Actually, I'm pretty sure the U.S. is the only "advanced" nation in which the losers don't pay the winner's legal fees. Lawyers love this. I believe they are the prime (or one of the prime) contributors to the Democratic party for that party's support of this sort of legal system.
You chose the wrong rpg to start out with. Bioware made it pretty clear that Icewind Dale would be a Dungeon Crawl, and ONLY a Dungeon Crawl. Baldur's Gate II, however, started you out right on the plot and kept it going on forever. (200 hours)
Icewind's graphics were dated, BGII's were gorgeous.
The races really make a difference as you progress. Bonuses add up and things make sense. Yeah, it's a steep learning curve, but they make it pretty easy if you keep going. Can't Review a game by playing it once.
Your characters can be scripted; you TELL them what to do in case they have no instructions and enemies attack. The scripting system is, actually, kinda neat. Making you party do something usually helps if you PAUSE the game. Pausing is really important, just press the space bar.
Dunno about level advancing. Killing random creatures in the forest doesn't give much XP, this isn't Final Fantasy. Quests give you XP. Speaking of quests, FedEx quests, as those are called, don't happen often, just enough in the beginning to get you started.
Dunno about ID, but BGII was bugless and very fast.
All in all, you either didn't give it enough time, or didn't understand it well. (If you weren't pausing, well,.....what can I say?)
Dunno bout Vegas, but here in the Bay Area, well, BART rules. It takes you from a mile from home (I live in the East Bay, Danville if you care) all the way to Market Street, Or Berkeley if I prefer. Veeeeeery useful.
complete dark, one screen on? Sorry dude, but that's REAL bad for your eyes. If you do this a lot, you really should call an oftamologist and find out.
Nice flame. Great spelling. But I won't go into that.
I was just trying to tell you that military principles are based upon preparedeness. Remember Vietnam? (I don't, but that's besides the point) Johnson kept escalating, sending more and more slowly, instead of sending the forces en mass outright. This is what Bush tried to avoid in the Gulf War, so he send ethe whole shebang outright.
And I have NO idea what you're talking about with this payback deal. When did a discussion of military politics get into an ethics debate?
Keep just enough cash to do the routine stuff military do? Oh, that's really ignorant.
I mean, seriously, if the U.S. kept just enough budget for their military to do those " routine" operations like Bosnia, where would they be when a medium sized power attacked them? Suddenly build up like crazy?
Whenever they see new tech, they'll try to get into it as soon as possible, you never know where the next internet is.
Yeah, they're monopolistic, but do you think they got there by being stupid? Not meant as a troll or anything, but people tend to underestimate Bill and flame him without adequate reasoning explained. The guy is brilliant.
Okely-Dokely. I just find it interesting that all these themes recur with so many civilizations. Perhaps the bit about common descendants comes from the all-important we-are-second-only-to-the-gods double determinism found in Greek Culture.
If guns were banned, it'd be a hell of a lot easier to target the illegals, and crime would lower. When guns are illegal, it's much easier to find illegals, I'd think.
Speaking of cities and size- it's very interesting to see the correlation of population to land area in different cities. Where in L.A. you have very, very few tall buildings (earthquakes see to that), the city is very spread out, and land is much more available.
In Rio, where I'm from, it's all ocean and mountains: there are NO houses, only buildings. The city is absolutely huge. (And gorgeous.) For another city with similar geographic layouts, think of San Fransisco, almost the same deal.
"We're trying to protect nascent technologies--the next Netscape--whatever that might look like," said California Senior Assistant Atty. Gen. Tom Greene
Do that. But please, God, don't destroy them by fining, like, a jillion dollars.
You'll just make the products crappier. And a lot of great people will lose their jobs.
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It still doesn't justify killing kids. I went to Disney as a kid. You want kids to die to justify your political desires?
Sorry, but your sig is sickening. You wanted him to blow up an amusement park full of children?
