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Did they really fix Fallout 3's ending with DLC? I never bought any of that stuff. I agree on Mass Effect, it would be pretty confusing to start ME3 without playing that last DLC. That being said, it was clearly taking part after the main story arc of 2.

So what happens to the pupil in this case, I know they will get a good beating but what else ? This student is fairly new to the country, so I sat him down and explained what his expectations are and how he needs to go about fixing it. I'm also going to contact the parents and set up a conference, since there are other issues involved. In 7th grade it is more about developing good habits than being punitive. They'll get enough of that in High School.

How so? Dragon Age released a full expansion. None of the DLC really impacted the story of the main games.

maps/cars/weapons/skins are all the definition of superficial fluff. It doesn't affect my playthrough of a game in any way to not have those things. The people responsible for this are the consumers, by the way. If no one bought the first horse armor when it came out in Oblivion, we wouldn't have this trend. It is driven completely by consumer demand.

Today a student emailed me an essay they had 'written' and it still had the hyperlinks active that took me to the place they plagiarized it from. Lovely.

They changed that much ? I wouldn't really say changed. By supercharged I mean they added to the depth of the game. More to do with your troops, more to build, more unique missions.

I am wondering if this is still true, though. Because I can't remember when I played a game the last time that required a dlc for more information on the main story or something like this. Some games have pre-order dlc which add to the games content, but this is most of the time just minimal stuff that probably could be ignored easily as well. Like the pretty useless armor pre-order dlcs from New Vegas, etc. Exactly. It is true that expansions are nearly dead, but they've been replaced by full length sequels developed as quickly as possible instead. That's what you see happening with Assassin's Creed and Saint's Row games. Most DLC is fluff, and the low prices reflect that. They are for people who like fluff. Mass Effect is literally the only game that put out relevant story DLC's, everything else can be skipped without missing a thing. Also the Xcom EXPANSION is phenomenal. It takes the base game and completely supercharges it.

It's a roguelike so luck is intended to be a big factor and the game is weighted towards being difficult/neigh impossible. The idea is to create replayability, tension, a greater sense of accomplishment when you win and a much bigger sense of reward when something good happens. In this case that involves what ways you can equip your ship. If you're always getting murderized by the scouts then you need a rough idea of what changes you need to make to your ship to survive them and also beat the last boss and then spend every playthrough working towards that. I know that's obvious and probably sounds snarky but that is the core element of the genre of game you're playing and it's supposed to be that frustraiting. It's why I don't play FTL much . No no, I get it, I have experience with roguelikes. But consistently, over six playthroughs, I have gone through the game without trouble and getting fully upgraded. For example, on my last ship, I had good weapons, good drone systems, stealth, full shields, upgraded engines, enough crew to have expendables and more than enough resources. In the second to last area, I could pretty much kill any enemy I came across in one or two volleys. Then in the end game, the first enemy I encounter gets me or turns me into a limping wreck. I find it hard to believe that six times I have had luck throughout the entire game and bad luck in the end. Just seems like the difficulty curve is terribly balanced. It makes trying again seem kinda pointless. Sorry for making assumptions. I did find this, it won't help against the scouts (although Deraldin's advice probably will do the trick) but it has a lot of very detailed information on the final boss, full of spoilers though. Holy moly, I'm never going to defeat the end boss. I've never even made it past the 1st stage!

I just picked up Assassin's Creed IV on Amazon for $30, seemed like a pretty good deal for a brand new game. It is only on sale for 1 day.

The most important thing to get in FTL is that radar thingamajig that tells you what is at all the jump points. That being said, I've died on the final boss every time I've made it to the end, so what do I know?

Not when trolls are on the loose. I think I've got it. Wals is a city planner.

That's an outrage, I hope the University expels them.

I don't know how we came up with part 2 in the last thread, we've had a ton of these NHL threads. We are probably on number 20-something.

Jagr's response to Volo.

I can squeeze in about 5 minutes a day, so it will take me awhile

I started to watch it. Holy moly, there are a lot of cameras in the Netherlands. Honestly it simply isn't feasible to do that alcohol checking camera in the US.

Well no, because with data retention your personal data will remain on their servers until one day it's felt it might be needed. Then if you ever become an undesirable in any way, it's nice and handy. But lets have this discussion when you have watched it. There's another documentary which is about much the same things, called Terms and Conditions may apply. I think that's also a worthwhile watch, especially for laymen. But what are the odds of you becoming an undesirable? And if you do, is a lack of a facebook page really going to stop an agency from gathering information about you? Obviously you need to use common sense. Putting up naked pictures and doing drugs is a dumb idea, but swearing off all social media sounds more like paranoia.

I'm not going to watch an hour long thing, but isn't this data fairly useless without a clear targeting system? It is a bulldozer method, based on the pure volume of information coming in we are individually just part of the data mulch. You probably stand out more by being off the grid.

I'd say the expansion has made it harder. Mechs and enemies who use rockets is a change of pace from the original. It definitely still has a lot of challenges on classic.

Carter - Jason Statham doing Payback. It was going along pretty well until Jennifer Lopez showed up. She just ruined the pacing of the film completely. I don't really have an issue with her as an actress, but this was not good casting.

Oby is just so unfocused. Is he pro-protesters or anti-protesters? Who knows?

I lost one assault specialist that was not that highly ranked, but my snipers were able to hang far enough back to cover the retreat for everyone else, and they were simply deadly. It did remind me a bit of Terror From the Deep.

Dead Man Down - This Colin Farrell revenge movie was pretty good, I enjoyed it. Acting was top-notch. I did occasionally wonder what lawless land this movie was set in, but it is best to ignore that type of thinking.

Played a fantastic mission in Xcom where a whaling ship was infested with Chryssalids, and they kept pouring out of the whale carcass. It was really well set up. The great thing was I had to have one soldier run up to the control room, and I covered her with snipers on the docks while she moved. It was intense.

It's pretty messed up that he receive money at all, but you can blame Anonymous for that since they posted his personal information and made it easy for him to make a case that he was being harassed as a result of his job.