WizardOfAtlantis
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Wow, everybody's so positive!
All I can think of in regards to this thing are "Lone Gunmen" and Mossad planting explosives with greater ease (etc etc..).
Is it just me? http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/teehee.gif
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I had this problem too... I suppose it's a bug made by having the type 3 body replacer and possibly the shojo race mod, while wearing certain clothing. I had on the field hand outfit and I had saved. When I later loaded the game I found that I couldn't turn my pipboy arm just enough anymore. I used the console (§) and typed "player.unequipitem 000EF1CC". When the clothes were unquipped, I could access my pipboy again. Be mindful what you wear when you decide to quit the game... lol. You can find the codes for the particular clothes and armor here.
Had this happen again today, and it's totally the clothes issue like you said. Put on another outfit and the pipboy was visible. I think the outfit I tried on was the female field hand outfit, too. Thanks again http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/thumbsup.gif
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Publicly traded companies like bethesda really don't have much say over DRM. It comes down to whatever the clueless investors deem "failing to protect their assets".
Actually, as far as I know, Bethesda is not a publicly traded company. Did you hear that somewhere or are you just assuming it to be true? I checked, wanting to invest in them, and could only find information to the fact that they are not traded.
I had no idea that they had done some kind of hook up with AMD/ATI until I got my new Skyrim ready system, installed Steam and..."Would you like Steam to update your video drivers?". And I find they have installed a video driver updater programme! Gaaaah! I do not appreciate that!
Yeah, reset my drivers, too, and I HAVE an ATI card. Problem was, it reset my drivers with card-incompatible drivers and my whole system went 800x600 red/blue/etc. And that made it Very difficult to uninstall the drivers as the systems options windows were Huge and I couldn't see all the buttons, etc. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/woot.gif
Thankfully, I had paid attention to the fact that Steam had installed this Catalyst control center, so on that I went and uninstalled what Steam installed, and downloaded from the Catalyst site the version that I needed for my graphics card and got it all working. That was a very hectic hour, though...not fun. Not to say I know a lot about pc's, because I don't, but someone who would have known less in that situation would have been screwed, and screwed precisely in the moment that they would have been expecting to be enjoying their brand-new game. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/nuke.gif
But other than that (and other than fighting the fact that Steam CAN turn your auto-updates back on, maybe on updates?...), Steam gives me great possibilities in gaming...I live in Italy but I'm American-born. I want my games in English, and Steam gives me this, so yay Steam! http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/thumbsup.gif
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I am not arguing that pregnancy in a game is unrealistic, I am arguing that anyone making armor, beyond leather, or similar easily workable PLIABLE material, is unrealistic. I could see perhaps a few women that find themselves in dire straights manufacturing their own out of bits and pieces of other armor, (again, something pliable) however, Pregnant Powered armor? No. Not gonna happen.
History actually contradicts your opinion. Fitted suits of armor were more often made by request, historically speaking. Measurements were taken and the suit was made for that person and that person alone, as they were very costly things to have. Even cheaper versions of belly armor, basically the "idea" of moulded round bellies themselves, were strapped on over padded clothing or sewn onto chainmail.
So if armor was made to the measurements of the wearer six or seven centuries ago, they can't do the same in the future? Here, we are talking about Super Science, about PC's who can reach the 75 to 100 levels in Science and Energy and Repair skills...we're talking about people who might not even need to ask someone else to make it for them. They could make it on their own, jury rigging a suit of power armor found in the wastes.
Power armor is already quite a lot bigger than the individual. Who is to say that someone with the sufficient science and repair skills couldn't relocate the sensors and equipment located in the belly to another place (like the back) and simply make jury rig a new belly/front piece and "stick it on" by taking materials from another suit?
As an aside, this reminds me of that beautiful suit of Raider Power Armor from FO3...and if Raiders can do it...
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I'm a farm girl, the fourth of 7 children. On the day I was born, while having labor contractions, my mother got up at 5 am helped finish milking the cows, at 7 she got my sisters off to school and after she fed the calves, she drove herself 30 miles to the hospital. I was born at 6:25pm, my dad had hurried to get the evening milking done and was at the hospital just in time to put the newborn into his arms.
