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Peter Huebner <no.one@this.address> looked up from reading the entrails
of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>In article <99g6k8d0nh5n4gjd9...@4ax.com>, 
>Xoc...@kingston.net says...
>
>> 
>> I have to ask, what GPU do you use?
>
>Asus branded geforce 570 gtx 
>
> 
>> Kinda funky that in a post apocalyptic world which includes weapons up
>> to and including laser miniguns, one of the most effective weapons is
>> from the 1860s.
>> 
>> Not so great if loads of things are coming at you at once, since it
>> doesn't hold a lot of bullets or fire that fast, but if you like picking
>> off unsuspecting enemies, it's golden.
>
>Yes, sniper rifles are very unwieldy close in - as are slow loading 
>rifles obviously. I don't know yet if they have any good SMGs in this 
>game for that situation. Even the 10mm pistol can be reasonably fast if 
>you can avoid getting rocked by a melee attack. 
>It's a bit unrealistic that in FO3 your character always points the 
>rifle skywards to work the bolt though. 3/4 of a second and a little 
>shake would be more realistic. Same with the wobble on the sniper rifle 
>that just doesn't stop: breathe out, steady yourself just before you 
>know the target will move into the open and you don't wobble in RL. Just 
>timing then ... squeeze, don't pull!

Not really an issue here.
Lincoln's rifle isn't a sniper rifle, it has no scope and it's lever
action not bolt.

See
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Lincoln%27s_repeater
for all the details

>As I recall from the first Fallout, the plasma rifle did a very nice 
>amount of damage that you could only get close to with a good head-crit 
>(eye?) from a projectile rifle.
>Been a long long time since I played that, loved all the Monty Python 
>allusions/cameos - oh, and of course there was the whale and the 
>flowerpot as well: Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide.

Hrm I don't remember them, but it has been a while since I last played.

Xocyll
-- 
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of 
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably, 
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So 
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr