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Netanyahu is a fear mongering warmongering piece of fermented swine feces. On my list of evil leaders of nations, he's #1. May he lose the election, and then one day rot in Gehenna. That said, even if he loses, I'm sure he and those like him will remain powerful. Woe is the world that this is so. Baby steps I suppose.

The one thing I ever break out the character editor for with Baldur's Gate 2 is to give myself the XP I earned in Baldur's Gate 1 and Tales of the Sword Coast. I'll be doing the same I'm sure for this game's sequel should I play it and find myself with more XP going in than the game allows. XP caps are kinda stupid I think. Don't put that much XP in a game if you don't want people earning it.

Wow, so you don't know any gay people or many Russians....you haven't traveled far down the path of multiculturalism have you GD ? Meeting Russians or gay people has nothing to do with multiculturalism, General.

Happy St. Patty's Day!!! ^^^ Saw these guys in Phili some years back, one of the best live shows I've ever seen (and I've seen hundreds).

Evil bastards blocked the above in the US on 'copyright grounds'. May those bastards suffer testicular rot (no matter their gender). Here's a version that works in the U.S.:

You've apparently not been reading the forums much these last two years, nor have ever read rpgcodex.

I'm likely in the same boat for the same reasons. I'm holding off on exactly which boat I get into in regards to Obsidian's next kickstarter (if they have one) until I see the final product, but if the kickstarter were today, I'd likely be sitting it out (would have to see the pitch of course).

This. If Iran gets a nuke; they'll all want nukes. With all those bombs about, it won't be long until the wrong people get their hands on them. The wrong people have had their hands on nukes since day 1.

God I hope so on those sparkles. While I can appreciate sparkles in some contexts, sparkles on corpses or game loot in general is definitely not one of them. On the general subject of loot. IE games did it better than any other RPG games out there I've come across with the exceptions of the tedium one encountered in shops (simply allowing the buying of more than one item at a time would have gone a long way), and one might encounter when managing their inventory. For the latter an on toggle (meaning not always active) auto sort for the party as well as individual characters would have been all that was needed. But these were UI issues/improvements. Insofar as how the character interacted with loot in the game, and how loot appeared in the game it was done no better in any other RPG game I've seen . If what we have in PoE is glowing piles that all look the same (ala NWN2), this is the opposite of an improvement over what IE had. Edit: Divinity: Original Sin, seems to do it just as well as the IE games did, insofar as loot interaction and how it appears. Actually maybe even better as there seems to be even more differentiating in the way loot appears on the ground than even the IE games had, which would have been the direction expected Obsidian to go. Note that I'm only a few hours into D:OS so I may have an incomplete picture at this point.

Even if Iran never uses the nukes it could develop; Iran simply having them would pose a huge problem. Only if you're inclined to invade them, which some in the west are keen to do. Otherwise those nukes pose no more of a problem than those of anyone else.

A slider would be grand!

If the caffeine is your reason, I can't help you other than to suggest tea. But, I myself occasionally really crave that carbonated drink, but generally don't drink store bought soda as it's so bad for you for many different reasons. Here's two solutions if you want that carbonated thirst quencher without the excess corn syrup, chemicals, and other bad things. 1. Go and buy soda water (or seltzer, but I personally prefer soda water), get yourself some fruit (I personally prefer limes, but there's lots of alternatives), dice it up, and put it in the soda water for flavoring. It's an awesome alternative to any store bought soda in my opinion. 2. Make some homemade ginger ale. (Obviously this only applies if you like ginger ale). This stuff is awesome, but takes a bit of work. There's a number of recipes out there for this. You can buy the soda/seltzer water yourself or ferment it yourself, whichever you prefer. I myself prefer just buying the soda water. Here's the closest thing to the recipe I use. Again, this is awesome, and is my preferred soda by far, and real ginger is actually very healthy for you (the vast majority of store bought ginger ales have absolutely no real ginger in them). I usually go with #1 as it's a lot less work (peeling and dicing the ginger is the hardest part of #2), but highly recommend both.

