Asthenia

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    Any one taken on a Dragon Lord yet?

    Dragon Priest? I stumbled upon one accidentally. I got the shit fucked out of me very quickly.

    Priest, yeah. :(

    The Dragon Priest I came across is Kronis - I looked him up on the wiki. He's at Shearpoint.

    I knew there was a dragon there, I found him earlier and left before he saw me - I came back later and had an all out battle with the dragon, losing all my health potions in the process; but alas, I prevailed and killed the dragon. I went closer to check out the stone he was sitting on and all of a sudden Kronis jumped out of his coffin and lit me up with a few fireballs. I couldn't even open my inventory before I was dead.

    I saved right before fighting the dragon, so I'll be going back to fuck them both up later tonight or early tomorrow - depending on my damn Thanksgiving plans.

    I wanna fight him and Volsung. :) I'm heading over to Shearpoint later once I've finished up some armor and enchanting to see if I can take him out.

    Tip for fighting dragons btw - conjure an atronach. They know where the dragon is going and they knock a lot of health off them. My atronach took most of a dragon's health outside Riften last night and when he hit the ground my horse and the others from the stables got in on the fight too and one of them finished it off. My arrow's ended up in the usual places. Horse ass, city guard face and Jenassa's tits.

    Few tricks with Lydia/other companions I've come across

    Hold All My Shit, Bitch!

    If you drop your items on the ground, then speak to Lydia and say you need her to do something, then click on the item, she'll pick it up. This doesn't count towards her weight limit, so you can make her carry an unlimited amount of stuff.

    You're Never Leaving My Sight!

    Find a quest where you need to find an item and return it to the person. When you find it, ask Lydia to pick it up. Because it's in her inventory, the blip for the quest objective will always be above her head and she'll even show up on the map. Then just don't bother completing the quest until you have to :).

    Can't take credit for those finds, but I have tested them and they both work.

    They're both awesome. I could've used the hold all my shit bitch one yesterday when I

    broke into Calcelmo's museum and stole all his Dwarven artefacts to sell back to Tonilia. Don't forget to pick up the puzzle cube either, Delvin will give you a pretty penny for it.

    I'm working 2:30pm-11pm this week so all my gaming is done between 12 and 5am. Sucks. :( 7-3 next week though, shyeah! :D

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    Genuinely have 'Asthenia' tattooed on my chest. It's more than just a username though, slags. And yes I know what the word means.

    AND it was like 40 celsius in Turkey when this photo was taken. English people abroad go funny colours. It turned into a boss tan though.

    I've got a lot of plans.. Most of them personal. My next plan is to get 2 on my wrists, one of a spider with the word 'Heroine' next to it, and the other a fly with the word 'Distraction' next to it. Not exactly next to them in the boring sense, but the bug's built around each word... I too plan to be grotesquely covered a la Massacre's plan one day.

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    I've got so much loot that I need to sell, the damn merchants just don't have enough money! I literally have 100 enchanted daggers, that's 20,000 worth of coin just lying there <_< and I refuse to invest any perks in speech, I like to keep them all for smithing/enchanting or combat. I also started off trying to improve my alchemy, but I just gave up in the end. I always collect ingredients though, so that I can increase the skill later on.

    Are you with the Thieves Guild? If you restore it to it's former glory Tonilia goes up to 4000 Septims.

    Any one taken on a Dragon Lord yet?

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    I really wanna visit Elsweyr next. Daggerfall had all the regions but most of it was randomly generated terrain. Morrowing was the turning point for gameplay... I'm just doing the main Thieves Guild mission at the moment, then I'm going to do the special missions from Vex and Delvin. Turn the Guild around and fence my wares hardcore. I'm a blacksmith with product to sell.

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    Vice City had a cool one with determined how awesome was your rampage by saying how much media attention you received, I'd like to see that come back.

    I loved that stat. Passionately.

    GTA IV's stats list was quite exhaustive, can't think of anything extra worth adding to be honest. Maybe 'Amount of handbrake turns performed'?

    Amount of handbrake turns controlled would be better considering how driving works in this... I played San Andreas recently, handbrake turns in that were hilariously easy.

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    tldr; cradle the gems, work the iron

    best tip ever. I've been getting my smithing up (93 as we speak, with all but daedric and dragon armor perks unlocked), but I've been losing money near the end, cause I got lady and wouldn't go out killing. I hadn't though of enchanting stuff... I'll be a billionaire now!

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    I think if some of the San Andreas features aren't in I'll be disappointed. Stuff like hooking up a trailer to a truck and driving round trying not to jacknife it etc. Won't ruin the game for me though.

    Sadly, driving an 18 wheeler is what I'm most looking forward to. I did it all over San Andreas, it was so easy to RP with. I definitely think it'll be back from what we've seen in the trailer.

    If it doesn't take at least 15 minutes to drive from the eastern to the western edge of the map on a proper speed (I like long drives, as long as the game doesn't force me to drive the same roads constantly).

    I never used the car customization features in GTA, in fact I never keep any car for long. I usually destroy or abandon all vehicles I use.

    In general they should have accumulated so many nice ideas, gameplay mechanics and features from San Andreas to GTA4 that they can hardly fail at making an epic game.

