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Your question broke my immersion in this thread. Also if you want to shield bash more than every 15 seconds, you should make your shield your primary weapon. Can you see it, wading into battle a shield strapped on each arm and ready for battle...?

Maybe its for handy toilet paper?

Why not both?

I'm pretty sure not taking leadership abilities (Shout at your troops and rally for a +2 benefit) doesn't really mean you're a poor leader without those skills. It also has to be about how you choose to use your character's abilities, or at some point you're watching a movie not playing a game. There has to be some balance between what the player expects to do and what the avatar on screen can accomplish. Note that the "ability" to wield a sword or to activate a parry mode or activate a stinging strike aren't distinct; all are inherent abilities your character owns. They're not dependent on your ability to accomplish those. But if your character chooses not to use parry mode...they're not a better or worse sword fighter, just one who isn't about parrying. The questions should be about the validity of the abilities not that you have to choose to use them. I suspect what you're really getting at is less the verisimilitude of the abilities but rather the utility of the abilities and your own dislike for micromanaging; I'd be very surprised if lower difficulty setting required much micromanaging of ability.

Walsingham stars as Snake Plissken in ESCAPE FROM UK

Not really a fun weekend for those who were mods at the time.

Yeah never read or watched a Twilight film.

He could hope he stumbles across a working android and a cool car like Logan did in Logan's Run (the tv series, the robot in the movie wasn't terribly helpful and I think they walked everywhere in the movie too).

Why would home computers go away? Is the commercial and professional world switching to tablets too? AutoCAD iOS version maybe? Eventually I think all the radio/tv/console/computer/media stuff will merge into one sort of thing What do you mean, "eventually"? You can already do all of that on a stinkin' normal PC today. Not in the way I mean it, but essentially yes I think that something akin (but not quite like our current PC concept) will be used to interface with entertainment options that are not held on a computer in your house; there won't be a need for separate anything as between the "PC" and the outsourced data you'll have at your fingertips a way to control all of your entertainment and possibly a lot of your general living experience with the "PC". We've taken huge steps towards it but not to the degree I predict it will go.

The moral I learned - don't watch documentary's about sci-fi films of the 50s before going to bed. "Why?" you may ask. Because sci-fi films of the 50s tended to be grimly nihilistic (it happens when you think a nuclear bomb is going to be dropped on you at any second). Naturally, with such images poking through my head, I promptly went to bed and had apocalyptic dreams. Various kinds of decay and destruction and annihilation, either societal, personal or professional.

Going to see this next week. I was rather disappointed in who was chosen to play Jace. But I'll wait and see how it plays out. I saw it, never read the books. It was okay but could have been better. Edit: Also re-watched THE INCREDIBLES - lovely fun superhero film FORBIDDEN PLANET - best sci-fi film of the 50s, IMO.

Why would home computers go away? Is the commercial and professional world switching to tablets too? AutoCAD iOS version maybe? Eventually I think all the radio/tv/console/computer/media stuff will merge into one sort of thing (which, I suppose, could be looked at as a home computer, but I think it'll be more expansive than our current concept of a home computer).

Eh...eventually all of the consoles will go away (as will home computers). But, I'm a bit wary about the console market not really having any competitive spirit, though.

Well depends, you still need something wide enough to cover the dome as the teepee would narrow. Wigwam would fit better, to be honest, with its curved structure over an igloo.

Its a floor wax AND a dessert topping!

At moments like this, I like to think to myself "What would gfted1 do?" Which I think is to give the fellow a throat chop. Seriously, while I understand where Wals is coming from, sometimes having people always picking you up off your ass just further enables a person to deny responsibility for themselves. On the other hand if he's not completely lost to the idea of hardwork, Wals suggestion may have merit. Two questions come to mind - is there really no work in his field, or is that claim masking perhaps that he doesn't want to work in his chosen field but has no clue as to what he should do or even how to extricate himself from expectations that his field was what he would do (in essence a bit of career related existential angst; "If I can't be my Career I am nothing")

But where are you going to get a conical tent of the right size to fit a house in?

I believe that's "driven off the cliff of off-topic mountain, plunging Hollywood style in an exploding car through the thread", to be fair. (just kidding, I was enjoying the debate) That said, China Miéville, an avid RPGer at one point, is often accused of swiping large parts of the PLANESCAPE setting of Sigil for his first novel, PERDIDO STREET STATION. Planescape was the setting used for BIS' PLANESCAPE: TORMENT which used Bioware's Infinity Engine which was also used for Baldur's Gate which Dragon Age: Origins was said to be the spiritual successor to, of which Dragon Age: Inquisition is the second sequel. There back on topic.

To be fair, Kilmer's film just FELT like two films, rather than actually BEING two films. The big problem, really, is that the studio felt that it was the dark tone of BATMAN RETURNS that led it to not be the same kind of success that BATMAN had been. So they did a 180 in tone, allowed the director to do two bright, candy color modern take on the 60s pop art / campy Batman with truckloads of ridiculousness. That said, I'm neutral on casting Affleck. He has some acting ability, so the question to my mind turns to the script and direction of the movie.

Get well Nep! Also I can't believe there was a debate about whether KainParker should go for women in their 20s or their 30s and not one of you suggested "both at the same time". I'm ashamed at the depths you lot haven't sunken to.

Eh, even as someone who likes action games of its type (Champions of Norrath, BG: Dark Alliance to some degree) my memory of it is that it suffered from poor loot poor character progression mediocre level design mediocre villains mediocre quests and little impetuous to complete them That doesn't mean every complaint against the title (which received a lot of bad notices for many, many things during its development) was valid. But I forced myself to beat it once and then sold it.

I've seen people screwed over by family and by friends and by strangers. The family and friends one are worse, because the person who is screwing up usually defends their actions with a "but we're family/friends you should forgive me/understand!" Moral of the story - I wouldn't loan money to anyone with the expectation to ever see it again. Sargy - maybe my biggest problem is I didn't have a message board with which to chronicle my exploits on.

Eh...ME3 was okay. That said, I really think ME3 builds heavily on what ME2 set-up and I think ME2 breaks heavily from what ME1 promised. For me ME1 is the superior concept and ME2 and 3 go off in another direction with varying results.

I used to know all the words - and be able to sing - "Dentist!" from LSoH. Yeah I watched the movie a few too many times... I don't have many cat stories unless we go back to my childhood and I tell stories of how my cat jumped over a fence onto the back of a doberman that had wandered up to the gate. The Doberman didn't know what had happened... ...hehehe...we's jus' too old fer all that foolishness now, 'Tep...jus' say ya was wild in yer former years an' now yer jus' wistfully reminiscent...hehehe... ...WHO LUVS YA, BABY!!... I'd agree to that, but when I wistfully reminisce, I discover I was a bit of a drip as a youth. Nothing fun happened to me then either. I can't even afford a good mid-life crisis now...

I hate posting to this thread because of all these various crazy exploits that get posted. Bastards the lot of you (you know who you are). From now on I'm just making **** up about my life and posting it here.