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Loaded up Shroud of the Avatar, the Richard Garriot game that is supposed to revive Ultima Online. I played it a year or so ago and it was rough, but they have made a good amount of improvement. It is a nice looking game now and the interface, while complicated, does seem to give a lot of options. Still, control and hit boxes are still a bit wonky. Reminds me of Elex, actually.

It will be: 1. Fallout 2. Baldur's Gate 2 3. Fallout 2 4. Planescape Torment 5. Jagged Alliance 2 v.1.13

Kind of hard to have a soldier win an election when we haven't had any clear victories lately.

Clearly my many enemies here made sure JA2 didn't get the top spot just to spite me.

We already do live drills for this stuff. I'm not sure how the 'simulation' will really be better than that. Also people need to calm down a bit. It isn't a reality that teachers are going to have to deal with gunfire in their job, it is still a tremendously small chance. It's good to be prepared and aware, but this comes across as fear mongering.

I can't help feeling PoE placed as high as it did because we are living in their house. Not that it isn't a great game! Don't ban me please. Let's predict the final 10... I know Baldur's Gate will get on there, I'm assuming both 1 and 2. Then you have Jagged Alliance 2 of course. Fallout 1 and 2 will get a spot as well. What else?

Ugh, the Chiefs just can't find a way to win.

This is kind of problem that I want to pick one of the serries (lets say Civilization) but which one, the first one, which defined genre, the other one which popularized it, or the last which is still rising in power. I doubt the original has aged well. Civ 4 is still a pretty decent looking game, so it is worth the money. I recommend the Colonization stand alone as well.

Interesting to see two Civ games tied, and also that most of the voters were different. Xcom probably should be higher, but what evs

I didn't want to seem like I was plugging my hometown, but the Bay Area is great. I've taken a number of trips to SF this year just for a nice dinner and drinks. Hard to beat the Italian eateries in North Beach.

I'm more worried about the bacteria and weird algae that might get me in the local reservoirs. In the ocean I'll be surrounded by a bunch of other potential victims. You don't have to be the fastest, just faster than the slowest. You can't outrun flesh eating viruses. Plus I've been reading the Phoenix Point Novellas and they are creepy.

I can't help noticing you don't have New Orleans on your list of places you have visited, and you say you are into food, so what the heck? I mean, maybe wait until the snowpacalypse ends, but doing a trip of the south with all the southern cooking seems like a must-do. I'd recommend eating in Lafayette and Mississippi, and then going to Memphis for BBQ.

California is an easy target for this type of action though. It's basically held up as representative of all things liberal, so where typically conservatives would be uncomfortable with federal powers running roughshod over state rights, it is ok if it is happening to the villainous California.

I'd caution people not to get too caught up in the placement of games on the list. Realistically the amount of people who gave any points to the game is just as important as the amount of points the game received. Also it is hardly surprising Bioware has a lot in the top 100. Whereas there are a number of older and more obscure titles in the top 100+, Bioware games are fairly mainstream and current, so odds are almost everyone here has played them. Actually it's a bit comforting that they haven't cracked the top 20. Of course, BG is still to come, and as I said, placement is a somewhat relative concept here.

As someone who grew up riding my bike past the Winchester Mystery House regularly, that movie looks like a pretty lame use of great source material.

A couple swimmers got attacked by a sea lion in San Francisco recently, so there are plenty of things out there that want to eat you.

Thanks, you've echoed a few other people on that. Hopefully I do not get attacked by any sea creatures. Also that is probably the best way to test out a wetsuit ahead of time. I'd like to do the Santa Cruz Olympic Triathlon in August. I did grow up surfing and bodyboarding, so hopefully it will come back to me easily enough.

Yeah, that bothered me too. I mean, I get that Star Wars isn't science fiction, but the whole idea that you could just carve through heavily fortified ships in such a way seems pretty lame.

I meant to vote for HoMM III but messed up and voted for HoMM IX or something weird like that, so nice to see it placed highly. Life is Strange is probably the first game on this thing I know very little about. Honestly it doesn't look like my cup of tea, but everything else on the list is so good.

Hit the pool early this morning for the first time. I haven't done much in the way of laps in a few years, and even then it was once in a blue moon, so I've got my work cut out for me. The problem is I am totally comfortable doing the breast stroke and could coast through the 1200 meters for the sprint triathlon that way, but I know front crawl (freestyle) is a good 10-15 seconds faster every 100 meters. That's a couple minutes over the course of the race, but right now I can't do more than 50 meters front crawl without gasping for breathe. Just need to train and get my rhythm down. I did run 4 miles today at a 7:48 mile pace, so that felt good. edit: Sorry to hear about your cat LC. I don't know how I missed that before I posted.

I believe in order to qualify a game needs at least two voters, but I don't have the rule book on hand to check.

Just sharpie trying to be sharp. The US has been doing this for awhile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan%27s_Law

How is that a bad thing? Why would you want schools to employ people with that sort of background?

I am not sure that Alpha Protocol makes the list, but I didn't pay close attention to what other people voted for. I am glad I was able to boost LotrO up a bit. Curious where WoW will place in comparison.

Great to see the real Indy 4 making an appearance. So much better than the Crystal Skull in every way.