Gorgon

Whenever my boundless pessimism and skepticism regarding spirituality comes up as I'm talking with my friends, I am always berated with the knowitall phrase 'there is more between heaven and earth', and the smug bastards all fall over each other priding themselves on being more open minded than me. It's not like it takes any effort to believe in Santa, Jesus, Asmodeus or the tooth fairy, and they never qualify why it's better to jump to conclusions you can't support.

Virtue in brevity. I generally ignore posts that take up an entire page.

Wing Commander had Mark Hamil as the protagonist, or was he just commander hero.

Something drastically awful has happened. It's been days since I finished the game, and for some reason I have one of the Radio Free Wasteland songs on the brain. Bongo bongo bongo I don't wanna leave the Congo oh no no no no nooo.

Well there's EVE online I guess, if you are interested in a game that does on for ever, and ever, and ever, with no conclusion, emotional investment, or dramatic curve.

Anyway are we counting Fox News as part of the 'liberal media bias' now.

So is she your mother or not. She seems to suggest there was something between her and dad and you, and if you go to the Lincoln memorial and listen to a few project purity tapes before you head to Rivet City you get the dialouge option 'I have been doing some poking around'.. she will then tell you that she is really your mother, but other tapes point in another direction. Maybe an affair.. Also in the opening scene, doctor Li appears to be helping to deliver the baby.

I think it comes back to subjectivity, philosophy, the very definition of what is 'real'. We aren't a completely empirically based species. In response to what we can't explain, we make things up, then we perpetuate them through suggestion and tradition. How else could organized religion have survived this long. I can't help but notice how paranormal encounters always seem to happen to people who are already believers, logically enough since paranormal phenomena are part of their available solutions to unexplained phenomena. A skeptic would not be satisfied that an unexplained sound is indicative of a poltergeist after all.

I think I played freelancer 2, if there is such a thing. You shoot around in your little spaceship and trade goods, shoot pirates and such. The NPCs are dumber than Morrowind. Is that it.

Politics

You know this feels an awful lot like when John Kerry was transmogriffed into a waffle. People are stupid, and if you find a caricature that's good enough, it trumps political message every time.

Some weapons work better outside of VATS, most heavy weapons, and all mele weapons, because they consume too many action points. VATS is mostly for sneak shots and splattering heads over the ground, said sneak shots are vastly overpowered compared to anything else. It is NOT go anywhere any time though. The largest urban area has faulty maps and boulders blocking your path, you will be lucky just to guess the right path for your quest, much less go to a station you know where is, but haven't discovered.

I kinda missed chapters, although I suppose that was kinda hard to fit in the pip boy, and overall the 'quest journal' is thankfully free of lengthy prose, a much better solution. Although, to take a recent example, in The Witcher you knew there were 7 chapters and an epilogue, it was right there in the journal. I kinda like having an inkling of how far along I am.

The main quest though, feels like one half of a main quest. A tolerably good opening act that ends after what, 5 or 6 consecutive episodes. Stay away from it until you have had enough of exploring.

Well I finished the game,

Can't post mine, it's a somewhat naked woman.

Necroed

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.

There seems to be a theory that they are optical illusions created by the earth's magnetic field.

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.

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.

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.

...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.

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.

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.