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Furthermore, with reference to Question 2, I believe that the fact that there are apparently superfluous skills (such as Doctor/First Aid) is a holdover from Fallout's roots in the GURPS system. GURPS is an incredibly granular game, even by comparison to other contemporary PnP RPGs, with...

Actually, the computers in all of the Fallout games are closer to the late 1960s or early 1970s in terms of sophistication. The interfaces that we see in the first-person Fallout games are glass terminals for interfacing with a mainframe; this is not inconsistent with the original Fallout games...

Agreed. The biggest stumbling block to the game is, in my opinion, that console-focused abomination which is the dialogue wheel; there's very little way to save the game from that. Even the best writers would be severely limited; I think we all know how much of an understatement it is to say...

I was thinking something similar, but the solution that you've provided isn't as organic to the PC as it could be. Personally, I'd have each direction of the dialogue wheel branch out to at most three other options along with the way back to the central hub; this way, you get at most twelve...

Not everything, but it's finding the places where technology will progress that's the hard part. I'm not a complete pessimist, and I think there are areas which technology's going to rapidly improve in within a relatively short period. But those will have to wait for a post update, because I'm...

I, like many technophiles, maintain an interest in a lot of hardware and software developments. Recently, however, I've noted a proportion of technological developments which I am assured will become dead-ends. With that in mind, I'd like to present a list of my own computing predictions. -...

I believe that the Macintosh version of FO was made for Mac OS 9, and also for the PowerPC processor, which is not binary-compatible with either the x86 processors Mac are using now, or the ARM 11 running the iPhone.

The problem with trying to play any games on Linux is the sheer stress of virtualising or simulating completely different binary coding. For that reason, I wouldn't try playing any games younger than the Quake III Arena generation on my system at the most under Linux, however tempting it may be...

ST: 6 PE: 4 EN: 6 CH: 3 IN: 9 AG: 7 LK: 5 Traits: Small Frame, Fast Metabolism (Tech Wizard if allowed, to replace Fast Metabolism) Tag Skills: Small Guns, Melee Weapons, Science (would probably replace Melee Weapons with Pilot if allowed; later in life, Melee Weapons may be replaced...

Won't even bother arguing against that point. I've got a perfectly good counter-argument, but I don't want to waste it.

Well, he could be considered a "libertarian-socialist" or an anarcho-socialist as well. Well, that's because according to Mussolini, corporatism IS fascism. Either way, I get what you're saying, they're both authoritarian, they're both ultra-capitalist.

Actually, the baseline of the compass is actually Centrism(before Reagan and Thatcher). So, a lot of people who are themselves conservative would think that the baseline is actually Communism, I'm assured that it is not. Chomsky is described as a "libertarian-leftist". That basically means...

Well, you have to remember that I didn't write it. You have a problem with it, go to forums.newspeakdictionary.com and go argue your points. "Pseudo-issues" aren't as important as things like the economy. Yes, they change some people's lives, but I personally think that they're secondary...

I still play CS, but only on the UK2 servers, usually. And mygot are a bunch of assholes. Good thing there's none on Quake II(RAILGUN THEM ALL!). YES!

According to The Political Compass: www.politicalcompass.org, almost all of the candidates for the presidency were authoritarian rightists, which hardly qualifies them as communists, let alone liberals(using the meaning which is implied by the word). Maybe YOU think that way, but there's a...