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A save game from the snowy region before you enter the Secret Academy should be OK.

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Yes, afraid so. The 'very very broken' thing is the definitive sign of this. No hope for this game. Save early, save often...

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PS This is more of a spoilers forum question.

Written by Malvina Reynolds, sung by Pete Seeger Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes, little boxes, Little boxes, all the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same. And the people in the houses All went to the university, Where they all were put in boxes, Little boxes, all the same. And there's doctors and there's lawyers And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same. And they all play on the golf-course, And drink their Martini dry, And they all have pretty children, And the children go to school. And the children go to summer camp And then to the university, Where they all get put in boxes And they all come out the same. And the boys go into business, And marry, and raise a family, And they all get put in boxes, Little boxes, all the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same. That's a great song.

I suppose the guy who looks after the LucasArts canon doesn't have to include events in Star Wars Galaxies? That would be a heck of a challenge. Maybe LA is desperate to do something that's popular with the gamers there, given recent controversial rebalancings.

So why not use regular ordnance? Radiation and environmental damage would surely be more severe with a nuclear weapon than a regular weapon of comparable yield. At the moment, as far as I can tell, the world has a clear, simple and almost universally agreed view: if you use nuclear weapons first in any conflict, you are an international pariah from that moment until your government is toppled and your leaders tried for crimes against humanity. Why muddy the waters?

Pretty convincing. So now we know that Revan is male, at least. Shame, but there you go. For quite a while (all the time I've been coming to these boards) people have been posting that Revan is LSM, based on little or no evidence. Your source is the first I've seen that actually stands up. You're surprised? Really? I still think it would have been more fun to leave it deliberately ambiguous, but this guy's got the job of making the whole think coherent, so if he wants it clarified, that's OK with me.

When you say 'they', do you mean that a representative of LucasArts has posted this information, or that this is the consensus view of the fans posting there? I like the idea of the canonical view being that nobody knows. Taking the movies era as 'the present', the events of Kotor are lost in the distant past 4000 years ago. No-one today remembers what gender (or even alignment) Revan or the Exile were, only that such people (probably) existed. Historians probably argue for hours piecing together the tiny scraps of evidence that remain from this period. Were they real? Were they legends? The truth may be lost forever...

I'm sorry to hear that. I was enjoying the debate, and I've tried to keep my contributions constructive and civil. Perhaps it's been a mistake to try to discuss this while there are emotive pictures on television screens of settlers being dragged out of their homes. You clearly have strong views about this issue, as do I. This is my last contribution to this thread. Have fun, everyone!

No, it is not 'cool', it's making the best of a bad situation. Many settlements were built on land that legally belongs to someone else, Palestinians, except that Israel didn't recognise the validity of their ownership. Surely you can't object to the eviction of squatters? I'm not sure if this applies to any or all of the Gaza settlements, however. As for the rest of the settlers, it would be better if they had the option to remain in their homes, as citizens of a new Palestinian State or perhaps with dual nationality. But that's impossible, and the settlers have brought this upon themselves by their conduct. They, and the Israeli Army, have treated the Palestinians appallingly. They have made few if any efforts to get along with their neighbours, and made their lives as difficult as possible in a calculated attempt to force them away and forge a Greater Israel. They have been the most vociferous opponents of Palestinian self-determination and economic development. If the settlers stay and are murdered by Palestinian terrorists I will condemn it as an outrage, but I would rather not have to do that. Ultimately I suspect many settlers are not grieving for the loss of their homes but for the loss of their dream of a Greater Israel, and for that I feel no sympathy with them whatsoever.

Immigrants are not a disease, and referring to them as an epidemic is not polite or constructive. Northern Ireland is experiencing a great deal of immigration at the moment, largely from the new member states of the European Union. I think this is very welcome, because it meets existing skills shortages as well as increasing the diversity of society.

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Do they want independence now? Then they should get it. Have a plebiscite and test public opinion. Self-determination, Ender. It's not really that difficult to follow, I think. Self-determination. But just to make sure... The colonised Empire has already become independent, because that was the wish of the people there. The UK is an independent state because that is the wish of the British people. Northern Ireland is part of the UK because that is the wish of (the majority of) the people there. The new settlement for Northern Ireland actually spells out the mechanism by which that could change - if the majority of people in Northern Ireland voted in a referendum to join the Republic of Ireland, that would happen. Self-determination.

