EnderAndrew

I have never played Loderunner. I will now proceed to sob in a corner.

But it wouldn't simply be a means of producing urine. You'll be able to test how alchohol, caffeine, or energy drinks affect urine, as well as asparagus. You'll also be able to fight off urinary tract infections, work on expanding bladder potential, and even have mini-games of aiming urine streams in a variety of different environments the community can develop!

I do believe that ADA's are still referred to as DA's in the manner that Deputy Sheriffs are referred to as Sheriffs, even though they are not THE Sheriff.

I shouldn't have been so vocal about the Beauregarde gambit. If I were more subtle, then Jaguar may not have so brilliantly called upon moving to Bank. That's exactly why it is a gambit as opposed to a flawless manuever. I have little option left but to head for Wembley Central, but still I like my chances.

Some believe the original Cleric caste became the Knights Templar or Jannisaries, which may or may not have become the leaders of the Free Masons.

I own the old d6 books and they are even more limited than the d20. The game has a fanbase, but so does SW d20. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I've played D6 Star Wars more than any other system. It's all my players clamor for most of the time. I had a 7 year campaign going for a reason. I think the Jedi aren't balanced against non-Jedi, but I make up for it with story. I put alot more pressure on Jedi characters. I think the rules system however is perhaps the most open-ended, flexible system I've seen outside of Toon or GURPS. Toon is a silly game made just for cartoons and GURPS is cumbersome. D6 is made to be quick, fluid and cinematic. I can teach a player the rules in a matter of 5 minutes. I've never seen anything that would suggest the D6 rules would hold any player back with any concept, and players have come to me with about every concept I can imagine in the Star Wars universe. I had a player play a sentient plant named "Ganjan", and a player who played a gelantinus mass. I've had Ewok shamans, galactic clerks inspired by Clerks, you name it. My favorite character was a holo-novel author who became the center-piece to a really neat plotline. Warlord Zsinj was using his books for strategies in his attacks, and tried to kidnap the author so that no one would know what he was doing, and so the Warlord could use him as his tactician. The players had to get to the author first if they were going to stop the Warlord's fleet.

It seems like quite a few people are just now coming back, like Lancer.

She didn't bother me, but I imagine a better actress could have been a boon to the role, or a sexier one could have been a bigger draw. Katie Holmes does have two really important scenes in the film that require acting talent she didn't have. The first would be the scene in the car where she lectures Bruce. Tonally, it just didn't play right. The second scene is in the end when she explains why she is not hooking up with him. Lastly, I find it hard to accept a girl who looks 16 is a DA.

I bet you can in Spore.

Final Fantasy XII seems to be rehashing the plotline of the earlier Final Fantasy games. The story and characters seem far too cliche for me. What I really loved about Final Fantasy X was how original it was. Kingdom Hearts II is the Squaresoft game I'm really looking forward to.

Eventually Gradius unseated Galaga for me, but I still like to go back and play Galaga from time to time.

We've been over this before. I eventually massively cheated in BG1 because I was bored. I explored every map to the fullest and completed every quest, and beat the game in 25 hours. Mind you I walked through combat. With combat not being a factor, BG still has a much smaller world to explore than many other RPGs, yet BG is heraled as the standard of an epic-world to explore. I think that's bunk. Even if I had not cheated on my attributes, I quickly found an exploit that made combat a breeze. In the first inn you come across, you go upstairs and there is a gentleman staying in the inn. Pickpocket him, and if you get lucky he has a cloak that gives you +2 to charisma, and unlimited uses of charm. You can use it on persons and monsters. With the expansion you also find another cloak with the same effect near the end of the game, but that one is called Baldur's Cloak.

Damn. Now I have a real incentive to get a DS.

I'm looking forward to how religion plays into Civ4. And thanks for the tip on Optimal cities per map.

I got a free DS, a free PSP and a free IPod!

The sad thing is if you saw how many forums I have 5,000 posts on.

Well, they didn't hook up. It still leaves the option of her coming back in the third film if they feel Katie Holmes isn't a negative draw for the picture. I don't care about her and Tom Cruise. I just don't think she is a horribly good actress, nor much of a sex symbol. Her draw as the female lead in a superhero film is negligible.

Omaha is right on the border with Iowa/Nebraska. The casinos are on the riverfront bordering Nebraska. I have a 10 minute drive from my house in downtown Omaha to the casinos. Really the casinos cater to the Omaha crowd, but gambling is not legal in Nebraska.

The Magento and Wolverine spin-offs have been confirmed, and there are rumors of a third-spinoff in the works for all the minor character mutants from the first 3 X-Men movies.

I want to see Katie Holmes killed off in a fashion in the second film which leaves part of the responsibility in Batman's hands. Perhaps he could have saved her at the cost of something or someone else. It will make him reevaluate the whole vengeance angle again.

The discovery of Godzilla is a clear scientific breakthrough.

Probably because Intel keeps AMD out of the marketplace. Most people aren't even presented with the option of buying an AMD computer. Go to a Best Buy and see if you can find an AMD computer on display.

I'm not rich. I am horribly underpaid for my profession, but I live in a cheap portion of the country. I work in IT, where I am given T3 internet access and I handle IT operations for two casinos in Iowa. I am ultimately responsible for keeping anything and everything IT-oriented in said casinos running. At the same time, if things are running, I have little-to-no work to do. Thusly I get paid $30,000 a year to sit on my ass and post on this forum right now.

Not true. Sadly we have proven that people are willing to support corporations they don't like, and gladly buy inferior products if they are more conveinently available or they are marketed well. Futhermore, people are also willing to work for an employer they know will treat them poorly, further allowing said employer to treat their employees poorly. Consumers are better informed with the internet, but the average consumer still values conveinence and familiarity over most other things.

Tokein almost single-handedly recreated high fantasy. And high fantasy is much like spaghetti westerns in how black and white characters are. They are meant to be one-dimensional to allow the reader/viewer to easily slip into supporting one side or the other. I prefer flawed characters with depth personally, but one sided characters often have better mass appeal. Look at how many people love Superman.