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I have no idea what "The Nomad Soul (aka a guilty pleasure)" is. Notwithstanding, Deus Ex beats everything on that and every other list.

Does that mean any graphics engine can plug into the Havok engine ? (And pass the pipe Ender.)

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.

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.

Yes.

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.

... AND fun.

I shall post a heads-up in the W O-T forum.

Over: DeNiro, Late career Under: DeNiro, Early career

... 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.

... 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

This is a good question.

How can you be sure?

Well, it looks like it's still in its underpants, over there, but yes, (muted) celebrations are in order.

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.

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.

New filter for these ideas

The main news article on their forum states that EA will be publishing Half-Life for the Playstation 2 and Counter-Strike and Half-Life 2 for the Xbox (October). I also found the guys doing http://www.opposingsource.com/ ... (w00t)

It is now SPRING 1903. Please check your email for the current state of Europe. Order are due by the End of Spring, 1903, on Monday, 29th August.

It's actually an advantage, because he can swap units, if he wants.

Well, if it was a similation of reality, the evil characters would always have the advantage and (nearly) always win; but then again, that's why people retreat into a fantasy world: they want to believe in Karma and Good always triumphing over evil, and other fairytales ...

So you don't know what you're talking about now, then?

He's no Charles Bronson or Al Pacino, I grant you, but he isn't as bad as most people make out. (He is trying to pull off the same "everything going on underneath" type acting as those too actors par excellence, and only just failing.)