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Inside a larger crate, definitely. It's got the whole mystery and intrigue thing going on. If it's just on top of another crate it screens "help me I am a damsel crate in distress", and that's so 1400's. It's like Schroedinger's cat - you don't know whether the hostage crate is smashed or not until you open the crate containing it.

I wanted to start a separate thread on this from the Ratings thread. Basically, one of the reasons I put off buying Vampire: Bloodlines for so many years was the perception that it would be an immoral game with no options for the chance of moral behaviour. In this regard, where does AP stand? Is it morally ambiguous, but offers moral stances and choices to those who actively seek them out? Is it morally ambiguous, offering evil and lesser evil? Is it good vs evil? Is it good vs evil but you get to choose which side? EDIT: Oops, just realised SteveThaiBin already made a thread about moral choices. Still, the material seems independent enough to stand as a separate thread.

Personally I am in favour of home-schooling but only really in the following two cases: 1) Child is just too far ahead academically, but pushing them up a few grades is inappropriate (Giftedness) 2) A desire to push the child academically (it's certainly a myth that schools go at the exact pace a child learns at - most children learn much faster) I think home-schooling for religious purposes is immoral.

Yep, saw Ark of Truth. Loved it. All in all typical Stargate style, with lots of fun cameos.

This game makes me excited in my pants.

So will you guys be drawing any inspiration from Get Smart? I shore hope so! If it's good enough for the CIA, it's good enough for you.

I think there should be a secret level called the crate warehouse. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to rescue... something. Anyway, that's not important. It should involve a shoot out and you should be able to duck behind, jump over, and break through the crates around you. There should be equal distribution of narrow winding corridors and open rooms chock full of crates stacked to varying heights and in varying sizes. And if you fall on a crate from a certain height, depending on its size, IT SHATTERS. And sometimes when you walk past a crate it just SHATTERS anyway because there is actually a secret spy inside just WAITING to burst out and snap your neck. And there should be TNT crates that you can pick up and drop off buildings in Hong Kong that land on the robots below and blow up and the flying chunks of metal hit the MJ12 soldiers in the FACE.

This thread warms my heart. <3 crates

I tend to agree with you guys. I think that the test has a left-leaning bias due to the questions. They often frame the right-wing response as either illogical or heartless. I think in general I am between centre right and centre left on political issues, but the political compass test claims I am far left. The Australian political test I linked to seems far more accurate.

Is that "Hug me!" on the shirt? Haha, I love it.

This game is ace!

Before BIS made the switch to 3e they polled the general forum populous for a final confirmation. The vast majority was in support of it. Except maybe WinterWolf9090. In general, I still support the decision. It gave a fresh breath of life to the final days of the IE engine.

"Too hard to define"? But seriously, everybody feels a bias towards SOMETHING... even if it is the centre.

That's not really true. They were thought extinct for many years, but they've recently been spotted in the wild from time to time. They've been made famous by a few cases of foreign hikers in the bush being found with their skulls mauled; typical signs of a drop bear attack. Anybody with half a brain knows to be wary of them, though. Silly tourists think they're cuddly koalas.

Monty Python and Family Guy/American Dad are funny once or twice, then they get old fast. I'm a fan of Futurama, Daria, Clone High, Friends, How I Met Your Mother, and Seinfeld, though.

An accurate Australian political test. Seems pretty country-independent, though (imagine the questions are about your own country). Give it a go. It will give you a political score, but also what Australian political parties correlate with your score, giving you an idea of what Australian parties do what. None of the parties work for me according to the test (true), though the closest seems to be Greens, Democrats and One Nation. Far-left, centre-left, and far-right respectively. Hahaha. Greens 53.6% (Voted for these guys in the 2007 election as a balancing move, only because I knew they wouldn't get any real power. I agree with them on a basic level, but consider them too far left for my liking.) Australian Democrats 56.3% (You know, I actually identify with these guys. It's a shame they're failing so badly; bleeding voters to Labour and Greens) Labor Party 50.7% (Current government... we'll see how it goes. I'm about as fond of them as I am of the liberals, but at least they actually care about the environment) Family First 34.7% (A disgusting bunch of religious zealots) Liberal Party 38.9% (John Howard's party - the government in power for 10 years. Did pretty well.) National Party 37.9% (A coalition with the Liberal Party) One Nation 68.6% (Considered right-wing, but sort of politically independent... has been accused in the past of xenophobia but it is more about control of illegal immigration - nobody really votes for them) LOL. Love how it slowly decreases as we go down from left to right, until it hits One Nation and sky-rockets. It's not exactly a strong correlation to One Nation, though. Political outlook Your broad political orientation score is -1.7%, which equates to a

Haha fair enough. It was more a silly jab at you than anything meaningful. Kind of like how I tell the American exchange students that smearing Vegemite behind their ears will protect them from the drop bears. (Hint: it won't.) On topic: I support home-schooling in various situations. Most notably Gifted and Talented education. Lots of effort and care needs to be taken to ensure proper social interaction and such, though. Not sure how I'll raise my own kids, but I'd lean towards schools, as dysfunctional and inadequate as they are.

I actually cheered when I read that! The guy repairing the air conditioner got a bit of a shock, but I don't care. That's the best news I've had this week, and that's the truth. :) Damn straight, mate. I may have only been introduced to DLM this year, but I was very sad to only have 2 seasons.

Hey Steve, you heard they're making a Dead Like Me movie, then another series, right? EDIT: Would highly recommend Stargate. Watch the Stargate movie first, then try seasons 1 to 3 of SG1. If you like them, continue on. If you still want more, pick up Atlantis.

Man, you've got a real inferiority complex about being Asian.

The home-schooled kids I've met on the net are from the USA and do it because their parents want to teach from the bible. The other less common reason is for Gifted education. Funny the two reasons are polar opposites.

<3 Red Dwarf, Faulty Towers, Black Books, Absolutely Fabulous, Dad's Army, Father Ted, My Hero, Yes Minister

Ah? Not a subscriber? Bit of a Earth is 6000 years old fan?

Twin pairs in America had a genetic link for positive humour, but negative humour had to be learned. Twin pairs in the UK indicated a genetic link for both positive and negative humour, with negative humour having a 50% genetic component. Don't ask about the methodology; I haven't seen it, nor is the study public.

I think you'll find ratings indicate cliff-hangers are a very successful strategy.