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But enough of your sexual practices, what about your moderator goals? Ba-dum-tish!

Silly Kaftan. All those PC games just have to write Pentium-readable code that interacts with (M$) DirectX drivers. M$ have to pay for all the developers' (who pay a licence fee to develop games for the platform, dontchaknow?) games to be dumbed down enough to use the limited specs of the console.

Science = SF. Romantic (i.e. "swashbuckling") with space ships = Space Opera. Basically when the universe is more similar than the fiction is more SF: the more fantasy elements, the less like our universe the fiction is. So if the author introduces one new concept, like AI, and then uses this to explore how the world interacts with it, then I would score that higher on SF. That's how I see it, anyhow, but I don't think it's going to be a question on University Challenge anytime soon, so feel free to adopt your own view. It's healthy! SW certainly got the Trek movies the green light. ST:TOS predates 2001 and SW by a couple of years and a decade, respectively. Trek was the first show EVER to hit (without consciously aiming for "), and demonstrate the value of knowing, a specific demographic. With this in mind, it was not long before the cogs of the various Hollywood producers started to crank and grind, leading (in part, anyways) to the "vapid sequels" mentality we have now. There were lots of other SF serials, though. Quatermass and even Doctor Who blazed a trail beforehand. Trek was just the US catching up with the avante-guard. :D

Or even a giant boulder or a 500kilotonne weight dropped on them from a cliff by a coyote trying to squash a roadrunner.

I want to cutomise my PC with augmentations.

Boring. 1. The bible is a fairy tale. Get over it. Just because you believe it is true, doesn't magically make it so. 2. Really punching above your mental weight now, aren't you? Okay, I'll make this simple for you: I wasn't implying that you had a special unique "Mothman" religion [sic passim], I was pointing out just how hypocritical you are, preaching christian values with one face and making non-christian comments with the other. Understand now, Janus? Hypocrisy like this is the basis for religious conflict: the gap between your religion and your shortcomings is directly causing THIS CONFLICT, like so many before. 3. (Who knows why you are using this obscure numbering system that bears no resemblance to the points I made, but as I have already soundly answered all the previous posts I shall continue to demolish these three.) I was merely giving the fundamentalist what s/he asked for: metaphors that they might contemplate to re-consider their literal interpretation. Insulting? Perhaps; not as insulting as fundamentalist comments are to someone who sees the evil of the seditious co-opting of scientific method by those too ignorant or insipid to understand what is fact and what is belief, and the gap twixt. And evangelising, like the fundamentalist was doing, is very insulting to the other billions of people on this planet: most of whom are very sure that their religion is THE TRUTH and do not appreciate another passively-aggressively trying to bully them into another faith. Got it? Baha'i is an example of a non-threatening religion. Check out what the "neutral" dictionary.com says about this religion here. Do these comments seem harsh? Or are you proposing a double standard because it's YOUR religion I'm trying to debunk? You bet I'll take issue with anyone who purports to have the meaning of life "because God told me so": I see this as a direct enemy of the progress of science. That is an anathema to all thinking beings, and I will oppose it whilst I can breathe. 4. Who the hell said I was an athiest? One day you may travel outside the insular little landscape you have infested, like a goldfish in a ten litre glass bowl, and ONLY then will your opinion start to have a scintilla of credibility. Until then you are just another bawling little baby who wants to be right all the time, regardless of the real world outside.

Is mod entropy increasing? Dum dum dum daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Tune in next week: same bat time, same bat channel ...

Because she ought to know and behave better. Think of what she might be doing with her power, position and pecuniary pile, rather than enacting her psychological treatments in the public media. I hate yobs. I hate rich yobs more, because they have no reason to be yobs.

Star Gate is definitely StarTrek-lite.

Payment where it's due, Volo.

That's what Paris Hilton is ... revolting!

I'm not sure why YOU are moaning at me, I was not taking a swipe at Christianity in general (though your reading comprehension has never been at an intimidating level) I was pointing out to the fundamentalist that there are literal inconsistencies in the Bible as represented in the English lagnuage she/he was using to convey it's/God's message. See the difference? So there. (linky) It's not YOUR belief, it is the common belief of a few billion people (more or less: more or less common, that is: some major points are argued in the various schisms). Don't be so boastful, arrogant and proud, Mr Christian. Actually I do not say others are wrong for believing whatever fairy tale they want to: I object to people telling me what to believe OR trying to adulterate scientific method to accommodate concepts that are strictly (in the logical postivism sense) unscientific. Perhaps if you actually had something to say, rather than just wanting to take a shot at me for not believing what you believe, we might actually have a conversation. KTHNXBYE

Having a short back and sides and wearing a suit = hottie now, does it? Oh! I get it. Sarcasm. Heh. Irony. Yah. I wanna know what Ms Hilton is rioting about now? Isn't there enough bubbles of air in her aero bar/bath water/brain case or something?

peers? we got peers? as for the rest of you... we would have laughed this thread away as typical of the kinda recent stoopidity that has become commonplace 'round here if not for the following: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=37703 ... honestly, we were more than a little disappointed in some of you folks, and when one considers our general low opinion of you peoples to begin with, that is saying something. some of you clowns gots it backwards. treat n00bs like crap simply 'cause they is n00bs? bah. n00bs should be treated better and not worse. if you has been 'round for a while then you got no excuse for making fools of yourselves. n00bs got an excuse that the regular posters do not: they is new. n00bs is the only folks that get Gromnir patience and they always get at least one free shot at us w/o reprisals. we got more concern for n00bs, not less, 'cause the quickest and bestest way for these boards to improve is for them to be getting new ideas and perspectives, and the best way for that to happen is for new people to wanna stick 'round and contribute. if it were up to Gromnir, there would be no visible post counts, but unfortunately, that would not stop some o' you peoples from treating new folks poorly. shame. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You shame those amoungst us who, in their exuberance to prove themselves in verbal combat with each other, have slaughtered an innocent. I take your point about peers; let's just say it was meant in the broadest possible definition ...

Don't try and ingratiate yourself now, after abandoning us all for your "worthy work"! Just because there are people less well off than us doesn't mean they deserve your company more than we do. Now, gimme 100 press-ups and I'll think about letting you off with a warning.

I see four things of ends.

The search function is your friend! Dictionary.com Wikip

And then what? I think the mask looks like a droid's faceplate. You don't say, KotORFanatic ...

Unlike the legendary baby Jesus, this doll of black baby Jesus wouldn't balance on my shoulder, so I had to settle for having him pinned near my shoulder. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I like the high-five baby jesus is giving the world ...

*cookie* (with a side order of )

When do we find out how crazy everyone else is?

Well, I guess you are making the distinction between coop and versus play. It seems that the versus facility is pretty well developed and integral to Chaos Theory, so I can't see that being left out in the sequel, but I haven't played it (or coop in the previous game) so I don't know much about it. There's not much word on it yet, either. Here's more Looks like something bad has happened, like his daughter's died, and Samuel hasn't taken it too well: I wouldn't want to be the insurance company holding this guys policy: 4 Oct 05. Today we announce Tom Clancy

... And I really must but SMAC.

See, all they needed was some new blood in the writing pool: there is no shotgun in Star Trek: that's brilliant, Darque!

I agree that was very irritating; one of the few areas where the sequel was actually inferior to the original game. It was easy to manage in the later parts of the game, however, as the Force points needed to cast all the protection spells were so negligible compared to the total available that I would just constantly recast all of them every few minutes (I was in constant Jedi Speed anyway). Just another casualty in the dumbing down effort to make the game more cross-platform independent.