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Works for me. I never really got much beyond the novels and the main sourcebook when I was spending a lot of money on pen and paper RPGs. At the time I was more into Dark Sun and 2e D&D and the ease at which your character could die in Shadowrun at the time really kept me from getting into the characters much.

Of course, it has some of the same issues with knockback that energy blast has.

Well, to be fair, it is finally a way for a snipe attack to be useful outside of an opening shot.

Those were generally more eye implants than contacts though right? The oldest literary or game reference to contacts that displayed an image I can think of was Rainbow's End back in '07, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't one earlier than that.

Going into them James Earl Jones as well. He may not have been a huge name, but he'd into acting for film and TV since '63. Heck, he was in Dr. Strangelove for crying out loud (one of the bomber crew).

The first thing that came to mind for me was the book Rainbow's End to be honest. There's been a lot of these new crazy tech advances lately that remind me of it to be honest.

I was more shaking my head at how for a while, every time I would check it seemed that the magnitude of the quake was being inflated. The local radio station was reporting a 5.8 a couple minutes after the quake, then a while later when I checked the internet it seemed everywhere was claiming 5.9 (though I think they corrected later) and then when I went out again the afternoon radio idiots were talking about it being a 6.0. I was actually surprised I didn't hear someone try and tell me we had a 6.3 by the end of the day.

Teslaaaaa!!!!!!

Ahhhh, the claims that man made.

Yea, the one earlier today was about 5-6 miles from a reactor that was juuuust rated to withstand an earthquake of that magnitude.

Incidentally, I missed the earlier big quake but I managed to feel the 4.2 aftershock we just had.

In related news (in case anyone was curious) the local reactors were apparently automatically taken offline automatically.

Yea, and relatively speaking we're fairly close to things. I'm sure there's damage somewhere though. There always is.

On the other hand there's also this news article. Apparently the 'local' nuclear reactor was only designed to withstand a 5.9-6.1 earthquake. The highest we normally have around here is in the 4-5 range so I'm guessing that seemed like a high-end estimate but given we just had a 5.9 it seems a little close for comfort.

Well, I imagine a decent chunk of damage was done, but for what it's worth here in Charlottesville (which is about as far away from the epicenter as Richmond) there doesn't appear to be much damage done. Of course it's too early to say that with any certainty, but the microburst that hit us the other weekend did more damage to my neighborhood than the quake did.

I was about 30 miles away (West down 64 from the event) driving in my car(with only mediocre shocks) and felt nothing

You know, if I hadn't just spent $500 on two textbooks I'd be doing the exact same thing.

See, I disagree that all 'gun-fu' has to look the same. I agree that there are some fairly iconic 'pistol' style attacks that largely work, though I think they're the ones that don't fit the 'gun-fu' style the most. The animations for our game's [pistols] or [executioner's shot] for example. The Wildstar gameplay video had an attack animation that looked very similar to [dual wield] though which never struck me as very iconic of a move.

I don't really think they're specifically copying Dual Pistols animations, I mostly just think it's entertaining.

To be fair, the gameplay footage we've seen is pre-beta footage. I've seen a lot of times that when the game's in the early stages of development they'll have a set of pre-generated characters for people at the convention to play and it kind of makes sense that they'd have those characters be the same ones shown in the trailer. Especially considering Carbine Studios mentioned on twitter that most of the models in the trailer were simply up-rezed versions of actual game assets.

Also in an interview I saw where they were talking about the Player Path thing there was mention of one path that would offer 'social' quests to players (for folks who preferred interaction with other players versus exploration or combat) so the game will at least have some sort of multiplayer aspect. I would imagine, given the current trends, that the game is more likely to be heavily phased as opposed to heavily instanced. All in all though it's really entirely too early to really be doing much more than making educated guesses.

Believe it or not, but there are fault lines in the area. We get a decent number of small quakes around here, but most people ignore them since they usually just feel like someone's doing some construction nearby or something like that.

Something readily identifiable as an earthquake is quite odd though.

Its epicenter was relatively near me here in Charlottesville. It happened while I was driving and I missed it, but I've been talking to some of my neighbors and family (who largely live in the Centeral VA area) and they all felt it.

Ok, so I'll start off by saying I'm not really a fan of a dragon MM either. Mostly because when I think of henchmen ... I really don't think 'dragon'. It seems an extremely poor fit for the AT's shtick.

That said. You do realize that D&D pretty much just pulled a ton of stuff from myth right? They pulled dragons straight out of myth and folklore right along with vampires, werewolves, zombies, mummies, elves, dwarves, trolls, and well ... a good chunk of 'old school' D&D stuff. It's fine not liking fantasy, but the way you said it struck me as odd that's all.

That really wouldn't take a lot. The first one wasn't all that good. I've admittedly seen far worse movies than the first one, but that's hardly glowing praise.

They're both still around, and Positron seems to have the reigns back. I'm not sure when that exactly happened though but the first time I noticed it was when they made the Freedom announcement.