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I just came back from vacation up in northern Queensland (Cairns and surroundings)... What a difference air humidity makes. Day temperatures aren't that much of a difference to where I live (South Australia, around 28-34 degrees most of the summer), but having 80%+ humidity makes for some constantly damp clothes. I am used to around 15-20% max.

As I recall, Atton could die in the battle with Sion Interesting. Who'd fly the ship then? T3 flew the Ebon Hawk to the Peragus Mining Station. The little tin can has a hidden agenda

You only have Kreia's word for it (and the exiles speculations on the nature of the bond), that it could be lethal. She is a manipulative old girl As far as can be determined from the game, yes. He constructed it. The exile was his commanding officer (Yes, general) during that battle. Not quite sure. Possibly something that reinforced the planets gravity (supersized gravity well) and pulled everything out of the sky to crash on the planet? She hated to be controlled and manipulated by it. Kind of ironic considering her own nature As far as I have been able to determine, she wanted to teach people how to live without the force and the exile was her (sometimes unwilling) student. Much speculations... The exile had a lot of strong bonds to the people around him. If a lot of severing/deaths took place at once it created some kind of "dimensional vortex" sucking the life out of surroundings. The exiles defense mechanism seemed to be the ability to sever his/her own connection to the force and therefore continue living, even while being that "vortex" moving around in the galaxy. Since he/she is "empty", there is nothing to drain there, as Darth Nihilus found out when he tried to drain the force from the exile. Like french kissing a 1800w vaccuum cleaner. Umm, no. It wasn't just you. The game did suffer from some heavy handed cutting that left this feeling of "Huh?" in quite a few places, making an already moderately complex story line trickier to follow. I can definitely recommend Team Gizka's website and forums for an overview of how much was cut. It is staggering :sad:

I am not really sure what the purpose of this thread is. Maybe that is part of the irony? Another thread bites the dust.

Yeah, in Australia they probably put you in jail if you don't vote. They take it quite literally with the "commitment to democracy" I don't care though, not being a citizen, I am not eligible for voting. One head ache less. Busy making the place ready for a bunch of family visiting from Europe in a few days time. Needed more plates, more cutlery, more coffee cups, more glasses, inflatable mattresses, rental cars, spare mobiles, unfortunately there was a 6-8 week delivery time on more chairs, so I guess some of us has to sit on the floor. Ah well, it is family

:sad: I finally got around to watch season 1, which I bought a week or so ago. I liked it. Now I have to go and buy season 2 >_

I usually manage that with T3 and a Jedi. Either Visas or Kreia. T3 with Ion weapons (Droid Oxidizer pistol and whatsit'sname, the ones you can attach to him) and Kreia with either lightsaber or a sword constructed for anti droid warfare. Now for the fun bits... Shields are your friend. Use them before opening doors. Your jedi aught to have some kind of force speed by now. If not, use the stimpaks that gives you dexterity and strength. It makes quite a difference if you can close the distance to shooters and start hacking them to pieces in half the time. Remember, that you can run through rooms and get to the exile fairly fast. Two jedis and a droid is better than a single jedi and a droid.

Just you wait for XBOX Home Edition, XBOX Professional, XBOX Mediacenter, XBOX Volume License, XBOX Plus Pack, XBOX SR1, XBOX Developer Version, XBOX CE/Handheld, XPOD etc.

Which is sort of the same problem that Hollywood is having, isn't it? Movie companies whining about the unfaithful movie goers unwillingness to view "Tough Guy XXIII", "Celebrity Skin Show 3" or "Freddy vs. Jason vs. Predator" etc. I suspect there is quite a lot of teeth grinding going on amongst the creative people, the investors and the poor suckers who have to somehow reconcile the two extremes. People too concerned about the formulas of movie making give you "The Phantom Menace", people too unconcerned about the formulas of movie making gives you Uwe Boll. Somewhere in the middle, the good movies exist, and because statistics says so, for x number of unessential but decent movies, a golden nugget is bound to be found. I imagine the game industry works a bit the same way, although I have no insider knowledge of what it is like.

I'd rather have other mutant powers. Nothing the Inquisition can't handle

Are we supposed to? :ninja10: I had heard the name before... think I saw it on one of those "Charts" in a CD/DVD store a year or two ago. I only noticed it because one of my colleagues had won tickets to one of their concerts but couldn't be bothered to go. Not sure what happened to the tickets.

