[Scotty]

A Revenant just kicked my ass six ways to Sunday on Dragon Age.  Repeatedly.  I finally got him on the fifth try though.

[Commander Zane]

It's possible your friend just lacks depth and technical competance. 

I recall trying to get someone into FS (he actually asked me, though...). It really didn't help that he had a laptop with no number pad... and was rather peeved to learn that he'd have to configure his keyboard to play it properly. Thus, I believe he dropped it... Of course, that's a shooter-player for you!

I've got no problem switching from shooters to simulators, I've grown up on both.

[Colonol Dekker]

Same here. . .
Good genres for someone to grow up with an unbiased opinion.

[iamzack]

freespace... "hurr, every key on your keyboard does something different! now memorize them!"

but i guess if you don't have better things to do (another person, for example)...

[Thaeris]

It's really not that bad. I play flight sims, so I'm used to complex control schemes. The worst part is I tend to remember the controls for many, many flight sims... 

Good memory, that's all. 

[Commander Zane]

Like Lock On.

[blackhole]

Freespace really does have way too many controls. I usually only use about 5 of them and there's nearly a hundred to choose from.

[Commander Zane]

You don't really need more than those five though.

[NGTM-1R]

freespace... "hurr, every key on your keyboard does something different! now memorize them!"

To be honest, the throttle controls and Q are the only keyboard commands I ever memorized.

[Colonol Dekker]

I'm watching the 'Day of the Triffids' movie remake on BBC1. Entirely entertaining.

[Stormkeeper]

I recall trying to get someone into FS (he actually asked me, though...). It really didn't help that he had a laptop with no number pad... and was rather peeved to learn that he'd have to configure his keyboard to play it properly. Thus, I believe he dropped it... Of course, that's a shooter-player for you!

I play FS on a laptop too. Obviously, he wasn't MAN enough.

A Revenant just kicked my ass six ways to Sunday on Dragon Age.  Repeatedly.  I finally got him on the fifth try though.

My first Revenant made me run away screaming. Later on I made enough gold to buy the magical ring from the lyrium-addled dwarf that adds 10 to your constitution. Then Revenants became somewhat easier.

[Scotty]

I think that was actually the second one.  The first one I fought was in the Redcliffe Castle courtyard, but that one was pretty easy.

This one was in the Mages' Tower, the one that springs up from the desecrated statue.  He had an orange name and a rather large and bold life bar, so I think he was a boss.  I haven't even really finished Redcliffe (went to the mages so I can save the kid), so I was only at about level 8, without Morrigan to rain fire and ice on it.  My character ended up taking it out head-to-head on account of the fact that he's a two-hand spec tank with a half dozen different kinds of damage to dish out per hit.  I think he's up to normal, fire, lightning, nature, and frost damage, all with each hit.

Then I experienced much the same repeated failure against the Sloth Demon.

ANYWAY.  Getting chinese take-out for dinner, taking a break from Dragon Age for at least a few hours.

[iamzack]

revenants are everywhere. get used to them.

[blackhole]

I'm emo and no one realizes it.

[Retsof]

It's funnier when you call someone emo who isnt.

On a different note, I got stuck on a mission in ASW.  When I finally got past where I kept dying the game crashed .

[Dilmah G]

I'm burning.

[Nuclear1]

Today I ordered various new parts for my truck, including light bars and some underbody neon lightning. The grille guard and winch are coming over the next couple months.

[Retsof]

I doubt that neon will last long if you plan on going off-road.

[NGTM-1R]

If in your whole life you read only book specifically about Midway, or perhaps even the Pacific War in general, it should be be Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway.

I am utterly and completely serious. The First Team was good, sure, and stuff like Fire In The Sky, the USN official history, and are erudite and offer their own good points, but this is basically the only English-langauge book to study the Japanese sources well enough to be authorative on not only how Kido Butai died, but also how it lived. And in how it lived, you understand much, much more clearly not only how but also why it died.

(And Jesus, the Japanese came within a single bad decision of a total defeat; everything lost, sunk no carriers in return. People blame Tone for screwing up its search plane launch, but if Tone's plane hadn't screwed up the whole thing would have been a wipe!)

[Turambar]

sitting in the car with iamzack, waiting to go play some dnd