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Post by AREA666 on Jun 12, 2008 20:53:36 GMT -5
I think if you did not play Baldurs Gate when it came out that you would not like it now. It is kind of one of those things that need to be done when it is new. One of my friends who loved the game when it came out went back a few months ago to play again and could not play through it again. I was thinking I might try it again, but I do not want to ruin the memory of it in case it was the same thing for me. But maybe since you have never played it before you would like it, but keep in mind that you have to like slow moving games with a lot of story to them. It is not one of the action RPG games you can beat through the main campaign in a week or two. If you want to do everything you can, which is what I did, then plan to set aside about a year of your life to get through the entire series.
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Post by korialstraz on Jun 13, 2008 3:37:35 GMT -5
Well I don't have problems with old games, neither with slow moving games, I just need to be in the mood for it. I'm not sure if I am up to playing a new game atm, but I sure will give it a try if I feel like playing it. I actually have the game at home, but I never got into it because I was playing other games at that time.
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Post by Nè 'Eleos on Jun 14, 2008 19:17:16 GMT -5
Huzzah, sez I, Wolfe! Teachers gotta bum deal...Oh, wait. Does it count that IR1? ...Ŋє۱Єlєοѕ
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Post by Nè 'Eleos on Jun 14, 2008 19:26:20 GMT -5
Oh, cool Area! A mini-rant. I'm late to the ball, but here are some Things I Dislike, some far more intensely than others (I'll reserve 'hate' for people rather than objects or the collective).
CELL PHONES - One Ring to Rule Them All, and in the Darkness Bind Them! A technology that allows download of 100 ringtones guaranteed to irritate/p1$$off everyone w/in 30 meters.
CELLPHONE BOORISHNESS - The preponderance of conversations w/in my ken is inane twaddle, occurring in church, theatre (Recently while awaiting a performance of the Eroica Trio, I turned to my companion and said [loudly!], "I wonder how many cell phones will go off during this performance?". Came a great commotion as persons dove into pockets and purses to off their phones. Sad that you have to remind adults of the basic courtesies.), supermart ("Red lettuce or green?"...Sheeeesh! How did these people make decisions before cells??), restaurants (Oh, nothing. How about you?" - During an early breakfast at a local hostel, the hostess seated a woman at the booth adjoining mine [the entire dining area was empty]. She proceeded to receive and send 5 calls in about 10 minutes, all twaddle. I finally arose, went outside to Zen breathe for minutes, then went back to confront the manager [my companion told me she had made 2 more calls]. Told him I was leaving and not paying for breakfast and why. And if he didn't like it, he could fold the breakfast 'til it was all sharp corners and stuff it up his obliette.). What pains and depresses me about all this, is these same people are, or will be, working on my car, doing my taxes, reading my mammogram.
SUSHI - Biologist. I KNOW about filtre-feeders.
uSOFT - For assuming everyone has a hi-speed Net connection. For bloated code, asinine nanny-checking for official uSoftware on an approved computer ...EACH TIME I UPDATE!!
BARKING DOGS - And their irresponsible owners. After being sleep-deprived for several weeks from one such, upon requesting that he do me the courtesy of quieting his dog, he replied, "Dogs bark." To which I replied, "No, dogs bark because their owners don't train them not to." Stalemate, resolved by a little device which puts out a piercing tone - about 25kHz - which is activated by repetitive barking...it should have been used on the owner.
CHEATERS, USERS, ABUSERS, ENABLERS, GUILT-TRIPPERS, LIARS & DENIERS - 'nuf said.
IRRATIONAL THINKING OF ANY KIND! - Every day I am confronted with people who are acting in manners which threaten their physical, economic, mental or spiritual well-being...OR MINE!
RAIN - Grew up in Pacific NW, where it was mostly preparing to rain, raining, just finishing raining. Lots of grey and cloudy...Depressing.
MASHED RUTABAGAS OR TURNIPS - Ick.
ATVs - Biologically, an environmental abomination. Destroys the quiet, destroys the ground cover, alters/disrupts animal behaviour, gullies the hillsides and muddies the streams.
