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That is something I hear rather often. While information is indeed power, it is not power in or by itself. Ultimately, it is economic strength that dictates the rise and fall of powers, as it has been through History. I don't see that changing with the advent of the era of the information the same way it didn't change when we discovered how to split the atom. After all, it wasn't a nuclear war that ended the USSR. It was clever economics.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.

The existence of this thread is tangible proof that OE needs to release a new game NOW.

I agree. However, it's debatable whether downloading stuff is stealing.

Get real.

I wouldn't know. Neither would you, for that matter. Fortunately for mankind, Lucius hasn't written any books that we know of. However, his two first posts in this thread were rather aggressive, in a physical sense. Oh, of course. When someone complains about it, "it was just a figure of speech" or "I was just kidding". I'm not buying it. Much less coming from this dumb f u c k and his attitude towards anything that isn't in communion with his opinions. What? If "growing out of my trollish behavior" means sticking my head deep in my ass as you do right before posting, then no. I definitely haven't. "sillynumbernameman" ROFL. And here I thought you had already finished your kindergarten graduate...

Hey, what can I say. I get my kicks out of drawing hypocrites into the open.

And I guess you aren't an extremist for saying you'd like to punch her just because she posted some nonsense on the internet? Hilarious.

That is relevant to the topic how?

Read the other 30 pages and prove that those "studies" aren't agenda-driven as it's been argued. If you spent less time trolling and more time thinking you would have realized that faith isn't the opposite of science or facts. It's amusing to see atheists trying to dumb the issue down to that. That's pretty funny. For starters, you are mistaking science and philosophy. Science is not about the search of truth, but about the search of the mechanisms upon which the physical world works. It's not about the "what?" but about the "how?". If you have one object and join another of the same object, you don't have two objects. You have one object and another object. You say you have two because that's how we have established numeric algebra. Ultimately mathematics is just a formal, abstract construct whose relation with the physical world is not self-evident.

Adulthood is terribly overrated.

Well, I just hope you avoid leverfest puzzles ala HotU. Boy, did those suck. I'd much rather have a conversation-driven problem to solve (remember the murder case in K1?) than go around the map pulling levers until I hear "click" in the other side of the level. Boring.

I really don't see what the fuss is all about. SW will never have homosexuality in it, because that's the way its creator wants it. It's a fictional universe with green dwarf grammar bitches and the Force, but no homos. And I'd rather it'd stay that way. Not because I don't like homosexuals, but because I don't share the idea that it must have them for the sake of "realism" or "equality". Sorry, it's GL's universe. If you don't like it, too bad for you. He's not going to change it just because you'd like to see some action between Obi and Ani. Other than that, I'm not especially bothered by homo/bi options in other CRPGs, as long as they're subtle and I'm not forced to develop them.

That's what you get when you promote a society in which cold-blooded murder is often present in entertainment, but a nipple snapshot is automatically considered "mature" content and anything more serious than that is still taboo.

Nah. Just invoking my infallibilty as discordian pope.

No. I'm always right, and my opinions are absolute. End of thread.

Welcome to the fabled land of overhype.

Well, you can't pop a skeleton's eye out, for instance. That's an example of "immunity to criticals"

I didn't think the ending was that bad. Perhaps it's just I've just grown used to it thanks to the last SW games I've played. Or perhaps I was just dying to get the damn thing done after that horrible last chapter and the feeling of relief blinded me to the truth. I didn't even fight ol' Meph... and I was rp'ing a Paladin.

How's that useful?

Well, this is not the case, so... whatever.

Who's bashing?

You finally noticed. I didn't want to break it to you but... "

For once, I'm with Nur. The level of cynism in this thread is ludicrous. Yeah, ROTS is going to suck so badly compared to Hamlet that GL should be stoned to death. I mean, who does he think he is to deliver this sort of substandard crap to the legions of loyal "Old skool" SW nerds that compete to see who is the vilest hater? Man, those prequels suck so badly that I'm going to spend the next few days until the premiere waiting in front of the theater... on a strike, yeah, that's it. Boy, if I roll my eyes any harder, they are going to pop out of their sockets.

That's a low blow, man!