Beriallord

Kings field 1 and 2 for the PS1 are also pretty good. Kings Field 2 especially. I enjoy those kinds of games just for the immersion and exploration. King's Field 2 (US) is definitely better than The Ancient City for PS2. Also there is Eternal Ring for the PS2. Its pretty much a King's field game, although its not quite as good. This is sorta a first person RPG/Dungeon crawler. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pms24_aFL-k Its a really brutal game, (harder than Dark Souls), and even more unforgiving, I never actually finished it. It has a lot of old school RPG elements. The battle system is a little more complex than its made to look in the video, later on you get team attacks and defensive abilities, but so do the enemies.

Buying second hand titles is really the only positive point for me that consoles have over PC. Every game I got for console I bought used. Because I'm reluctant to fork out $60 for a new game on release day. They never fail at disappointing me. I'd rather the game get released and be played for awhile before I decide to buy it. That way all the negatives and positives are written about. All the flagship games are overrated by the professional reviewers.

I was thinking something like a circlet from TES? Its a commonly used item, due to its spell damage, I just hate the looks of it. Here is a pic of a circlet from TES: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120512222719/elderscrolls/images/c/c3/Circlet8.png

Well it's my opinion Nate Silver's data and analysis on caluculating the probability out comes based on the known data of mulitiple polling from all political sources seem more credible than right wing bias conservative like Dean Chambers trying to debunk Nate's research by simply saying "Nate Silver cannot be trusted because he is a weak, little girly-man." http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/27/conservative-pollster-nate-silver-is-wrong-because-he-is-thin-and-effeminate/ Real good arguement Dean Chambers makes Like that arguement really changes my mind. :laugh: lol If you do farther research on Nate silver, he is ussually right if you look at his history regaurdless if he is left-wing or right-wing. And for the record I don't get mad over politics and I don't think anyone is even trying to change your mind. Maybe its wishful thinking you could look over the data and facts and try to see things from a different prospective yet people who make the arguement and complain they don't trust something because it's "left-wing biased" seem more like a closed minded conclussion. If there was evidence behind something even if it's right wing bias i will ussually take anything in concideration. But the real problem is Facts. For some reason when it comes to politics people on the right side will not rely on fact unless its convenient for their political cause. So if you really believe politics are not about facts and only opinion you might want to re-think politics after the election ends. But thats just my opinion... I don't take what Fox News says as a fact either. There is a reason this Bengazi thing isn't making much headway, because most people honestly don't care about that, me being one of them. They made a mistake taking a dictator out just to make that country unstable, and now terrorists run around unchallenged by a central government or anyone else for that matter and they are suffering the consequences. When I look at are we any better off now than 4 years ago, the answer is NO. And that is my opinion. Obama has just continued Bush's policies with regards to the economy. More bailouts and the Federal Reserve just keeps printing money. And his foreign policy has been close to the same as Bush, in action, not words. Taking Bin Laden out was also questionable. They risked making a nuclear armed nation hostile and unstable, and we might reap the consequences for that sometime in the future. What would they do then when Islamic extremists take that country over, and decide its time for jihad with a nuclear arsenal? Then they got India right next door who they haven't exactly been best buddies with, and Israel well within reach of their missiles.

Nobody has backed up squat from anything other than severely biased left-wing sources. You can't just post a link to a news site and call that a fact. The problem is that people are trying to convince someone else to change their opinion and then getting mad because its not working. This is why people get mad over political debates. Politics is and never has been about facts. Its about opinions. And I'm definitely not changing mine just because someone quotes some left-wing sources on an internet forum. Talking screaming Liberal politics to me? May as well be talking to a wall, seriously. But you are welcome to keep going :biggrin: I'd rather see someone like Ron Paul get elected, because he is far closer to where I am politically than Romney is. And Obama, I just don't see eye to eye with him on really, anything. If anyone remembers the polls for the 2004 election, everybody had Kerry winning by a substantial margin, but once it came down to it, Bush won. I'm hoping they are wrong this year like they were in 2004 and Romney wins. I'll stop by later on to hear the screaming and crying about how Romney stole the election :rolleyes: IF he wins. I'll be sure to bring a whole box of tissues.

