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Not burning out this year.

Better would be just to "scale" game level according to character level. I just played SoU and HotU with Sorcerer/RDD. It's quite a bit of fun in SP, though ruins MP game due to being insanely overpowered.

Unless you plan to do Honours year and then PhD

How you perceive the "Traitor scenario" depends on the overall feel of the game. Yoshimo - very compelling I must say. Melissan - surprise, though no emotions, the game is too "munchkin" for the treachery to look believable (also horrible voice acting). Aribeth - due to poor OC implementation, Aribeth's treachery looked really dull. Can't say anything on KOTOR games (didn't play).

How does that qualify one in "knowing science" though?

That's the right answer due to the nature of ice-cream production process (so it is kinda "foamy"). Otherwise it wouldn't be as soft as it is.

As far as I get, he doesn't like that it is over-praised in the place where he lives. For example, rugby is over-praised here in Australia and I hate both rugby and the fact that it is over-praised.

I wonder why noone yet mentioned anything about their lifestyle, corporate culture, demographics, etc. Only anime, samurai and honor seem to be the most popular (and considered overrated by some) parts of their culture.

I don't know what is the problem with this communities war. It was a marketing decision that will only do good for NWN2 sales and hence the ongoing support. Besides, OE will get its credit, but from more people than if it didn't cooperate with Bioware.

Have anybody seen D&D2: The Elemental Might? I watched the first one and it was way below average, I wonder if the sequel is any better?

Same here, I think the board will move back once NWN2 is released.

Actually I meant that (which is a rather general statement). (BTW how Japan could left a parody to US a thousand years ago, if US is not that old yet ) Aa period in history doesn't define culture as being inferior. Same way I could quote some shameful historical periods of US or Europe. OK, that aside, my main point is that every culture has its own traits that just cannot be tolerated by people from other cultures (that's understandable), but saying that one strongly established culture is better or worse than the other would be at the very least inaccurate. Even Japanese think that their culture is superior in many to western culture for the same reason: they have grown up there and shifting your view is really hard, especially when you age.

Well, that was some rapid derailment. <_< Anyone shares my joy about the content of the article itself? How good was JE and KOTOR UI? (they say NWN2 will have the same look and feel)

Some more read for those who are starving for some NWN2 info (me included). Currently part 1, part 2 and 3 are coming.

The culture is overrated only because of the image created by western media, how can the culture be "overrated" by itself? If it is overrated in certain environment (western media), it doesn't mean it is inferior to some other culture. Now that you reworded your statement by adding "in certain ways", it is correct, as all cultures with no exceptions have its internal problems. Hence the honest answer would be "Their culture is foreign to me, their problems seem to me more serious than of my own culture, I am not willing to associate with it"

Descriptor, but the word has completely different meaning.

@Sikon Just out of curiosity, what project are you actually working on? Why the requirements for strict typing, etc? Lua may be not the best language, but it has been around for some time, and it has less bugs than your own scripting language would be if written from scratch. Also it has very liberal licence (free use for commercial projects).

NWN allows shifting Law/Chaos too (if you mean engine, not the OC) I always end the game as Neutral Good or Chaotic Neutral. I don't even know how "evil" icon looks like.

Do you mean Trias' sword? (Which is funny, he is chaotic good himself, IIRC) No, he's lawful good according to the game. Well, he is I guess. I was basing my decision on the fact that he lied to you. BTW, in Infinity Explorer he is shown as Neutral/Neutral Evil

I use it on a regular basis for scientific and technical information, but not for serious research. The best thing about Wikipedia is useful references and external links at the end of the article.

I'm not aware of NWS-like languages, but there is Lua if you want an embeddable scripting language (I presume you are writing your own application). NWN executable :D I guess you should read Bioware's EULA and visit their developers' section as Aurora is Bioware's engine.