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Shut up. Anything with the Batmobile in it is awesome. Ergo, he won the thread.

Brace for drama.

Yeah, the Astral Blade is pretty neat at those levels. Not many mobs get resistance to sonic damage. Why did you choose longswords, though? Isn't the Silver Sword a scimitar? i have no idea - i only just started playing i haven't gone for any weapon focuses so far, so maybe i will go for scimitars after all Oh ****. I've made a boor of myself yet again. Sorry about that, I ASSumed you had already played the game. Forget I said anything.

Yeah, the Astral Blade is pretty neat at those levels. Not many mobs get resistance to sonic damage. Why did you choose longswords, though? Isn't the Silver Sword a scimitar? -- I'm playing NWN2 myself, too. I went with a modified version of the WM suggested by Gromnir and he's kicking butt scary - despite my best efforts to gimp the build. But now I'm thinking it would be fun to try perhaps a rogue/wizard and go for arcane trickster (Spell Fixes allows for sneak attack on ranged touch attacks, tee hee). Is it odd that I find playing with the character generator more fun at times than playing the game proper?

Yeah, I agree. Taks has been too quiet lately.

I'd say it's the only reason it made news?

Yeah, this poll is loaded. "Society made him do it", "videogames", "all of the above" are all missing as options. Who cares about Hades anyway. My professional opinion is that with that face, he wasn't getting any. But hey I might just be projecting my own insecurities, here... edit: nevermind, got it

How so? The market forces, you say? They can counterbalance that by offering better hours/money or other benefits. And there are people that may be willing to give up on smoking or other activity because they really want (or need) the job. You can't go on without a job like you can go on without a shirt. So, no, it doesn't necessarily mean that Weyco will be losing anything by enacting these policies, and it's not like the job market now is experiencing a sharp demand for qualified professionals across the board. So until the situation you described comes to pass, we could very well find ourselves in a position where a majority (as in 50%+1) of employers control the private lives of their personnel. "And if you don't like it, we have this guy from India/Mexico/China here, that would kill to get your job". What worries me is the increasing scope in which companies keep tabs on their employees' private lives. It's a pretty standard practice now to check online profiles, for instance. As long as I get the job done, they don't have a right to know (much less place restrictions on) what I do in my off time.

Yeah, sure. -You're a Democrat, so no, we don't like you. -You're too ugly, so no, we don't want you. -You're... umm... bah, I just don't like the way you look. GTFO -etc...

Silly does not mean "accidental", silly! Depends on the purpose of their plot devices. In this case, "physics not working the same way as their RL counterparts" is only a means towards having stuff like the Master, deathclaws and ghouls. I suppose you're going to tell me that that's serious business.

How is that NOT both silly AND a plot device???

So, yeah. They want to enforce this as a character trait, not just something you can't do while on-duty.

ROFL Doublethink much?

Fallout makes sense in Fallout logic, not beyond. Beyond, it's silly. It is a fictional world, and you pretty much need to accept that licenses are going to be taken to drive a plot forward, provide entertainment, etc. The devs accept that. I accept that. Why don't you? How is that any more far-fetched than radiation turning lizards into 7-feet "deathclaws" or creating a sub-race of radiation-immune humans with lifespans in excess of 200 years? Or an experimental virus turning people into psionic blob-machine hybrids? The problem is that you insist on applying real world logic and deductions to Fallout 3, but won't do the same to 1 or 2, using "internal consistency" as an excuse instead. Drop the double standards already.

as i recall, you should be well past 7th level by the time you get to fihelis' estate anyway, more like 10-12th or so. particularly so if you only want to go in there with 3 dudes and no summons. taks More like level 8, actually. There isn't much to do before you do this, it's part of the early City Watch/Thieves' Guild questline. The thing is, for some reason, dual wielding is really effective with sneaking characters in NWN2. The enemies in Fihelis' Estate are level 6 rogues with mediocre stats, but if the character they are backstabbing doesn't have a really good spot skill, they will land their sneak attacks for serious damage. They are rarely found alone, so three of these guys can make a number on your party. Here's the fun part - Obsidian went with the lame Bio encounter design method, and gave the rogues undroppable +2 daggers and shortswords and +3 armors. I'm not sure but IIRC, they had +4d6 sneak attack too, instead of the legal +3d6 for level 6 rogues. *sigh*

Uh. Another stupid and utterly useless initiative. EA tried that too - only to have people code an EA master server emulator to play on LAN. Seriously, who are they really hurting with this? Because it sure isn't the pirates...

If they feel that that is a concern to them, why shouldn't they? I find it odd that you want people to have their freedoms, yet don't seem to echo that sentiment when it comes to people having the freedom to run their businesses the way that they want to. It's just that individual civil rights are assumed to be above business freedoms. That's why we have stuff like minimum wages, for instance. The problem is that you have businesses arbitrarily dictating what their employess can and cannot do outside the job. You have, in effect, the business sector enforcing policy rules on the people, that extend past business practices into the private scope. Even elected officials would already have a hard time justifying measures to control what people do with their private lives so long as it's not a crime. The heads of private enterprises are not elected officials. Parallel legislation is bad, m'kay. The issue is not smoking specifically, but activity "X". Let's say, gaming. Or writing on message boards. Or full contact sports. Or any number of activities that may indirectly result in lost revenues due to decreased productivity, increased health costs, or whatever. Ownership of human beings is no longer to be practiced openly.

