Gromnir

well, given that mother teresa spent decades in the slums o' calcutta, where living conditions were horrific and basic sanitation were frequent like something out o' trainspotting all the while tending to the needs o' the poor and dying, am thinking that you were far more likely to contract something communicable from mother teresa via an innocent peck on the cheek. however, if your kiss changed geography, we would indeed recommend caution. HA! Good Fun! ps thanks for the excuse to insert that trainspotting clip into this thread-- tickles our sense o' whimsy to do so.

our prediction is that PoE will slip to early 2015, but even so, we will not play da:i for at least one year. we waited ~ one year after its release to play mass effect 3 and we do not regret that decision. by waiting 11+ months to purchase me3, we got a much more stable and somewhat cheaper product along with free dlc that likely shoulda' been included with the initial release. we is likely to play wasteland 2 first. HA! Good Fun!

we honestly didn't know the mouth breather's name, so we searched: https://www.google.com/search?q=twilight+mouth+breather&rlz=1C1KMZB_enUS560US560&oq=mouth+breather+twilight&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.9160j0j8&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8 as for best marvel movie, we ain't seen guardians yet, but spider-man 2 has been our favorite thus far. spider-man 2 is another one o' those movies we like that features actors we largely dislike. tobey mcguire and kirsten dunst don't make our list o' fifty favorite actors or actresses. nevertheless, we could appreciate rami's campy take on the superhero genre, coupled with excellent performances from supporting cast and surprising strong contributions from mcguire and dunst. we will eventual see guardians, but our first impression were that we already saw this movie when it were a tv series called firefly. perhaps guardians is an actual good firefly movie. HA! Good Fun!

no matter how bad chrisA book is, many will say it is better than any bio efforts. no matter how good chrisA book is, many will be dismissive. am personal not all that concerned. game writing is different than novel writing. quality o' the novella will not impact our criticisms and compliments o' chrisA writing efforts. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Gpg7kcji0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN_tkzT0Ygg HA! Good Fun!

the tali bit we actually get. no doubt folks like bruce had their hearts race as they imagined tali w/o her mask. there were literal years passing 'tween me1 and me3 and what folks had imagined tali to be had no doubt become fixed. we knew that vader were 'posed to be hideous underneath the mask, but ultimately, at the end, we gets to see that his eyes is sad and kind and very human. reveal o' vader shows if not redemption, then at least a reconnection with his humanity. tali, on the other hand, is a fantasy. what purpose does a reveal serve? sate curiosity? many folks no doubt wanted to see tali (we s'pose) but am wondering if bio thought cost were too great. could any depiction o' tali match the fantasy people had built after years o' slightly disturbing promancing? am suspecting that the biowarians probable did come up with some images that they shared within the office. am wondering if perhaps the reaction o' their own folks convinced bioware that sometimes the fantasy is gonna be better than any possible reality. regardless, hypothetical aside, am doubtful that the biowarians could come up with a compelling reason to destroy fantasy and replace with a reality. HA! Good Fun!

our first impression o' druids were based on caesar's commentaries. oh sure, were largely political propaganda, but the brutal nature-lover spin has stuck with us insofar as fantasy/rpg descriptions is concerned. so, what we need is some wicker man bonfires. if PoE has bogs that might be useful too. historical druids apparently liked to dispose o' sacrifices and/or criminals in bogs. tyrannical hippies who were into human sacrifice? HA! Good Fun!

we will get more than nothing but less than you want. HA! Good Fun!

