Arcavial

Medea@Tygarth (yes, I play the women. They are far easier to stare at for hours. Not that it matters much since 80% of my time is in a ship) 
Piloting the U.S.S. Agamemnon 
 
Also, as a note, the 'server is too busy message' is from the server actually hitting the player limit. According to the STO forum they are going to be hooking up a few more servers, and they hope it won't take more'n a day or two.

Gotta say, this wasn't anything that I was expecting. Also, I agree with the majority here, pure awesomeness.

Hmmm, I wouldn't mind getting into this. Would also be kinda cool if I got it here, since the 18th is my birthday. Too bad my luck is generally always bad, eh? Hehehe. 
Guess I may as well add, I do have a PS3, I live in Tennessee (meh...) and well...I can apparently comment?

Urgh. A lot of you still seem to equate the government to the people. Y'know, we honestly don't have control over the government, right? I could walk into my state senate tomorrow and tell them, as a citizen, who is supposed to be a part of the soverignty of the nation, that I don't what them to continue with something. I'd get laughed right out of the building. Its all fine and good that you all like to take a wide humanitarian view on some of the things the government has done, but quit blaming everyone in the country for it. Especially for things that happened before a lot of us were born. WE aren't the government, and its rather insulting to be constantly reading persecuting remarks directed at the citizens because of something the big boys did. We don't control them, we can't tell them what not to do. 
 
On a more topical note. Socialized medicine is another ideal thing here in the US, but the vast majority of the people here couldn't afford that small tax hike. This isn't some pointless rhetoric from some guy that this doesn't relate to either. My entire family has been under the poverty line for my entire life. Sure, its bad we can't hit the hospital all the time for the sniffles, but if you go chopping of ANY of the scarce amount of money for paying those taxes, we start going hungry. It sure would be nice to get cold medicine from the doctor every time we get a cold in winterbut I think I prefer something to eat, some heat, and a nice roof to sleep under. When I was a kid, my folks would often go without a meal or two during a hard week. And that was on a full paycheck. Start cutting out more for taxes, and we'd have been sunk. THAT is the reality for a lot of US families. Getting that cough medicine isn't really going to be a comfort to all those families that get taxed more and can't eat. 
 
I also noticed a few of you scoffed at the emergency care deal. If a poor family member gets badly hurt, the hospital simply can't refuse to treat you. It's illegal. They can harass you for payments later, yes, but the base fact is in those emergencies, you aren't simply SOL because your poor. I know this for a fact, cuz my sister broke her ankle once, and surprise surpise, they didn't just turn her right back out the door. 
 
Last note here I believe, our government was founded after people split off from a monarchy. Everything about our government is meant to restrict power of the governement since they saw first hand that power corrupts, even if given with the best intentions. Those 'right wing idiots' still work off that principle for the most part. Organizations given total control of anything tend to close an iron fist around it. If you give the our national government complete control over the health industry how will it fare? Its generally accepted anywhere that governments are innefficient and stuck with beurocracy styled procedure. Those right wingers don't really want to let the government to have that chance to completely regulate the nations health. What if the governement is wrong about what is healthy? How long till they outlaw everything that could cause injury or bad health? Thats the concern they tend to operate with. Tossing around 'right wing evil morons' so much just doesn't seem to feel correct. Sure, I'll bet a lot of them are corrupt and out for their own interest, but then...you don't have to be restricted to right-wing idealogy for that. 
 
Passionate idealism is great, don't get me wrong. Is one of the driving forces that built this country. But, you also have to consider, we live in a less than ideal world. Things take time. 

I found the best tip was to increase your small arms and SPECIALs to give max accuracy, and the varied perks that up hit %, and aim for the head. Grab bloody mess for a fairly minor damage boost, and some amusing slow motions body exploding amusements. If you live in an area where they don't have that censored...I think some european areas did that...can't remember. 
 
Another thing I found to work best is a decent power single shot rifle. Never found the automatics to deal the same amount of damage in VATS as a good semi-auto....could just be an oddity for me though.

I'm with ya. Classes start tomorrow for me as well, but I'm not exactly starting out. Its senior year for me, and I would be all preparing for all that 'real life and responsibility' afterwards, but I've got a masters to work on. So, I'm good.

Jump onto the box as it comes out of the hole, and hit the 'sprint' button as quick as possible, and you should make it inside with enough time to jump over the next box before it pushes you out. Just don't 'catch' the wall and do the slow slide down deal when you jump over the first box though.

I always enjoy the suburb style areas in shooters. Rainbow Six Vegas 2 had one, but it was rather...linear, and kinda lacked the feel I like. I forget which, but one Hitman game had a nice suburbs assassination area that I found vastly amusing.

I'm there too, I'm that dude in the back, next to Ish, with the helmet. I'm sneaky like that.