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This conversation has been had before on this forum. In a truly free nation people have the right to associate with whom they wish, and to not associate with whomever they don't want to, for whatever reason under the sun they might have, good or bad. The law itself is a reaction to other laws and lawsuits, that for the most part are draconian, in some cases unconstitutional, and in some cases (if not most or all) reactive laws themselves. (Reactive laws generally suck all around). In reality, people are denied service in various businesses and organizations all the time for all sorts of reasons. There generally is absolutely nothing wrong with that, in a free nation. But yea... a helluva lot of hullabaloo about not much at all. Oh, and as an aside. The NCAA is a ****wit of an organization.

Barry was before my time. But hes probably the only man of any prominence in politics after World War 2 that might have my vote for President.

It's one hour. And here's my vote to have the limit removed.

Dags certainly wasn't talking about where I live, or where a lot of other people live.

On topic: In short, the controversy is more than likely a helluva lot of hullabaloo about not that much, if anything substantial or reasonable. Red herring, smokescreen, distraction, possible culture subversion, what have you. In the grand scheme of things it's likely not all that important, but it tugs at the emotional strings of the not very well informed populace with attention spans not much greater than rabbits on crack. The overwhelming vast majority of which probably has never actually read the law, yet they have strong emotional thoughts on it. Such is the way of the cracked rabb... errr shee... erm... average pop cultured Joe. Link the actual law rather than some 'news' articles about it and perhaps we can have an informed discussion.

Damnit General! You missed the SJW event of the year (so far) yesterday. Without your lead, the SWJs didnt fare so well.

I have not used this myself, so I don't know if it works 100% or not, but here's a an editor for PoE that you might be able to use to do what you're looking to do.

Obsidian has pledged that there will be no DLCs, and thank everyone's favorite deity for that. Paradox of course would DLC like mad, nickle and diming PoE players as much as they could. Fortunately they are not in charge of development. By all that is holy, hopefully they never will be.

Because there's just too much good music about Trannies, and all of these people would be cool with the headstone.

Divine would have been cool with the headstone, so would Dr. Frank N. Furter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNPaMloebRM

Armed Trannies Attack The NSA Headline of the year so far methinks.

There you go. Dissenting opinions will not be tolerated. And since you can't block selectively you are not interested in anything said by anyone on any topic if you don't agree with their politics. Good job. He may never see this, since he 'promptly put them on ignore/block/whatever' (where them = Ron Paul fanboys). Considering I've never seen a Ron Paul fanboy on this forum, I imagine he must be talking about yourself, myself, and the few other folks who ever said they liked Ron as a candidate on this forum. Apparently liking someone as a candidate makes you a fanboy in his mind. I wouldn't sweat it, as his is a very misinformed and deluded mind. Most troll minds are.

I am certainly one of them. Overall, I am enjoying the game quite a bit. With some significant modding, this game might turn out to be most everything I hoped for. Is it worthy of Metacritic's score of 92? Not to me, and I have quite a few reasons to say so. Regardless, it's still a very solid game. I still haven't made it past the character creation process. I despise a set number of points to assign, as opposed to rolling attributes. I attempt to get over that as I have in other games, and I choke on what some of the attributes actually are used for. I can't make the character I'd like to make, so I'm waiting for a new inspiration on a character idea that will fit the PoE's character creation process. Hasn't happened yet, likely will eventually, but it's possible it might not.

Is it? I'm curious as to why you say that? I backed that game as well at the physical goods tier. But haven't followed the development much at all after following the development of PoE and being disappointed with so many of Josh's decisions.

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/70586-update-90-shipping-and-strategy-guide/ The decided to ship the disks later. Bad move imo, but it is what it is.

I second this opinion - start with BG1 (EE is fine, and easier to just play). Low levels and exploring the wilderness are the things that make BG1 great. The replayability is nothing short of extreme. PoE is more modern and will frustrate you less tho - I'm wearing rose-tinted glasses for BG1, of course. I haven't finished PoE or even got halfway, so I can't make proper comparisons, but the voice acted throwaway remarks of the BG1 characters are the best I have ever heard in any RPG, even though they are repeated, they are still genius. You will LOVE those characters (hint - good party : Minsc, evil party : Montaron and Shar-teel). I might make some sort of artwork out of the original (5) BG1 CDs now I've got EE... So many good characters in these games. No other games come close, in my experience. My personal favorites are probably Minsc and Xzar. "I know dragons with feet like rabbits, 'tis true I swear!" Also, it should be said, that the consensus amongst those who've played the EE and the original with mods is that the original with the mods is better (as I suggested above). One could start with BG2 as some have suggested, but doing so robs one of much of the greater storyline and one hell of a great game on it's own. Also, BG2 is not a vast improvement over the first, unless you really prefer higher level gameplay. Insofar as the gameplay improvements, just about all that there are to be had are available in BG1 with the mods (that make use of the BG2 engine; not to mention there really weren't that many improvements necessary as BG1 was a very solid game).