Yeah, and odd places don't attract attention at all. I'm sure that the US gov't store all their secrets in Area 51 AND the shadow government is seated there, too. Then why store it there to begin with, if it's going to be lugged around anyway? It makes no sense other than as a plot device. Which it is. The central element of the Unity was the Master, above the vats. The FEV could conceivably be reproduced, the Master could not. Nonsense. Nuclear activation keys are impossible to bypass for all intents and purposes, with our present level of computational capacity. In the Fallout world where they work with vacuum-tube technology (if at all), don't even think about it. No, he should have nothing. As far as anyone could tell, anyway. But hey, whatever man. Sitting on top of an armed nuke is sound advice, all the way. \o/ Nice way of saying that Fallout writing should be exempt from scrutiny... because you say so. Also, the plot is to be taken very seriously, but if common sense conflicts with it, then common sense must be wrong. Internal coherence does not preclude nonsense. I don't think we're going to get any further. You are willing to preserve your suspension of disbelief for Fallout no matter what, but won't do the same for Fallout 3. Except for the higher echelon of the CoC, the muties, and conveniently, the PC. But that's not the point. The bottom line is that the only command and control center for the Master's army was located under the main HQ of a very publicly active organization which was quite blatantly up to no good. What is the need for the CoC base to be on top of the Master's Vault? Back to my comment about Area 51, just now replace the military base on top with the main Republican Party facility in the country.

Yeah, it was so visible that no one knew it existed, let alone found it. Huh? You mean nobody knew about the CoC? How the hell were they trying to recruit/brainwash people all over the place then?

Uh, if you read the dialogue file, it's stored in the Cathedral because: a. It's the most secure location the Unity has b. It's their ultimate last resort weapon c. The nuclear detonation key is in a separate location - on the opposite end of the game map, actually d. They keep it in top condition at all times e. They monitor it 24/7/365/100 So yeah, there is no chance in hell that it'd go off on its own or someone to sneak in and detonate it. Unless he's the player character, but as we all know, PCs are a very special case. Really, that's pretty goofy no matter how hard you try to justify it. a. Safer than Mariposa or any number of other abandoned and forgotten US military facilities? Okay, if you say so. Cathedral is, after all, just the freaking seat of the visible face of the Master's operation. b. Sure, but storing it under Cathedral only makes sense if it's to be used as a self-destruct "last resort". c. So why not do it the other way around, then? d/e. Yep. That's what made sabotage possible. A non-functional nuke can't be made to explode. It's obvious that the devs had no problem with something that nonsensical/silly making it into the game - TWICE. Why do you? Fallout is many things, but it's most certainly not a paradigm of plausibility, plot solidness, or seriousness.

Yeah, they respected and feared nuclear energy so much, that the only place they could store a 80 year old nuke was under the nose of their revered and irreplaceable leader. No chance it would go off, no sirree. No chance in hell. I mean, the President feels perfectly safe doing that too, so keeping nuclear explosives within arm's reach must be a staple of the setting or something. But yeah, Bethesda's "everything is nucular!" approach is fairly retarded. AND it serves no purpose, unlike in FO1/2.

Good selection. It never occured to me to have both Tactics and SCS. Knowing how Tactics was designed, I'm just going to say... good luck to you, sir. Beware the Shadow Druids. While still an open beta, I'm finding Wheels of Prophecy an interesting concept - if, like me, you didn't like how dreadfully linear and shoehorned ToB felt, you may want to take a look. The main risk is that being a mod that changes the main quest, it may irreversibly break your game. Install before the transition to ToB. I'm also rather partial to Longer Road, but his long-winded tirades may get on your nerves. Regardless, it's a great mod for evil bastards; for goody two-shoes players, not so much. It's essentially the spellcasting equivalent of Weimer's Valen, so it kinda, totally destroys balance, especially if you install the un-nerfed PnP spell progression tables. edit: I forgot to add: Icewind Dale Voice Pack Converter by Greystar. Not a mod in the classic sense, but if you are sick of the same four soundsets, this allows to extract and use all voices from both IWDs with just one click...

From what I remember, vampires, hunters and (oddly enough) demons were somewhat balanced, with hunters coming out a bit short usually. But Garou and especially the freaking mages... add to that that the mages' thing was "bending reality" as opposed to fixed, codified spells, so I think it would be hard to capture that in a game well. A mess if they tried to have all of them in the same game. Read: awesome fun. I hate the nWoD.

Boy, are you obsessed with Phelps. What, he found you too hateful and bitter for his congregation?

Heh, yeah. Oblivion is garbage. But hey, at least you didn't waste a few hours downloading and installing FCOM.