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American Constitution overriden
I would like to point out that the US Constitution has been pooped on so many times already, and these things are all but ubiquitous in society. Partially because many people choose not to educate themselves on the way of things, and partially because those in charge are deceptive.
Examples: The Federal Reserve, government-mandated car insurance, Freddie/Fannie
Examples: The Federal Reserve, government-mandated car insurance, Freddie/Fannie
Do you want good quality music? Do you want cheap music?
American Constitution overriden
American Constitution overriden
author=GreatRedSpiritauthor=DespainI have constructed a guide so even you can NOT BECOME A TERRORIST! All you have to do is follow these three easy steps!
well then DONT BE A TERRORIST. problem solved.
1) Become Christian! Group mostly doesn't matter since most Americans don't even know them beyond one being called Catholicism. Similar religions such as Judaism and Islam are not acceptable. Cite God as your reasoning for anything you do. Reading the Bible is not necessary.
2) Become White! White face is not an acceptable substitute. Discard any previous culture you came from while you're at it. Black people may skip this step with the provision of being treated as a lower class citizen than a white one.
3) Watch Fox News in perpetuity! Remember what they say and repeat these talking points when confronted by any dissenting opinion. Believe in American exceptionalism, worship are troops, and believe the President is both head of state and government. Do not partake in any sort of political activism or live in an area close to where political activism is occurring.
I'm going to assume in your favor that you're exaggerating to the x-treme.
Kentona: "Really, America?" Dude, do you think any of us:
1) Want a police state or...
2) Have any say in the matter?
Skyrim Hype Thread: Undead Chicken Soup for the Dragon's Soul
re: re: post
1) I and many other players have voiced their frustration with being forced to gimp themselves. These "hardcore rules" playthroughs, to me, are just dumb. I want to play more, not less. Skyrim gives you so many ways to become badass, I want to use them, not not use them.
Also, my proposed fix of hard-capping ONE crafted potion to 25% effectiveness would totally ruin the alchemy/enchanting loop without ruining any trees or perks. 25% is how much purchased (though rare) enchanting potions buff you, and the only reason you're able to do the loop is because a super-buffed alchemist can get it to about 28% right off the bat, with that small % creating compounding interest that only stops when you round down from a decimal point and thus reach a pseudo-hard cap. But by then, you can create insane potions and, consequently, insane enchantments.
2) Yes those high level mages can be tricky. Some individual enemy re-balancing is called for as well, such as nerfing ultra-mages a bit, and buffing high level dragons.
3) Mods just don't "feel" right. Yes, I know how they work, I've been using them since Morrowind. But I prefer to play what everyone else is playing, you know? It kind of corrupts my experience when I'm playing "some guy"'s perception of a fix. Especially when most of them are entitled "Better _". Why's it better? Because "Some Guy" said so.
8) The world isn't ready for a game that isn't a sexual free-for-all. I totally agree that there should be some characters that are straight, some that are gay, etc. You know, like in real life. But there would be someone, some bored, paranoid mother f'er, who would have a problem with that system, somehow. And being that that is such a hot issue, Bethesda would have to cave.
And one of my characters was a nord female. I figured she deserved love like anyone else, right? So I remembered the Companion quests with Farkas, seems like a nice guy. So my nord amazon married Farkas and he turned into a complete wuss! And also, I felt... really... odd... having some dude hanging around my house calling me "dear" and "my love." Sorry, it doesn't take a "homophobe" to feel uncomfortable when a man with a batman voice actor is calling me his "love."
...So I Fus Ro Dah'd him off High Hrothgar and figured it was for the best.
1) I and many other players have voiced their frustration with being forced to gimp themselves. These "hardcore rules" playthroughs, to me, are just dumb. I want to play more, not less. Skyrim gives you so many ways to become badass, I want to use them, not not use them.
Also, my proposed fix of hard-capping ONE crafted potion to 25% effectiveness would totally ruin the alchemy/enchanting loop without ruining any trees or perks. 25% is how much purchased (though rare) enchanting potions buff you, and the only reason you're able to do the loop is because a super-buffed alchemist can get it to about 28% right off the bat, with that small % creating compounding interest that only stops when you round down from a decimal point and thus reach a pseudo-hard cap. But by then, you can create insane potions and, consequently, insane enchantments.
