NO! Do not tarry into the forbidden desert of Console! All ways look alike, and you will die without dialog!
Seriously there's several RPGs on the PC worth looking forward to, several of which should come out within the next year (clipped from one of my earlier posts):
The Black Hound - Originally was in production at Black Isle as Baldur's Gate 3 (though it has nothing to do with BG1 or BG2) but was canned when it was nearly complete. Josh Sawyer, the original game's Lead Designer who's now working at Obsidian, is recreating the game as a mod for NWN2.
The Planescape Trilogy - Three large campaigns for NWN2 in the Planescape setting that look promising, despite the obvious titles (from the Divine Comedy, CLEVER!). The first part, Purgatorio, is almost done.
Dragon Age - Bioware's mystary PC RPG based on original IP is, well, a mystery. All previous work has been scrapped, a couple of times, and the project started anew, but some hints by Dave Gaider lend some hope to this maybe possibly turning out decent. Unlike Mass Effect.
The Broken Hourglass - An infinity engine RPG by the best infinity engine modders out there. Whether that means that they will be making a great RPG with the engine remains to be seen. Based on original, non-DnD setting and rules.
Age of Decadence - An "isometric, turn-based, single-player 3D role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world, inspired by the fall of the Roman Empire." Currently under development by an asshole. He's also a purist, though, so it may turn out respectably, if it ever turns out.
The Alien RPG - I know virtually nothing about other than Obsidian is making it and they say it's an RPG. Probably won't be out until 2008. Or later.
And of course...
Fallout 3 - Bethesda has it. They say it won't be "Oblivion with guns", but they lie frequently. I still have a sliver of hope, though. We'll see if it's still there when they release some concrete info/screenshots.
Lastly, The Witcher looks interesting as well. A lot of actual "Role Playing" for an Action RPG, which can only help.
Eh? Fallout and Fallout2 run fine under WinXP, dontchaknow? Fallout 1 only takes a little.ini file meddling to get it to install properly. The map editor was even released before interplay when into cryogenic stasis. This project looks stagnant as well, so what's the point?
And yet, "decently" has only whatever meaning with which you imbue it. In other words, living "decently" means living whatever you believe to be decent.
Read thee, then, from the Book of Webster, Chapter D, Verse 5:
5. marked by moral integrity, kindness, and goodwill
Cowardice is not a mark of moral integrity. Please, try to behave more decently.
My experience is mostly anecdotal, I'm afraid. I've worked with several people who have concealed firearms permits, and they were all very paranoid, constantly conjecturing dangerous and unlikely situations where they would have to kill someone, and laughing about it (usually with heavy or just plain overtly racist overtones). I never heard them talk about how to diffuse dangerous situations or avoid conflict. Quite the contrary. They were all very obviously afraid of the world and saw evil and danger everywhere.
I don't know any old ladies that carried concealed.44's, as if this was commonplace it might change my perception of carrying concealed weapons.
"When shit hits the fan, it is do or die and too often it is dead." They said something to that effect a lot. But you see, it's NOT QUITE OFTEN THAT THIS HAPPENS. That was my point. It's incredibly rare, actually. And it's a huge investment of mental resources and well-being to be constantly armed in preparation for your attempted murder.
The discussion had meandered significantly from the original topic. We weren't talking specifically about someone who had received death threats, so you lose on that one.
And man, read your own statistics. 75% of sexual assaults are by an intimate, family member, friend, or relative, per your site you linked. Also from your link: less that one in one thousand people are victimized by sexual assault per year, a trend that continues to decline. Very positive numbers actually, brightens the future.
"Approximately one and a half million are victims of violent crime." That's approximately 0.5% of the US Population. This doesn't take in the statistical weight of people who are involved in instigating violent crimes and how they are much more likely to be subject to them.
Pretty damn low, or unavoidable, so I'll take my chances. Now, calm down.
Or you could just, you know, calm down. They're not really all out to get you. You don't constantly need the capacity to instantly kill someone, even in a city, to not die everyday. It's going to be OK.
And if it's not? If you succumb to the astronomically slim chance of dying by the hand of The Criminals? At least you didn't live your life in fear--a paranoid always clutching your gun in a hostile, terrifying world. Just calm the hell down.
If you cook it you'll probably remove most of the ammonia (which evaporates quite quickly). Your house would smell awful, but the squid might be good. Ammonium bicarbonate was once used as a leavening agent (like baking soda) and had the same odoriferous effects when baked.
I loved the feeling of helplessness at the beginning of Fallout 2. There were people with rocket launchers and lasers. There were creatures with claws 2 feet long that could kill you in 1 hit, and hit 4 time per round... and cannibals, raiders, rats the size of VW bugs, and mutated insects.
You? You started with a pointy stick and a water bottle. "Good luck, Chosen One!"
At least Fallout 1 gave you a wimpy pistol when you left the vault.
You're leaving out a quite a few titles. There are some great mods in the works as well.
The Black Hound - Originally was in production at Black Isle as Baldur's Gate 3 (though it has nothing to do with BG1 or BG2) but was canned when it was nearly complete. Josh Sawyer, the original game's Lead Designer who's now working at Obsidian, is recreating the game as a mod for NWN2.
The Planescape Trilogy - Three large campaigns for NWN2 in the Planescape setting that look promising, despite the obvious titles (from the Divine Comedy, CLEVER!). The first part, Purgatorio, is almost done.
Dragon Age - Bioware's mystary PC RPG base on original IP is, well, a mystery. All previous work and screenshots have been scrapped and the project started anew, but some hints by Dave Gaider lend some hope to this possibly turning out decent. Unlike Mass Effect.
The Broken Hourglass - An infinity engine RPG by the best infinity engine modders out there. Whether that means that they will be making a great RPG with the engine remains to be seen. Based on original, non-DnD setting and rules.
Age of Decadence - An "isometric, turn-based, single-player 3D role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world, inspired by the fall of the Roman Empire." Currently under development by an asshole. He's also a purist, though, so it may turn out respectably, if it ever turns out.
And of course...
Fallout 3 - Bethesda has it. They say it won't be "Oblivion with guns", but they lie frequently. I still have a sliver of hope, though. We'll see if it's still there when they release some concrete info/screenshots.
Lastly, The Witcher looks interesting as well. A lot of actual "Role Playing" for an Action RPG, which can only help.
Huh... after the user selected "Roses" for his prediction of which would win, his Mii pulled out a rose. so I guess this is a little more involved on Nintendo's part that just sending out a text question for each poll.
But when they do work, you know you may have found someone fantastic. My wife had "I Choo Choo Choose You" engraved on the inside of my ring. God I love her.
Fox-It saved my baby. The house was burning, everyone else said it was too late, but Fox-It was not deterred. Slim and fast, Fox-it dashed into the house and produced my baby, sooty and coughing, but alive. That you Fox-It pro, without you all of our children would die.
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Does this look like an iPhone killer to you?
"Don't step on it! You'll create the plotline!"
Barry was ready to escalate a much bigger war than LBJ.
One of the other independent VoIP's: Packet8, BroadVoice, Skype (In/Out)...
Though depending on how Vonage's saga plays out, their futures may be uncertain as well.
Also, John Breaux (D-LA) has not been a Senator for many years.
NO! Do not tarry into the forbidden desert of Console! All ways look alike, and you will die without dialog!
Seriously there's several RPGs on the PC worth looking forward to, several of which should come out within the next year (clipped from one of my earlier posts):
The Black Hound - Originally was in production at Black Isle as Baldur's Gate 3 (though it has nothing to do with BG1 or BG2) but was canned when it was nearly complete. Josh Sawyer, the original game's Lead Designer who's now working at Obsidian, is recreating the game as a mod for NWN2.
The Planescape Trilogy - Three large campaigns for NWN2 in the Planescape setting that look promising, despite the obvious titles (from the Divine Comedy, CLEVER!). The first part, Purgatorio, is almost done.
Dragon Age - Bioware's mystary PC RPG based on original IP is, well, a mystery. All previous work has been scrapped, a couple of times, and the project started anew, but some hints by Dave Gaider lend some hope to this maybe possibly turning out decent. Unlike Mass Effect.
The Broken Hourglass - An infinity engine RPG by the best infinity engine modders out there. Whether that means that they will be making a great RPG with the engine remains to be seen. Based on original, non-DnD setting and rules.
Age of Decadence - An "isometric, turn-based, single-player 3D role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world, inspired by the fall of the Roman Empire." Currently under development by an asshole. He's also a purist, though, so it may turn out respectably, if it ever turns out.
The Alien RPG - I know virtually nothing about other than Obsidian is making it and they say it's an RPG. Probably won't be out until 2008. Or later.
And of course...
Fallout 3 - Bethesda has it. They say it won't be "Oblivion with guns", but they lie frequently. I still have a sliver of hope, though. We'll see if it's still there when they release some concrete info/screenshots.
Lastly, The Witcher looks interesting as well. A lot of actual "Role Playing" for an Action RPG, which can only help.
Eh? Fallout and Fallout2 run fine under WinXP, dontchaknow? Fallout 1 only takes a little .ini file meddling to get it to install properly. The map editor was even released before interplay when into cryogenic stasis. This project looks stagnant as well, so what's the point?
Read thee, then, from the Book of Webster, Chapter D, Verse 5:
Cowardice is not a mark of moral integrity. Please, try to behave more decently.
Bethesda + non-fantasy, turn-based RPG = Total fucking failure. Or rather, Oblivion with guns, which is the same thing.
Dunno. Laptop crashed. Joke around for a bit until it reboots or you remember what the hell you were talking about.
My experience is mostly anecdotal, I'm afraid. I've worked with several people who have concealed firearms permits, and they were all very paranoid, constantly conjecturing dangerous and unlikely situations where they would have to kill someone, and laughing about it (usually with heavy or just plain overtly racist overtones). I never heard them talk about how to diffuse dangerous situations or avoid conflict. Quite the contrary. They were all very obviously afraid of the world and saw evil and danger everywhere.
