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Really now. Weirder than carrying around multiple suits of armor along with 20 guns and a cornucopia of random "stuff"? Because...somehow a person could actually carry multiple suits of armor? I prefer the 1lb pencil over that, though I think there's got to be a better way for both sides of the argument. Actually no I don't think its weirder than that. Both are weird (and I say this as someone who recently carried about 4 outcast power armors some distance to store in my Megaton House). As I mentioned above I think no upper level limit to encumbrance is also weird! I was carrying 530 lbs and still walking and shooting! Still enjoy the game, but its got some weird elements in it. Ideally I'd rather some negligible weight stuff (like pencils) and an uppercap on how much you can carry that you can't move with or pick up past. Ideally IMO no one should be regularly carrying around 220 lbs of gear anyhow particularly not for long distances...80 is probably going to be a problem for an average person I'd think.

I think if they can't go under a pound that certain items with a weight well under a pound should be weightless rather than a pound personally. Picking up a 1lb pencil and having it make you encumbered is just weird.

I watched Planet Terror again recently and it IS amazing.

When I briefly ran a webcomic it was hosted by other people so I can't help you there, alas. In fact given that I'd like to start it back up, I need to start figuring out how to host the thing myself. However I was a total scanner & clean up digital than tablet guy. I gather from online reading is that the Bamboo Pen is supposed to be an entry level type tablet - more general use than art focused. But given that this is kind of a fun sideline, it might be worth looking into. Slashgear's Bamboo pen & touch review

I hated the Fallout 1/2 inventory, although as you say FO2 was slightly less hair-pulling. I don't mind limitations on where you can place stuff with a paper-doll system. I mean if the repair system doesn't require me to carry around 5 missile launchers than certainly having to have the missile launcher in the over-the-shoulder back location would make sense. One inventory thing I found odd was that there doesn't actually appear to be an upper limit to how much you can carry. At one point I had around 50 pistols and about 60 rifles in my inventory. My carry weight was around 530 lbs, but I was over-encumbered at 200. There's no way I should have been legitimately walking around with 530 lbs, much less shooting enemies in the face while slow-walking. So has there been anything said about a max carry weight for FO:NV?

If nothing else can you announce when you'll announce when the official announcement will be?

Ah...hadn't heard about the lawsuit. I had been kinda surprised that a 4E game hadn't been announced already (from some publisher or another) and was wondering why...

Wait, you don't like carrying around countless teddy bears, spoons, plates, and whatnot for the junk gun? In playing FO3 again, I'm collecting Teddy Bears for my house in Megaton. And intact Garden Gnomes. Too bad its not easier to place these things. Frankly inventory management is one of those abstractions that I usually just like to roll with however the game presents it, so not a big issue to me. A totally weight based system like Fallout is just as non-realistic as playing inventory tetris with a space limit, IMO.

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Good luck w/the new gig!

She growled and then tried to kill me just like every other darkspawn in the game. Hespith, Branka's former lover explains the Broodmothers - which I thought was actually one of the creepier parts of the game, personally. I can. He's aretarded. he's evil. he's a scumbag. he's a peice of crap. I blame because he's probably the most retarded thing in the whole game. He was blinded by his hate toward Orlesians, but atleast he didn

I've never played it, but the manuals are hilarious.

So, God is a fatalist? Fatalism would imply that time matters and reality is directed towards a known outcome; but from God's perspective time doesn't exist because he created time. There is no set outcome (a tenant of fatalism) but for God the outcome exists because all that time encompasses has already done so. Its really Compatibilism. Ohhhh . . . so he is a nihilist. What makes you think that? If God exists and created us, then surely that is the very definition of life given purpose and intrinsic value, is it not? I don't think nihilism really works with theology. Umm. If God is possessed of both omniscience and the quality of existing outside of time you ascribe to him (I agree with that, as it makes everything even more absurd), it all amounts to Him dropping a stone and then kicking it afterwards, in punishment for falling. He would have known before creating Satan that he would disobey and be punished. Ergo, no free will at all -- either He cannot predict what His creations will do (back to the irresistible force paradox), or He created Satan knowing he would betray Him. Of course, if God exists outside of the realm of logic... Knowing that Satan will betray him does not equal creating Satan to betray him. That he creates a creature that of its free will will betray him and that he knows that Satan will, is and did betray him does not negate that it was Satan who chose to betray him. The thing you're assuming is that God created Satan to do something. Knowing that someone will do something because it has already happened is different from knowing that someone will do something because you've given them no choice. Imagine you invent a time machine and go in the future and find out all the details of your future son's life. You then travel back in time and produce the son in question - have you robbed him of his free will just because you know what he'll choose to do? Or do you know the result of his free will thanks to knowledge based in being able to move outside of time? To my mind the son is still free to choose the path he wants; you just happen to know what the end result of those choices will be before he makes them. If then your son at the age of three needs to be punished, have you created him just so you punish him? Or do you punish him because of the choices he made? Certainly I think the later. Knowledge of outcomes to my mind does not negate the free will choices made prior to the outcomes - hence the philosophy of compatiblism. You're mileage may vary, of course.

