Everything posted by Gorgon
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Exercise
I'm not philosophically disinclined to hiking or biking, even tough hikes. It's an event. Torturing yourself with sit ups isn't.
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Exercise
I need a profound reason to move at more than a steady walking pace.
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World of Warcraft
Methinks the graphics engine looks a mite 1980s.
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The October Revolution, a History
The pictures are indeed very nice. Other than that it reads like a high school textbook.
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FO:NV
This is Vegas rigth, how about a gambling minigame. Also, a vintage motorcycle for a mount, or fast travel if the engine can't do it.
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What you did today
Now that's one helluva last request.
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Witcher 2 'leaked' video
I don't get the problem you guys had with alchemy. Basically you need a little bit of this and a little bit of that, then press the make potion button, presto potion created. If you pick up a little bit of everything lying around you won't hardly want for ingredients.
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Americans set to get standardised/universal healthcare
Drama queen !
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TV: Heroes
It not very good anymore. Accept it and move on.
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NWN2 and SOZ, five bucks each on Direct 2 Drive.
Maybe the plot wasn't very good, but I liked the areas.
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Need a drawing package
Not to say that photoshop is a better drawing program, it's not, and for people who aren't used to juggling 10 layers painter is maybe the better option, there are just a lot of things about it I don't like.
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Need a drawing package
Painter doesn't make it look more 'natural', it makes it look painterish rather than photoshoppy. Things like the pretty, and also recognizable, algorithms like water paining. If your work looks a certain way because you are using photoshop, you don't know what you are doing
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NWN2 and SOZ, five bucks each on Direct 2 Drive.
MotB is a quality game, you could say it restored my faith in Obsidian as RPG developers. I played both the others, but they didn't leave any lasting impressions.
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Money/Power vs. Appearance - Which is really the most shallow?
Looking healthy signifies good genes 'beauty' is a cultural and social construct entirely unrelated. Plenty of examples of beauty ideals that are unhealthy. One Another
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Need a drawing package
I dislike everything about the painter interface except how the zoom function works on the canvas. I couldn't find a single brush I could use without modification out of the millions there for the picking. On the other hand Photoshop does not allow you to save detail settings like brush opacity, only the basic shape, pressure, and movement dynamics, which means you have to start over again every bleedin' time you need a new one. Also I don't know what you mean by 'fake blurry', if anything looks fake it's all those gimmick brushes in painter. To top it all off each brush type is keyed to a specific 'canvas', the painter version of photoshop layers, and can't be used with other canvases without rasterising the entire file, destroying any option for later editing. A computer program is not a piece of paper, I'd call that a strength rather than a weakness. You can get a canvas with infinitely better resolution at your local art supply store, and a lot cheaper too.
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Americans set to get standardised/universal healthcare
If you are so concerned about your bank account how about the US cutting deep into defense spending. There is enough there to take from to include a tax break, and lets face it, it has never really been 'defence' spending since WW2, and with the cold war gone a direct threat to US soil seems entirely implausible. Why is such a large percent of BNP spent on defense not viewed as an attack on your freedom, and your wallets, in the same sense as UHC. I think it's a fair question.
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MMORPGs and the single gamer
That would be a pretty big download, I think. Amazingly it comes to only 324 kb.
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Americans set to get standardised/universal healthcare
I'm going to go with two Harvard Researchers over you, sorry. Doesn't really matter how accurate the number is, people should not be afraid to go to the hospital because of the bills. Shouldn't happen in a civilised country.
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MMORPGs and the single gamer
I tend to join ad hoc groups of people who are already there to play the mission rather than clans, rather I think the word is guilds*, I go alone if I don't trust people to stay the course or if the only people available are all capping asshats.
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What if Obama told politicians to **** off?
I have an inkling that being a successful repulblican in opposition depends a lot on portraying strong character, and of course you need to break through the wall of general boredom. The plebs respond well to direct language. Don't assume anything is spontaneous, there were cameras after all.
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Witcher 2 'leaked' video
I hope they keep the in-game cleavage and lose the postcards, they are just so indescribably stupid. Sex is fine, but does it have to be a minigame. At least it stops short of player input.
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Witcher 2 'leaked' video
I played the witcher all the way to the end, twice, doesn't happen often. I'll get excited when it comes out.
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What if Obama told politicians to **** off?
The gentleman duels with the saber. I mean it would be amusing but also over pretty fast with a MAC 10.
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There is no free speech in Finland
Free speech is great, it lets you distinguish idiots from the rest of society in no uncertain terms. A much greater benefit on the whole than the divisions that can be created with hate language. It should be theoretically possible for a white person to use the word **** for comic relief, I can't think of any instances where it actually was funny, but everything is circumstance, the words themselves aren't evil, it's the intent behind them that is important.
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Movies you have seen recently
On Kianu Reeves, he can be vulnerable and show emotion, it's just that for 90% of the parts he plays he doesn't need anything but his pokerface.