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That reminds me of my mod days on BIS when half of all links posted to the forums (and bout 90% in IRC) were some form of tubgirl or goatse... That said I shall endeavor to answer the question - I am led to believe in PATH OF EXXXILE that you can get Viconia to click your rocks and get a ring of protection in the form of a virulent STD guaranteed to protect you from all but the most desperate for money nightwalkers; however the "first map" you allude to - used to rescue Dynaheir - is found somewhat differently than in dialogue with Viconia and fade-to-black screening. To get the "first map", you must instead extricate it from where Minsc hid Boo that one time, and after taking the trouble of getting that map out, yeah Minsc is a bit touchy if you decide not to follow up on the lead he's so thoughtfully provided you. Dynaheir isn't terribly happy about it either, but then by the time you find out (in this scenario) its a little late for that information to be terribly relevant. Hope this helps.

dude where is that from Katawa Shoujo visual novel, the internets tells me.

I suspect he didn't know what he meant and wasn't sure how he could describe it so left it kind of hanging out there.

It is better if Obsidian petitions Square Enix. Surely a petition from potential customers would carry more weight with Square Enix than a request to fund a game from Obs?

Well a bit more embarrassing to me since I was the volunteer mod for the PST forum on the BIS board and I'm pretty sure it came up when the soundtrack got brought up...

I can't wait to develop more meaningful and complex relationships in an RPG this makes one wonder why you have interest in the bioware romances... is a virtual oxymoron-- meaningful bioware romance. by definition, an optional game romance that is both insular and discreet has rather harsh limits on how meaningful it may be. HA! Good Fun! Gromnir surly you realize that Romance adds to a deeper connection with party members in a RPG , this has been irrefutably proven. You do know this right? "The romance is 'deeper', wink, wink, nudge, nudge - say no more!" Well the if they're going for "realistic" I hope it would include - PC can pursue characters romantically that will never work out (romance can fail for reason other than PC choosing to fail it) Romance "approval" rating that includes considering how the NPC is treated in combat (if your love interest keeps getting knocked out in every fight, s/he might think less of you), how you treat her/him, how they perceive you treating others, etc. rather than just what you say to them in camp (or worse, what gifts you give them).

You know, I knew that at one point and forgot. Oops! I can remember **** that happened on Black Isle's forum a decade ago, but I can't remember something about one of their actual games...kinda sad, actually.

But there can be only one! Or is that immortals and not Bruces? Maybe we can lop some heads off until we're sure? Not yours of course, other Bruces.

For BG2 and ToB, there was Gromnir, Mencar Pebblecrusher, Del, and Lanfear. I may be forgetting a few. But there were definitely a lot of crybabies. Including Lanfear herself, who couldn't quite get a joke. ...Typical humorless German not understanding American/Kanedan making funny. Lanfear is a name of a fairly major character in The Wheel of Time books, which were extremely popular books in the 90s (and 00s) if you're somehow unaware. It would be a very safe wager that the forum user took her/his name from these books, and that bioware did as well. And on that note, I'd wager that most of the names you guys are thinking were taken from forum posters that made it into games were really not, and the game creators were just taking the name from the same place the forum poster got their name from, wherever that was. In the case of Lanfear, it was about the poster, who was a fan of Coran in the first game and lobbied hard for his inclusion in BG2. When the game comes out, lo and behold Coran is in it. For about two seconds before he and the PC confront Lanfear who promptly kills Safana (and IIRC if the player is a female PC she kills Coran too) and then leaves (if not killed) after Lanfear is killed by the party. My memory is the original poster was outraged about this and made a big fuss before leaving the boards. Gromnir was about him as well (is there another Gromnir?). I don't even remember Mencar Pebblecrusher at this point. But do remember Del and Draconis. Still hard to believe these things that happened on the boards are now being lost to time...

I know what you meant, but I had a sudden flash of Russia requiring proof that rational people were only marrying irrational people as they forbade "interrational" marriage between two rational people such that the irrational people get forced to wear φ armbands so they can be properly picked by those represented by the set ℚ...

Is that the explanation for why that end credits song on PST sounds like its from a different game? I'd always wondered about that.

I thought Amway was like Avon, Mary Kay or Tupperware - it was a direct selling company.

Well - what about the classics like David Lynch's Eraserhead? If not that, have you watched any Alejandro Jodorowsky films? El Topo and Santa Sangre are pretty good; Holy Mountain certainly has a cult following but I've never been as satisfied by it as others are. If you like dark comedies at all, you could do worse than cult film The Ruling Class with Peter O'Toole.

