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Are you volunteering to customise the dialogues to include the portraits?

That's not agreeing with Sand; he was insisting that marriage was an outdated social mode.

It fails to keep the mystery it's trying to uphold.. and comes off as a movie more about drugs than an actual story.. like a cross between Waking Life and Requiem For a Dream.. where the story goes out the window like in Waking Life (but still feels cool) and like in RfaD, speculates on the degredation of the human mind when we succumb to our weaknesses.. and after the seeing the movie I couldn't understand why they choose the title A Scanner Darkly .. a few dialouges briefly touches on the subject "what does a scanner see?", but that's about it.. the movie is far more about what we choose to see.. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You do know it is based on a Philip K. Dιck book (from whence it gets its name), don't you? I didn't like the film; it has a lot of promise (how could it not: PKD was a philosopher and a futurist), but was just not well executed. In fact I don't know if it would even be possible to make this as a traditional film at all: the rotoscoping did help, but it was not sufficient to save the film. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If that was directed at me, of course I know its a Mr. Dιck story. So it's nothing like the story basically? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, that was for Mr Rosbjerg's benefit. I haven't read the book (it's on my list), so I can't tell you how they compare. I would expect that the book is much superior, though, simply because the medium is much more suited to the main conceit; IIRC there was a lot of voice-over interior monologue in the film to explain the plot, which is always a bad sign (and certainly not something I want to watch).

Yes, in case it wasn't perfectly clear from my comment above yours, I agree.

Oblivion is a gurl's game!

Err, I didn't exactly zip through the level. Though I shot them all from the catwalks before going down. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It may be a scripted trigger that causes them to respawn until you leave the area. In my case I was on the floor/ground and no matter where I went they would respawn from two or three fixed locations and come charging at me. I even stood there and killed a hundred or more just to see if they'd stop after awhile. Nope. They finally seemed to stop spawning when I left the floor and was about to cross over the chainlink fence/boundary blocking the way to the exit. The same thing happens with cops and soldiers in different places. They spawn like crazy until you move to a different zone, though the zone's boundaries are usually always invisible or non-obvious. I know it's a vehicle used to give the illusion of greater numbers than would be feasible for performance reasons, but I don't like it because it's not realistic. At least the original HL had a reason for spawning repeatedly (troop ships/warping in from Xen) with accompanying events. In HL2 they just appear out of thin air. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I killed almost all of them from the gangway above, but then when you go to cross the wire fence, I think that's the spawn trigger, there ... I have stood on the other side of the fence and unloaded all my weapons and they were still coming, so yeah, I'd agree. Though by the time you've made it to the other side of the fence there is no reason to stick around, lest one of the little buggers sneaks through the fence and Gordon's perimeter of fire to bite him on the bum.

= ...yea, I does...been me nickname since I was 4, more's the pity... :'( <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Maybe if you tried a different haircut ... :D

I WANT MY FANTASY TO BE REALISTICK! :angry:

I never had any problems with the AI where bards are concerned. That bard that joins your group did as fine job with his songs. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's a good point, though: I don't particularly want to become an expert in Bards: I don't want to learn all their special magics, and that makes it very difficult to have one in the party if s/he is unable to manage without player micromanagement.

I don't think you're even trying anymore!

Even this? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, I was going to put a cavet on that one, but I guess I've done weirder things ... I've certainly spent a lot of time smelling others ...

Depends on the definition of adultery ... it could be any "penetration" outside the sacrament of marriage.

I would just like to say that Jimmy's new avatar r0xxz0rz!!11 And there is nothing wrong with the filter: I can quote Philip K. Dιck and androids in cοckpits all day ... "

OMG Rosbjerg is seditiously trying to bring down the civilized world! Seriously, though, I've done all that.

Actually, that is a very good point.

It fails to keep the mystery it's trying to uphold.. and comes off as a movie more about drugs than an actual story.. like a cross between Waking Life and Requiem For a Dream.. where the story goes out the window like in Waking Life (but still feels cool) and like in RfaD, speculates on the degredation of the human mind when we succumb to our weaknesses.. and after the seeing the movie I couldn't understand why they choose the title A Scanner Darkly .. a few dialouges briefly touches on the subject "what does a scanner see?", but that's about it.. the movie is far more about what we choose to see.. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You do know it is based on a Philip K. Dιck book (from whence it gets its name), don't you? I didn't like the film; it has a lot of promise (how could it not: PKD was a philosopher and a futurist), but was just not well executed. In fact I don't know if it would even be possible to make this as a traditional film at all: the rotoscoping did help, but it was not sufficient to save the film.

"no shortage"? Really, you do sabotage your own arguments, when given enough space to type them out. Talking about the US even contemplating a conventional war with China is beyond silly. For a start, both nations have stockpiles of (secret!) germ warfare. The first thing either country would do is try to decimate the other with fatalities, and (even moreso) overload the infrastructure will the ill. (The M-16 was designed not to kill, but to maim a human body on a grand scale, so as to keep the medical facilities busy.) But even this is total fantasy. The US wouldn't attack China, because China would never give them a reason to: the Chinese were expert diplomats when Europeans were still fighting each other for the best animal skins to wear. And the US isn't going to mount an offensive attack on China. What a way to destroy their nation. China will use the capitalism to become pre-eminent. (Chinese culture has always incorporated whatever innovation has been brought to it.) The real battle for this century, I feel, will be for the government of China: they have already admitted that they are no longer communist; now they say they are a building a socialist marketplace ... but really it is just a capitalist country. Therefore the government can't defend its one-party policy. That is what will be interesting: the next change of government in China ...

Does this say anything about the declining morals of the female guinea pig?

I dunno, EdD'Oh, it might beat a certain person in Hot or Not ... "

OTOH I like the fantasy element of just shooting a jerk who happens to be the problem. In a game, of course.

Excellent: fundamentalism in law! Of course judges can't be trusted to exercise their own personal judgment, that would be like a soldier deciding who to aim at, or the electorate whom they should vote for ...

Linus has swapped sides recently, too, hasn't he? (Isolating him from the community he created.)

I don't know whether to be pleased that Sarge changes his outfit or distressed that you though he wouldn't. "

Wow. I guess that makes me a fanboi, then, because I finished it in under 20 hours after it was released. :D The original Half-Life is indeed a classic; the atmosphere and the story still hold up today ... which is why I can't wait until Black Mesa: Source is finished. I expect I'll replay λ many, many times.