"A cRPG's story is, by definition, not perfectly linear." disagree. is a frequent misconception that crpg stories ain't linear. they is. virtual all story-based crpgs is linear. what crpgs does is grant an illusion o' non-linearity. we can come back to this if need be, but have spent many useless pages on the subject in the past. as for reapers, we didn't have a problem with me 1 story. the fact that pj doesn't like explanation o' reapers might actual be a necessary quality for a sci-fi franchise to develop a serious geek following. nerds need a "flaw," real or imagined, that they can fight 'bout for an actual following to take root. am having difficulty thinking o' a single popular franchise that doesn't have seeming pointless geek controversy regarding at least one aspect o' the canon. in any event, villain motivations rare make sense when placed under a microscope. sauron, palpatine, sponge bob. frequent we get the "insane" or "too alien" shtick to fill in the gaps. you don't understand hannibal lecter? well, he was insane. is not a particular fulfilling explanation, but dr. lecter's motivations and actions in the movie version o' silence o' the lambs don't require survival o' close scrutiny. were lecter scary and entertaining and believable enough for 90 minutes? snow white and the seven dwarves has been, with adjustments based on inflation, a constant fixture on top-grossing movie lists pretty much since 1937. the evil queen is jealous o' snow whites' youth and beauty. thin motivation, but ok. is a fairy tale after all. the thing is, the motivation gets thinner when one considers that the evil queen has magic that allows her to change her shape. and don't even get us started on cameron's avatar. reaper threat were appropriate crpg fodder. the reapers were having requisite scope to give shephard's actions gravitas. also, the reapers were beings capable o' being fought in a conventional game manner. sure, the reapers were titan scale, but nevertheless, they brought the pew-pew. have milkyway get too close to another galaxy every 50,000 years, setting off otherwise unexplained cosmic event which results in a massive x-ray burst throughout the galaxy would be having requisite scope, but it wouldn't be viable crpg fodder, would it? the me1 reaper (singular) were, for all intents and purposes, a dragon. the greater 'reaper threat' were that while it took combined fleets o' the good aliens to kill one reaper, there were many more out there lurking in the darkness, and they were coming. me 2 and me 3 didn't make much sense to us, but me 1 were fine... better than most. HA! Good Fun!

HA! you complain about strawman? HA! "Obama isn't someone I'd normally defend but his actions in the ME have been at least far more reasonable than the alternatives (McCain/ Romney; random Repub rep/sen) would have been if they had the power to do what they've said. Nothing like saying everything would be fine if they were just in charge and could magically bomb all evil doers with unmissable Righteousness Bombs for hypothetical scenarios." so, show us. mccain or romney saying more military action is needed is, in the grand scheme a very vague thing. saying the rebels in syria or elsewhere is needing more support is also hardly a defined multi-point plan that one may compare to what actual occurred, neither. is also politician speak. they ain't making those choices. they didn't actual have the intel the President had to make those choices. and again, romney or mccain choices would necessarily have been great different simply depending on earlier decisions they had made which mighta completely altered the need to make the decision in question. mccain and romney would likely have faced a different choice when confronting IS today, so saying that based on their commentary today you prefers obama is complete ignoring reality. yeah, mccain could say that if all thing being equal he would do X in libya, but that is not the same as saying that situation in libya would be better or worse if mccain had been in charge, 'cause situation would Not have been equal, couldn't have been equal for all the reasons we noted above. lord you is myopic. but yes, find, "Nothing like saying everything would be fine if they were just in charge and could magically bomb all evil doers with unmissable Righteousness Bombs for hypothetical scenarios." for you to complain that you is victimized by strawman or mischaracterization is so utterly hilarious. please, continue. HA! Good Fun! ps 'cause this keeps getting missed, even if you don't like romney or mccain suggested claims o' how they woulda handled a particular choice, that is far different than, "his actions in the ME have been at least far more reasonable than the alternatives (McCain/ Romney; random Repub rep/sen." you have entered the philip k. **** and harry tutrledove zone. http://www.amazon.com/The-High-Castle-Philip-****/dp/0547572484 http://www.amazon.com/Balance-Alternate-History-Second-Worldwar/dp/0345388526/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407681919&sr=1-5&keywords=harry+turtledove what your vacuous, revisionist speculations require is ray guns or aliens or magic. that is why turtledove sold more books than pkd. add an antimatter or kinetic bombardment device to your hypothetical, then maybe you will generate interest. y'know, give'em the old razzle-dazzle.

