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But to answer the originally posed question: The first time I play an RPG, I usually play it behaving how I really would behave in that situation, so acting as a decent person. Then the second time I go evil to see everything I missed by being a goody-two-shoes.

The thing with NV, though, is that the karma system is (a) useless and (b) hopelessly biased toward making you good.

"The recently discovered harp sponge, Chondrocladia lyra, make not look like something you'd bring into the bathtub"

There were a bunch of brilliant and terrifying stories in that collection: The Jaunt, the Mist, The Raft, Survivor Type... But for some reason the one that affected me most was The Reaper's Image. It was extremely short with a very simple premise, but something about it was harrowing to me at the time for reasons I

"Also is their any explanation as to why our seed species would make a map to a military experiment planet and not their homeworld or other colony?"

Wow, before I read this I figured this movie was bad, and thought I knew in what way it would be bad. Turns out that someone manipulated the genes of my assumption and the truth was much worse than I could ever imagine.

You sure? Maybe you were thrown off by the pointiness of the elbows.

I tried listening to the audiobook of the Strain during a long drive. Couldn't stand it. It was read by Ron Perlman, who I love, but his slow growling delivery made the dialogue sound even worse. Especially when he was performing the lines of the sexy female characters. I wound up quitting before the first vampire

Right there with you. I had all of those (except maybe the target game, can't remember), and the "Making of Alien" book. That's all I still have, though in storage; it's filled with amazing concept art and cool stories and most of the pages have fallen out of the binding.

Another interesting aspect of the 18" Alien (which I owned as a child) was that between its plastic legs, it had what even my young self recognized as a vaginal concavity. Side note: Do *not* google "alien toy vagina" in an attempt to find visual evidence.

Prometheus wasn't unequivocably terrible, it just had a terrible script. This movie had so much going for it, but clumsy writing, poor narrative choices, and unrealistically stupid characters scuttled it.

I think the fact that it's played for comedy in a deliberately pulpy and anachronistic movie would make it acceptable to modern audiences seeing it for the first time. The greatness of the scene is not that Indy shoots a guy, it's that the audience's expectation of a grand duel with a major villain is so immediately

Good thing I watch all those Hollywood movies and play all those violent video games so I'm desensitized to this.

Reminds me slightly of the movie "Stranger Than Fiction," though in that case it was the watch that fell in love with its owner, and the love was mostly unrequited. Sniff.

It's interesting that, not counting the 167 on the planes who are unknown to us, there have only been two women killed... And as many as two children killed. (Plus one almost killed.) I expect a Men's Rights Activist to come along and present this as proof that men have it worse than anyone.

That was Jesse! But should we count the pigs that were butchered to make the 51 and 52 out of bacon on Walt's plates?

Not to mention the full-sized muscle man to represent Mrs. Peyketewa, an old lady.

So that's an original costume of yours? I spent some time trying to figure it out but concluded it must be from an anime I'd never seen (which is almost all of them). Very cool effect!

Interesting, but I already know how it ends: He gets punched to death with a ballistic fist and then I loot his helmet.

In my first/main game, I own every house except the one in Windhelm, and have living quarters with the Mage's College, the Companions, the Thieves' Guild, and the Dark Brotherhood besides. But I only ever use the house in Whiterun, because it is blacksmith-adjacent and surrounded by merchants. In my second game I own