SteveThaiBinh

Amazon.co.uk doesn't ship to Romania; that might change when you join the EU. As it is, you might try Amazon.de, or if you know someone well in the UK, you could ask them to order a game and send it on through regular post.

First time through, always LS. Then I might try DS, but I can't keep it up for long, because I'm just too nice. I can only manage an hour or so DS, then I have to play a different LS character to cleanse myself. Kotor 2's 'switch character' function helped me a lot.

Neither. I play with the NPCs I like, and as for the ones I don't like, they stay on the Ebon Hawk and they pretty much don't exist. The first two or three times through, I varied my parties more to see which situations produced dialogue from NPCs, but no longer.

Is there anything special about the blade? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not that I could see, that's why I don't see any reason to twist the way you play the game in order to achieve this. I mean, I'm sure there are some people who play the game normally and just don't happen to meet Visas before they build their lightsaber, but the only time it happened for me I was specifically working for it, and there turned out to be no real point.

If you've already constructed your own lightsaber before meeting her, you do get her complete lightsaber. However, there's no particular reason to do this, and it probably won't happen in the normal run of the game.

This is a common bug, and a quick search of this forum would probably have produced the answer faster for you than waiting for a reply. You need to restore a saved game from before you jedified Handmaiden, and just try again. What's supposed to happen is that you see a cut scene on Telos, but don't travel there.

The game is fairly well designed in this regard, in that there's no clear advantage to taking one character over another. Even balancing your party isn't vitally important, as so much of the combat is easy. I guess the best thing to do is vary, taking different NPCs to different places. Then play again, and vary again.

I'm going to repeat myself here .. sorry for that .. but it seems like I'm really bad at formulating myself .. When I see a dog, I see what my minds interpret as a dog .. and so do you, if we are then to talk about this specific object, we must assume/believe that we are seeing the same thing .. so in our common reality, we have to believe that we are seeing the same thing in order to even have a converstation, otherwise we would need to explain our entire perspective each time we use a different symbol .. and since language is symbols as well.. you can see it would be quite impossible! so I believe in reality, and our reality .. but I can't be sure that it's real, I only assume so .. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You formulate your ideas fine, it's just a very worrying concept for our confident materialistic age. I often find philosophy wonderfully humbling, because it challenges us to question everything we assume that we know. Nevertheless, I believe (there's that word again!) that there is a difference between the belief needed to accept that this thing in front of me is in fact a dog, and belief/faith in a supernatural being.

Yes, but those links seem to be heavy on previews and user rankings, light on actual reviews. I mean I'll wait for reviews based on the finished version of the game, closer to release. And, since I don't own a console, I'll need this plus Jade Empire + a few more excellent console games to justify buying a console, which is looking like a real possibility now.

Jade Empire, despite its apparent shortness. Bioware RPGs, while variable in quality, always have something that makes them worthwhile.

I can't imagine it will have much story beyond the movie, which has been so foreshadowed/leaked it will hold no surprise anyway. Dialogue? Interesting characters to interact with? I'll wait for the reviews, but I can't really imagine this will be a substitute for a good RPG if you're looking for the things I'm looking for.

And is he a valid alternative? Does he opose Blair? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He's a competent politician. He backed the Iraq war, but he wasn't so closely associated with it as Tony Blair, so he's more popular. And he and Blair used to be good friends, but now they hate each other, so he sort of opposes Blair, but from within the cabinet.

Melee characters can be fine with high dex, not strength, if you choose the melee/lightsaber finesse feat. Other than that, I don't think stats matter that much, because the bonuses from lightsaber crystals and other items quickly overwhelm them.

Gordon Brown, the Finance Minister (Chancellor of the Exchequer), most likely, but it would be decided by a vote of Labour Party members, affiliated unions and Members of Parliament, I think.

I don't live in Scotland or Wales, but people seem happy enough with it. Labour have been in power for 8 years, and now they have another 4. That makes 12. Now I'm depressed. If only Blair would resign, that would cheer me up.

This change was introduced quite recently, what we have now is the new improved version. There's some history behind this which I can explain briefly... We used to have a single Parliament in London for everything. But Scotland and Wales were, hundreds of years ago, separate countries and still retain their own traditions. In the 1980s, while England voted for the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher, Scotland and Wales voted consistently for Labour, and the feeling grew that they were tired of being governed from London. When Labour came to power in 1997, they held referenda in Scotland and Wales, and the people there voted to have this mixed system, with some powers staying in London, and others devolved to the new regional governments. So that's the system we have now. For England, everything is still decided in London, but for Scotland and Wales, powers are split. It's complicated, but it's what people want, and that's democracy, I guess.

So are there seperate elections then? And why no manifesto for N.Ireland ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wales has the Welsh Assembly, Scotland has the Scottish Parliament. Their elections will be in 2007, I think. Some of the main issues in the campaign have been foreign policy, health and education. For England, all three are controlled by the UK parliament in London, so the campaign focuses on all of them. For Scotland and Wales, foreign policy is controlled by the UK parliament, but health and education are devolved to the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament, so there's no point fighting over these issues this time. The parties need to different manifestos there because they need to focus on issues which are not devolved to regional government.

I was hoping that the Labour majority would be lower, or even wiped out, enough to make Tony 'Bliar' resign. A disappointing night, but with some grounds for optimism: Labour has a much reduced majority, so Blair won't be able to govern like a dictator any more - he has too many rebels in his own party for that. It was fascinating to see George Galloway beating Oona King for Respect - a real anti-war vote. The Liberal Democrats' success was also mostly based on anti-war sentiment. I hope that Blair learns his lesson and is much less cosy with George Bush this time.

You have to be at least neutral or very little DS (still grey background) on Nar Shaddaa, at the moment when you transition from the main hub to the docks heading towards the pre-arranged meeting at the Jekk-Jekk Tarr.

If you're using the word 'faith' to mean 'strong belief', then yes. If you're using the word 'fatih' to mean 'belief without evidence', then no.

It can't be proved, because science doesn't prove theories, it can only disprove them. It is, however, the most reasonable explanation of the available evidence. The sun rises and falls because of the rotation of the Earth. This explains the phenomenon using only elements which are observable - the Earth, the laws of physics etc. The theory that it is caused by God requires the inclusion of an additional element - God - which is neither observable nor necessary to explain the phenomenon. The same goes for the Tibetan monk prayers - we have no idea how prayer should produce this phenomenon, so there must be some unknown force at work. Again, it's not observable and it's not necessary to explain the observed effect. Therefore, according to Occam's Razor, we should accept the simplest explanation as the most reasonable, pending further evidence to the contrary.

It's still part of our cultural heritage, so some emotional response is natural. And I think it was seen as pretty disgraceful at the time, according to the standards of the day. But your general point is right, applying modern standards to history is not good history.

AC Milan, for much the same reason.