Lifthransir Bane
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I wouldn't waste your skilled words on something as mundane as a video game forum.
Don't compromise yourself by giving up on your dream of living in your mom's basement thinking up new and exciting sitcoms and then telling everyone you're in the process of "writing" a script. That'd be a waste, of well space
Ouch, what was that for? You even managed to insult my dead mother. How tactful.
Incidentally, I am working on a script while I look for a new job. Didn't say I was being paid to do it. Just something to take to grad school, if that's okay, jumpy.
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I'm surprised that you would find inspiration in something as mundane as a videogame.
This is real good stuff, don't ever compromise yourself by giving up your dream and taking a job in a mailroom. That would be such a waste of a skilled artist.
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Maybe "Sion" is shortened from "lesion", meaning extreme scars and welts on the skin (would fit
)Or maybe LucasArts and Obsidian is sending a secret message to the Prieure de Sion that the time is ripe for the Plantard/St. Claire family to claim the throne over all Europe as the rightful descendants of Jesus Christ through his marriage to Mary Magdalene. Yes friends and neighbors, the Merovingians are back and George Lucas is their herald!!
(Wondering how many people who never read "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" will get that
)I saw one of the Irish St. Claire 'merovingians' on TV about a year ago talking about his stupid castle. He was a pompous bastard. Though, if I had a castle, I'd probably go on tv to be pompous about it.
Thanks for correcting the spelling on my french for the word prieure. I never was much of a speller in languages that I don't speak, but can sort of read.
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I am surrounded by illiterate fools who are not only incapable of reading the original post, but incapable of understanding that they should READ the first post.
But by all means, post your inconsequential, off topic fantasy names. I swear I'm interested in reading your numerous, varied, and usually BLATANT RIPOFF names. They're cool!1! And by "cool" I mean (for the most part) completely uncool.
I have no problem with posting the results from a formula, but I have no desire to read the words of morons that do otherwise, and who are under the (mistaken) impression that anyone gives a **** about anything they say.
Perhaps you actually read the initial post, but fancy yourself to be a cunning fox, "Ooh. I'll post the name that I used in my game. After all, everyone will believe that I came up with Solo or Katarn by utilizing this formula! I'm a bloody genius! No one will see through my pitifully transparent and BORING ruse!"
Oh. And Osama Bin-Laden. Yeah. You're cute, in a "I'm an insensitive worm who is incapable of processing the long-term consequences of my 'hilarious' comments" sort of way.
But by all means. Please favor me with more of your pearls of wisdom! I swear I care about your completely ignorant posts! Seriously! I'm so excited to read your names that you felt the need to post on this thread while rudely disregarding the original poster! So excited that I could hang myself. *sighs*
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After that bit, I shall post the name I came up with from the formula...
Al-Vasper Migre..
I'd probably switch around the Prefix to come up with Vasper Al-Migre, which is tolerable, but my state of birth combined with my first name creates some pretty fugly last names.
Okay so apparently today is personal attack day on the OE forums.Oops I meant to say "Oh you wound me, oh wise and intellectual game player - I can now see clearly the error of my ways and repent of daring to STEAL the secret and original formula and daring to repost this formula for the fun and amusement of the forums.
"From this day forward I shall endeavour to ONLY post things that are completely original and have in no way been influenced by the creative ideas of others.
"As part of my newfound philosophy I shall have to discontinue the use of this forum, as posting question, theories and in general discussing the creative work of Obsidian in the form of KOTOR 2 is obviously not completely original and must therefore be banned. And speaking of which, Obsidian must also be banned for stealing the intellectual property of Star Wars from LucasArts, which must be banned for adapting said Intellectual property from George Lucas.. who must also be banned for stealing Science Fiction and Fantasy from.. someone. Adieu!"
There, you've broken my spirit and I hope you're happy.
Now shut up and go be unloved and overly critical somewhere else.
And I am surrounded by idiotic arseholes who blow up over minor things, and falme away, which probably means they are a thick, taped galsses pimply teen with few if any friends.Oh wait, thats just you. My bad.
Did everyone just go see the passion recut (marketing ploy)? Too many persecution/prosecution complexes here.
That and I'm seeing a lot of people who think that they are writing dialogue for mad scientists.
But, just to stay on topic and not have some faction getting a hernia, since I already did mine, I'll do my brothers'
Pitta McBrie
Sounds like an Indian/Irish/French dish
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Okay you people are frickin brutal. It was funny and you all know it was funny but you're just too obsessed with video games as high art to be anything less than morbidly serious about YOUR GAME.
Are you the same guy who posted that other 'this is funny post' with some sort of whoopass thought-bubble in it? That wasn't funny.
In answer to your question, I'm 25, married and work in a position of authority.Security guard?
