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Only "a bit"? They have massacred the setting adding non-sensical stuff here and there! To answer alanschu's question: Beth sells and promotes this game as an rpg. It's one of the game's key selling features and that is why I expected Beth to deliver me an rpg, or else this is just plain false-advertising. I took this into account in my rating and that is why I cut 0.25 points. Another game I could compare this with is GTA 3 and all the GTAs that followed. More or less the same style of play.

Ok, I will keep my initial rating of 3.5/5, which is pretty good nonetheless. My excitement was short-lived. I still like the survival and exploration aspect of the game but it now feels more like an adventure game (like Zelda) rather than an RPG. All I have been doing is shooting stuff, looting corpses and places, and doing some trivial quests. I have just started the super heroes quest and I was scratching my head at all this nonsense. Moreover, the NPC lines are really average, the jokes fall flat, and the dialog choices are lame. I wonder how much longer I will manage to keep up with this... Despite what people say, I really like VATS and find it cool to have slow-motion actions. However, how the heck can you decapitate someone with a gun just as if you had used a sword...? Beats me....

Ouch! I really hate Super mutants! I am going for head shots but it doesn't always work... As for scorpions, I am using my Chinese sword and it works great!

I will raise my rating to 3.75/5. The game is really atmospheric. It has its flaws but is enjoyable nonetheless. I am level 7 and I have over 2000 caps. I sell anything I find and then kill the shopkeeper, loot him and sell the same stuff to the next shopkeeper I meet, hehehe... Once I finish Megaton's subquests, I will kill everyone and then blow up the town and then kill everyone in Tenpenny tower, hehehe...

I already know the ending as I followed the let's play thread on the codex. It is indeed lame but as I have said, one has to enjoy this game for what it has to offer: exploration, VATS, shooting and the setting.

Ok, I played more. The game is enjoyable in its own way. The interface remains clunky and I would give the game a rating of 3.5/5.

eh, how'd you do that? i had a minigun and a AK-47 ar whatever it's called few minutes after i left megaton. I wouldn't call it hard as much as repetitive. I found at least 2-3 hunting rifles while clearing out the school and the super market. I don't know if it's my pc but there have been some weird things happening. When I do some critical hit and sent my opponent literally flying around, there's sometimes some weird scrap of metal flying around in the distance just like an UFO. I avoid getting close to it as it may hurt my character but it flies in circles and makes a weird noise (just like a sword, ya know, "swoosh"). Really weird. I have seen this 3 times already...

I also encountered a centaur while fighting some raiders. I panicked a bit at first but it drew the raiders' attention and I managed to kill them all.

Man, Fallout 3 is somewhat hard, especially those super mutants. Best weapon I have found so far is the hunting rifle and I am decapitating almost all my opponents with it. I am a bit lost though. I was looking for the radio station and found a metro station instead. There were some scary ghouls so I left immediately. I then decided to take on the fire ants mission. Man, it's hard to kill those things! I didn't find the boy's house but I found another metro station. I went in and it was full of ants! I then found some door that led to some church area filled with super-mutants that were shooting at BoS knights. I had enough emotions for one day so I stopped there... By the way, the wastelands are way overcrowded: I get to see different types of enemies next to each other without reacting to each other sometimes.

Ok, I have been playing a bit more. I am currently hunting some raiders in some school. There's some fun to be had in that game. However, you have to enjoy it for what it is: a pseudo-rpg shooter. You play this game mainly for the setting and the shooting, not the rules system as they are implemented like s***. The main plot is rather weak and I would qualify this game as something above average.

Oh ok, I made it work this time! I didn't realize I had to give it a .wps extension. Instead, I was adding a .doc extension. No wonder, it didn't work. Then, I have to save it as Microsoft Word file. It's simpler than I thought. Thanks again!

Thanks a lot, man! How did you do this? I have to find some solution so as to not bother you each time.

