. I'm feeling kind of like that pic ShadySands posted(even though I'm only about 2 years older) and it's a bit depressing.