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Agreed. If you must do medieval-type fantasy, do so in a way that isn't burdened by that silly ruleset, those bland settings, and WotC review.

This is nice work. I know nothing about WH rules or settings, but your storytelling makes it interesting and easy to follow.

The "disappearing enemies on reload" issue. Mouse acceleration issues. Re-jigger the mouse & keyboard controls for the hacking minigame. (Click and drag, people!) Other performance and AI tweaks as time allows.

John Walker of Rock, Paper, Shotgun has a pretty balanced review up.

I would like to report that the driver update seems to have worked-- no crashes since then.

Thank you. *smacks forehead* In my defense, the list of key bindings just said that X was "Weapons." Since I could already scroll through my weapons with the mouse-wheel, I had never used it.

I didn't think of this as a tech support issue. It's not that the game isn't working properly-- it's that I simply don't know what buttons to press or click on in order to do something that I know it should be possible to do. Anyhow, Tig's only thread over there is the pinned "known issues" thread, which doesn't mention anything about ammo switching. So I'm still assuming that this is an ignorance issue rather than a bug.

I seriously can't seem to figure out how to switch to an alternate ammo type. (PC version.) I can't seem to change anything related to ammo on my inventory screen and the in-game list of keybindings offers no help either. Please tell me so that I can slap myself in the forehead and move on with the game. Thanks.

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Heh. The problem on the PC is the exact opposite. Everything is in humungo-font, and you've got to click on a tiny arrow to scroll down, as the mousewheel moves to different mailbox messages rather than scrolls the one that's open. Edit: Also, the tech support forum might be a better place for this.

Played for 2 hours. Had 2 crashes to desktop. Grrr... I guess I'll spend the next hour updating drivers (which aren't that old) and see if it improves. But then I'll have to go to bed. And I really did want to at least get through the prologue this evening. Sometimes being an employed gamer kinda sucks.

Skipping over the both-sides-are-equally-nuts LoF-IWtK2 exchange, I think we're talking about two different things. Grom's earlier point was about BP's decisionmaking process right now-- he asked why is it assumed that they, a privately owned company with a duty only to return value to their shareholders and to not violate any laws along the way, are operating in the public interest in their efforts to stop the leak. I think that's a decent question-- the optimal course for them might well be to throw only token resources at the leak while focusing most of their might on mitigating the liability claims that will be spilling in over the next decade. (For example, if stopping the leak a week earlier than otherwise were possible for an additional $500M investment, but if doing so would reduce BP's estimated eventual liability by only $200M in present-value dollars, that sucker is gonna keep gushing.) I don't see that as particularly related to the question of whether they would have incorporated a "complete destruction of the rig and ongoing deepwater oil leak" scenario into their pre-investment risk management projections. (IMO, they probably did, but if the recent financial crises have taught us anything, it's that a good portion of the costs associated with the "complete cluster****" scenario often end up being borne by the government, anyway.) That risk assessment might have called for different precautions if it had been done differently, but whatever it said, it certainly isn't governing BP's decisionmaking today.

You have a right. But not much of one. Promoting illegal activity in a school sponsored event is not the same thing as wearing a cross. No it's not, you have no understanding of the law. You can require a dress code, but you can not prohibit display of religious items. At best they could limit the size or something like that. I guarantee that if a school deemed religious icons disruptive and banned them in the dress code, so long as the ban was universal, it would hold up in court. It hasn't been thoroughly tested, but WoD and Volo are probably right on this point. For example, here is a case from a federal court in Texas where a school got slapped down for banning rosaries after their police liason informed them that a local gang was using them as a sign. There isn't a bright line, though. If the school has a very good reason and doesn't have a less-restrictive means of achieving the same goal, a court might see it their way. But with Supreme Court precedent on the books that states can't even compel kids to go to school at all if their religion forbids it, that's a tough hill to climb.

Most likely, it means that he's not the person who gets to make that call.

You have a right. But not much of one.

It's in the southern part of Ocean County.