I got to admit, I've never understood the appeal of the Evangelion series.

I've never tried to get all the trophies or achievements or whatever in any game, I don't see SPSoT changing that at all.

Its a video of the first "one of these things is not like the others" song & sketch from Sesame Street.

The thing that I don't get is that the first paragraph is being accused of "[erasing] queer sexuality in men and women and totally [being] a transphobe in [Jensen's] opening paragraph" and yet the opening paragraph is about her experiences: "When I attend a show like GDC or E3, I tend to get a number of questions from the press related to the fact that I have innie genitalia rather than outtie." (emphasis mine) And that there are people agreeing with the poster is mind boggling seeing that he or she seems to fails at reading comprehension. I really don't get it. Add in that people seem to be thinking that Jensen is stating some form of "gospel" about design rather than her preference...it kind of makes me sad that people don't actually seem to want to understand what people post rather than just read what they want to into it and go off on their own tangents. I mean, sure "the author is dead" but that doesn't mean you had to waylay him in the parking lot like a ninja and put two in the back of his head.

Well in that case I'd argue - as you recognize - the problem is really the player doesn't want to go into the combat the combat theme signals is forthcoming rather than a problem with the music itself, but it is a fair point that people would find themselves in that situation given the circumstance and repetition over time.

Okay...I'm a irredeemable game re-starter. If I can create my character I'll tinker around with race/class combinations (add a moderately deep character appearance editor and I may spend hours before I start the game). I like being able to skip cutscenes because of it so I can get to test driving the character I created. But weirdly I also feel like I've cheated my final character if I don't playthrough the entire game with that character. Weird, I know, but even thought the Elder Scrolls allowed you to change the character at the end of the prologue (and you could save right before there and come out with any character you wanted) I always played the prologue because that's where I got to see the character in action.

The only time I've ever had problems with repeating music is when I didn't like the song. If I liked the song and was tired of hearing it, mentally I just stopped paying attention to it.

I don't really see a similarity other than the orchestration and being slower mid-tempo songs. The actual unobtrusive melodies in each don't actually sound much alike to me.

Well, you just break the law. Jaywalking is pretty common here, occasionally the cops do a crackdown because too many pedestrians get killed by cars but for the most part they ignore it (like everything else, heh). Or because you're black. Supposedly the whole thing is a scam, legislation pushed through by special interest. The whole 'jay walking kills' campaign. Not supported by stats. Eh...there's a school across the street from where I work and a lot of the community kids jaywalk to get to the campus. Also about four bus stops for the public transport system (not school bus) along the street where community adults go to catch the bus. There's a high number of accidents on the street but I've not heard of anyone being killed because of those accidents. That said, I've never been late walking either - its not like you can't know how fast you walk and how the lights are timed if you use the road paths more than once. (And at least locally we have crosswalks that aren't at lights now where traffic is supposed to stop for pedestrians using the road to cross)

There's still some issues (I don't know about nursing, specifically) in some situations. http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.full Nice read, still I would had liked if they had gotten to the bottom of what their bias was specifically. While the story is interesting, 127 is a rather small sample size. Given that the reviewers were science faculty from similarly situated universities, not only do you have a limited sample size you also have a specific test pool that could skew the data Is the bias endemic to research institutions, institutions of higher learning, to the sciences or the greater culture? We can't know from this study. I'd also argue that with such a small pool you also have a problem of being able to extrapolate to larger populations. Given that we also don't know the backgrounds but do know the faculty were all science faculty at intensive research institutions there might also be a question of whether the "random faculty" coincidentally don't have random backgrounds (ie they end up being products of very similar personal, professional, educational, and life experiences - perhaps enough so that the bias is explained because the random group has become comprised of people who have through similar development brought similar outlooks to the experiment and thus wield a similar bias). There would really need to be follow-up studies on this with broader populations to really understand the bias and where it might come from and whether it exists in the way the study describes on a wide scale. EDIT: Learned a new word today - Doxxing.

^I understand your criticism but not really my feeling. Sure I felt it was stupid when she shouted in the scene mentioned. I didn't mind the hiding information since that seems to be a pretty common occurrence in today's fiction (heck the entire series Lost was based on people not telling things that if they had would have saved people and probably got them off the island faster).

What bunker were they living in to not hear of Erin Brockovich when the movie came out (it garnered a bunch of award nominations)? Unless you told a bunch of teenagers or something who were like...3 when the movie came out...