2) Yes those high level mages can be tricky. Some individual enemy re-balancing is called for as well, such as nerfing ultra-mages a bit, and buffing high level dragons.
3) Mods just don't "feel" right. Yes, I know how they work, I've been using them since Morrowind. But I prefer to play what everyone else is playing, you know? It kind of corrupts my experience when I'm playing "some guy"'s perception of a fix. Especially when most of them are entitled "Better _". Why's it better? Because "Some Guy" said so.
8) The world isn't ready for a game that isn't a sexual free-for-all. I totally agree that there should be some characters that are straight, some that are gay, etc. You know, like in real life. But there would be someone, some bored, paranoid mother f'er, who would have a problem with that system, somehow. And being that that is such a hot issue, Bethesda would have to cave.
And one of my characters was a nord female. I figured she deserved love like anyone else, right? So I remembered the Companion quests with Farkas, seems like a nice guy. So my nord amazon married Farkas and he turned into a complete wuss! And also, I felt... really... odd... having some dude hanging around my house calling me "dear" and "my love." Sorry, it doesn't take a "homophobe" to feel uncomfortable when a man with a batman voice actor is calling me his "love."
...So I Fus Ro Dah'd him off High Hrothgar and figured it was for the best.
Skyrim Hype Thread: Undead Chicken Soup for the Dragon's Soul
After 150 hours of Skyrim, finishing all the main stuff on master difficulty, and experiencing 3 different builds fully developed (warrior, rogue, mage) I have a very specific list of balance changes I'd like to see. Let me know what you think.
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1) Get rid of the alchemy/enchanting loop. Using alchemy potions to increase your enchanting skill to increase your alchemy skill to make better enchanting potions, etc, so that you eventually have a set of armor + fortify skill potions that totally break the game. How do they fix this? Simply hard cap fortify enchanting potions at 25%.
2) A difficulty level higher than Master. Skyrim does such a good job bringing in "casual" gamers, that it forgets a hardcore mode. There are so many tremendously fun ways to make your character really good at annihilating things, but at a certain point, the most powerful enemies on the highest difficulty are a complete joke. And that's without the alchemy/enchanting loop.
3) Destruction magic is a dead end. Make it not a dead end. Right now, it is far more effective to craft a powerful daedric bow, and enchant and improve it, than the strongest destruction spell. WAY more effective. Destruction needs to scale a lot better with progression. It starts off fine, but loses ground to physical combat by a huge margin.
4) Fix the game economy. The vendors are too willing to shower you with gold for your junk, and don't have enough money. All this does is waste time making more trips and finding more vendors who haven't had their gold stockpile raped by the player's endless truckload of dungeon loot. With no speechcraft perks, the player should get totally ripped off at pawn shops, you know, like in real life. Money should generally be a bit tougher to come by, and things like bounties, bribes, etc, should cost more.
5) Rare artifacts should no longer be worthless compared to crafted gear. I don't want to take away the ability to make awesome crafted gear. However, Daedric artifacts and other rare equipment are quite terrible in quality, generally.
6) There needs to be a point to food and drink, besides imagining that you're role-playing. Right now theyre just extremely weak versions of potions. They could offer other buffs, like a well-fed buff that functions like the well-rested buff.
7) The Reunification of Skyrim needs to be less anti-climactic. Going into detail here is too spoilery, but basically, the civil war is like "welp, guess we win or something." I want an epic war campaign, dammit!
8) Marriage SUCKS. Make it less suck. Seriously, it turns your spouse into a worthless submissive 50's housewife (regardless of their gender.) Also, you get married basically by buying someone. I don't know how to fix this, but I wish someone would.
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1) Get rid of the alchemy/enchanting loop. Using alchemy potions to increase your enchanting skill to increase your alchemy skill to make better enchanting potions, etc, so that you eventually have a set of armor + fortify skill potions that totally break the game. How do they fix this? Simply hard cap fortify enchanting potions at 25%.
2) A difficulty level higher than Master. Skyrim does such a good job bringing in "casual" gamers, that it forgets a hardcore mode. There are so many tremendously fun ways to make your character really good at annihilating things, but at a certain point, the most powerful enemies on the highest difficulty are a complete joke. And that's without the alchemy/enchanting loop.
