Recent content by Knödelkarpfen

Apparently Bethesda is actually quite good at thrusting its business partners. :wink: Watch out Obsidian! I really have been surprised by the amateur nature of the whole affair. I know they probably weren't planning this way back when they made the agreement with Interplay, but surely...

I hope the game doesn't explain it this way, and that it's Bethesda, not Obsidian, that cannot into mental illness. Schizophrenia is not Dissociative Identity Disorder. Undoubtedly it's going to be more mental illness for the lolz :| (flat affect)

I love Max von Sydow as much as anyone, but it makes me wonder if, knowing Bethesda, they didn't just select him because he's swedish, and that it would, you know, be totally cool to have a swedish dude voice a game in their "viking" province!

I find myself wishing those simple stat/skill upgrades would be excluded during survival mode, or at least made more meaningful.

I would imagine, from what I know of Mexican preparation of Green Iguana, that it would be best to simmer the iguana in water or stock for 20-30 minutes, till tender and cooked (perhaps this step should be done on the bone), before you actually roast or grill it. Then I would allow it to cool...

I'm looking forward to this. I remember playing FO2 as my first CRPG when it came out--not knowing anything about the genre--and thinking crafting should be a proper option. Certainly it's not a mechanic that is needed in every RPG, but it just makes sense in a Fallout (as it did in Arcanum). It...

Yes, the side dishes are abominations indeed. I never knew coleslaw, mashed potatoes & gravy, and buttermilk biscuits could reach such a low standard. But you can be forgiven for enjoying the chicken. Quite honestly, most Americans i know (here in the midwest) have no experience with classic...

Dude, KFC is just as bad of a representative of southern fried chicken as McD's is hamburgers.

When watching people make hamburgers, i see these as the most common mistakes: 1. Not mixing/working the meat enough before cooking. Whether or not you grind the meat yourself, the meat must be thoroughly mixed, pressed, etc., if it is going to hold up well during cooking. This pushes the...

Pretty good suggestion. Faulkner tended to downplay the importance of this novel, although it is clear that he put a lot of work into it, and i thought it was excellent, dark. It could be considered the equivilant of a great B-Movie in his body of work due to its pulp origins. I would say "As I...

Faulkner is amazing. I'm reading "If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem" right now. I'm not really a Sound and the Fury fan, other than the tour de force first section. As far as approaching Ulysses in quality, i think the work of his i have read that comes closest is "Absalom, Absalom!". That novel is...

It's a minor thing perhaps. But how does the mainstream decide for a certain group that they are no longer the subject of bigotry, that they're merely being delusional and/or oversensitive? Certainly there seems to be some overreaction on these issues occasionally, but i do not think this is a...

I don't see what i said as something worth being resentful over. Just presenting anecdotal evidence as you have. The U.S. is hardly a homogenous. It's always absurd trying to generalize, but the human brain loves to do it to simplify the task of perception.

I tend to think that overall, all things considered, this is true. But intolerance here of any sorttakes a subtler form than it may in a place with more obvious struggles. It is perhaps comparable to when i have asked African Americans i have known if they have experienced what they perceive as...

I quite agree with Welsh's post. At this time i would only like to add that, as far as i as a midwesterner can tell, this social lonliness which he referred to is probably the main reason for strength of these churches. Many people here are not particularly close to their families and have...