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Haha. No, I didn't mean that I enjoy them in the ordinal rank opposite to their ordinal release! (I doubt there is anyone on planet Earth that likes Alien:Resurection more than any film, let alone Alien!) 'Tis true that Aliens is a different genre to Alien (action, rather than thriller; or, as :Darque: for say, Survival HORROR a opposed to SURVIVAL Horror). I like the first two films a lot more than any of the others. It's a real pity that the third film was treated so poorly: it was originally based on a short story about a bunch of monks in a decrepid wooden satellite.

A strong, ambient wind can be heard in the background. Tumbleweeds roll across the thread. In the distance, several dark figures can be seen ...

Just a note, Vagrant, even though I haven't read your incredibly long posts, I did notice that you are keeping different paths for LS and DS: that's good, I like that. You might want to change it a lot more, though, so that the DS and LS paths are completely different (the reverse?). Just a thought.

You have to complete a set amount of tasks on your first planet, whatever it is. Once you have, you will be given the lightsaber parts as loot. Once you have all the parts, there will be crystals or lightsabres themselves as loot.

Boy, you really just plastered "I AM A NOOB" on your forehead, Kevin. Try reading the stuff that's here first, before gracing us all with your opinion, because chances are we have already heard it.

No, you called it a worthy target for an expansion. There are two chances LA will release more content for K2 in a patch: Buckley's, and None.

I would extend the definition of "character creation" to include all the defining moments of a character's creation, including key ethical decisions and even and especially mistakes made during their "lifetime". All of these aspects help the player to identify with their avatar, their alter idem. I also can envisage Llyranor's point where it might be necessary to place story integrity over gameplay "fun". After all, the frustration of almost being able to do something can be a good build up to being able to do it, as long as it is handled in a reasonable way. (I'm struggling for a good example, maybe have to come back later with one. )

How on earth does my argument have you believe that? I truly cannot fathom how you would come to such a ludicrous conclusion! If this is how you wish to play it, your argument would have us believe that it technically isn't Italian for Black, because almost every Italian speaker on the planet, speaking both formally and colloquially uses the word "Nero" to mean "very, very, very dark grey"! Tell me, mets, what does the word "cleave" technically mean? Does it technically mean "To split with or as if with a sharp instrument" or " To adhere, cling, or stick fast"? Or could it maybe be that both are valid and correct definitions? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Listen, I mentioned that there wasn't a true "Black" colour merely for your edification, and after this aside I continued, thus: Hence why I stated that "Irrespective of historical chomatics, however, you are trying to insist that because there is a general meaning for the word black, that there is not a specific technical meaning for the word, as well. Which is patently nonsensical." BLACK is technically, not idiomatically (as in the clothing industry), the absence of colour. If you want to bastardize "technically" to include the clothing indutry, then that is your perogative. But then you are just playing semantics with "technically", instead of "Black". I can do that too, but it is pointless. Technically, as in in science, the term BLACK is not a colour but the absence of colour. It was Launch's statement, that I backed up, that explained the specific semantic definition of "BLACK", and used the terminology "technically". It was your exclusive definition that precludes this specific definition on principle. You are not going to convince anyone that there is not a technical term, called BLACK, that is defined as THE ABSENCE OF COLOUR. Hence "Black Holes": or are you suggesting that these are just the same colour as your tee-shirt ? Right, so the term "black" exists as a technical term. (I can't think of another way to describe the specific use of a word in a reference about the imploded remnants of a solar explosion that resulted from the gravitation force being stronger than the energy produced in that explosion, delineated by the Chandrasekhar limit.) Technical. So, technically, there exists a definition for the word "black" that equates to "the absence of colour". Now it is your contention that because you can provide a "technical" definition of "black" that includes it as a colour (and you provide the rag trade as your star witness ) therefore "technically" black is a colour. But even using your perverted logic, there is still a technical scientific (which I would argue is a more correct use of the word "technical", and probably so would you if you weren't trying to worm out of an obvious error on your part) definition of "black" that means "the absence of colour". This is why I used the argument for a different term for black (Italian). So, either way, you are wrong. Q.E.D. PS The homonyms cleave, even though they originate from the same root, do in fact mean both to seperate and to cling. Just as "derivative" can mean the subject that is derived, or the root of the derivation. And, my personal favourite, "sanction" means both to allow and prevent.

Ha! Well done. It seems that the modders have managed to provide the most requested features of a sequel to the original KotOR (apart from the obviously implicit one of a cohesive story). Can you play a Yoda?

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The inner workings of the protestant moral compass.

Anything from Infocom.

... Or how about K1 and K2 ? As long as it is in context, I see no problem with abbreviations. Then again, I used to work for IBM, and they are almost as fetishist about acronyms as the armed forces. (It comes from having to quickly create accurate descriptions for complex concepts; it just isn't practical to make up snappy little proper nouns for everything, and it defeats the purpose.) For example, if they called K1 "Revan" and K2 "Gizka's Revenge"? Would that be better? You would then have to spend even more effort to explain that it is a sequel to a game with a totally different name. And then there would be those who would argue that it wasn't intended to be a sequel, because it was named differently.)