Just kidding. I should talk anyway, I graduated college into bartending. And I just quit my job.
I don't need to get out more, though based on your apparent lack of social graces I can tell you either need to get out more or you need to get out in more mixed company (i.e. not by yourself all the time because nobody likes you).I think your wife needs to get you out more often, man, some of this reads like the ravings of an autistic. Or you're lying about age.
OMG wtf is your problem man, he post a comic strip and you guys like rip into him about it. Jesus ****ing anal christ, get a ****ing life star wars geek or somone gonna pull your underwear over your head.
Calmer than you are.
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Okay you people are frickin brutal. It was funny and you all know it was funny but you're just too obsessed with video games as high art to be anything less than morbidly serious about YOUR GAME.
Are you the same guy who posted that other 'this is funny post' with some sort of whoopass thought-bubble in it? That wasn't funny.
In answer to your question, I'm 25, married and work in a position of authority.Security guard?
Just kidding. I should talk anyway, I graduated college into bartending. And I just quit my job.
I don't need to get out more, though based on your apparent lack of social graces I can tell you either need to get out more or you need to get out in more mixed company (i.e. not by yourself all the time because nobody likes you).I think your wife needs to get you out more often, man, some of this reads like the ravings of an autistic. Or you're lying about age.
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Disciple. At least goto's not annoying.
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Pazaak is much, much less frustrating in Kotor2 than Kotor1.
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Fanart > Visas? How do you know that fanart isn't < Visas or = Visas. Or congruent for that matter?
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This question is better suited to a search through gamefaqs, well, game FAQs.
I'll humor you.
You cannot gain influence with BD through a conversation you initiate with him. In fact, don't talk to him at all between the time you get your lightsaber and when you have enough inf. to make him a jedi, as a DS dispostion will LOSE you influence.
Acts of benevolence to certain specific people will gain you influence. This works at least two times.
Complementing him when he asks you to help him with something will gain influence with him. This will occur a maximum of twice.
Helping Republic officers will gain influence. This happens a maximum of twice.
Committing a murder with a party of BD and Kreia (must be the first murder Kreia has witnessed you commit) will gain infuence with BD.
That's about it.
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Revan. The exile was only barely worthy of Revan's attention according to HK. According to Kreia, Revan was stronger.
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Pre-teens like seeing all the boobs they can, drawn or not. Proven fact.
Tell me you don't like seeing all the boobs you can.
Boobs are great. Cartoon boobs are no more erotic than puppet boobs, and I can't say I wanked to last week's crank yankers.
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It was found in a French library, open to the public under observation (eg. you can't take the materials home with you, but you may study them in private in the library). It's not all that hard to place a a document in one of the books. But it was a good job making it look authentic.
Okay, I'll buy this.
Why not tell what the society does? For several reasons. For one thing, it's more fascinating if clouded in mystery. Also, he wouldn't have to prove that the society does this and that - since he didn't directly claim that they did anything. What would he have to prove then? It was easier this way.I don't buy this. A list of fake names on a piece of paper isn't a mystery, it's a waste of a good forger's time.
He faked a document in the 80s that doesn't prove or suggest anything?
Basically, if Dan Brown hadn't stumbled across this twenty years later, his effort would have been for absolutely nothing. I have a hard time skilled people will go to great extents with no expectation of gain.
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The document is a fake. The people behind it admitted it to some French journalist in the beginning of the 80's or something.
I recently saw a documentary on this whole thing, you see. The guy behind it had also faked some documents stating that the founder of the ancient French Empire, Charlemagne, was his ancestor...
I'm not disputing this, because I don't know, but the document I'm talking about was found in the archives of some famous french library, or in the basement of the vatican or some such place, so a good question would be how did a forger get his forgery put in a secure room with other hundreds of years old documents?
The other question I have is why would a forger make up an organization and list its members without saying what that organization does? Kind of like calling a press conference and failing to show up for it.
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Is it at all possible to find some of the more exotic robes in the game by glitching up to fifty relatively early on and getting them on random drops. I swear I read a post somewhere where someone was complaining about how irrational it was that he found Malak's armor on a gamorrean.
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i like my robes better
Your character looks like he's straight out of a zombie flick.
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About "priorie de sion"... I hate to dissapoint you guys, but that was a made-up organisation. It didn't exist. It was just some guy wanting attention, and decided to achieve it doing some quite clever forgery.
This is unclear. Brown's story about them is not grounded in fact, but there is a document dating back five hundred or so years listing the members of the priory of Zion. This document doesn't say who they are or what they did and there is no mention of them anywhere else. It could have been a listing of poker champions through the ages for all we know.
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The fact that Zion is sometimes spelled Sion does not imply that, when it is spelled with an 's', the conventional word for Israel means "French Jew," and I'm not sure how you ended up at that conclusion.