agree that your donut won't help you much, but you mischaracterized... again. you do that frequent. compare 2 politicians? sure. compare efficacy o' a politician to a hypothetical holder o' the same office without regard to any o' they myriad factors that went into that decision? HA! all those clowns that got doctorates in history wasted their time and effort 'cause we got karnak the magnificent here on the obsidian boards who can not only accurate predict how mitt romney woulda' handled libya regardless o' the fact that mitt were never President and his track record as the governor o' massachusetts would be less than illuminating on making such prognostications, but we don't know 'bout a thousand other important issues that go into making such decisions, but zor knows, balances and finds mccain and romney wanting. we compare past presidents all the time. is often a silly exercise as it don't prove anything... is a bit like comparing baseball players today to ty cobb or babe ruth. but to compare folks who weren't even elected to the office in question and to believe you can accurate predict how they would made choices in similar situations is asinine. Gromnir knew a guy in high school that tore his acl. he never made it to the big leagues, but he looked like a sure-fire first round draft pick back in 198_. is 'bout a thousand times easier for Gromnir to make guesses 'bout how our friend would been in pro baseball than it is to predict what kinda foreign policy choices mitt romney woulda' made on (insert random important mideast date here). the factors that go into whether a guy can hit major league pitches or field well is far more limited than the literal hundreds and thousands o' factors that go into a single major foreign policy decision... and each new foreign policy choice is largely the result o previous choices, so predictions be increasingly implausible as one attempts to build a fantasy administration for mitt. sorry, is mind-boggling that you genuine believe you can believe you could accurate track mccain and romney foreign policy track record for the me. is actual funny that you is that arrogant. HA! Good Fun!

darn, we forgot achievements. the neever encounter could result in at least four different achievements. should be the only 4 achievements in the game. 1) priestly virtue-- you avoided never's advances 2) first pitch home run-- you got sexification from neever on the first date. hooray! 3) we're all on the same team-- you consummated a same-sex romance with neever 4) keats died young, and so did you-- you killed neever our suggestion thus addresses four recently annoying requests that have appeared on these boards: romance, homage, humor, and achievements. HA! Good Fun!

dear obsidian, as PoE is 'posed to call to mind the ie games, perhaps you might add a neeber/noober to your upcoming release. we would suggest that the npc would incessantly demand romance from one of your party members. he, or she, would follow after your party spouting bad poetry and enumerating advantages o' romances both specific and general. perhaps the npc could sing as am suspecting that would make appropriately annoying. please make the neeber/noober character genuinely romanceable, but have the entire romance arc run its course in the span of a handful o' over-the-top and melodramatic dialogue options, culminating in a slide/cut scene consummation guaranteed to satisfy no genuine fans o' game romance. outlasting neever's (just a suggestion for a name) demands for an abrupt and hollow "romance" should result in a moderate xp gain for the character, much as preternatural patience when facing noober were resulting in a BG xp reward. finally, do not forget to make neever killable. make the him/her killable in some horrific way. same-sex neeber/noober is a given, 'course. our suggestion addresses three recently annoying requests that have appeared on these boards: romance, homage, humor. thank you for your consideration. sincerely, Gromnir esq. HA! Good Fun! ps as an alternative, allow us to choose a dialogue option whereby we may drive a 20 penny nail into our own ears to avoid listening to further romance demands.

yup. jennifer connelly. she looks so young in that pic, but in our defense, that were 1991 and in 1991, Gromnir were much younger too. HA! Good Fun!

y'know, 'pon reflection, we thinks zor ignorance is not entirely his fault. this came up in another thread that perhaps europeans don't get American political system 'cause it is different from US. party of the President is often far less important than folks even in the US believe, and the office o' the President, while offering extreme visibility, is frequent far less powerful than folks understand. President, even if he is of the same party as is 'possedley controlling Congress, does not make choices for Congress... particularly a beltway outsider. even if a President has the power to do something, political realities is that he may not be able to do something... and those political realities change yearly, weekly, daily and hourly. read history of major events in American history and you soon discover that by the time the President makes a decision (if he is the one actually making the decision,) that decision is likely a forgone conclusion. dozens and even hundreds o' smaller decisions go into deciding how a particular President will decide on a given issue. who is on the President's staff? what appointments, major and minor, has the Prez made that impact how information gets to the Prez? what is the relationship o' the Prez with Congress, and key members o' Congress? what is relationship o' the Prez with foreign leaders at the time o' the decision? was weather bad in __________, on ________ ? satellites may not have been able to see through cloud cover, or perhaps assets on the ground couldn't get close enough to make out useful details. how does the President deal with the pentagon? etc. oh, and each previous decision a President made shaped what decisions he were able to make in the future... and zor knows none of those factors, events, appointments conditions and vagaries o' chance that went into romney or mccain's choice #1 much less choice number #20. the absolute arrogance of somebody such as zor suggesting that he knows what woulda happened with romney or maccain decision making "in the ME" is staggering. HA! Good Fun!

