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Bloodlines is an unusually good CRPG, and the devs cared so much about it that a handful of them worked on patch 1.2 without pay after being laid off. It's a shame that it rarely ever goes on sale so that more people can play it, though it IS on sale right now for $5 on steam. It does get bonus poi...

Does that surprise you? Take a look at the Freespace Source Code project. A game made in 1999, in a genre that's entirely dead because no one wants to play it anymore, and people are still making campaigns, graphics updates, and mods for it. I suppose it shouldn't, but I didn't realize that Bloodli...

It took an hour and a half, which, I'm told is a short one. Maybe not long for a wedding, but that is long for a mass. Most of them in my previous experience clock in at around 1 hour, depending on how long the priest takes on the sermon. That's for normal masses, anyway. The special ones like East...

I had to run some kind of fix in order to get Fallout 3 working properly in Windows 7, even the Steam version. Can't remember what it was off the top of my head, though. It was a lot easier with VtM: Bloodlines. One of the unofficial patches includes a fix that lets the game run in Windows 7. Speaki...

joviwan wrote:http://imgur.com/gallery/0eW7nON

I haven't opened up my copy yet cause of time, but I had a chuckle

Reminds me of Pretty Boy Floyd. I read that whenever he robbed a bank, he would burn all of their mortgage documents.

Dude wrote:Well I now have a Kerbil in permanent orbit...in just his suit.

The obvious solution to get him back down is to put a second Kerbal into orbit so they'll bump into each other. If that doesn't work, though, you may need to send a third.

My favorite moment was when I was first experimenting with multiple stages. I ended up building a ship so massive that the first stage's rockets (of which there were many) did not generate enough force for a lift-off. So I kicked off the second stage, separating the original rockets, which flew off ...

I never really progressed beyond the screwing around stage of playing. Stuff like strapping a couple dozen solid rocket boosters to a command module with just enough girders to keep it from collapsing under its own weight. Then I switched the solid fuel with the liquid rockets and put them in orbit ...

I've only ever seen the first two and I only ever re-watch the first one. I saw the third one on TV several years ago. Within the first few minutes, Grant had a dream that included a talking velociraptor. It went downhill from there. My family spent the entire movie rooting for the dinosaurs. We ch...

I watched Hook and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, as a send-off to Bob Hoskins. It's a tradition whenever an actor I really liked dies.

Snow on the ground on April 15th. Fuck you mother nature. There was one time several years ago where I was at a reenactment. There was a freak snow squall that dumped about 3 inches on the ground. That day I bought a camp stool to add to my pack because the only other options were to either stand f...

Maybe you can put the two together and find someone with a job who needs a place to live. God willing that he or she should volunteer, perhaps, but since that sounds like rent, it would be unethical for me to actually ask for money in that situation. Rent is the exploitation of the working class by...

only if you've got a license though surely those require extensive background checks and evaluations Maybe? It varies by state. According to the Georgia state webpage, the application requires a criminal background check, so theoretically you can't get a license if you have any priors (but then aga...

Crikey: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/us/amid-wave-of-pro-gun-legislation-georgia-proposes-sweeping-law.html?_r=0 My favorite part is how the law explicitly decriminalizes trying to sneak guns through airport security. And oh look, the busiest airport in the world is in Atlanta. No way that cou...

but when internet people start criticising my country -- even if they're criticising it for the same things I am critical of myself -- there is a reflex to get defensive about it I sometimes feel that reflex, but I've stopped having it for the most part, since the US is a perpetual target for inter...

What did I miss? Not a whole ton. For the rape culture thing, Coffee responded to a thread about Sarah Palin being a dumbass with a rape joke, and multiple people (including at least one mod, but I don't feel like going back to the thread to confirm who) started white knighting for him when others ...

The Ukraine thread is also a pretty spectacular train wreck. It certainly can be used as an illuminating example for visiting aliens about the mutability of human opinion. Amazing how quickly people do a 180 and drop their previous anti-nationalist or anti-authoritarian views (or pick up new ones) d...

Losonti Tokash wrote:man i just steal all my campaigns by adapting westerns

Have you done any based on A Fistful of Dollars or The Magnificent Seven so you could adapt a western that's adapting a samurai movie?

I don't think there were ever enough members to form droves, honestly.

First time I heard the term was from an episode of Scrubs. It's probably why my default mental image of a shallow, self-centered, self-proclaimed "nice guy" looks like Zach Braff.

I can understand someone not liking the changes between Mass Effect and ME 2 and three though. Call the mechanics broken if you want, but the first game did have significant exploration and RPG elements. Some people are in to that sort of thing, and would understandably become more upset at the gam...

adr wrote:sooo... i kept my tie on all day today. i said it was just cuz i was busy und didn't take it off after the church service aber the truth is i was busy pwning n00bs und could have changed with ease

Is this the Mormon equivalent of the guy in zombie movies who hides the fact that he was bitten?

dang. The Golden Compass was just on the telly. I forgot how abysmally awful that film was. Applying the sensibilities of a standard children's adventure film to Northern Lights was just such a terrible idea. Whatever cocaine-snorting crab-man who thought softening the over-the-top anti-religious s...

I haven't played Infinite either but I think the whole piece works precisely because his criticisms of the game and the way it was received could be extended to most triple A titles. Player freedom is limited because most of the choice is illusory, gameplay is fundamentally easy (and ultimately bor...