EXACTLY THIS!!! http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/dance.gif
Brava, myrmaad, way to cite RL!
@all, I lament the Weakening of the Western World...I think the gritty possibilities that we have within us have become Strange to a great many, a great many who would scarf down countless burgers but not be able to stomach butchering a cow by their own hands, or really be able to get their heads around the why behind having a family of 8 or so kids because there was a time (not so long ago) when you never knew how many of those kids would survive their first years, or the difficulty of finding meat in a war-torn country that leads people to procure it from the most unlikely (?) founts and serve it at restaurants (real life example, btw).....etc, etc.
Not that I'm saying those are necessarily good things, just that they are realistic things as they are based in reality.
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And in most games the PC is constantly in combat of some sort.
True, and at times I think, most regrettably. However, I see Light on the Horizon...RobCo Certified! This beautiful mod grants the ability to work at building things that do the combat for you. You don't have to fight as you travel the wasteland doing whatever you think is necessary, all you have to do is hide behind your bots when trouble starts and let them do the deeds.
Understandably, If a pregnant woman found herself under attack through no fault of her own, then yes she would have to fight or die, but to deliberately seek out combat and danger that would probably kill her and her child she would have to be suicidal or have a death wish. At the least if one wanted to role play a pregnant woman in an intentional combat situation there should be penalties according to the physical condition of the woman, not just that she looks pregnant in a special set of armour. Otherwise I can't see the point in role playing pregnancy in combat.
Some of the points being made about relationships, sexual and otherwise, in hostile environments or times of great stress, in REAL life are true enough and part of human nature for reasons of comfort, relief of stress and survival instincts, but I thought this topic was about role playing in games, not reality.
I don't see it necessary to deliberately seek out combat in a game (I am using FNV as my reference here, because it's what I'm playing atm and where the mod that started this thread is for). I think if the PC has goals in life, that PC will go about realizing them. What if the PC gets pregnant and needs to build her own shelter? Stock up on supplies for the months ahead, make technological/repair improvements to the items in her house? Maybe she wants to build a suit of power armor for her kid for those Dark Years coming down the road? Build power weapons so he or she will have a technological edge over the competition by the age of 6? All of those things will require scavenging, looting, and traveling, and it's not like the PC would seek out combat. Combat would seek out the PC. In that case, I again mention (not to harp on it, but it's the one mod that lets you do something like this) RobCo Certified as the means to be a non-combatant in a combat situation (and live to tell the tale).
Now granted, this is a Scientist-type roleplay and not for everybody's tastes, but it is at least a working possibility towards these ends discussed here. All the RL background stories could be easily applied to this theoretical Apocalyptic Scientist gal who finds herself plus-one: she would know what's in store, what she would need to do and what she needs materially in order to get it done, perhaps planning ahead for many years.
Well damn I wish someone would have told me and the women in my family this. I would have put my feet up and eaten some chocolates for 9 months.
hahahahaha, http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/laugh.gif
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Thanks for the tip, LHammonds.
I'll have to give it a try...once Bethsoft lets me reset my password (all attempts for the last few hours having failed...)*sigh*
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Story-wise a mod built on a pregnant armor/body could present a few interesting twists - for example, assuming a female Courier, when she recovers she realizes that she is pregnant. Doc Mitchell did not do anything about it, because he was unsure if the pregnancy was related to the assailants or it predated the attempted murder... and now the Courier is also unsure because she does not remember. It could even be a motive stronger than mere revenge for the Courier to pursue the thugs: why did they try to kill her and is the baby a link to her past or an offspring of one of her attackers.
The mod would provide increased difficulty because you should also look after the needs of the unborn baby (you should avoid certain chems, you should eat fruits/vegetables regularly), later you would be more sluggish, you would be forced to avoid melee combat, etc. Before the baby is borne you should find a home and somebody (a companion) who looks after the infant while you gather the things a baby usually needs (like the toy collecting quest in the Pitt).