PROFESSIONAL SPORTS - Oh, fie! Way too much posturing, testosterone driven egoism. Grown men playing a children's game for way too much money. Saddest are the antics in the stands: multi-colored fat men who would coronary running the field, jumping up and down screaming, "We're Number One!!", as if it all really matters. ...Ŋє۱Єlєοѕ
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Post by AREA666 on Jun 14, 2008 19:34:09 GMT -5
How silly of me, I hate cellphones too and should have put it on my list. I use a house phone for about all my converstaions, and only have a prepaid cell that I use for emergencies. I find it silly that people pay so much for the use of them. For me I hate it when people can get ahold of, and annoy me at anytime. People are so used to being able to talk to people all the time, text, etc, that I just sit back and laugh when their batteries die, it is like they lost their mind and can not function without it, silly dependent people. I also hate people that talk on them, like when driving, I wish I could nudge them off the road into a nice pit full of spikes, napalm, and rattlesnakes. I also hate it when people at work text on them, they are told not to, and yet they get away with it; so when I have my own company I will just fire people right off for doing it since they will be warned not to when they get hired. People like to use the excuse of using it for a clock, but I know it is bs, so if they need to know the time there will be a clock on the wall, or they can buy a 5 dollar watch.
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Post by Nè 'Eleos on Jun 14, 2008 20:27:02 GMT -5
Whoa, Area! I so luvvvv the spikes, napalm and rattlesnakes! Rave On!! ...Ŋє۱Єlєοѕ
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Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Jun 14, 2008 23:32:17 GMT -5
Oh my gosh! How could I have forgotten cell phones as well! Except I don't hate cell phones, I just hate the people using them. I actually really miss my cell phone, but I couldn't afford it anymore. I found it endlessly useful. For instance, being able to give someone a courtesy call when you are running late (which for me isn't the inconsiderate loosing track of time crap, it's things like my doctor was running behind and I had to wait an extra hour longer than normal to get to see him). Also I can't tell you how many times I've asked Alucard to pick something up at the grocery on the way home from work only to realize later (and probably about the time he is IN the store) that we are also almost out of cream or coffee or sugar which are NECESSITIES. So then one of us is stuck going BACK out again. But when I DID have a cell phone I gave the number to very few people and 95% of it's use what just talking to Alucard. Also I have to admit I am totally guilty of this one: Alucard's the cook in the family (I am clueless in the kitchen) but I am the one who does most of the grocery shopping. Yeah, I don't know what that's all about either! There has to have been fifty times at least that he put something on the list and then upon getting to the grocery store I realized that he wasn't specific. Like HOW MUCH of a particular item was needed for the meal, whether white onions or red onions would go best with the rest of the meal, etc. So I have come home pretty often to be told I got the wrong thing... argh But back to why the people who use cell phones suck! So quite some time ago I worked soft serve/smoothie shop at the mall. I would get at least 3 people a day, and sometimes more, that would come to the front of the line, be chatting on their cell phone and instead of telling the person to hold on so they could make their order they had the audacity to stick their finger up in the air to mean I should wait! Then when I would tell them to get in the back of the line while I waited on the customer's who WEREN'T talking on their cell phones they would getting really pissed off!! That isn't even counting all the people who were just on their phones but DID tell the people to hold on. But even then! If you are in line at any type of store get the heck off your freakin' phone!!! Oh I have another brilliant one.... the other day I spotted someone swerving in traffic a bit and as I pulled up beside them I saw that it was because they were TEXT MESSAGING while driving!!! Instead of a stupid fine for driving with a cell phone, which they barely never enforce anyway, they should just take the person's drivers license away for 30 days. That'll teach them! Or I sure hope it would anyway! Stalemate, resolved by a little device which puts out a piercing tone - about 25kHz - which is activated by repetitive barking...it should have been used on the owner. So was that a device that the owner got on a collar or something you could put in your place that would still reach the dog? If it is something you got I sooo want one so I can hide it in my mother's house! Her boyfriend brought his stupid dog with him when he moved in and I hate it. Only one of the reasons is that it barks at EVERYTHING. This dog can be in the house and if it hears someone walking down the sidewalk across the street he'll bark for 10 minutes about it. He also barks for about 10 minutes every time the phone rings and something about my mother's phone and his sharp barking makes MY phone have this electrical, echoing, ear piercing squeal, I swear one day it'll make my eardrums burst when I call her!
