Walsingham

Obviously you suffered a zombie related incident as a child and have since repressed the memory. I was attacked by a wild dog... I still have the scars on my forehead. "Braainssss!..." Isn't there a professional term for the event, where your mind swaps part of your memory with something that it feels more comfortable with? Like Zombie -> Dog I think the term is transference. Ingenious, really, if you think about it.

I think the fact that I gave that german scientist my foot YEARS ago should be taken into consideration.

I was wondering when we would get to that. I believe it would depend on the circumstances of the conscription. I suppose that, legally speaking, if an act of the people's legislature were to bind by law certain individuals to adhere to military discipline that would be as binding as a personal subscription. However, some sort of Plymouth knock on the head and waking up at sea would not. In the non-legal sense I would suggest that a conscript is far less bound to adhere to mliitary discipline. Which is exactly what we find. In either case, committing war crimes is against international law. However, as we perhaps need to reiterate, an act of war, duly constituted by the elected head of state is NOT ILLEGAL in any domestic sense. Thus noone in military service can object.

Really?!

Obviously you suffered a zombie related incident as a child and have since repressed the memory. I was attacked by a wild dog... I still have the scars on my forehead.

I'm just sitting here in rapt admiration for the intellectual calibre of the forum.

Judging by that sound effect of crickets chirruping I'd say it wasn't very popular.

Well, naturally. These are foreigners, and they don't feel pain and suffering do they? <_<

At the time having someone so refreshingly vicious was a novelty. Plus he was so very useful in his role as thief fighter. I was immensely looking forward tro putting him back in the team with Xzar.

My own view was that I was just choosing six characters for myself. That's just bananas. Maybe I should play it again.

"...Anything can happen, anything is possible. Time and space do not exist..." That really does sound terrifying.

I was just re-watching Dawn of teh Dead (the recent version) and have decided it is my scariest movie ever. I've had bad dreams about it since watching it for the first time a few weeks ago, and generally get very disturbed every viewing. It occurred to me that when something scares us a great deal it says something about who we are. I ws wondering what Dawn of the Dead says about me, and what your scariest movie is.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6368505.stm The report indicates that an anti-polio campaigner was killed deliberately in a bomb blast by people who believe teh anti-polio jabs he was giving out were a US drive to produce infertility. It occurs to me that while I care a great deal about the region we are on a steep slope. How can we hope to communicate and work hearts and minds with people this vulnerable to what are tantamount to claims that the US are witches? It's like something from the 1600s. I suppose my question is, how soon can we expect change?

I thought that was the whole 'underground lizards' thing.

I have no intention of starting a huge discussion about the issue, so let me just remark that personally I prefer the IWD series to the BG series. I greatly prefer the overall feel/atmosphere and the graphical style in IWD and actually think that IWD1 has the better story compared to BG1, but, like I said, that's just my personal preference. How very civilised of you, sir!

Dynaheir was great. I wish she had a place in BG2. Hey, I liked Montaron.

Leadership is about precisely the process of getting the apathetic majority to do make sacrifices for a goal they don't yet understand or care about. Your question revolves solely around the issue of whether the objective is worthwhile. However, I seem to recall this being about a man who volunteered to be a soldier then defied the very processes of discipline he must have known were there.

Speaking for myself I draw the line at IWD. Without teh storyline, and character interactions it's just a perfectly inferior version of a modern RPG.

I liked the BG approach. Some NPCs come with baggage, e.g. Minsc (superb) and Dynanheir (awful). However, it wasn't wrong before I realised I could hand Dynaheir a bottle of mysterious potion and in a friendly fashion command her to drink it. The rather predictable death was met with cries of "Good heaven's how dreadful!" Then cheerful whistling.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/friday/ The play in question is the "Sword of Honour" by Evelyn Waugh. It's an excellent and digestible insight into how Britain approached the war. It's also quite funny. I menttion it because we're more or less inundated with TV and computer games about the late war from the Ameerican perspective. Britain's experience is well worth it.

The problem with tackloing overpopulation is that YOUR overpopulation is MY strength. Particularly where democracy is concerned.

I think manadatory alcohol consumption is a terrible idea. Given the power of big business in the States you'd all be forced to drink budweiser *euch*

I didn't know it was Lord Acton, and I agree with Blank. Apart from anything else I have against aphorisms, I disagree with ethe statement. Power attracts the corrupt. Duh! I don't recall getting mhy first penknife, with the widget for horses hooves, and thinking suddenly "I am going to do maladaptive things to horses".

What was the question, again?

Launch them from mine!