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Oh, then pun! As for the filling of the gaps of this never to be story, I suspect you are not far off the mark.

Well, in the "real world" 50'es, it was a military dictatorship the first half and a communist dictatorship the second half. Makes it open for interpretation in a Fallout scifi seen from the 50'es perspective. Having the corrupt, nepotist oligarchy of Batista ruling a feudal society when it got caught in the blasts would be a very differnt background setting from the "Americana".

What you need is some good screenwriting skills (combined with good writing skills for the bits and pieces that are conversation and exposition)

Now you sound like my old macro economics teacher... If you ever mention the word(s) price elasticity I'm going to scream Yes, I know the models and I know their uses and lack of when it comes to the real world. Comes a time when a theory/model has to be put to the test or it remains classroom material

Hmm, I'll take a look next time I get there. Work is getting a bit in the way, so it probably wont be before the weekend. Just sent an appointment to myself. I hope nobody checks my calendar (Find Mr. Cuddles) >_

Was sorting through and throwing out some old "junk". I hate throwing out stuff. Never know if that C64 magazine from 1984 turns out to contain useful info again Found some old casette tapes too, although I haven't had a player (not even a walkman) for the last decade. Managed to decode some of the almost faded pen writing on the sleeve. Damn there was some music worth recording from the radio back then. That is, if you had the patience to sit and lurk with the fingers on the Record and Play buttons >_ Tried to find some of these old concerts on dvd, but the closest I got was vhs. *Sigh!*

I should know better than talking to mini boomers. Where the heck do go and find Mr. Cuddles?!? >_ If somebody has some vague hints it would be welcome. Is it somewhere where you can reasonably expect to find it during your travels or is a million to one chance of finding him under a turned over tin plate in an abandoned shack somewhere?

Well you're about to see whether or not a fat tax works, because in a couple of years Denmark will have solid figures to show you. That's part of how evidence-based policy works. Try things, then a few years later, evaluate their performance. It beats banging to the drum of some blind ideal like "TAXATION IS ALWAYS BAD, AVOID ANY POLICY THAT INVOLVES TAX!!!11" There is such a thing as thinking policy through before applying it. 1. Real world 'trials' have huge costs associated with them in terms of little things like people's lives and businesses. 2. Real world 'trials' by their nature don't tell us what makes them succeed or fail. We may try something and fails due to freak circumstances, or succeed in the same way. Build more vaults Seriously though, how else are you going to know for sure if not trying it out? >_

The Circle of Beer From my favourite web comic >_

I think you are on to something important there

A few of the landmarks might be different, but it would be too similar to Washington DC to feel "new". FO3 covered ruined metropolises, FO:NV covered desert/frontier style settings. We need more swamps in games, so the everglades would be interesting. Bring in the mutated alligators and lots of radiated water Any significant landmarks on Hawaii?

I was hoping for a corporate fat cat tax. Damn. The reasoning behind the tax was sort of "logical". Danes live shorter lives than other similar countries and the main cause of death seems to be related to high cholesterol numbers and cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes (caused by overweight). They could of course also make gymnastics and physical exercise compulsory, like in the military. Since they have something akin to a communist government now, it wouldn't be a far stretch of the imagination having Chinese style peoples exercise programmes

Thanks, will give it a try Installed Mysteries of Westgate and just tried out the character creation and introduction. Looks like a nice enough game, but jeebus, the dialogue is awful (not the acting, just the writing). Like somebody trying to recite text written for a book, not the "stage"

Go wactch some post-Katrina videos on youtube

Anything that shortens the average life expectancy of a Deathclaw would be welcome

I kind of liked "The Pitt" (just guessing, the real world equivalent has a lot of steel industry?), but wouldn't Philadelphia be sort of unknown outside the US? While it is an American game, a large number of units is sold outside the US. Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York and Washington DC are world famous for various reasons. Philadelphia is something you spread on your bread Gentle mocking aside, there probably are a lot of locations that could make for interesting Fallout games. Ever considered the other side of the conflict? A game set in Shanghai? Playing as Canadian Freedom fighters struggling against power armour clad invaders etc.?

Where did you think the inspiration for "Pet Cemetary" came from? Edit to add: I give up. I've really tried to find a nice young Gruy

I'm trying to imagine MCA's take on something like "Finding Nemo". We would probably see wannabe good shark turning into a fish killing machine, nemo being sacrificed in the front of his dad and turned into sushi while the ocean floor gets covered in a life extinguishing blanket of toxic pollution and Dory being processed by a taxidermist for a longer lasting experience for the dentists little monster kid

Still playing FO:NV, still having loads of fun, even if still dying in spectacular ways every now and then. Besides the accidental deathclaw encounter, I got surprised by ambushes twice ( and ). Overcame the first after a few trials and whimped out on the latter, being woefully "underequipped" for the situation. I'll be back! Bought Mysteries of Westgate from Gamersgate, so I foresee a return to NWN2 in a not so distant future. I still have my NWN2 installed, but I start worrying about the online patching/update process. Are these files/install procedures available (legitimately) for offline installation?

Logic? What logic?

Surviving vault 34 (so far)... Took me forever wandering around and back tracking and back back tracking and so forth to realize that I was actually looking at two different pools of water with a dead ghoul technician in each Killed the overseer and found the reactor room. Found some kind of reference to survivors, but I had to turn around and leave. Almost out of Radaway and I glow enough in the dark to not need the Pipboy light Time to visit a doc and get rid of some of that radiation (and stock up on medical supplies). Noticed that I started losing strength too when radiated enough. I sure as hell hope that lower level Armoury is worth it.

Round up all filesharers and stick them in jail, then you can assume 0% loss Alternatively stop creating products that can be distributed digitally. Got better ideas?

That's a bit tricky to do due to the nature of the subject of investigation. You might convince some to come forward and share with you (pun unintended), but most probably wouldn't go further than letting friends and family know how much or how little they participate in such activities. It's a bit like trying to estimate how much the Russian mafia swindles out of the Russian state. You can make guesses and fill in the blanks (extrapolate), but it is in its very nature never going to be exact science. You can only do the second best thing and start working on models that you think will make good approximations.

Yeah, yeah. you are such a humanitarian. I'm surprised you haven't started arguing yet that we should lift the ban on drink driving. Such a nanny state principle. I've yet to hear a drink driver not assure the cops that he wasn't fully capable of judging whether or not he was able to drive, so why should the state take that decision away from him. What are a few deaths and destroyed families in the big picture when peoples freedoms are impaired?

*Yawn* Not really sure who you are trying to insult? The developers who loses money on piracy or customers who suffers DRM as a consequence of it?