SteveThaiBinh

The beginning of the game can be tricky in parts, although even here most combat can be avoided. But once you get Force Storm/Lightning or whatever it's called at the third level, there's no need for a weapon if you're playing a force-user kind of character. The only reason to carry a lightsaber is for the crystal bonuses to your attributes, which are useful but not essential.

I think the distance from the Earth to the Sun is called the Astronomical Unit. There was a lot about it last year when there was the transit of Venus, because that's how the distance was first calculated reasonably accurately.

I loved the Arcanum magic vs. technology thing as well, but I'm still on a post-Planscape: Torment high, so that has to get my vote.

Level 18, I think (correct me if I'm wrong). Make sure you save before you fight her for the third time, because there's a notorious bug here.

Kreia's good at making vague comments to give the impression that she knows more than she really does. It's part of her act, designed to manipulate the Exile. She may indeed have an idea of what happened to Revan, but there's no guarantee that she's right.

Here's a possibility (I think I mentioned it before on a different thread so sorry if I'm repeating myself). Edit: Actually it was on this thread, just a while ago. As per Lee Smolin's fecund universes theory, one plus one equals two because that is the result which most favours the creation of a universe in which the number of black holes is maximised. I don't know if I believe this theory, but it's the first one I ever read that really tried to address some of these 'why' questions.

Carth in ko-ko-sei uniform. When they graduate, does Revan get his buttons?

I think it probably washes off in the shower. The 'tattoo', I mean, not the nipple. Otherwise, I hope he's already married.

The correct answer is 'I don't know'. Another answer is that we live in a universe where the basic laws of physics/mathematics are such that one plus one equals two. Or perhaps it's just because I can't imagine how one plus one could equal anything else, although when I was three I probably could.

Ooooh, I know! I know! Two. *waits for effusive praise from teacher*

You know, I felt much the same way the first time I saw the 'net shift' thing in Kotor 2. It makes a moral decision come across as an accountancy transaction. I guess there's nothing an RPG can't reduce to numbers.

But surely the example from earlier in the thread is a good example of why this 'separation of church and state' is important. Otherwise you have a judge who will overtly discriminate against non-believers by sending them to jail while giving believers a 'soft option' of attending a religious service. Personally I don't mind religion existing in the public space, only the attempts by believers to reserve the public space for themselves and exclude or discriminate against the rest.

It's a similar issue, but did anyone ever play the crazy vampires in Bloodlines all the way through? I also found this funny for a short while, but lost interest after the beginning. My recollection of Arcanum was that as the game progressed, your dumb dialogue options provoked fewer dumb-specific responses, as if the writers also got rather tired of it.

It was doing quite well until this, then it descended into a rather pointless exercise which won't persuade anyone. The whole tone of the article is very much 'preaching to the converted'. The position of the author is that there can only be one belief system, it will be mine, and we will beat down any others that try to challenge it. There's little attempt to reach out to non-believers or try to find a solution acceptable to all. The way some Americans scrutinise every little detail of the US constitution for truths about how to live today is very similar to Christians scrutinising the bible, or Muslims the Koran. As well as reading these scriptires, go out, talk to people, and start listening as well. Rest assured, we non-believers will not be beaten down.

You need the Kotor save game editor, available from several sites including this one. http://knightsoftheoldrepublic.filefront.c...uage_only;42499 You can change influence if you want to, or just look and see what it is.

Unfortunately, this is a huge part of the problem, that they believe religious people are more moral and then act on this belief. For a long time in the UK, atheists weren't even allowed to testify in court because they couldn't swear on the bible, so their word meant nothing. How about if I suggested that Christians were less moral than others? Sometimes I'm a little dismayed by the ACLU and their apparent lack of tolerance of religion in public life, which doesn't seem to be helpful in promoting understanding between Christians and non-Christians. But then I remember the context in which this is all taking place, a context in which it seems non-Christians can be openly discriminated against and excluded. In that context, the ACLU's actions appear justified.

Not really. There's a final scene after you battle Atris which may play differently depending on how far you progressed with Handmaiden (influence/jedification), but no romance to speak of.

The best part is the way he keeps getting Virgil's name wrong.

Lego Malak is cuter, especially the first link. :D Juhani is pretty cool, too.

I think it's a good idea, and you should just start it and see what happens. Maybe ask Fionavar to moderate it a bit more actively than the rest of the forum, so that it's kept spam free, otherwise it will be hard to follow.

Well, I remembered where I originally read it. Doesn't seem to much else on the internet about it, though. http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/war%20of...ayne%202006.htm

If only Kenny Everett were still alive, what parodies of Star Wars he would make! :D If Kotor 3 tries to tell nothing but the end of Revan and the Exile's stories, it will be hard to make it work as a story in its own right, which it must be in order to attract new players and keep sales up. As a designer, I would probably opt for a new character, with cameos from former NPCs and a meeting with Revan and the Exile well into the game. I just think it would be easier to pull off.

A friend told me once that this was very implausible: Earth bacteria wouldn't recognise Martians as 'edible' (too alien) and would just ignore them. Forever Autumn is a great song, but only on the album proper. The edited versions for single release didn't have the narration, and I think that lost some of the effect. I liked Beth. I was sad when Beth died. I also liked the music for the red grass. I also read that there will be another movie released in the next year or two which is essentially the Jeff Wayne album brought to screen. I don't remember where I read it, though. Has anyone else heard of this?

He said he wasn't a mimir! But then, he may have been lying...

I just played Planescape: Torment for the first time. It was excellent! :D When's the sequel due?