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I bought the game to play at the same time, and I still haven't installed it yet, even though I heard it was pretty good (and pretty resource-intensive, too); Thandie Newton is the wife (wasn't the third antagonist the Kiwi dude from the last two LotR films?) and not even Sir Laurence Olivier could have made that dialogue work ...

I like the over-use of punctuation to coerce the reader into confronting reality, thus: ... You don't believe there is a Devil? Let's get real!! He has your ultimate destruction as his never ending goal. ... But, if the goal is never-ending, then surely the Devil will never achieve it?

Actually, as high-camp Space Opera goes, I quite like it. I like Crematoria the best (the mumbo-jumbo about "holy-half-dead" is a bit much; in fact, any of the dialogue doesn't stand up to much scrutiny so it's probably best not to listen to it).

Real. But it's hard to get a handle on them, because (obviously) they are too small to see (anything smaller than the wavelength of visible light can't be see, no matter how much magnification you use); so the only way to detect the particles is indirectly (when they hit something else, for example). See Schr

I just found it! The book that has been haunting me for months; the book that I mentioned last year and the name of which I couldn't remember ... It's Frank McLynn's 1759 (subtitled The year Britain became Master of the World). From the back: Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588 or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most significant year since 1066. In 1759

Create a NEW chromosomal set! (How do you know they won't splice until you see the xenomorph chromosome?)

I wouldn't play Sims if you had a large calibre rifle point-blank at my temple. Spore, on the other hand, looks quite fun. While I take Ms Darque's point, that it might end up being a lot of mouth and no trousers (lots of bits of other games without the depth), I would also counter-point that there are significantly less gains to be had with increasing complexity (diminishing returns). After all, once you have worked out the optimum city improvement regime, adding artic and tropical variations may add to the complexity of the build process, but is it proportionately as much an increase in fun? Also, probably why grrrrls don'tlike the game is because they already can manipulate the universe around them to create whatever world they wish. Boys need to feel that power because they don't have it. :D

Not sure how reliable the wiki is in this case, but here is what they have to say: I remember watching a doco where they quoted the civil war stuff I spouted previously. Maybe gogling might provide some more answers? (Read: I can't be arsed right now.) :D

I just found a box of books that I have to read, including stuff like a Quotations tome of Churchill. I really need to set up a reading roster, now!

That was a bona fide good piece of science. If you had lost an ear due to fire damage or some such, I bet you'd be more appreciative of the scientists that were able to grow a real one (on the back of a mouse, yes, but it is still a human ear). What does this actually mean? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's all to do with quantum entanglement. Basically two "paired" quantum particles have a direct effect on each other, as if they are connected. So, for example, one can add energy to one, and the other might give off energy as a photon. No-one understands how this canhappen, at present. And, in fact, it doesn't correspond to any existing laws of physics, because it is possible to seperate two such quantum particles and have them act on each other instantaneously, i.e. FASTER THAN LIGHT CAN TRAVEL BETWEEN THEM. What does it mean? Not sure what the full ramifications are (yet), but it probably indicates that our space-time universe is warped and stretched, but someforces can act THROUGH the fabric of the universe. Best example is to picture a M

Yeah, I'm drooling (metaphorically speaking, of course) at the possibilities in a couple of (game design) generations' time ...

But ... you have to collect EVERYTHING.

I think a great gift to the (bedroom coding / modding) community is the procedural animations based on the core attributes of the graphical object. That will surely

Yes. It doesn't have to be an awkward compromise, either, you could have it as extended as your system needs it to be. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> True, but the character will need to begin as a set class / race / gender, won't it? You can't have a non-descript PC, AFAIK. The PC attributes can be changed infinitely, but they have to start somewhere. (Memories of the Shepherd in Ultima III!) Also:

I was wondering how long it would take you to find them ...

It's based on a story from President Lincoln and the US Civil War, I believe.

My job here is done.

assonance n noun the resemblance of sound between syllables in nearby words arising from the rhyming of stressed vowels (e.g. sonnet, porridge), and also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled). DERIVATIVES assonant adjective assonate verb ORIGIN C18: from French, from Latin assonare 'respond to'.

I find it more quirky. Even poetic. (If done correctly.)

Yes. Although some might argue that it is idiomatically clumsy.

I cried. But my father had just died.

I blame Volo.

Combat has a winner and a loser. Llyranor is that loser.

I blame Jung.

Llyranor has already failed.