I easily beat the game without said healer. Hint: use a potion to respec Merill as a full-blown blood mage. Her health never dipped below 50%.
My (biggest) problem with DA2 is that your decisions had no real consequences. It gives the illusion of choice, but then the story ends the same regardless of what you choose. The only thing you have any control over is whether your NPCs live or die.
Also, I can't stand the RPG trend of dragging you into cutscenes at the dumbest/most inconvenient times. For example, you approach the big boss' lair. You get your weapons ready, position party members at the door, have all buffs charged, open the door and . . . *cue the cutscene* you and your party casually stroll up to the big boss, have your dramatic confrontational conversation with him (even though you *know* you're just going to fight, and then . . . *cutscene ends*, and your party is standing in the worst possible place, without weapons drawn, and maybe your buffs have worn off. AAAAAAHHHHH! Also, getting dragged into a cutscene at the end of a fight against a huge number of enemies *before you get the chance to loot*, and having that cutscene take you away from the looting area entirely.
I thought it was obligatory in any "cancer cure" article to say that it is experimental and may only see practical application in 5 to 10 years. Of course, this is followed by never hearing about the "cure" again.
Coming soon . . . mind-fi skull mod kit made from $20 worth of parts from Radio Shack. Expand your neural field's range up to 3 meters!
Coming soon after that . . . lead helmets to block others with skull mod.
I guess it would be hassle-free if you don't consider gutting your computer to remove the motherboard so you can box it and return it a hassle. Also, this is hassle-free if you take pleasure from dealing with the driver issues from having to install a different motherboard (or a full OS reinstall if you run Windows). No hassle there. Yeah, totally hassle-free.
This sounds like Chef describing how black people need to stay one step ahead of white culture. When white people stole "in the house", black people moved on to "in the hizzouse", then "in the hizee", then "in the flibbity flobbity floop."
Your diary (as long as you didn't create it upon the advice of your lawyer -- making it work product) can be subpoenaed. Your personal photo albums that you never posted online and never showed to anyone can be subpoenaed. Whether your facebook postings are "public" isn't relevant. Discovery isn't limited to public documents. In fact, if it were, there would be no need for it. Of course, protective orders (judge limits what info can be obtained and/or how it is used) and in camera inspections (judge reviews the materials before they go to the requesting lawyer to weed out irrelevant or privileged materials) can be used to control abuse.
If you're going to add whiz-bang technology to glasses, why not go the full monty and add a 3d polarized mode for movie-going four-eyeses? Why not throw in a "sunglasses mode" while you're at it? For $1200, I'd expect more features.
This has also worked on my dogs. At least three times with three different dogs, they've had a noticeable limp which didn't go away for hours. Once they got the vet's office, miraculously the limp was gone. Even after I got them back home, they didn't limp again. It could be fear/adrenaline kicking in which masked the symptoms of a pulled muscle long enough for them to heal up. For people, maybe it's the opposite: you feel anxious and hyper-sensitive until the doc tells you it's not serious, after which you put it out of your mind because now you know there's nothing you can do about it.
The could have just checked the DHCP log in the wireless router.
So what would this have shown? I'm no pro, but wouldn't the only personally identifiable info you'd get be a MAC address? If this ass clown wasn't using MAC spoofing, then he was just begging to get caught.
Ah, the "insurance" file. Does it contain devastating personal correspondence from Obama in which he says Hillary has canckles and admits that he wouldn't kick Carla Bruni out of bed for spilling cookie crumbs? Wow! Won't that hit the establishment where it hurts. Sorry, but these embassy cables were hardly the bombshell they were advertised to be. I doubt that this "insurance" file is anything special.
Two women scorned conspiring to get revenge on a cheating guy.
How is he "cheating"? It's not like he had a commitment to either of these women. How these women would think that Assange would be loyal to them after he banged them within 2 days of meeting them defies logic. Sorry ladies, but you are sluts. Not that that's a bad thing. I like sluts. But a slut expecting loyalty is like a guy in a strip club thinking that the stripper "really likes him."
An even deeper question is why an omnipotent being would require 6 whole days to create the universe. I also think they understate god's laziness in saying that he rested on the seventh day. It would appear that he rested from day seven through present.
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I automatically think "Cooley High Law School" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072820/ .
Looks like my knee-jerk reaction isn't too far from the actual academic prowess of this institution.
I easily beat the game without said healer. Hint: use a potion to respec Merill as a full-blown blood mage. Her health never dipped below 50%.
My (biggest) problem with DA2 is that your decisions had no real consequences. It gives the illusion of choice, but then the story ends the same regardless of what you choose. The only thing you have any control over is whether your NPCs live or die.