Agreed. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'll concur, as well. Pick the enemy's weak spot: this guy is a spotlight-dweller, so anything that takes away his moral-highground in the press will hurt him the most. He's operating on the Terrorist modus agendi: he's banking on the premise that you'll get bored / disinterested (or in the case of Steve, insulted out) of the argument. There really ought to be some sort of ombudsman to adjudicate lawyers; especially those deliberately involved in self-aggrandizement to the detriment of the law they profess to serve. Then some of the true professionals might have some respect for them, as a vocation.

Wasn't he in Spanglish? If that were he, then he did that very well. (I haven't seen any of his other recent offerings, as they were the worst sort of US lowest-common-denominator humour.)

well there was that '32-3 Bodyline series, where Douglas Jardine took the Ashes from the Australians by bowling Harold Larwood using "leg theory" at the them. I think they might have won an Ashes or two in the meantime ...

I have read the entire Bible, have you? Furthermore, I have lived a life not isolated from real people, cosetted in an artificial reality where bogus notions of what is "natural" are fostered and foisted on unsuspecting gullible fools, under the guise of wisdom. If your message weren't so dangerous, your obliviousness notwithstanding, I wouldn't bother trying to correct you. You are preaching a dangerous form of intolerance. "I don't mid, BUT it is not natural" is one step from "it is not natural, so it is forbidden". You are already claiming the Bible says homosexuality is wrong, and therefore is a sin. You are dangerous. You are so feebleminded that you don't even realise how wrong you are. You seem to think I'm flaming you for some arbitrary reason. I am flaming your bigoted attitude. Repent! Salvation is at hand.

An idea. They would understand making the ultimate sacrifice to god for the greater good of the world. " <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, the Jews are "God's chosen people", and it seems they were chosen to suffer ... The trouble with that idea is that the terrorists aren't just after the death of all Jews, the destruction of their culture and the eradication of their memory from every history book and person. Next, they'll be after nice houses, cars and a harem of docile, obliging sex slaves.

Free online translations? (Although I should warn you that Hilde tends to come up with some interesting variations in spelling, so if you don't have a latin-english dictionary to hand, you may still not get a good translation ...)

Songbird, Eva Cassidy. (But I was just listening to Elton John, Live in Australia.)

Of course, as you have no argument I can perfectly understand that you don't want to answer and want to deflect away from the fact. King James did not "supervise" anything, Henry VIII had William Tyndale burned at the stake in 1536 for translating the Bible into English. James was just the one to rubber stamp it. But you aren't one for details, are you?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> No it is not, at least for a lot of the Christians that I have spoken with. I suppose you adhere to the strictest interpretation of the Bible, do you? That masturbation is wrong? And blood transfusions? I think the problem is that you don't know what you are talking about, and spouting off your opinion like it matters. The only reason I am calling you on it, btw, is because your continued bigotry, whether you are aware of it or not, will hurt others in lesser or greater ways. Your ideology needs to be amended, so that we can prevent the spread of suffering. (And you claim to be a Christian.)

I see you don't like facts, then? Or why are you so upset that I back up my statements with dictionary defintions, when required? The point about using racist language was not to call you a racist. I know this is difficult for you, so I'll type slowly so that you can keep up. That is what we grown-ups call an analogy. You may have heard of "metaphors" at school. The point is not to transpose the racism, it is to demonstrate that your methodology is flawed. You are acting in an identical way, viz.: making sweeping statements of people based on nothing but your own ignorance. You'd like for me to discriminate against you because of your faith, but I do not. I have respect for intelligent people, regardless of their faith or lack of it. I discriminate against you on the basis of intellect. I call it like I see, whether you like it or not. I called you a bigot, because your language is bigoted. I notice you didn't comment on my direct quote fo yours, in which you are being a bigot. Let me highlight it for you: You are actively discriminating against them, you are a bigot. "It is not natural." So when I say you're a hiprocrite, you are. For a start you claim to be a tolerant Christian, yet you openly bad-mouth people you have no personal contact with, based on a generalisation and NO information. You are a BIGOT. n. One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ. A friend of mine, who happened to be HIV positive for over a decade, was an ardent Christian. He saw no contradiction. He went to church every Sunday, last time I spoke to him. Christianity, the great inclusive religion that Jesus Christ started

qualify would do, rather than quantify. I too have lost a lot of my olfactory acuity, ditto for hearing. Favourite smell? Hmm, depends, if I had to give an answer. Some of the smells I like (in no significant order): baking bread, fresh-ground coffee, just-cut lawn, post-thunderstorm air (high bombardment of soothing negative ions), eucalyptus, lavender, vanilla, my partner, two-stroke petrol mixed with sea air (reminds me of many boating trips from my youth) but due to the laws discovered by pavlov, I now associate the poluted air with pleasantness. Interestingly, this doesn't mean I find all vehicular fumes pleasant.