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When does Arnie qualify?

No, there's a dress code.

Just a thought, everyone. You might like to keep a personal journal of what you are doing each turn, so that we can make a match report after the game ends. Nothing too extreme, just a couple of bullet points, like: who I trust, what my gameplan is, what I want to attack, what I want to defend, alliances. I can do a forensic number on the emails post mortem, but I won't know what the motivations and alliances were.

I think WWIV would be a very interesting game, but the map is very, very silly. The main attraction, as far as I can tell, is the more experienced and lucky players taking advantage of the confusion of thirty people trying to escape the early game, only to whittle the players down to end up with a standard game with larger amounts of units. I don't see it being intrinsically more enjoyable ... why do you want to play it so much? Why is it so appealling? PS No response from Trobalov, after several prompts, so I still only have six players confirmed for Game 4 ...

Do not go to this link: TRUST NO-ONE (Thanks to Numbers for originally posting this somewhere.)

I guess I just don't see the Star Wars galaxy as not having the Force. Which may or may not contradict my desire to play as a non-Jedi in a non-Force centric plot, but IMO the difference being I want the Force to exist, I just don't want to be forced to play a character that has access to it or that whose enemies have access to it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You don't want to be forced to play a Force-Sensitive? But the Force is controlling your destiny, so you have no choice but to be the Force's Force-Sensitive: you are forced! Seriously, I do understand what you are saying; it is the reaction to the "chosen one" plots, whereby you wish to just be "John Maclane versus Jabba the Hutt", or some such. Just like in K1, on the Ender Spire (was that the name of the first ship? I never noticed that Ender was there as well!) when you see the Jedi battling the Sith and your PC ... that feeling of being a small cog in the engine. You have to be escaping from RL responsibility to enjoy that, I would say. The demographic (teenagers) are usually escaping RL where they have all the restrictions of children and all the responsibilities of adults, but none of the perks ... consequently the "chosen one" plots appeal to them above all else.

Jade Empire seems to have a good journal/clue system. They would be well to incorporate something like that. In my opinion, Jade Empire is a truely great game (even though, content-wise, it is a little short). I also like the fact that, for all practical purposes, there is no inventory management...if your character buys a better staff, you no longer have the old one, etc. Now, that might be harder to do with KOTOR but incorporating that to some extent would be a positive thing, IMO. We either need an old-fashioned encumberance system or something closer to the Jade Empire inventory system. The clunky system we have now needs to go. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You mean the KotOR "no inventory management" system? :D I'm not sure the automatic inventory would work; I get irritated when assumptions are made that I don't agree with, and I would expect the inventory system would have the highest probablility of that happenning. I'm all for clues being recorded in the Journal as they are revealed in conversation, to help manage the conversation volume. (That allows me to skip through all the conversation options as quickly as the keyboard will let me, then scan the journal afterwards to get the nuggets of plot, without having to wade through unbelievable and therefore extremely tedious attempts at foreign languages ... ") Convert the med-lab into a walk-in wardrobe/closet. That and the HK/Mira storage area into a lavatory. I'd like to have fewer, more interesting, more valuable items. The weight limit is a good idea, too, or perhaps a numerical limit instead - carry slots or something like that. Anything so that you don't have to keep offloading tons of stuff at the shops. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Or better yet, have a more sophisticated modification system, whereby (depending on your PC modify, plus any other pre-requisite skills, of course) the random loot is basic components that can be combined into more complex items (based on PC level) that can then be added to weapons, armour and items, etc. Unwanted raw loot can be broken down into some generic repair (or biological) parts, as necessary.

Thanks.

You can't expect the Pope to advocate the vitures of Islam, though. Little ol' Carmack ain't going to stand up at Quakecon and say "Hey, guys, even though graphics are cool an' all, I've been chasing my tail for five years needlessly; we should have been developing a realisitic phyiscs engine, or even taking a decent stab at AI."

Nutmeg was the spice that the Dutch and English fought over in the 17th century (it was used as a food preservative); it can also be eaten in large quantities for a mind-altering effect ... (but it will make you sick, probably too sick too quickly to get any effect ...)

