Well its very late in the game but I'll reluctantly send Nick my refund request for all 5 of my preorders. *sigh*
I will let you know if I receive any response.
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I concur.
So who else is picking this up Friday? For myself, Thursday Midnight release. So technically Friday.
I really want to know what people think about a practice I have heard of. I buy games, a lot of games. I want to support games I like, so I buy them. But I hate DRM, additional subprograms and CD requirements. What do you think of using cracked or "illegitimate" versions of games when you have a fully paid official copy that sits on your self?
Its right there where the two pages got stuck together. Just look for the slightly thicker page. It might take awhile but you'll find it.
Happy Festivus!
I'm all for net neutrality. I don't understand the discussion really, its net neutrality or spoon fed access to what the providers wish, when they wish it. Maybe that's extreme but there would be little stopping them from major restrictions on anything they don't deem to be a worthy use of bandwidth. Edit:
Can someone clue me in as to what the hell "XBox Modding" is? Evidently it's some kind of major felony, and I'm guessing it has something to do with technology, and that's as far as I can get. Not exactly sure of the methods but...From Wikipedia
Middle school quarterback on trick play: 'I didn't think it was going to work' I mean he walked the ball past the defence!
More over-handed government bullying on behalf of corporations thanks to shitty copyright and copyright enforcement laws. Spoiler:
I've been playing it. I like the multi-player and the single player game is good too. The repetition of mission types seems much less obvious.
Alternately you can have it affect all types but the further from the "humaniod" type the more of a save bonus you get. Something like:
Do you guys use a guide ? or all of you are genius and i'm stupid ? how the hell you get past Nightkins in the REPPCON basements ? I assume your talking about the Repconn Test Site. I kind of lucked out and never had to fight anyone.Spoiler: I talked to the ghoul and then to Davison saying I would help both. 2 stealthboys to get to the basement corpse, 1 there & 1 one back. The key for the jail is in the desk in the large open area with jailer/ incinerator nightkin. Talk to the ghoul & then go up to your new now allowed area, read the computer, talk to Davison and peacefully resolved for all.
I pretty much agree with the rant/article here. *Warning Spoilers in Article* My advice: Fable 3 is a solid week rental type not a game to buy (until it hits the discount and/or platinum bin).
The game is decent but it does seem to bring little new to the table. I have one or two issues that put a hole in my gaming experience:
Spoiler: 1. Random STDs. One spouse Slept with four times unprotected to make a family. First 3 times nothing, 4th time STD. 2. Random Children. First Child girl (Caucasian baby, Caucasian child). Second Child Girl (Caucasian baby, black child). Both parents Caucasian. WTF? If I didn't know it was lazy programming I would have sworn the wife was a cheating.
Used my lunch hr + 1 hr extra to go across the city and get the collectors edition.
Unfortunately the Best Buy I ordered from does not take pre-orders on the collectors sets. I have to make it down there ASAP tomorrow as its 'first come, first served'. Hmmm... maybe Ill take some personal time off work to get there sooner.
67. They are honestly surprised (and then angry with the Gods) when the find out an opponent out matches them as a group.
54. They are suspicious of townsfolk that exclaim "t-t-t-they aren't e-e-v-vil" and who are backing away slowly from the adventurers that just finished slaughtering a few people right after exclaiming "Their evil!".
[/rant]. Sorry, a bit fed up with intolerance today. I got the impression that the politician flip flopped to the more popular position. It appears he abandoned the agreed upon position that he had told the religious supporter/partner he would support. In other words he shouldn't get the job because he has no spine and the people wouldn't be able to trust him to remain consistent. The rabbi on the other hand just seems to be an a&#%~$~.
“I was in the middle of eating a kosher pastrami sandwich,” Rabbi Levin said.Just a thought, but if an Orthodox Rabbi tells me he's eating a pastrami sandwich, I'm going to sort of take it as a given that it's kosher -- I mean, I'm not going to question him on it. But if he feels the need to specifically spell it out anyway, something seems a bit off, almost as if (a) sometimes he eats non-Kosher stuff and doesn't want us to find out, or (b) he's got some sort of chip on his shoulder about being Jewish. Dunno. Definitely "B" and probably "A" as well.
Darling examples:
Maybe post-Enlightenment (so we're not stuck with all the things they were still blind to like women being property), modernist, humanistic, pluralistic values? It's clunky as hell, though.It also has the problem that, where I live, "humanism" is a synonym for "satanism" and "progressive." Hehe "Progressive satanism"
I just came across this. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/298930 I couldn't believe my eyes. Spoiler: ...Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed, president of the Islamic Sharia Council in Britain, said that men who rape their wives should not be prosecuted because ‘sex is part of marriage’. And he claimed that many married women who alleged rape were lying. ... He said it was ‘not Islamic’ to classify non-consensual marital sex as rape and prosecute offenders, adding that ‘to make it exactly as the Western culture demands is as if we are compromising Islamic religion with secular non-Islamic values’...
I think the art is good. There seems to be more depth without losing the original feel.
This really amused me.
