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Clash of Clans on iOS. Its strangely addictive building up my village.

Good question. Maybe they will simply increase the Speech skill check requirement?

That was cool. Id never seen the end of DL before.

Isnt there a similar system already in place? Iirc, when you lose all your Health and "die", you wake back up with some "disability" that can only be rectified by going back to a rest spot.

Nothing too extreme. My wife won an all expenses paid trip from her work so airfare, hotel, food and alcohol were all covered. Night one was the House of Blues in Mandalay Bay, night two was Javier's in Aria, and night three was Jimmy Buffets Margaritaville, which by far was the most fun of the three. Good times and I even managed to get out of there only down $100 in gambling. Also took in a comedy show called Defending the Caveman, which was pretty hilarious.

Got back from Las Vegas last night. I was going to take today off too just to recover but I decided to come to work and save a day. Had a great time and managed to not lose too much money.

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Shockingly, you miss the point and create some silly example that cant possibly exist. If, somehow, only one party member takes damage during battles then yes, you can venture on. Meanwhile in reality, every party member is going to take damage every single battle and no, I don't think its a case of simply being "unlucky" that will quickly put the whole of your party in the above mentioned state. As always, a tl;dr response is appreciated. My backing of PE can be confirmed by observing the two badges under my avatar. I bought into PE while still excited about Obsidian creating a game (mostly) like the IE games of yore but before these special touches were announced. However, like PIP-Clownboy, I am excited about the stronghold. Also, I look forward to the story. I just hope I don't wind up shelving the game a few hours in because of the mechanics. And regardless of whether or not I like the final product, I do hope it is a success for Obsidian.

It baffles you that someone may like a game you don't? You have a very limited scope of understanding. Again, what Im not interested in are game mechanics that serve no purpose but to punish. Anyone that can read this quote and think "that sounds like great fun" baffle me: Your party members can be rendered useless after one "unlucky" fight, forcing you to go back to a rest spot. Awesome! Cant wait to see what happens to the squishy classes. Whats the point of that? Ill guess the response will be "tactics". Etc, etc...

Interesting topic and Ive been wondering if cRPG's are for me anymore. I play the hell out of aRPG's (I probably have close to 1000 hours invested across all my characters in D3) but when I read about PE I get really discouraged as, IMO, it sounds like total drek. I haven't liked a single mechanic so far and to me it seems like they threw out fun for the sake of "tactics". I am in no way interested in mechanics that are the same but with a twist to just to kick you in the junk. Meh, TBH, I don't think Ive liked a D&D system since 2.5E but Ive never tried Pathfinder or the like so maybe I would enjoy those systems. Ive got my fingers (and toes) crossed that Divinity turns out to be the game I was hoping PE would be.

Its a Steam Obsidian group made up from posters. Means something like Society of something Obsidian something something. Hope that helps. EDIT: Ninjad!

The $35 tier buys you the game and allows you to play at release. If you want Beta access, the minimum tier is $110.

I feel like Im missing the story. There was a string attached from his junk to his jacket, all to expose himself to some unsuspecting coat girl, while acting like it was an accident. What?

Happy Birthday KP!!!!

My main used to be Paladin but in PE they are simply buffbots so that sounds boring. Ill probably play my second choice of Wizard but the limited spell selection doesn't thrill me either. Meh, there isn't any one class that really excites me.

Sony’s game-streaming “PlayStation Now” service coming this summer.

I watched every single episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender and loved it but have somehow missed Avatar: The Legend of Korra. Was the latter any good? Any returning characters from Airbender?

Steam Controller impressions: A case of love-and-hate-at-first-sight.

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Its currently -13F (-42F with the wind chill) in the Chicaogoland area but at least there isn't any snow today. My wife won a trip to Vegas from her company and we leave next Sunday for four days. Shes never been there before and shes super excited to see the sights.

@Raithe: Why doesn't he just do it himself? I cant remember, is he bedridden too?

Weird that Divinity: Original Sin isn't a choice. That's got my top spot.

We have a system called Ipass to pay our tolls in IL. Its a little transponder that Velcro's to your windshield and when you pass under a toll it automatically deducts the fee. All tied to your credit card. Its a great system. And to encourage use, if you pay in cash the toll is almost double.

You don't have the PE Backer Badge yet. Have you completed the Pledge Management process?

Dig it.