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I'm way behind the times, since we just got a PS2 at my wife's suggestion (thank you, Guitar Hero!). We're playing Guitar Hero and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance together. Lots of fun. :)

I wish I could offer something to help. I sympathize on the anger issues, though. When I went on prednisone to deal with a sinus/allergy problem, I got what my wife described as massive PMS. I would come home, and my wife would say, "Hey, sweetie, how was your day?", and I'd just KNOW that what...

I like to think of the ignore list as the safety on the firearm that is my inherent self-righteousness. Oh, and for quasi-relatedness: http://pats-quinade.livejournal.com/6221.html

(zoom in on Spike and Angel taking on a warehouse full of vamps) Angel: So, Mexico, huh? What's that like? Spike: Different. Angel: (vamp dives at him, and he sidesteps and stakes him) Different how? Spike: Well, bear in mind that this is all colored by me getting dumped by Dru, so, you...

I got out of touch with the show when I moved up to Canada and got my lame-ass not-Tivo that wouldn't find Stargate for me (Bell Canada -- the idiot digital recorder can't find shows, and I couldn't figure out when the newest episodes were on). So I more or less lost it. I'm a bit sad that it's...

I don't. The impression from what they said was that it wasn't totally unexpected -- that yeah, it was pretty much as bad as the PS2 had been. (Which means that they'll eventually suck it up and develop for it, but may wait for other people to blaze a trail first.) In the long run, that means...

That, I can confidently answer with, "Not a clue." :) I'm a designer. They don't let me near the money. My extrapolation is that if it's not supported as well as the 360, it takes more man-hours to get it done right, and more man-hours means more cost to the company. It might also be the case...

1-5. Hopefully a few ignores, along with stern self-imposed bans on looking at the posts anyway despite the ignores, will obviate the need for any self-imposed exiles in the future. :)

What? No. Pandemic did Mercenaries and Star Wars Battlefront and Kill All Humans and, well, a lot of other stuff. They did all that stuff before the two companies merged (and it was a merger, not one buying the other). And as the guys who did a bunch of cross-platform development, they're the...

Actually, the quote in question came from our sister company, Pandemic, not from BioWare.

There's a big one for Neverwinter Nights that got some press around the company. Let me see... (hunts for link). Ha! http://www.bloodspell.com/

I had an interesting meeting today, where the higher-ups, in talking about what the company's long-term plans were, suggested that the PS3 wasn't necessarily as high a development priority for the company. The reason given was that upon release, Sony's new platforms are generally regarded as...

This might be counterintuitive, but have you tried installing older video drivers over the new ones? Only do this if you've got an easy way to get the new video drivers back. Do you get any error message, or just a general shutdown? Do you have any saved games to load? Does it crash if you...

Yep. As would you. Somehow, I suspect that after one or two sessions of watching everyone else swashbuckle while you complained that there could have been traps and insisted that we should have talked to the Mistress of Souls from fifty feet away with a bullhorn in case she was a disguised...

Okay. A) Please quote me the line that shows that that was the monk's attitude. B) No. It's based on the fact that the party is essentially a paramilitary unit or task force of people with specific skill-sets. If you're a military team in the jungle and you come to an abandoned shack, you...

If she were a professional trap-finder, and if I'd signed on for a mission that involved traps... yeah. I'd sort of have to. I mean, yeah, your "If there's a way to avoid it" is a duh, but only to a point. In a heroic game, there's only so much time I want to spend summoning monsters and asking...

If my friend were tossed into this dungeon against his well, he might be pissed off -- although he might also opt to take one for the team. He's a hell of a lot more agile than I am, but then, I can hit harder than he can. I'd be in front if we ran into bad guys. On the other hand, if my friend...

If I'm in a D&D world, I don't consider knowing that the party monk has good saves is metagaming. If I'm in a D&D world, I grew up hearing about the monastic warriors who can dive through explosions, shrug off diseases that would kill any normal man, and steel their minds and souls against the...

The example with the Astros works because both teams want to win. The goal of the Astros is to defeat their opponents. If your intention is to WIN against your players, then an undetectable instakill lever makes perfect sense. If your intention is to provide a reasonable challenge -- with...

- Augury, Monster-Summoning, Mage Hand, and other methods are fine -- but limited. As a PC, the point where I start burning daily resources is when I've got some clue -- any clue -- that this could be bad. A lever that the party rogue doesn't see as trapped doesn't merit that kind of resource...