LadyCrimson

I think it doesn't matter which one was closed, since there would be only one specific Kotor forum left, regardless.

What was really a let down is: Acting/writing/direction. Although I think it should be just writing/direction, since there were many fine actors in the films - Lucas is just horrible at getting good performances, and always has been. Partly I think, because Lucas is always more into creating his effects and environment than the actor performances. Let's face it, I love the originals, but it's not like Harrison Ford or Carrie Fisher did their finest acting work in those films. Who wins for worst performance is: Hayden. While he did best after he turned "evil," something about him really annoyed me overall. I agree about the Emperor turning comical - but he did fine as the Senator and thus I can't rate that a 'worst' performance; more like worst direction. Lucas: "More evil cackling and grinning, McDiarmid, more more!" The worst ideas lay in: That one's hard for me to pick, because there's elements of everything, but if you include the quality of suspension of disbelief, I had to go with story set up. There were too many little inconsistincies and too many truly illogical moments that either made you laugh or shake your head, taking you out of the fantasy.

Seems to me like it's often perspective. When I'm the employee, I hate the customers. When I'm the customer, I hate the employees. :D I think sometimes it's less that customer service is dead, but that much of the time, employees just don't have/aren't trained w/the information I want, beyond "TV's are on aisle 7." The days of the corner Hardware being filled with 30 year employees who spend their spare time building castles and catapults in their backyard and can give you all kinds of helpful advice are generally gone. The service or willingness is there - the knowledge often isn't, if that makes sense. Edit: I do think patience on both sides is less than it was 20 years ago, on average.

I like their Thin White Line a bit more. Interesting, thanks for the link.

I think it's just the game. I'm sure there's a tech reason reason for it relating to the way the game 'connects' to certain cards/card settings or whatever, but still...the game.

Of course not. It was humor in my own odd style - no point to it other than that.

That stack of sweet treats makes me drool. And for a whole cake I could play the fool. I doubt though that I could play this game long One note words do not flow and are not my song. *it's hard to find a good word to rhyme with "drool"...

I was pleased to see James Cromwell guest starring the last couple episodes. Put a little spark in an otherwise 'typical' 24 season. I love that man.

That happened to me too, w/Atton, but the line was really faint and not noticable from all angles - it also went away (or became entirely unnoticable, perhaps) when I started playing 1600 resolution instead of 1280. I don't think I've ever had more than 4AA on. Just a weird tiny graphical glitch in the game, nothing to worry about.

I can never seem to help myself at making a Drizzt-pattered character if I make an elf - :blush10: - at least looks-wise. Not always abilities wise.

It's not actually a painting, at least not originally, but something called The Flammarion woodcut, artist unknown. http://www.answers.com/topic/flammarion-woodcut

The forum merge created too many stickys...this topic is popular enough it'll probably stay near the top on it's own. If something changes to alter that situation we can take another looksee then.

I'd agree with that definition on the whole. "Pure" sic-fi, to me, is about whether or not the basis of the tech could be based in an actual future reality. Most of the physics, for example, should be at least possible, if only in distant theory. But most stuff labeled as sci-fi isn't like that, with tons of fantasy elements thrown in all over (Star Trek...) so as far as how most people/business tend to use setting to define. I think it's because 'fantasy' is too all encompassing and things get divided into sub-genres for ease of labeling. I consider most horror to be a sub-genre of fantasy.

They have? Oh, oh, oh, that might make me reinstall that game sometime. Another I barely started: I forgot about Thief - the first one. I'd heard so many good things about it, how it wasn't like the typical FPS etc. It looked like a good game, loved the darkness and steath aspects, but it was still too action-game like for me and it wasn't long before I uninstalled it.

Kitten Canon Three Little Pigs - stack pigs to reach a cupcake - so cutesy it might make you hurl Warthog Launch

I can't recall ever having a disturbing/weird fortune out of a cookie, beyond bad English grammar and such. But I like this one: http://weirdfortunecookies.com/2006/09/04/escapee/

I tend to finish far more strategy/simulation/citybuilder or light-action (ie Tombraider/Drakan) games than RPG's. I play RPG's fairly slow, trying everything and may spend so many hours 'tinkering' with in-game things that I lose focus or interest on progressing the plot itself. Early on, I'd buy a lot of games to check them all out, without researching them at all, and only a few would really engage me; kind of like how there are a lot of brands of colas you can buy, but you're likely to find only one or two appealing enough to finish the bottle. Probably a bad analogy I know, the hour is late.

I also have Millipede, Pong, Asteroids, SuperBreakout and a few others.

The pci slots should be those three white bars near the top of the motherboard, in your picture.

Nox was fun...not the best game even for it's type, but it had a warped sense of humor here and there.

10%-30% : Arcanum Dungeon Siege2 Planescape Torment KOTOR1 NWN1 (wouldn't run well on my pc then, never got back to it) Sacred 30%-60% Wizardy8 Guild Wars - couldn't solo it anymore Baldurs Gate2 - no Xan ... j/k Might & Magic6 Oblivion - very pretty but lacked something 60-80%: Morrowind - liked the editor more than the game Dungeon Siege (SP game) - got into the MP game instead Ultima9 - surprised I made it that far --- I usually get distracted by another game, or just burn out from too many obsessive marathon sessions and then never feel like going back. Some of them I've meant to go back to for ages but...

... it plays way too fast on my pc, tho.

I only notice that when I manually resize the browser to be so narrow it "defeats" a tables ability to resize w/all elements undisturbed, if that makes sense. Could that be it for you, or is it happening when it's maximized?

I love moments like those...anticipation combined with a bit o' excited impatience. :D Hope it all goes smoothly!

Friends showed me this one: Roadblocks - a simple game of about 22 short lvls of getting a ball to move into a 'goal.' It's not too hard, but there's a few tricky puzzler levels that may stump some a bit.