Darth Drabek

Sonic the Hedgehog 1 and 2. Ocarina of Time had some great music, as well. Oh yeah, and Street Fighter 2!

Warren Zevon - Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner Time, time, time For another peaceful war Time stands still for Roland 'Til he evens up the score

If you're going with 10 Strength, you might not want to go with critical strike. To avoid being stunned, the target has to roll a fortitude save of your level plus your strength modifer, which is going to be pretty low. There are many ways to nullify the defense penalty in this game though, if you're set on using critical strike. Dueling, certain lightsaber styles and (if your PC is male) battle precognition will bump your defense up. Plus if you focus on DEX, you're going to have such a high defense you won't notice the -5. I personally feel the best combo is a keen saber + crit pumping crystal, master power attack, master speed and master dueling. But I really love that critical strike animation. It is so "swashbuckler." :D

Wow.... Well, the guy is on-key. And the dialogue samples did make me laugh. Still, this sort of thing should not be encouraged.

Joe Strummer's last album "Streetcore." I like it a lot. It's a little raw, because it wasn't finished when he died. It also has one song I absolutely cannot stand on it, but overall it's really good.

The First.... the character relationships were more than two or three conversation trees long, the locations seemed more epic and hey, it set the bar. Gameplay, inventory and graphics were all tweaked for K2, but they were totally new for K1. Both stories were great; K1's was more satisfying to me, though. If the cut content and dialogue from Malachor V was in the final cut of the game then I might have a different opinion, that's how close it is. Plus, it was the first game that inspired me to join a message board.

Exile on Main Street :cool: Admiral Onasi's Lonely Hearts Cantina Band Straight Outta Coruscant Atton-in Sane Tatooine... Everybody Knows This is Nowhere Bastila's Wild Years Back in the H.O.T.H. (system) :D The True Sith: It takes a Republic of Millions to Hold Us Back The Rise and Fall of Jolee Bindo and the Spiders from Kashyyk Atton's Tale: Rum, Sodomy and Pazaak "

There goes that bloodthirsty liberal media again. Do you think reporters enjoy dealing with death? Are they sadistic people who feed on human suffering? How do you speak with a family that has lost a loved one? What do you say? When people get killed, people want to know why it happened. There's never a good reason, and it's a damn hard thing to do, but the journalist has to at least try to find out why. It's his/her duty to the public. Now I know you're advocating for both sides of the news from the front and not simply propaganda about how things are going swimmingly over there. You know that as distasteful as it may seem, it's a responsibility to cover the "bad news." If the amount of stories appears unbalanced, it might be because the American people care more about their own people being kidnapped by insurgents or attacked by suicide bombers than the advances toward democracy and a better way of life for the Iraqis.

We could have demolished Afghanistan and kept the goodwill of our allies, because it was the correct enemy to be fighting. A justified war, a war of vengeance. I'm not going to debate that Saddam is a bad person, because he is. He's not a nice guy. But dreaming up ties to Al-Quaida to drum up popular support for an invasion of Iraq to further your own motives is not a nice thing either. Admittedly, lying to your constituents is better than killing them, but it's still not an admirable character trait. The Clinton thing... well, extramarital affairs aren't admirable either. The press covered that whole circus extensively as well, and the people complaining said that it was not a public matter - presidents from Thomas Jefferson to JFK all had affairs and it didn't affect their ability to govern. Clinton never painted himself as President by Divine Right, either. I guess the moral issues voters hadn't come out of the woodwork yet. Watergate, on the other hand, was definitely a public matter because Nixon, as President, set up surveillance equipment to spy on the Democratic National Convention. This is HUGE, but not many people realize it is a fact. Not only are our manufacturing jobs leaving for China and Mexico, but by refusing to allow their currency to float, the Chinese continue to allow U.S. companies to build plants and pay laborers there for a lot less money than if they kept the jobs in the U.S. Plus, what if China decides they are going to annex Taiwan? If I remember correctly, the U.S. has some sort of agreement to protect Taiwan's independence. How do you go to war with the country that is propping up your enormous debt? But I've said enough about my war strategeries.

