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WHIPPERSNAPPERS! *shakes his walker* JK!

Because British girls are hawt.

Well, I was maxxed out DS in that playthrough... "

Force Crush.

haha Indeed it is you! G0-T0's name is a reference to oldschool programming -- BASIC. 10 GOTO 20 stuff like that. It's a goofy in-joke for the old farts like me. But, that is one annoying droid. I guess it's a testament to the writing and voice acting that G0T0 gets on all our nerves!

Science at its root is founded on rational discourse and is not supposed to be biased by pre-conceived notions. Thus, Science and Religion are indeed two different animals. Science starts with trying to find the answer to what is observerd; Religion starts with giving you the answer to what is going on. Besides that point, there are many many religions and religious viewpoints, many with differing answers as to where we came from or where we're going or what it's all about. What one schoolteacher says about this or that from a religious interpretation may contradict or even offend a student of a different faith. Science at its heart is supposed to be free from those different points of view (but it's not, in reality -- when a paper gets published refuting previously widely accepted hypotheses, it often takes much longer for the scientific community to accept or to test on its own than it should).

You can still go DS and not kick puppies. There are lots of spots where manipulation or coercion rather than psychopathic violence net you DS shifts.

In the 1600s, Francis Bacon built upon the old teachings of Aristotle, et al., to devise the Scientific Method. Here's a wikipedia definition: "(1) Careful observations of nature. (2) Deduction of natural laws. (3) Formation of hypotheses

Definitely.

I was lucky enough to be age 5 or 6 or so when the very first "Star Wars" movie came out: Right at the beginning of the mythos; before there were any other movies, books, action figures, pez dispensers, etc. And I was magnificently blown away at the spectacle and sound. From the get-go, it was about good triumphing over evil against all odds. The music really reinforced this ... I was scared by the badguys, and thrilled by the goodguys. I was cheering for them when they marched in for their victory medals. I got dizzy when Vader's fighter spun away, out of control. Later I would discover that it had a Jungian psychological basis, rooted in cross-cultural mythology and archetypes. But, back then, it was as if all the bedtime stories had coalesced into something more amazing than I had imagined, on the big screen. Long story short: I was an impressionable kid, and had no idea that the badguys could be wickedly cool until I was much older. So, when it's a Star Wars game, I usually think "What would Kenobi do?" Rather than "What would Vader do?"

Yah, that's why I exuberantly recited the goodstuff about Tarkin -- I'm kinda trying to infect you with some of that fanboy fanaticism! :D Only in the later versions, the remakes, the re-envisioned. Originally, Han's character clearly established his badass motif by blasting the hell out of Greedo right as he's gloating about catching Han. He didn't believe in the Force; he was grounded in the dirty truth of his situation and wasn't afraid to kill when threatened. Which made his final moments in the original flick as the one who returned to save Luke's hide in the Death Star battle all the more important.

Danke kiddo.

Actually, that was Grand Moff Tarkin (the awesome Peter Cushing), demanding the info. from Leia, then nuking her planet anyway. He was pointing out to Vader that she could still be persuaded, despite her resistance to the mind probe droid stuff Vader had tried. Tarkin was a badass. :cool: Too bad he was overconfident ... "Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances." <KABOOM> "Ouch." He can also be seen, briefly and in a younger form, at the end of Ep.3, when Vader and the Emperor are on the bridge, staring out at the under-construction Death Star.

That's a great CD, but personally I kinda like their earlier stuff better.

Yah, my wife's got season tickets to the Bucs (she's lived here in Tampa her entire life) along with her brother. She got me into football (American), whereas I only had a passing interest in it before her. Good stuff!

no, they reached the quarter finals. lost to germany... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yah, that was it. Still, better than the US had ever done!

My favorite part about the World Cup last time (yes, my wife and I watch it, here in America -- we both played soccer [football to you non-Americans] avidly in our youth), was when the U.S. made it to the top 4 (I think), and Donovan blurted out on live TV: "F*** YEAH, BABY!" Good stuff.

O o o o o o o! Is it too late for me to participate, o purple haired one?

Something I was thinking, but I'm sure many will disagree ... When we hear the gun go off, they show Shannon facing away from Sayid, then turning to reveal a wound to her stomach/midsection, then falling in front of him ... then the camera shows the Tailees + Jin, etc., with Ana holding the gun. From the angle at which Shannon was standing when she turned, it looked to me like she could not have been shot by Ana, as there was no wound on her back, and she was facing away from them. Perhaps Ana was shooting at whoever stabbed or wounded Shannon? It definitely looked like Ana's last bullet was shot, as the gun had that "emptied" look of the barrel -- but some hardcore gun fellow on another board said that that type of gun wouldn't have looked like that if it was empty, and thus the last bullet was shot. Anyone know?

I kinda was thinking that Walt always showing up in his astral or whatever form as wet was to emphasize the fact that the raft blew up, and thus they were in the water... even though, yes I know, Walt wasn't shown being the water at all. Maybe that's just where his spirit feels like it is.

KOTOR3: Revan vs. Exile Deathmatch

As for me, personally, I enjoy playing LS, as it's more like the movies, where the heroes are the focus. However, it's damn good fun to go DS and Lightning Storm the hell out of a room full of enemies. EDIT: Added spoiler tags, since this was moved out of the Spoilers forum.

I tried SW:Galaxies, I didn't like it. So, I didn't inhale.

When you talk to Kreia (or was it Visas?) about Nihilus, they say that he's more of a force wound than flesh. So, when he dies, the little bit of willpower that was maintaining that semblance of a man dissolves and dissipates into nothingness, I'm thinking. And when Visas said she sees only a man, nothing more ... I interpreted that to mean that her damaged Force Sight didn't see the ebb and flow of the Force Wound from him anymore; meaning that his power was gone and the shell of a force-dead man lingered in the force. If that makes sense. "

YES! Exactly! But, I was 6 ... and it was in the movie theater .... "