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Tale
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Sometimes I miss this game. Living at the Blueleaf Temple. Joining guilds to kill the leaders' Jedi. Sending my pet droid onto rooftops to kill AFK Jedi. Waiting in the nearest cloner for that Jedi to rez, so I can kill him again. Going to a hidden Jedi town to kill a Jedi, killing a Jedi, then realizing it was the wrong Jedi.
Good times.
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I enjoyed Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
The thing about Catcher in the Rye is that there's a giant government conspiracy behind it. troof
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OH GOD, NO! This must be a bad dream. Somebody wake me up!
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Yeah I went on the site, and there are some random planets that are in it, like Rori and Lok, which arent that well known that could have been replaced by something like Coruscant.
Coruscant is way too metropolitan for the design of SWG. The game can't even do Corellia decently. 3 or 4 cities and then empty space (then the player made cities). Coruscant is just one giant city. It would fry their servers.
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Took a break from Suikoden V for Sam and Max Episode 1 - Culture Shock (replay) and Episode 2 - Situation: Comedy (available publicly today). Now back to our regularly scheduled program.
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I finished Outlaw Star yesterday, what are people's opinions, I'm undecided as to whether I actually enjoyed it or not.
I can't help but think of Outlaw Star just a little everytime I watch the Firefly pilot.
Girls in boxes.
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Saw Children of Men. Typical Dystopia. The world is going to ****, the people of the world are going to ****. Everyone is dying or succumbing to despair, often both. But, there's a glimmer of hope we're going to lead you to and then just drop you off at to leave the rest to your imagination.
Good movie, nontheless.
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Sent a support e-mail to get my order code from when I purchased Episode 1.
Got a reply back within 15 minutes.
Upgraded to the full season.
Played Episode 2 for a while.
Went to the movies.
Finished Episode 2.
Both the service and the main course were terrific. I give this restaurant 3 thumbs up.
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I just watched the Death Note movie. Pretty good if you're a fan. I don't like the way this Ryuk convulses when he laughs, though.
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An open exploration type Alien game would worry me. Mainly because it would imply mass infections of many worlds. We're talking doomsday scenario here, people.
Oblivion is an open exploration game and it takes place in one country (16 square miles?).
I kind of meant that in the context of the message I was responding to. Open-space/multiple-world exploration.
"Why not create a whole universe for the player to play in"
DOOMSDAY
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Thanks, I might look into that. Especially if it's dystopian.
Definitely.
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Thanks for the summary.
So, what's Ergo Proxy then?
Yeah, I could just ask the internet, but I thought might want to give your view the same time.
Ergo Proxy is a cyberpunk thriller.
The world has ended, the earth is no longer suitable for human life. Those that live there, mostly live in large sheltered domes. One such dome is Romdeau. R-il (Lil or Real depending on sub) Mayar is the grandaughter of the leader of Romdeau. She works hunting down infected autoraves (androids). Vincent is an immigrant to Romdeau. He does menial work, I don't recall what exactly. I don't want to spoil too much, but the plot follows these two characters' pursuit of the truth behind Proxies. A type of large humanoid creature (meta-human/super-human/whatever) that they are both introduced to.
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Yes, I want narrow corridors with ceiling plates that fall down with an alien peeking in through the hole too. But what stops Obsidian from making the "dungeons" in the game like that? Why not create a whole universe for the player to play in and let the main quest bits play out in the typical Alien settings. Like if you have to go to a distress beacon somewhere, you jump out of your ship (after landing on the planet of course) and have to actually find the wreckage yourself. When you've found it, you'll be able to enter and you'll be able to have your dark corridors galore as much as you want.
I just think the scope should be larger than just a building or a spaceship that the game takes place in. I want to know more about the universe, the mega corporations, the alien race themselves and the way humans of that time live. I still think it's better to aim for the stars (like in Boiling Point and Gothic 3). At least you might hit the moon.
An open exploration type Alien game would worry me. Mainly because it would imply mass infections of many worlds. We're talking doomsday scenario here, people.
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Alignment shifts are decidedly WTF. Chaotic++ for telling the guards to go to the Sunken Flagon to relax? Wha? I don't get it.
They were still on the job. You told them to abandon their duties and get drunk. You don't think that's a little chaotic?
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I would definitely not put HL2 on my FPS list. What would go in would be NOLF 1 and 2, AvP 1 and 2, and TRON 2.0.
I believe you and I may be the only ones who like Tron 2.0.
And I couldn't even play it through a second time because the level design is sometimes horrible. I got stuck running around in circles looking for the path.
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Are horses people? I submit that they are not. Can a sperm cell alone become a person with simple care and nurture? I submit that it cannot.
