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I played the elf mage origins, and I didn't bother picking any of the mage tower loot up simply because I thought having your possessions robbed or ending up in a dungeon was a common theme. lols. It was actually pretty good. I gave up on my dwarf fighter. Somehow he always ended up with massive injuries and was a level below everyone else from always being dead. When I tried to solo him a bit to catch up with the party XP wise he proved completely useless.

Anyone know what tactical slots are for ?. I noticed that they allowed more target priorities to be put in the AI script, pretty useless. They don't even allow you to queue spells or stills.

So far at least stealth is useless, whenever a stealthed scout moves ahead and sees something even moderately interesting a cut-scene triggers where the whole party wades in like they own the place. This is a particular annoyance NWN2 wasn't free of either. Just because NPCs have lines doesn't mean I have to listen to them. Leave a bloody journal on the corpse or something FFS.

I have to say the animation is quite substandard. Maybe you don't notice that as much when you get a full party and is more zoomed out to see the whole picture. The voice acting is quite laughable at times. I have restarted 3 times so far not clearing the tutorial level with either; The elf city person, the dwarf commoner, and human noble. I think I'll restart again as dwarf noble, as the commoner forced some undesirable skill choices like dual wielding. What does dwarf noble start with, shield skill or two hander ?

Got suckered into working when I wasn't supposed to. The lesson is to keep communication with the bosses to an absolute minimum.

Ok so I got the game kinda by chance, was supposed to meet someone who didn't show, so I went into a nearby blockbuster and it was on sale. Installing now. I'll be most displeased if I wont be able to outfit my dwarf with a proper beard.

If you believe it to be the solution to all society's ails you are kidding yourself though. When people talk of the great invisible benevolent hand of 'the market', I detect a tendency to regard the theories with a peculiar type of religious zeal. One *believes* wholeheartedly in the positive effects and regards any shortcomings as a result of someone (inevitably government) having violated the sanctity of the free movement of capital. Did someone mention Ayn Rand ?

Business isn't bad or good, it just is.

And the lesson is that it's better to do in 22 years what a municipal work crew could have done in a week

So, like 'are we there yet' ? How much work remains on the game.-

This is the breakthrough the development experts at the world bank have been waiting for.

I was referring to a figure from the Department of Labour statistics published a few months ago. I think the word was 'jobless rate'. I'm not sure if that's a different category. Looking at their site I couldn't find it, but honestly social science was a long time ago, I don't know what I'm looking for. The latest unemployment figures say 10.2 apparently.

5% is considered full employment by most economists, now because of the crisis the US rate is 20% last i checked, surprised me it was that bad. Anyway unemployment bennies has a limited run here too, after it runs out they shame you into looking for a job by forcing you to attend 35 hour a week 'courses' on this or that. Only those who really can't find work stay.

That's what living in a war zone does, can't surprise anyone. One can draw a direct connection between Coventry, which was almost completely destroyed in the blitz and The Ruhr.

I think people who feel strongly about it are more likely to vote, it seems the people who feel the strongest about this are those who believe in the 'muslim conspiracy'. With election participation 50-something percent, was it ?, it can't help but be problematic.

I'm just talking about legalization, which would drive the price down enough that druggies wouldn't need to steal, also quality control would mean a lot less overdoses and long term harmful effects. many of them would be able to hold down regular jobs. The data from trials backs me up on this. It would also restore some semblance of a life for the write-offs. Half their day is spend scrambling to steal or beg for the next fix, which is why they live on the streets and cant think more than a day ahead.

So, we need some kind of statistical compilation of Christian church building in Muslim countries correlated with average church building rates among ex-patriot communities.

Freeing drugs won't produce anarchy.

You don't know that. Besides I thought you Americans were in love with the concept of freedom. That's what this is.

Pure heroine or coke is a lot less dangerous long term than street stuff laced with who knows what, but sure yes, there are health implications. It's the balance sheet you have to consider, making drug lords and terrorists have to go look for real jobs, freeing up immeasurable police resources to go after real crimes.

drugs are only expensive because they are illegal

If they don't have to steal your **** to support their habit who cares what they do.

Yes.

You would think we would at least be able to maintain the illusion of religious freedom in Europe, but no, not in Switzerland. At least we are not the worst in Denmark which is comforting of sorts. Just recently a ban on Burkas was shot down in flames as the transparent cheap-shot it was.

If you believe that Hamas only fired a few dozen rockets then one of us has been grossly misinformed. Try hundreds if not thousands. In any event, can you imagine Britain firing a dozen rockets at France and there being zero comeback? Seriously? You are thinking of Hezbollah, and even they didn't fire thousands of rockets in one day. Although I don't know how relevant it is for LOF to talk about how much ordinance was fire on one day, I mean human beings have longer memories than houseflies.