But does he bring more fun than humanzees?

Do you know how much space would a game that had two completely different characters as protagonist would take? :look: Aside from the fact that is lackluster to kill the main character (that would drive most people away) then you would get a finale where your PC is trying to fill in Shepard's shoes the whole story. Is like going to a Led Zeppelin concert only to find that Jethro Tull will play instead. I didn't say it'd be feasible to actually do, just that from a story perspective it'd make sense and is possibly an expectation in the audience who got the everyone dies end. Plus I wanted to make a Biff the Understudy reference.

So, God is a fatalist? Fatalism would imply that time matters and reality is directed towards a known outcome; but from God's perspective time doesn't exist because he created time. There is no set outcome (a tenant of fatalism) but for God the outcome exists because all that time encompasses has already done so. Its really Compatibilism.

*points* Haa haa!

Dr. Ilya Ivanov was a pioneer in artificial insemination amid Livestock, IIRC. I think he did the first zebra/domestic horse crossbreed. In the 1920s he attempted to create a human-ape hybrid by using donor sperm in chimpanzee females. None took. If memory serves me he tried to organize human female volunteers for an attempt with ape sperm, but a number of factors ended the project. While the experiments were supported by the government (Academy of Sciences and the Society of Materialist Biologists), I don't recall a specific rationale that these ape-humans would be the soldiers of tomorrow as a reason to do it. This kind of thought wasn't necessarily unusual if a bit radical - see Serge Voronoff's research into introducing grafting chimpanzee testicle tissues to human testicles in an attempt to jump start human glands and improve/prolong life or Skevos Zervos the first person to attempt such a transplant.

Interesting, I tried to find that news at other sites but had failed. Thanks for the link. Still surprised the spokespeople weren't named!

Down to not even naming the spokespeople of the companies/organizations involved?

Well there goes any plausibility that the Weekend at Bernies series may have had... Also, maybe its just all the Urban Legend spams I've gotten, but I find it very suspicious that not one person in the story is named - not the arrested women, the dead man, the spokesperson for the airport, the spokeswoman for Rowland Brothers Funeral Home, Spokeswoman for easyJet or the spokesperson for the police. Suspicious story or poor journalism?

Dunno where I heard it to be honest, so its probably something I misread. Still given its an option for a legitimate end to ME2, it'd make sense to me (and probably only me) to allow a follow-up with that in ME3 (where you play Biff the Understudy through the game )

Ugh...made the mistake of reading the user comments. When will I learn?

Psalm 103:20: "Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure." The Angels have free will but have a very specific role in Heaven serving God; if they didn't have free will there would be no need to voice His word (as their will would be His). God's omnipotence vs Free Will isn't mutually exclusive since God created Time, He presumably exits outside of time and can know the choices we make with our Free Will and has always known the choices we'll make (from his perspective we will, are and have acted). Therefore an angel could rebel against God and therefore need to be punished based on whatever decision was made by God in terms of punishment; the choice would be Satan's alone, but God would already have known his choice because from God's perspective the choice had already been made.

Why would they replace them? I mean what's wrong with saying "Hello player, you got your entire team killed in ME2 so you're going to have to do this with Liara and Blasto the Hanar as your only companions." I mean they're supposed to take into account Sheppard dying in ME2 (or have I misread)? My hair? Lost a fight with an electric socket.