If the baby was not conceived because the thugs 'double wronged' her, who is the father (another possible quest line). And if the baby is Benny's, there is the moral choice if the Courier wants to keep the child, or give it to a childless mother.
Now... is that less realistic than adding flying guts and limbs for improved 'realism'?
What great ideas! Those would provide a whole arc of storyline, with enough branches for greatly enhanced replayability. If there were multiple suits showing the varying degrees of pregnancy, one could take it the whole arc (maybe with some time-lapse after key events to speed up 9 months slightly), and even introduce the npc child at the end. And here, I hadn't gotten much beyond, "Let's give this to Willow once we're BFF's" and see how that tickles my post-apoc fancy. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/biggrin.gif (my character's gender is visible in my sig, btw)
What I seem to see in many comments is a difficulty in relating the concepts of Preference versus those of Necessity. An easy way for us to think about it is that nobody would want to be alone and pregnant in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but that idea is only valid coming from someone that lives on Earth in our time. NPC's and PC's in the game world don't know that, they couldn't even relate to those thoughts. Post-Apocalyptia is the only world that they know, so what pregnancy would boil down to is, if there is even a choice to begin with, "Do I want to be pregnant or not?" So, of course it is going to happen. It's a biological imperative, if nothing else.
As for miscarriages, and even mutations (something I lament the lack of, for besides ghouls, there aren't enough mutated humanoids in the game for my tastes), yes, there would be a great many. All we have to do, though, is go back in time just a century or so (in this world of Earth) and we see once again incredibly high infant mortality rates and "large" families because with health care, disease, accidents, sickness, etc, you never knew how many of your kids would make it past childhood. What those difficulties do is increase the rate of pregnancy, not diminish it.
Also, it's good to keep in mind for our character that we're talking about the PC, here, as well. We are alpha material. Let's face it. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/biggrin.gif We are better designed, through greater skills and the Will of the Gods (the game and mod makers), to succeed where others fail. We are the Hero's and Heroine's, so we will be the ones to come up with round belly plates (like existed for men in the Middle Ages, I might add) except that now they have joints and straps to accommodate certain fluxes of growth with only our Repair skill, or maybe the idea of jury rigging some power armour servos to do the cinching for us. We will be the one to include in our pack home-brewed junkbots and robots as companions and house-guardians (even babysitters?....) to help us out, options that the residents of any Goodsprings/Freeside could only dream about over a hot Sarsaparilla.
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So, I was on the thread of this wonderful mod the author ported from FO3 into New Vegas, Pregnancy armors, as soon as I saw it listed in the latest files. I thought, "Wow! What a breath of fresh air!" And I filled my lungs with the scent of Realism.
To my immediate dismay, however, once on the thread, I saw almost overwhelmingly that the comments were negative, not so much as towards the technicalities of the realization of the mod itself, but rather along the lines of "Why on earth would somebody make a mod that creates pregnant women in the game? That's so unrealistic!"
My comment trying to point out the in-your-face Realism of such a mod and the incredible short-sightedness of the Naysayers was immediately Hidden From View by an ever-growing crowd of nay sayers, cynics, and wet blankets whose most colorful argument seemed to be, "How can you go around punching death claws in power armor if you're pregnant?!" http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/teehee.gif But that's okay.
*clears throat*
In the History of Video Games, there has perhaps been no greater desire than to render the game more realistic and bridge that gap between Man and Machine. As technology has evolved, games have forever become the playground for Graphics Wars of ever-increasing subtlety and realistic impact. This Visual Front of War has also given us the possibility to explore the more subtle realms of imagination and reality by including every-increasing level of detail...from the heyday Atari's blocky-tanks we can now wallow in the Majesty of a HGEyecandy or BlackBlossom vehicle for our game-transported Intelligence (our "player character", it in itself an example of a higher concept of Atari's blocky tanks as it mirrors even more so the literal "us" in RL, if we so desire).
Continuing, then, in the Ever-Continuing Battle to make our role-playing games more similar to the "Real World", we find such modders that help us along that trip, who create such mods like Arwen's Realism Tweaks, Active Wasteland (just to name a couple), and now: Pregnancy Armors.
