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Then who did god?

Only God knows. And he's not telling.

"It is better to let a hundred guilty go than to punish a single innocent."

Oh, come now, certainly DF players can't believe that

Incarceration isn't exactly good in the first place, since you're wasting money putting away and taking care of people who are less than useless to the world. Terrorism isn't a serious enough threat to that, the worst case in history only killed a few thousand people, which is nothing compared to the amount lost to cancer and diseases. I'd much rather a country put the money into health care and education, than waste that on incarcerating people.

And America, of all countries, needs more money put in health and education. I'm still a little annoyed that a country with so much money won't even provide proper wages, health care, and decent college fees. Many other countries provide it for life, even to foreigners.

1000AD: Religious person: I believe in God!
Atheist: What's the proof?
RP: How do you explain how the stars stay in the sky?
Atheist: Er, I can't.
RP: God did it, end of discussion.

1800AD: Religious person: I believe in God!
Atheist: What's the proof?
RP: How do you explain how the stars stay in the sky?
Atheist: Gravity keeps them in balance.
RP: How do you explain how life came about?
Atheist: Er, I can't.
RP: God did it, end of discussion.

1900AD: Religious person: I believe in God!
Atheist: What's the proof?
RP: How do you explain how the stars stay in the sky?
Atheist: Gravity keeps them in balance.
RP: How do you explain how life came about?
Atheist: By the gradual process of evolution.
RP: How do you explain how atoms stay stable?
Atheist: Er, I can't.

2009AD: blah blah blah.
Atheist: Through electromagnetism and (goes off into a long and extremely boring talk about particle physics)
RP: How do you explain the original creation of matter?
Atheist: Argh, give me another 100 years.

We captured your Occam's Razor flag

“The simplest explanation for a phenomenon is most likely the correct explanation."
God did it.

Muz tosses a match onto thread.

I loved Bloodlines. Redemption was rather boring though, had a bunch of bad ideas, didn't capture the feel of the tabletop. I dunno, to each his own.

KILL IT WITH MAGMA

CRPG

When I was a kid, it was called Combat RPG.
Adam Sessler called it Common RPG.
The OP seems to call it a Computer RPG.

Quote from: Muz on May 25, 2009, 02:19:41 pm

There's also that exploit that lets you get a lot of money without anyone coming, but that comes with a drawback - stealing all that money will make the various countries rather angry early on, before you unlock good minions so I wouldn't recommend it.

Are you referring to the fact that you could steal tons of money as soon as you get acess to the world map but before you finnish the first few training missions? I always did that you just leave the game for the heat to cool off before capturing the nanny.

Yeah, there was something wrong with that. I think the game calculates the wrath of the powers that be by the amount of agents you kill and the amount of money you steal from them. I forgot what exactly, but I think it makes your minions more prone to getting killed by agents. If you really want to do it, just do it on only one faction, so only that one faction gets really pissed off.

Super Agents are powerful however the best way to deal with them is to swamp them with social minions who will destroy their mind. Once this happens use traps that don't deal damage on them as many times in a row as possible (For example the Blender). This can keep Super Agents pacified until they have to leave.

Hehe, only works on the early ones, especially the bimbo. Later on, you get that Rambo guy who blasts everything he sees, including social minions But definitely don't attack the early ones, they have far too many HP to take down.

Quote from: Servant Corps on May 25, 2009, 03:09:09 pm

Because, while Bethesthda is stating that it is a spin-off/expansion, I am believing it to be a sequel, hence why I started the topic of Fallout 4.

I rather doubt Bethesda/Zenimax would allow a different company to create an official sequel after the last one was so financially successful.

Then.. the franchise is ruined

A pity, I rather liked the old Fallout. It's not looking back with rose-tinted glasses either, I actually play Fallout 2 all over again when the nostalgia hits me and end up loving it as much every time. Well, there's always new franchises. Like DF. I'm so going to write a hate thread on DF 3 in the future once it gets sold to EA.