It's important to refer to the UK when you're speaking about the UK. Try to avoid talking about England's foreign policy or the English government, for example, because England has neither. Referring to the whole UK as 'England' is the same as referring to the whole US as 'California', or to everyone from North America as 'American'. Every Canadian I know dislikes being called 'American'.

Because the people who live there are Palestinians. Had the wars never happened, the Gaza Strip been part of the state of Egypt, and the Palestinians there campaigned for their independence, I would have supported that, too. It's called self-determination. Your refusal to acknowledge that the Palestinians should have the same basic rights and freedoms that you have baffles me.

Israel stole the Gaza Strip from the Palestinians. It has denied citizenship to the Palestinians who live there, yet retained control over the territory until now. It has denied the Palestinians self-determination and freedom. It has exceeded its rights as an occupying power and tried to incorporate occupied territory into itself. It has constructed settlements on land that belonged to Palestinian people there because it chose not to recognise the legality of their land ownership. It has kept the Palestinian people in abject poverty, failing even to live up to the responsibilities of an occupying power to meet the basic human needs of the population. Israel never had any right to this land, and its conduct during the occupation only serves to prove the point. The sooner it is gone, the better.

Yes, Ender, I believe it has a chance to do that. A lot depends on what happens to the Palestinian Authority in Gaza when the Israeli Army has gone. This will be the first time in decades that a portion of the Palestinian people have not been under occupation or in foreign refugee camps. Will it descend into chaos? It's a possibility. Alternatively, the Palestinian Authority will for the first time be able to get its act together, without Israeli tanks demolishing its public buildings and Israeli soldiers terrorising - yes, terrorising - its people. From the Palestinians that I've met, I'd say they are capable of coming together and coming through this, and this will work against Hamas and the other terrorist groups because the legitimate government will be able to provide the services that people need and increase its prestige. There's a lot of potential for the situation to improve. However, much also depends on the Israelis not turning Gaza into a prison camp by sealing all the borders. We will see in the near future whether Sharon wants this to succeed or not.

It's unusual to have a state with two areas of territory that aren't connected, but not unprecedented. Pakistan was originally two seperate parts, before the east split off to become Bangladesh. And Kaliningrad is a small part of Russia split from the main by Poland and Lithuania.

Most of the settlers are victims in this, too. They were sold an idea of a Greater Israel based on some very unpleasant untruths, but they seem genuinely to have believed it. Ultimately the Israeli Army is doing its duty by protecting the Israeli settlers from harm. The Israeli government has made a strategic decision to withdraw, and will no longer be able to protect the settlers. When the army has gone, what would happen to any remaining settlers? Hamas or another terrorist group would kill them. The Palestinian Authority isn't strong enough to protect them against Hamas, and the Palestinian people wouldn't want their government to spend time and energy protecting people they see as their enemies, the cause of much of their suffering. The evacuations are as much for the good of the settlers as for the common good. As for the decision to withdraw from Gaza, it's probably also been made on grounds of protecting people from harm, in this case the Israeli solders who have to protect the settlements. It's certainly not done out of any respect for the 1967 borders - Mr Sharon made that perfectly clear, and there will be no withdrawal in the near future from the West Bank settlements. This is a small step forward, but there's still a long way to go.

No, the United States does not seem to agree with this. It is, as far as I know, actively pursuing the development of so-called 'bunker-buster' nuclear weapons, 'low-yield' weapons that you can actually use. I don't understand the logic behind this at all - surely the taboo of nuclear weapons, the knowledge that whichever side uses them first would be an international pariah, is part of our security against newly nuclear states. Whatever happened to Mutually Assured Destruction? Why is the US looking for ways to use nuclear weapons, not ways of getting rid of them?

We've criticised the three-letter limit on the search engine before, but apparently there's nothing anyone can do about it, at least not easily. That would be a good point to raise in the Project New Jersey forums - all places and character names must have four or more letters so that the Obsidian forum search engine can handle them.

I missed the lightsaber forms the entire first time I played :">. Not the same as Kotor 1, you see, so it just didn't register. I'm sure I would have found them if the combat had ever been difficult.

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