It certainly mattered who you played with as well as the encounter. The better GMs I've played with rarely just said 'here you go' after an encounter was over. With the better GMs I've played with encounters weren't always over when players thought they were. Regardless, the complaints are valid. This thread is like so many others on so many gaming boards, in part valid complaint, in part a bunch of people trying to invalidate the complaint. If you don't see the problem, that's cool. Others do. None of them are saying you should be stuck with their preference. What is being asked for is an option so they don't have to be stuck with yours. Also, I'm pretty sure most here who aren't happy about this are not considering it in a vacuum. A number of fundamental things have been done that are 'new school' as opposed to the 'old school' that the kickstarter said we'd have. If you like them, good for you. Some of us are not happy with some of the departures from what made the IE games what they were. In most cases, taken by themselves they aren't that big a deal, but taken together they are (the biggest exception I know of (having not played the beta) is the lack of ammo for projectiles). The more changes from the IE engine the more the game is less like an IE game. While no doubt some backers don't care, or would even prefer this, it's pretty safe to say that a majority of those backers backed the game because they wanted that IE experience again. Will a petition change anything? I'd wager a lot no. Petitions almost never amount to anything. Moreover, the vast majority of backers are completely unaware it exists, and even if everyone did, most likely wouldn't be inclined to bother to partake in it, no matter what their position on the matter (reference the backer polls to see the low turnout relative to the number of backers out there). And of course Obsidian is under no obligation to even bother to read a petition, let alone implement what it wants.

Huh. If that's correct, then it's a bugged feature. As people appearing in italics is uncommon, whereas people posting is common, and I've never seen myself in italics.

Been wondering this for awhile. What does it mean when a person's name is in italics in the 'reading this forum' / 'reading this topic' section below?

The Germans generally were thinking no such thing. The Allied powers pretty much forced all of this at gun point, with the US and UK holding the most guns. The Germans had little voice in the matter. Banning a symbol, banning discussion of certain topics, etc is downright evil. One should question why this was done. It wasn't done for the superficial reasons you're thinking Bruce. In very short, it was done to make sure the narrative given by the Allied powers was accepted and not questioned. The phrase, 'the winners write the history books' is possibly never more aptly used than when WW2 is concerned. Sorry I don't believe that, I'm sure the majority of Germans realized by then that Nazism was a failed ideology and were glad it was over. So they weren't forced by the Allies to criminalize symbols like the Swastika, they wanted to do this as they wanted to start focusing on the future and didn't want certain reminders How about you actually go and read some history books. This isn't a matter of believing or not believing, this isn't a question of spirituality or faith, it's a matter or what happened or didn't. A great deal of this particular subject is written in numerous books, transcripts, interviews, etc. I realize your world view might be shaken, hence you ignore so much of what is in this world, past and present. Better to hold on to your mythology, than to objectively delve into the archives of what's what, or think past a superficial level. You suffer confirmation bias on a level I've rarely encountered in this world. So much so that even I have wondered if you're nothing more than a troll as others here have asserted. Objectivity is seemingly anathema to you in regards to so much you ever discuss. The truth is, that in post WW2 Germany you would be hard pressed to find a group of random Germans where the majority of them thought that Nazism was their #1 problem rather than the folks who were occupying their nation, bombed and killed ~8-10% of the population, and had started a war with them. This simple fact really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone with even the tiniest understanding of human nature, or even contentious. It makes oodles and oodles of sense if one thinks about it. But even today, a very large number of Germans (in particular those middle aged or older who either lived through it or got stories first hand from their parents as to what happened), would not agree with the idea that Nazis were their main problem. And even of those who thought Nazis were a problem, most people aren't stupid enough to think that banning a symbol or discussion of certain topics is the way to solve that problem or anything at all to do with any kind of freedom. As for Nazism being a failed ideology. Well... there's a lot to that ideology, as there is to nearly any political movement's ideology, and quite a lot of it is alive and well in the modern western world. Heck, almost all of it, both the good and bad parts. But I'd wager quite a lot that if you had a gun to your head you couldn't even say what much of that political ideology even entails, hence you thinking it's failed. Nevermind the fact that it didn't fail any more than the political ideology of any nation that's ever lost a war. War ended Nazism, the compete defeat of Germany by the Allied powers ended Nazism because those powers wanted it dead. Nazism didn't fail on it's own. In fact, prior to that war, it was doing amazingly well by most standards. You have a way of making your posts interesting, I generally always read them to the end But I can't agree or disagree with what you are saying because I don't know enough about the topic. WW2 have never been my strong point ( and I'll be honest I don't feel like researching it today ) so its probably best to wait for others who are versed in WW2 history to comment before we can confirm your posts accuracy There are a few major topics out there that one needs to bother to learn about in depth if one is to understand the hows, whats, and whys of this world we live in. World War 1, World War 2, what lead up to both, and what immediately followed both are among those topics. You would do well to spend a good deal of time learning about all of these topics at some point, rather than rely on what anyone, myself included, in this forum says. There is absolutely no way any person with a good amount of knowledge of these subjects could impart all of the pertinent knowledge to you in this forum. There is also very little way for you to know who knows what they are talking (both on and off this forum) about on any given subject without doing some research on your own.

