You know you can skip this level, and warned before you start the campaign and before the level starts about it?
Could have enjoyed an awesome game if you did.

How do you handle games like Fallout, with or without the Bloody Mess perk, since body parts fall off like dominos if you hit them good enough?

I know, it was stupid of me not to disable it. In Fallout I avoid the bloody mess perk and I use FOSE so I've set the chance of any limbs getting detached to lowest possible setting.

I'll have to give it a try. I've heard of it before and the premise sounds rather intriguing.

FOSE?

The Fallout Script Extender. I downloaded it a while back. It's very good.

Ah, for PC gamers. Being on consoles I don't get such luxuries.

Yes, playing on the computer does have it's benefits.

Very well written and inspirational story. I can only imagine what it might be like to meet the love of one's life, and for circumstances to be favorable enough for things like family and such to emerge. Not that in 32 years I haven't managed to experience falling in love. We just never made it that far and after five beautiful years drifted apart...

Now I live alone. I know myself enough not to risk subjecting another to that shattering of hope that comes of loving one who isn't ever happy with what they have, or never has enough to create a world in which they could be. I see too much, know too much. Seeing those fears and anticipations come to pass without the means to stop it, has seen true happiness become all the more elusive. But I wouldn't trade my sight for anything, even if it means enduring these visions of a sleeping world in flames...

My grandfather flew planes for the Allies in WWII. They called him "Bring 'em Back Keene," as his was the only squadron to survive so many missions. He received all manner of commendations of valor and even the key to his home town of Mattoon, IL. I often wish he were still alive. We shared a passion for mathematics and the sciences...

This thread reminded me of one of my favorite Theosophical stories, which I will post here for anyone interested. Even if you don't subscribe to such beliefs, I always enjoy a well-reasoned approach to the unknown, and the unknowable:

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/gdpmanu/death/death-1.htm

Thank you. I'll have to give it a read. My death is one that I will have to face sooner rather than later. It wouldn't do any harm to read up on it at least, before I pass.

Wow your life could be a movie You had a full life, but you may still live a lot of years, like 20-30 years. That's a lot of time and more than I lived until now...

Indeed. To quote perhaps my favorite line from Rift: "May you live a thousand years!"

While I generally find much of what Ray Kurzweil has to say counter-productive and even dangerous to REAL progress, the book he wrote with Terry Grossman IMO did get it right:

http://www.amazon.com/Fantastic-Voyage-Live-Enough-Forever/dp/1579549543

Well, at least the title got it right. Much of the book deals with nutritional therapy and lifestyle medicine, being the "live long enough" part. I do disagree about the timeline. I believe we will radically extend the human lifespan far sooner than 40 years from now, and that by doing so, it becomes misleading to say you must live that long to live forever.

In fact, I would say if you can make it TEN years, regenerative medicine will have reached a point to easily allow you another ten, after which point another ten is child's play, etc.

I also think Ray Kurzweil's contributions about HOW we will get there are absolutely ridiculous, and possibly alarmist to the point it would discourage many from pursuing it.

Immortality need not involve this disgusting invasion of the natural by technology this one man obsessively envisions. In fact, if anything I see regenerative medicine as a RETURN to the natural, holistic, and reverent view of the body as divine, with respect of it as such.

Ray Kurzweil just strikes me as a rapist, and apologist for the Borg. He has done more to damage the cause of reverse-senescence than many of its detractors with all his tripe about the nanomachines and transforming man into some unnatural thing. I wish he would shut his ignorant mouth already!

Much better example:

http://www.amazon.com/Ending-Aging-Rejuvenation-Breakthroughs-Lifetime/dp/0312367074/ref=pd_sim_b_6

Cheers. I'll have to give them all a look.