.44's, as if this was commonplace it might change my perception of carrying concealed weapons.
I don't know any old ladies that carried concealed
"When shit hits the fan, it is do or die and too often it is dead."
They said something to that effect a lot. But you see, it's NOT QUITE OFTEN THAT THIS HAPPENS. That was my point. It's incredibly rare, actually. And it's a huge investment of mental resources and well-being to be constantly armed in preparation for your attempted murder.
The discussion had meandered significantly from the original topic. We weren't talking specifically about someone who had received death threats, so you lose on that one.
And man, read your own statistics. 75% of sexual assaults are by an intimate, family member, friend, or relative, per your site you linked. Also from your link: less that one in one thousand people are victimized by sexual assault per year, a trend that continues to decline. Very positive numbers actually, brightens the future.
"Approximately one and a half million are victims of violent crime."
That's approximately 0.5% of the US Population. This doesn't take in the statistical weight of people who are involved in instigating violent crimes and how they are much more likely to be subject to them.
Pretty damn low, or unavoidable, so I'll take my chances. Now, calm down.
Or you could just, you know, calm down. They're not really all out to get you. You don't constantly need the capacity to instantly kill someone, even in a city, to not die everyday. It's going to be OK.
And if it's not? If you succumb to the astronomically slim chance of dying by the hand of The Criminals? At least you didn't live your life in fear--a paranoid always clutching your gun in a hostile, terrifying world. Just calm the hell down.
It can beg all it wants, but it's still a creative design field. My new car is pretty, but it ain't art. It's beautifully designed.
"Grits-ed Gal" is coming up pretty soon, though.
Probably have some more of those "your controller broke my TV" claims...
If you cook it you'll probably remove most of the ammonia (which evaporates quite quickly). Your house would smell awful, but the squid might be good. Ammonium bicarbonate was once used as a leavening agent (like baking soda) and had the same odoriferous effects when baked.
I loved the feeling of helplessness at the beginning of Fallout 2. There were people with rocket launchers and lasers. There were creatures with claws 2 feet long that could kill you in 1 hit, and hit 4 time per round... and cannibals, raiders, rats the size of VW bugs, and mutated insects.
You? You started with a pointy stick and a water bottle. "Good luck, Chosen One!"
At least Fallout 1 gave you a wimpy pistol when you left the vault.
You're leaving out a quite a few titles. There are some great mods in the works as well.
The Black Hound - Originally was in production at Black Isle as Baldur's Gate 3 (though it has nothing to do with BG1 or BG2) but was canned when it was nearly complete. Josh Sawyer, the original game's Lead Designer who's now working at Obsidian, is recreating the game as a mod for NWN2.
The Planescape Trilogy - Three large campaigns for NWN2 in the Planescape setting that look promising, despite the obvious titles (from the Divine Comedy, CLEVER!). The first part, Purgatorio, is almost done.
Dragon Age - Bioware's mystary PC RPG base on original IP is, well, a mystery. All previous work and screenshots have been scrapped and the project started anew, but some hints by Dave Gaider lend some hope to this possibly turning out decent. Unlike Mass Effect.
The Broken Hourglass - An infinity engine RPG by the best infinity engine modders out there. Whether that means that they will be making a great RPG with the engine remains to be seen. Based on original, non-DnD setting and rules.
Age of Decadence - An "isometric, turn-based, single-player 3D role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world, inspired by the fall of the Roman Empire." Currently under development by an asshole. He's also a purist, though, so it may turn out respectably, if it ever turns out.
And of course...
Fallout 3 - Bethesda has it. They say it won't be "Oblivion with guns", but they lie frequently. I still have a sliver of hope, though. We'll see if it's still there when they release some concrete info/screenshots.
Lastly, The Witcher looks interesting as well. A lot of actual "Role Playing" for an Action RPG, which can only help.
Huh... after the user selected "Roses" for his prediction of which would win, his Mii pulled out a rose. so I guess this is a little more involved on Nintendo's part that just sending out a text question for each poll.
But when they do work, you know you may have found someone fantastic. My wife had "I Choo Choo Choose You" engraved on the inside of my ring. God I love her.
Guy: Raining then?
Gal: Looks it.
Guy: Right. Rather gray, eh? Bit chilly as well?
Gal: Yes. Excuse me.
Well, Wii Development Kit comes up with some worthwhile pictures, figures, and information. Maybe if you used the grown-up words for things...
Fox-It saved my baby. The house was burning, everyone else said it was too late, but Fox-It was not deterred. Slim and fast, Fox-it dashed into the house and produced my baby, sooty and coughing, but alive. That you Fox-It pro, without you all of our children would die.
One little click will take you to the bill's sponsors and remove your head from your ass...
Oh wait, you're a douche. Heavy on the vinegar, too.