Recent content by Dioxide45

I'd fight to defend it. I'd join a Home Guard sort of thing if WWIII happened, but since mine is a small island nation on the bottom of the world without much strategic value, I doubt we'd be a priority target. Unless someone wanted to use us as a staging ground against Australia. Anyway, I'd...

Well. I think a good thing to add would be user-created journals and books. You might be able to craft a magic bookcase, so that when you right click it you can put in, say, a bar of gold and pick a user-created book. You could then use bookshelves as chests that worked specifically for books...

Bah. I've never had a girlfriend. So, what did I do? I just worked on myself. I've done well with what I chose to pursue (that is, my academic studies, my french studies and my acting) and through doing well and being complimented for my work I have increased my opinion of myself. I now have a...

I'm considering getting the complete works of H.P. Lovecraft. The only problem is that I've not read a horror novel ever, nor have I watched many modern horror movies or played many horror games (except Metro 2033, which I enjoyed.) Now, you're probably asking yourselves why I'd want to buy...

I thought the brain couldn't make new cells? And...my trivia. Uh. New Zealand is an awesome place to live. :D

I'm up in Auckland, and I don't know anyone in Christchurch, but I'd gladly go down there and help if I could. 65 people dead. Expected to rise. That's quite a bit down here in NZ. Not to mention that the earthquake knocked the spire off of the Cathedral, which is a local landmark.

Yeah. I've been verbally attacked by a lot of the crystal healing types for preferring to take prescribed medication from a trained professional than choking on incense and being "healed by crystal energy". After all, the placebo effect (for that's all I believe it to be, at best) wouldn't work...

Well. There's certainly an anti-intellectual culture in certain areas of the world. I know that with all the shows that glamourise being a total airhead, I've ended up having about 5 people I can talk to without needing to explain every second word, two of which have English as a second...

Well. I got Fallout: New Vegas and not only would it periodically crash, whenever it did work all the sound would be messed up and play several seconds to a minute after it should. Fallout 3 also crashed a lot, as did Oblivion. In fact, Morrowind is the only Bethesda game I've played that...

I'd have to third (or perhaps fourth or fifth, depending on how many people post before I finish typing) Bioware games. I've heard Deus Ex does too, but I have yet to get through it.

So. I'm thinking of starting a Dungeons and Dragons group with my friends. However, none of us has any experience with DnD, or indeed tabletop RPing at all. So, my first question is: Which edition do you recommend? I've heard the 4th Edition is good for new players. My second question is...

I don't, but that's because I didn't know there was a 3D option. Oh wait, no it's not. I'm not going to use 3D now, either. In answer to your question, I don't and don't plan to.

Well. Nothing will be completely original anymore, but making a good story nowadays comes down to mixing various parts of other stories to create something that is, in its own way, original. It's not a Black and White "Original and Stereotypical" system, it's simply the "Shades of Grey" system...

I don't really do really out of the way to impress people. I compliment girls I'm interested in more than anyone else, though.

Well. If you think about it, if the Germans call Unicorns "Einhorns" then they'd expect a direct translation to be "Onehorn". Not "Unicorn".