What made you decide to start over Emp? Make a bad decision.

On the Brotherhood question, I went back to a previous save and killed the prisoners but haven't officially joined the Brotherhood yet The deal with the house in Riften has been resolved. Seems I only had to finish off the drug dealers.
Got that out of the way and bought the house there. I think that may be the only building with doors both inside and outside the city walls.

You can only get the best in game horse (Shadowmere) through the Brotherhood quests.
 

I've now finished the main quest, the thieves guild quests and dark brotherhood quests... soo my interest in it has sigifnicantly dropped. I'll pick it up again in summer probably.

You can use the sprint key while mounted Nitya and I haven't seen anything yet she can't outrun. Horses have quite a bit of stamina even though you don't get a bar to indicate it and can keep up the faster sprint pace for a good amount of time.

Even on shadowmere I was getting attacked by wolves, sprinting and I couldnt outrun them.
But since i have shadowmere anyway now I may as well use her.

Hey Nitya you buy the house in Whiterun? I did last night just so I would have a place to dump all my loot. Seems most of the merchants in this game are really poor. I feel sorry though, my housecarl just sits around all day because I like to work alone.  I wanted the house in Riften but I accidentally killed a guard while fighting a dragon. I paid them off to forget it but I still can't get the option to buy there. Ummm yeah and I seem to be engaged to a woman there as well.

Yeah, Ive bought the one in riften, whiterun, markarth and solitude. I have to admit the houses are better than in oblivion, and by that I mean the bookshelves are cool.
Also I married a girl from markarth.

Have you picked a side in the civil war yet?  I wonder if that changes anything.

I joined both sides, which is amusing but I wouldnt advise it. Theres a point in the main quest where you have to talk to both leaders of each side and I couldnt do it cause I'd already got orders from the leaders and I had to finish the quests they'd given me before they'd talk to me... That's the point I was thankful for being on the pc and being able to use console commands.

Question, join the Dark Brotherhood or stamp it out?

Joining is a lot more fun.

I tend to restart this type of game a few times as I figure out how I want to balance my perks/stats/whatever.

On the previous character, I found that I spent too much on magicka and not enough on health for my play style, so I was going through health potions way too fast.  I suppose I could have just put a bunch of levels into health, but I also wanted to redistribute the way I had spent my perks.

On RAGE I finished the main quest way to soon, so I've been trying to do more of the side quests and basically ignoring the main story this time.

what game is this?

The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim

Ha this is interesting, but I don't know why. (not about gaming)

I recently heard that if you type Illuminati into a web browser backwards and add .com You'll be surprised.

I tried it, and I was.

itanimulli.com

New game thoughts, was given Dead Island yesterday. pretty fun but dam annoying interface.

Everyone speaks with an Australian accent and the drivers seat is on the WRONG SIDE! Hahahaha

Game reminds me of some of you guys. Oh I'm playing as Purna, a half aborigine former Sydney police officer who is an expert with firearms. 

She is hard to start out with because there are almost no firearms or ammo in this game.

Another really annoying thing about this game is that items such as crowbars wear out and break in very short order. At least in Half-Life you could always depend on your crowbar. Once an item breaks you can still bash zombies with it, but it causes almost no damage.

Oh one more thing, Megavideo has been seized by the feds and online sources for TV shows, movies and other downloads (including games) are drying up at warp speed. If you were wanting to download anything better do it soon.

Yeah, that just sucks because I was catching up on The Big Bang Theory via MegaVideo.Com ...

On another side, Melissa has a saying for her stopping Elder Scrolls for the night ...
"From Skyrim to my rim!"

Dead Island on the PC has a serious bug. Occasionally at random the character goes into no-clip mode.

Now I've read that this can be done on purpose but I'm not sure. The problem isn't the no-clip that would be half cool on it's own. Twice this has happened since I started. The problem is that when it happens and you try to reload the last check point or even just quit and restart it resets the player level to 1 and leaves you with zero inventory but places you back into the same high level battle area where the glitch occurred.
Your finished quests remain done. 

The first time I was close to the start of the game and just kept playing until I got back to a respectable level, this time I was hell a ways into the game with an arsenal of modded weapons almost $20,000 and carrying numerous quest items. There is no way for me to continue from here, my character at level 1 doesn't have enough life, stamina and bonus perks  to fight even one fucking zombie in this area, even if I could find new weapons. And the weapon mods and best weapons almost all come from the NPC's when you finish their quests. So it's pretty fucked up now.

Ah, sort of figured it out. Turns out the "Y" key erroneously put the game into a strange no-clip mode. One where all other characters and inventory objects are non existent.  If I had known about this I wouldn't have had to start over. So, the problem is with the interaction of the checkpoint save and auto save system with the strange toggle behavior of the "Y" key. (which sometimes gets pressed by accident) Every time you exit the game it overwrites the current save game with the current state. You only get one. 

I interpreted the no-clip state as a game crash but it's really just an artifact. One which actually could allow you to cheat at will because it temporarily takes the monsters away and allows you to move to a more strategic location then resume. It only fucks you over if it gets saved while in that state.

Zooming around the island to explore could trigger an automatic save if you visit a checkpoint location. 

I'm nearly to level 50 on Skyrim and working on taking over the thieves guild.  I'll eventually play the main story line, I guess.  That's the only guild I haven't completed the story line for.

I accidentally came up against Alduin before I was ready. I might have been able to win but that is basically the end of the main story line. So I went back to a previous save and took a different path. I don't remember what level I'm at exactly but I'm working on the side quests as well.   

I haven't played for a few days because I've been checking out Dead Island which is pretty fun.
I think we are currently on the same path, I'm at level 42 and just became a Nightingale.
Glad I didn't kill Karlia.
 