I say, what can be more realistic than seeing Pregnant Women in your video game? Life and death ARE the eternal struggle in life as they form its most notable bounds, even more so in a post-apocalyptic video game where death is around ever corner. How unrealistic is it, then, to play a pregnant woman in said game?
Let's look at the immediate "negatives" from the mod's thread.
1. "Why?" My Answer: I think this should by now be obvious, that in the ever-increasing Game of Realism, which all Bethesda/TES/FO games strive towards, pregnancy, like playable/killable children and activating light switches, holds an important part in convincing one's brain of the Magic of the Irreal.
2. *my favorite" "How can you go around in power armor punching deathclaws if you're pregnant?" My Answer: Well, I think you wouldn't, now would you? I mean, what kind of a childish question is that? Just how far are your perceptual coordinates removed from the reality of pregnancy, may I ask? That certainly wouldn't work, now would it? Only in the most desperate, cast-out-of-the-Brotherhood and about-to-give-birth-to-a-post-apocalyptic-saviour storyline *my idea, ahem* would that work--but maybe that's your thing, and that's great. It IS role-playing here that we are talking about, don't forget.
I imagine the possibilities of playing a pregnant female in a post-apocalyptic world including possibilities such as the woman-on-her-own, trying to raise her daughter/son as best as she can (very modern world, I might add), the npc's that you see thanks to the Pregnancy Armor's introduction of said armors into the Leveled Lists (*great idea*) not only representing the Struggle of Man in a post-apocalyptic environment in a very in-your-face way (an aside on this point: one commentor on the mod thread asked to remove the leveled list aspect as he had tried to save a pregnant woman and couldn't, and her virtual death bothered him greatly....I say, SUCCESS!!!), and even possible (as horrible as it sounds, yet...) rape victims from such mods such as FOOK (FO3 version, at least) that maybe escaped or were rescued by the Lone Wanderer et al, an option that was also wisely pointed out in the mod's comments by a learned gamer, among countless other possibilities.
So, I ask, just how realistic or unrealistic is it to add the concept of Pregnancy into Video Role-Playing Games? Maybe it's not your cup of tea, and I understand that. That's okay. It's like role-playing a Fat Man. Maybe you personally don't want to do it, but by the gods, you can if you want, thanks to Roberts', and you can see them in-game thanks to Waalx. However, I say, regardless of your personal preference, you can't deny that Pregnancy and the mod Pregnancy armors represent Realism.
Can you?
*nice to be back on the Forums*
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Well I have to admit, after a few hours of playing at least, stability and performance are smooth for a new character in Goodsprings, not a single crash yet :)
Let's see what happens when NVSE is back up and I play with my 80+ mods, lol
I'll tell you what happens to me in three simple letters...CTD. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/pirate.gif
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http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/verymad.gif My game crashes even with the new NVSE...now the work to find what it is...http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/wallbash.gif
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Those are very interesting replies, indicative of individual thinking and security of self...so this reinforces the view that I tend to think that the posters here are representative of an Elite and therefore don't represent the average gamer for various reasons.
Would you agree? How much do you think the masses share our views? You think the average 12-25 year old could identify with a laser-slinging hottie on a personal level, or a Tarna-type warrior-ess? (just what is the biggest age group of video game buyers, anyway?)
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Now if he will just show a pixcture of him in a christian church then maybe all of america will be happy.
He used to go to church all the time. Lots of anti-semitic remarks from that pastor in the services, if I remember correctly, too.http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/whistling.gif
This article pretty much sums it up for me, the problem is that Obama has gotten a pass from the press and anyone interested in honesty from our government have been told we are racist and should go away. Obama is the only President or even serious candidate I can think of that hasn't released his collage records. If Bush had pulled that we would still be hearing the shill cries of cover up or sum such garbage.
Exactly the cards-against-the-cards I was talking about in action.
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My question is this: which sex do you prefer for your Hero or Heroine? And why? Can you relate to heroes/heroines of the opposite sex?
