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Many Pieces... (See what I did there?) (-; Thanks for the recommendations, guys; I'm adding the new ones to my list. @Walpknut: I've seen a few eps of Serial Experiments Lain; the series definitely intrigued me. Just haven't made the time yet to continue it. The rest of your series list...

Still 9/10. @Walpknut: Just curious - did you create your avatar? It disturbs me deep down inside, kind of creeps me out in an uncanny valley kind of way. But definitely unique and memorable, so it deserves credit for that. -m Edit: :postviper: :clap: 700 pages! :jiggy: Is there a longer...

Microchips in blackjack cards? This is an awesome thread. Don't know why I didn't discover it sooner; probably because I'm always off in the modding forum I guess. A (TV?) movie from the 80's (or thereabouts) about a guy who's trying to take down a casino; he has it in for the owner for some...

Anime can be hard to get into, especially if you're approaching it not expecting the cultural differences. Depending on the anime, there can be a lot that you just don't get - although the more you watch, the more you get those idioms thanks to past exposure. The anime I'd recommend, for...

My first thought was "What about Serenity - a counter-example, or an exception?" but then I re-read your comment and realized that your "strong guiding will" qualifier (i.e., Joss Whedon in this case) disqualifies the example. By definition, being a fan seems to mean being attached too much to...

Fair enough. Just a historical note: The avatar comes from a set of avatars that Cyco Mike (of Suicidal Tendencies) used to have available on his website for public use. I thought it was the coolest-looking one of the set, and a skeleton (or skeleton-dude seemed like an appropriate thing for a...

Pacific Northwest FTW The Spokane / Coeur d'Alene area, Boise, Portland (Oregon)/Vancouver (Washington), Vancouver (B.C.), and the Seattle / I-5 corridor would be good locations for a Fallout game, and in fact that's the main idea I have been mulling over since starting to think about building...

I'm with RetroAmerica and am in the "good writing comes first" camp. Depth and moral complexity are what make a story worth revisiting, especially when allowing the player to be involved in the decision-making within such a story (e.g., truly an RPG rather than something else). Personally I...

In place of SPECIAL, the Fallout hiking simulator will use the "ALPINES" system. Instead of Charisma, it will have ... well, something that starts with "N." -m

More likely this was a reference to the movie "Aliens," where Hudson declares this line when he finds the missing colonists' locator chips on the base's digital map interface. -m

Naah, I was just teasing 5545Trey for having nothing better to do on a weekend than dig up a couple dozen old(ish) threads. (-: -m

Good call, SnapSlav. Mia culpa. :oops: (Well, I did qualify by saying "iirc"; apparently I didn't "rc.") (8 Now that I'm more awake (thanks to the splash of cold water), I realize that I was mixing up a memory of my friend's dorm room (c. 1991) with his apartment (c. 1997). He did have a...

Nice one, @TheChosen1. (-: With that in my nose, I'd be grumpy, but to Sulik, it's just his Grampy Next: the Solar Scorcher

Good point, naossano; I'd forgotten that map areas not resetting was a new thing; it added a whole new level of excitement about the game. It made you worry about screwing something up, which really changed your game play: increasing the level of suspense and sense of danger. I can still...

Some combination of this and reducing the amount of loot at both SAD and EPA would seem to be a good overall solution. Still, if the SAD and EPA need to be nerfed, maybe one could convince killap / lujo to address these issues in the base RP instead of having to do it through this mod? Just a...