TheMightyEthan

That and I don't like cheating (not saying it's like inherently wrong, I just don't like to do it myself).

Halo 2's bosses were goddamned terrible. Not even that they were hard, just that they really disrupted. The flow of the game.

I like this recipe cause it's crazy versatile, you can easily change it for your taste and it's really scalable. It also has a whole protein without any meat in it. And I don't know how much dried rice and beans cost there, but they're so cheap here they're practically free (it's like $0.10 per serving). Down side is that dried beans take quite a while to cook so you have to plan ahead. Beans and rice: 2 parts dried white rice, cook following the instructions on the package. 2 parts dried black or pinto beans, cook following the instructions on the package. 1 part cooked vegetables (we usually buy frozen corn and use that, but you can use whatever you want). Cook the beans, rice, and vegetables. Mix them together. Store in refrigerator To serve: Scoop desired amount of rice & bean mixture into a bowl, add salsa to taste (if you have access to it I recommend Old El Paso brand), crushed corn or tortilla chips (crisps?), and shredded cheddar cheese to taste. If desired you can microwave it to melt the cheese, though I usually only do that if the rice & bean mix has been in the refrigerator. After it's warmed up mix all the ingredients together and eat with a spoon (I prefer to heat before mixing because the cheese on top melts and traps the moisture so the rice doesn't dry out in the microwave).

Yeah, they can die even without the player killing them. When they bow to recover NPCs will not continue to attack them, but they can still be damaged by AOEs. I've seen Lydia get killed by the shouts of Draugr Scourges and Deathlords.

I agree that adding gay characters for the sake of adding gay characters is bad, because you end up with token characters that don't actually mean anything. But I do think it's sad that the industry is still at a point where even the idea of having gay characters at all is controversial. That's all I'm really going to say, because I think everyone else has pretty much covered it. Though I would like to add that Master Chief is straight. He's got a romance going on with Cortana. And if you think I'm making stuff up go replay Halo 3 and imagine that everything's the same except Cortana is a masculine AI and tell me that wouldn't have super gay overtones.

Doesn't using the console disable Steam achievements?

@FDS: Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous that dancing makes you invincible, but not nearly as ridiculous as the idea of them banning you for using that to survive battle. Games sometimes have pretty ridiculous bugs, that's to be expected, but ridiculous CS reactions to it are not.

I didn't think it was jarring, but I did think it was weird how central to the plot yet poorly fleshed out the whole thing was.

Oh yeah, as soon as I noticed it was being flaky I copied everything on it to the 2 TB drive I already have (it's not what I consider "important" data so I don't keep it continually backed up), but that left me uncomfortably low on disc space to work with.

Yeah, I would have continued to wait, but I've got a 500 GB drive that's on the verge of dying, could go at any second.

There was like one word I didn't know, and a couple of the place names, but other than that I think I did it right. There was also one point where something rhymed if you used the British pronunciation, but not if you used the American one. Can't remember where it was though.

I won't allow Lydia to die. She has a few times, but I always reload the save. Every time I'm wandering through the wilderness and turn around and she's not there I panic and think maybe she died somewhere, so I have to fast-travel to see if she shows up. I have no idea why I'm so attached to Lydia.

True dat. I got 50 hours in before figuring out how to use the favorites menu. The game always said "press F to favorite" at the bottom of the screen, but F did nothing. That's because I'd rebound the key to switch your view from F to P (because why would I use that when I have a mouse wheel?), which apparently also rebinds the favorite button. Would be nice if the interface had acknowledged that change...

Get this mod Dean linked to earlier. Using the 1-9 keys is handy, but AFAIK there's no way to control which hand the quick button goes to. This mod makes getting through your favorites menu MUCH faster and more convenient.

I was skeptical, but then I saw sites reporting it as if it were true. That'll teach me to believe games journalists...

Didn't get that specific drive, but I did get a Western Digital 2TB HDD. It's on Newegg for $139 after a -$30 from a promotion code from their e-mail. Even if you don't receive their e-mail you can get to the promotions from a link on the checkout page.

Is this one for English vs. English or English vs. Ethan? This is one for English vs. my phone's auto-making-words.

For me it's the "shmup" aspect.

Well sure, I'm just skeptical as to the scencerity of their belief. They may well feel very strongly about data sharing, but I find it hard to believe their feelings are religious in nature.

Then enlighten me, rather then acting like a superior asshole.

That post has been updated to say that Bioware is saying the dancing bans are fake.

They made it an official religion. I don't think I'm taking it too literally, I think THEY are.

Yeah, there's a difference between it being a great and wonderful thing and it being sacred in a religious sense.

lmfao! I call BS on the idea that anyone actually believes copying data to be a sacred act.

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1327 Makes map/compass icons different colors.