am suspecting that qualities o' ubiquitous and omniscient makes that observation irrelevant, but am agreeing that if there is an All-Powerful, one would hope that wal's internet browsing history would be o' negligible concern. nevertheless, you were smote while posting girly pictures, so perhaps He is inordinate concerned with your personal... hygiene? am perhaps dating our self again, but anybody recall best looking girl in the possible worst john hughes film, evar? HA! Good Fun!

were the butt-hurt stuff s'posed to be ironic or hypocritical? distinguishing the two with zor is frequent difficult. *shrug* why on earth is you thinking bolding "in the ME" as significant? "in Ohio" would be no better if you were trying to use imagined and hypotheticals o' romney and mccain as President to excuse obama actions or inaction. hell, if you pay attention you will observe that Gromnir ain't even saying obama deserves criticism. we noted to bruce that obama IS taking heat for perceived failures, and we noted that your use o' romney and mccain as "punch-out" opponents for obama is laughable. is just... stoopid. we need not spend much effort on this episode o' fool smiting 'cause your failure here is so darn obvious. is not too late to compare obama's efforts in the ME to emperor palpatine, or perhaps your favorite barista. HA! Good Fun!

hmmm. just a guess: God punished you for doing something unsavory while looking at girly pictures. HA! Good Fun!

no disagreement. we were responding to zor's observation 'bout thinking obama has done better than mccain or romney would have. measure obama against the imagined evils of folks who failed to become President? historians rare indulge in such fantasies, and for good reason. it struck us as more than a bit silly to judge obama based on how he stands up to zor's fantasies o' romney/mccain/other incompetence. HA! Good Fun!

james cox. who the hell is james cox? well, arguably the worst elected President o' the US were warren harding. is possible andrew johnson or calvin coolidge were worse, but they stepped in from the vice presidency. there is some other candidates for worst President, but harding makes virtual every top five list. most folks who went to university in the US, even if they don't know 'bout harding's presidency, they will likely recognize harding name as having been a president. harding ran against cox. Gromnir had to look up that fact. we can't tell you squat about james cox w/o doing some research. history will not measure obama against mcain or romney. is pretty silly to do so in any event as is much difficult to predict Presidential success or even Presidential action before a person becomes President. after all, we didn't know that obama would go native regarding so many NSA directives and and the handling o' guantanamo detainees. who did know? is fun to go down list o' presidential campaign promises and see how Presidents do in keeping such... or how they fail at doing so. Presidency changes folks. is why we don't measure them against hypothetical standards... 'cept for fun. obama a better or worse president than animal from the muppets? am betting that today we would get more than a few votes for animal. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/23/darth-vader-is-polling-higher-than-all-potential-2016-presidential-candidates/ darth vader, for example, has a good lead over obama. history, for the most part, will not measure obama against romney. is another situation where history gets it right. HA! Good Fun! ps animal for president in 2016

Actually... *that* would be funny It should be a talent. our knee-jerk were to chuckle, but am wondering if obsidian would consider actual doing such a thing. after all, bloody mess were a fallout trait, yes? given josh's weird notions o' funny and the belief that funny should be optional, perhaps one could make HaHa content available via a trait/talent. HA! Good Fun!

MURICA!!! I sure wish we would develop orbital weaponry. Just imagine the jet fuel savings! Finally. A green argument for orbital death lasers. Now we'll get them. Nah, that requires a power source. I prefer Rods from God. Has a nice ring to it too. am thinking our first exposure to such weapons were via sci-fi of heinlein. heinlein may have been a bit o' an odd bird, but 'tween starship troopers and the moon is a harsh mistress, you got a couple sci-fi novels that actually showed up in US military reading lists... starship troopers being the first such sci-fi book to do so. the moon is a harsh mistress also taught us about terrorist cell organization. and before there were hal, there were mike. HA! Good Fun!

