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Fixed. Even if you had read all 30+, you still wouldn't have a good idea of how long NWN2's campaign is going to be. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is true. However, when Feargus says the game is going to be 20 hours, then I have a tendency to believe the game is going to be 20 hours. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah, but it was a German interview, that translated Feargus's alleged comments from English, that was quoted by the Codex and re-translated back into English. Hardly a smoking gun ... as Mr Sawyer pointed out, even the QA testers won't have any idea how long the game is until the last couple of weeks before release; and their experiences will obviously be skewed towards their speeding through it.

What about a game like Tombraider, where there is a bonus level if the player gets all the hidden triggers ... I assume they need to incorporate the triggers and bonus level, too?

And so, another thread drowns under its weight in spicy ham.

Cheers for that, Niten Ryu. @Eldar:

Congratulations on the career move and commiserations on the weather you will be experiencing ...

More games = good.

US citizens make better eating, with all that extra fat on their ribs ...

The G-Man makes a cameo?

That is completely implausible. Nice fantasy world, but it neglects the other Golden Rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules. In other words, power corrupts. I'm starting to think that anarchy is a better idea than some super-sized centralized democracy. Smaller, chimposphere-sized groups governed as democracies (or even communes) and these all have formal relations with the each other. The total administration overhead couldn't be any larger than the extrapolated mess from any country-sized administration.

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I wasn't doubting the posts here about the pyramids. I had already seen a news item on TV about the subject and the whole thing seemed a bit strange. How did the pyramids get lost in history? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Insufficient dusting? People. Someone had lots of extra cash sitting around, and decided to pay some other fit people to build it. Maybe they ate seafood.

I remember there were some experiments done using microwave domicile heating ... it was very efficient, but counter-intuitive, because people would keep warm but surfaces and objects would still feel cool to the touch ...

The peak of the Roman Empire was pre-Christian: Augustus found Rome as brick, and left it marble; Nero actually blamed the Christians for the fire of Rome, and was fond of feeding them to the lions; Hadrian was the first Emperor who actually decided to change the expansionist policy prevalent since the overthrown of the Etruscan despot Tarquin the Proud. By the time the Roman Empire was Christian, under Constantine (at his deathbed) the Vandalls, Goths and Visigoths were already baying at the gates and it was about to be cloven into the Eastern and Western Roman Empires.

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It will.

Sure he was obviously metagaming, but not cheating. Just imagine how many times he played the game to perfect his technique ...

No he didn't cheat, he ran to a place where he stole an expert mortar and pestle etc (the tree village, I think it was) and used mushrooms and whatnots to make the potions.

I admit that sounds a bit far fetched. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nah, I've seen the video. What the dude did was just make and take loads of potions for intelligence and fatigue, until his PC had about a thousand points in each, then went and grabbed the hammer-thing (without the special gauntlet to prevent the enormous loss of fatigue) and the goes to the end-boss and smacks him with the hammer a few times.

I was helping you with your paranoia, so that you may find some solace.

Well my English sucks but, what is "persons" <{POST_SNAPBACK}> More than one person. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Where's Meta at? That is improper use of grammer. People is plural for person not persons. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was just answering his question... I guess I'm in a litteral mood <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And you were correct.

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You are making the fallacious equivocation between you and other people. Others don't need to swear to explain themselves. The fact that you have to "appear better than you are" says to me: you know that swearing makes you appear a lesser person you know that swearing makes you a lesser person you probably don't realise that others do not need to swear to express themselves, adequately. Additionally, swearing in a blunt way to express more complex concepts without expressing them; exactly like adding "you know?" as an interrogative appeal at the end of an inadequate statement by someone hoping to convey their meaning. In other words it is the enemy of eloquence. Therefore I am ag'in it. It means that those of us who don't swear in general conversation needn't be bludgeoned with it when going about our normal daily business. You seem to have been brought up in a very (verbally) hostile environment. Others are not so unlucky. Your logic is flawed, and relies on everyone else being equally incable of constructing a sentence without profanity to express themselves. Also, I don't need to have a reason, I'm telling you to stop swearing. That's what you will do, or you will get a warning. That is much better.