EnderAndrew

I say supposedly because last I heard it remains in production hell. Someone bought the rights and made a script, but that happens for tons of times. Sometimes a film really gets made, and sometimes it stays in development hell forever. Right now, such is the case with Ender's Game the movie. Right now Warner Brothers owns the right. Wolfgang Petersen is attached to direct, possibly as his next picture The Poseiden Adventure. Ender's Game is listed as a 2006 film last time I checked. Card wrote a script, but it was tossed aside by the studio who didn't want a novelist to write a script. The X-2 screenwriters wrote a script, and now the Troy screenwriter has been hired to rewrite it once again. Last I heard Gilliam wanted to make Good Omens in 2002. He wrote a script and was slated to direct. Them Gilliam sat on his hands for a while and then made the Brother's Grimm instead. Maybe he'll make Good Omens now.

Dubya did win the popular vote the second time around, and the first election I believe was the closest in history. I think he is far from perfect, but I voted for him. I hated Clinton, Gore and Kerry. I have liberal ideals, but I'm looking for a Democrat with a sense of ethics, and they seem few and far between. I don't think upholding basic rights and caring for the population on the whole means you have to be amoral. Conservatives usually have higher ethical standards, but they are too quick to remove the rights of others to protect themselves. Either way, George Washington was not the First President of the United States. He was the first President under our current Constitution. John Hanson was the First President of the United States. Technically Vietnam was not a war, and at the same time neither victory nor defeat seem appropriate for what happened there. And perhaps the US didn't completely lose the war of 1812, but I feel Canada clearly won. They defended their territory, killed more than they suffered casualties, they morally defeated the US by burning down the White House, and they established a brisk economy in the process. The United States could be seen as aggressors who retreated in the conflict, and I personally see it as a war we lost. Either way, I commend Volourn for bringing up a good point. There are many detractors of the United States today, but most bring up flaws of the nation while both ignoring our strengths and the flaws of other nations. We are far from perfect, but still I am proud to be an American. http://www.marshallhall.org/hanson.html

Lance is a stud. There is no taking away from that. The dude came off his death bed to win one of the most grueling physical contests in the world six times over again. However, most cyclists compete year round, and aren't in peak shape for the Tour. Lance doesn't compete in hardly any other events and trains only for the Tour. While his victories have been impressive, from a pure domination standpoint no athlete that I know of dominates any professional competition more than Kobayushi. I watch way too much ESPN. Sure there is domination at the college or high school level, where I saw Fall City Sacred Heart's High School go undefeated for something like 11 years in high school football. They never lost a single game. North Carolina's women's soccer won something like 14 straight national championships. But in professional sports, Kobayushi has not only won 6 straight, but most years he more than doubles the ammount of the person comming in sixth place. Lance Armstrong never won the Tour de France in half the time of the person finishing second. Kobayushi dominates his sport in a way no other professional athete does.

Kevin Smith is a horrid visual director, but I think he has a knack for getting good performances, editting his films well for timing, etc. He is a far better writer than he is a director.

I expand too much, but I think I've had corruption issues next to my palace as well.

Maybe I have so much corruption because of running with Republic or Democracy.

Christian Bale just said he hopes they don't add Robin, as it would make it campy. Nolan said Robin is an infant when Batman first starts out, and Nolan would be gone from the franchise before Robin was added.

Either way, I think fixed classes are overall bad. They may be good for brand-new roleplayers who don't know how to work in a group dynamic. But I think a good ST/GM/DM can find ways within story for each character to be useful, and for the characters to work together. Rule mechanics shouldn't hold you back on the assumption that you're poor roleplayers. I believe class based, level based, and hit point based games to be inferior to more open-ended systems. We're talking about making a unique character and role-playing them. Being forced into a mold seems to contradict that.

I think the Culture victory represents that. If a society takes care of the basic needs of survival, they move onto establishing culture.

When I heard there were temples and that there were multiple Sith Lords in KOTOR:2, I suspected the end game would be on Yavin IV with Exar Kun.

I could do so much with TK. I'd fly when no one is looking, and I'd read minds. I don't think I could honestly live with myself however if I used Affect Mind, or really abused the powers. I'm such a boy scout.

Is Obi-Wan going to pat him down if lava is burning his flesh off? I doubt Obi-Wan would accomplish much other than burning himself. And perhaps deep down he knew that Anakin had to die, but he couldn't bear to kill him directly. But he could turn away and let Anakin die. If you ask George Lucas, Anakin actually died there. That's why Sebastian Shaw/Old Anakin's Force Ghost was removed from Return of the Jedi, and Hayden/Anakin's was put in. It supposedly reflects when Anakin died and joined the Force truly. Vader was a loose shell, and Obi-Wan wasn't lying when he said Vader killed Anakin.

That's where Exar Kun made his last stand, and killed countless Jedi before dying himself there. And if the EU is to be trusted, he became a Force Ghost there.

In it's basic precepts science is merely observing within the scientific method and making hypothesis based on observations. One could argue that psychology is a science, but the observations are often subjective rather than objective and quantifiable.

I completely agree. I think D20 was a good move towards some semblance of simplifying rules and creating some balance. However, I've never been a big fan of fixed class/level based systems. The classes are never really balanced against each other, and I hate arbitrary leveling up. I also hate games where experience seems to be generated solely by placing your character's life in jeapordy. It's not possible to learn via roleplay or problem solving. But if someone shoots at you, then you become better at everything you do. I also hate how something can improve that you never used or worked on. And don't get me started on hit points. I much prefer systems like the World of Darkness, Legend of the Five Rings, D6, or even GURPS.

The Massassi temples on Yavin IV are very important in the KOTOR era however.

As I avoid war, I usually go to Republic, and then eventually Democracy. Civ 3 also seems to have TONS more corruption. You can have two of your best military units in a city, a police station, etc. and you'll still have plenty of corruption. Why is that? And I usually rushed for the Great Library, but I find it rarely gives anything to me. With the Pyramids, I grow much faster than other civilizations in the early game and establish tons of towns with big populations. That allows me plenty of science points to out research everyone on a huge level for the whole game. There is rarely a technology that 3 Civs have that I don't.

I tried Starfleet Academy on an emulator with no manual and I couldn't figure it out, so I deleted the rom.

It should be noted that I didn't get to go to Yavin IV in KOTOR:1, because I had the game on XBox and don't pay for Live.

I think I saw the episode of 30 days this week, maybe 3 nights ago? It may reran immediately after, and they may be airing it again this week.

Thanks.

What did you guys think of the Wonders being weakened in Civ 3? I think it was somewhat necessary.

Against human opponents I don't think I'd fare as well with my minute military for such a large portion of the game.

I still have an unopened box of 100 floppies in my office. I doubt I'll ever open it.