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Probably wasn't officially launched.

What does Busuko mutate into?

I missed it! :'(

Mars has some water. Moon has none. Moon was a par of the Earth, until a big meteor knocked a big chunk into space, so the moon is just a large bit of basalt. Asteroids might have some minerals, but planets and moons would have more, e.g. Saturn's moon Titan and Jupiter's moon Europa would be good terraforming targets; the other moons would be terrific mines, like Io. Outland FTW

That is a ferocious game-eating machine! No, wait GAME-EATING MACHINE!!!11!H/\x0rRzzzZ!11 And truly deserves its emboldened status. Except for the keyboard ... what happened there?

Like using tripwire mines in Half-Life as set-once portable jump-assist launchpads to skip over most of Surface Tension and finish the game in half an hour?

You play Xbox at work? Where do you work, a kindergarten?

I have an old Compaq 80286 AT luggable with built-in 10" green phosphor monitor and keyboard with about 1MB RAM somewhere ...

eBay

The White Album?

They're fast, but they're noisy. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Performance > Noise <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Built for pimping out a rig: it's got a viewing window, too, so that you can watch the head dance maniacally across the (centre of the) platter.

Hmmm. Adventure games cupboard is a bit bare. Have you played all the classics (early LA) ...? What do you like: point and clickie, 3d wandering ...

Kill everyone that doesn't agree with me.

hooded robes and customisable light-sabres fitted to an X wing

One atom (are you sure it wasn't a tachyon?) is a slightly different scale to a ship. Off hand I think there are a few hundred atoms, at least, in a space shuttle. Lots of E required to accelerate that mass. Lots of E to accelerate the fuel required for the E to accelerate that mass. Etc. Best bet is someone pops out of a quantum singularity and offers it to humans, for free and for altruistic reasons. /fantasy.

Um, forget teleportation, in our lifetime. (Even then, forget trying to convince me to do it.) Assuming it were possible to detect and record every atomic particle of a human being (which it isn't, according to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle), it would take more energy than (iirc) the sun discharges over several (hours / days / months - can't remember, but it was more than is feasible to store) and a lens with a focal length greater than the Earth's diameter to detect the particles which are sub-visible lengths of lightwave). Warp drive may be possible in a different form, certainly ain't going to get anything bigger than a small molecule to reach the speed of light, let alone a ship. Time Travel? :| But advanced science is no more explainable than magic, to someone unfamiliar with th technology. Try explaining how a refrigerator works to a medieval serf.

It'll drop when the next model comes out, in a couple of months. Don't buy anything less than a 6800GS now, lest it is not good enough to keep pace with technology required for latest games. Scarily, one of the reviews said that even the X1900XTX (650MHz) 512MB DDR3 (1.55GHz, effective), (retail

Despite the X1800 being released late (Autumn instead of Spring), four months later (and on the original six month life-cycle schedule) the X1900 is here. With Crossfire. X1900XTX 512MB faster than nVidia 7800GTX 512MB in nearly all benchmarks (51/52). Linkie Specifications Features * 384 million transistors on 90nm * fabrication process * 48 pixel shader processors * 8 vertex shader processors * 256-bit 8-channel GDDR3 * memory interface * Native PCI Express x16 bus interface Ring Bus Memory Controller * 512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads * Fully associative texture, color, and Z/stencil cache designs * Hierarchical Z-buffer with Early Z test * Lossless Z Compression (up to 48:1) * Fast Z-Buffer Clear * Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions Ultra-Threaded Shader Engine * Support for Microsoft

Yes. We do get to level up (are you still level 1?). There are indeed bad people in the real world. No, we don't have open season on them, though. Escapism alternate definition: anti-stress (where stress is defined as the result when one is prevented from acting out the urge to strangle someone who acting like a berk). Training for 1337 ninja chimp judo. Or political scheming. Okay, or magic. Okay. *0 Okay. Yes. Not that interesting, really, just a facsimile of RL. *1 Right-O. Scope definition understood, if not agreeable. ... And, in fact, most (all mythical) literature. *2 Yes. But what about anti-heroes? The life of Spartacus has indubitably been romanticised, but that's kinda irrelevant, isn't it? If not, maybe this is what you need to elucidate on. Depends on the definition of the magic, e.g. "Divine domain" or "Death Magic", etc. Technology is alignment-neutral. A tool. Like an internal combustion engine: it can be used as to power an ambulance, or a tank. Unless a particular scenario defines a specific type of technology as evil like, say, harvesting live convicts' organs. Against their will. Or a rifle to hunt people rather than food. Irrelevant. Good writing uses whatever. Addenda: Dunno if, in clarifying your points, you have overly narrowed their scope. All the definitions are acceptable (if not agreeable), but there isn't a lot to debate given all the assumptions you have set out. I still don't see any relevance between magic-tech and ethics. Unless you are defining one as inherently good or evil. PS Writing style: ++ INFLUENCE GAINED ++

Don't give spoilers out without ROT13.

Quite possibly. I was not waiting months to post a topic with the subtitle shi'ite. Nope. Nuh ah.

The portraits on the right margin should give it away ...

No.