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you realize Scifi has the TV series called the dresden files...
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What's so bad about the dark side anyway?
Calax replied to Deadly_Nightshade's topic in Star Wars: General Discussion
... darkside =/= Stable. Darkside=Chaos in cahoots with sadism (at least, how it's "Choices" are potrayed by the kotors and the Jedi Knight series. -
I never did like Xcom... Half Life 1 was SOOO Much better.
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Except that seen was about making Todd a badass rather than actually having the joker be the joker.
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Yup, the quote I believe was that no one stays dead in comics except Bucky and Uncle Ben, then they brought back Bucky. Didn't uncle ben come back once or twice in the ninties? More like Steve Rogers represents the ideal of America, a beacon of hope and honor. While Frank Castle represents doing whatever the hell he thinks is right, and the rules don't apply to him, which is what America is now. eh, true.
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Why would you stick to a known hyperspace route when your running around with a couple of hundred ships, one of which you KNOW would be able to hear you if somthing went wrong. Stackpole makes a point in each of his books to say that in space there is no concept of a front. Instead you find the supply depots and attack them, Dantoiine would probably be considered a Supply depot at the very least becasue of it's relative closeness to occupied systems.
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so Steve Rogers: 1940's version of what we wanted people to be, essentially a nazi paragon, with good manners and a wierd sense of honor and values (he's got a 1940's value system be he hops into bed with people at a moments notice?) Frank Castle: what people want today, blood gutz gore and more killings than a small war. Also has an odd sense of honor but his values are not exactly what the american people want (get in my way or sell drugs or work for the mob for five seconds, and I'ma gonna kill ya!)
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I think my god of war 2 finished my PS2 off... Insane load times, every so often it'll freeze and I hear the disk spinning like a 2 year old off the tilt-a-wheel, every so often the sound will cut in and out...
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I'd live... that's enough.
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You get pulled out of Hyperspace and back into normal space. If the object happends to be something like a blackhole (ultra high gravity) then you could get caught in the gravity well and be unable to escape-which is to say you are dead. Most ships in the films era and beyond seem to have a saftey system build into their hyperdrives so that ships will drop out of hyperspace before you get to deep into the gravity well. While a ship with a fast enough hyperdrive could, in theory, ignore the gravity of a planet. Attempting to fly though it would destroy the ship. (There is, presumably, a limit to how large something needs to be to effect ships in hyperspace). You also can't enter hyperspace when your inside a gravity well. This btw is the reason why the Imperial Interdictor cruisers in the EU where developed-they create an artifical gravity field which drags ships out of hyperspace and prevents them from re-entering hyperspace to escape. (One of the other tasks Interdictors performed was to drag ships into normal space for customs inspection, this in turn applies that ships travel along well known flight paths-Hyperspace routes). Depends... In ye olde days a place like dantooine would be a waystation because it's a gateway planet, you could easily have found a hyperspace route to several other systems, AND dantooines Economy is based upon trade, making it fairly well known but not a planet of military significance. But Malak would know the planet had significance because he and Revan had found the star map there. Interdicters are an entirly different matter, They are designed to drag somthing from hyperspace by increasing it's own mass or the mass of somthing else to the point where it's gravitational pull is equivalent to that of a small planet. Now in the "skywalker years" the problem is that hyperspace routs are calculated by a computer taking all known information about the route between your target coords and your current coords and finding a path, rather than the simple use what's there. The customs for interdictors thing works because they simply pick two high trade planets, put themselves in the center of the shortest route between the two points and wait, because a nav computer would calculate the fastest possible route. Now pirates and smugglers have an easy way to get around this in that they simply tell the nav comp to make a course that would make a two part journey (the Waypoint being a spot of dead space) and thus they would get around the interdictor. I suppose the problem we've both been having is we're applying Pre nav comp and OT concepts to eachother. Your saying that the only way is to use well documented hyperspace routes to travel between two points because these are the only ways that are safe and you won't die. I'm stating that this is a fallicy because in the OT years nav comps could presumably plot you a course that could take you in a spiral around the galaxy and never hit a point where you get yanked out of Hyperspace due to a large amount of mass. Both points are valid but only at certain times, Yours only really works before advaced computers were able to plot out the area and figure out ways around the mass rather than "go in that direction and wait until you hit a mass shadow" Mine works later because you simply plot a course around any possible mass shadows.
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My Sig Line two should help you out there kafty.
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that's just because your an rpg nut in a market dominated by FPS games and games with "stats" that try to make themselves RPGs.
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note the two giant PC letters? I'm guessing one of the major factors of what went into this is their sales. Another would be the review scores, and the final would be impact on pop culture. Dues probably rated lower because it's impact on pop culture was low and it was more of a closet game than a smash. Call of duty was a good seller and had a better feel to it than say, medal of honor. My guess is Half Life will top that list.
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I love the Black Company books! Croakers perspective especially - he's got a lot of great quotes. Haven't finished the series yet, good to know that it pickes back up. Murgen's books are confusing, Sleepy and Lady don't have nearly the grumbling about the life Croaker has because they lead rather than start out following. Of course, by the fourth and fifth books Croaker gets a little bit out of his character. Fortunatly Soldiers Live is right back in his element.
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and what happens if instead of stopping you just keep going right on through the place? Also as others have pointed out Vodo Sisko Baas trained three of the leaders of the Jedi and Sith during the sith war ON dantoinne. The planet was also inhabated so it had known. Unless it decided to pull a Naboo and utterly disappear after a certain point
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I quote ANH here: "Dantoinne, they're on dantoinne" Given that TARKIN recognizes it instantly i'd guess it was pretty well known. It's an agro planet but that doesn't mean that it has no consequence. Also one thing people need to learn about fights in space is that there is no such thing as a front. Heck you could hit and take every agrocultural world in the galaxy without touching the other guys main defensive stations. The only reason certain areas are extremly well defended is because either they are a trade hub, or they have a shipyard or other sensative military installation.
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Whos YOUR favorite baddie in SW?
Calax replied to ThEvIlLiAgEiDiOt's topic in Star Wars: General Discussion
Ah, thanks for the correction. Though, I thought I did hear somewhere that the person, the body that was walking was an old woman. The man is listed as the voice of the Emperor, not the actual person. So, maybe I'm right. Or I'm just fascinated with old people. Who knows. we don't actually see the emperor except in a holo in ESB. I vote for vader btw due to the origional trilogy. (on a side note, it took forever for me to find when I was little, six months of searching rental places.) -
friggin cyclops' got a power boost. Although the pegasus fights are cool as hell.
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I know... none of the others catch my interest that much.
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boy... this game is certainly a doozie in terms of difficulty again... This will be intersting. (had it for two hours and counting.)
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with visas on onderon, right before you get in a fight.
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"huge golden statue"? It's the friggin Colossus of Rhodes!
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Whos YOUR favorite baddie in SW?
Calax replied to ThEvIlLiAgEiDiOt's topic in Star Wars: General Discussion
http://imdb.com/title/tt0080684/ Clive Revill... the guy did Dr. Doom in ultimate alliance.