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Certainly a vegetable.

Or am I faking my artificiality? Maybe it is a double-bluff ...

Well, the Anglican Church in particular (and the Protestant communion in general) at least would disagree with you. Anglicans are meant to take the three pillars of tradition, scripture and analysis together in equal weight to make all decisions. This is why the progressives are in favour of not discriminating against women and (openly) homosexual clergy (and the conservatives are dead against it because it means the end of white, middle aged hetrosexual male control of the religion; at least that is the view of Right Reverend Gene Robinson). So, no (in theory) there is at lest the Anglican Church that is set to adapt to the times. Certainly the role of a Jewish Rabi is to interpret scripture for their liety, too, so it is not inconceivable that they may move with the times. Similarly, it isn't beyond the realms of possibility that Sharia (شريعة) can incorporate progressive ideas. One of the most vital parts of Islam, afaik, is the healthy debate between leading Muslim scholars.

The amount of time required to build, texture, skin, weight, and animate a character in a contemporary video game is immense compared to the time required even five years ago. The same applies for levels. If all a module-builder wants to do is scale and tint critters that are already built in the NWN2 toolset, great. But if someone wants to create new creature or prop/building models, it's going to be a lot more involved than it was in the first NWN. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is true but it's not as if it was easy to add thing to NWN anyway. Hundreds of parts just to change one little thing? I don't really care what's involved as long as there's decent support info I'll get stuff into the game... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ... Didn't seem to be an insurmountable problem for the 6.9 trillion module designers that actually posted their efforts in the vault.

As the only real person in this simulation, I would like to echo the simulation's post above and add a real 50 TOMBS points to the virtual TOMBS points mentioned above.

The patriarchial political portrayal of women is shared by all the Abrahamic religions.

Me too.

Just finished Birdsong. I can recommend it: "...not a perfect novel, just an excellent one." Reading a NF one predominantly at the moment: Terrence Deacon's The Symbolic Species (about the co-evolutionary development of the capacity to speak with the rapid cerebellum expansion of the human brain that facilitated symbolic representation): turns all the established theories of language learning and special brain phenomena on its head. (I've had the book for ages, it was printed in 1997, but I only recently dug it out of my box of "books to read").

... When they first formed the Super Friends, they had a good time making office pools on how long it would take until they had to rescue Aquaman again. Now it's just part of the day's scheduled events. Their day goes breakfast, arts and crafts, Earth Science, Batman's Bat-Tips, Lunch, free time, rescue Aquaman, lecture Aquaman, crisis prevention, song practice, rescue Aquaman, punch Aquaman, dinner ... One of his other underwater "powers" was making water balls and throwing them at people. I probably don't have to explain how deadly it is to get somebody wet when they're at the bottom of the ocean. The only reason Aquaman even got a one on his SUPER RATING is because as pathetic as he is, he's still more useful than Marvin, Wendy, and that f***ing dog in the cape. ... ... One thing about Wonder Woman, is that whoever did her voice couldn't disguise it. When the Zimbabwean ambassador popped onto the Trouble Alert screen with a chef hat and a Turkish accent, you weren't quite sure if it was Batman's voice, but when Wonder Woman took a second job as the voice of the villain, there was no mistaking it. ... I'm rolling across the floor! Ah! Help! ...... It was all more confusing than one of Batman's lessons in physics. ... Superman didn't go to school, and neither did the runaway Malaysian children that animated him. They must have picked a few science words up in the cartoon sweatshop, though; because sometimes Superman tried to explain the insane **** he did. It was almost lovable how confident he would sound when he did things like rub his hands together to make a tractor fly and say, "Murmur blahblah mur... FRICTION will blah molecule mumble REVERSAL GRAVITY!" ... I haven't laughed this hard for years.

Only as long as her acting in the the scene is restricted to pouting.

Well, I think he said he wsa curious about the number of nipples, and by the time he had confirmed the total his cat was having such a good time he didn't want to disapoint him ...

I would expect that a little detail like the availability of DX10 Shader Model 4.0 capable graphics cards would be co-ordinated with the game ... certainly if the devs are designing an engine to take advantage of the tech then it must be nearly available for general gaming population ...

Floyd!:'(

Me too.

I've lived with my cat Sam for most of my life and I never knew. I'll give him a feel later. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The only reason I know is because Louis Theroux mentioned on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, I think, that he accidentally assisted his pet male cat ejaculate, so don't make his mistake (or I'll be forced to commit ritual suicide for giving this information to you ...).

Oh. That's alright then.

Why do male cats have six?

Aha! But now we all lknow your secret! It is an EX-secret! (Well done, Gutman, I knew we could depend on your investigations!)

Just pray your path never crosses a Sith Bunny, because there truly are fates worse than death ... :ph34r:

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Interesting. I wonder if that means it will be set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian universe ..!

Omphalos!

Only if the killing was over an important philosophical question of right versus wrong! Like who's round it was.

I have seen the future and it is this: user-customisable PC appearances! Want Lara to look like a pigeon-toed septuagenarian hunchback with severe halitosis? How about a gender-transfered Belgian accountant? A Khoikhoi with a lisp? ("Decency Controls" would prevent any immoral and illegal appearances, like pre-pubescent boys.)

Hey! I didn't do nothing! I only just got back to the boards! Take that back! Or I'm going to delete all my posts and leave.