Nerdy And Loving It

I’ve played through Fable III twice. Here are some things they should change to make the game better.

Fix the glitchy glowing trail – the glowing trail sometimes leads you in the wrong direction, only to tell you to turn around after going through a door. Other times, the glowing trail disappears entirely and there is no way to force the game to make it reappear. Turning the glowing trail off and then back on in the game settings does not fix this. Perhaps, pressing in the left stick could tell the game to redraw the glowing trail.

Repairing Houses – a new feature introduced into the property management portion of the game is the repairing of houses. Over time houses lose repair percentage. Once they reach zero, you no longer gain rent from them. From what I’ve read online, people speculate that this was intended to make earning money in the game a little harder, but all it has done is made property management more annoying. You have to go to every single house individually now arrow down twice select repair and then yes. There should be an option to repair all houses in an entire town or better yet, allow players to hire a repairman to do the work for them and lose a portion of the rent because of it. What most people will probably end up doing is just buying businesses and forgo almost all the houses since businesses don’t have any repair value. By the way, if you want to earn money easily just plug in a wired controller or charger to your wireless controller and let the game sit. As long as the controller doesn’t time out, you gain money while sitting there. You gain money every 5 minutes. If you buy every house and business in the game and leave the rent at the normal rate, you will gain about 100,000 gold every 5 minutes. This will give you enough gold to beat the game as a good character with a huge deficit to deal with in the treasury.

Make the butler stop reminding me about the damn sanctuary shop – it seems like every other time that you press the start button to go to your sanctuary, the butler tells you that “there are a few new bits and bobs in the sanctuary shop”, “why not check out the sanctuary shop”, or “there are new items in the sanctuary shop, why not have a look.” I get it, you want to sell extra clothes, dog potions, new cities, and other dlc content, but reminding me about it over and over again is extremely annoying and makes me want to never ever buy any dlc content. At the very least make him only tell characters when there really are new items in the shop. If I’ve already looked at every item in the shop, I don’t need to be reminded.

Melee combat – I don’t really know what should be done here for sure, but I thought I would throw it in. Melee combat is terrible, for the most part. If you want to play the game and have the easiest time possible, level up magic and use the whirlwind and fireball spell combo. Almost every enemy in the game will just get sucked up in the firestorm and die. If you want to make things a little harder, choose guns as your main focus. The only time you will have trouble is when large groups of weak characters try to swarm you. It will at least give you something to do, by forcing you to roll out of the way. If you were to level guns and magic, the gun would be useful for gun wielding enemies who stand far out of reach and make you move closer to kill them with magic. Melee by comparison, is complete crap. It can be ok if you have large groups of weak enemies (who don’t block). Most of the enemies in the game will block you when you start melee combat with them, making melee slow, annoying, and inefficient. You can try to constantly switch targets whenever someone blocks, but it’s kind of silly when you can finish guys off easily with a gun (which can’t be blocked) or magic (which can’t be blocked). Perhaps more advance melee attacks could be used to spice things up a bit. It’s hard to say, since the fable games are first and formost, role playing games with a focus on plot, customization, collecting, and realestate management, with combat being less of a focus.

Please note that I found Fable III to be a very enjoyable game. This is just a list of things that would make the game that much better.

So, I decided to finally update to Service Pack 3, thinking that the bugs and problems would have been worked out by now, but alas they have not been.

After installing SP3 drag and drop just stops working. Left click and right click drag and drop both do not work in windows explorer. After researching the problem I found out that there’s a simple registry change that will fix this.

“In regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Internet Settings/Zones/4.

If there isn’t an entry named 180D, then create a new DWORD entry named 180D and set the value to 0.” (Source)

Edit the registry by going to the start menu, then run, then type regedit. The registry editor will start up. Navigate to the spot listed above just like you would navigate folders in windows explorer, then right click and select new -> DWORD Value. Type 180D and hit enter. A value of zero will be put into the variable automatically. Close the registry editor and you are done. Drag and drop works again. Hurray.

Here’s what you can delete from your World of Warcraft folder to free up space without impacting the game from running.

\Updates
\Patches
\Logs
\Errors
\Screenshots

\WoW-xxxxxxxx-downloader.exe
\WoW-xxxxxxxx-patch.exe

Source

I’ve been trying to find a posting of the rules of Slap Bet, from How I Met Your Mother, but all I could find was some rules that the creators of the show came up with afterward. These aren’t really accurate to what happened on the show so I decided to do a post with the Slap Bet rules, according to the original episode.

So here’s what happened on How I Met Your Mother season 2 episode 9.
Robin says that she doesn’t go to malls. Marshall says that he thinks she was married in a mall in Canada. Barney says he thinks that she used to do porn in a mall setting. They make a slap bet, where the winner gets to slap the loser as hard as they can. So here’s the order of events:
Marshall and Barney make the bet. Lily is appointed as Slap Bet Commissioner.
Robin lies and tells Ted she married a guy in a mall in Canada, but he moved away to Hong Kong.
Ted tells Lily, Marshall, and Barney.
Marshall, being proven right, slaps Barney.
Marshall researches Robin and finds out she was never married.
Marshal tells Ted and Lily that he found out that Robin wasn’t married but doesn’t tell Barney.
As Slap Bet Commissioner, Lily gives 3 penalty slaps to Marshall. Two because of Premature Slapulation and one because he withheld information from Barney. Barney slaps Marshall 3 times the next time he sees him.
Barney finds a man in Malaysia who has a video of Robin (when she was a teenage pop star in Canada).
The start of the video shows Robin asking her teacher if there’s anything she can do to get out of detention.
Barney pauses the video, and turns around and slaps Marshall.
When Robin asks why he slapped him, he tells her about the Slap Bet and that he was proven right about her being in porn.
Robin says she wasn’t in porn and they watch the video of her being a teenage pop star.
Since Barney slapped Marshall when he shouldn’t have, Lily gives Barney the option of 10 slaps immediately or 5 that can happen at any time for all eternity.
Barney chooses the 5 to happen at any time.
Hilarity ensues.

So based off of that I have put together the rules of Slap Bet.

The Rules of Slap Bet:
1. Winner of bet gets 1 slap as hard as they can against loser. This must occur immediately, unless otherwise decided by the Slap Bet Commissioner.
2. No rings, gloves or anything else may be worn on the hand during the slap.
3. A Slap Bet Commissioner must be appointed to handle any discrepancies and make rulings.
4. Premature Slapulation: If a winning slap turns out to be proven wrong, the slap bet commissioner may grant a number of punishment slaps of their choosing (usually 2).
5. If a winning slap turns out to be proven wrong and the winner was withholding information which would have proved them wrong, the Slap Bet commissioner may grant a number of punishment slaps of their choosing, in addition to the slaps for being proven wrong. (usually 1)
6. If neither party wins the bet, no slaps will be given unless otherwise indicated by the Slap Bet Commissioner.
7. In the case of a penalty, the slap bet commissioner may give the option of more slaps now or less slaps that may occur at any moment for all eternity. i.e. 10 now or 5 at any time
8. The Slap Bet Commissioner has the final word in all things related to the Slap Bet.

I’ve been having this message pop up all the time when I’m at work for months and I just found an answer today. Hopefully this post will help others too.

The following is a comment I found on this site when researching the problem. The blog post didn’t help me but this comment did: