Gorgon

Like everybody was on the same page in Iraq, Yugoslavia etc.? Careful your hypocrisy counter is going over 9000 Russia didn't intervene in Iraq as far as I remember, as for Yugoslavia at one point Nato and Russian forces were close to shooting at oneanother, definately not a good idea to pretend to inteverne together while backing different factions. Russia doesn't have the military muscle to be pressing its case in Syria, not any more really, she's doing it out of pride, some sense of lost empire, you know like Britain in the Falklands.

I wonder, how many of the forces fighthing close to the border is comprised of PKK allied forces and how many are potential allies for Turkey. Seems to me there is a missed opportunity for Turkey to create stability by making long term alliances.

Russia probably needed to be taken down a notch and no one was killed so... They are probably going to be more realistic about their own capacity in the future. If there is going to be an intervention in Syria everybody, and by that I mean every forgein military power in theater, has to get on the same page first.

I probably should have gone with automatic weapons since you can make an automatic version of just about anything. They are rubbish at VATS, but VATS is kinda tedious in the long run anyway. If you don't chose automatics as the levels increase you will effectively be stuck with just the one weapon type. Gun mods and other perks can help, but it's never going to be as effective as the weapon skill you chose to develop fully.

Had to walk home yesterday because 'mysterious terrorists' meant that police closed down rail traffic while I was in the bloody train. Turned out to be nothing. I would rather walk home than be dead obviously, but can we not do the whole 'boy who called wolf' thing. Too many excitable people lacking in judgement after the Paris attacks.

If you are going to do the minutemen you need the local leader perk which doesn't do anything other than let you chain together workshops. Without it you won't be able to build anything in all those settlements you liberated. If you sink a lot of points into that perk you will get a respectable income out of your established settlements but it's not really worth it. Building could have been fun if not for all those artificial restrictions. My proposal would be the following : You set up base for the ability to rest and craft. There is no fast travel except to diamond city and to your current base. (maybe faction HQ as well) So your base(s) move with you as you travel further south. Your base may actually be attacked with you in it, so there will be a point to all the defenses you built. Caravans will stop if you have stayed in one place a long time. Quests can have a starting point there etc. There is no restriction on what you can build, only if you can use it effectively.

The revolutionary war stuff is a pain. Doesn't mix well with the setting at all. Fallout 3 had Lincoln, slavery and the civil war which is like a million times more interesting.

What are those in the background. Oils, acrylics. In my mind I will be able to flawlessly duplicate once I find out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHNwgcssiyM

How is he doing that with a paintbrush. The paper is wrong for inks or watercolour.

You can just park your companion at the entrance and do your stealth thing. Of course it kinda defeats the purpose, but what are you gonna do if you happen to be romancing a cyborg.

Borderlands 2 is that where I remember it from ? What's the name of that app that will recognise a song from a small sample.

My google skills are failing me. I've been trying to find the soundtrack (not the radio, the background music when you are creeping around the wasteland) Some of it is original and there is a sortof bladerunnery keyboard score I think I've heard before. It's location specific I think. Can you dig any of that out of a folder and convert it ?.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iStPoCGzayc

So did he had a bunch of sex while he was HIV positve and didn't say. It says a prostitute took pictures of the meds and proceded to blackmail him. Was just she there for conversation ?. If that's the case he's a complete A-hole.

It's interesting that he would invoke the EU rather than NATO. Probably has something to do with what the US would do. There is no political will for ground troops in the US, but there is a growing sense that that's what it's going to take in Europe so if he invoked the NATO clause, as think Bush did after 9/11, he would force the matter and maybe damage relations.

Kinda dumb when the dialouge wheel is so vauge you have no idea what you are chosing.

No, just two corpses. Woman blew herself up in he raid, man was killed by police.

French police just got two more lunatics before they could cause any harm. I'd say that's a win, maybe it's 4 pages back I can't keep tracl of this thread, Anyway good on them.

It's been hard to pull off because the companion AI is terrible for select companions. They will pretty much always give your position away. Not so terrible if you can use the distraction to creep up behind the opposition, but it makes the grenade trick hard.

I dunno about that. Take Darksouls for instance, there's hundreds (well lots) of unique bosses. I do think Witcher started to suffer from repetition in that area after a while. I liked the boss fight with the crones a lot. More of that kind of structured encounter would have been nice. Yes, finding a way to keep the low level rabble viabile as well would be good. Every enemy or group should present a challenge.

The problems all stem from the more or less broken level implementation. Level restrictions for gear is silly. RPGs have evolved beyond that. Instead use skills to improve the effectivness of gear. Monsters shouldn't scale so litterally. A vl 1 drowner is the same as a lv 50 drowner except for stats ?. No, a drowner should more or less be a drowner. Make the challenge look like it's level. No lv 50 mudcrabs and no lv 5 warewolfs. Scale all the quests of lower level than you so the difficulty remains constant for all the content you missed out on. Make the challenge less about the stats on your sword and armor and more gameplay oriented. Progression should be a gradual sense that you are able to take on harder enemies.

People often say things like 'freedom of speech is not a license to slander'. It seems to me they have missed the point. Providing you chose your words carefully enough to avoid a lawsuit, that's exactly what it is. The consequence is that you take the good with the bad. That means putting up with KKK and Nazis marching in the streets and knowing that if there is room for them there will always be room for you to express yourself freely. It's actually quite a beautiful thing. You know the whole 'I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it'. I though that was Voltare but google says it's from a book about him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall

It was pretty fatally bugged. Besides now where VATS is actually aware of where the target is after the initiat shot it would likely result in even more suicides. It would still be treating indirect AOE fire as direct fire and enemies are moving in vats now. It's a problem that grenade throw can't be changed from the 'hold action' imput though. It's simply too slow. Add to that the close quaters FPS spawn system they are using now (I guess to keep things interesting while never rendering or handling more than 6 enemies at a time) It's excedingly rare to hit more than two targets with AOE attacks which kinda nerfs esplosives anyway. Maybe they should have gone with status effects (stun etc) or more damage to compensate. Haven't tried an explosives build but it seems unatractive.

Yes, if these Mosques are allowing Hate Speech then you need to close them down...harsh but fair I dunno, seems like if you go down that road there is no turning back. Use existing legislation rather than start demolishing buildings. They are already doing that in Israel, doesn't work.

Move bodies like in most Bethesda games. Hold interact and press again when ready to drop.