I am irritated at the icemaker in our new fridge. The ice it's giving us smells like runoff from a copper mine slag heap. Now, this is probably the fault of whichever prior owner of the house installed the icemaker supply line onto the horizontal water pipe that supplies the shower in the basement bathroom. Ideally, it should be in a frequently used vertical pipe, and we never really use the basement shower. But if the water source was the only problem, I suspect that I would have started noticing this ages ago rather than recently. (And, yes, today I went down and ran the cold water in the basement shower for a few minutes just to get fresh water in the line. If it produces an improvement, I'll start doing so on a weekly basis.) Rather, I am starting to suspect the new fridge and the braided stainless steel supply line that I put in between the saddle valve on the pipe and the fridge. If project "run the shower" doesn't produce more neutral smelling ice, I'm going to start getting angry. @Krook, I'm actually crazy enough to try to drive to the Jersey shore this weekend. Visiting family and such. Also, a cousin is having a college graduation party.

I'm listening to everything posted here. Everything is better when it swings! (The Journey and the GnR are particularly good. The Metallica is also entertaining, but more because it makes the vocals sound even more ridiculous-to-the-point-of-self-parody than they already are.)

Iran being part of the middle east, would it not be accurate to call them middle eastern? Geographically, Iran always looked more like part of the core of Asia to me, as the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the Black Sea do seem to clearly set out a space of land between them that is somewhat separate from the surrounding continents. But the source of the term "Middle East" is basically a Euro-centric label for the lands that you had to cross if you were travelling from the Mediterranean to the "Far East." In that vein, the line between the two is probably somewhere in modern-day Iran. And, much like "Far East" or "Oriental," it's probably not the most polite of labels any more. Culturally, as with anywhere else, Iran has some distinctive cultural elements, and some ways in which it is similar to its neighbors (both with the Mesopotamian and Arabic peoples to the West and with the people of the various 'Stans to the East and North). "Persian" probably is the best label to use.

My hope is that they realize the comparative advantage that Obsidz has for finding quality voice actors in its location. Orange County, CA versus Montgomery County, MD is really no contest in this regard. (And, yes, if you look at the credits for FO3, you'll see that some of the recording was done in Bethesda, Maryland-- just across the street from one of my favorite restaurants.) ((Dammit, now I'm craving seared sea scallops with a light citrusy sauce!))

Why I Believe in America: "The Brevard County doctor who was arrested for groping a woman while dressed as Captain America with a burrito in his pants will not go to jail."

I seriously hate ants inside the home. This house we bought, I guess they moved into a wall, because all winter they kept coming into the bathroom (no food so it's strange they didn't learn that). I've sprayed, I've cleaned, I've even stuffed toilet paper between tile and baseboards. Nothing kept them from coming back. I finally resorted to using this 'natural' orange spray that leaves a sticky residue...they get stuck in it and die, limiting where they traveled to a few baseboard spots. I'd clean up the dead ant bodies every few days & spray again. Now with summer they've moved back outside...haven't seen one in weeks. Around here they go dormant in the wintertime, so it's no problem then. But in the spring and summer, 'explorers' tend to come into the house when it rains. If they find something worthwhile, the horde follows. This time, we learned that the container we keep our sugar in is not ant-proof. Besides an increased attention to keeping things clean, the only thing that helps is taking the fight to them. I'm pretty sure that I've found the nest they're coming from, and I used about eight times the recommended dose of a granule-based pesticide I had in the garage.

Anyhow, I spent a good part of the evening fighting the ant invasion that happened in our kitchen while we were away at work today. The wife took care of emptying out cabinets and making sure we got them all, while I followed the survivors to where they came from and committed an environmental atrocity on their home. I can be vindictive when my kitchen is threatened.

It's not so much jealousy as it is how the internet in general responds to a smug "look at me, I'm teh seksay" post. Even Shryke mostly couches his amorous escapades in implications and innuendo. Coming right out and saying "I sure have been getting lots and lots of p***y lately" breaches a kind of unspoken protocol, and the community must punish it. And then there's the deep, burning jealousy.

But does a pulse grenade explode? Or does it just sit there and emit a one-shot omnidirectional EM pulse? I don't think there's any reason why such a device would have to physically blow up in order to accomplish what it's designed for. I think there's enough ambiguity for the designers to classify it in whichever category feels weaker from a balance perspective.