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What? No. Remove mob-kill EXP and you shut down grinding. Exploring is about finding new places, not new mobs to kill (and benefit from the XP that nets you). You still get loot, too. It's been explained before. Combat XP punishes players that do not wish to play combat-focused characters, in a genre that does not necessarily revolve around combat. It's unfair to non-grinders. edit: posted before reading Spider's post. He beat me to the punch. I can't stress enough how strongly I agree with this post. I really wish Obsidian would consider it but I don't think they give a damn considering how they've made XP work in Alpha Protocol.

I'm surprised there's no weed in this game. Well, that's one customer they've lost.

I would also like to know this. (& i hope tranqing people has a cool animation) Was that a mgs reference? (sorry, running on no sleep) good god get deus ex and get some proper gaming under your belt thanks, but no thanks.. just like an RPG, i chose my own path.. why judge? I can't believe you've never played Deus Ex and never plan to. Edit: In response to your post directly above this one - no one cares about your 'past'. We're just telling you that you're missing out on one of the best RPGs around and that you'd enjoy it immensely. If somebody did that to me I'd thank them!

By itself, that means very little. Just that people won't always follow the most charismatic leader, but that's hardly news. Except it's the norm here and I find little evidence to suggest it's all that different anywhere else (save the more undeveloped authoritarian states like Russia). You are not big on individual freedoms and tolerance, are you? I'm extremely big on freedoms and tolerance when they make sense and are worth it (e.g. free speech, secular society, sexual liberty, freedom of expression, drug decriminalisation/legalisation, etc). You, however, seem quite big on issues being black and white. "Oh, he supports compulsory voting, that must mean he wants to remove all freedoms". Way to go numbers. I'd prefer to keep my democracy as intact and efficient as possible than give people the right not to cop a $30 fine for not voting every 3 or 4 years. Invalid or defaced votes are not illegal so protesting is still perfectly possible if one is convinced it accomplishes something (about 5% of voters per election). But hey, continue on about how that's 'coercion' from the 'state' which will inevitably lead to totalitarianism or some rot like that. Australia's been doing fine on it for almost a century now, though. I imagine that, in your eyes, I am also a horrendous authoritarian socialist for supporting gun control or income tax.

Agreed. I can't help but wonder, though: is that a sad fact of life or merely a consequence of thought railroading and opinion manipulation? Stuff like censorship is actually conducive to widespread stupidification. It is through analysis that truth is uncovered. I think it comes down to most people not caring and/or blindly following someone more charismatic with whatever agenda, because it is easier. I think that's entirely cultural, if it's true at all. Charismatic isn't a word I'd use to describe Howard, Keating, Rudd, or Hawke, for example. In fact Rudd is probably one of the most boring and nerdy leaders Australia's had, and he also has the highest consistent approval rating of them all at about 65% favourable. I also think it's presumptive of you to assume that you are one of a privileged few who votes on issues rather than personality - I think you'll find in you're not so special. The don't vote? I am forever thankful for compulsory voting here.

Yep, it generally is. It's more of an illusion that society doesn't appreciate intelligence. And then there's always the stereotypical nerd who moans about how girls don't appreciate intelligence because he can't get any action. His logic is rather suspect there.

Some governments might. Most wouldn't. But then, that was hyperbole wasn't it?

I'm surprised anybody even knows about Lexx. It was pretty damn obscure.

Weed is annoyingly hard to get hold of at my new university.

I've read a few studies which contradict this, not least of all because the definition of intelligence is extremely mercurial and subjective. Still, it is a nice theory for the upper classes to dismissively shake their heads about. "Mark my words, we're becoming an idiocracy!"

What the ****. That's ****ing ridiculous.

What's wrong with that? What's wrong with maximising the good of multiple ideologies and minimising the bad? It's an equilibrium process - and because it's based on careful adjustments over time it's a lot more likely to be stable and successful. Why so cynical, n00b?

Q) Will the be Games For Windows? A) I ****ing hope not. Q) Will there be achievements in the PC version? A) I ****ing hope not.

Maybe nature is trying to do away with the normal human chromosome and something new is happening. Isn't that what evolution is about? Mutation and starting a new species... Most new species are evolutionary dead ends.

This is important to me too. I may not buy the game if you can't.

The entire basis of the capitalist system is that they don't make as much money as hours/effort put in. They make as little money as the arbitrary capitalist system figures it can give them, which has very little to do with actual effort. It's not arbitrary, and it is intimately tied to their effort and worth in the workplace, on a large scale. As long as you have strong labour laws and unions at least, like in Australia. Ultimately people in the capitalist system don't make the "free choice to work," since if they don't work, they will have no money, and cannot support themselves. Which is why you have universal healthcare and welfare for those who are unable to provide for themselves, so yes they do have the free choice to work or not. I'm no free market extremist. But heck, even if I was, it's not a terrible thing to require a person to earn at least their keep. Even Communism requires this.

People say, "force is required to implement communism." To that I ask, why? Why do you have to force people to work? They say, "well, because they won't work if they don't have to." But then you are left with the obvious question - why do they work in a capitalist society? Because they can, roughly, make as much money as hours/effort they put in, and because they enjoy the job. The first one can sometimes make up for lack of the last one, but either way they made a free choice to do that work. Clearly if they aren't making that free choice to work, then it's slavery.

Yeah, I'm the one with the "hurt sensibilities," not the one who compulsively posts "LoF is a troll!!! A TROLL I SAY!!!" as though it will accomplish anything more the twentieth time. It's just white noise, dude. My eyes literally glaze over it. Your eyes literally glaze over it so much you get angry and swear at me about it in a rant? Man, anybody would think LoF was your alt or something.

I don't know why you come into LoF's threads and **** them up with this all the time. It doesn't contribute anything, and it's really obnoxious. I make plenty of serious contributions to LoF's threads in response to the serious posters of this forum, but you need to pull the blindfold from over your eyes because LoF is quite clearly a troll mate. LoF's free to troll, and I'm free to call him out on his trolling. Now get over your hurt sensibilities.

Although Im all for cross-platform development, thats like saying "could you change my car into a helicopter?". (meaning you can do it, but youd have to throw away most of what you have and start over from scratch) Not really. Certainly not if you planned OpenGL support from the start. (Edit: which you acknowledge in a preceding post) If you rely on third-party packages and your engine is really just a wrapper for those than it might be a lot harder, but you've got other problems with your 'in-house' engine in that case.

Giants: Citizen Kabuto did it properly. Proper English cursing. "Oh BLOODY hell, Baz."

Going with the Marxist/Leninist roots, communism requires armed revolution. While Marx believed that eventually the concept of state would disappear, Lenin's viewpoint was a bit nebulous Huh. I'm pretty sure Marx saw communism as an end-state for society which would come about by revolution, but a peaceful one. Lenin diverged, certainly.

I don't know why people still reply to LoF.

Hope he gets life in gaol.