You have to be honest with yourself not not many politicians on either political party lie as much as just romney alone. If you think so you are only fooling yourself. I recall in the 1st debate, Obama was caught lying, and Romney called him out on it. Obama said corporations get a tax break for shipping jobs overseas. Which was a lie. Then he tilted his head down like a scalded child.

Uh yeah? I wasn't going to waste my time voting previously, because Romney wins big in my State. That doesn't mean I didn't already have an opinion about the candidates. The DNC called me to vote for their Senator that was on the ropes, and that was rude of them to call my cell phone. Its unethical to do that due to limited plans. If you don't think that is rude, then I don't know what to tell you. Stuff like that NEVER happened until they released cell phone #s as public record. Which was an infringement on privacy.

Well this country is broke, and I don't hear too many other people coming up with any other ideas to fix the problems we got. At least he has the nerve to come up with a plan and put it forward. Something like vouchers could work if it was implemented correctly. There would need to be another system in place for critical care, major surgery, and extended hospital visits. But vouchers would work fine for something like doctor visits and regular checkups, and maybe medications. Then people could just choose where they wanted to go. If the vouchers were backed by the dollar, then they would hold their value. Food stamps in most states have turned into "limited cash", meaning you can only use the funds for certain goods like food. Vouchers could work the same way, but for medical care. Social Security will eventually go broke. I'm paying into the system right now, with absolute zero expectation of being able to draw it when I get old. I don't believe its going to last that long. Anyone my age better not be counting on social security to be there, and better make sure they save up for their retirement, or find a nice cozy bridge to camp under. The higher the nation's debt goes, and the worse the economy gets, the more likely it becomes these programs like welfare, medicare and social security will be unsustainable. The system can't work if you got more people using these programs than paying into them. And you can't just place draconian tax rates on the rich either, or they will just pack up and leave, then who are they going to tax? They can't just keep borrowing money and printing money out of thin air, or next thing you know we will end up like the Weimar Republic. Bush was a fool. That much was obvious. And the problem is you are trying to change the opinion/views of someone who doesn't even remotely see eye to eye with you. I believe its talked about in the debates section sticky. Some of these supposed lies, aren't actually lies, but have some truth to them: I remember the reaction I had at the time to some of Obama's speeches in the middle east, and he did sound like he was apologizing. So this isn't exactly a lie, because I heard some of those speeches myself. I'm not going to pick through all 533 supposed lies and look into each claim. I know for a fact politicians do lie, on both sides, repeatedly.

Eventually people wise up to all the same election gimmicks the Democratic Party has been using for the last 30 years, like telling grandma the Republicans are going to take away her social security check, using class warfare, and the race card to scare people. And none of the slanderous lies they say ever happen, but the same group of morons just keep buying into the same nonsense every election cycle. There is a reason that people vote Republican when they get older, its because they wise up. For the youth of America, these parroted gimmicks are new, because they haven't been exposed to politics but that only lasts for so long. Idiots are the gift that keeps on giving for the Democratic Party. As bad as George Bush was, Obama has done a far worse job. And Jimmy Carter can rest easy knowing that he is no longer the worst president we've ever had. Now that you've told us the Democrats suck and why, perhaps you would like to tell us why for you the Republicans are a far better choice? Some of it I can understand: I'd rather do for myself and take care of myself when at all possible, I agree with the Second Amendment, I support military action when it's genuinely needed and not just because "We don't like how those people live" and a few other perfectly reasonable things. Earlier in the year, I was staunchly, almost blindly, liberal, but I find myself swinging to a more moderate position and overall, I'm developing an attitude of "Both sides suck, I'll vote, but I just want this crap over with now." I just can't get behind the whole "Poor little wimmins can't be be trusted with their own bodies" rhetoric or the lack of concern for the environment in favor of making more money (Last time I checked, you guys breathe the same air and drink the same water we do :P) and the lack of regard for education (Public schools exist so everyone can have an eduction, not just the rich, and if you can show me a rich teacher working for a public school, I'll print these words out and eat them. If you can't, they're not overpaid). You got a choice between the fools and the crooks, or the lesser of evils. That is how I look at it. In the case of Romney over Obama, the choice is between a crook (Romney) or a fool (Obama). Most of the time you can guess where the crooks stand, its the fools that scare me. Whether someone is a fool or a crook isn't always Democrat or Republican. Bush was a fool.

