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All you are saying is that the innate human interaction of societies will out, even in an artificial construct (ha ha: matrix) like a MMORPG. Which is hardly a rant. You are more ranting (if at all, and it's more a British cousin to a rant, a polite almost-finger-pointing-type, stern-look, complaints-department-where-you-aren't-sure-you-will-get-your-money-back-and-you-might-settle-for-a-replacement sort of commentary) about gamers who have a knee-jerk dislike for the MMORPG. Perhaps if the WoW designers added some more opportunities for PnP interaction, I'm getting from your statement, then the game would raise to the next level, towards a verisimilitude of our reality. THAT is brilliant, and a very good point; of all the commentaries on Massively Multiplayer Online games, I don't recall anyone stating this quite so eloquently (if at all). Excerrent. (Condolences.) Now, if only we could implement this ...

A colourist! (You are forgetting the ever-growing Pink Dollar market segment, too. )

I see no problem with actual, bodily castration.

Well, I am sooooo pleased that I have Volo's sacred permission to dislike clerics.

I've never even heard of your graphics card, and it's an integrated one. It doesn't matter if "other games" run well, it's below the minimum spec for the KotOR engine, so (sur-PRISE!) it doesn't work.

It is not illegal (in all countries). It will void your warranty.

One of the perks of being a moderator is that you can have Multiple Alts. Which would just be 'Alts' without the 'Multiple'. What if I have no alts? Does that mean I just have multiples?

Someone must really like Queen Amidala. There's no accounting for taste.

Hmmm, seems a little extreme, having to kill everyone to rediscover the roots of a belief ... still, maybe the Renaissance might have been better killing every faith leader, so that the subsequent ones might learn anew what their faiths stood for, rather than just having the tame Germanic Reformation and Spanish Counter Reformation ... " Sure it does, if there is some medium for the radiated waves to travel through. Granted, if the water falls in a vacuum, then it's silent (though electromagnetic radiation certainly needs no medium), but in an atmosphere, well, the sound certainly travels, even if there's no-one there to hear it ...

No need to dive in yet, as there aren't any DX10 games ... and every month gives me a discount on existing tech, and the opportunity for some new stuff (like mobos, etc, even if not the headlining GPU) to be superceded with better kit (and existing kit to be discounted even further). Also, I have some other RL considerations to deal with at the moment. Hence why I said the "next thing you'll be telling me" and not "ALSO YOU ARE TELLING ME". I dislike the idea that a cleric has "divine" magic, and that it is easier to get and (almost) as powerful as arcane magic, and they don't have to even memorise a spell beforehand. If you have to categorise my dislike, you would do worse than classify it as a magic-user's disdain for the cleric. (But I still dislike clerics as a general rule, anyway. So there.)

I stopped playing when Wonder Boy became an outmoded and retired machine.

That kinda defeats the purpose ...

About five-to-ten exposures, over several weeks (no more than four).

Dunno, but I hear he likes sake ...

Well, you'll be the one spending the most time looking at them ...

There's a book?

Return to Return to Monkey Island!

Are you being bigoted against my personal game-playing prejudices? Next thing you'll be telling me is that I'm not "allowed" to dislike playing as evil, or perhaps that I "must" like a particular NPC, or even that I "have to" enjoy compulsory companions, like Neeshka ... I never used to play Paladins at all, as the idea of the character just annoyed me. Then I realized that I was typically playing Lawful Good characters, anyway. So I surmounted my enmity for being pigeonholed (as an alignment, in this case) and played a few. Now I play them quite often.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, radiation was regarded as a super-good thing. In fact, low level exposure has been seen to improve the heath of people (numerous radioactive caves and pools are used for medicinal purposes), e.g. modern day Iran has the highest background radiation, and the people are unusually resistant to cancers. It is hypothesised that the radiation triggers cells in the body/blood that actively seek out dangerous stuff, like pre-cancerous cells. Large doses of radiation just destroy the cells, though.

You should see someone about that, could be a tumor. You've been watching Kindergarten Cop, again, haven't you.

Bond films did not invent the action film. I never said it would be trashed. I said it would disappear up its own arse, which I clarified later in my response to the analogy of a fetish. I.e., the franchise would continue to appeal to its loyal but ever-reducing fanatical fan-base, until there was so few left of them that the films didn't make enough return to warrant making another. OR the producers could adapt and change the franchise. If you are suggesting that Moonraker was a good film (in ANY sense of the word) then you have no credibility. Laser guns? Moore's tenure as Bond is only barely acceptable: the audience must first accept the implied parody, of the earlier films, that the Moore films had become. Fleming's material reflects the English post-war society, i.e. miserable (food rationing, begun in 1940, didn't end in Britain until 1954); his escapist writing is overburdened with references to food of all sorts, as well as rare wines, not to mention large stacks of cash. Don't forget Fleming also came up with the silly names for all the women, too. It is not hard to draw a conclusion about what Fleming was fixated on. As for "going back to using Fleming", I think if YOU do some homework you will see that the best Bond films were the one's that used as little as possible of Fleming's original text (this happened more and more towards his death, after which it was a lot easier). The Bond franchise "lasted for 40 years up to that point" because it started with a fantastic actor (Sean Connery, STILL voted in the top couple of "World's Sexiest Men", it's no exaggeration to say that women want him and men (who watch Bond films) want to be him), followed by years of no competition. Yeah, A View to a Kill and Octopussy are definitely showing how the Bond franchise is soooooooooooo much better than the Bourne franchise. Do you know anything about film at all, or just what you read on the Bond fansite?

Dang, do we have to do the RIGHT thing, AGAIN?

Dang, I was hoping to get Marble Arch. Wimbledon.

From wikipedia: Catfish belong to a superorder called the Ostariophysi, which also includes the Cypriniformes, Characiformes, Gonorynchiformes and Gymnotiformes, a superorder characterized by the Weberian apparatus. ... Yes, I know it's not really a catfish. Tiger shark?