On our way to take care of Mercer. ( I also have Illia as  follower and can pick up that invincible dog Barbas if I need him) I sent him back to his masters cave because I can't sneak at all with him along and he keeps pushing me around. Great to have in a fight though, the reason I almost, but didn't quite finish his quest.

I took Meeko to my house in Riften told him to wait, he stayed there a long time but I guess he went back to the shack.

Yeah, that just sucks because I was catching up on The Big Bang Theory via MegaVideo.Com ...

On another side, Melissa has a saying for her stopping Elder Scrolls for the night ...
"From Skyrim to my rim!"

I use Tube Plus, they have The Big Bang and most all current series available. I never watch streaming anymore. There is a neat way of downloading the episodes that I'll outline for you. First you need Ad Block Plus installed and second you need a good download manager, I use IDM.

Ok select a series and episode you want to watch and click ABP, select show blockable items. Then in the ABP search bar enter "flv". Most all online streams are in flv format. Next start the stream. When the movie starts to play a link will appear in the ABP window. Simply copy the link and paste it into IDM.
When choosing a server to stream from I prefer Putlocker or Videoweed, stuff downloads fast from these sites. Done.

The episode or movie will fully download in just a very few minutes and you can watch it whenever you like with no pauses, interruptions or sound sync issues. I can download a dozen shows this way in under 30 minutes. I just downloaded all the new cartoon episodes which I'll watch later. After watching I just delete them. I use the VLC player to watch flv's, I've been using VLC player long before it became fashionable, actually since it first became available several years ago.

Ever watch Archer?  That show cracks me up.

I got a new Plus 4 yesterday, new old stock by the look of it, and I been playing 1980's home computer games like crazy since.

Ohhhhh yeeeeah!

You have the disk drive for it too then?
The Plus 4 was the first computer I ever had.
Got it as a give away gift for attending a real estate seminar.
Nice little machines at the time.

I'll check in on that link ...
Thanks!

I know you'll get a lot of use out of Tube+. But if you get bored there you might try one of these.

http://www.extramina.in/

http://tv.blinkx.com/

http://www.alluc.org/

Extramina changes the offering on their home page very often so you see something different on their first page every day. Mostly just movie links there though some are series.

I have another problem with Dead Island that really pisses me off.

I'm at a spot where I have to escort a tribal shaman to a location. He doesn't even try to avoid conflict but has little life. That's not the real problem, the real problem is that once he forces you into conflict with a hoard of zombies the chances of surviving are fairly slim for him and you. Once he has been killed you have to start from the save point the game gives you. Here is where the real problem lays, all of the fucking monsters are back at full strength, but any ammo or resources you expended in the first try are gone for good and the condition of whatever weapons you have with remains deteriorated from the previous fight.

So, you get to try to fight all the zombies over with no ammo and useless broken weapons. After a couple of tries you can forget it. You will never be able to save his sorry ass.

Too bad the save system sucks so much ass in this game because it really is pretty fun to play.
Not fun to be forced to start all over again at the very beginning when you're already 80% finished. 

I hate games where you're not free to save whenever/where ever you want.  I'm glad most games have moved away from that.

CheckPoints suck!

PS: Thanks, Tru!

CheckPoints suck!

PS: Thanks, Tru!

I just hope it lasts long enough for you to get some use from it.

So far, it's holding ...

So far, it's holding ...

I've noticed a lot of links moving to different embedded players. I've seen a lot more .avi and .mp4 extensions recently. Sometimes IDM just grabs the link and starts downloading it on some embedded divx players when it has these endings. But not always, so, you might need to try those search terms if no link appears on a show you really want.

I still get about 95% of whatever I want so far. It looks like things are migrating a bit. I hope they haven't caught onto us. I've been downloading almost everything that is supposed to be only streaming for over two years now, with no subscriptions.

They will surely catch on eventually. 

You have the disk drive for it too then?
The Plus 4 was the first computer I ever had.
Got it as a give away gift for attending a real estate seminar.
Nice little machines at the time.

No, those 1551 drives are rare as hens teeth, and expensive to ship from Europe, which is the only place I see them for sale.

I have one but I haven't seen it in over ten years.

My niece got me Skyrim as a christmas gift.  Her grandmother payed for it but she wrapped it and put in a little handwritten note that said "I OVE you uncle Johnny and I hope you like this game a lot and play it EVERY DAY."  I played it for a little over a month.  Made like, twelve different characters I think, I'd get to around level 15 or so (35 with two of them) and decide there was something about the character's build that I didn't like, and start over.  I finally got kinda burned out on it and played through Mass Effect 1 and 2 getting a Sentinel character ready to import into Mass Effect 3, which I pre-ordered. 

While waiting for its release I finally got around to playing the Metal Gear Solid SoL/Snake Eater/Peace Walker combo that I bought awhile back.  I finished Sons of Liberty pretty quickly (the controls worked better on my Xbox 360 than I thought they would) and got a little ways into Snake Eater when ME3 finally shipped.  I've been playing it fora f ew days now, and it's fairly good.  It's a somewhat-well-put-together game, and the missions are mostly interesting, but I don't get any foreboding sense of "Oh shit the universe is about to end" that I would think I'd be getting, considering the Reapers are currently landing on half the planets in the goddamn galaxy and erasing all sentient life.  Maybe it'll show up later.  Right now it just feels like I'm hopping around the galaxy running errands for people and checking on my military strength readout every so often to see if I'm keeping it up enough to get the good ending.  Having fun using biotics to throw enemies up against a wall then run up and finish them off with a shotgun, though.

I was going to add something else but it probably belongs in another thread.  I'll go look for an appropriate one now.