You've been able to kill children in various video games since the 80s (maybe 70s, but I can't think of a 70s game that had kids in it at all at the moment). That said, you're either a legitimate sicko or a troll. Either way, please go away.

Play Baldur's Gate (unenhanced) then it's sequel. I recommend installing a few mods for the best experience. Dan Simpson's FAQ/Walkthrough has a section on the 'modern Baldur's Gate installation' that will give you instructions on how to mod it as well as recommend some of the better mods. It's been a few years since I've played and the Simpson's guide might be slightly dated at this point (I know mods have been updated), but the best game experience by far is the original unenhanced BG1 (with Tales of the Sword Coast) into BG2 (with The Throne of Bhaal) with a few of the mods Simpson recommends enabled.

A thing about negative reviews in general. Is that the people who don't like something generally don't want to invest the time to explain why to the very people who made that something, as those folks generally do not perceive what's wrong with that something to begin with. Like a serious romantic relationship, most people don't want to hang out and discuss why they broke up with someone after they broke up with them. The time to fix whatever was before the breakup, and often plenty of attempts are made to get through to the other person before the break up. Eventually people give up, and break up. The best time to fix whatever in regards to PoE was during development, and there was a great deal of 'Hey Devs, this isn't a good idea' on this forum.

Can I?

Yeah... about that. DRM Free isn't such a big sales pitch any more. Just look Paradox's own games. Their most popular title, Crusader Kings 2 was initially only planned for Steam. A loud minority convinced them to put money into a DRM-Free version through Gamersgate. Want to take a guess at how many copies that sold? Single Digit - The lower half. It didn't even begin to cover the costs of having someone work on a port for every patch. So what did Paradox do? They went full Steam only - And proceeded to implement Steamworks' Multiplayer API which has made Multiplayer games more stable than ever. Having played Paradox games extensively in multiplayer, both before they went Steam only and after, I can say that it is entirely a myth that Steamworks has made their multiplayer games more stable. Also, in regards to how big a sales pitch you think 'DRM-Free' is. That depends on a number of factors, but put simply it depends a lot on who you're marketing to. In the case of PoE, most indicators are that there's about a 50/50 split between those on this forum who wanted Steam vs. gog. Even if it was 95/5, that's still a very significant number when you're selling hundreds of thousands of copies or more. Insofar as Paradox... well... I'll let that lie as it's a debate not worth getting into here, but sure, believe what you said is the whole story if you wish.

Then feel free to stop reading the thread. You have no ownership of this thread and the world doesn't revolve around you. That said, yea... it blows all sorts of bad stuff that you can't get a non-steam retail version of the game. With Paradox being in charge (they have a heavy Steam fetish these last couple years) though, that's to be expected.

Indeed. If there was a tombstone saying something along the lines of 'Here lies so and so, we tortured and then burnt him to a crisp because he had X skin, let that be warnin to yee skin X folks to turn back now' no one in their right mind should be offended. It's a fictional world. It's rated as a 'mature' game, not a kids game. Grow up yee folks who are finding offense, grow up. Please.

Pretty much just allude to anything even remotely to do with trans-anything in any manner other than saying it's awesome/good/fine, and some folks will go out their way to be insulted and accuse others of 'transphobia'. The really bad thing is that we've reached a point in our society where such asinine things are not only given an ear, but rule the day. Yes, but in this limerick, the dude kill's himself because he got laid! Think about this! He obviously enjoyed this act sufficiently, otherwise there'd be no "reason" to be ashamed (from his perspective!). Instead of changing his mind, be kills himself. How does this reflect badly on trans and not on intolerant people. Also the extremists' demand "KILL ALL MEN" seem very d'accord with this limerick to me... See... here's a big thing. I never would have assumed that the limerick says the guy got laid. Nor would I even have ever assumed that the 'woman who turned out to be a man' was a transanything. Frankly, I wouldn't have put a ton of thought into it as it's pretty ambiguous and there are a number of possibilities. As others have mentioned, it could have been a drunk guy who mistook the identify of someone, it could be a not so smart guy who fell in love with what he thought was a girl (those are my first thoughts), the hero could refer to hum being good in bed, or just an adventuring hero, and so on. The possible interpretations are potentially endless. At no point does it definitively say anyone had sex, is/was a transanything, or that anyone enjoyed anything. One has to make assumptions and take words to mean things they don't to say so. "Firedorn Lightbringer Here lies Firedorn, a hero in bed He once was alive and now he's dead The last woman be bedded, turned out a man and crying in shame, of a cliff he ran"