ManifestedISO

New word: underailment. Means two things, one, you're feeling sick, or two, the act of returning a thread to its OP. I have not played Dishonored, but I have played the balls out of Skyrim, and there is a new nexus mod that gives your Skyrim character the powers from Dishonored, including teleportation and slowing time. And the army of rats thing, too. Can be done by quest or console command. Now I kinda regret not buying DH for $10 on Steam ...

I think it's based more on how at the time the Mormon Prophet "discovered" those extra Commandments under his field and formed his wacky cult. That's how it was generally perceived by a lot of people of the time. One of those crazy nutjob things. Just like Scientology gets viewed by a lot of folks now. Not to have a crack at Mormons. I've known a few and they're quite devout and sincere in their belief and they generally don't try brainwashing and abusing folks in that manner. It's just that shift brought about by time. What society at large in one time frame perceives as a crazy, minor cult... Come back a few decades/centuries on and it's an expansive and non-crazy world religion. Just like Christianity after Constantine decided to back it... If it hadn't expanded into the Roman Empire's state religion and sank hooks into the political movers and shakers, would it have become what it has? One of the reasons its always hard to split religion and politics. Where influence and power goes... You are amazingly astute, for not having grown up in mormonism, unfortunately as I did. The power of money and politics is quite far-reaching in Salt Lake City, measured in millions and even billions, when considering all of their "holdings." The real tragedy, however, is the vast gulf between how the church actually started, and the history it tells the members. Oh, and the disintegration of families, from within and without, due to an unreal foundation.

Picked up a few bottles of local brewery Stone's collaboration with the awesome Wil Wheaton: Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout Sounds like an intriguing concoction: "an imperial stout brewed with pecans, wheat and rye, partially aged in bourbon barrels." I'm not much of a hops addict, but this might be how it starts, at 13% ABV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=axoBntixfm0

Awfully precarious bridge to the castle, there. If those big dragon things drop out of the sky, like in the trailer, I fear it will be impossible to reach the mutton and ale waiting in the grand hall beyond, to say nothing of the ravenous harem. Bring on the Inquisition!!

Oh balls, okay, thank you. Shoulda signed up for a text alert.

Ooh, may I slip in a slightly pedantic post-it here that makes no difference to anyone, anywhere. I didn't realize this until I read through that epic NSX forum thread a few years ago, but words like NASA are acronyms, where something like NWN is an initialism. Still waiting on Far Cry 3 to hit bottom price, so I loaded up my Xbox copy ... oh, man, is it muddy and weird. A 256MB frame buffer vs. 2GB is massive. Feeling pretty chuffed at the moment for putting together this PC just for P:E.

Oh man, it's anything but boring. A modern U.S. Navy aircraft carrier back in time at Pearl Harbor!? With Kirk Douglas? Awesome. No, I think time-travel as a device is uniquely interesting. Because it is practically impossible. the audience has to suspend more than disbelief. In fact, it's fun and easy to accept alternate laws of physics, where the arrow of time has two points and paradoxes are the phenomena that become impossible. Redundancy works beautifully, too, just as Spock and young Spock have discovered recently, so to speak.

Marines! OOH RAH! Full bayonet, too, man, what a show.

I weep for unloved manuals, languishing at retail stores, piled haphazardly and smash-stacked on top of each other with ripped sleeves, dog-eared corners, and no respect for the art.

No, you can play Tomb Raider in offline mode.

Use a controller, you'll be less frustrated, IMO. Or not. I enjoyed the cutscenes, mostly thanks to Camilla Luddington's impeccable voice.

Missed the low price for Far Cry, hopefully it gets pounded out onto a daily deal like Tomb Raider is now. It's hard work upgrading all my Xbox games.

In this summer of reversals, Square Enix just said they were wrong and will update the game.

^^ It says the PC would be 90% human ... I don't know what the proper ratio must be to qualify for cyborg-ness. The whole game concept sounds pretty solid, though, I like it. Well, except for the title. Who is Jason Schreier and how does he have access to design documents from inside Obsidian ...

I agree, this has turned into a top-shelf thread. Great to see interesting people behind the game I'm waiting desperately patiently for.

$17.49 on Amazon for the next three days, if you're a Yankee. I assume it's for a Steam download.

Just finished a novel by Alan Furst titled Dark Voyage ... historical fiction about a Dutch sailing captain in WW2. Well-written, but low on emotional payoff considering the setting and characters. Now I've gone back to the beginning of everything, Dragons of Autumn Twilight. I'll never not enjoy getting to know Tas, and Raistlin, and everyone in the Dragonlance universe. I'm hoping Sony's teaser announcement today has something to do with Dragonlance, 'cause I am a well of enthusiasm for things that will never be:

There is no better title in the world than Nightmare Engineer.

I've always wanted to know how video game software uses the architecture of different hardware systems ... How Video Games Use Architecture

What the ... not in 600 hours have I seen that character. I just had to look her up on the wiki and now I'm gonna go find her in real life. Or, I mean, the game. How cool, thanks.

Indeed, now I feel encouraged to buy a 3DS XL.

^^ No, not a fact.

And paying the meter before getting to play anything. Evidently initial system startup requires a one-time credit card verification.

So I went to a home in Rancho Santa Fe, here in San Diego County, walked through the doorway, looked left and saw a gold flagpole trophy. Turns out, it belongs to a Giant named Aubrey Huff. I was suitably impressed to see it in person, as well as with Aubrey's personality--he gave me a fist-bump, and I'm a nobody.

Oh, yes, I see it now. I opted to add-on a black Obsidian T-shirt, instead of the expansion pack. Probably because I knew I could always download the latter, but may never get a chance to own the former. See ... forgetting things can be like a free bonus when you remember them!