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    Elder Scrolls : Skyrim

    Skyrim's perks represent a whole lot o'good ideas. However, that particular high-end perk assumes two things: A) you're already sufficiently wealthy to go around investing in merchants, and B) Speech is high enough to meet the requirement. Bearing in mind that raising Speech is primarily a...
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    the tablet war is heating up

    I'm afraid it's going to be very much the opposite. If B&N is arranging exclusivity with Marvel, then pushing a digital comics service that Marvel's had for years isn't going to accomplish that. Also, the MCDU is something of a resource hog, so it may well overtax the Nook tab (although it does...
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    the tablet war is heating up

    Question: Do you have any trouble with the menus or the native apps, like Email? Is your vision 20/20? Mine is not, and I find it pretty insane that Amazon has made the design choices for display that they have. The font is stuck at a tiny size, and what's even more uancceptable is the color...
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    Elder Scrolls : Skyrim

    The use of "doubtful" and "looks like" gives me the impression that this is supposition. Am I mistaken? I'm never caught stealing, but the loot is apparently unsellable anywhere I've been. Which is disappointing, because the Thieves Guild in Skyrim seems like no more than a bunch of lowlife...
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    Elder Scrolls : Skyrim

    I'm not looking for major spoilers, just general confirmation or denial, but I gotta ask: is there any way to sell stolen items without joining the thieves guild? I've traveled to differend holds across the countryside and still can't seem to find vendors that will buy purloined goods. Still...
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    Elder Scrolls : Skyrim

    In 4e? It's just money loss. I'd say most of that was less to do with auto-leveling than with other quirks or defecits in Oblivion's structure. For instance, Oblivion's solution to handling difficult quests was to...well, lower the difficulty setting. Oblivion's leveling system was simply...
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    the tablet war is heating up

    I called my mother up last night to check on how her Kindle Fire is working out. It isn't. It regards her wifi as having open security, rather than WPA PSK. Thus, there is never a prompt for a password, thus she never truly has access, thus she can't touch all those cloud services that the...
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    Elder Scrolls : Skyrim

    "Always"? Roguelike? Or, more contemporatively, Demon Souls? This strikes me as an odd sentiment. In D&D, If my character is 15th level, why should I not expect 15th-level challenges? I need to lord over a 1st-level creature to feel like meteor swarm is a powerful spell? Won't it also feel...
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    the tablet war is heating up

    I've bought a Kindle Fire for myself and my mother. Mom's retiired and doesn't leave the house too much, so she can make good use of the wifi-oriented cloud services. I'll probably return mine. It's not very convenient to rely on a wifi-only cloud device when commuting, which is mainly when...
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    the tablet war is heating up

    This would be at the top of my list, or among the top picks at least, for an Android tab. The folded magazine design is nifty. It doesn't really run PS games, just a small selection of PS games that are converted to Android (same goes for the Experia play smartphone). Like many tablets, it's...
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    Elder Scrolls : Skyrim

    I started playing for a few hours. After getting to a whopping level 3 (mostly just pickpocketing and sneaking around the starter town) I'm not sure I get the perk and leveling system. So, if I raise a skill up, does the skill actually improve in any way, or does it just allow me to meet the...
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    the tablet war is heating up

    How will any of that make Flash moot? The majority of those websites out there that use custom Flash apps aren't likely to decide to reinvent them from the ground up. This is nothing new. Internet Explorer 6 still has a massive foothold in enterprises, despite MS trying to shuffle everyone off...
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    the tablet war is heating up

    There already are many tablets that offer excellent functionality. The app market isn't there, which is about as unfortunate as the iPad not running Flash. Since I actually have apps purchased for my iPhone that I'd like to keep using, I'm kind of in a quandry about getting an iPad or something...
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    Grimm or Once Upon a Time

    Then I concede you this: at such a time when you are granted the authority that you feel entitled to, then that will surely be a fine day. Be sure to drop me a line so I may prove accomodating. In the meantime, you'll simply have to suffer that sometimes others will freely voice sentiments that...
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    Artists of EN World, I could use your help!

    Where does ENWorld have its gallery for uploading artwork these days?
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    Grimm or Once Upon a Time

    I haven't read all four pages worth of comments, but I tend to doubt that anyone posted something akin to "and here's Felon's take on these shows!", as that would be presumptuous. You may have offered your own assessment, and you may find our opinions to be in agreement, but unless I've mimicked...
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    Grimm or Once Upon a Time

    The shows are still in their infancy. They have to spend a lot of energy establishing their their premsise, their cast of characters, and their rules. So, in a sense, it's too early to judge. They both did well enough in the ratings that we'll likely get 13 episodes out of them even if there's a...
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    the tablet war is heating up

    Well, I'm saying that there's a place for playing with knobs and dials, but that seems more of something to do when you can pull up a chair and lose myself in that ship-in-a-bottle type of effort. I own a PC for this reason. On the go is not ship-in-a-bottle time, it's immediat-gratification...
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    Once Upon A Time

    Well, it went far enough to become Once Upon a Time. :cool: I'm not sure what one can take from the article to actually disprove that one project had nothing to do with the other, and given the extreme similarity I'd say common sense dictates that the burden of proof lies with someone trying to...
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