ThunderPeel2001

Lol. You haven't seen Magnolia then?

FALLOUT 3! (Finally.) I've been blasting through this over the past few days, and really been enjoying it. I got to the last mission, and decided to finish all the side-quests first... Then I reached Level 20 and stopped levelling up. It was a little frustrating, so I treated myself to Broken Steel and finished everything up from the main game, while levelling normally. Then I finished the final quest of FO3, which was astonishingly lame, and saw the crappy ending... Only to be revived for the Broken Steel expansion... Which was astonishingly hard! Even with my extra tough character, kitted in excellent power armor, wielding a gatling laser, those Feral Ghoul Reavers were ridiculously difficult to beat. Still, Broken Steel was good fun. Now I'm debating getting the other expansions, or just skipping those and getting New Vegas at some point in the distant future. (Recommendations? Worth getting more expansions... or should I just go for NV?) Anyways, in all a highly enjoyable experience... although I don't fancy plowing 70+ hours into another game any time soon.

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Wow. I'm surprised (and glad) I didn't notice that stuff. It's becoming to clear to me that TellTale's QA department has either been seriously scaled back, or has been re-populated with monkeys. (Apparently, word on the street is that TTG has no intention of fixing the stat-erasing bug in Poker Night. Nice. Also, the original bug in BTTF Ep1 that prevented users of Vista and Windows 7 from playing the game (if they didn't elect to play the game immediately after installation) is still shocking to me.)

His book looks good, though. http://www.chrisflett.com/book/ Did I say good...? Hmm.

HFG that's cool

It's heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere!!! (I'm excited.)

Holy shit!!! :tup:

TED Talks thread?

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I think it always provides you with enough time to makes things right, but I don't know for sure. You can rewind further using the main menu, if you think you need to.

And yet that is what history has taught us. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Il-Sung. As soon as folk got into power, they went back on what they said. I've just watched a bunch of Chomsky videos were he repeatedly states this. It's also the reason that those with communist sympathies can say things like, "well, Communism has never really been tried". I'm not saying I agree with everything Mr. T said, but he certainly had more to say than you seem to want to admit. I think we all agree on one thing you said, anyway: We want a more just society. All this is moot, however, because Ronald Reagan has just pwned Socialism! 8gIxuOabGBE

Yeah, I started reading it and was surprised at how much dry wit was in it. Scrooge himself seems more fully-rounded than in any adaptation I've ever seen, too (he's always so two dimensional in movies, it's irritating). I should get around to finishing it.

Wow. Congrats on taking such a bold move. Good luck on making it work

Yeah, exactly, response time is the most important thing for 99% of the time. Unless you're downloading a gigantic file or trying to stream HD or something.

Sorry Kingz, but you're being unnecessarily harsh on Thompson, and he's absolutely right: We don't have a valid alternative. Also, you have mistakenly claimed that Canada and Europe are "socialist"... workers do not control production here, any more than they do in the US. You also dismiss his very real points: Communism and (pure) socialism have never actually "worked" without creating systems where the people have no freedom. Could they ever work, or will we always have Stalins, Maos, Il-Sungs? History is not on our side, unfortunately. As I already said, everything has to work in balance: America is not about to turn into a socialist state, but fear of that happening (and losing "freedom") seems to be pushing Americans so far to the right (towards insano-capitalism). I can't help but think that Thompson has been singled out and dismissed because of his age, despite the fact that he made several valid points. I hereby withdraw my vote for your presidency.

I do agree that this is the weakest aspect of the game, and it's why I say it's an "experience to savour" (because the gaming aspects aren't so great). Still, at least it's nearly always obvious what you need to do, even if how isn't clear how. Other games with this same mechanic have terrible logic sometimes. For example, in The Last Express: You arrive late the on train (trying to avoid the authorities at the station, or just running late? -shifty eyebrow-) and find your friend dead. First port of call, deal the body. Then someone mistakes you for him, and you realise he had business on the train... but who killed him and why?

In all seriousness, I do love that ending as it really sets up the sequel.

