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Wait, you mean the Adamantine Golem isn't always in Firkraag's dungeon? That thing is immune to magic and to everything lower than +3 weapons, and it shreds melee characters as if they were made of paper. There are also the major werewolves or whatever they're called in english (I only ever played the game in french). Windspear, Umar, Planar Prison, That beholder cave of the cult of the eyeless etc. all have some added Oomph when you visit them later, at a higher level. So no, the golem isn't necessarily there when you visit Windspear. Nothing Jaheira can't fix with a staff +3 though, as the golem tend to get stuck in the doorway (and blocking the lesser golems in the process)

That quest where you recruit Mazzy is probably the first one I do after the slavers quest, the Thief Guild quests and the serial killer quest. It's clearly the easiest of all exterior dungeons, I'm surprised someone would need 'cheating' to get through it. If memory serves me right, Haer'Dalis requires a romp through an Illithid dungeon and then a quick visit in a planar prison that counts a few demons among its jailers. Definitely harder. The built in level scaling adjusts the npc/sidequest "dungeons", so the last ones will feel harder than the first ones. Not 'cheating' per se, but Daystar (was that the swords name?) makes the shadow lords minions a pushover. Of course you have to convince the lich to part with it first, which is no small task for a beginning party Since I just installed the GoG version of BG2, I feel like playing again. Might as well try out Pop's mod.

Yeah, he is there for the flavour and the conversations, not for the utilitarianism. Being a male protagonist, flirting with Aerie while having him in the party was an interesting (and unexpected) twist. @Pop: What do you mean, the longest to recruit? I know he isn't there for your starting party, but I found Mazzy more troublesome to recruit (without the cheating 'Daylight' sword at least). Cernd too for that matter. Reminds me I still need to finish a game with Cernd in my party

I would love to have given you an informed opinion, but the game was/is so boring that I didn't make it past the prologue I'll probably end up uninstalling it and write it off as a loss. It's trying too hard to be "contemporary" (interpret that as you will).

I would consider both among the more interesting characters... Edwin for his personal quest and Haer'Dalis for being incredibly annoying without being the farting, burping kind of annoying (yes, I hate Jan Jansen, never a scroll of Gnomicide around when you need it).

Bioware having a dedicated 2d studio has the potential to be either awesome, or the factory of saddest facebook franchise knock-off games in the history of mankind. Hey, DA2 looked like a japanese Manga, might as well turn it into a QTE franchise on iPhones! As for the Bethesda lawsuit... makes you wonder if they do it out of a sense of obligation (a google search by their lawyers came up with hits on keywords in their up coming game title) or they (the lawyers) are just trying to justify their payroll by appearing to be doing something. Their performance against Interplay hasn't exactly earned them much bonus I would guess.

One of the best things about buying the big box of all things IWD (except the effin Trial of the Luremaster for some reason) was getting the sound tracks

I actually agree with you here. It would be foolish in the extreme not to make some preperations to that end. I've cleared parts of my property to get two vegtable gardens going (even if the world does not collapse I still am trying to grow the perfect tomato) and I do have a pretty big store of canned and dry goods. Plus I have around 5000 rounds of ammo for my firearms. I live literally right next to a small river and less than a mile from a big one. An the Hatchee wildlife management area is just a few hundred yards from my back door. If I could just learn how to make moonshine I'd be totally self sufficient. I would lie if I didn't admit to just a little bit of envy

My effective tax rate wouldn't really be any different (compared to my current tax rate) if I were to use the numbers at the end of that wiki link. I wonder why there is a separate group for 'Single' and 'Head of Household'. I'm single AND head of my own household, do I get to pick which one I want to use?

I don't think it's as much Atton doesn't want to talk to you, as scripting in general from that point onwards is buggered, expecting that variable to be set. Symptoms may vary, but the game becomes impossible to finish. However, I can't say for sure, as I never ran into that particular bug (just a dozen other, not so game breaking ones). No way would I voluntarily give my gun to a bunch of girls (Han Solo syndrome)

Frankly, reading the latest news (as of a few hours ago), with stock markets plummeting, commodities too, I would probably start considering canned tuna a viable investment for a post collapse society. Only half joking

Sweden... everything has to be regulated through systembolaget Speaking of amusing science, Lego is sending three volunteer "astronauts" (Legonauts?) on the Juno mission (Lego in space)

I never understood how people could live as contractors... Not so much the time that is spent working hard on projects, but the uncertainty between projects spent searching for the next project. Regardless of how good you are and may be in demand, the one time where it is really inconvenient, the timing will suck, Hey, I just bought humble bundle 3, I've got more indie games than I can throw Goo at

Volunteer fire department? It might just be my imagination, but you've seemed more grumpy than usual lately. EA not the career move you'd hoped for?

Steam rather reluctantly because it's the only platform for launching FO:NV , although it's in offline mode by default. I have nice file shredders and real world physical document shredders which I use regularly. I use google for searches. Yes, I know they do profiling on just about anything. Were you thinking of google analytics which just about every second website is hooked up to? In that case, NoScript blocks it. As for cookies, I allow them where it's convenient (like these forums), for the rest, there are disposable virtual machines. Paranoid? Maybe, don't know. I give out info on a need to know basis

Just a guess... you're an introvert? Got the confirmation email that my Cthulhu stuff has shipped. Can't wait to get my own tentacle and cultist singalong texts

Have you tried the suggestions in Hassat's post above? Most reliable "fix" is really to use a save before the initial dialogue on Telos Academy and not pick the surrender peacefully option.

Whoa, that was good I don't know if anybody remember ? But apparently somebody besides me wondered what the heck a guy like that ? Not what you would expect

Become a Mormon and marry all three. Problem solved

It is also increasingly becoming a data mining tool. All for the improved customer experience of course...

...and nobody said anything, because it didn't affect me. When they started demanding that your webcam was on all the time, so they could watch your behavior while playing, nobody said anything, because it didn't... etc. It's just as much about moving borders and thresholds for what is acceptable.

Aborigines became citizens of Australia in 1967. Before that, they were classified as 'Flora and Fauna'. Before that, there was the stolen generation, attempts to 'breed out' the 'aboriginesness' of people etc. Not exactly a muster example of a tolerant, multicultural society.

But what if - and I'm simply speculating here - some eastern European woman wants to show me something artistic? Wouldn't NoScript disable that? By default, yes. You can however change settings on a site by site basis, how much and which scripts you'll allow to run. I've got it off by default and make exceptions for sites like youtube etc. You can also fine tune it by allowing some websites to run scripts only for the current session, i.e. being 'off' again next time you visit.

Firefox with 'NoScript' is your friend. Wave goodbye to Flash

Glad you finally got a job dude, hope you're enjoying it Hey, sounds like one of my first "regular" jobs (as in 60-70 hour work weeks, paid no less), doing pretty similar stuff, except the computer were bigger, despite being called "mini computer", and slower. That was like 25 years ago. Keep it up and you'll end up like me, Kaftan Took two weeks off from work. My first real break (as in more than 4 days off) in a year and a half. Procrastinated a bit the first few days. Then finally picked up painting both my Warhammer and WH40K armies, giving the garden a bit of love and care (and uncontrolled chemical warfare against the weeds) and lastly but not least, going up against the mighty Aussie bureaucracy in the battle to get the license plates and registration on my motorcycle changed from the previous state to the current state. I swear, it's easier to move to a different country than from one Aussie state to another