Why would you even want something like that? Well two reasons really... 1) I like my systems to all use the same mechanics (vancian or spellpoint or other).
As to point of what psionics actually is, this is what I found so far: 1) Horrible naming conventions. I assume this is because most of the authors of psionic systems do not seem to have a good understanding of its difference from standard magic. (WotC has always made some sub-par naming choices but for psionics sub-par was the top of the heap for naming choices). 2) Spellpoints (for many people this is enough but it really seems to be a poor answer to me). 3) Psionics is often deeply entwined with many related paranormal or science fiction phenomena. 4) It appears to be mind/will magic that
*Illusion of a dragon is in the mind... not in the actual air. Fire comes out of the casters hands... not a portal.
Common Features of RPG Psionics from Wikipedia
Spoiler: Common features Psionics are primarily distinguished, in most popular gaming systems, by one or more of the following: * Magical or super/meta human-like abilities including:
Set and seekerofshadowlight, thanks for the leads on mechanics and ideas.
So... does anyone know of a vancian version (or conversion) of the psionic system?
...The logical conclusion of atheism is that really life has no true meaning... Actually with this point I can entirely agree on. It was/is a comforting point to me. I always put it as "life has no inherit meaning, only what you give it".
To be honest, I don't even know what that is supposed to mean.
Slave-like behavior seems to work in lions.. Or humans, for that matter.
I was going to say something but you beat me to it. Both of those can be effective individual survival strategies but horrible species survival strategies.Rather, in the context of one's own species (which is generally how we consider morality, although it doesn't need to be, I suppose), they're poor individual strategies. In the context of applying them against competing species, they can work as a group strategy. Correct that is what I meant to say but I forgot to state it fully. Thank you for the appropriate clarification.
(1) Deceit is a highly effective form of survival in the natural world; (2) so is parasitism. I was going to say something but you beat me to it. Both of those can be effective individual survival strategies but horrible species survival strategies.
I have trouble imagining the scenario where this actually happens without foul play, malfunction or suicidal tendencies.
Yeah... your verbal gymnastics aren't convincing. The issue is the GM allowing his buddy's fun to be more important then the game and the group's fun.
Texas weighs bid to rid schools of 'pro-Islam' books
It looks stupid but is actually pretty addictive. The whole monsters spawning in the dark adds a fair bit of purpose/tension.
A good fan made trailer for the game can be found here.
Since when is he a protected species? And how old is he now, anyways? Just because you don't like when he converted or the guy he converted under doesn't mean he isn't christian....(i.e. you're only allowed to have a critical thought about anything if it fits the CNN-approved opinion list), I may as well start bowing to the east five times a day just to get my practice in.If you start blubbering and crying like Glenn Beck, I'm killing off Cadogan as soon as the game re-starts. Just sayin'. ;P I would say the difference between them is that Bush is an idiot. Has Obama made mistakes? Yes. Has he been able to fullfill all his promises? No. Has that been entirely his fault because he has absolute authority? No.
If you elect another Bush (aka Palin) then don't expect the world to think highly of the USA ever again. People worldwide respect Obama for the reason that a lot of Americans seem to detest him. He compromises.
I honestly cant understand most of the 'Obama hate' I have seen online. Is all of it racist? No. Is much of it well explained or well reasoned? No. You can say he gets a major pass when he gets to anywhere near the amount of screw ups and bad decisions (for America) that Bush did without tons of criticism.
The best part of that post? You'll get away with the Jew crack. My first thought was "WTF? Where did that come from?"
Yes. It may take more than one gin.Yes.
The kindest thing I can think to say regarding the Pope is that I disagree with his priorities. The kindest thing I can say is what Paul said.
In any case, I don't think it did. I (personally) feel that they used seven as a form of pneumonic (sp? -- is that the right word here?) to help them remember. I always though it was simply revisionism.
An article some might find interesting. I found the comment under the article amusing. The theologies of "the Fall" don't really make much sense to me anymore. We didn't fall (or rise) we became. To me, the historical/intertextual context of Genesis & the rest of the Bible is being explained away by religious conservatives in unsatisfactory, self serving, even sometimes racist-like ways. Why are there seven days in creation when an omnipotent God would hardly need six days & a day of rest in the heavenly recliner? Pay no attention to the seven planetary gods/ goddesses that most people of that time and area believed in, even though their names, or Nordic equivalents, are still used for the days of the week, Moon's day...Saturn's Day...Woden's day. What were the neighbors of the Jewish tribes doing with serpents, and why did it talk to Eve and not Adam, who was apparently just as clueless & gullible? What did the ancients really know of sex, other than it has consequences? They definitely didn't know of the human ovum, which wasn't discovered until the 1840s. Edit: If the christian god* is supposed to be all powerful why did it take him more then one day to create everything and why did he need a rest? *Is it Yahweh, Jehovah or some other name for the christian god?
A boy-man who killed a rancor, gangsters, support staff and many, many soldiers vs a wizard boy that cant seem to kill anyone? Let me think about that... yeah I think we know the answer. |