they is only gonna get roles as long as they is alternatively hot (fox) and cute (vampire chick... honestly, we forget her name.) but how many years they got available to improve before their more obvious talents degrade? that being said, we agree with you that mere fact that they get so much work should result in improved craft. world's worst carpenter should become at least decent at making a chair if all he does for 10 years is make chairs. directors ain't asking much o' these actresses, so how tough is it to learn to play their one role relative well? am not an actor, so perhaps we is underestimating the skill it takes to play, "chick in denim shorts." HA! Good Fun!

your reply/quote nonsense is... nonsense first o' all, history is indeed useful at times. the US methods were, in the long run, very successful. nuke 2 cities "into oblivion" were less than would have occurred if the US had to invade. in point o' fact, the deaths caused by 2 nukes were far less than casualties that woulda resulted from enough conventional bombings to get japan to eventually capitulate. bombing o' tokyo weren't enough. btw, RUSSIA had plans to invade hokkaido as early as august 1945-- they clear weren't interested in a japanese surrender. you really should read some o' the links or sources provided. Japan is a modern, democratic, and peaceful nation, is impossible to say what woulda' become o' japan without the bombings, but we know they has things pretty good as of august 9, 2014. historty wins, for once. what does korea and ussr have to do with anything? you is mindblowing obtuse. the post ww2 situation were mighty freaking tense. to leave two angry military powers largely in tact were foolish beyond reason. the US, at the end o' ww2 were already planning on how they were gonna need deal with the soviet and other threats. add a constant threat o' reemerging japan in the pacific and germany in europe would' been insane, but we suspect we is talking to the wind at this point. am suspecting you is kinda alone in the notion that the allies shoulda' stopped before crossing into germany, and situation in japan were actual more clear as japan had near 700,000 in china alone in 1945. ww1 ends when germany gets pushed back beyond the hindenburg line... pretty much they way you wanted ww 2 to end. again, look how that worked out for the europeans. "I said "you don't need unconditional surrender". That does not mean "ro reparations or conditions"." *chuckle* and making it obvious that you won't invade is strengthening or weakening your bargaining position? germany had been crushed after ww1, but there weren't near enough oversight o' german industry to be making sure that they didn't rebuild their military industrial complex. ask japanese and germans after ww2 to demilitarize 'cause it is the right thing to do would no doubt be very effective. "Bombing the living s*** doesn't change that. It just costs more lives" strategic bombing did indeed cost many lives. the two nukes AND the threat o' soviet invasion, soviets who wanted to carve out chunks o' asia, saved many lives. japanese had many millions o' ill-equipped soldiers, but a delay woulda' given substantial time to re-equip those troops. japanese navy would take years to rebuild, but by july 1945, the japanese had more than 10,000 aircaft they were reading in anticipation o' kamikaze attacks-- they believed they could increase their hit ratio to 1:6 from previous 1:9 kamikaze numbers. japanese were hoping to delay so that US would need wait out the typhoon season before making an amphibious assault. japanese plans for "peace" were all predicated on hurting invaders hard enough during initial stages o' an invasion so that the imperial army generals could avoid war crimes tribunals and so that japanese could retain lands captured lands in various parts o' asia. your childish notions o' right woulda' cost many lives and woulda' probable seen soviet in control o' hokkaido, at the very least. oh, and it woulda' had US and europeans making the exact same mistake they made after ww1. good idea. HA! Good Fun!

Wolf of Wall Street The Lego Movie I'd suggest both are extremely good at what they do, and will stand the test of time. am thinking Gromnir might finally have to admit that he likes leonardo dicaprio as an actor. we disliked him for years, but somehow we likes most o' his recent body o' work. when actors we dislike sudden become watchable, our world makes just a bit less sense. the fact that matthew mcconaughey was also in Wolf almost caused us to have a brain aneurysm as we disliked mr. mcconaughey near as much as we disliked dicaprio. our opinion o' the stoned and naked bongo frat boy's acting has recent improved as well. if megan fox or that mouth breather from the vampire movies becomes a good actress we may need give up on watching movies altogether. lego movie were just a bit too much like the cat poster it were joking about. will ferrel character mighta' ruined it for us as he were too much. HA! Good Fun!