3) Destruction magic is a dead end. Make it not a dead end. Right now, it is far more effective to craft a powerful daedric bow, and enchant and improve it, than the strongest destruction spell. WAY more effective. Destruction needs to scale a lot better with progression. It starts off fine, but loses ground to physical combat by a huge margin.
4) Fix the game economy. The vendors are too willing to shower you with gold for your junk, and don't have enough money. All this does is waste time making more trips and finding more vendors who haven't had their gold stockpile raped by the player's endless truckload of dungeon loot. With no speechcraft perks, the player should get totally ripped off at pawn shops, you know, like in real life. Money should generally be a bit tougher to come by, and things like bounties, bribes, etc, should cost more.
5) Rare artifacts should no longer be worthless compared to crafted gear. I don't want to take away the ability to make awesome crafted gear. However, Daedric artifacts and other rare equipment are quite terrible in quality, generally.
6) There needs to be a point to food and drink, besides imagining that you're role-playing. Right now theyre just extremely weak versions of potions. They could offer other buffs, like a well-fed buff that functions like the well-rested buff.
7) The Reunification of Skyrim needs to be less anti-climactic. Going into detail here is too spoilery, but basically, the civil war is like "welp, guess we win or something." I want an epic war campaign, dammit!
8) Marriage SUCKS. Make it less suck. Seriously, it turns your spouse into a worthless submissive 50's housewife (regardless of their gender.) Also, you get married basically by buying someone. I don't know how to fix this, but I wish someone would.
Skyrim Hype Thread: Undead Chicken Soup for the Dragon's Soul
Liberty, if you steal a cheap item from a shop, most of the time they'll just say "hey, give that back," walk to you and take it back, and you'll be free and clear. Sometimes that doesn't work, and you have to go pay some guard a fine. I've never had to actually kill someone for those situations though.
Ban Rick Perry
author=Despain
this isn't about youtube banning the video, it's about us wanting to censor him (by craze's suggestion of reporting a video). sure youtube has the right to ban the video on their website. but i'm not going to encourage them to do that just because i disagree with Rick Perry's views. because, as an american, I believe in free speech.
Censor him?
One of the things people eventually learn in life is: What goes around, comes around. Everything eventually balances itself out. If you are given the power to silence someone because you have *deemed* something he said as "hateful," then the moment someone disagrees with you, you've already set the precedent, and you'll get your comeuppance.
Also, really? Hateful? Please, stop throwing the word "hate" around so frivolously. Things could actually get really bad, you know. If I die a natural death, I'll be around for another 50 years or so. A lot can happen in this country at that time. We might have REAL hate. The kind that really ruins your life.
I would call this a poor choice of words, at best. A very poor choice, considering he wants to be the president. Don't worry, it's not going to happen.
Edit: I'm being told that you were arguing against censoring him. Sorry if I misunderstood. Everything I said still stands though.
Ban Rick Perry
author=Despain
people were using "irregardless" so it became a word. that's a good thing.
It's not a word. It's long been a rule of the English language that you do not need more than one superlative and/or prefix/suffix in order to properly modify a word. "Ir" + "less" = two modifiers. It is verbose and wrong.
Ban Rick Perry
author=PentagonBuddy
"It's basically saying I'm the evil oppressor"? Um... I basically think that is not the same at all? He called you straight, middle class, and white, it's not like he was accusing you of supporting Rick Perry or anything of the sort. Yeah I think it's dismissive and rude and... yeah I will just bop outta here. I don't mean to be so angry-sounding or bitter about it, and I highly doubt I'll be making any clear points with froth.
There's really nothing more that can be said. It is discriminatory to chalk ANYTHING up to race/creed/gender, which is what happened. You can't really argue against that unless you think that white, straight men are not allowed to have that same protection from discrimination.
author=PentagonBuddy
And if you think your demographic hasn't figured out how to play victim quite yet, I suggest you read the post right above yours. I can't count the number of times I have heard "but someone called me racist and me feelings were hurt! That's racism right?" or associated "Yeah I totally understand what you go through" type comments that demonstrate the complete opposite.
I have never heard anyone say that.
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