I'm wondering what goes on in your Attics because I was just doing some cleaning, and I came up on my mint-in-package Starkiller figurine from the original Ralph McQuarrie concept art for the original Star Wars. For those of you who haven't seen these figurines, go check them out. They are spectacular.
The point, though, was that besides the change in the name from Starkiller to Skywalker, the character originally was idealized by the artist as a FEMALE (and this is besides the fact that maybe Han Solo was originated as the hero initially, that's another discussion). So this made me wonder, would Star Wars have been such a runaway hit if the lead role had been in fact given to a girl? Could the masses of little boys (me included) have been able to sufficiently identify with a girl and propel George Lucas into Empirehood as it did with a male role model?
Also, for another medium and factoid, I remember recently reading that most fantasy novel readers are in fact female and yet I'm sure most fantasy novels are written for the opposite sex, no? With male heroes, wizards, etc...so what's the deal? What's going on here? And maybe, what should be going on instead?...
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However...he would have given it to the electoral official in charge, county commissioner, judicial person, whatever. He was in no was obligated to share his birth certificate with an entire country. Would it have shut up everyone..probably but they would just moved on to something equally as useless to the running of our Nation.
Very true, he shouldn't have had to show it to everybody as if everybody's opinion mattered. It doesn't, of course. However, it seems this whole thing was created because he didn't show it to a select few at some opportune moment, which means he or those behind him created this problem to begin with OR they got, more or less, caught out.
I personally find it fishy that this problem exists at all, that he didn't follow the rules to begin with, and I don't think it's because he's a secret Muslim or part Black or whatever. Possible, but...I don't know.
Generally speaking, in the "real world", something stinks because there actually is something rotten. Somewhere. Smoke does tend to lead to fire. Now, that's not to justify all wacky "conspiracy" claims as to the truth of what they claim...but smoke does come from a fire, just not perhaps the fire that one expects. Fire there is, usually, however.
Why him? Why didn't he do what he was supposed to do to begin with? The fact that he does it now doesn't alter the fact that he didn't then and has to now, because of that fact. The fact that he's sort of Black is a shield, if need be. The same goes for his Arabic name. Those are great smoke screens for future liabilities, as to what regards perceived public perceptions and the cards that can be played against those cards.http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/pirate.gif
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You have to present documents when you sign up to run for office...unless its forged it is not something someone would assume had been checked already.
In this case, it might be. After all, he was previously a senator, if you get my drift... See? That's actually the power of the trick, if trick it is in this case. Everybody Always Thinks that Obviously Someone's Already Checked...ha!http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/biggrin.gif Seriously, though, there's been a great deal of talk about fakes. Entire sites of it. Who knows? I don't.
Does anyone seriously think a single man can trick a entire country and basically have the power to do more then any other countries military can do against our national defense?
I am sure the president has to go through very extreme background checks, if not that would be insane.
Maybe I am missing what your saying, but it seems to me like your saying its not unreasonable to think Obama is not fit to be president.
You also have to remember he was a senator before all this.
Obviously it's not a "single man" doing anything, and you don't have to trick an entire country. Those are tremendous exaggerations to belittle a point, and exactly how something like this could work if it were put in motion. You're not even examining the issue, are you, with a clear mind? It's already obfuscated.
Brass tacks: How many different people actually look at the birth certificate when it's presented at the very beginning of the race, that *first* time? I don't know but I bet you could count them on one hand, and have fingers to spare. It's probably the job of "a" person as a formal technicality to "get the ball rolling".
You would need *some* help in tricking a few people, especially if that document he's finally pulled out is a fake...a "real" fake, if you see what I mean. And none of this is unreasonable at all, if people with legitimate degrees (ex-deputy Attorney General of a state) make legitimate notifications ("hey, he skipped a step") and it only gets looked at after years of said deputy attorney general (et al) taking it to court. You have to take qualified people at their word at first and actually look into things.
I'm not saying it's true, but it's certainly reasonable. And more than possible to pull off. All it would take is a stack of dated birth certificates with the right stamp on them in someone's lair. Hells bells, the mafia could pull that trick off, let alone someone with invested power in "the Machine" or whatever.
