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Ciccadas have a seven year hibernation cycle, only emerging in the last year to mate. Chinese mythology holds them to be very lucky (Mulan q.v.).

The Red Hair (recessive) gene is expected to become extinct soon.

Sorry, I'm not 100% clear on what the issue is. Are you trying to translate the word "comment" into another language? You can specify the language of any and every XHTML element, e.g.: <p xml:lang="fr" lang="fr"> Or is the javscript code not correctly managing the number of the noun?

... Cons: Implausibly large urethra. ... Pros: Secret **** in logo of household name shame. ...

Yeah, I know it might. It also might unglue everything, the Registry is just a flat file and is not very robust, and I have seen people waste weeks re-installing Windows multiple times. I have an idea: install a Linux flavour on a partition. That way, you can access the data on the Windows drives and get it all off, then you will be freer to perform major surgery on the drive. PS I still think something is overheating, either the CPU or the GPU.

Very droll, sir. I am not sure if the team members would appreciate your humour at their expense. (Who won, anyway? )

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 ...