The orange Pangolin shield, called the Fabled Tortoise is really beast. (roughly) Blast resistant 168k capacity 11000 recharge rate 3.0 recharge delay -25k health -movement speed So far its the only shield I've seen in this game that truly allows you to be a tank in TVHM. With the blast resist, I can take a full salvo from an RPG loader. And I'm not even specced in any of the tanking tree on my gunzerker. I swap the Bee shield out for this shield, when there are tons of enemies, and I know getting hit a bunch is unavoidable. I just finished up the hyperion dome using this shield and they didn't put me in fight for life a single time, whereas if I used a bee shield getting shot just a couple times would put me there.

Eventually people wise up to all the same election gimmicks the Democratic Party has been using for the last 30 years, like telling grandma the Republicans are going to take away her social security check, using class warfare, and the race card to scare people. And none of the slanderous lies they say ever happen, but the same group of morons just keep buying into the same nonsense every election cycle. There is a reason that people vote Republican when they get older, its because they wise up. For the youth of America, these parroted gimmicks are new, because they haven't been exposed to politics but that only lasts for so long. Idiots are the gift that keeps on giving for the Democratic Party. As bad as George Bush was, Obama has done a far worse job. And Jimmy Carter can rest easy knowing that he is no longer the worst president we've ever had.

Avast pre-boot scan finds a lot of nasty stuff that some of the other antivirus programs overlook. There have been a lot of Java security exploits recently, and I got 6 in 1 month and my Java was up to date, so I just uninstalled Java from my PC. Nothing I really need requires Java, so its nothing but a security risk for my PC.

What you call "vote repression" is nothing but a subjective view on the election laws. Some people just stretch it out so far that is starts to sound like a conspiracy theory. Hence, the tinfoil hat.

Yeah its like the 1960s when they were hosing down Black people :rolleyes: But in all seriousness, we got a Democratic governor, and he isn't seeking to make any changes to the way the State handles elections. But its STILL those evil racist Republicans fault. If you don't like the way voting and elections are handled, fair enough, but its unfair to throw the blame to one side, when its often the exact same way when either party has the power to make the decisions. This whole idea about Republicans seeking to suppress the minority vote? I might have to get my tinfoil hat out for that one!! :biggrin:

You didn't get the sarcasm from that post? I intended it to be sarcasm. Damn those Republicans for pulling a fast one on me because I actually have to re-register after I move? If you move, the location of your polling station changes to one closer to you, so it only makes perfect sense that you have to let them know that you moved, so they got you in the book when you go to vote. Even though EVERYBODY has to do this, Democrats still want to claim it disenfranchises minorities, like they assume they are somehow less responsible than everybody else. Which seems awfully racist of them to assume that. Democrats often like to play the race card, when ironically its them who are being racist.

Good luck voting this year if you haven't already registered. The Republican party has made it so hard to vote this year if you haven't already registered last week in most states you won't beable to vote. The republican party might have just disenfranchised you from voting. I've been registered for years. You only have to do it once. Actually the thing that tipped my decision was the Democratic Party calling my cell phone up and wasting my minutes. Registered independents get called by both political parties. At least the Republicans have the courtesy not to call my cell phone! And they were trying to get me to re-elect their worthless Senator, and the best pitch they could make to re-elect him was he saved 300 jobs or something. If that is the best he can do then he obviously isn't cut out for the job. This is not true. You have to get your Voting registration renewed everytime you move out of state or change postal address. Also your valid voting registration card will become void if you stop voting for a few years. You might want to check up and see how the Republican party might have just unintentionally disenfranchised you one of their supporters from voting this year. Depending on which state you live in you might need to register again to vote if you haven't voted in the past 4 years. The republican party has been very sneaky this year. Yeah even though we got a Democratic Governor, its the Republicans fault if I didn't make sure I'm properly registered to vote.

Good luck voting this year if you haven't already registered. The Republican party has made it so hard to vote this year if you haven't already registered last week in most states you won't beable to vote. The republican party might have just disenfranchised you from voting. I've been registered for years. You only have to do it once. Actually the thing that tipped my decision was the Democratic Party calling my cell phone up and wasting my minutes. Registered independents get called by both political parties. At least the Republicans have the courtesy not to call my cell phone! And they were trying to get me to re-elect their worthless Senator, and the best pitch they could make to re-elect him was he saved 300 jobs or something. If that is the best he can do then he obviously isn't cut out for the job.