You're the one who reminded me that the French change all their Z's to S's with your priorie de sion talk.
Using the word Zion, and using the french spelling would make him Darth French Jew, I don't see what's confusing here.
Furthermore, especially in this instance, amongst an array of names and places that really were picked because they sounded cool to some given person at some point in writing the script for a game, arrival at a likely origin for the choice of the name should not lead us to the conclusion that it has deep interpretive value. Whether Malak was picked because some writer thought Moloch sounded like a scary character in Milton (strikes me as exceedingly unlikely), or Sion was picked because it sounded mysteriously theological, regardless of which of those turns out to be the case, the name was ultimately chosen because it sounded like a nifty name for a supervillain, in the end. How the name was chosen is a source of curiosity. The suggestion of the possibility that the name has profound literally interpreted implications strikes me as ridiculous.The days of Darth names sounding cool alone ended with ep.1 when Lucas started giving the Darths symbolic names.
Moloch might be a demon from Paradise Lost, but Malakh is the Hebrew word for Angel, and the hebrew spelling is different from Moloch.
Let's review the TSL sith lord names:
Darth Traya-meaning betrayer (according to the game). She betrays you.
Darth Nihilis-meaning nothing. Has no words. Flies a ship that shouldn't exist. Can't be found. disappears when defeated
Darth sion-sounds cool. Why were the others given names that are sumbolic of their characters? Doesn't make sense.
Darth sion-meaning French Jew. Is scottish. Doesn't make sense.
Darth sion-meaning Scion. Jealous of Master/apprentice relationship with Kreia. Jumps at the chance to be Traya's lackey again. Is defeated by telling him that Traya doesn't consider him a valid heir/student.
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Dont know if your aware of this or not but FFTA is related to FFT and is more a tactical combat RPG (disgaie style).
Wrong. FFTA is about a bunch of brat kids who get sucked into the upcoming FFXII. Same game designer.
FFT is much closer in story, theme and control to the Atlus/Quest Ogre games since square commishioned the Atlus/quest people to make it.
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true that, only pre-teens and pederasts could possibly like anime
For the most part. That one where the vampire's hand eats a bunch of dirt is ridiculous, but not necessarily all that bad.
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In many instances, "Sion" is standard. For example, "Priory of Sion" and not "Priory of Zion" is the standard spelling of that (mythical) organisation, most recently made famous in the US by its centrality to the best seller The Da Vinci Code, as is "Sion" otherwise common in any number of Christian theological instances. "Mount Sion" is a common alternate spelling of "Mount Zion," as I say. You need only Google to determine this.
Sion is the French spelling of 'Zion,' and priorie de sion was a french organisation. It's a French-specific thing to not use 'z's when the other romance languages do.
I'm sure that Russian people spell Zion with a character that doesn't exist in an English alphabet. I meant that I've never seen the word Zion spelled 'Sion' when someone is speaking in English.
Furthermore, if the point is that Darth Sion means Darth French Jew, instead of Darth Heir/Student, then you might want to start by explaining why he has a scottish accent.
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The Sith Lords "Darth" names are some kind of stage names, I think.
If "Vader" really means "father", how could that be explained in EpIII?
Was he so proud that he is a dark father?!
And, as far as I know, Vader didn't knew about his offspring when he assumed his name, but I can be wrong.
Darth Vader doesn't mean dark father. Lucas named him Darth Vader because it seemed like a cool name to give to a buck rogers-type villain. It doesn't mean anything and the other sith weren't named Darth until Lucas decided to do that for the prequels.
Ever ask yourself why KJA and Zahn and the other EU authors just gave their baddies regular names instead of calling them, say, Darth Nefaris?
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Old School FF pwns the recent crap.
I dont think so, but then I did play them pretty much in reverse. Starting with X and working down.
Ten seemed pretty good from the little I played of it, but, come on. X-2? IX? VIII? FFTA? Square is polishing the brass on the titanic with this series. And, yeah, I ripped that line off of Palahniuk.
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I tend to accept "because it sounded cool" explanations more readily than literary ones and I therefore would expect "Revan" to have been chosen because it sounded like any number of scary or otherwise magical/mythological concepts and words, like revenge, riven, revenant, reverent, etc, but seeing as the franchise does have a penchant for shallow (i.e., we're not dealing with any sort of profound theological allegory here) Judeo-Christian mythological references, accepting Sion as meaning...well, exactly what it says, Sion, seems to make sense. That is to say, meaning Sion of "Mount Sion" or "The Priory of Sion," or what have you. Alternate spelling (though well attested) for Zion (i.e., Israel and/or the Temple Mount).
Never seen 'Zion' spelled 'Sion.' And Darth Jew makes a lot less sense considering the character than does Darth student/heir
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