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I thought salary meant you don't get overtime pay?

Well if you have kids, you get to learn what tired really is. I kid, I have more energy at 40 than I did at 30.

I got chosen in the lottery for the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon. So I will be jumping off a perfectly good ferry and swimming across the bay in June.

They aren't using randomly generated dungeons or anything, they have to place every asset by hand. Given that the atmospheric storytelling is one of Bethesda's strengths, and the new area is supposed to be bigger than Boston, I just don't see the problem. Heck, I'd go so far as to say they created too many assets for Fallout 4 NOT to reuse them in future titles. It's not like I ever ran out of weird places to explore in that game, it was massive. I found myself more fatigued at having too much to do than anything else.

Because they need something to keep people engaged until Oblivion in Space, and a low-effort FO4 repackage that tries to cash in on the multiplayer survival-building-crafting fad just hits the spot. I don't know. I'm skeptical about the survival/build/craft fad as well, but Fallout 4 had an insane amount of content, so I can hardly fault them for re-using assets. Why reinvent the wheel? Actually it is the reinventions that tend to bug me. SPECIAL didn't need to be reinvented, and they made a mess out of it.

Condolences, Malc.

Finally reached the end of Fallout 4 after a couple years of tries. Sided with the Institute, which made the most sense for me. It got a bit better when I pumped more points into combat skills, there was some misery there when I just was dying too often. As I've said before, it's clearly a very good game with a ton of depth and detail, it just feels like it is going in a different direction than what I want in terms of gameplay and RPG aspects. I think if I go into Fallout 76 with the right expectations, I will probably enjoy it. I guess we will see. Considering my love/hate relationship with the game, I did get a pretty solid amount of hours out of it.

Well, I do enjoy a chapter or two while soaking in an Epsom salt bath.

Sounds like a fun challenge, very generous of them to offer so much free content.

That's awesome that they included those three in the fun free DLC missions.

Theory of the day: Bruce and SonicMage are the same person.

Looks pretty good to me. Between this and Phoenix Point, I'm very happy with the Xcom style renaissance we've got going.

It'd probably be a pretty short game if it was an accurate depiction of assassins. I also probably wouldn't be able to climb to the top of the Duomo Di Santa Maria Del Fiore, and then jump from the top and land safely in a haystack. Never let realism get in the way of fun gameplay, I suppose.

Not sure why AC would be considered BS. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but very few video game series are tackling historical time periods on the scale that they do in Assassin's Creed. I appreciate the subject matter and world building, even if I am not a fan of the execution.

Both Trump and Warren are lame and Chuck Hoskin is cool. I mean, that's what I've learned from this.

Hey, if they don't force you to stab your own kid in the first hour of the game, it is already ahead of AC:Origins. Ezio will always be the best. He had some pizazz.

I'm trying to get through the Fallout 4 storyline, for some reason. It's such a strange game for me. Early on my big turnoff was the SPECIAL system and the way it was no longer, uh, special. I also wasn't happy with the combat being way more shooter than RPG, as I get pretty tired of shooting at bugs and bandits all the time. But I enjoyed the exploration, so it always pulls me in for a few hours. Now I've come to terms with the leveling. Not happily, but I've stopped being mad every time I level up. But now I'm starting to get annoyed at how populated this wasteland is. There are hundreds of people asking me to do things for them, and I can't seem to walk a few steps without running into mutants, raiders, or other weird lifeforms that want to kill me. It's exhausting, and I really just want to get through the story at this point. I don't really care about any of the factions.

wat? Both of our links clearly state that these laws affect the entire US. If you want to claim ignorance, especially of these two topics, then I have nothing else for you. That doesn't mean there isn't a history of voting on the restriction of them. You are assuming ignorance while ignoring my actual statement. Again, you are talking down. You've also completely ignored the fraud stuff so you can have a little pissing contest about how much smarter you are. So yeah, I guess we are done having actual discussions on stuff.

My bad. I occasionally, wrongly, assume that certain US things are common knowledge to US residents. I need to heed my own advice and assume nobody knows nothin' about nothin' until I spell it out. Its just exhausting is all and then I lose interest. Chalk it up to my many many personality flaws. Why would the legal history of alcohol and cigarettes in Georgia be common knowledge to US residents? I said: Which is true. Most states have voted on various restrictions on those products.

Well I was 6 when the feds regulated booze and smokes, so pardon my ignorance. I thought Louisiana was 18, but it seems like there are a few states using loopholes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._history_of_alcohol_minimum_purchase_age_by_state Back to voter fraud, the problem is the scale. You aren't going to really influence an election with a handful of votes. If someone managed to find a bunch of people who werent voting, and then ran around to every precinct to cast those votes, how much are they actually swinging the results? Statistically it is going to be minimal. You need widespread fraud to really influence an election, not just a couple dead guy votes. So why is the ID check really needed? edit: Also, it's a **** move to post the Schoolhouse Rock video. I thought we were having a good discussion about voting fraud in this country. You don't need to be an **** about it. I'm not talking down to you, you don't need to talk down to me.

Im not sure about Amentep's state, but you cant do jack in IL without ID. You even need it for booze/smokes. Oddly enough, there was probably a vote to restrict those products to certain ages.

If you could figure out what precinct I am at, then I suppose you could. But that would only be one vote. That is not widespread fraud. It also wouldn't take much to raise a red flag if we both tried to vote under my name, and then the signature would become important. I also don't believe the commies are on the ballot. I mean, I know you are being glib, but it doesn't need to be a complicated system. We've had voting in this country for quite awhile. Turnout rates are low enough without making you jump through hoops.

You show up to where you are registered, sign your name, and vote. It's not very complicated. We don't really have an issue with too many people voting in this country. Turnout rates are abysmal. How many dead people do you think are voting in your state and how did it affect the results? Trump's own commission did not find any widespread fraud, despite what Trump keeps saying. It's just a bunch of political theater. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/report-trump-commission-did-not-find-widespread-voter-fraud

My driver's license rarely matches my current address. It's a hassle to update it with the DMV, and I tend to move more often than I need to renew it. My SS card also has a different name than my DL birth record and DL. I've gone by my middle name since I was pretty young, but some documents use my first and some documents use my middle. So yeah. I'd probably be more sympathetic about the crusade to crack down on voter fraud if there was actually a real voter fraud problem in this country. Voter suppression has a bit more historical evidence behind it, but even that gets thrown around as a political tool too often.

We should probably keep in mind that before Bethesda, Fallout wasn't exactly a hot property. Also Bethesda didn't make that Brotherhood of Steel game, which was far and away the worst of the franchise.