Actually, I'm pretty sure the U.S. is the only "advanced" nation in which the losers don't pay the winner's legal fees. Lawyers love this. I believe they are the prime (or one of the prime) contributors to the Democratic party for that party's support of this sort of legal system.
Icewind's graphics were dated, BGII's were gorgeous.
The races really make a difference as you progress. Bonuses add up and things make sense. Yeah, it's a steep learning curve, but they make it pretty easy if you keep going. Can't Review a game by playing it once.
Your characters can be scripted; you TELL them what to do in case they have no instructions and enemies attack. The scripting system is, actually, kinda neat. Making you party do something usually helps if you PAUSE the game. Pausing is really important, just press the space bar.
Dunno about level advancing. Killing random creatures in the forest doesn't give much XP, this isn't Final Fantasy. Quests give you XP. Speaking of quests, FedEx quests, as those are called, don't happen often, just enough in the beginning to get you started.
Dunno about ID, but BGII was bugless and very fast.
All in all, you either didn't give it enough time, or didn't understand it well. (If you weren't pausing, well,.....what can I say?)
You should have tried BGII. It rules.
Dunno bout Vegas, but here in the Bay Area, well, BART rules. It takes you from a mile from home (I live in the East Bay, Danville if you care) all the way to Market Street, Or Berkeley if I prefer. Veeeeeery useful.
complete dark, one screen on? Sorry dude, but that's REAL bad for your eyes. If you do this a lot, you really should call an oftamologist and find out.
I loooooove listening to the secret of monkey island 1 midis, plus the Mario Concerto, which you can find right here.
Your post was just very.... emotional.
I was just trying to tell you that military principles are based upon preparedeness. Remember Vietnam? (I don't, but that's besides the point) Johnson kept escalating, sending more and more slowly, instead of sending the forces en mass outright. This is what Bush tried to avoid in the Gulf War, so he send ethe whole shebang outright.
And I have NO idea what you're talking about with this payback deal. When did a discussion of military politics get into an ethics debate?
I mean, seriously, if the U.S. kept just enough budget for their military to do those " routine" operations like Bosnia, where would they be when a medium sized power attacked them? Suddenly build up like crazy?
My only beige computer, come to think of it, was my Packard Bell 486. God, did those guys suck.
And yes, I know 486s aren't considered old timers round here, but gimme a break, I'm 15.
Did Dead Penis Bird just make a score:3 comment?
I really didn't know he started off so.... affluent. And I really didn't know his mom was in the IBM board. Do you have any good sources on this?
Why the hell do you think he had all that money lying around? Hmm.... Must have flown there!
Whenever they see new tech, they'll try to get into it as soon as possible, you never know where the next internet is.
Yeah, they're monopolistic, but do you think they got there by being stupid? Not meant as a troll or anything, but people tend to underestimate Bill and flame him without adequate reasoning explained. The guy is brilliant.
Okely-Dokely. I just find it interesting that all these themes recur with so many civilizations. Perhaps the bit about common descendants comes from the all-important we-are-second-only-to-the-gods double determinism found in Greek Culture.
Cause they have Deucalion's Race, in which (one again) all of humanity is descending from a small bunch of people.
Don't forget the Greek one: Deucalion's race.
If guns were banned, it'd be a hell of a lot easier to target the illegals, and crime would lower. When guns are illegal, it's much easier to find illegals, I'd think.
In Rio, where I'm from, it's all ocean and mountains: there are NO houses, only buildings. The city is absolutely huge. (And gorgeous.) For another city with similar geographic layouts, think of San Fransisco, almost the same deal.
How often do you see a preposition used without a noun in front of it?
In the early 80s, IBM used MS-DOS because it thought hardware was where the money is. Now Microsoft is, well....Microsoft.
Now in the early 00s, IBM is using a free operating system and raking the big bucks in... you guessed it! Hardware!
Aahhhh, computer irony.
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Do that. But please, God, don't destroy them by fining, like, a jillion dollars.
You'll just make the products crappier. And a lot of great people will lose their jobs.