Also, I can't stand the RPG trend of dragging you into cutscenes at the dumbest/most inconvenient times. For example, you approach the big boss' lair. You get your weapons ready, position party members at the door, have all buffs charged, open the door and . . . *cue the cutscene* you and your party casually stroll up to the big boss, have your dramatic confrontational conversation with him (even though you *know* you're just going to fight, and then . . . *cutscene ends*, and your party is standing in the worst possible place, without weapons drawn, and maybe your buffs have worn off. AAAAAAHHHHH! Also, getting dragged into a cutscene at the end of a fight against a huge number of enemies *before you get the chance to loot*, and having that cutscene take you away from the looting area entirely.
I thought it was obligatory in any "cancer cure" article to say that it is experimental and may only see practical application in 5 to 10 years. Of course, this is followed by never hearing about the "cure" again.
Maybe they can't, but just wait until they get the CyberPolice on his trail! They can backtrace anyone.
True enough, and the consequences will never be the same. He done goofed.
Is the dream of the 90's still alive?
Coming soon . . . mind-fi skull mod kit made from $20 worth of parts from Radio Shack. Expand your neural field's range up to 3 meters! Coming soon after that . . . lead helmets to block others with skull mod.
I guess it would be hassle-free if you don't consider gutting your computer to remove the motherboard so you can box it and return it a hassle. Also, this is hassle-free if you take pleasure from dealing with the driver issues from having to install a different motherboard (or a full OS reinstall if you run Windows). No hassle there. Yeah, totally hassle-free.
This sounds like Chef describing how black people need to stay one step ahead of white culture. When white people stole "in the house", black people moved on to "in the hizzouse", then "in the hizee", then "in the flibbity flobbity floop."
Your diary (as long as you didn't create it upon the advice of your lawyer -- making it work product) can be subpoenaed. Your personal photo albums that you never posted online and never showed to anyone can be subpoenaed. Whether your facebook postings are "public" isn't relevant. Discovery isn't limited to public documents. In fact, if it were, there would be no need for it. Of course, protective orders (judge limits what info can be obtained and/or how it is used) and in camera inspections (judge reviews the materials before they go to the requesting lawyer to weed out irrelevant or privileged materials) can be used to control abuse.
You broke the first rule of usenet!
A budget shortfall as high as $25 billion is projected as lawmakers head into the 2011 legislative session,
Nice to know they have money to burn to spy on me...
Ah, but this is a money MAKER. Use the drones to find the grow houses. Use civil forfeiture to seize houses, cars, etc. Profit!!
Mr. Pink, is that you?
Chickens taste better, say panel of cows.
Study funded by Chick-fil-A.
I think you're forgetting the most important promise he broke: CHANGE. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Oh please. If she even hears about this, she'll just attribute it to a conspiracy against him.
She has heard about it and you're not too far off-base with her reaction. Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenny-mccarthy/vaccine-autism-debate_b_806857.html
Prediction: someone will completely misread this post and start a blog about how dairy causes autism in 3. . . 2. . . 1
If you're going to add whiz-bang technology to glasses, why not go the full monty and add a 3d polarized mode for movie-going four-eyeses? Why not throw in a "sunglasses mode" while you're at it? For $1200, I'd expect more features.
This has also worked on my dogs. At least three times with three different dogs, they've had a noticeable limp which didn't go away for hours. Once they got the vet's office, miraculously the limp was gone. Even after I got them back home, they didn't limp again. It could be fear/adrenaline kicking in which masked the symptoms of a pulled muscle long enough for them to heal up. For people, maybe it's the opposite: you feel anxious and hyper-sensitive until the doc tells you it's not serious, after which you put it out of your mind because now you know there's nothing you can do about it.
The could have just checked the DHCP log in the wireless router.
So what would this have shown? I'm no pro, but wouldn't the only personally identifiable info you'd get be a MAC address? If this ass clown wasn't using MAC spoofing, then he was just begging to get caught.
What part corresponds to shooting foxes?
Loss Prevention.
I have a bad feeling about this. . .
Ah, the "insurance" file. Does it contain devastating personal correspondence from Obama in which he says Hillary has canckles and admits that he wouldn't kick Carla Bruni out of bed for spilling cookie crumbs? Wow! Won't that hit the establishment where it hurts. Sorry, but these embassy cables were hardly the bombshell they were advertised to be. I doubt that this "insurance" file is anything special.
Two women scorned conspiring to get revenge on a cheating guy.
How is he "cheating"? It's not like he had a commitment to either of these women. How these women would think that Assange would be loyal to them after he banged them within 2 days of meeting them defies logic. Sorry ladies, but you are sluts. Not that that's a bad thing. I like sluts. But a slut expecting loyalty is like a guy in a strip club thinking that the stripper "really likes him."
This reminds me of an old joke. Why do married men usually die before their wives? Because they want to.
An even deeper question is why an omnipotent being would require 6 whole days to create the universe. I also think they understate god's laziness in saying that he rested on the seventh day. It would appear that he rested from day seven through present.