Keep in mind that the original cut of Alien is the true Director's Cut. The "Director's Cut" that is labelled as such was cut by Ridley Scott, but only because when the studio tried to recut it he felt they did a horrible job. His definitive cut is still the original. Which is actually a minute longer. It was interesting when I found this out because it contradicted my previous understanding of what a "Director's Cut" could mean. It was no longer "the cut the director wanted but the studio wouldn't allow," it was "extra scenes to make a buck." Sometimes it is the latter, usually it's the former. I know Some of the stuff was nice, some of it pointless. I can understand why some of the restored stuff didn't even make into the DC version. Still nice to see it on the extras DVD though. I just watched "Aliens" last night. Now, there is a movie which definitely benefits from the 40 minutes of additional footage "put back in", as it actually makes sense and in some ways make for a more coherent movie. I always wondered how Ripley knew how to drive one of those power lifters

Big Gun Dimplomacy... Playing a multitude of games these days (when not catching up on my unseen movie collection) BG1 with ToSC, JA2 with the 1.13 patch, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Planescape Torment, Europa Universalis III (playing Muscowy/Russia) and NWN2/MoTB as a Fighter. Some of the games have been in progress since last Christmas/New Year

I think you would be surprised to discover, which lengths the human mind can go to when in denial.

Actually, the old Netscape 1.0 and 2.0 browsers (which were the first graphical ones I used after using emacs as a hypertext viewer) weren't so bad. It was when they started to add all kinds of stuff, like email, newsreader and what have you into it that it started getting bad. You could say, they tried to cram an operating system into the browser instead of the other way around, forcing the browser into the operating system (which is what Microsoft ended up trying to do). Still, it (netscape) was one of the pioneers in making the internet accessible to the general public.

Nathan Long - "The Blackhearts" Excellent fantasy, just the way I like it. The "good" guys get abused, wronged, humiliated, treated unfairly, reviled, tricked and manipulated... and then they die Ok, so a few survive, i guess they needed to leave it open for a continuation. It was still a well written and well paced story though.

The romans tried that. Just look how that ended...

"Alien" Directors Cut + a lot of the extras content, including the deleted scenes that didn't even make into the DC version. "Aliens" is probably up next.

But, there are so many interesting beans? Cocoa Beans, Baked Beans, Coffee Beans (a personal favourite), Mexican Jumping Beans, Jelly Beans, Mr. Beans, Cool Beans, Lima Beans, Kidney Beans, Green Beans... the list is endless :sad: Ok, so a different recipe every now and then is probably not a bad thing, but with publishers being bean counters, odds are they will go with stuff that is predictable if given a choice. Makes it easier to manage expectations for share holders.

It makes you wonder though, how long his mum is going to hang on to those eggs and greens when shotgun armed thugs start roaming the country side, thinking it easier to take crops rather than grow crops? Evolution in action.

And isn't this topic from before the game was released? Yes. Sad thing is, I even remember some of those guys from the start of the thread. I wonder what became of Ghostofanakin and Product of the Cosmos has the rare honour of being one of the few regular inhabitants on my ignore list back then

I know that feeling... Currently busy with: 1) Tearing off the shrink wrap of my Alien Quadrology DVD set (bought quite a while ago) 2) Determining which pizza to take out of the freezer 3) trying to decide which wine will go with pizza Then, after pizza and wine, I am going to watch an Alien movie or two.

I usually buy special editions/collectors editions of games (when possible/reasonable)... I noticed that there wasn't any special or collectors edition of Mask of The Betrayer availble. Did I miss something or isn't there any? If not, are there any plans to make one? I was sort of disappointed in not getting a little plastic mask and a jar of neon green spirit essense jelly :sad:

Did they ever make posters out of any of that concept art? Some of the stuff would make excellent merchandising, I for one would love a poster sized jeanette on my computer room wall Umm... no pictures of my desktop. It is a plain blue Windows XP desktop with way too many icons cluttering it :blush10:

Ironically, if eye witnesses (including a US reporter/photographer on site) are to be believed, none of the suggested measures would have made any difference. Apparantly she was shot when she stood up in her car, waving at the crowds. A bullet proof vest under her clothes would have gone a long way to prolong her political career. The gunman blew himself up after the assassination.