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Good question. Were there drivable vehicles in CounterStrike or the original Day of Defeat ? I suspect not, but it would be very cool if they were.

Yeah, a nice ritual sacrifice for Revan. Not some stupid spaceship crash, either: a big mother-of-all lightsabre battles, where some ethical softness leads to Revan being compromised (and the rest of us in the audience realising that Revan was really pretending to be Evil on order to use all parts of the Force, Light and Dark, to bear on the huge True True Sith problem, in a strategem that beggars belief in its scope, intricacy and efficacy of deployment).

Launch is 100% correct. She said: whereas you are trying to refute a specific technical definition (i.e. black is the absence of colour, just as white is the sum total of all colours) with a common idiometric usage. You are correct that in the vulgar colloquial, black is regarded as a colour, but Launchie is correct in saying that technically black is not a colour, but the absence of all colour.

Police have a rulebook to adhere to when enforcing the laws that have been passed by the parliament of the country in a vote, and interpreted by a seperate legal hierarchy. Terrorists are simply trying to kill innocent people, of any race, creed, colour, faith, age, dispostion or lifestyle. They are indiscriminatly killing people who are law-abiding and altruistically helping others in their society. Your comments are facile and puerile.

Just be careful next time you bath (and that's no excuse to go without washing, either!).

I don't need "some more information". I don't need unfinished dialogs with no visible meaning in them. Just tell me the synopsis of the original ending, and I will decide for myself if it was any better than the current one. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well if you bothered to follow the links in my post, you would find the synopsis of the end. As it seems you have the reading IQ of a gibbon, it doesn't surprise me that you couldn't work out the end. Imbecile.

It's an interesting idea for a game setting, but you are forgetting that the golden rule ("Do unto others as you would have them do unto you") is actually a sound sociological construct. In an evil-based social structure, the strong survive. But the diversity necessarily suffers; there is an artificial focus on survival at the cost of all others. This Hobbesian situation causes

Firstly, I'd recommend that you take a straight Mathematics course: if you can take it, and you like mathematics, there is very few degrees around that are as good for your career. (There are far too many people with Comp Sci degrees, from every type of back-yard mail-order pedagogical group with half-a-dozen members; also, even a good degree is still the subject of violent argument in the engineering community as to its worth and relative place in that science. Not so with mathematics.) I know of a few (excellent) students that have walked into Stock Market Analyst firms (a large employer of mathematics graduates) to help predict the infinitesimal patterns of the stock market movements and currency and futures fluctuations (and take advantage of them). BIG MONEY. Lots of fun for a mathematician, too, putting (chaos) theory into cash-enriching practice. As for the subjects, I like them all (and I've done a few of them and I have read up on a lot of the others). Anything that is "cutting edge" is immediately a highlight on your job application form. Otherwise, it really depends on what takes your fancy (what you like, what is easier for you); I know there are parts of maths that I find really easy, and others that require me to work harder.

Just like Cobol doesn't exist anymore.

Good analogy: terse, witty and evocative (dare I say "punchy"? "). No, it is quite different. GL had written a nine-part opera, and chose to film the most interesting bit of it: part four. Then, it was a simple matter to carry on the story for part five and even six (as the general plot trajectory had been written, even if details to the nth degree had not. Harvey is quite right, KotOR was a self-contained plot. I do agree that Obsidian did well to create a new game without impugning the work of Bioware, as well as leaving as little impediment for any sequel makers to avoid, should one be made. But the whole reason that the sequel was about the Exile and not Revan is because Revan's story had been told, and Revan was too powerful. Now the Exile's story has been told, and the Exile is too powerful. The logical conclusion is that either a third protagonist will be created, and the narrative will again be self-contained and effect as little outside the third game as possible (meaning only rumours of Revan and Exile, no direct contact or participation), or some sort of cheap amnesiac / power loss technique to make one / both of them significantly weaker, or a game that is significantly harder with a higher level character (and that is difficult because of the underlying faults of the d20 system for epic characters, as well as for new players to understand the intricacies of epic characters themselves). So I fail to see an easy and convincing way that either Revan or the Exile can make any more than a cameo appearance at best in any mooted sequel.

Well, I would recommend watching all the shows, if nothing else you should be on the floor in stitches during the viewing. He and Connie Booth (his wife at the time and co-writer, also the co-star Polly) made sure that whenever something happened in the progression of the plot, it wasn't there just for the sake of the plot. It was multi-functional, if I can be as blunt as that. When the Chef left early and the guest arrived late in The Waldorf Salad, there were punchy dialogue lines between them all, so that the audience is taken along in the perfectly normal flow of the narrative, not given big pushes into awkward set-ups for the comical lines. It's all under the surface, like a swan swimming. For example, another classic episode (probably the one of the greatest moments in comic history) is The Germans. The plot synopsis is: Sybil is in hospital for her ingrowing toenail.

Talikng Point Are the kids all right after all? You're hanging around your homies at the crossroads when you spot a plain-clothes nark. Do you: (a) pull your baseball cap down over your eyes and your hoodie up over it, and try to mooch off down an alley, or (b) hijack that suburban car waiting at the lights with a "Baby on Board" sign to make a rubber-burning getaway? Whatever

As I said previously, John Cleese was adament about one very important aspect of story telling in his classic comedy series, Fawlty Towers (based on an actual innkeeper in Torquay, aparently, who threw Terry Gilliam's suitcases out of the window onto the front garden): it was that any advancement in the plot should not be in the obvious format that had bedevilled comedies. Whenever you have the plot advance, it is almost like there is a big neon sign flashing overhead, saying "plot point". He tried to (and successfully, for my money) place the plot in such a way that it was not completely obvious where it was going next. I really enjoyed Spanglish, a recent RomCom (I guess, or at least a SitCom) because it had good acting and a plot that was not clich

Is that you with a strap-on talking to male, or your impression of a male talking to his love interest ... (*Remembers a recent legal case in Greece, where a marriage was anulled before it took place, when the Bridegroom was caught in bed with the Best Man on the night before the wedding, by the Bride.*)

Second paragraph: ... include a bit of extra content with Lost Coast, which we haven't mentioned yet ...

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HK-47 Taunting Statement: I know what you're thinking, Meatbag; did he fire six shots, or only five? Well, you've got to ask yourself one question, Meatbag ... HK-47 Taunting Rhetorical Question: "Do I feel Lucky?" HK-47 Taunting Question: Well DO YA, MEATBAG?

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Orange is a "power colour", it can help to give you energy (positive attitude and such: this was one of the reasons for the "Orange People" cult in the eighties), but it should be used sparingly (as inside a cupboard, so that you get a a high-voltage flash). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Eeeeeenteresting. I shall try it out. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Just be sure not to over-stimulate yourself, by painting the bedroom orange (or red or bright yellow, to a lesser extent); similarly for the cool blues. Pink is believed to be a good colour for calming; it is the most effective and colour of choice for "sin bins" in schools. Like any colour, though, too much may have the reverse effect ... (so don't binge on your colours if you know what's good for you ...)

There are more homosexuals than you realise, because a lot of them actually don't act camp. Just as there are a lot of hetrosexuals that camp it up (for reasons that escape me for the moment).

I like the complete story arc, as outlined by Saberist back in April in the Spoiler forum, concerned with the failings of K2, and then goes on to suggest how the two game narratives can be successfully united with a brilliant plot for the third game:

You can also just copy and paste it from the above posts and put it into your word-processing document.

They're part of a sect who believe that continence is over-rated.

I didn't mention sexual frustration and purple. :D (Actually, most of my knowledge starts off outside the internet, that's just where I trigger my memory.)