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The modding scene and QA seems to be two ways that people sometimes get a foot in the door so to speak. Usually after having put in the long hours, lots of patience, lots of skill and lots of perseverance has been shown

Isn't it sort of in line with Biowares trend of Charname either belonging to or working for some "Chose One" group? Whether they be Jedi, Children of Bhaal, N7, Grey Wardens or whatever? Usually some kind of elite or extrajudicial group.

Getting close to solve one of the great mysteries of the universe? Why you can't tickle yourself "Since Blakemore’s ground-breaking studies, many others have tried to find ways to find ways to trick the brain into tickling itself. Controlling someone’s foot movements with magnetic brain stimulation, so that their hand tickled their foot against their will, seems to do the trick. But it is one of the few experiments to succeed – others have produced puzzling results." Forcing people to tickle themselves... talk about cruel and unusual punishment Also covers some possible implications for Artificial Intelligence research.

Not playing "now", but going to play Wasteland 2 tonight. Finally got around to get my old desktop PC working and finding the old firefox shortcuts, including the one to the ranger center and the rewards page. Picked one Steam and one Gog key

I never played the game through GWFL. I bought it, installed it, uninstalled it right away when it asked for GWFL credentials (so its just sitting there on my steam account atm).

Lets try finding a way to post that is less abusive towards other posters... I hate when having to find the big scissors for cutting out posts.

Hmm, I could have sworn I saw a note on Steam not long ago, that the GFWL had been patched out of that one (finally). I might actually reinstall it and give it a second shot [/OFF TOPIC]

Can't really help much there, never played the game before. Love your writing style though Somewhat unrelated, but wasn't there once upon a time an "aging" part to the haste spell? In general it should only be cast on long lived characters as they wouldn't feel the loss as keenly.

This. It's not like "domestic" terrorism is new to Europeans. It's been a part of daily life and the news since at the latest, the early seventies. Italian and German "Red Brigades", anarchists, seperatists in Spain, France and the UK, assorted nut jobs having visions, you name it.

Arguments on the internet often reminds me of this (for better or for worse)... http://youtu.be/kQFKtI6gn9Y

The 80's were a good time I remember liking the trilogy though, having read the books and not just watching the cover art Never could find the game, so thanks for posting and sharing. I got a bit of catching up to do, needing to go back to 20th of December and then read through your story, so thanks for all the work you are putting into it.

I already got the game (and Warlock 2), but just wanted to say no turnbased fan should be without this game. Not quite HoMM3, but awesome in its own way.

Thread necromancy! (or the secret life of the search function) Hitlers Secret Weapon Nazi Cows "A farmer in Devon has been forced to slaughter half his herd of Heck cows after they repeatedly tried to attack his farm workers. Farmer Derek Gow said that the Heck cow descended from cattle specifically bred by Nazi scientists between the world wars. The Heck cow was renowned for its fearsome horns and extremely aggressive nature. " Bovine undercover agents? Cow catapults firing insidious ordinance at the UK during WWII?

Not gay Revan romance, but somebody somewhere seems too enamoured of a character that should have died with Kotor 1&2. Spoiler for those who havent gotten the expansion yet.

"Pugnare **** caseum et caseum" (Pseudo Latin) The 2nd edition ruleset generally felt like playing a game of rock, paper and scissor. The expansion just reinforced the feeling. Edit: Stupid word filter

Several pages of going in circles indeed and no sign of the tone getting any less unfriendly or less personal. Maybe some other thread some other time...

I've been playing with the IKEA kitchen planner. Since I need to buy a new kitchen, that seemed the easiest way to not screw up too badly. It's actually pretty neat and warns you against the most glaring errors before you commit yourself to them Yeah, Germans are funny like that, like turtles, they pack up their entire household when they move, that sometimes include everything not welded, cast or superglued to the apartment.

High level play sucks. Plain and simple. Peasants armed with +3 swords... please stop??? Apart from the game mechanics being a disaster, it was a nice expansion. Story wasn't up to usual standards, but if i remember correctly, it was supposed to be a fully fledged sequel (3.0) and not an expansion (2.5). Somebody with better memory feel free to correct me and cure me of my delusions Other than that, what Enoch said.