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Post by AREA666 on Jun 15, 2008 7:57:07 GMT -5
Something I was thinking should be put into cell phones, and could easily be done now, is to put a gps on them all. What the purpose of it would be is that is will talk to the satellites constantly and if it detects the phone moving in excess of 10Mph, it will send a signal to shut off the phone. Now naturally emergency calls will be exempt, so maybe police and such would have different phones, or maybe the number being called could be traced to see if it is a 911 call. I figure there is enough areas for people to pull over out there anyway, so even if it is like a spouse calling and it is an emergency the person can always pull over and take the call.
My original plan for this was to have a small explosive in the phone that would destroy the phone, car, and driver, but I figured that it would be hard to get something like that implemented, so maybe the shut down way would work better.
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Post by griffman on Jun 15, 2008 8:05:42 GMT -5
Oh I have another brilliant one.... the other day I spotted someone swerving in traffic a bit and as I pulled up beside them I saw that it was because they were TEXT MESSAGING while driving!!! Instead of a stupid fine for driving with a cell phone, which they barely never enforce anyway, they should just take the person's drivers license away for 30 days. That'll teach them! Or I sure hope it would anyway! I text while driving. It's actually easy if you can multi-task. In fact, I use to text Becky all the time when I was driving on the interstate... she hated it, always saying how I was going to crash. Never even come close to an accident while doing that. I don't look down at my phone while driving, so I just have to have everything about it memorized. I have to say, for those that can't multi-task texting is dangerous and should be avoided at all costs while driving. One of my friends said she ended up in a ditch from texting and driving... In fact, I think most of what I do would piss you guys off in real life. Maybe I should keep these facts to myself, just in case... I do agree with the cell phone thing in stores. I make it a point to stop my conversation before I walk up to someone that will be ringing up my items, or even before getting in line I tend to be off it. People that don't have the courtesy to do that are just butt heads.
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Post by Nè 'Eleos on Jun 15, 2008 19:22:54 GMT -5
Oh, Griff!! (sigh...) <<I text while driving. It's actually easy if you can multi-task.>> Look up the latest research on multi-tasking; it's your brain on beans ...Ŋє۱Єlєοѕ
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Post by Nè 'Eleos on Jun 15, 2008 19:33:45 GMT -5
Wolfe; Yea, it's a little electronic honker that is battery driven (it can also be wired. I wired mine so I wouldn't have to keep changing batteries). I put it on the fence focused into the dog's yard...shut him right up in a short time. He tho't he got smart and went around behind the guy's garage to bark, so I got another one and put it on the neighbor's fence (he was sick of the barking, too!). It can also be trigered by the operator, so for your dumb barker, you can conceal it about your person and fire it off randomly and sneakily. Google 'bark collar' and look for the anti-barking devices that don't have to be collared to the dog. Oh, and they make cellphone jamming devices similar to these things, but the FCC will cram your jammies if you get caught ...Ŋє۱Єlєοѕ
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Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Jun 15, 2008 22:01:18 GMT -5
That is soooo awesome! I want one!!!
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Post by korialstraz on Jun 16, 2008 2:03:52 GMT -5
So me and Griff are the only one who don't mind cellphones?
I have to admit, if you have it turned on during a movie in the cinema or something, that's rude. And talking in the phone while ordering food or paying for something is extremely rude and annoying. But if you can avoid that (which isn't difficult at all) I don't see any problems with cellphones. Ofc those kids with those annoying ringtones can make anyone go mad.
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Post by kcwong on Jun 16, 2008 6:20:09 GMT -5
In Hong Kong, you have to be crazy to be without a cellphone. A few years ago that's applied to the working class - you'd get weird looks if you tell people you don't have a mobile phone number. When you apply for jobs, they need your mobile phone number.
These days it's everyone capable of using one - that's including primary school students (even 3G ones, so their parents can check where they are).
To quote Alpha Centauri (a brilliant strategy game):
The righteous need not cower before the drumbeat of human progress. Though the song of yesterday fades into the challenge of tomorrow, God still watches and judges us. Evil lurks in the datalinks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets that were evil.
- Sister Miriam Godwinson, "A Blessed Struggle"
It's just annoying people using the technology irresponsibly.
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Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Jun 16, 2008 8:29:04 GMT -5
Well yeah that is what I was saying... I loooooved my cellphone and really miss having it, they are just so dang expensive! BTW, we get strange looks here as well when you tell someone you don't have a cell phone I just hate a lot of the stupid, rude, ignorant things people DO in regard to their cellphones.
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