SteveThaiBinh

Quizzes seem to be popular today, and there's a wealth of them at the BBC Science website. I like the personality test that came with a TV programme last year called 'What am I like?'. You can take the test here. I'm a 'strategist', apparently: bright, logical and individualistic (not to mention modest) :D

How much do you want to bet?

They were called siltstriders. Horrible icky things with tendrils and the like, that caused me to uninstall the game in horror and leave it on the shelf for months. Eventually I went back to it, and loved it, though. That's in Obsidian Moderation. How are you able to access it?

Probably. I'll admit, though, that the rendition of 'Janie's Got A Gun' in a US high school cracked me up. Are they making Gigli 2?

I got that one wrong, too. I'm wondering if it's actually possible to get it right, other than by guessing. Unlike the first ones with the circles and lines, with the Godzilla room distorted in such a way does the image actually contain the information needed to say definitively which is bigger?

More than likely.

Ooh, this sounds familiar, but I can't put my finger on it. I'm sure there was a strategy game released some years ago which recorded all your games and sent them over the internet to a central computer, which would then analyse the best strategies and constantly update your computer's AI, making it increasingly more challenging at the higher levels of play. What was this game called?

Isn't the German for town hall 'rathaus' or something like that? Very apt for our local politicians.

On Atlantis, didn't we see an Ancient blasting some Wraith ships? And Oma didn't stare like an old grandma. She was gorgeous.

Very. I'm sure we'll hear about PNJ soon, though.

GalCiv set the standard for AI, I think. GalCiv 2 is in the works, too. The only cheat the AI gets is that it knows where all the habitable planets are from the start and doesn't need to explore - but they explain that by saying they're older civilisations than the humans and have already mapped the skies successfully.

It would seem not. It's not mentioned as a target on their website, and they do say that they're focusing their efforts on only a few areas, in order to keep the project achievable.

Why thanks, meta. I do my best.

If you're very strongly LS, then your force points won't regenerate at all. You need to take Force Drain (I think it's called), probably at its highest level. On the other hand, if you're LS, you can't die, so you could just hack at them with a lightsaber.

It makes sense, but I've heard that LucasArts are trying to make fewer games, having overstretched themselves in the last year or so.

British Humour : Confusing Foreigners Since 55BC. I have to admit, the INGSOC sig looks a bit fascist. The presentation and style, I mean - very scary.

Allo Allo? Are you serious? Do you know how many episodes of that they made? One! And then they made it over and over again! And it wasn't funny anyway.

I suppose it all depends whether he would have continued to live happily as a woman he hadn't discovered that he wasn't one. Yes, I know that's impossible :D We could never know, I suppose. My life is a constant interplay between my free will, my nurture/social conditioning, and my nature/genes. I'm not aware of it at the time, of course, but when I reflect on my actions I can sometimes see them at work. So long as free will is in there, I don't think I'm too worried about arguments about which is stronger. Hmmm, or maybe I am.

I remember when you asked before, and I remember the answer, because I'd been wondering the same thing. Apparently it was for publicity/advertising - more people visit the Bioware boards. I think it's a shame - it would have been easy enough to post a link on the Bioware boards directing people here. I don't much like those boards - too slow and the presentation is too crowded. I don't think the restoration team plan anything about Atris. As I recall, Obsidian at one point had some interesting plans for her, but if these were dropped early in the development process there won't be enough shards on the discs to restore.

The preview movie looked really good. So, assuming the bugs will be fixed, what's the catch?

I voted that I voted. Of course, I might be lying.

Well, randomly, presumably. Otherwise they wouldn't make the claim that their results are generalisable to the population as a whole.

Did you contact them for 'more information'?

I was always rather impressed that the snappy-sounding 'Nature or nurture' in English translates to the equally snappy-sounding Spanish 'se nace o se hace?'. I hope that free will is stronger than nurture, and nurture is stronger than nature. The evidence doesn't appear to be going that way, though. 2000 can be fine as a representative sample of 300 million. A sample of 20,000 or 200,000 would give you little greater accuracy.

late 80s/early 90s. and tropical? That's too many variables for me. My memory's not that good - especially for things which are inherently unmemorable.