This (on both accounts). Got bored with the latest Tomb Raider 30 minutes into the game, haven't touched it since. TR:Anniversary still takes the prize as worst TR game ever though X-Com 3 Apocalypse is for me a game that captured the idea of the original X-Coms and did most things right. The new one is for me how its done wrong (hated the game, never finished it). Master of Orion 2 is for me another example of improving an original, Moo3 an example of how it's done wrong. So I can't really say that a new version of an old game is inherently better or worse, it simply depends on the game. When you have more than one reimagining, it starts getting really muddled (as per the fallout discussion, is 2 better than 1? is 3 better than 2? is FO:NV better than 3? Better than 2?) PS: Fun trivia, I've completed the original Tomb Raider twice since. Gog ftw!

I started pruning this thread and realised I probably have to start deleting a lot and editing just as many posts... Lets see if it's possible to keep a thread alive. Which means, time to knock off the personal stuff and insults, open and implied alike.

Last game I played (over the Christmas holidays) was actually not a computer game, but a "card game". Munchkin (with the need for steed expansion) by Steve Jackson games. It was hilarious

I guess I'm gone from underwhelmed to throwing the towel in the ring... If the adding of 5 additional levels in RotHC was bad, multiply it by a factor 3. Before 3.0 it felt like you had two games, a good game going from levels 1-50 and then a never seemless appearing addition of "end game" levels and grinding at 55. Another 5 levels didn't help making the game feel more "consistent". If they couldn't find a way to make the old extra levels feel tighter integrated to the game in 2 years, I doubt the new 5 levels are going to fare any better. Quite telling I haven't played a single HM FP yet, as there is simply no incentive. It was bad enough I skipped those 4 fps when they were tacticals and easy as they were simply boring and uninteresting story wise. Adding more mechanics is not going to help when you don't get any rewards you can use for anything. Which sort of brings me to the next point, whoever genius decided to invalidate all old gear and try to get people to hang around and grind a few more years may have shot himself in the foot, in my case, not going to happen. It doesn't help that most of the grind rewards are basic and elite coms and guess what?... you have nothing to spend them on (other as companion gear). Fleet vendor gear is now worse than ever and I did the math, the blue 178 gear you get when doing Rishi is *better* (less endurance more mititaion) than the elite com 192 gear you can buy (at least as a tank). Which means, the only way to progress is to complete (buggy) operations and hope for lucky loot rolls, rinse and repeat. That, or buy stuff for cool, hard credits from crafters. Completed Yavin 4 with a handful toons and got their companions in shiny new 186 garbage gear, at least those who had old blue 148 mods. Banged my head a bit against the desk on Yavin 4 with the ridiculous resource nodes, picking up half a million credits every time through slicing. So much for trying to stop inflation. Only skill Bioware seems to hate is archeology, because most spawn points are the worthless colour crystals. They can't spell either. The material is called Ruusan and the resource nodes are spelled Russan (crystals). Seriously? As bad as the oriconian tank implant which I reported the wrongly spelled name 2 years ago. Not a priority apparently Companion gear at rating 192?... nice. Except the big blades for your melee aim tank companions are botched. Named differently, yet identical (wrong for both tank and dps) stats and waaay too little stat budget compared to the rest of the companion gear. Very likely to never get fixed. So, gone back to playing low level toons, enjoying low level stuff, even playing the odd warzone. Having loved the game for a long time, it seems like it's going on the backburner now. Didn't help that my usual friend circle got so pissed off at the gear changes that they all 3 left the game for good, taking part of the fun out of the game.

First day at work again. For the first time in many years, I actually spent Christmas with family which was nice. Not that getting drunk with friends doesn't have its charm, but it's a nice change of pace. Sort of in a strange pensive mood these days, probably related to not having anything to do for a few weeks other than relaxing. Of course, you can sit and reflect too much. I started on a trip down memory lane, thinking back on a long and eventful life... probably doing things that 99% of people only think of and a few maybe dream of doing. You realise you are getting older when even the most exciting memories drown in the tidal wave of memories and the story is simply too long, so you can't be bothered to actually sit and enjoy your memories, it's simply "tl;dr;"

...must resist obvious references... it's hard Edit to add: Still debating with myself whether to get the game or not. At the moment the nays have it. Maybe a few months into the new year.