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  1. ... And there was much rejoicing! (w00t) (Would you do the Richard Bachman thing ...?) Oh, I've read them many times. But what's written in the books and what's used with actual characters and settings, especially today, is quite different. You're right, different writers do approach these definitions differently, but in the Forgotten Realms of 2006, it's pretty shallow. Sorry to reduce my reply to the foundation of what you wrote, but I think we both recognize that the reality of how alignment is used in D&D today is typically far from what was written in the 1st Ed. DMG. Similarly, the way White Wolf wrote up the tendencies of the clans in Vampire, you'd think that there's a lot of room for exploration in the characters across all different clans. But that's not the way most people play them. They get flattened to the most obnoxious absurdities of the archetypes. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I would be pleased to see a game where there are more than the primary denominations of alignment available to play. For example, the dialogue options of KotOR usually had a virtuous response, a non-commital response and a chaotic-stupid response. It would be good to see more variation (maybe dynamic responses based on character development?) like the ability to pretend to be working with a party before dropping them in it at the most propitious time ... (rather than just "[LIE] The cheque is in the mail.")
  2. Indeed. I'll give you my PayPal details ...
  3. Windows ME is just a(nother) new face on Windows 95. (Which is just Windows 3.11, really, with a few pretty widgets.) You'd be better off with Linux ...
  4. (but it doesn't make a difference if virtual Blank is generous with his points or not, since the points virtual Blank gives do not count in reality, right?) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not at all! Virtual points are a valuable commodity in the virtual universe. Just like the imaginary number system, based on √-1, counter-intuitively has very real effects on the real universe (Chaos theory, etc)!
  5. Ditto. And yes it's a slow news day. It's okay, put it out of our misery.
  6. i'm not sure what i think about that... Edit: my mind is still boggled about this, and whole minute has passed . i think pixies deserves +1 TOMBS point (simulatory according to Meta). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Bongos, Dr Bob? It's okay, virtual Blank, Pixies can have some real points
  7. But the "poverty and disease are solved" vision is a complete fantasy. Also (taking the debate a little deeper into theological / philosophical waters) without suffering and evil there can be no good. In a universe without evil, there is no change: stagnation: perfection. It is a sad fact that good requires evil to exist: yin and yang.
  8. They just didn't trust you. The computers are out for you, Mr Schu ... :ph34r:
  9. I hope the console wars heat up (the bigger the fight, the better for us consumers), but I can see the marketplace splintering into multiple media, e.g. 3G 'phones, handheld game devices, consoles, PCs, stuff we haven't seen yet, etc, etc ...
  10. @ I think you might be right. @Haitoku: it may not mean much to you and most people right now, but rest assured it is the Next Big Thing: M$ made Mr W. Gates III a multibillionaire when he declared that he wanted to "put a PC in every home". Now they want to put a PC in every TV. (I made a comment about this earlier in the thread.)
  11. I remember the nightmare (the cipher took about an hour to decrypt all the game files). Since then I have re-installed HL2 after a complete hd rebuild in a few minutes (less than five, iirc): Steam is a revolutionary product.
  12. My instruction manuals are art.
  13. It's not the power of the consoles, or even the pedigree of the stable of games (though that does have a bearing) that matters: the big game is how the next generation of lounge lizards manage their digital entertainment: will Sony's high-tech Blu-Ray gambit beat the
  14. Um, I'm not sure what preconceptions have to do with art ... maybe I'm missing something? You are better placed than most to assist in bringing the dream to reality ... :D
  15. Yes, Prime Minister Series 2
  16. What is this blood feud that exists betwixt the ex-CCCP neighbours? "
  17. With all the OE-brand developers that seem to be frequenting the here (mainly C&C forum, afaict), I cna't help but think there are only two reasons. They want to be here. They have to be here. So, either they are here because they have some free time (that wasn't available before), or there is some hidden directive to improve PR. Ignoring the latter possibility for a moment, maybe a development milestone has been reached? Some game (PNJ? the mysterious "third IP") has completed some development stage, and is merely waiting for due non-development process to proceed ...
  18. I comment as I see it.
  19. Early television was treated like "radio with pictures" by producers. Your point is specious. Gromnir makes a valid point: Metropolis or The Great Dictator didn't even use sound, yet they are just as powerful as any modern day claimant for the crown of best film and example of art. Chaplin could easily have blamed the studio environment for preventing him from creating his art, but he didn't.
  20. Baggy Trousers ... almost as big a fashion faux pas as flares.
  21. Your powers of long winded lectures is impressive master. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> To be terser would require insolubrious language, youngling. (It was only a seven word sentence, after all!)
  22. I'm in! (Sounds like Shindig ...)
  23. It isn't possible to say with any certainty exactly what was going on two thousand years ago in Palestine, not because there is an absense of written material, but because there has been so much revision (by those pesky corrupt Roman Catholics). I have reason to believe an alternative version of the historical Jesus The Christ (as opposed to the commonly known religious propaganda established by the Pauline doctrines and the Church of Peter; cf the Gospel of Mary and Peter's patriarchal misogyny). Jesus The Christ was executed as the direct and legitimate heir of the line of King David ("Christ" being the honorific used to describe the equivalewnt of a King / Pope in the contemporary Hebrew culture) by the Roman Empire for being a political activist stirring up trouble against the Roman governor and rule. Crucifixion is a Roman punishment for prisoners (remember Spartacus?). (If he was an enemy of the Hebrew establishment, then they had the right to stone anyone they wanted to death, anytime they felt like it. Romans were good like that: very laissez-faire when it came to regional policing, so long as the taxes kept coming.) He was most definitely a "freedom fighter" for the Jewish people, and his aim was to create an insurrection. I'm not sure if he led any major battles, though (can't remember off hand). A lot of the confusion exists because the Church of Rome had scripture that was spun to make the Romans look less like the bad guys (the misinformation that "the jews killed Jesus!" was one of the complaints made by the Jewish leaders about the film by Mel Gibson (who is a staunch Catholic), The Passion of the Christ). A lot of this spin can be seen when comparing the scriptures with those found in the dead sea caves, which were not destined for a Roman audience (Egyptian or others, instead): for some strange reason all access to these documents is restricted by the Vatican ... "
  24. What sort of party did you have in mind? Too late, the thought has already had the (un)desired effect!
  25. O Romania, How I admire thy standards! Such breathtaking quantities, Such manifold beautitude! Where One Can BE And Yet Another Yet Still Where difference is sought, It may be found, 'Tis an egregious logic. Romania.
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