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I'd go with simply "Visceris," personally. Probably his least-derivative handle, and the first one I that I clearly identified with his distinctive personality. IMO, the "item" perk is a little more attractive for this purpose than the "character" perk. It'd be a little weird to see him up and walking around as some character, but it'd feel absolutely appropriate to find, say, the "Helm of Visceris" in some forgotten ancient stronghold. (In whatever the Eternity-world equivalent of Iowa is.)

$10,000 for Candyland with Feargus!!

Yeah, the initial pitch is pretty much all on reputation, nostalgia, and star-power. I expect they've got other tidbits lined up to announce as the funding window progresses. Give the various blogs/forums/etc. something to talk about all month. Gotta have a talk with the wife about just how much of our cash this is going to get.

A Stephen Sondheim RPG, to be specific.

The "social fabric" that has to fear mere words raised in opposition is no social fabric at all. It is a strawman for the justification of the suppression of dissent by the powers-that-be. What you've written is essentially the mission statement for every despotic/fascist/oligarchic/theocratic censorship regime in history. Its ridiculous to claim that there is no censorship or taboos in "democracies" or any other form of government. Just try seriously opposing the idea of multiculturalism for example, from a position of some authority and watch the way the media systematically destroy your reputation and effectively ostracize you from society. In some ways its even worse than being thrown in jail. There are plenty of topics that are off limits in any of the so called democracies. Ah, but you're changing the subject. We were talking about governmental action here, not just the public-at-large holding someone responsible for their statements. You may have missed it, but there is a slight difference between being allowed to say what you want (but risk being ostracized by your fellow citizens when what you say is abhorrent to the collective cultural values and sensibilities of the nation), and having the government thought police kick down your door and haul you off to the Gulag when your speech crosses some ill-defined line. The former is what happens in societies with a healthy "social fabric." The latter is what happens in societies where cultural identity is being subverted to support the interests of authoritarian rulers.

I remain dubious that the world needs or wants more Wheel of Time content. Are the existing bajillion pages of text not enough?

The "social fabric" that has to fear mere words raised in opposition is no social fabric at all. It is a strawman for the justification of the suppression of dissent by the powers-that-be. What you've written is essentially the mission statement for every despotic/fascist/oligarchic/theocratic censorship regime in history.

I found Torchlight reasonably worthwhile, but I only paid $5 for it. Normally, the sequel would be good "wait for a sale" fodder for me, too. But I figure that if early adoption leads to an evening or two of quasi-social entertainment with a few folks whose company I enjoy, the price premium is rather insignificant. (This is, of course, in the context of my particular economic circumstances-- a dozen years ago, things would've been different.)

Sure, but that doesn't mean that we're allowed to talk about male chickens around here.

". T . X X I T X" Anagram for "XXX .. TIT" (And, perhaps ominously, the forum software didn't censor that last word.)

It's ridiculous to object to state oppression of (or, in your own example, murder of) people who look/talk/pray differently than previous generations of your fellow citizens did? Really? I think I'm OK with feeling just a smidge superior in that respect. Are you referring to the Chechnya discussion? As far as I recall it was them who instigated the war, and the response was predictable in terms of how these conflicts go. Where is this state oppression you speak of? The part where governments tell their people what they can and cannot say, write, or otherwise express based on some ephemeral notion of preserving "culture."

It's ridiculous to object to state oppression of (or, in your own example, murder of) people who look/talk/pray differently than previous generations of your fellow citizens did? Really? I think I'm OK with feeling just a smidge superior in that respect.

Game releases September 20. Official Site I haven't been following this all that much, but Torchlight was fun enough for what it is, and a friend is urging me to pick up the sequel for multiplayer purposes. For $20, I'm game. I looked for a thread here for informational purposes and didn't find one. As a good Forum citizen, then, it falls to me to start it. So, consider this your Torchlight 2 discussion location. Thoughts? Hopes? Fears? Grievances? Secondarily, this is going to expose how much of a fuddy-duddy I am, but... I have never played a multiplayer PC game. (Also, I've never played a multiplayer game any kind with participants who weren't in the same room with me.) I asked my friend how the MP would work, and most of what he said was fairly incomprehensible. I imagine that games nowadays are designed to make this easy to do, but would anybody care to fill me in on anything that I might need to know, tech-wise? (I guess I also probably need to buy a microphone.)

Seeing as the series has already seen roughly 4 metric tons of text, I'm actually rather surprised that there are fans still wanting more Wheel of Time content.

They're using it for the South Park game. I haven't been following it closely, but I have to imagine that there's a lot of 2D art involved there, considering the source material.

Hmm. You know, Walsingham has been MIA around these parts for about the same amount of time funcroc has.

I'm going with the last line being "Man-purse wearer"

Edit: I'm slow; what Tale said.

Well, if we're giving it the full anagram treatment... "Pee honorer"?

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - The Shaw quote that has been in Gromnir's signature for a decade or so.

The book unread is unwritten. The reason we don't explain it is the reason we use it. Its power is in its mystery.

I nearly made this very joke, but I wasn't sure how many people would get it anymore, even around here. That was a damned long time ago.

Alternately, it could be a simple media interview.

A thought: Does anybody else find it a bit ironic that Obsidian is teasing us into speculating about the truth behind some mysterious statements... by presenting us mysterious statements that explicitly postulate the fruitlessness of attempting to ascertain actual truth? If it weren't such a disastrous idea from a public-relations perspective, I'd be suspecting that we're all being trolled. Or maybe this is meta-commentary on the nature of game-industry hype (or of marketing in general)-- the important thing is the mystery. The actuality can never live up to the universe of potentials that exist in the minds of a thousand fanboys reading press releases.

Or maybe you play as the Angel of God, revealing the ram in the thicket at exactly the right moment so as to both test Abraham's devotion and spare the child.