SteveThaiBinh

From TV, I liked Scorpius from Farscape a lot, especially the version of him that existed inside Crichton's head. From the movies, maybe Ursula the Sea Witch. Lots of Disney villains were fun. From books, the Templar from Ivanhoe (I forget his name - I haven't read it since I was a kid).

War with Denmark will be a sure-fire vote-winner in Canada. You broke your toe?

That's so cute! (iIn a slightly disturbing way.)

What he said.

So only the most rabid anti-American nut would claim that the US invaded Iraq to gain control of its oil, but it's fine to say that France acted to protect its oil interests? Always our own motives are pure, while those wicked foreigners act for the basest of reasons.

Never a truer word spoken. Have a great time, and make sure you talk to the local people and find out what they think of the project you're working on.

Lots and lots of sci-fi.

I like epic games, and the game world should feel big in an epic game, but that doesn't mean it actually has to be big. Attention to detail in the crafting of the landscape, winding treacherous paths, hidden coves, back alleys full of interest, all these matter more than miles of featureless landscape. I hope never to use the rapid transit systems in Oblivion, and I hope the game never requires it.

France did its best to dissuade the US from making its biggest foreign policy mistake since Viet Nam, a mistake that has led to disaster and significant loss of life. They were better friends to the US than Tony 'Poodle' Blair.

As do plenty of Christians, Muslims and others. I hear atheist speakers on the radio saying that religion is a mental illness and I wince, because they're not speaking on my behalf, but equally I hear religious participants in discussion programmes who are very respectful of each other but contemptuous of secular humanism - and there's usually no humanist allowed to join the debate. Meangingful exchange of ideas can best take place in an atmosphere of mutual respect and tolerance, and it's possible to explain why we think the other side is wrong without being insulting about it.

Maybe the asteroid will arrive just in time to plug the new black hole. I think this scenario is enough of a risk to warrant a million-pound research programme at tax-payers' expense.

I don't know anyone but me who actually liked this, but a lot of it hit my sense of humour pretty well. How's it going?

Again, if it were that easy for a singularity to come into existance, it would probably be happening naturally all over the place. I personally don't lie awake at night worrying about imminent devouring by a man-made black hole - not so long as I remember to take the little orange pills, at least.

No dialogue loops? You mean we'll actually have to pay attention during the dialogue? It'd better be worth it. Water physics means splashes and ripples, right? I think it's time to accept the horselessness of NWN2 and move on.

What exactly are you going to be rebuilding? Do you know yet?

I don't know when the TV series will be set, but I imagine that any further movies would use the characters from the series, in the Star Trek mold. I'm not saying that's what I want to happen, but I suppose it makes marketing sense to use the one to promote the other rather than sustain two independent stories. I'm really not interested in learning anything more about the characters and times of the original movies. I'd quite like something from the very beginnings of the Jedi and the Republic.

It was OK, with the odd good laugh, but if you could get hold of any of Billy Connolly's stand-up routines it'd be a hundred times funnier. I watched Ghost in the Shell a few nights ago. Interesting, and a little disconcerting, I thought.

The Burkiss Way.

If it were possible to travel faster than light, wouldn't it be happening naturally in the universe anyway? There's all these black holes and nuclear reactors floating around, you're bound to get something like this happening where we could see it.

Depended on my character - light-side males take Bastila, light-side females take Carth, darksiders take Canderous and HK, I also took Juhani along quite a lot.

If there are ever several games that I'd really like to play, I'd get a console. If PNJ and Mass Effect are any good that will be a point in favour of the PS3 and the XBox 360 respectively, but it'll take three or four unmissable games on a single console before I really start thinking about it. It's not gonna happen anytime soon.

Just thought I'd register my surprise that this site still isn't back up. Anyone heard why?

Visible and outspoken critics of Islam, particularly apostates (if that's what she is), have lived under the threat of death in many countries, and some have indeed been murdered for expressing their beliefs.

No, no, it's a bad thing, because Morrowind had a mind-numbingly dull and generic main story and few if any memorable characters. Don't get me wrong, I liked Morrowind, I enjoyed it a lot, but the story was weak and Bethesda promised they would address this for Oblivion.

Very impressive. I wish I could see the whole debate, without the edits - I wonder how her views were received. I'm pleased that Al-Jazeera, depicted by some as al-Qaeda's mouthpiece, would give her a chance to air her views in some detail.