metadigital

Winter builds (disbandment) completed and updated on the first post's map. Please remember that Spring is tomorow: 1904 Spring Fri [9th September, Noon UTC] No ifs or buts, any late orders will not be counted (so get tentative orders in now!).

Hey, it's a fair cop; and society is to blame.

*Pulls out parent credentials* I am yet to see one statement of intent actually materialise as planned ... Although that might be because she is a teenage grrrl... QED

The mutation was extirpated.

I know you're part of the simulation! No human could be so relentless in their pursuit ...

That is crazy talk! The Ultima historians almost pretend it doesn't exist. Richard Garriot admits that he really wishes he could take much of it back, what with the time-travel and all. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> But ... Ultima ][ was the only one released when I was in high school ...

It's a mutation.

... who is heroically sacrificed in a selfless act of superior strategising that completes a dilemma successfully allowing the PC to conclude the

Wouldn't M$ have ponied up some lolly?

Okay, you can put your keyboard down, now, Mr Schu. I think we have an agreement in principle.

OH N035!1 Mutantation explosion! Cascade overload failure ... :cool:

... who is heroically sacrificed in a selfless act of superior strategising that completes a dilemma successfully allowing the PC to conclude the

Nope. Just well- (some might argue, successfully, over-) educated. :D

Yep, you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

OH N0E5!!!1 They're onto me ... :ph34r:

I disagree that suits won't put bad dialogue into a game. It's on "the check-list" now, and suits don't actually play the games, so as long as it's there they don't care! Except if it makes the dialogue impracticably complex. How many people are going to bet for fully-voiced dialogue trees versus next generational graphics? That's the sort of complexity that would be necessary to add an actor's voice to thousands upon thousands of lines with slightly different variables. Permutations add up: four classes, three alignment choices and two actions for one character makes twenty four (four times three times two times one, or 4!) voice tracks for one dialogue. Multiply that by hundreds of dialogues and more options (say five classes and four alignment choices: lawful good, chaotic good, brute bully and sneaky evil), two actions, and you have 5!

Planning in advance doesn't work with teenagers, I've discovered ...

I can't rule out editing of the report, to make the perpetrator look worse ...

You can add your own special categories, y'know Eldar? And if you don't like a category, or it has a rank of zero, then there is no need to include it (which logically exxplains why there are special categories, no?).

You can talk. My Tyronean army is vacationing in Piedmont!

Zing!

Nothing wrong with elitism, per se. (Occassionally, and particularly in this case, I don't agree with the dictionary.com defintion: it is far too one-dimensionally perjorative. [Etymology: French

Um, I wasn't talking about you.

Ah, if you are referring to me, I was more irritated by the person who used the term as an "easy attack"; also the cumulative lack of something substantive to say made this seem all the more ironic. (I do have a member of my family who is mentally challenged, and the parallels are clearly visible.) The criminal was obviously trying to avoid the punishment based on a reverse-discrimination attack. "They can't punish me, who'll look after my children and brother?" It is precisely this type of example that must be set to prevent further incidents.

Ditto, and with the first line: Koreans eye silicon replacement I thought there was some sort of cosmetic eye surgery going on, especially WRT the urge of asians to add a crease into their eyelids (to look more occidental).