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If they stay in their own little forum, we should be ok. I don't even notice all the Star Wars fanboys that hang out in the KotOR forum. Every once in awhile I go in there, and it's like a different world!

I believe the comparison is more of a teen +13 game and a PG-13 movie, not R and Mature. I doubt his kid is playing GTA4. But there are a ton of different angles to this argument. The stuff on TV can be pretty terrible as well, even the cartoons. taks was making the observation that cartoon violence seems to affect his son differently. But some kids probably shouldn't watch or play either, and every kid matures at a different rate, so taks will have to decide when his child is ready to play the older titles again. The real issue is so many parents are completely uninvolved in what their child is doing.

Please, how else is Jack Bauer going to save the world?

Yeah, what are the odds? You could be taks child!

What the hell, you can't kill Bazooka off like that!?!

Wow. That's a gem of a thread. I think Hades has lightened up over the years.

I really am starting to feel it now at 30, too. 8 years ago, it didn't matter what I ate, as long as I played hockey on a regular basis. Now I've been unable to shake the pounds, even when playing a lot of hockey. I should probably cut out cookies or ice cream.

That's awesome! My daughter's b-day is next week, #2.

They are up to 20 at this point. I probably won't go with the permadeath idea forever. I might play this character and maybe another under the permadeath rules, but to be honest, I'm not sure if I will subscribe to this game long term. It is very group-centric, which is a drawback for my schedule.

Hey, I'm in the acceptable range, lay off!

Considering the number of high level characters in an MMO that should have access to raise dead, what is this death thing you speak of? It's kind of like sleeping right? Just a temporary affliction until the end of combat? Well, this is a D&D game, so you need a level 9 cleric around to raise dead. Getting to level 9 is the tough part, DDO has a different leveling curve compared to MMO's. Plus, if you are in a dungeon, and you die with no level 9 cleric, you are dead. Or if the cleric dies, then everyone is dead. Basically it is a ruleset created by players to make the game more difficult. You also have to run the instanced quests on the highest difficulty available. I think the highest level in the guild was 7 or 8, but I might be wrong. When I joined, there was a bunch of guys who had just re-rolled after a bad night, so I got to go through the intro with them.

I'm not sure what the VATS complaints are about. It is possible to never use it, if you'd like.

Hmm, maybe I'm thinking of a different test. When I had my body fat measured a few years ago, they took a ton of measurements from different parts of my body and then factored it out. I was at 11%. I'm probably closer to 20% now though, all the baby weight I gained.

American isn't usually considered a race, mostly because of the short history of most inhabitants here. Many Americans can trace their roots back to a different country in just a few generations. American Indians tend to associate their heritage to a specific tribe.

Actually, I think the majority of the posts have been positive here, just a couple naysayers. Of course, Fallout 3 was well received here as well much more so than Oblivion.

I don't like you. To be fair, I actually found it pretty jarring to start off as well, and stalled out on Liberty Island on my first play through. The second time it took off though, and I played to completion.

So if you die your supposed to abandon your character? Yep, that's why it's called death, I believe. Although you could just leave the guild, if you are too attached. It's really just about creating a different way to play an MMO. I think the hardest part is the lack of varied content, meaning I can't picture myself going through the starter area another 5-10 times.

This is fantastic! Fallout 3 was the best game I played last year, so take it and add in Obsidian writers, and it sounds like a match made in heaven. I wouldn't go expecting the gameplay mechanics to be much different for all the folks that disliked Fallout 3. This will likely be a bit like KotOR 2, new story and characters, but same overall character creation, gameplay, and look. That's great for me, but I can see some people having issues.

If we are going strictly on definition, obesity really only applies to BMI scores. You have to factor in height and mass, not just weight. Obesity is when your BMI score is over 30, and there are various stages of obesity. It's not a perfect system, but it's better than that weight to height ratio scale I've seen around, those don't factor in muscle mass at all.

I really don't know what to say. The Sharks just look broken. They have too much talent to look too bad out there, but there is definitely something wrong. It's been evident in the last 20 games of the season, it's like their offense has just stopped clicking. The first half of the season was phenomenal, the passes were crisp, the shots were on target, the movement was perfect. Now it's just a hair off, more shots missing the net, guys aren't connecting on passes. I'm sure Anaheim deserves some credit, but they doubled the shot totals of the Ducks in the last two games. You'd think they would at least split the series.

Hiller is killing me! He's standing on his head, the Sharks are doing everything they need to do to win the game and it is still 1-1.

In DDO I joined a guild called th epermadeath Society. They have a few rules to make the game more exciting, namely you can't respawn after death. So a wizard and me were exploring a sewer system, and he noticed a chest up high in a corner. We climbed a few ledges to get there. When he made it, he said he had to go afk a bit. I decided to explore the area, avoiding the chest. Then suddenly a huge ball of gas blew up and an arcane skeleton attacked. The skellie whooped on me hard, knocking me down to almost no hitpoints. I backpedaled straight off the ledge and crumpled to the ground unconscious. The skeleton then killed my wizard compadre. I ended up stabilizing and recovering enough to hightail it out of there, but I felt terrible about getting the wizard killed! The sad part is I'm a rogue!

Rob Schneider is a surprisingly easy guy to watch as a lead character. I thought Deuce Bigalow (the first one) was a comedy classic.

Is Ernest Hemingway telling you the story of the time he caught a giant swordfish in that picture?

There is also a pretty big difference between obesity and being morbidly obese. If your BMI is in the 30 range for a woman or high 20's for a man, that isn't great, but it isn't going to impair your ability to lead a normal life. But when you get into the 30+ pounds overweight zone, you are in some pretty major jeopardy.