The Germans generally were thinking no such thing. The Allied powers pretty much forced all of this at gun point, with the US and UK holding the most guns. The Germans had little voice in the matter. Banning a symbol, banning discussion of certain topics, etc is downright evil. One should question why this was done. It wasn't done for the superficial reasons you're thinking Bruce. In very short, it was done to make sure the narrative given by the Allied powers was accepted and not questioned. The phrase, 'the winners write the history books' is possibly never more aptly used than when WW2 is concerned. Sorry I don't believe that, I'm sure the majority of Germans realized by then that Nazism was a failed ideology and were glad it was over. So they weren't forced by the Allies to criminalize symbols like the Swastika, they wanted to do this as they wanted to start focusing on the future and didn't want certain reminders How about you actually go and read some history books. This isn't a matter of believing or not believing, this isn't a question of spirituality or faith, it's a matter or what happened or didn't. A great deal of this particular subject is written in numerous books, transcripts, interviews, etc. I realize your world view might be shaken, hence you ignore so much of what is in this world, past and present. Better to hold on to your mythology, than to objectively delve into the archives of what's what, or think past a superficial level. You suffer confirmation bias on a level I've rarely encountered in this world. So much so that even I have wondered if you're nothing more than a troll as others here have asserted. Objectivity is seemingly anathema to you in regards to so much you ever discuss. The truth is, that in post WW2 Germany you would be hard pressed to find a group of random Germans where the majority of them thought that Nazism was their #1 problem rather than the folks who were occupying their nation, bombed and killed ~8-10% of the population, and had started a war with them. This simple fact really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone with even the tiniest understanding of human nature, or even contentious. It makes oodles and oodles of sense if one thinks about it. But even today, a very large number of Germans (in particular those middle aged or older who either lived through it or got stories first hand from their parents as to what happened), would not agree with the idea that Nazis were their main problem. And even of those who thought Nazis were a problem, most people aren't stupid enough to think that banning a symbol or discussion of certain topics is the way to solve that problem or anything at all to do with any kind of freedom. As for Nazism being a failed ideology. Well... there's a lot to that ideology, as there is to nearly any political movement's ideology, and quite a lot of it is alive and well in the modern western world. Heck, almost all of it, both the good and bad parts. But I'd wager quite a lot that if you had a gun to your head you couldn't even say what much of that political ideology even entails, hence you thinking it's failed. Nevermind the fact that it didn't fail any more than the political ideology of any nation that's ever lost a war. War ended Nazism, the compete defeat of Germany by the Allied powers ended Nazism because those powers wanted it dead. Nazism didn't fail on it's own. In fact, prior to that war, it was doing amazingly well by most standards.

I very much agree with this. Both disillusioned young people and young people who just want to look cool by rebelling will take any chance they get to appear anti-establishment, giving real neo-Nazis the perfect hook to get their claws into young people. Of course, some people will just blame it on the gaming community. I have to disagree with what you guys are suggesting the Germans should have done after WW2. They weren't just dealing with a few hate groups that were more criminal than truly dangerous to the government or society They were dealing with a form of fascism that had really and utterly devastated there society, they weren't thinking of the future and how disillusioned members of the German society may regress back into it. They wanted to completely distance themselves from it and the NAZI swastika represented everything that was corrupted and dysfunctional from there society and history. They were right to ban it , sometimes you need to take perceived heavy steps to address issues The Germans generally were thinking no such thing. The Allied powers pretty much forced all of this at gun point, with the US and UK holding the most guns. The Germans had little voice in the matter. Banning a symbol, banning discussion of certain topics, etc is downright evil. One should question why this was done. It wasn't done for the superficial reasons you're thinking Bruce. In very short, it was done to make sure the narrative given by the Allied powers was accepted and not questioned. The phrase, 'the winners write the history books' is possibly never more aptly used than when WW2 is concerned.