I have downloaded and installed the Microsoft works file converter but I still cannot open .wps text files, nor save them as .doc files. My gf needs to send some working paper and until I manage to find a solution to this problem, could some gentle soul please help me? I have uploaded the file and I just need it to be turned into a doc file. Thanks in advance! Ebauche.zip

There's no point discussing this with americans. They have a different history and culture, that's all. As I have already said, there are some issues we will never manage to agree about.

Yup, despite both belonging to the occidental world, europeans and americans have very different positions on certain matters: universal healthcare, firearms ownership, death penalty to name a few... We are not that similar...

If things were done right and if everyone contributed according to their wages, there wouldn't have been a funding problem. You don't complain when your taxes serve to fund the war in Iraq but you complain when they are given to provide medication or soothing to some poor soul. That's simply dreadful. What if you lost your job and your house tomorrow and you were asthmatic? How would you pay for your medication? Have you even thought about that? It's not that people don't want to pay their doctor's bill, they just can't. When healthcare is as expensive as it is in the US, how do you expect someone with low wages to pay his taxes, feed his children, pay the rent, pay the school fees and have money left when he, his wife or his children fall sick at least twice a year? When you live in a society, you do not live on your own and work for yourself. You are part of the society and you have rights and obligations as well. It is part of the social contract to allow people to live with a minimum of decency, not like animals.

Being sick is synonym to suffering. If you find it normal that in a developed country, people die in the streets, live like dogs and cannot even afford a doctor, then I am left speechless... We send doctors to third world countries to provide some healthcare, and you find it normal to deprive our own citizens of the very same healthcare? How can you be so insensitive? This has nothing to do with generosity or mortgage or whatever. You decide to buy a house or not. But you don't decide whether you will fall sick or not, have cancer or not, etc. Is it so hard to be humane enough to help each other under such dire situations? There are some basic social needs that should be provided to everyone: healthcare, education, food and lodging if you want me to name them. All western continental european countries provide all of these to some extent. Schools and universities have very low wages and still manage to provide some quality education (high quality in some cases). There are some social buildings where apartments can be rent at a lower cost provided the families have low wages. Food, well, the state doesn't provide directly food but there are some public funded associations that do this job. Finally, universal healthcare is something that is considered as due.

Everyone deserves to get a minimum of healthcare. I cannot understand those countries that have thousands of people suffering because they cannot afford to see a doctor. This is just... inhumane... Then again, there should be limits as to what one can get. I have lived for a long time in France and they were at the other extreme: universal healthcare, people abusing the system, the state being almost bankrupt, high tax to provide funds to all of this... No, that is plain wrong. Look at the scandinavian countries: they have found the just middle.

Look at what BIS did to 2 of their on-going projects...

Well, there are some ways to limit risks: 1) Deal with people who have verified paypal accounts. 2) Don't spend much money on your online purchases. 3) Be ready to ask your bank to make a chargeback if things go wrong. Paypal will never say no to your bank. 4) Be wary of the dispute resolution system as it's pretty much arbitrary. As I said, I never had problems and I hope I will never have. I don't buy things very often though. I made something like 30-35 purchases over the span of 2 years and most of them were small sums of money (between 10 and 20, no matter the currency).

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19 pounds = 8.6183kg !!! We have a future sumo, here!

All of the newer pics depict the same stuff but on a different table. The cards and decks are displayed in a different way that the original pic (the one I just posted) and they all have 24-09-09 as the date.

You do realize a lot of people actually use those words in conversation...at least in my part of the world. And a lot of people also type similar to the way they speak...that is, they're not formal about writing and all the "rules" of English idiom. Could just be the way the guy writes casual notes. As to whether it's a scam...it's always possible. That's just the way it goes. If you want the cards bad enough, you take the risk. The limiting yourself to a certain monetary number is a sensible idea...and you seem to be taking all the precautions you can in this situation...imo you may as well go for it. Well, I have never been to the US, so that may explain things.

Well it seems this guy is reliable after all: he sent me a dozen older and newer pictures of the box' contents and of the extra cards that he will be adding. Here's what he wrote as well: "I set up the PayPal earlier as well as took more pictures that I've attached. The PayPal account will take 2-3 days to verify it said. But as soon as it is I will let you know."