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So you all agree that "abstinence only sex education" is a crime to teach in schools right? The parents can teach it if they want, but the government has a duty to teach about contraception. I had a rant about the flaws of the common uncompromising, anti-utilitarianism American form of libertarianism written up (including speculation on why it thrives only in America - likely due to a natural ally in conservative religious fundamentalism), but instead I'll just point out that by trying to ensure somebody has a 'right' to cram their religious dogma down the necks of impressionable children, in place of scientifically proven methods of STD prevention, aren't you in fact depriving all those children of the basic civil right to self-determination, choice? Or would you contend they are perhaps not mature enough to see the 'evils' of contraception and thus make an 'informed' decision? I'm sure that logic will protect them when they are off experimenting with sex, but have only abstinence education to protect them from STDs and pregnancy (oh wait, no it doesn't). Hey, perhaps we can play a game of scapegoat and blame the victim instead?

Grab shadow keeper and you can manually assign NPC's their old BG1 avatars easily. If you want IWD portraits you need to download them or BIFF extract them from IWD1's big archive file, then put them in the custom portrait folder for BG, I believe. As for IWD2 and PS:T... I believe they had different pixel sizes to the other games. Oh, you mean the moving avatars? From memory you can if you avoid dual-wield, which crashes... as to how you'd assign them I don't know. I guess shadowkeeper reads the Override files as well, so it would probably autodetect them and allow you to select them in the avatar list?

On topic, I hear people ranting about GTA's 'compelling' and 'driving' story. Could someone enlighten me how a game about sex with hookers, murdering people to steal their cars, and drug running could possibly have such elements?

Fair enough. I don't endorse using torrents for games, so I don't mean to come across as advocating such piracy. On the music/video industry I hold much more controversial views, however. Views which are unfortunately censored today due to fear of the RIAA, but will in the near future become the norm, as more and more artists and distributors recognise the benefits of pear to peer & online distribution, and the benefits of copyright openness in general (though some are as short-sighted as always). Just consider the success of things like Wikipedia, Firefox, Linux, OpenOffice, search engines and online mail, Google's myriad of free software especially Google Docs, Google's Cloud philosophy, the OLPC type projects (and open-source programs used to knock hundreds off the price), etc... Eek, before I officially derail this thread I shall cease posting in it.

Yeah, what's with the sucky item and avatar art in BG2? If it was just one thing - sucky tileset art, sucky portrait design, sucky item art, sucky avatar design... but it's ALL of them. They hired monkeys with a vein fetish to draw the portraits (especially apparent in NWN1). Flaming swords... hmm I wish Greywolf's sword had the flaming ice animation in BG1. I think I've modded it before to do that but meh.

And probably most of those are simply viruses and Trojans - yes, I distrust torrent and pirated things in general. lol. If you can't figure out which ones are obviously fakes (filesize, filename, user comments, seed vs peer ratio, release date) or you don't have a virus scanner, then you shouldn't be using P2P anyway.

hehe, my god... and i'm an atheist. it is patient, indeed. taks Are you one of the people who thinks socialism on any form and in any way is a bad thing?

Wretched lies.

I think Australia has a good balance of capitalism and socialism. I'm now sure how it is perceived from an international standpoint, but I frequently find myself and Australia to be more in line with the Scandinavian system than the American one.

I'd avoid beta mods Arkan. As for NPC mods, most of them either only last for BG2 (which makes them silent in ToB... pfft) or aren't very good. I hear Keto and Kelsey are decent...

Rubbish. You just don't have any answers to my questions. I've answered your questions plenty enough. More like you don't have anything constructive worth saying.

Actually, come to think of it, it's possible she thought he was a normal human when she was beating him (probably her twisted way of trying to show him how to 'turn off' pain) but then realised in the beating somehow that he wasn't human, as she says "no, I was wrong... this isn't what you need". She can sense the final five after all, so likely something triggered and she detected Saul was one. I hope. They better hurry up and reveal the final five to SOMEBODY... they killed Cally so she doesn't count.

We're talking about Baltar, not Saul. But yeah Saul will probably root her, knowing this show.

So bitter, N'Al.

As an aside to our little mod discussion in the other thread: NWN is one of the only games where I've been able to truly enjoy the good mods as there is no question how well they mesh with the original game, as they don't need to, they are their own game. It was also the only actual roleplaying game that I've played online and enjoyed. Never played any mods, never played it online. =/ But Diablo 2 is sweet online

Oblivion was an awesome game. Truly a masterpiece of fiction and interactivity. I can only hope future games emulate it in every way, shape and form.

Haha yeah that scene was hilarious. He was a puppet! But it's not the first time she's done it. I believe she did it in season 1 or 2 as well. Not to mention the physical six in that same episode (season 1/2) seemed to be in on the virtual six's plans, and disappeared completely that same episode - no trace of her in the fleet.

Haha yeah I remember that. Things like that made that game ace. It wasn't who you could kill, it was how, when, why and in how many different ways.

Well, sure. After I'd bought the two X-packs. NWN1 was an engine without a game.

Well that sucks. I was exploring one of the wilderness areas and BAM, next thing I'm turned to stone and it is game over. I reloaded, grabbed the ghast (the one that wants to eat you) and he took out all the basilisks by himself, netting me about 20,000 experience in one go! He is seemingly immune to their damage.

Haha, yeah, I'd have to agree; NWN1 was the lowest point in Bioware's history.

Well as I said earlier, I think it's good writing to not have the final four act as one entity. Before they were Cylons they had little in common, so why expect them to suddenly work, think and feel in harmony now? It's good that Galen is depressed and apathetic, it's good that the power is going to Tory's head and her true colours are showing, it's good that Saul, as usual, is loyal to the fleet, it's good that Anders doesn't give a frak that he's a Cylon in the end because he still loves Kara (and because he's more of a passionate/intuitive than a logical/rationalising person). Further, it all helps show how human and individual they are, even as Cylons.

The trouble with your logic, Hurlshot, is that it only really applies to grade systems with a small number of possibilities. In reality, the systems used tend to be out of 20, 50 or 100, not 10. This allows for more detailed differentiation of somebody's work without causing them to be disheartened. This is further evident in Pixies' sarcasm above, where it would be ludicrous to only rarely assign an A. You again ask "why have the ten available at all?" but I answered that earlier, so I won't repeat it here. Oh, and if you feel that kids should be assigned 100% from time to time just to keep their hopes up, I'm afraid I strongly disagree. At some point in their schooling, probably mid high-school, they definitely need to learn that their work is rarely perfect and that there's always room for improvement. Because at university and in employment this will certainly be the case. Where I come from, 100% scores were rare as hell, but that only made us try harder, and it made a high score like 90 seem all the more noteworthy. I appreciate your attempts to think from the mind of a student in this regard, but I think your eventual conclusion is flawed.

You love 17 that much?

Maybe it's using the right-hand grip rule because it's faced with a difficult solenoid problem? You know... with its left hand.