See here, we can't have people throwing around sperm and egg cells without thinking of the ramifications. And as we all know, those who are irresponsible with their sexual organs are also irresponsible with their taxes. And that causes the rest of us to have to pay more taxes while they are out there making babies and then killing them the day after.
Care and nurture is simple? Spoken like a true man!
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I'm still surprised I'm the only one who's apathetic to the idea of being aborted now.
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The prospect of becoming a person, under any condition whatsoever, does not change the fact that a zygote is indeed not a person.
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As for your other point, yes human beings cut down trees and kill animals for food. But we do it for our own survival as a species. We do it because it's necessary. It's not the same thing as killing a baby simply because a person doesn't want to have one.
Except we don't. Humans don't need paper to survive. I won't argue against wood for building materials, because that's just so convenient. Humans also don't need meat to survive, we can survive healthy and efficiently off fruits and vegetables.
And do another thing you posted, why is the criteria the ability to develop into a whole organism while nurtured in the womb? Why not the criteria be the ability to develop outside of the womb? At least the latter is more recognizable as an organism.
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But a piece of skin does not develop into a whole organism if nurtured in the womb.
Cloning? :-"
Actually... this.
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On one hand, a fetus lacks intelligence, a recognizable consciousness, and is utterly physically dependent upon the mother to a degree that it can't survive under any circumstance after being removed up to a certain period of development. A zygote is no more a person than a piece skin.
On the other hand, I don't know that I hold life even that sacred. It's just a good idea for social development to encourage that idea.
So, who cares, kill 'em all!
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Elfin Lied is a lot like Spawn. Dark for dark's sake, draining, but not necessarily because it's good. It's just draining. I watched it and was reminded of the basic limitations of the genre. Every anime has to be about what love is, or what it means to be human, and that means eventually you'll come up with deformed, melodramatic cudgels like Elfin Lied. Such abominations aren't unlovable, but you've got to be of a certain state of mind to really enjoy them. You've got to enjoy repetition, or at least pretend that Philip K. **** never existed.
At this point all that anime really has to give is Studio Ghibli, which might not really be considered anime, since what they put out is naturalistic, unpretentious and universally excellent (and with the exception of Grave of the Fireflies, kid stuff) and a thousand films and shows like Elfin Lied that cling to the tired husks of Akira and try to leech off of it so that they don't have to go through the trouble of actually coming up with something fresh.
But I'll still watch Bebop or Trigun every once in awhile. Lightweight as anime goes, but at least they're not so in love with themselves.
You might like Black Lagoon. I just have a hunch about it. You might have problems with the theme presented at the end of the Second Barrage.
I've heard a lot of positive about Black Lagoon aswell. Care for a summary?
The basic idea is that a small mercenary corporation (3 people small), with a torpedo boat, named Black Lagoon are hired to kidnap a Japanese businessman. When the company the businessman works for hangs him out to dry, the businessman ends up becoming the 4th member of Black Lagoon. The series is about their various jobs. There's no overarching story, but a few stories do go into multiple episodes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lagoon
* Revy provides the muscle for the Black Lagoon. She's good with guns, but not with people.
* Rock is a Japanese salaryman who joins the crew of the Black Lagoon after they kidnap him. Rock doesn't fight but is an excellent negotiator and translator.
* Dutch is the leader of the Lagoon "trading company". He captains the PT boat Black Lagoon, and coordinates his crew.
* Benny is an electronics genius. He serves as the Lagoon's technical expert.
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Elfin Lied is a lot like Spawn. Dark for dark's sake, draining, but not necessarily because it's good. It's just draining. I watched it and was reminded of the basic limitations of the genre. Every anime has to be about what love is, or what it means to be human, and that means eventually you'll come up with deformed, melodramatic cudgels like Elfin Lied. Such abominations aren't unlovable, but you've got to be of a certain state of mind to really enjoy them. You've got to enjoy repetition, or at least pretend that Philip K. **** never existed.
At this point all that anime really has to give is Studio Ghibli, which might not really be considered anime, since what they put out is naturalistic, unpretentious and universally excellent (and with the exception of Grave of the Fireflies, kid stuff) and a thousand films and shows like Elfin Lied that cling to the tired husks of Akira and try to leech off of it so that they don't have to go through the trouble of actually coming up with something fresh.
But I'll still watch Bebop or Trigun every once in awhile. Lightweight as anime goes, but at least they're not so in love with themselves.
You might like Black Lagoon. I just have a hunch about it. You might have problems with the theme presented at the end of the Second Barrage.
Movies You Have Seen Lately
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I cannot recommend The Prestige enough.
I still need to see
United 93
Thank You for Smoking
Inconvenient Truth