    And this is related to the 18 wheeler, if it took this long or more to get from one side to the other, I'd be so happy. I would drive a Linerunner (wait, they're not Linerunner's in IV, are they? you know what I mean) around the map and through Algonquin's freeway all the time in IV.

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    One page maximum for length.

    Good points in here, but if you want your CV to actually be read, you've only got a page to do it in. Short, relevant, impressive points. Nobody needs to know that you 'thoroughly enjoy meeting new people and sucking dick, after cups of tea and circle jerking for 3 minutes and 45 seconds. Funny story, I only last 3 minutes and 45 seconds. All stems from a horrid experience I had at my last job where I got caught masturbating into my managers cup of coffee. He liked Blue Mountain, which is, as you obviously know, rather expensive. I just thought it would be funny to add a little jazz to the mix.'

    This is what I've done. This is why you need to employ me, this is what I can do for you. And only relevant to the job you're going for. Going for 6 jobs with 6 different roles? You're writing 6 CV's. You can keep the bare bones, but it has to change for each position.

    I've had more experience in writing successful CV's than I care to remember. I had to bullshit my way into this job trojan horse style. I knew I could do it and I was qualified, but I'd never dealt with any of the systems we use here and failed the fuck out of the technical test. Made the CV look boss (creative director goes down a treat..), got an interview with the Team Leader who grilled me for an hour and by the end of it he told me I had the job as soon as his higher up's gave him the go ahead for a new position. Now I'm redoing our website (internal and bound by the laws of Google Sites, so not half as impressive as it sounds... I cry at night over that one, but it wins me big brownie points) and as soon as I hit 6 months he's putting me on every training course he can so I can move up and out of the service desk... you just gotta love what you're going for, or at least be able to put up with it to get to the place you love. I learnt the core of our systems in a month, with no experience prior.

    Now I'm rambling. Don't do that.

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    An Austrailian (or New Zealand) ex SAS man. Can't think of a plot.

    Haha, being Australian I don't think I could take an australian lead seriously. Having said that, back story for an ex sas is easy, whole group of them go mercenary, theyve been running around for awhile doing that when a job comes up which requires them to kill woman or children or something, he refuses (cause we all love our feux morally righteous characters) and convinces the team to pull out. The paying person gets pissed off, kills most of your crew and your family so you set off all lone ranger to find him and f*ck the world on the way.

    GTA 4 had that in it... sort of. Remember when he's talking to Faustin's wife? I think it was her any way. When he poured his heart out.

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    Saw this post so I had to sign up to comment. The way these images were taken (of the monitor with the rest of the room blacked out as well as the two map images being taken with by a person standing not face on to the monitor but looking from the left side) remind me an awful lot of the fake "GTA Hawaii" screenshots from earlier this year.

    http://www.igta5.com...ake-screenshots

    Come on man. It's a common fact that all Rockstar beta testers sit off to the left. Ask Psy about the trips they take him on. They're demand you sit off to the left. It's the only way to play these days. ;)

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    Not really one for preordering games. More of a cash in hand, go buy game type of guy.

    I did that with Skyrim and it felt so much better. I'll preorder V, but for in store collection.

    goin to mention this again, said it many times before but shopto.net is king for pre ordering games. every game i've pre ordered from them has arrived the day before release. every other game has come the next day (free delivery btw)

    So seeing as its probably going to be around £40 like everywhere else then this is the place to go if you want something that makes a retailer stand out

    just like to say I dont work for shopto or anything, I just fuckin love them.

    ^^ This, if I ever was going to preorder. ShopTo are on the ball.

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    Those cars are foldable like pieces of paper compared to the cars here

    heres a 2010 odge Challenger

    I know I'm really fucking late, but you know they're designed like that here. 'Crumple zones' (which I imagine smaller cars there have too), designed to take the brunt of the impact so you're not thrown around like a cat in a blender. I'd still rather be driving a Challenger though. Or a '78 Corvette Pace car.

    Where the hell do you think i came from? I popped out D-O's ass 2 years ago, he's ashamed to be in any of our discussions because of me

    Asshamed. :ike:

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    I'll probably be an Orc or High Elf. I'm still saving up for my PC for this so I'm getting it on PS3 for the time being. Massy, your Dup story put hair on my chest and then made it stand up. I bought my copy from Game this morning and I have it in the office with me ^_^ Stuck here til 7pm :(

    Massy what's your desktop set up? have you already posted it anywhere?

    I'm spending the day today reading reviews online, little stories like Massy's (third [fourth] Massy of this post) and I'm gonna open up the case, give the booklet a good smelling and then read it! :D

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    Will Grand Theft Auto 5 Match Up to Saints Row 3? The Debate.

    The Grand Theft Auto series is a fulfilling, storyline driven borderline (albeit minor) role play game that improves with every installment and every new story that Rockstar create. New game, new lead character and a whole new world and story to explore. That's the path it's taking, regardless of what Rockstar say - they always use the typical sales patter. Marketing.

    Saints Row is a game based in the same, expanding city where you play a character based on whoever you want him to be within the confines of Volition's character creation. I find halcyon skinned female with a penis, leather assless chaps and some form of animal mask works best. You're in a gang and the story line that's included is based on being as gangsta as possible, maybe breaking a few people out of jail on the way. Outside of the story the series is based on causing as much havoc and mayhem in Steelport and playing the ton of minigames they have.

    They can't be compared.