Well, since I haven't made a politics-related post yet, here goes.... I find it disgusting that my nation has squandered the goodwill of our longtime allies and many other countries after 9-11 by alienating everyone with our arrogance. Seriously, it's like a little kid pouting when he doesn't get what he wants. "Mr. Annan, If I'm not all-time QB, I'm taking my ball and going home." As a citizen, I do not appreciate being misled by my elected officals. As a journalist, I resent the fact that any media outlet trying to shed light on the deceptions, hedges and strategic omissions is derided as just another member of the liberal media. You know, at the time of Watergate, the New York intellectuals turned neo-cons were writing about how horrible it was that the press had gained the power to discredit a president of the United States who had the popular support of the people. They thought that the executive branch should be up on a mountain, unsurmountable and unassailable. This is how you get Frist's filibuster fracas: an attempt to allow the the tyranny of a small majority over a large minority - a power play. I'm sorry, but I believe in checks and balances in government, and if the press is ballsy enough to call "BullXXXX" when it's wading hip-deep in the stuff, I CANNOT fathom how that is a bad thing. As for the news... do you want propaganda or do you want a semblance of truth? NPR is good. So is the Washington Post. But if you really want to be objective you have to read both sides. Read William Safire AND Nick Kristof. Read George Will AND Leonard Pitts. Stay away from Ann Coulter and Phyllis Schafly, because they are idiots. Don't waste your time with the people yelling across a table from each other on TV, unless you want to find out exactly where each party stands on an issue. Moving on... I'm not going to look up the number of accomplished generals who have resigned because of Donald Rumsfeld's shoddy direction of this war. I don't remember the numbers, but the gist is this: these policians can start a war, but they sure don't know how to run one. Von Schlieffen knew that a two-front war is a war you're going to lose. When the U.S. army was running down Bin Laden in Afghanistan, did it make sense to pack it up for a new war and let the newly trained Iraqi army finish our job for us? My good friend flew to Afghanistan two weeks ago, so I think that answer is clear. It's like a little kid again, getting more toys out before putting the other ones away. Now we've got a larger army than Von Moltke did when he botched Von Schlieffen's plan, but as Hooah said - we're stretched thin. Real thin. And there ain't gonna be a draft this time, no sir. Even if North Korea keeps kicking our chair, there's nothing we can do right now. We've got more than we can handle already.

Good tunes to "get into" Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Red Right Hand As I Sat Sadly By Her Side 15 Feet of Pure White Snow I Let Love In The Ship Song Cannibal's Hymn There She Goes, My Beautiful World If you listen to any of those and like them, get Let Love In or his best of CD. Some of his earlier stuff isn't so, well, accessible. Right now, I'm listening to Cracker - Big Dipper

Oh man, that song is sooooo good. The outro.... "is there a place? there is a place." That was actually the first Frank Black/Pixies song I ever heard! It gave me chills first time I heard it, which was late night in headphones on a CD of tunes from (and inspired by) the X-files compilation. I got that album for the Nick Cave song "Red Right Hand," when I was probably about a sophomore in high school. Speaking of Nick Cave, his latest album is absolutely fantastic. It's that famous voice doing raw rock and roll with a full gospel choir backing him up. The song "There She Goes, My Beautiful World" will blow your mind. Get it now if you have any interest at all in real rock and roll with brimstone poetry courtesy of my favorite Aussie.

Yeah, the Nihilus part wouldn't be much bigger than Bandon's. He would have to actually be serious for it though... and not be Encino Man.

I never thought I'd see anyone (attempt to) defend Brendan Fraser's acting ability. For God's sake, he was George of the Jungle!!! Plus, he's been in at least one movie with Pauly Shore. That should disqualify him from working in Hollywood ever again.

He would be great, but I don't think Vin Diesel would go for such a bit part. Bandon wasn't exactly a huge presence in KOTOR, which is my only beef story-wise with that masterpiece.

Thank you sir. I love making mix CDs - that was one I burned the other day.

It's mixtape time! Afghan Whigs - Going to Town Pixies - Head On Boys in the Band by those drugged-out losers, The Libertines Transplants - Diamonds and Guns Morrissey - Suedehead Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Tell Balgeury, Balgury is Dead New Pornographers - Mass Romantic Jets to Brazil - Conrad Joe Strummer and the Mescalaros - Get Down Moses Spoon - Everything Hits at Once Franz Ferdinand - Auf Achse Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak Stereophonics - T-Shirt Sun Tan Social Distortion - Don't Drag Me Down Rocket From the Crypt - Born in '69 Toadies - Away Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes The Arcade Fire (although I think they are pretentious pansies I'm a sucker for big choruses and key changes) - Rebellion (Lies) Rage Against the Machine - The Ghost of Tom Joad 19 tracks, 78:11

Rudy.

Elvis Costello - The Beat, off my favorite album of his, "This Year's Girl"

It's me! Except my hair is darker, my hawaiian shirt isn't blue, I play a black Gibson SG not a gold Les Paul, and I really don't look that much like a fratbag. Eh, but it was fun to make, so oh well. The beautiful green bottle would be Moosehead, Canada's greatest export.

For what it's worth, Penny Arcade weighed in on the announcement/interview: LINKITY-LINK. Tycho's comments in the post run counter to the sentiment of the strip. ANNNND, there are bonus Star Wars references thrown in for free!

Nice one! How about KOTOR 3: Crouching Wookiee, Hidden Gizka

I've been listening to the album As the Eternal Cowboy by a cool band called Against Me! (exclamation point is theirs) It's rousing punk rock with a political bent. So if you're into that stuff, check it out.

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