Big thumbs down. An even bigger thumbs down if it's true that loot on the ground all looks the same (ie: NWN2), rather than actually appearing to be what it was (as was done in the IE games).

Because of my Migrants tread is closed i post answer here. Nope. These can't be because: 1. Jews are not ethnic Russians - word "Russian" can't be used as ethnic marker here. 2. These Jews who live in Murica are not citizens of Russia obviously - word "Russian" can't be used as citizenship marker here. As result we have quite strange situation when Muricans constantly spread hate against Russians, but in same time they use word "Russians" for marking of Jews, this is looks like masked antisemitism for me. You consistently go out of your way to insult the people of the U.S. and the U.S. itself on these forums. No one was going out of their way to insult Russia, or Russians. No one here was asserting that Jewish people and Russian people are one and the same. Most of your posts are nothing more than troll posts. You very rarely contribute intelligently to any discussion on these forums. I've little doubt you're capable of it, but you waste your time and ours with your trolling. Please stop, or take it elsewhere.

In German it's Köln. In English it's Cologne. I had thought you were using Dutch.

Should have just let this one slip off the front page without replying.

Gin > Zima > Bourbon

Please find and link here some of the the supposed plethora of times that the Iranian leaders said they were going to 'wipe Israel off the map'. Primary sources only, not some western hack journalist or politician making accusations. Good luck. And various politicians in the U.S. and Israel have been openly discussing attacking Iran for decades now. Bibi, being probably the most prominent and vocal one. Iran hasn't invaded anyone in generations (unless we actually want to count The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as a legitimate nation). It's been invaded multiple times in the last few generations, a few of those times by US allies or with US support, as well as had a US/UK sponsored coup overthrow it's government in 1953 to install their puppet Shah. Iran has a far more legitimate reason to be concerned about other nations invading it, than other nations have legitimate reason to be concerned that Iran will invade them. Also, it's high time that it's said in this thread that it's not 'Obama's treaty' as the article you link says. It's a treaty being drafted by the 'P5+1' along with Iran. It's no more 'Obama's treaty' than it is 'Putin's treaty' or 'Merkel's treaty'. A lot of people are involved in drafting it, and there's almost nothing but fictional BS being spouted in the mainstream media about it (such as blaming it on Obama). I suggest looking it up.

Personally, I think you appear more than a little naïve. Why would you think they are building nuclear weapons? When you have no proofs, who are you listening to? Mossad has said they do not have one. CIA has said they do not have one. Oh look, Guard Dog thinking he knows better than the Israeli and American intelligence services. Great job. Can you get it into your head that the same guys who are saying "Iran will have nukes in the next few years" have been saying so since the early nineties? They said "they don't have one now". That's not the same thing at all as saying they're not working on one. That's the same faulty logic you use throughout. They have vastly more centrifuges now then they did in early 90's. Their economy is all but collapsing. Why would they acquire so many centrifuges if they weren't trying to make a bomb? The same people were also saying N. Korea would get a nuke, and guess what, they were right. We're talking about ~70 year old technology at this point. If a nation wants nukes, they'll get their hands on some. North Korea's got nukes. Can't say I'm happy about it (I'd prefer no one had nukes), but it is what it is. The world hasn't ended. Worrying about Iran getting nukes is retarded and counter productive if one wants to not see them fly. The very fact that there's so much hostility in the west towards Iran (in particular from the US, UK, and Israel) with all of the rhetoric by various politicians calling for military action against Iran pretty much creates a situation where Iran would be wise to get their hands on nukes for self defense. Obviously just an opinion, but if I had to rank the nations in the world most likely to be the first fire off some nukes, here's the order I'd rank them (from most to least likely). 1. Israel 2. The U.S. 3. North Korea 4. One of the ex Soviet states *** 5. Iran, and pretty much everyone else And that's just a list based on nations who admit they have nuclear weapons or it's generally accepted by most that they have them. I've little doubt that there are other nations out there that have nuclear weapons already and just haven't advertised it (for most nations there is little benefit of advertising it).