Yeah, the woman just outside. If you approach her with a lightsabre she mutters something about Jedi and casts general aspersions on their combined gene pool. Afterwards she is in the same place (or maybe just inside the building) and you can speak with her to discover her new attitude and respect for you and other Jedi.

No matter who you vote for, a politician wins. "

Yeah, I was going to use the same observation as Llyranor; if you play Half-Life or System Shock the graphics are not much to look at, even though they were bleeding edge at release. Everyone keeps harping on about graphics, but in years to come they will be meaningless; sound, on the other hand, seems to be much more integral to the definitive gaming experience.

"... Nobody has done this with any of the Quake engine games yet, but he hopes to see it happen someday. ..." I wonder why not?

Three different highlights, and generally only one of the three threads will survive. and TOMBS level grinding

Arnie can't become Pres unless they repeal a federal law (he wasn't born in the US).

There's even a ninja flipping out !

You'll need a few chimps and chainsaws ...

No, the links I posted were talking about the Huon Pine species; there are a number of trees over 2000 years old. There was a specific tree that had been tested and it was at least 10k years old. All that I could dig up at the time to validate my assertion of the specific Huon pine being the oldest tree (you're right, I did say organism, but I was referring to "animal and plant life"). Since you have pressed me, here is another source. (There are a plethora of US sites loudly proclaiming their oldest tree. Data polution.) I threw the cloned organism in for free, I found it whilst I was surfing for the Huon Pine. Someone who supports your pov: tree fight 2500yo versus 10kyo clone And maybe we're all wrong: ... Baobab Adansonia gregorii The explorer Dr David Livingstone described the Baobab A. digitata tree as "that of a giant upturned carrot," for it defoliates in dry conditions, and seems to be growing upside down! The largest African Baobab has a circumference of 46.8 metres (152 feet). If 9m wide trees are carbon dated to 4000 years old, this one could be 20,000 years old, making it the oldest living tree. Hollow trunks are huge storage vessels, but when hollowed out have been used as jails, toilets or bars. This colossus, like the elephant, dominates its landscape, seemingly ageless, amused yet eternal. White fl owers are pollinated by fruit bats. Our seeds were collected by Tessa Blazey whilst holidaying in Broome, so we propagated them and can offer this bizarre colossus for the fi rst time! ... PDF: http://www.diggers.com.au/RNLW05/Trees.pdf HTML: source

Yeah, I noticed the obvious bias and outright propaganda in his little speech, and his total disdain for AI and Physics engines, i.e. the stuff his engine doesn't do (and those competitors that keep their engines secret!). Still, it's interesting to hear his take on the next gen consoles.

So it is just a bigger bunch of countries spread out a bit more? And the edges have less SCs, too. Why the sudden attraction to this variant?

He was Icarus's father, and he built the labyrinth. linkie

Looks pretty ridgey-didge to me. He's an independent, so he'll never win (and probably take some votes away from the democrats, i.e. Hilary Clinton).

You have apparently never LIVED with a woman. A clue: women don't spend their time shaving every part of their body continuously. Trust me. When you see them they're probably well-shaved, because you're a stranger and they're moving around among people and want to look good. Live with a woman (any woman) and you'll see what I mean. Just because someone shaves themselves (like every woman in the civilized world seems to do) doesn'tn mean the hair doesn't grow on them. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My current partner is brunette. She does not lack the grooming skills that seem to have skipped your live-ins. There are many ways to depiliate: shaving, disolving the protein, removing the hair from the follicle, or destroying it with a laser (which works by heating the melanin, and so is most effective with dark hair, and completely ineffective with blonde hair).

It's not like you can have a conversation with it, though. "Living" is just a metaphor for existing, in this case. Another interesting factoid is the behaviour of colonies (e.g. ants, bees, etc): the group displays "intelligent" balancing; there are common thresholds, above which more of a particular member type will be born, and below which (if there is a reduction in the size of the colony, e.g. war, famine, disaster) the surplus members will be killed / not replaced. Hence there is an optimum number of drones, soldiers and princes / princesses for colony sizes, and the colony keeps to these.