I hope this new special edition of Ben There, Dan That has the proper ending we discussed

Well there are certain events that must occur before certain characters do something (e.g. They'll tell you that they're getting off at a certain station, so you better do X before then, otherwise Y). Those sort of events nudge you "back on track" because the game will end when you fail to continue the story (usually because someone has decided to kill you). Other than that, provided the story doesn't meet a dead end (by you getting into trouble, etc.), then you're doing well! Really glad you're enjoying this, Toblix. I love the way the story is told, and that you know what you need to do, and you can see all the different parties with their own agendas, and you're stuck in the middle with your own agenda, trying to keep everyone else happy. There are no "triggered" events, as far as I know, and the trip takes place in "real-time" (albeit, with time sped up x6). So you arrive at stations at precisely the same time the real Orient Express did, etc. Also, the game's developers found the last remaining original Orient Express cars, and photographed them from every angle in order to make the game as accurate as possible. It really is an experience to savour. Also, a tip: Don't watch the "Making Of" video while you're in the middle of a game. It gives quite a lot away. Edit: Ooh, look at this cool image I found...

Kingz, I think you really hit the nail exactly on the head, and you've summed up everything I've witnessed during my time in the US and folk I've spoken to here. And the discussion between you and Sully is precisely the same one I've seen before... and I honestly believe it's core of the problem that I've seen over and over for the past 10 years (since I became interested in US politics). As I see it: For whatever reason (50's anti-communism, Reagan, whatever) it's become almost a crime to say that you're not a fan of capitalism in America. People immediately get scared and apparently believe that if you're not a fan of capitalism, then you MUST be a communist. Well, here in Europe we're NOT socialist, we're actually capitalist, but (in the UK at least) we're not as far RIGHT as the US. For some weird reason, in the US it's apparently all or nothing: You're either a capitalist 100%, or you're a socialist 100%... but it's not the case. For a start: Capitalism doesn't work! If capitalism worked, there wouldn't be a need for minimum wage... If capitalism worked, then the market would dictate what people were actually worth, not the government. But it doesn't work! Without things like minimum wage, the workforce gets taken advantage of. Look at second world countries like India and Brazil. Companies are free to treat their workers as they see fit, and poverty is a million times worse. There is no protection for worker's rights, you have shanty towns and people working as slaves for 100 hours a week, just so their family doesn't starve. THAT'S capitalism without any safeguards. Does that mean that socialism is the way forward? No. Unchecked socialism has shown itself not to work, either. So obviously there has to be a balance between helping businesses grow (which creates jobs, after all) and the rights of the workers. Whenever people like Barack Obama try to create address this balance (like his healthcare reform -- which was erroneously dubbed "socialized healthcare"), the right go ape-shit and think he's a socialist. It'd be laughable, if it wasn't so terrible. The right throw up major concerns: Reforming healthcare in America will cost the country millions, and damage the economy (this is what the right seem to argue). So Obama has to argue that, actually, it will SAVE the country money and HELP the economy. Whether you believe him or not is really whether you are right wing or left wing... but it always goes to an extreme. So the right in the US say things like, "we have the BEST healthcare in the world", refusing to concede that there's even a problem to begin with! This blinkered thinking becomes part of the problem. I digress. Here in the UK, we DO have socialized healthcare. It means that the government owns the hospitals and pays the doctors... Obamacare is not even CLOSE to this. (Not even CLOSE!) It's so frustrating to watch as an outsider as folk only talk about the extremes of capitalism or socialism, when really it's just balance that's needed... Someone somewhere needs to take the stigma out of being left wing. Out of being a socialist. Out of being, hell, a communist... Just so conversation has flow freely without emotions running over. But I do think, whatever happens, that the US will eventually even itself out. If things keep getting worse, it'll eventually lead to a revolution of sorts, and Churchill's declaration will come true (it's noteworthy that he himself was half-American). Anyways, that's my ill-considered opinion, rushed out at 0.45am. Kingz, I'd vote for you as President

1. You said you'd tested your connection with www.speedtest.net -- and you'd gotten 10mb/s, but speedtest.net automatically routes you to the closest testing location. (I.e. Your local one.) Confused. 2. If you're getting great speed for sites in your country (i.e. local ones) then a coaxial cable change isn't going to make any difference. 3. Does the connection still "drop a lot" (as you said in your first post) when you're connected by an ethernet cable? Or can we assume that your connection is now fine? This is complicated.

And what was your ping like? Never mind. Forget that, just do what Toblix suggested.

Great post. You've got more patience than me Also, I think it's usually 192.168.0.1 (or at least it always has been for me).