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OBS-4 Discussion (game and roll call)
metadigital replied to metadigital's topic in Pen-and-Paper Gaming
Well, anything from nothing (roleplay as a Baley Diplomacy player) to everything (which would take about half an hour). -
Hang on, someone does! Also, Beryllium looks like a good alloying agent. (Wouldn't Beryl be proud?)
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Nice roleplay, GoA. (Or was it?)
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I don't know if anyone (on Earth) does ...
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There will be a mandatory perioid of mad, gluttonous Aftermath-playing for all concerned.
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I don't have intimate knowledge of the effects of cosmic rays on alloys, so I do not know, no.
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KotoR 3: Ideas and Suggestions
metadigital replied to Fionavar's topic in Star Wars: General Discussion
Where's baley-spambot when you need him? -
I have no idea what "The Nomad Soul (aka a guilty pleasure)" is. Notwithstanding, Deus Ex beats everything on that and every other list.
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Does that mean any graphics engine can plug into the Havok engine ? (And pass the pipe Ender.)
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Revan & the Exile's gender/alignment
metadigital replied to GhostofAnakin's topic in Star Wars: General Discussion
Yep. Because the game give you the choice, you are free to play the game as you wish without caring for "canon". However, "canon" will have an impact on tie-ins such as RPG supplements, novels, comics and other videogames (possibly kotor3?). In all of these Revan will be referred to as male. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> All of which I would rather wash my eyes in kerosine before reading. -
Revan & the Exile's gender/alignment
metadigital replied to GhostofAnakin's topic in Star Wars: General Discussion
You hardly play females, or you are hardly a pre-pubescent boy? " -
I remember it. :D It was full of things like 'Well, Revan may have started a war which caused the deaths of millions and the devastation of the Republic's military, but he was doing it to make the Republic stronger so he was actually a really good person'. This is not a view I share. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The life of a chaotic good saviour of the world is never easy. If religion believes in an omnipotent, omnescient and omni-benevolent god, and still explain evil, then it is entirely possible (if not probable) that Revan was acting in the galaxy's best interest. Here. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thank you.
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Yes.
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Are there Mandalorian Women?
metadigital replied to E_Motion's topic in Star Wars: General Discussion
Slaves, especially in Roman times (but also in other ancient civilisations, like the Babylonian), could become free (usually by amassing enough money to purchase their freedom from their master). Ther are countless gravestones from the Roman Republic and Empire with names that hark from conquered territories. -
KOTOR II Wins Best RPG of the Year at G-Phoria
metadigital replied to Craigboy2's topic in Star Wars: General Discussion
... AND fun. -
OBS-4 Discussion (game and roll call)
metadigital replied to metadigital's topic in Pen-and-Paper Gaming
I shall post a heads-up in the W O-T forum. -
Over: DeNiro, Late career Under: DeNiro, Early career
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The U.N. is ridiculous, seriously ridiculous
metadigital replied to kumquatq3's topic in Way Off-Topic
... Canada does not support the invasion of Iraq and is not a Coalition member but has 31 troops in the theatre as part of an exchange program with the United States military. ) -
The biggest problem with Titanic was casting Kate Winslet. Not that Ms Winslet isn't a good actress, she just isn't capable of pulling off the role: a super charismatic woman that men lose the ability to speak and behave around. She is just not that. Trouble is, women of that beauty rarely can act, too. I'm trying to think who might be able to pull it off; Marylin Monroe, definitely.
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... Criteria No. 3 - Story Themes and Symbolism The Matrix None. Star Wars Cold, gut-tangling paranoia. That's the key to the Star Wars tales. The central meaning in both trilogies is our modern need for protection and safety against the cold, uncaring horror of existence. The films unflinchingly portray disaster after disaster for all who are left unprotected for even a moment; we see women's need to constantly be protected (and rescued) by men, man's own need to always be protected and kept aloft by catwalk railings in a world where they are still millennia away from invention, a space station exhaust shaft's need to be protected by a hard covering or at least some protective grating to stop foreign objects. It is a theme that resonates in these new, dangerous times unlike any other. Who is protecting your exhaust shaft, America? As if this were somehow not enough, Lucas shocks us with a point of view that is almost heresy in a 21st Century USA. Lucas believes it is justified to destroy the inhabitants of a large building, if it facilitates the means of those called to martydom by The Force. Further, aggressive military action is never to be unilateral and pre-emptive. Han Solo knows he is in mortal danger in the Cantina scene... but he waits until Greedo fires before responding with deadly force. This is a lesson a certain American President could learn. The Lord of the Rings ... American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, in his famous 1968 speech, pleaded to "let freedom ring" across the land, "ringing" in a new era of racial harmony. In Bakshi's film, we have that very "ring" in our hands, the "ring" of freedom and racial equality, the "ring" that will let every white and black child play with race-blind eyes. Frodo's mission is to destroy the ring. The Orcs are to be wiped out, not integrated into society. The elves are to slowly die off, not to be merged with the world of man. ... ... >factor 12x: no monkeys vs. no monkeys vs. no monkeys ... How to Write a Screenplay in 72 Hours. George Lucas. New York, Skywalker Press, 1989. 205 pp. All My Heroes are White. James Pinkerton. Toronto, Beaver Press, 1993. 857 pp. Cleansing the Gene Pool: In Defense of Genocide. James Pinkerton. Toronto, Beaver Press, 1996. 994 pp. ... GOLD
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OBS-4 Discussion (game and roll call)
metadigital replied to metadigital's topic in Pen-and-Paper Gaming
This is a good question. -
How can you be sure?
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Well, it looks like it's still in its underpants, over there, but yes, (muted) celebrations are in order.
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My PC can break itself. Either that or it's the little elves again. Genuinely self-repairing robots and other machines shouldn't be that far off if nanotechnology takes off. I know it's been very hyped, but give it a couple of decades... Would HK-47 survive if he were shut down and jettisoned into space? Obviously he wouldn't rust - is there anything that would prevent him being perfectly preserved? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The most dangerous thing in space is the cosmic rays. They could (assuming HK-47 doesn't have a "cosmic ray shield" ) destroy programming (especially sensitive components) quite quickly, as well as possibly causing stress-fracture-type weaknesses, I would think.
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KotoR 3: Ideas and Suggestions
metadigital replied to Fionavar's topic in Star Wars: General Discussion
The problem wasn't adding the functionality, it was implementing it without the bugs. The who combat queue was screwed (technical term), so I wonder what the effect on gameplay would have been with more difficult opponents. Maybe this is another reason why there were so solo missions ... I like the concept of tactics, though I can't see a good way to implement tactical squad-based control through the given interface. PS There are eleven threads prior to this one, as well as the 27 pages here.