LadyCrimson

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.

I'm not into this stuff but I Googled around, and Hade's is right...a lot of the coolest/best looking costumes costs way more than $100. The closest I found on the web that had mix/match shirts/vests/bottoms that I thought looked simple/ok for the price was stuff like this one: http://www.threadsoftime.com/ Probably not much help...good luck.

A lot of older celtic type music (not reels) is what I would call 'hauntingly sad' - not sobbing/tears kind of sad...just melancholy. ...spelling mistooks...can we have that 1 minute 'edited by' delay back? huh?

I love Fraps for movies...but I haven't liked it for screenshots. I like Hypersnap much better. Just personal preference. Edit city tonight - they're both safe, as long as you get them from their official sites.

There wasn't anything about what prison. I was just stating a personal opinion on what might change my view of what's excessive or non-excessive in such a criminal case. As some regular's might have noticed, I sometimes stray into the realm of generalistic concept in my mumblings rather than strict topic-fact following... :D

You might have one of those versions where you may have to enable screenshots (set it to '1') in the swkotor2.ini file, located in the default game install directory. P.S. The problem w/stuff like Fraps too is that I think you get their logo on every image if you don't want to pay for it...or amybe that's just on Hypersnap...I get them mixed up.

If they're dark just use a graphic editor to lighten them up a bit. Also, hitting print screen (us pc version anyway) the game will save them to the program files/lucasarts/swkotor2 folder as a sequentially numbered .tga file. Thus you can wait until after you're done playing to view/edit them all.

America definitely needs to put some lockdowns on the whole lawsuit thing.

Uh...I think you misunderstood the thrust of my comment. I was saying that because they hadn't done what I consider to be an excessively 'hienous' crime such as murder etc. that I would consider them having to do their time in a hardcore prison excessive - not the amount of time of the sentence itself.

The suspense is making me antsy. Oh, and the article up there says the finger belonged to a co-worker, tho it doesn't name names.

That would fall under 'excessive'....