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You mean it was buried in a thread about a NWN2 article that no one actually read, but somehow went 5 pages?!?! Damn, how could I have missed it! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What do you mean "nobody"? I don't see any interviews / Q&As like that on these fora. That grants the RPGCodex a modicum of indispensibility and credibility.

That is my overriding recollection of it too. Might even have been where he got the famous "out of my cold, dead hand" phrase from, too ... PS Is your avatar an owl with a white wig? PPS I am re-watching The Day After Tomorrow: something about a good disaster film ... this one additionally has superstar scientists and repentant politicians and a nice unugly and tasteful romance.

No. Because they weren't.

This is a valid point: it is impossible to ignore some of the darker allegorical patterns in his literature. The example of British class springs readily to mind: Sam is a perfect batman (as in an aide-de-camp), a working class member of Bilbo's staff. If Tolkien were German, he might have had a race resembling the Khoikhoin, whom the Second Reich (under Kaiser Bill) tried to clense from Namibia in the first decade of the twentieth century. Crappy poetry and songs? No accounting for taste. These songs are repleat with historical insight. Not something I listen to all day every day, but they are certainly technically compelling. Tolkien, as they say, was a man of his time. Sexism was not his invention: he was merely reflecting the biases of the times. The obviousness of Universal Suffrage had only become apparent when the women of Europe were left to run the industries whilst the men were drowning in the mud of the trench that stretched from Swizerland to the coast of Belgium. Maybe without Tolkien the rigid gender delineations of the (Christian) Europeans might have made survived longer unchalleged. We might also not have any rich tapestry at all: just little niches of special interest, like gothic or space opera. Tolkien gave a palette and easel for others to paint their masterpieces.

... About people without brains?

All true, but ESB was one of the children of that litter, and it shows none of the glaring foibles of its littermates. AotC is just the same as TPM. Even RotS is less like ESB than it should be, considering the similarities of the dramatic position in the narrative arc. Instead, the prequel were turgid, convoluted uncooked spagetti lumps of stories without flavour, with an overdose of diabetic-inducing levels of FX saccharine. Undigestible muck.

This has been added to the NwN2 thread.

... buy a controller ...

The second coming!

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Um, no it makes perfect sense to me and I haven't read the DaVinci code yet.

Just don't tell anyone else.

I was hoping (against expectation) not to garner simplistic responses. I mean to say: there was a great template for a second film in a trilogy, one that GL had spent great lengths extolling its virtues, yet he didn't follow them when making a new film ... WTF? That's not just insanely stupid, it's bordering on criminal negligence. However much the films of the prequel trilogy made, they EACH could have been bigger than Titanic. Instead they had the literary merits of Big Momma's House 2 and relied soley on franchise momentum to turn a profit.

And China and Japan by someone else ... "

What means this "paperdolling" ? Is that their term for our Barbie dress up? This bodes well for NwN 2.

Already over $15k ... that's almost real money, isn't it ..? "

Many thanks for your opinion.

It's those bloody Iranians, y'know! The US needs to invade them.

I think I've seen that: is that the one where a cigar-chomping Heston has a castle-like fortified house and he shoots all the zombies roaming around the outside ...? And there's a "zombie boss" that wants him to join them?

Why wasn't Episode 2 more like Episode 5?

No, the contracts are open tender. They just owe the US firms for reconstruction ... "

... Maybe they like me better than you.

I mean, maybe GamePlay would give me a better release date, because it's me ... "

I noticed. Hope yours turns out to be correct <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Maybe that is your particular release date ... and mine is better than yours?