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  1. The usual explanation for something being where it logically shouldn't on a non digital camera is double exposure. I think that's supposed to be clear sky, and the log an alien ship.
  2. There seems to be a theory that they are optical illusions created by the earth's magnetic field.
  3. The honor killing thing is a middle eastern and Asian tradition, and throwing acid as a form of vengeance or punishment is mostly found in India. I hope we can acknowledge these things without worrying about appearing racist. Surely one does not need to explain that not every Asian or Afghan tosses around acid whenever he gets pissed.
  4. What is it with throwing acid. Indians throw car battery acid around rather generously as well, on cheating wives and such. It's a sick ****ing world we live in.
  5. He is the only source of alien power cells once you run out. Well there's one other spot guarded by enclave, can't find it on my second playthrough though.
  6. ...and only savages and smelly euros burn coal anyway, we swedes have our hydroplants and maybe an nuclear or two on the border towards denmark (which we intentionally keep in poor condition to keep the smelly danes on their toes) The Baresebek plant was closed wasn't it. Anyway was sort of a recurring nightmare from my childhood that the bloody Swedes would screw up and send radioactive clouds over Copenhagen.
  7. My dad told me he saw one on his way home from giving a lecture once. He was in a cab at the time, and the driver chased it around for an hour trying to get closer, eventually it just disappeared. Supposedly a disk shape, right out of the UFO myths. Another person I know told me he had been visited by little green men at night, with a straight face and all. I believe that they believed they saw an alien ship. Hippies have active imaginations, and there seems to have been a dramatic drop off in sightings from the next generation on.
  8. The UN has some kind of deal on nuclear fuel making it much cheaper to buy than develop the technology on your own, and it's not that many places that have suitable isotopes as a natural resource anyway. I don't know what the potential for dirty bombs are with this, but I imagine it would constitute a security risk, and would have to have remote sensors and active monitoring to avoid it falling into the wrong hands. With nuclear power it's always the question of the lesser evil. It's certainly preferable to large scale coal or other organic fuels, provided you can keep the radiation out of the water supply. That's a real issue if you think a few decades ahead. There is no guarantee that there will always be an efficient organisation to monitor the status of spent nuclear fuel.
  9. I Believe the publishers are Atari.
  10. 'Toshiba says the reactor will make power available for as little as 5 cents' And the companies who invest in one will make sure consumers pay what they always have. The power industry has a long track record of cartels and underhand deals.
  11. What they use to power nuclear subs is about the size of a stove. I guess a little, well a lot, of extra lead is needed for the home environment.
  12. As I said, they had a plan to kill everyone in the tower.
  13. I mean a gritty rather than harmless atmosphere. The game is a bit overrepresented in cute and cuddly. Often you are the only mean bastard in the dialogues. is one of the few examples, the rest are merely comic, or have no purpose other than to shoot at you. Too bad I Killed whatshisface who wanted me to blow up megaton. Hearing him say 'misunderstanding' gave me the giggles, and reminded me of the 'the dark brotherhood' questline in Oblivion, same voice actor, exact same delivery. I do love the voice of president Eden though, Malcom McDowell aced that one.
  14. Yeah that was stupid, the ghouls clearly said they wanted to kill all the inhabitants. Tenpenny tower wanted to be rid of them. Lesser of two evils, since I could find no way to compromise or had too little in speech, was to kill the ghouls. Massacre avoided right, no, you get negative Karma.
  15. I found I had to uninstall the thing, knowing just how easy it is to start the game instead of the work I'm supposed to be doing. Anyway this is a step up for Bethesda. A few things I wanted to see but didn't. 1. A More adult approach, the 'all ages' idea leaves the game too sanitized and lacking in some areas, and no I'm not talking about porn. Take the silly super villain quests as a for instance. Yes the overall design of Fallout is cartoonish, but not the Walt Disney kind. 2. I don't know if this is a limitation of the engine, as to how many actors can be in play at once, but a proper city. New Reno size. 3. Less generic content. The DC metro and sewers are the same level 30 times over, it gets very repetitive. I can think of a few things to spruce the monotony up just off the top of my head. 4. More challenging combat. I suppose the non existent enemy AI is at fault here as well, would be nice to see them try to flank you or cut you off.
  16. I used to crawl around on the rooftops when I was little, a whole block of apartments had interconnected roofs and you could venture out there to do a full circuit. Plenty of treacherous climbs on the way. My mom never found out or I would have been in so much trouble. When vertigo hits you you it's like a terrifying mescaline trip that lasts 30 seconds. I guess high rise builders eventually just get immune.
  17. I started another game and I plan on seeing it through to the end of the main quest. The metro areas are a real hassle, the quest markers don't seem to work. Instead of pointing you in the right direction they tend to mislead you. So far getting around has been trial and error and ignoring the quest markers.
  18. No really, I always find it funny when presidents make a big deal out of running, while the secret service guys try very hard to look as exhausted as, whats the term, eagle one.
  19. No one is going to know beforehand how to pronounce 'Rekoyl' and 'Recoyle', or where to put stresses, seeing as how they are made up words. Might as well have a genuine Swedish word no one can pronounce.
  20. Doesn't he have a liver condition to worry about from when he pumped steroids as well as iron. The only muscle the president needs is the one between his shoulders.
  21. Yes unfortunately a big bureaucracy is needed for extended welfare, unless you are just going to write checks whenever someone says they need something, you need an army of case workers.
  22. Maybe it's so cool it doesn't even need a catchy name, the kinda thing where the insiders will just give each other knowing glances.
  23. Why do you guys worry so much about what it's going to sound like in English, have a little pride. It's not your fault you sound like demented fairies.
  24. Ohh, by the way they have Communists in Cuba and China. Socialism at gunpoint, not the best examples.
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