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The original Xcom (1994) and Jagged Alliance 1 (1995) certainly look like they knew what each other was doing and borrowed some ideas, but there was probably some precursor games that they were both inspired by. JA2 built on both the Xcom and JA1 formula, making it one of the best in the genre...

Meh, you stole my joke with your edit, I saw that $8! I was going to say it might be as high as $16 in some places! Bills are bills and it all adds up in the end. Houses will nickel and dime your ass all over the place, but yea, it's not that much, comparatively. Well that certainly sounds...

Irrigating your lawn is some expensive bullshit too and accounts for a majority of the water usage in your home, when it's in use; but you're right, I wasn't really considering it, if you irrigate your lawn, the water cost would be about the same. I was thinking about where I live now, in the...

It certainly seems like a whole lot of water is being added, when you have wait for one to two hours for the "hose" to fill it up, in the middle of summer when no one is even using it (while people are on vacation). Houses are fairly water efficient now days, I didn't think 15% more from filling...

July 14th release date.

There is a big pit of water in your back yard and water does something called evaporation. The bigger the pool, the more evaporation. You have to top it off, at least, every week for half the year, even when you never step foot in it. For the other half of the year you might be lucky to only...

I'm in that same boat. Pools are literally holes you throw money into. They are all high maintenance. There should be a calculator on how much certain size pools will increase your water bill, alone. I would guess 15 to 20% on average. As for ease of use: an older family member (60+) who...

Eh? They are planning to stay in early access after 1.0?

Maybe talk to a realtor before dumping money into it. It's possible in the current market, that your property can already go for close to a mil or they have cheaper ideas to get close to it. The market is always changing and many people would rather do their own thing, over your "updates." The...

Posted some of his videos in the video thread too. Tim Cain, lead Developer on a bunch of the games being played here is semi-retiring, so, since he was rounding up all his old notes, he started a video series on various games he worked on. Here is one on how they decided to make Fallout...

Plan is 1.0 release by the end of the September. They just got done with the Barony of Loth (undead) campaign and released it. This looks good, but I try not to play EA.

Tim Cain (Interplay, Troika, Carbine, Obsidian) has started a gaming history video series that goes into the background/development on Fallout, VtM: Bloodlines, Temple of Elemental Evil, Arcanum, and other games/things: What went wrong with ToEE:

Same, but I guess that was the point, we don't know who did what. The episode, as a whole, was back up to standard though. Many funny moments, and maybe, if binge watched, last weeks episode would play better when you get to watch this one immediately after. The Bill Burr cameo was great.

Kids are going to do kid things, so I wouldn't expect anything big and "heavy" to work for very long. "Over ear" sets are heavy enough to break fairly quickly when dropped a bunch (I assume). On-ear headsets and earbuds are going to take more abuse, with earbuds probably being the most durable...

...and now for something completely different:

I would have to assume that if they had the ground run to it, it would have been wired that way. You don't need to shut off the power to take the plate off and pull the plug out from the wall a little. Furthermore, hopefully you are just killing the breaker to that room, not the main, as that...

Musta missed that one, or it was so long ago I have forgotten already. I read the story you posted, but it didn't say how this drunk girl managed to hit a golf cart at any kind of speed. I also never heard why the people that the unremorseful drunk video girl killed were in the road; so...

Follow up to what? The one from the video where the girl is acting all nonchalant at the hospital and the LEO, who was keeping his cool up until that time, starts to get mad at her attitude? I thought the LEO told her that both people she hit were pronounced dead at the scene.

Sounds a bit like a guy I went to high school with. His dad did drafting work for oil and gas pipelines, mostly. The dad lived through the slim times in the late 70s & 80s but kept on it, and eventually started making good money; by the early 90s they were able to move out of the hood and into...

The guy delivering food was his son, surprising him?

Released today.

Kyle Reese: Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It just keeps repeating "resistance is futile."

I had a family member who was a plumber for his whole life. He always seemed to be in knee and back pain. Had multiple surgeries on both and got numerous steroid shots directly into them between the surgeries. He was hospitalized on at least two occasions from shit borne diseases that require...

After seeing what Showtime does to it's good TV shows, I am fine with other networks allowing the writers to end the show in a good spot.

While playing HS football in Texas, the only thing they would allow on the stereo, in the locker room, was Charlie Daniels. He is one of the few country singers I like and has a couple funny stories set to song: Not the same song:

I would hope not, as those MMOs have nothing in common with any of these other games, outside of some DnD lore. Also, DDO was the game I played, when it was released years ago, not Neverwinter. Vaguely remember that it was mostly a bore and maybe had the annoying, log-on everyday, F2P mechanics.

If it's only for active subs then they are trying to appeal to classic players. I thought they were still in WoTLK, but there is a post on WoWhead about Cata professions. So maybe Cata classic is releasing soon (or already)?

Looks like it's part of the Free to Play MMO fad of the early 2010s. Their may be a lot of pay to win in it. I doubt it uses any DnD rules and is probably a generic MMO with DnD lore pasted over it. It kinda looks like the F2P DnD licensed MMO game I played for maybe 10 hours, a long time ago...

A lot of people love bards. While they don't do a lot of damage on their own, they usually have the best, or one of the best party buffs in the game. My main issue with them is that I usually run out of song charges before my mage/cleric/druid needs to rest. They can cast some spells though, so...

Fuck yea, I'm IN! *sniff*

Our 50/10 microwave connection is shit for gaming, but otherwise been mostly ok for streaming/downloading. During peek times it can, occasionally, go as low as 10% of what we pay for, but it's usually about 50% of max from 6pm to 8pm. It certainly doesn't hold a candle to Verizon fiber we had...

AFAIK, the Enhanced Edition included what was available, but it's mostly just widescreen and UI mods. There isn't too much they can do, since everything is 2d hand drawn art. Although, due to this, the infinity engine aged better than any other game engine that I know of.

Welp, even after a few days I cant help but feel that that episode was depressing and shitty. I guess it is needed to progress the plot, but nothing was funny and it was a bit of a bore at times too.

For the first couple seasons, then it fell off a cliff.

Bullshit!! Master and Commander was great and that was like 10 year...shit. Well, 3:10 to Yuma was pretty good and that was 10 years....son of a bitch! While not a "must-watch," The Greatest Beer Run Ever was decent, if not a little slow in parts. From what I have read, they did a good job...

NWN has a mountain of mods that would take longer to wade through than actually playing the OC. The GFX, specifically, but the game in general has aged terribly, and I would have a hard time forcing myself to play it at all. That said, when it came out, I thought the OC was fine and never...

Drow have been various shades of purple for so long now, that they could easily makes them light purple. A very pasty/pallor light purple might be kinda cool, but yea, they would still get flak for calling them "dark", by the usual suspects. Maybe they could make "dark elves" the slur that...

Plates are tied to a person and not the vehicle, maybe? Businesses then have separate plate procedures for multiple vehicles, I would assume. Don't see any benefit to this, as two vehicles with the same plates on it sounds confusing for police. Edit: Didn't actually scroll back up and look...