I corrected the "rampant" part in a previous post and admitted to using the wrong word, but my opinion regarding voter IDs still stands. Even if voter fraud isn't limited to IDs, and people aren't frequently caught for it, I still don't have a problem with showing a valid ID to vote. Entitled? See that is the attitude that is wrong with this country. There are people who would be willing to take those same jobs for a bit less than $19/hr. I don't have a problem with CEOs that make lead their company into doing well getting paid extremely well for it. The problem I got is CEOs that run their company into the ground, keep their jobs, get bailed out by the government, and use bailout money to give themselves raises/bonuses. So the Unions had to make a compromise to keep their jobs? Why is that so surprising? Did they really have a choice? Likewise. Which is why I went from not really caring who wins to me going to the polls the 6th to cast a vote for Romney and vote out a Democratic Senator.

The UAW contributes campaign contributions exclusively to the Democratic Party. Maybe you should look into that before you call me unamerican for boycotting a company that represents a political ideology I disagree with. Companies that advocate a Liberal agenda, I just don't buy their products. And people on the other side of the fence also apply the same thing to companies that represent ideologies they don't agree with, like Chick-fil-a. But I'm not going to call them unamerican for boycotting Chick-fi-a because they don't agree with their political stance. Its not unamerican, its putting your money where your mouth is at. Actually the power that heats my home is generated by coal power, which Obama was caught saying he wants to bankrupt. My electric bill is very reasonable compared to other places, because its powered by a cheap energy source. I actually wasn't even going to vote in this election, but I changed my mind and am going to cast a vote for Romney. Also we got a senator that needs to take a hike right along with Obama, and he is on the rail this election. Obama getting the boot and - 1 to the Democratic Senate would be a great victory.

I honestly hate advertisers. In case some of you don't know, they recently made cell phone #s public record in the US, which means all these advertising agencies now got your cell # and can run up your minutes, and even spam text messages to your phone, and a lot of plans don't have unlimited texting. If they call my phone, I will tell them **** you and keep cussing at them until they are the ones who hang up. I'll cuss them out every time they call me, and after awhile they stopped calling me, because nobody wants to get cussed at over the phone. I've personally been spammed by 12 text messages in the last week, and I called my provider and complained about it saying how they are running up my text cap, which is only 100 texts a month, which means if they spam me over that in one month, then I have to pay an overage fee. And they told me they couldn't do anything about it, and I told them to just disable texts on my plan, so I don't get screwed with overages if someone spams me and runs me over the limit. I've been trying to get in contact with a lawyer about maybe pursuing a class action lawsuit against those cell phone spammers and people sending texts. They can maybe bring a class action lawsuit against the companies they are advertising via these calls/texts, because they are obviously paying these unscrupulous pricks money to spam people with calls and texts which makes them directly responsible for their actions. The way I look at it is if I want something, I'll buy it. I can say with 100% certainty that I've never seen an add for a product that made me say "I gotta have that", I do my own research. In fact if a company annoys me with advertisements then I'm less likely to buy their product. And yeah, I use adblock and will always use it in the future.

Most older games are more difficult than the newer versions. I'm just saying this was one of those "borderline" games, and I usually don't steer away from a challenge, but this one was almost overboard for me. A game like Dark Souls, I'm fine with because its not determined by randomness. I never played UFO defense, and from the way it sounds, I got no desire to. This game is enormously random, even though I didn't have too many problems with the battle aspects, there were a few times where I just got completely screwed by the RNG. I found out later that 100% isn't actually 100% and could be 99.6%, which means you can miss a 100% shot, and I've seen it happen 3 times. One time was vs a sectopod which proceeded to rocket AOE me next turn because it was still standing when it should have been dead and finished off 2 of my characters because I missed a 100% shotgun to the face attack. Unlucky, yes, but the simple fact that something like that is even possible makes the game broken IMO. My whole strategy relies on 3 shotgun assaults + 2 snipers, and a support. Even if I aggro 2 groups, I should be ok with that group combo. At worst I usually take out one group, and kill 2/3 of the other, then one of my assaults takes a hit from the 1 left over. That strategy is pretty much solid unless I just get completely screwed by the %s and something crazy happens like me missing 3 85% shots in a row, or a deadly enemy like a sectopod survives because I missed a 100% shot and gets to *** **** me next turn.

I've never seen an assault rifle over 9200ish range, that isn't a Jakobs assault cannon, or a Torque, and I've messed around with the save editor and put on part types to maximize damage. The damage numbers aren't random at all, and are directly related to the type of gun, grip and stock type, barrel, and prefix/suffix bonus. The only randomness involves is for the bonuses, and which grip/stock/barrel types it spawns with. Maximum damage for a Vladof E-tech blaster assault rifle is 9250, and that is with the damage prefix, and Jakobs grip + stock (highest damage) and with that the ROF is only 8.3.

You have to go through absolutely extraordinary means to keep all council members, It took me 3 tries to pull it off, and you pretty much have to be using almost all your resources for the first 3 months dedicated to launching satellites almost exclusively, while at the same time trying to get at least carapace armor for your soldiers, or they are chryssalid bait in the first mission you find them. To do this you really have to sell most of your salvage And even if you do this, you have to time the base raid story mission just right, because it reduces panic for all countries. Also if you launch satellites and don't make intercepters fast enough, like I learned in my second playthrough, a UFO can show up and destroy a satellite which will max panic a country, and its pretty much guaranteed you will lose it. That is HARD. I didn't find the battles themselves difficult, just the general circumstances of the game. If you don't do everything absolutely perfect when it comes to base/resource management and satellites you're screwed. There is zero room for error and I mean absolutely ZERO. You could miss shooting down 1 UFO, just one, and next thing you know panic levels are out of control, then 3 countries drop next month and you don't have any satellites to launch. Happened my first game, and I was freaking PISSED,

I thought this game was hard enough for me on normal, and I wouldn't even dream of trying classic mode. It took me 3 game resets just to beat normal and not lose any countries. I almost quit the game permanently my second run after losing the USA because a UFO shot down a satellite 1 day before the intercepters were completed. Of course I tried reloading the game from a week earlier, but the same event kept happening. I dunno how anyone can say they hold your hand in this game, because it didn't feel like that to me at all. It seems to me like just the way the general circumstances work out, it does so in a way that ALWAYS screws the player. They don't give you any breaks in this game at all. Once you get to mid game and got satellites up on all the countries and got plasma weapons, then its smooth sailing, but I really terribly hate just the random crap it throws at you in the beginning. You are forced to skim for resources to put everything into launching as many satellites as fast as you can early on or you are guaranteed to lose countries at some point. I honestly think the panic levels are broken. Because you have to go through extraordinary means early on to keep them at bay.

No voter fraud taking place? You sure? http://votingrights.news21.com/interactive/election-fraud-database/ Documented cases of voter fraud listed by state. A substantial portion was absentee ballots. Of course you don't have to prove you are who you say you are with absentee ballots. A lot of States put these under an incredible amount of scrutiny and for good reason. I don't have any problem showing an ID when I vote, even if its an inconvenience. And that is my opinion, and its not changing. I actually have some experience working in an automotive plant. The Toyota plant in Georgetown Kentucky, to be specific. They make the Toyota Camry. Its also non-union. The starting pay was $13.00/hr, and you basically started as a part sorter, which is a very boring, monotonous job. The ones working on the line and tightening bolts were mostly senior employees. The engines and transmissions were only assembled by mechanics, meaning highly skilled labor. Also: http://www.uaw.org/content/wage-increases-entry-level-workers-add-their-base-pay Under this scale an entry level employee can make $19.28/hr working for Ford. That is a lot of money for an entry level job, and is considerably more than Toyota pays its entry level workers. You actually had to be a mechanic or a machinist to get that level of pay at the Toyota plant I worked at. And I only suggested that some of the UAW workers make more than engineers. And you spoke up as to why a lot of young engineers don't cut it, and that has a whole lot to do with the entirety of their experience being schooling, with no real work experience in their particular field. I've seen people who were book smart, but not work smart. And you have to be both to be an engineer. I was a CAD drafter, and some of the engineers were doing basically what I was doing, except they made 50% more money, just because they had that degree. But I'm not hating, I'm just saying education pays. Also I don't buy American cars anymore because they are union and unions are funneling money to the Democratic Party. IMO Toyota makes better cars anyway.