LadyCrimson

Indeed.

Um...last thing I ate was last evening, and that was a broiled chicken club from jack n the box - minus the "special sauce." I'm starting to get hungry for my first meal of the day...rotisserie turkey sandwich.

Grizzly Man Nature footage: 10/10 Biographical story-telling: 7/10 Debate-inducing factor: 9/10 ------------- Overall score: 8.6/10

Diablo2 and it's variants are RPG-Lites. They have the combat, some form of the stat/character/item creation/progression and a story/quests (tho not usually very interactive ones). If you reduced most of the CRPG's down to the elements of stats/combat, that's what you'd have....imo. *shrug* I like Diablo2. Or I did. I can't play it anymore, I played it too much for 4-5 years. <_<

What the.... I go away for a few days, so much change. :cool: As to grammar in games...now that I think about it, I guess there were a few bits here and there that were off...just wasn't extreme enough for me to care. And spelling...pffft....Even Stephen King's books (backed by lots of money and big companies) have frequent typo's that were obviously mistakes on the part of the...er...typesetter...computer setter...whatever they use now...

Runescape.

....sorry, couldn't help myself.

"This doesn't feel very Kotor related."

No Visas? For shame.

Somehow these always turn into "favorite" topics... Good original post tho. In terms of personality (with the 'most realistic' concept in tow) ...hmm...Kreia. Her lines were delievered with the most natural cadence/speech sound to me...not as over the top theatrically dramatic. But I didn't like her character all that much. Handmaiden wasn't too bad either, I've known some people who talk quite a bit like her style wise so it seemed realistic to me in that regard. I like Disciple's backstory better than Atton's by a shade, because of the whole ex-Jedi bit...but both of them had non-realistic personalites so they don't win this one.

Constant Gardener - Plot: 8/10 (it unravels a bit confusingly at times but it's pretty solid) Eye-candy: 9/10 (no wild action cgi etc. but gorgeous cinematography/camerawork) Suspense/Action: 6/10 Emo/Romance: 6/10 (not that it's a romantic film, persay) Fun factor: 6/10 Ending: 4/10 Ralph Fiennes factor: 10/10 ------------ Overall score: 7/10 Flight Plan - Plot/Story: 5/10 Eye-candy: 5/10 (there were some cool effects/camera angles etc) Uncreative ending: 4/10 Fun factor: 4/10 Jodie Foster factor: 7/10 (Michael Jackson looks just like her) Sean Bean factor: 8/10 -------------- Overall score: 5.6/10 edit - silly me forgot the overall score for the 1st film...

*soapbox* Porn is porn. Sex is sex & natural. I have nothing against any of that, or nudity in general. I'm not a prude or overly prim. Sex as exploitation however...to say it does no harm to a supposedly 'modern and enlightened society' as a whole is highly debatable. Look at the difference, say, at the pictures people post on myspace.com...the guys vs. the girls, percentages wise. Guys post one or two fuzzy pictures of themselves, girls toss up seXXy pictures of themselves in their underwear because...because why? Perhaps because they think they won't get any attention/be popular otherwise? Scantily clad females everywhere and in everything makes the impression that in order to get attention, one has to be/do the same. Be 20yo, be in a bikini, be 115 pounds. That's not a society message I like. I'm for the ban in this case...not because I think it's so horrible all by its lonesome...but because of the entire attitude in general. Men have their own pressures as well, it's not just female-focused...but women as sex-objects/decoration is definitely in the forefront. Teaching kids to be unashamed of their bodies and sex in general is not, in my opinion, the same as exploiting and encouraging only a SINGLE KIND of what is 'acceptably seXXy'...whether to sell games, cars, or anything else.

I like the hat, it's simple yet kinda rakish. As long as the color goes well with the rest of the outfit, I think it'd look good. If you're concerned about the $$ tho, I'm not sure it's really worth an extra $85 to add it - unless, of course, you think you'd get a decent amount of use from it. You might be able to find a similar style hat in a store for a lot cheaper and then add a few feathers/ribbon to it from a craft/fabric etc. store.

So this character does it all on his own, it's not even you getting to decide what to decorate with as a mini-game (that might appeal to Sim's like people, bad decor and all)? If so, yeah, that is really stupid/pointless? :D

Vegies with spicy italian type marinade drizzled all over it. Yum.

Tho sometimes watching a movie more than once or twice is nice because you can notice things without having to 'keep up' with the plot, it's not the same as game replay...definitely not. :cool:

It's Bao-Dur. Didn't the patch reduce the frequency he said his lines during non-combat events? I remember early on if you were controlling him he'd say "Pure pazaak" every time you opened a door, which became really annoying. I think it's a more random now.

Word. I'd love some expansions...of any game that I like. Assuming that said expansions consisted of more than a few 'new monsters' and some 'new weapons'. That would just be, like, a patch.

Darkman. "See the dancing freak! Pay five bucks!"

The only games I've played more than 10-15 times are strategy/sim like games, where you might have favorite levels that you like to re-play different strategies constantly. Like Casear3. I've played that probably close to 50 times all the way through and some levels even more times. I can see the point that playing RPG's with different teams/characters can be considered variety but I'm in the same boat where once the story/ending is known there has to be some compelling reason for me to keep playing...like becoming a fangirl of one character or something. I don't really know why playing a C3 level 70 times seems variable & fun to play over & over while playing BG w/3 wizards instead of 1 doesn't...they both require a different strategy thinking, to a degree...but RPG's aren't the same kind of strategy...maybe it's a brain thing.

3rd vote for the 2nd choice. It looks elegant and nobleish like. The first one makes me think of Robin Hood in purple. :D

My thingie is a cheap little device that has one port, and I have to double-hit Scroll Lock. Which has been a pain because I have to re-map keys for other programs that use that. I'll have to get something better tho when I build a 3rd PC. Hubby has 6 PC's on a long table, sharing one monitor - he uses something a bit fancier than I do.

What I have you couldn't brag about at all. But it works fine. I upgrade only when a game I want won't run or I desperately need for graphic/photos, which in the past meant "every 3-4 years or so" but now means "every 1.5 years or so." I need to build a new one soon for the new vid card tech. But I'm not in a big hurry since whatever I build will be outdated 2 seconds after I walk out of the parts store, no matter when I build it, so I probably won't upgrade the MB/vid tech until...a game I want won't run. MSI PT880 motherboard P4 3ghz 2 GB RAM GeForce 6200 128 AGP Creative Audigy2 ZS Seagate 160GB 7200 ATA HD Toshiba CD/DVD-RW network card Floppy Generic keyboard Very basic MS intelliwheel mouse (it's very small & fits my hand) Some cheap, heavy, 17" tube monitor that I still really like 3-piece speakers, nothing special One of those things that lets you share monitor w/multiple PC's Some big blue and black CoolerMaster case

Never heard of it until this thread. It looks pretty but pictures are all the same these days. I'll wait for reviews.

Is there something wrong with the link given? If I can get past the waiting line I'll probably check this out soon. Sounds like most of you think it's worth trying...Maybe it'll re-invigorate my interest in the RTS field.