Example: I remember hearing that Obama had received a scholarship from some organization with monetary ties linkable to the Bush family. Who says he's not some pawn of the Saudis via Bush via dot*dot*dot, put there in office to put the country into staggering debt while waging war on all of Saudi Arabia's business and/or regional competitors, paving the way for an even stronger situation where the US is a bought pawn for some foreign power?
You think I can think these things up and others with vested interests in the World Scene can't? http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/no.gif
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Reasonable people never questioned it.
That's simply not true. One of the first men with *some* social position pushing the whole thing was an ex-deputy attorney general of (I think) Pennsylvania, so right there you're talking about someone familiar with law, to say the least.
As I understand it, he was supposed to show it when he ran as a nominee, but he didn't. Should that be a surprise that someone actually didn't check to see if the paperwork was in order? Of course not. Lawmakers (as in politicians, senators, etc) don't always read the laws that they vote on, and even at times rely on other people to tell them *what's up* and they take it from there (and on one small level, I know this for fact because I did it myself working for a senator in Illinois many many moons ago).
It might very well be terribly easy to get away with something like that...after all, IT"S OBVIOUS that someone checked, isn't it?...http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/rolleyes.gif
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I may be one of the few who thinks that FNV is actually better than FO3.
What the world need again,another critic who got graduated in only their personal opinions.That's it.
Pot to Kettle: *ringringring* Hello, Kettle?...
(not that I think Trepanist's remark was unmotivated, quite the contrary and to the point)
@OP, go ahead and get it and have fun. Mod it and it will come even more to life. I think it's a very enjoyable game and like Trepanist somewhat because maybe I'm in the minority in this from what I read, but I also tend to think I have a much more stable game with FNV than with FO3. I crash a LOT less and that makes a big damn difference in the quality of Fun Time.
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And that's when I would join in any bashing of the British Foreign Office - they have historically always had a very anti Israel stance which flies in the face of the fact that the Israelis (whatever the rights and wrongs of their own policies) stand between the West and militant jihadists and take a lot of the hits for us.
Yes, that's a very good point that I think a lot of people don't realize: just how much Israel stands between the West and people that want to blow themselves up (and others along with them).
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1. I think the USA should help other countries for humanitarian reasons (and not just cherry pick countries), ONLY if we have solved internal problems.
That's never going to happen. The nature of the beast is that it will always have some tentacles showing, some Hydra's heads floating around. There are too many unenlightened people for it to be otherwise.
Realistically, when a job needs to get done, you just go and do it. Doesn't matter if you've sprained your knee, walked 30km overnight, and haven't eaten since Tuesday. You get the job done.
Syria had/has the greatest pretense to a Western appearance, therefore it has more to lose on its ego level as this recent Muslim energy-wave stretches to it. It will be bloody because of that ego, and also because "somebody" will have to "put these Muslims in their place," if you know what I mean. This fire has burned for some months now, country to country. For similar/different reasons, so too will it be dastardly in Saudi Arabia, if it reaches there...and the crackdown will be much, much worse, and we'll probably hear less of it. Hell, it's probably going on already, on a secret services level already. They're the blood-thirstiest of them all, and woe be to the Saudi who dares shake that palm to get at some of its dates.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the world who played Morrowind and Oblivion and picked and used that skills that I found useful and interesting, not the ones that would give me the best stat gains at each level-up.
You can say that again, genocidal-sister. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/yes.gif
Steve Jobs dead at 56
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Didn't South Park wait two weeks after another Steve (Irwin) died?
Anyway, since I've already said what I needed to say to this Steve, and he will be missed on this plane, on to AAPL. We'll all just have to wait and see how things go. The company is certainly capable of continuing, but who knows who will be the next to have that Aetheric Grasp of what needs-to-be-made like Steve Jobs had?
I'm sure they've already had the idea of bringing The Woz back, but I dunno...maybe that might be seen as a weakness? But then again, that principle does have precedence (Jobs himself).